The ROOT! Compendium

This is the ROOT! Compendium, a post related to Melbourne's straight rock outfit, ROOT!

See ROOT! - live in concert, 8.30pm (doors), Friday July 10, 2009 The Curtin Bandroom (Melbourne). Cost: $15.
Watch ROOT! - live on television, 8.30pm, Wednesday July 29, 2009 Spicks and Specks (ABC). Cost: Free!
Hear ROOT! - album in stores!, Surface Paradise, Thursday July 30, 2009.

Latest News

June 28, 2009

For a brief period, on the 25th of this month, a smattering of ROOT! fans were granted a brief listen to the upcoming album. The three-and-a-half minute long "trailer" was soon after removed from the official ROOT! MySpace page. For those of you who missed it, you can check out the lyrics here.

June 25, 2009

If you happened to tune into Spicks and Specks last night, you would have noticed an ubundance of people who aren't ROOT! - their scheduled appearance has been pushed back from the 24th to next month, at July 29th.

In the mean time, you can read an article DC Root has penned for The Scrivener's Fancy about his experience at and writing for the Sounds of Spring festival. The article is readable online here.

ROOT! will once again be gracing the stage with an appearance at The Curtin Bandroom on July 10, 2009. You should expect to hear very polished versions of their newer tracks, as the band is heading out of the studio in order to release their second album Surface Paradise on July 30. ROOT! fans can expect an as-yet-unannounced pre-order deal, which is rumoured to be a full length CD of unreleased music.

So, to summarise - ROOT! live at the Curtin Bandroom, July 10. ROOT! on Spicks and Specks July 29th and the release of Surface Paradise to follow on July 30th.

Plus national tour dates in September. Stay tuned for further details.

June 17, 2009

Happy two year anniversary of the first ROOT! concert ever, fellow ROOT! fans.

Not much official word from the band recently, but we hear big gears turning at the head quarters with regards to the upcoming album Surface Paradise. Until further news is announced, be sure not to forget to see ROOT! for their first televised performance on Spicks and Specks, 8.30pm next Wednesday on ABC.

April 25, 2009

     

Recently spotted in Inpress magazine (issue 1066, Wednesday 8th Arpil 2009) was this update for the Northcote Social Club which holds a place for the upcoming ROOT! gig there on the 2nd of May. Click the image to see the rest of the ad, or go to the Northcote's website for a more up-to-date listing. There are two warm up acts for the night, and they are Tony Johannsen & The Land of Plenty along with Xana.

Recent updates to Facebook and the Northcote website indicate that the forthcoming album has returned to its former name of Surface Paradise instead of the rumoured Root Is The Money Of All Evil.

March 23, 2009

ROOT! explained.

“Being D.C. Root, the singer, rantwriter and leader of new Melbourne group Root! would be an exhausting life. I don’t know how many original, articulate and social based thoughts you would have each day. I think maybe two. Is that close? I’m talking about fully mapped out social theories; not just what pisses you off on tele or in the paper or at work, but a complete guide as to why it pisses you off, how that piss-off fits into the grand scheme of piss-offs, and all explained in supremely colourful language. Maybe it’s closer to two a year.

D.C. Root has one a second.”

Rave Magazine, Brisbane

“ROOT! are awesome. Putting it simply. DC’s lyricism is a prime factor in the band’s growing popularity. The man is the sharpest wordsmith in Australia.”

www.thedwarf.com.au

“DC Root’s turn of phrase makes Oscar Wilde sound as exciting as the phone book”

Beat Magazine, Melbourne

Who is ROOT!?

DC Root is this country’s most original, articulate, angry, funny singer/songwriter/spoken word artist. His band contains two former members of Ice Cream Hands, a German-born movie soundtrack composer and a keyboard prodigy who has played with the likes of Eric Burdon and Crowded House. And there’s DC’s past, which he does not discuss. ROOT! is unlike any of these artists.

What is ROOT!?

“Garage punk poets.” That’s how they are introduced on their forthcoming appearance on Spicks and Specks.

ROOT! is a raucous, melodic, hard-rocking bar band with lyrics that defy categorisation – by turns fun, savage, cerebral and allusive or drenched in dry colloquial coarseness.

Why is ROOT!?

ROOT! appear onstage in cowboy hats - but they are not a country band. ROOT! shows include spontaneous, rambling, funny monologues and moments of unexpected performance art - but they are not a comedy act. ROOT! is not nostalgia, novelty, pisstake or parody. ROOT! has a growing cult following nationally, based on the fact that, unlike most press releases, all of this is true.

Where is ROOT!?

ROOT! is currently finishing their new album, scheduled for release in July. It is a 16 track song cycle called “Surface Paradise” which DC Root describes as “bombastic, romantic misanthropy. Like an unknown, uglier brother of Bono.”

ROOT!’s appearance on Spicks and Specks is scheduled for June 24.

ROOT! are playing a limited series of live dates before returning to recording. They will appear Saturday May 2nd at the Northcote Social Club.