The Guild League was an Australian indie pop band which included material from rap style ("Siamese Couplets") to a cappella works.
[2] Karen E Graves of AllMusic observed it was "a teaser for things yet to come... [the group] exist in a world of delightful acoustic pop, drawn out in exquisite detail by White's quirky travelog-style lyrics""[2] The band's first album, Private Transport (2002), is credited to 16 musicians from Australia and the United States.
[4] He explained to Kath Ogovany of Australian Music Info how "I was in San Francisco for about four months and in between some Lucksmiths tours and had some time on my hands and had some friends who were willing to muck around so we started recording this album there and when I got back to Australia The Luckies were having a pretty relaxed sort of year… so I recorded the rest of it with a whole lot of good friends here.
"[5] In November 2006, the line-up was Griffith, Rigby and White with Roger Clark on trumpet, Phil Collings on drums and Gerry Eeman (also in Basic Shape) on guitar.
Aaron Zelinsky claimed in March 2009 on his blog for Huffington Post that US President Barack Obama had adapted the lyric, "The quiet burden of your absence", from the Guild League's song, "Shirtless Sky" from Inner North, in his inaugural address to Congress.
White told Jack Franklin of The Beat magazine how there are "...six of us in the band and all of us have hundreds of other things on our plates, so it's always a big joy when we can get together.