The Shiny Brights

The five members have varied tastes in music that all influence their songs; a mix of post-punk, Brit pop and garage rock, held together by lead singer Wolfgang's distinctive voice and the band's four-part gang vocals.

They rehearse in a warehouse full of washing machines which inspired the band name, derived from a laundromat franchise in Adelaide called Shiny Brights.

[1] Wolfgang, James, Chris and Miles all met at high school and formed The Shiny Brights in late 2007, later recruiting Alex to play lead guitar and to take on the duties of driving the tour van.

[2] In September 2008 they digitally released their debut 6-track EP Let's Not And Say We Did and launched it at the renowned Adelaide live music venue The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel.

[5] In the month of December 2008 they experienced a landslide of band competition wins that put them in the spotlight; they were 'unearthed' by Australian youth radio network Triple J to play at the Big Day Out headlined by acts like Neil Young, Arctic Monkeys, My Morning Jacket, The Prodigy,[6] then they won a Sonicbids competition to play at Southbound Festival in Western Australia, alongside The Hives, Franz Ferdinand, The Kooks, Gomez amongst others,[7] and they also won a Nova Radio competition to play at the Clipsal 500 After Race Concert with The Living End, Gyroscope and The Butterfly Effect.