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Over six years as a band(with a few member changes),  4 releases, countless tours & after parties, from playing small shows in parking lots to some of the biggest venues in the country such as the RNA showgrounds (to 20,000bppl) and Brisbane Entertainment centre (to 9,500 ppl), the guys are working to create their own path of 'grassroots' success.
Their recent debut album was mixed by Sylvia Massy (TOOL, Red Hot Chili Peppers, COG) in California and is distributed nationally in the U.S. with SONY Red.

The guys have recently come off a tour stint with Californian band Unwritten Law where they played alongside the band at HiFi bar Brisbane and Coolangatta Hotel to a packed house (1180) at Hifi and 700 odd punters at the Cooly. Following this the guys supported pop-rockers The Smart on a QLD, tour another tour stint in Melbourne, followed by their own extensive QLD tour, and are about to hit the road again to launch their latest release nationally.
The band has a solid loyal national following and there is a lot of hype surrounding the guys after some recent stellar 'large venue' performances.
The guys have just released their latest 5 track self titled EP for digital download.

No strangers to touring or big stages the guys have played alongside internationally successful bands such as Taking Back Sunday, Unwritten Law, Thursday, Dead Letter Circus, Underoath, Saosin, Senses Fail, GUTTERMOUTH, BodyJar, Anti Flag, Parkway Drive and The Angels, to name a few DrawCard are well on their way to joining these bands on the international scene.

The Sound;  Raw honesty, and heartfelt delivery, going from 'pretty false setto', to a brutal breakdown then into a catchy melodic heavy rock chorus - all seamlessly in the space of one minute. Past reviews of their debut album Modern Rivalry has positioned their sound closely to Foo Fighters and Coheed and Cambria (without the extremely high voice) ... lets not waste too much time writing about who or what they sound like, get out to one of their shows or check out their tracks online.

All of the bands releases are available now on iTunes, at shows, on the bands own online merch store, in selected record stores in Australia and all good record stores in the U.S.  

Achievements and Milestones

• Debut at No.5 on the Australian Independent music charts for the track 'We won't break!'.
• Added to Amrap's Airit Community radio programme.
• One of the Triple J feature tracks of the week January 2012.
• Supported Californian band Unwritten Law at a near capacity crowd at HiFi Bar Brisbane and The Coolangatta Hotel.
• Supported JJJ favourites Trial Kenedy and Numbers radio on the QLD leg of their tour. 

• Regular rotation and Sync on FOX network sports programs. 
• Selected to be featured on TripleM radio with interviews and track rotation for the single 'Modern Rivalry'. 
• Featured on SkuffTV and FUEL TV extreme sports programs with interviews and track
placements. 

• Featured in 20,000 copies of No Cover magazine which is distributed nationwide in the United States. 

• Lined up with an Australia-wide promoter a number of stadium shows playing to upwards of 50,000 people in two months 
• Featured in August 2007 issue of Blunt Magazine (32,000 dist.)

• Featured on Australia wide compilation disc with NovaFM and AAA Entertainment and Home page stary on website.

• Placed track on compilation disc (8000 copies) that is distributed nation wide across the US, bundled with a popular alternative music magazine. 

• Won Australia wide competition and secured a spot on Taste of Chaos International tour performing to more than 10,000 people. 

• Placed on Skratch compilation cd which gets distributed at Warped Tour in the U.S. 

• Selected as the major promotional band for Australian compilation cd with huge, press and radio coverage.

• Securing an international management and promotional deal with Los Angeles based Management Company.

Instrumentation
Paul Durkin - Guitar/ Lead Vocals
Jesse Clark - Guitar/ Vocals
Mitch Wheeler - Bass/ Vocals
Andi Durkin - Drums/ Vocals/ Samples

Discography
2011 - DrawCard
2009 - Modern Rivalry
2004 - An Artificial Heartbeat
2003 - Pieces of a forgotten History

 


 

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