Sneaky Sound System

Nominated for the Australian Artist of the Year Award

If you live in Australia and haven’t heard of Sneaky Sound System, then it’s pretty safe to say...you really should get out more...

Over the past 18 months this Bondi based electro/pop group have been catapulted from club and festival favourites into an omnipresent pop sensation.

It has been a phenomenal year for the trio of Miss Connie (frontwoman/vocals), MC Double D (frontman/man-about-town/MC) and Black Angus (chief songwriter/producer/music guy). Their self titled debut album has sold in excess of 200,000 copies and the now certified GOLD singles UFO, Pictures and I Love It still sit firmly in the Australian ARIA Top 100. At one point the band had 4 singles in the Top 40.

It has been a year of breaking records and winning awards.  PICTURES came second in the International Song-writing Competition. I LOVE IT broke the record for the longest charting single in the history of the ARIA Charts by spending 70 weeks in the ARIA Top 100 singles charts. The band also broke the record most nominations for an independent artist ever at the 2007 ARIA Awards where they took home 2 awards – Best Dance Release and Breakthrough Artist (Album). The Sydney trio also swept the Australian Independent Recording Awards, taking home trophies for Best Independent Single (UFO) and Best Independent Artist.
Their amazing performance at Live Earth Sydney in July had everybody talking, and with a string of sell out headline tours including their most recent all ages national arena tour + killer sets at festivals like Good Vibrations, Big Day Out & Splendour In The Grass + support slots with Robbie Williams, Jamiroquai and Scissor Sisters under their belt, Sneaky Sound System (together with their 6 piece band) have truly become one of the most captivating live acts of recent times.  Miss Connie also found time to record vocals on a handful of tracks for Kanye West’s new album, Graduation....

Of course, this didn’t happen overnight. After meeting at a dodgy ‘Cowboys and Indians’ party in the spring of 2001, Black Angus and Double D started up a regular Sunday night at their mates fancy new club and the idea was simple: Black Angus jumps behind the decks, a few live musicians and the occasional guest DJ drop in while MC Double D does whatever the hell he wants on the microphone. Sneaky Sound System was born. Their mixed CD ‘Other People's Music’ was released through Sony Australia in 2003, and they quickly became everybody’s favourite party starting posse...playing clubs, parties & festivals everywhere and then touring throughout the US, Europe and Asia. Wherever Sneaky Sound System went one thing was always guaranteed; you are going to be in party central.

In 2004, Black Angus and MC Double D decided to start their own record label, Whack Recordings. After hooking up with recording engineer/producer Peter Dolso, they set up a studio in Bondi Beach called The Whack House, and set about making their own music. Enter Miss Connie. After meeting randomly in a central Sydney park, the boys invited Connie to came on down to the studio and the newly formed gang laid down the vocals for their hit song I Love It. Hairs stood up on the back of everyone’s neck and a group hug followed. Now with super-hot, superlative defying vocalist on board, the rejuvenated Sneaky Sound System started recording.

A slick debut self-titled album emerged that is doing for the local music industry what Paris Hilton did for amateur home videos. It’s an album that takes its influences from all over the shop…the world of P-funk, early eighties disco, The Cure, New Order, Human League, Prince, Kate Bush, The Cars, Eurythmics and more modern German electronic producers than you could poke a stick at. Think stiff beats, thick bass lines, lush melodies, haunting vocals, rolling guitar licks and urban tales of love and loss. It is part-melancholic beauty but for the most part, it's party mayhem.

“We were like this electronic garage band with delusions of stadium glory; fantasizing about the day we played to a billion people at the next Live Aid. All of a sudden we turned into a real band and we ‘were’ playing in a stadium…and then came Live Earth – I guess we got what we wished for, big time”.