The Estates
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Members:
Alastair McRae - lead vocals, guitar, keyboards
Matt Del Favero - keyboards, guitar, vocals
Tom Guerney - bass, vocals
Alex McIntosh - drums, vocals
Sarah Marie Hodkinson- violin, percussion, vocals

Jonathan Alawo - Management and all around British guy. Contact at theestatesplay@gmail.com

THIS IS WHAT THE ESTATES ACTUALLY BELIEVE
"seventy-five million years ago, Xenu was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy which consisted of 26 stars and 76 planets including Earth, which was then known as "Teegeeack". The planets were overpopulated, with an average population of 178 billion.The Galactic Confederacy's civilization was comparable to ... Read Moreour own, with aliens "walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute" and using cars, trains and boats looking exactly the same as those "circa 1950, 1960" on Earth."
THIS IS WHAT THE ESTATES ACTUALLY BELIEVE

Genre:
Rock/Pop/Indie
Hometown:
Brisbane, Australia
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The Estates

The Estates Have two new mixed and mastered and violined tracks available for download from our myspace. Www.myspace.com/theestatesplay

The Estates

The Estates are amping up (get it) towards friday night at the troubadour, bring your granny.

October 28 at 4:16am
Bill Johnston
Bill Johnston
Violin- sounds tasty. How's recording guys? Last time I spoke to you @ HiFi Zoloft was being difficult. Anyone get to the Armada last night?
November 7 at 6:44pm
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The Estates Tom and Alastair will be on 4zzz at 7:30am for a chat tomorrow. Listen on 102.1. Awesome.

Dave Skillz Cathcart
Dave Skillz Cathcart
Too early guys :(
October 27 at 2:54am
The Estates
The Estates
not even skillz! not if you stay up all night. then it'll be on real late!
October 27 at 3:02am
Joshua Turner
Joshua Turner
Sweet action! I'll be on set but I'll take a radio and tune in.
October 27 at 3:56am
The Estates

The Estates Come to the troubadour this Friday for epic party times and super hero goodness. Now, to bake cake...

Savannah Jo Lack
Savannah Jo Lack
Say Hi to Jamie and Corrie for me?
October 26 at 8:21pm
The Estates
The Estates
Joa, I do not even know who that is.
Thu at 4:44am
The Estates

The Estates Thank everyone who tapped toes, slapped their woes and stole all the beer and ran away into the night. Come along again please. New tracks coming soon.

The Estates

The Estates Thank everyone who tapped toes, slapped their woes and stole all the beer and ran away into the night. Come along again please. New tracks coming soon.

The Estates

The Estates hope everybody comes to see us @ The Globe this Friday for the Fiesta Freakshow, we play at 8pm and after us are the Travelling So and So's and Grand Atlantic. Should be an amazing night full of fun-filled mayhem and escaping elephants. IT'S FREE!!!

October 20 at 10:52pm
Michael William Jackson
Michael William Jackson
I love Grand Atlantic, played a few gigs with them. Well polished. And of coarse I love you guys. I'll do my best to get there yeah.
October 21 at 12:40am
Marisa
Marisa
you go girl!
October 21 at 2:48am
RECENT ACTIVITY
The Estates added 1 new song to their profile.
The Estates

The Estates feasts fiestas.

October 17 at 6:39am
The Estates
The Estates
also feasts on ukuleles and bells.
October 20 at 5:21pm
The Estates

The Estates feature feet in their shoes as a ruse.

The Estates

The Estates gets them bells a'ringing

The Estates

The Estates constantly eating rasberries

October 8 at 8:35pm
Rosey Sigglekow
Rosey Sigglekow
you mean raspberries? Lol.
October 8 at 10:51pm
The Estates
The Estates
My drama teacher was called mr. rasmussen. We used to call him Mr. Ras. I like to think that we are constantly eating berries either grown by or procured by Mr. Ras. Still doing push ups at sixty-four, bless the man.
October 9 at 3:33am
The Estates

The Estates did some research on the past and realised they preferred presents.

The Estates

The Estates are manufactured with pride in Soviet Russia.

October 5 at 8:16pm
The Estates
The Estates
In Soviet Russia, chicken fries kentucky
October 8 at 1:05am
The Estates

The Estates are robots designed to lie about being robots designed to lie

October 5 at 5:35am
Clint Luna
Clint Luna
Recursive lying robots in fact...
October 5 at 6:18am
The Estates

The Estates a taste of things to come, more of a work in progress

The Estates
The Estates
Me too...its so...jangly, and P.S why cant I come up just as Sarah...WHY must I be the whole band :(
October 2 at 2:08am
The Estates
The Estates
We are bigger than the sum of our parts.
October 2 at 10:00pm
The Estates

The Estates Some happy snaps from the HI FI taken by Darcy Paparazzi. A fantastic man who you should use for all your photo work.

10 new photos
The Estates

The Estates The last party weekend before Xmas. Last time before you go home and get bored after two/three days with the olds, get socks and eat lots. So before that happens make sure you party it up!
@ http://www.xandybar.com.au/

The Estates play with chromosomes and create a musical goat called George!
Time:8:00AM Friday, December 18th
Location:X & Y Bar
The Estates

The Estates
OH YAY! OH YAY! OH YAY! The Estates at The Troubadour! Get your dancin' feet on and get dancin'!
@ http://thetroubadour.com.au/

So this is our first big headline show in a couple of months, and after some time off we are ready to slam a pumpkin in your face. Being that we haven't been on a stage for a lengthy period of t...ime I want you all to expect:

* Costumes SUPER HEROES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

* Jokes (Tom guerney will Entertain)

* New Songs (If you're lucky)

* Drunks (we bring em, you get to laugh at em dance)

* An amazingly awesome good time... DO IT!

THIS JUST IN. WE WILL BE FEATURING THE WORK OF A YOUNG BRISBANE ARTIST - VICTORIA MCLEAN, YOU COULD JUST BE LEAVING THE SHOW WITH A SOUVENIR. DOES ANYONE LIKE PAPER PLANES?

Supported by The Oyster Murders and Plastic Palace Alice (Melb).

Doors 8pm. $10 at the door. $8+bf through Oztix
PS. Prebuy your tickets now.
http://tickets.oztix.com.au/?Event=12406&promoID=100
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The scariest Friday night of the year just got AWESOME!
Time:8:00PM Friday, October 30th
Location:The Troubadour
The Estates

The Estates
On the last occasion The Globe and The Estates combined in a wondrous melee of joyful joyfulness. There were balloons and joy, and joy and balloons, ....... so what next you ask? Well with Black Pommie Jon to mix things up anything is possible ... literally.

Come and be wowed by the awfully good looking band known as T...he Estates, w- The Travelling So & So's and Grand Atlantic ...

Also, on this night you can get free membership to the Globe... The Estates are on early, round 8pm and afterwards will be drinking and carousing with anyone else who is interested, so come along and have a laugh.

OH and it's FREE ENTRY!
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Globe-tastically globe-ish!
Time:6:00PM Friday, October 23rd
Location:The Globe
RECENT ACTIVITY
The Estates changed their Members.