Sydney's ART vs SCIENCE formed in early 2008 when keyboardist/guitarist Dan Mac approached his high school friend and confidante, drummer Dan W. (who had just inherited an Ensonique keyboard from a late mad uncle) with a view to making loud dance music. They recruited lab escapee Jim Finn for bass keyboard duties, and wrote seven tracks in 48 hours after Dan Mac volunteered the trio to play at their first gig, glossing over the fact that the band had yet to make many any music together.
Three months later ART vs SCIENCE took out triple j unearthed’s Splendour in The Grass competition off the back of the impossibly catchy track ‘Flippers’. They were a surprise hit of the weekend, playing to a rapturous crowd of over 5000, raising temperatures higher than they should have been at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, and marking themselves as ones to watch.
ART vs SCIENCE have honed their sound – part pop, part French electro, with a healthy infusion of rock – at numerous festival and gig appearances including Parklife, Falls Festival, MS Fest in Tasmania and Good Vibrations and capped off their dream year with an Unearthed J Award nomination, plenty of airplay for their second single ‘Hollywood’ and the number 44 spot in triple j’s Hottest 100.
Catch the band on their first ever headline tour in support of their debut EP this May.
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