City Calm Down hail from the slums of Balwyn. Rising out of poverty stricken families, they got lucky when Jack Bourke’s parents decided he was in need of a fucking big bedroom. With this bedroom came the opportunity to store copious amounts of musical equipment and make raucous noise without having to fork over the hard earned dollar for a rehearsal studio.

Opportunity arose when Samuel Mullaly decided he needed to expand his musical appetite from the saxophone to the synthesizer and his ego saw great opportunity to exploit the volume knob and annoy the shit out of Jack’s family.

Not long after they were joined by Jeremy Sonnenberg who sported nothing more than a skull cap, a foot odour problem and a penchant for writing (as Jez says) "the catchiest basslines known to man". He is also a terrible speller.

Then the quest to find a drummer arose and after trialing some idiot from East Brunswick (who stupidly left his kinda expensive looking headphones after rehearsal) they settled on the man they call Tron (aka Quirk, aka Michael Quirk). Half cyborg and half pill, his background in Psytrance production, combined with his penchant for playing jazz kit lead him to combine the rhythmic feel of live drums with the produced sound of electronic percussion. He also plays the flute when he thinks no ones around.

Drawing influence from bands such as New Order, Digitalism and The Cure, City Calm Down work on moving electronica away from pre-recorded live shows into a musicianship based approach to live electronic music.