The Shambelles

A few months back I was fortunate to be invited to take some photos of one of Melbourne great band's The Shambelles. All Grrrl, all rock, all party, all fun. Don't let the word 'rock' put you off.. they aren't head banging, MOR boring, or 'over the top' crap Rock.. no, these ladies rock in a fun, 'lets dance' kind of way!  I saw them at Ya Ya's some time back and my hips were a swaying and if I could dance, I would have shimmied across to the dance floor and joined the all the others there.

The band are doing a few self described 'acoustic stylie' gigs. Their Facebook page states "Two big sets,hip shakin & shambollicness guaranteed, just not at ear splitting volume...." So I guess it's the same fun, at a lower volume! That has to be good!

The gigs are:

Saturday 25th, August at 5:00pm at The Union Hotel -109 Union Street, Brunswick.
( I will be there, so say hello!)

Sunday, September 16 at 4:30pm at The Carringbush Hotel- 228 Langridge St, Collingwood.


If you can go along, please do, cause not only will it be fun, fun, fun (till ya daddy takes the jukebox away), but you'll also be supporting local musos who just happen to be the most rockin shambollic grrls ever!

Stolen Straight from their Myspace page here is a 'who is who' in the band!

Jody Galvin - Vox
Alics "Thrip" Gate-Eastley - Bass/Vox
Monica "Monstar" Weightman - Guitar/Vox
Jules - Drums


Here are a few photos from our photo shoot a couple of months back. Tomboy Bill came along and was a huge help assisting me.

 The Band: From left to right; Alics, Jody, Jules & Monica

 All photographs copyright Matthew Schiavello 2012.