The Pints

Artist Description

The Pints play an energetic mix of punk, blues, retro and indie rock & roll – a sound which has been labeled ‘genre defying’. They began as an acoustic blues duo in 2001, but by late 2002 had evolved to a 5-piece rock & roll band. The Pints aim to create something different, an original sound based on an old-school rock ethic and expressed in a rocking live show. After playing numerous local gigs, things started to happen in March 2003 with a show at a student peace rally and another show at the Lucky, but really took off in May when The Pints won their heat of the University Band Comp. That performance and the subsequent quarter-final evoked comparisons to The Doors, Radio Birdman, Beasts of Bourbon, The Pixies and some surf music. More shows at the Lucky showed the word had spread, as The Pints were recently reviewed in Brag magazine, now being compared to Talking Heads, Television and the early CBGB’s punk scene. A CD/EP was finally recorded in June, and a show at the Northern Star proved successful. The Pints have successfully headlined their own shows with the pulling power of energy-driven, entertaining, and often chaotic live performances. The band is currently writing and rehearsing new material with new drummer Caleb Kingston, also of local rock group Paperhalo.