The Wellingtons

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MUSIC:
Our new album Heading North For The Winter out now in:
Australia on Dust Devil
Japan on Thistime Records
UK on Lojinx
Spain on Rock Indiana
USA get it CD Baby [Zip Records]
and on iTunes at iTunes.com/thewellingtons
Available from Lojinx-
Our 7" Double A-side Song For Kim/Freak Out Single
Also available directly from us:
'Keeping Up With The Wellingtons'
$20AUD each postage [$2 Australia or $6 international]
'For Friends in Faraway Places'
$20AUD each postage [$2 Australia or $6 international]
'Freak Out' 5 Track EP with Videos
$7AUD postage [$2 Australia or $6 international]
If you would like to make an order, please email mail at mail@thewellingtonsmusic.com payments can be made via paypal.
T-SHIRTS:
We have new tshirts available in Youth Medium, Youth Large, Small, Medium & Large.
Available in Blue & Charcoal.
All t shirts are quality Love Police brand and feature cute Gramophone design. $25AUD each [buy directly from us].
We some of the old 'Keyboard' design tees and jumpers (or sweaters for our american friends)!
Tshirts are available in guys and girls in a bunch of sweet colours and are $10!
Jumpers are unisex and available in red, black and green and are just $15! crazy! you can buy them at shows or drop us an email for full size/colour/payment info. And the best part of all is that these were had screen printed by kate!
BIO
Melbourne Australia's The Wellingtons are one of the hardest working independent bands on the globe. In their 5 years together they've released 3 albums through labels in Japan, Spain, U.K, and U.S.A. and Australia. Touring all those countries and more, some twice over they've founded a faithful fan base world wide that includes members of some of their most influential bands like Motion City Soundtrack, Fountains of Wayne, Jellyfish, The Muffs and The Posies to name a few.
Their new album Heading North For The Winter, was released in Spain, Japan, UK & USA in 2008 to coincide with the bands world wide promotional tour covering 5 countries and over 40 dates with support from Arts Victoria.
The album will finally be released in Australia through Dust Devil Records (The Icecream Hands, Dan Wilson) in September 2008.
The glistening, saccharine melodies bound out of your stereo and instantly put a smile on your face. Beneath the boy/girl vocal hooks, the raw guitars, driving rhythm section and infectious synths create pure pop-rock bliss much like Weezer and The Cars did before them. Heading North For The Winter is simply an exciting, punchy, jump around your room record.
The album has already received glowing praise from much revered music media, landing in 11 "Best Albums of 2008" lists in countries as far reaching as Brazil and Spain as well as numerous U.S based radio station and publications.
The band is currently in London recording their 4th full length album with UK pop band Farrah's Andrew Campbell in the production seat. The album is slated for release in early 2011 and will be followed by more international and local touring in mid 2011
"The band's extra-large hooks started taking up residence inside my brain, and I could not stop hitting replay for a solid two weeks. Then I began to realize just how incredible this band is at crafting the absolute sugariest, stickiest, flat-out extraordinarily catchy music"
[This is What We Do Now, U.S.]
"You can scarcely do better than Melbourne, Australia's, pride and joy, The Wellingtons. "Heading North for the Winter" (Zip) is bursting at the seams with catchy hooks, handclaps, soaring choruses, well-placed horn charts and an immensely appealing blend of male and female vocals. Imagine vintage Elvis Costello at his poppiest and punchiest, add in the above elements, and you get irresistible tracks such as "I Get My Heart Broken Every Day."
[Los Angeles Daily News]
"The sunshiny goodness that is those Australian wonders, The Wellingtons have returned with an album of pure pop magic. The hard driving melodies of "Come Undone" has a Jellyfish meets Rooney vibe, and the utterly charming chorus is easily one of the best songs this year. Every song shines here and it's tough to come up with anymore gushing praise for this album, which hits peaks many times. Clocking in at just under 30 minutes, Heading North For The Winter is everything a great pop record should be – short, sweet and to the undeniably catchy pop point"
[Powerpopahlic, U.S]
"They continue to do the amazing - which is to top the album that came before the previous one. No question - The Wellingtons have pulled it all together here. They never mess around - with each album having 10 songs. 10 perfect encapsulations of pure pop perfection. "Heading North For The Winter" is one of 2008 very best. HUGELY RECOMMENDED!!
[Not Lame Records, U.S.]
"The Wellingtons - Heading North For The Winter - **** - A very fun album from this group, taking elements of both power pop and pop-punk, the band creates a powerful sound that starts hitting from the start and doesn't stop. I can't get enough of this record"
[POP UNDERGROUND U.S.]
"The Wellingtons specialize in upbeat power pop, blending youthful exuberance with a classic sound, and Heading North For The Winter might be their best yet. The first five tracks blast out of the gate in their best The Argument-meets-Rooney sound; the sixth, "Natalie", is a gem as well, recalling Big Kid and Jellyfish. One high-tempo melodic gem after another"
[Absolute power pop U.S.]
"Their music is very reminiscent of an era gone by; the late fifties, early sixties, perhaps. The thing is, they've gone and taken it apart piece by piece, tweaked it in some places, took out what they didn't want, and put it back together. What they ended up with is an album of finely crafted and noticeably honed pop music that is solidly catchy and accessible through and through. . The members of The Wellingtons obviously have great pop sensibilities, because pretty much every song is radio friendly, and most of them are catchy enough to be a hit.
Heading North for the Winter has an insane amount of hooks and each song seems catchier than the last"
[We rate stuff U.S.]
"The crunchy power-pop of the Wellingtons, from Melbourne, sounds a lot like those great American pop bands of the late 90's. Shades of Weezer, echoes of Fountains Of Wayne and a large dash of early Elvis Costello. It's energetic, extremely catchy and full of astonishing guitars"
[Soundflat mail order store]
"The Melbourne, Australia natives scoop up all that is cute, sweet and peppy from their environs and chuck it into three-minute ditties about — what else? — love and crushes with a five-second rebound rate. "Come Undone" is by far the album's standout track and delightfully reminiscent of the title song and namesake of the Tom Hanks-directed, Liv Tyler-acted 1996 fake band biopic, "That Thing You Do!" Hand claps, punchy synths and Monkees-style drumming make the tune a toe-tapper bound to get stuck between the ears, and on "Freak Out" the "whoa-ohs" beg singing along"
[On tap magazine. U.S.]
"Everything that's fun, smart and sweet about indie guitar pop – sunshine hooks, big choruses and girl-boy harmonies. For those who lap up tight, riffy guitars and retro-style saccharine harmonies."
[CD Baby USA]