Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!

Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!
Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!
	Indie
Years active	2005–2014
Labels	Dot Dash
Members	Sam Stearne (drums); Josh Flavel (bass); Caitlin Duff (vocals); David Williams (vocals/guitar); Nathaniel Morse (guitar)
Past members	Grant Badcock (guitar); Andrew Walenczykiewicz (guitar); Art Zinoviev (synth)

Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! was an indie rock group from

Adelaide, South Australia. They describe their musical style as "monolithic tech-pop".^{[citation needed]} They released the independent EPs You Seize the City, I'll Seize the Sky (2006) and Boy, Hush Yr Mouth, Grrl Bare Yr Teeth (2007), and full-length studio album Sea Priest (2010). In 2014, they announced that they had disbanded.^[1]

History

2005-2009: Origins and early EPs

The band met and formed during their time at

EP You Seize the City, I'll Seize the Sky, and were invited to play Adelaide's Big Day Out

. In early 2007, the band approached Caitlin Duff to take over from David as lead vocalist.

After performing at the

Unearthed competition^[4] and was featured in Rip It Up Magazine as an Adelaide act set to make a play for national attention in 2009.^[5]

Throughout the summer of 2009, the band performed once again at the

Laneway Festival, and Come Together Festival in Sydney. In July/August 2009, Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! released the iTunes-only EP Animal Spirit Guide, touring across the country with Hungry Kids of Hungary and Tom Ugly

.

Throughout 2009, the band played shows supporting the likes of Sia, The Bumblebeez, and Bertie Blackman, and were shortlisted as one of the ten finalists for the Qantas Spirit of Youth award.^[6] In September 2009, Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! announced the addition of a second guitarist, Nathaniel Morse, to complement their line up, embarking on a short Australian east coast tour with I Heart Hiroshima.

2010- Debut album and touring

On 19 March 2010, Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! released their debut studioalbum Sea Priest through

John Steel Singers. Additional tours included St. Vincent, Band of Skulls and Kimbra

.

In December 2012, the band released "Codebreaker".

They announced they had disbanded via Facebook in September 2014.

Discography

Studio albums

Title	Details
Sea Priest	Released: March 2010 Label: Dot Dash Format: CD, digital download

Extended plays

Title	Details
You Seize the City, I'll Seize the Sky	Released: 2006 Label: self-released Format: CD, digital download
Boy, Hush Yr Mouth, Grrl Bare Yr Teeth	Released: 2007 Label: self-released Format: CD, digital download

Singles

Title	Year	Album
"War Coward"	2009	Sea Priest
"Animal Spirit Guide"	2009
"Little Cowboys, Bad Hombres"	2010
"Codebreaker"	2012	non album single

Awards

Fowler's Live Music Awards

The Fowler's Live Music Awards took place from 2012 to 2014 to "recognise success and achievement over the past 12 months [and] celebrate the great diversity of original live music" in South Australia. Since 2015 they're known as the South Australian Music Awards.^[8]


Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result (wins only)
2012	Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!	Best Indie Artist	Won

References

^ "Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!". Facebook. 22 September 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2015. This is probably a bit redundant considering how long we've been silent but its worth saying; we're not a band anymore. We're all still buds, but decided we'd prefer to pursue our own projects instead of continuing in F!SR,F!
^ "Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! At Jplay: triple j music". Jplay. Retrieved 26 December 2008.
^ "hitlist (by artist): triple j music". ABC. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
^ FasterLouder Archived 24 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! nab Homebake spot
^ "The Hot Six". Archived from the original on 17 January 2009. Retrieved 11 August 2009. The Hot Six - Rip It Up Magazine, January 2009
^ "SOYA - Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards: Qantas". Qantas. Retrieved 2 September 2009.
^ "playlists: FBI Radio". FBI. Retrieved 22 March 2010.
^ "Past Winners". South Australian Music Awards. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2021.

[1] "Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!". Facebook. 22 September 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2015. This is probably a bit redundant considering how long we've been silent but its worth saying; we're not a band anymore. We're all still buds, but decided we'd prefer to pursue our own projects instead of continuing in F!SR,F!

[2] "Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! At Jplay: triple j music". Jplay. Retrieved 26 December 2008.

[3] "hitlist (by artist): triple j music". ABC. Retrieved 9 December 2008.

[4] FasterLouder Archived 24 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! nab Homebake spot

[5] "The Hot Six". Archived from the original on 17 January 2009. Retrieved 11 August 2009. The Hot Six - Rip It Up Magazine, January 2009

[6] "SOYA - Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards: Qantas". Qantas. Retrieved 2 September 2009.

[7] "playlists: FBI Radio". FBI. Retrieved 22 March 2010.

[PastWinners-8] "Past Winners". South Australian Music Awards. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2021.

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