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Numbers Radio
12+ albums
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Typically, punk rock isn't exactly renowned for its maturity, but Numbers Radio are about as far from typical as you can get. While their songs may possess the kind of energy the punk rock genre is reliant on – and pack it in spades – these guys approach their brand of aggressive music in an altogether different manner. Track back to the mid-noughties and you’d have seen the three members of Numbers Radio flexing very different musical muscles. Guitarist David Orr and bassist Robbie Carlyon have been mates since their teenage years and creative collaborators for most of that time as well. In the years preceding the formation of Numbers Radio, these two guys were involved in a myriad of different musical endeavours both together and apart. Orr's love of guitar drew him to studying jazz and becoming obsessed with learning more about harmony and composition, while Carlyon turned his hand to recording and production, and over time building his own professional home studio. The pair became extremely proficient across a number of genres – Jazz, Funk, Blues, Ska Punk, but felt to often restrained by rules and unable to play with the kind of passion they knew they had to inject into their musical pursuits. They decided to go back. Back to the music that got them off while skating through the streets of suburban Brisbane in the mid-90s. Back to the days where their scratchy Ramones and Dead Kennedys tapes jammed into boom boxes ruled in a world by the iPod. Back to what made them w
