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Hometown	Port Macquarie, Australia
Genres	Alt. Rock, Bust It Like Busta
Band Members	Mark -- guitar/vox; James -- bass/vox; Stephen -- drums... » more
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Upcoming Shows	None

Contact Information:	Manager Justin van Stom artistmgmt@gmail.com 0420224700 Booking Luke Morton @ The Harbour Agency lukem@theharbouragency.com +61 2 9331 5888 Booking Daniel Sant @ The Harbour Agency daniels@theharbouragency.com +61 2 9331 5888
# Years Experience Performing Live:	2
# Live Perfomances Past Six-months:	54
Market Draw:	Capitol Cities of Australia: 351-400; Regiona; Australia: 76-100
Venue History:	The Excelsior Hotel - Sydney, NSW, AU The Annandale Hotel - Sydney, NSW, AU World Bar - Sydney, NSW, AU The Seabreeze Beach Hotel - South West Rocks, NSW, AU X & Y Bar - Bribane, QLD, AU Ding Dong Lounge - Melbourne, VIC, AU Beach Road Hotel - Bondi Beach, NSW, AU
Opener Experience:	The Break; Richard In Your Mind; Philedelphia Grand Jury
Similar Artists:	R.E.M.; Idlewild; Sonic Youth; Nirvana; The Pogues; The Velvet Underground; The Posies
Performing Rights Society:	Outside US
Discography:	Starts & Stutters EP—2010; Right On/Write Off EP—2009

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Royal Chant....? Well, just a garage band from the wilds of NSW, Australia. We travel around a lot in a beat up van, taking stages of all sizes. The songs? Well, they're just folk songs, really, but they've been overdriven, in varying degrees, so the...

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Video Finals Grand Prize Winner July 2014

Reached 1st in Best of Rock chart in 2019. 1st for 3 weeks.

Reached 1st in Best of Rock chart in 2017. 1st for 10 weeks.

Video Finals Grand Prize Winner July 2014

Reached 1st in Best of Rock chart in 2019. 1st for 3 weeks.

Reached 1st in Best of Rock chart in 2017. 1st for 10 weeks.

Reached 1st in Best of Rock chart in 2017. 1st for 6 weeks.

Reached 1st in Best of Rock chart in 2016. 1st for 1 week.

Indie Rock Winner, May 2016

Reached 22nd in Best of Rock chart in 2019. In the top 100 for 1 week.

Reached 34th in Best of Rock chart in 2015. In the top 100 for 19 weeks.

Reached 85th in Best of Rock chart in 2014. In the top 100 for 2 weeks.

Reached 61st in Best of Rock chart in 2011. In the top 100 for 3 weeks.

Top 10 in Indie Rock , October 2018

Top 10 in Indie Rock , February 2018

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Serve Me The Round Table by Alisa Greer, A Sweet Unrest
Royal Chant - I Remember Crescent City This one came to me courtesy of Ye Olde Inbox and I like everything about it, most especially lead singer Mark Spence's voice and delivery and his turns of phrase. I raised my glass and collapsed at your feet- it was that kind of summer though I never could have said it so well myself. I also really like Mark Spence's blog, slantrhyme, which I would recommend to anyone but especially the bookish (that's everyone here isn't it?) This song is from a forthcoming release. Check out Royal Chant's MySpace and see iTunes for their 2009 EP Right On/Write Off.

Royal Chant by The Band Next Door
Like “pop put through a fuzzbox blender”? Well, if you say so Royal Chant dudes. I think it’s more a concrete mixer to be honest, as the sound sticks and dries hard to the brain (sorry about that lame metaphor). Anywhoo, Royal Chant are a garage band from somewhere near port Macquarie on the Mid North Coast of NSW who evidentely have some power to them, but not so much to make them wanky and irrelevant.

Royal Crush by Kate B., Ourstage.com Blog
What do you get when you put a band of impassioned Aussies in a van, and send them trekking across the outback and through cities? In the case of Royal Chant, you get something feral and raucous. And, beneath all that, something unexpectedly poetic. Singer Mark Spence is an American expatriate, and his deadpan singing style belies the restlessness just beneath the surface. There’s an edge of discontent that runs through a lot of Royal Chant’s material. The modish “I Remember Crescent City,” with its bopping guitars and thumping rhythm guitars and doodling leads, could be a Strokes song in an instant. On “Shatters Alright,” Spence sings, “It’s not love without the abrasions” while guitars and drums send up torrents of grit. It’s garage rock perfection. Our favorite might have to be “Coughing Fits,” a dark and troubling rocker that unfolds with muffled dread. Sinewy guitars and twinkling keys quicken the pulse, and disturb all the way though the chorus. The abrasions might be psychological here, but either way, it’s love.

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