After 10 years, 4 studio albums, a handful of EPs, various festival appearances and hundreds of live shows around the Country, Epicure has called it a day.
Ballarat’s most successful export over the past decade, Epicure has sold in excess of 30,000 CDs since the release of their debut album, Fold back in 2000. This release, with the members all still in their teens, introduced the band to a National audience with support from the power of Triple J and a continued touring schedule all over the Country.
The quintet released Armies Against Me, the 1st single from their sophomore album, The Goodbye Girl, in 2003. Probably Epicure’s most successful and well known track, Armies spent months on the Triple J playlist and was continually amongst the most requested by listeners of the National broadcaster. The song remained in the
The Goodbye Girlalso featured Life Sentence (also part of 2003’s Hottest 100), So Broken and Self Destruct in Five, which was voted into 2004’s most popular 100 songs on Triple J in 2004.
Epicure toured extensively during this time, with several headline tours, playing the Falls Festival, Big Day Out and a run of stadium dates supporting USacts Live and Train.
Frontman & principle songwriter, Juan Alban remembers this time of the band’s career … “It was a pretty magical time... we were doing all the things we grew up dreaming of..."
2005 saw the release of Main Street. A more lush production offering than it’s predecessor and featuring a string quartet, this album produced yet another radio hit, Tightrope Walker which has been the single most downloaded track from the band’s full catalogue.
“… Main Street … catchy pop/rock with forlorn melodies, heartbroken tales of despair, lost love, rejuvenated love, hope, death, angst and a professional recording with the acoustics complementing the impressive string arrangements very nicely indeed…. “
The band continued with their touring throughout the release of Main Street , before returning to the studio to record what is their most impressive, and sadly last, studio album.
“ …. There is no doubt that with Postcards From A Ghost, Epicure have released their best album to date. Immaculately crafted, sonically gorgeous, and imbued with all their trademark beautiful melancholy, the new album sees the band write the best songs of their career…. “
Cobra Kisseswas the 1st single lifted from Postcards, yet another radio addition, a National run of dates with Mia Dyson and support slots with John Butler Trio as well as silverchair & Powderfinger’s Across The Great Divide Tour, preceeded the album release in 2008. Upon the release of 'Postcards...' the band also did a national run of dates with UKact Gomez.
Standout track, Landslide, was included on the Coastal Chill compilation joining contemporaries such as The Panics, Lior and Josh Pyke. The lovelorn ballad, highlighting Juan Alban’s exquisite, haunting vocals, has been the band’s biggest selling individual song at iTunes in recent Months.
Now, in 2010, a band that has captured the hearts of so many fans with their emotive recordings and intense live performances over a 10 year period, Epicure release their grand finale …
Quietly Into The Night – An Epicure Anthology.
The anthology includes Epicure’s singles, favourite album tracks, B sides and a collection of videos and behind the scenes footage of what has been a career that many Australian bands would be damn proud to be able to call their own.
“We'd really like to thank anyone who came to a show, bought a record or gave a damn... and thankyou for allowing us this last indulgence... it was a great rock n roll dream.”
… Quietly into the night …
