Music
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IMMORTAL was formed in 1997 in Brunswick, Melbourne (Australia) by Chester Hetherington and Richard Pitts (Roach), who started playing in Chester’s Dad’s garage until they got their first gig at a children’s fairy party when Roach’s stepmother, who owned the fairy business, was too hungover to do the gig. But what started as a common passion in music, has since turned Immortal into what could be an Aria Award winning giant of the Australian music scene.
Roach and Chester are Immortal!
In 1998, Chester and Roach started to write original songs and released their first demo single, “Piece of Shit“, and toured the whole of the South East of Victoria, gathering a fan base in the underground (South-East Victorian) music scene. It didn’t take long for them to wow the crowd in Rosebud with their energetic live performances and establish a small but loyal following.
In 2000, the band was featured in a local compilation released by Backyard Records (their own label). A year later, after much hype and buzz gained from the huge publicity of the compilation (at the Coles where Roach does night shift), it was obvious that Immortal were destined for bigger and better things. Their debut album soon followed, Well We Tried was released in Nov 2001. Five months later, they shook the nation as they became the first independent band in Australia to get locked in a Myers Department Store overnight.
In July 2002 issue of Melbourne Grammar Girls School community newsletter, Immortal was voted third choice for a band for the Senior Formal by the student council.
Taking matters into their own hands, they crashed the Formal and played anyway, again making the news and setting a groundbreaking precedent, being the only band in Australian history to be gangbashed by a group of seriously annoyed Melbourne Grammar student council members. It took Immortal about a year and a half to resurrect their career and emerged from their sabbatical, all guns blazing, with their second album, “Buy This Or You Suck“, which was recorded above a milk Bar on Sydney Road between November 2004 and February 2005 and was released in April 2008.
From the album’s limited success, Immortal secured international distribution via Facebook, once they mastered the art of uploading, and were soon the first Australian rock band to be banned from Facebook for trying to poke too many users, looking for fans.
After years of touring regional nursing homes, community fairs, hospitals, prisons and blind institutes, Immortal is back in town and about to rock Melbourne, gearing up for the biggest comeback performance since Jesus was resurrected.
Stay tuned for performance dates and venues.