Novacastrians Turpentine Babycino prove it’s normal to wallow at home and feel heartbroken post break-up with the latest single, ‘Write A Song Sounds Shit’, which ushers in the partying phase around the corner. The Newcastle outfit have captured getting lit with your friends, playing music and moving forward in a fast, loud track, which is echoed by the new accompanying film clip.

With heavy influences from Blink-182 and Newcastle upstarts Dave The Band, Turpentine Babycino have combined the natural connection of Gabriel Argiris (Dave The Band) and singer Georgie Winchester to form a break-up anthem that flowed out naturally during their writing sessions.

‘Write a Song Sounds Shit’ is hooky, unbridled indie alt-punk that is undeniably Australian. The guitars have just enough bite in them to balance out the sparkle, with the drums providing enough punch without too much polish, and just hint of fuzz on the bass, all coming together to lay the bed for vocalist Georgie Winchester’s sweetly ocker delivery. Turpentine Babycino have put together a catchy, 90s-flavoured ode to dealing with moving on, that sits somewhere between Amyl and the Sniffers and Beddy Rays having a Sunday morning post-party coffee.

Recorded at iconic The Grove Studios (Birds of Tokyo, Violent Soho, DMA’s) with work from Chloe Gill on the production, the track was mixed by ARIA Award Winning producer Paul McKercher (Eskimo Joe, You Am I, Art vs. Science), before being sent to Studio 301 (King Stingray, Thelma Plum, The Rubens) to be mastered.

“‘Write A Song Sounds Shit’ is about the aftermath of a break-up. Big parties, loud music, long nights and writing shitty break-up songs are often on the cards to help ‘forget’ about an ex. As a song-writer it’s easy to dismiss a great song due to self doubt and judgment and after a break-up, these insecurities are heightened. ‘Write A Song Sounds Shit’ is that shitty break-up song that nobody’s supposed to hear, except people will this time.” - Turpentine Babycino

Inspired by nostalgic American college movies, & their own quirky attitudes, Turpentine Babycino have today released the music video to accompany their stellar debut single ‘Write A Song Sounds Shit’. Filmed in their hometown of Newcastle, the band worked with local cinematographer Wanagi-Zable Andrews to bring the singer Georgie Winchester’s ideas to life. She even roped in her dad, who encouraged the video & shoot after discovering the concept, with the three of them working collaboratively to figure out all the shots, build the lighting & set, as well as bump in the fog machine, before working a mammoth 12 hour day to complete the video.

With bassist Manuel Rohrl offering his house as the location for the “party”, the band called upon friends, family & anyone they could find, to pack out the joint and ensure a rowdy atmosphere was captured. Georgie’s little sister even jumped up to crowd surf during the band’s performance. The resulting film is a high energy and feel-good visual that matches the cathartic track. ‘Write A Song Sounds Shit’ is the epitome of shaking away the hurdles of life and pushing onwards to better days.

“This video was super fun to make, especially the party scenes where we had a bunch of friends over to Manu’s house and they had to act out specific scenes. The flashbacks were probably the funnest to film; Gabe stuffing his face with cake, Cormac having to play-fight his cousin and Manu sculling an entire bottle of champagne to a cheering crowd - it got really rowdy. It kinda felt like one of those old American movies I grew up on where they have hectic college house parties.” Georgie Winchester “I’m really grateful to all my friends and family who turned up on the day, it was overwhelming at times, especially in the scene when I walked through the corridor into the house party and my little sister was crowd surfing. Everyone was going off vibing hard and it was difficult not to break character in awe of what was going on around me. We ended up shooting that scene 20 times to get it right, haha.” - Georgie Winchester

With a reputation for bringing loud rock & a punky 90’s fuzz to shows across NSW, Turpentine Babycino are set to capitalise on their demand in Newcastle & across the state, by taking their honest & vulnerable tunes, to stages across Australia, ready to pull audiences everywhere aboard with Turpentine Babycino.