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Milk Bar Gang

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 Bio

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 In 2021.   Felix Chapple (Keyboards, Guitars) and Bianca Cao (Vocals, Art, Dance) began writing, rehearsing and recording songs for a new music project during the covid lockdowns. 

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They settled on Milk Bar Gang as the name of the project, a name with tinges of nostalgia, menace, moral panic and lollies.

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​Felix has played keyboards, organ and piano with many different Melbourne bands and musicians;  Shamus Goble (Plums), Ted Cleaver (Fauves), Duncan Foster, Meloncholiflowers (w Osker Bickford), Frente (joining for Melbourne Shows for Marvin the Album),

The Beach Chromers, and currently Phoenix/Weneger

 

Bianca Cao studied Ballet in Beijing from the age of 5 and has continued to perform as a dancer.  Her dance background brings a natural and theatrical performer to the fore as front woman for the band. Bianca also studied Visual Art and photography in Beijing, this translates into Milk Bar Gang's multimedia explorations and visual style.

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2022

In June 2022 Milk Bar Gang released their debut 4 track EP "Open".  The songs on the EP are a mixed lolly bag of musical styles. The themes of Open touch on alienation in a consumer society. Recorded, mixed and mastered at home, Milk Bar Gang seek to intrigue with the layering of textures and sounds.

 

Milk Bar Gang have also self produced several accompanying  videos to go with the tracks on their debut EP Open. The videos showcase the bands visual style and wry take on life. 

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At the end of 2022 Milk Bar Gang released the single "Where Now Girl" with accompanying video.

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2023 Milk Bar Gang completed tracks and videos for a new EP "Shudder". "The Accident" was released December 2023.

 

2024. Milk Bar Gang released their second EP SHUDDER  with  "I Want Control" as a single.

The band played their first live show at Brunswick Artists Bar in October. The live show saw them joined by Grant Bueno (Beach Chromers)(drums), Stuart Grigg (Bass), Jeff Percy (Guitar)

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2025. Milk Bar Gang launched the SHUDDER EP  at Odeon Richmond with following gigs at Bergy Bandroom and Kxx Bandroom Ballarat.

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Currently Milk Bar Gang are working on tracks for a new album and about to release a new single and video. 'Wo AI Ni'

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© 2023 by Milk Bar Gang 

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