The DC3 were an Australian rock band who were composed of three members of

Root! Root! was an Australian rock music, rock band from Melbourne formed in 2005. Their music combines alt-country, blues and indie rock with elements of spoken word, satire, social commentary and post-modernism. They have gained attention through a ...

. They were known for lead singer

Damian Cowell Damian Joseph Cowell, also known by his former stage names Humphrey B. Flaubert and DC Root, is an Australian musician who is best known as the frontman for TISM, Root!, The DC3, Damian Cowell's Disco Machine and Arseless Chaps. History Cowell ...

being a former member of

TISM TISM ( ; an acronym of This Is Serious Mum) are a seven-piece anonymous alternative rock band, formed in Melbourne, Australia on 30 December 1982 by vocalist/drummer Humphrey B. Flaubert, bassist/vocalist Jock Cheese and keyboardist/vocalist ...

. They released their first single, "I Was the Guy in TISM" in 2010. A remixed and extended version appears on their debut album ''The Future Sound of Nostalgia'', released in 2011.

History

In 2010, Damian Cowell was contracted to write an album for the

Museum of Old and New Art The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is an art museum located within the Moorilla Estate, Moorilla winery on the Berriedale, Tasmania, Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest privately funded museum in the South ...

. The album was composed of new songs about the artwork at MONA. Damian split his alt-country band

up soon after but reformed it with fewer members under the name the DC3. The DC3 gained a following among former

and Root! fans after the band's first single "I was the guy in TISM" was released in November 2010. The album was completed in 2011 and called "Vs Art". The DC3's first show was at the opening of MONA in Hobart. Around that time, Vs Art was released. The band began to play live in Melbourne and around Australia. Cowell originally intended to call the band "The Future Sound of Nostalgia"", but he thought it was too long. This is instead the name of the band's official debut album which was released on 1 September 2011. The DC3's second and final album, ''May Contain Traces of Nut'', was released on 7 February 2013. It was funded by a Pozible project which raised $12,590. At the end of 2013, the DC3 broke up so Cowell could concentrate on his solo project ''Damian Cowell's Disco Machine''. Their final two songs, "Bryan Miller" and "Martin Wagner" (outtakes from the ''May Contain Traces of Nut'' sessions), were released on

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in early 2014. In an interview in 2015, Cowell stated that the breakup was in part due to Robertson's and Grawe's desires to live normal lives.

Style

The DC3 mainly played standard

alternative rock Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s w ...

with social commentary as the lyrics, as heard in songs like "I Was the Guy in TISM" and "Henry Fucking Wagons". The sound is reminiscent of White Albun-era TISM. The band itself described its style as "

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".https://www.facebook.com/TheDCThree/info Some DC3 songs (e.g. "Girls, Girls, Girls", "Shut the Fuck Up", "Henry Fucking Wagons") were performed as Root! songs as early as 2008 before the name-change to the DC3.

Discography

Albums

Footnotes

Victoria (state) musical groups Musical groups established in 2010 Musical groups disestablished in 2013 TISM 2010 establishments in Australia {{Australia-band-stub