Play The Temper Trap Radio

The Temper Trap

On Tour

1,357,840 plays (80,486 listeners)

381 shouts

Add to my Library Share

Melbourne, Australia (2005 – present)

The Temper Trap is an indie rock band which formed in 2005 in Melbourne, Australia. The band consists of Dougy Mandagi (vocals, guitar), Lorenzo Sillitto (guitar, keyboards), Jonathon Aherne (bass) and Toby Dundas (drums).

The Temper Trap’s story begins with Dougy. Born in Indonesia and immersed in an artistic and musical family, with some  rich influences from singing in church choirs with his aunty and uncle and listening to his dad, a country music fan, play guitar. These influences evolved around Dougy, as he moved consistently from different islands in Indonesa, to Hawaii and then eventually to Australia.   Dougy’s move to Downunder started him out as a portrait drawer at $25 a pop, or singing a tune for your loose change in downtown Melbourne.
 
Dougy eventually ended up working at the same retail store as Toby.  Dougy had thought of starting a band for years and after a few months of boring work hours and finding out Toby was a drummer and a walking musical dictionary, the first band practice began, minus a bass player.  In one of the coincedences that the band have come to rely on Jonny worked a couple of stores down and was called in.  He had known Dougy for years, back in the busking days when dougy first arrived in melbourne. jonny, the 13 year old dreamer and son of a missionary, wanted to learn some guitar and dougy helped him out.  A brotherly friendship was formed with some sense of common ground, both drawing life from music and their spritual upbringings, and unaware of the musical union which would be formed 6 years later.
 
Read more… Edit

Top Albums


Top Tracks

1 Play
Sweet Disposition full track
12,612
2 Play
Love Lost full track
3,304
3 Play
Fader full track
3,126
4 Play
Down River full track
2,847
5 Play
Science of Fear full track
2,827
6 Play
Rest full track
2,555
7 Play
Soldier On full track
2,433
8 Play
Fools full track
2,248
9 Play
Resurrection full track
2,036
10 Play
Drum Song full track
1,909
11  
814
12  
204
13  
135
14  
124
15  
117
See more

Shoutbox

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up (it’s free).
See all 381 shouts

Videos

See more

Events

Add event See more

News

The Temper Trap perform at the ARIAs – Europe dates rescheduled

30 Oct 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/thetempertrap

The Temper Trap are thrilled to announce that they will be performing at the ARIA awards in Sydney on Thursday November 26th. The ARIA Awards (Australia's equivalent to the Brits or Grammys) invite. …

Add comment

See more

Listeners

See more

Recent Activity

Related Journals

See more

More Information

Links
Labels