Bio

We Grow Up are an indie pop band based in Adelaide, South Australia. With their main musical influences being Elliott Smith and The Beatles, they aspire to match their predecessors by writing pop songs with substance.

The band has been playing live around their home town of Adelaide in various forms since early 2007. They are led by ‘core members’ Anthony Golding and Jonathan Mortimer, who are equal part songwriters for the band alongside drummer Tom Mackay and Guitarist Walter Marsh.

We Grow Up released their self titled debut in 2007, on the back of which they won a national Triple J Unearthed competition to support Missy Higgins on the Adelaide stop of her Australian tour. They also gained repeated national airplay for their song ‘Social Moth’ on Triple J.

The band’s 2nd album Night Kitchen was released independently in February of 2008 to overwhelmingly positive reviews from South Australian street press. Soon after it was released, Night Kitchen attracted the attention of Nic Dalton from ‘Half A Cow’ records, who went on to re-release the album nationally in October of 2008. This led to further rave reviews from street press, magazines, and blogs from all around Australia, as well as further Triple J airplay
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We Grow Up have played with and supported bands including Missy Higgins, The New Pornographers, Institut Polaire, Khancoban, Sneeze, and Cuthbert and The Night Walkers.
The band has just begun the recording of their 3rd album (tentatively titled ‘Kids in Love’) which will most likely see release in early 2010.