The four piece Newtown misfits are mis-spending their youth while we watch. Since then the band have spent their time re-fining and re-defining their sound, a mega-hectic, psychedelic, reggae, as the colourful review above suggests, that’ll have you trading your flat screen for a ticket to ride, surrendering your dignity to your urges, throwing shapes around rooms with people you’ve never met.

"sticky fingers ... some how managed to magically combine whimsical English folk, West Coast psychedelia, and classic dub reggae and make it all work... surprisingly seductive." push magazine.

The four piece Newtown misfits are mis-spending their youth while we watch. Since then the band have spent their time re-fining and re-defining their sound, a mega-hectic, psychedelic, reggae, as the colourful review above suggests, that'll have you trading your flat screen for a ticket to ride, surrendering your dignity to your urges, throwing shapes around rooms with people you've never met.

"Caress Your Soul" the bands first single from their upcoming debut album produced by Dann Hume.

It's all about happy endings. And that's what you get when you shake together the offspring of a brothel owner and an inner city ex-rock player, add couple of parts Kiwi and a fraction Brazilian. Happy endings and the garage/pop, psych/soul mash of reggae known as the Sticky Fingers sound.

These Sydney based rude boys of the inner west are delivering a refreshing vibe to the Australian music scene. The band began when drummer Beaks and bass player Paddy, met busker Dylan, one night outside the Coopers Arms hotel in Newtown. Dylan, fresh from N.Z. and not yet 18, was on the streets with his guitar busking for coin outside the pub. "We met him," Paddy says, "when the Coopers Arms bouncer started hassling us to give the dude money".

For the comparison minded: the Kiwi dub bands and the bands of the English two tone rush get a shake in the Sticky Fingers sound, they're all doused in textural, psyche-y and atmospheric melodies that push out the S.F. rhythm section's blunt soundscapes.

From group's existence, the Stickies have supported the likes of Children Collide, Urthboy, Amy Meredith, Art Vs Science, Lowrider & Kingtide. While wanna be popstars work chat rooms and facebook to an inch of their lives, Sticky Fingers work the live room. Already highly rated by anyone that crosses their path, the band's live show is on the up and up.

The band's first mini album, (the ironically titled), Extended Play was released on Oct 30 2010, mixed and co-produced by Nick Higgins (whitely). For their first release, in April 2010, they went into Megaphon studios and re-recorded , Ones and Murderous Nerves, the best songs from their earlier demo's.


Next was a limited edition Sticky acoustic recording, in amongst the musical ghosts of the Annandale...."Happy Endings". Sti Fi had been promising to make it since they toured nationally with Donavan Frankenreiter and in January 2012 finally gave it to its fans. Happy Endings scored great support around the country and internationally, picking up a stack of JJJ and Unearthed play in the months following its Oct release and June 2012 and introducing Sticky to a wider audience.


Happy Endings has also just gone out on a compilation in the U.S.with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zero's and abunch of other choice U.S. new comers.


Now back, singing about feeling low and getting high, the band has recently recorded a stack of demo's. In the short amount of downtime between April and the start of June the Stickys have been hard at work getting the songs together for their next release. 


"Caress Your Soul" the bands first single from their upcoming debut album (coming soon).