Choirboys were formed 30 years ago at founding member Mark Gable’s home in Church Point on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Armed with little 4-track studio setup in the bedsit the boys would come around to do the demos that would lead Choirboys to their first recording deal with the ‘Alberts’ label. It was the beginning of something that every kid dreams about, starting a rock ‘n’ roll band with a bunch of friends and not knowing what would happen next.
It was a great time to start a band and it was a great time to be young. It was a year of not caring about the future and a great year of creativity, it was a year Choirboys started their journey that would lead them into the hearts of the Australian public and the pages of Australian music history.
Fast Forward 30 Years… Choirboys are now an essential part of our Australian culture having penned one of this country's unofficial anthems “Run to Paradise”. They epitomise the essence of the Australian pub culture scene and have secured their place in Australian music history and are viewed by many as the quintessential Australian rock band. With the tag of being an ‘Iconic Australian Heritage Band’ the terms perennial, exciting, exuberant and thoroughly entertaining are still used to describe what Choirboys are all about.
It is a fact that Choirboys have been entertaining the young and old for 30 years, that they have sold multi-platinum albums and that they have survived when so many others have fallen. Choirboys have achieved legendary status in Australia and not just because of their longevity; they have also achieved this because they deliver time and time again.
