"ROOT! is a raucous, melodic, hard-rocking bar band with lyrics that defy categorisation - by turns fun, savage, cerebral and allusive or drenched in dry colloquial coarseness."
get your ROOT! gear here
Updated May 19 2009Band websites are all about selling stuff. Time to be upfront - ROOT! are no different, so if you like our stuff, peruse our wares below and get buying.
music
You can now buy ROOT! stuff directly from roottheband.com.au! CDs and DVD just below, as well as ROOT! baby bibs and the ROOT! t-shirts further down the page.
Buy 'Surface Paradise' CD - $22.95
Buy 'Get Up Yourself' EP - $10
Buy 'Root Supposed He Was Out of the Question' CD - $30
Surface Paradise is now available on Apple's iTunes store with bonus track 'Billy' (also available for individual download). Click here to buy from iTunes.
More ROOT! on iTunes
ROOT!'s first full length CD, Root Supposed He Was Out of the Question, is available on iTunes ($16.99) for those who like ROOT! but don't care for those shiny silver discs.
ROOT! on CD Baby
ROOT!'s first full length CD, Root Supposed He Was Out of the Question, is available on CD Baby as either an MP3 download or a physical CD.
video
Buy 'The Making of Surface Paradise' DVD - $15
See the story of Surface Paradise unfold in a documentary cobbled together from some dodgy footage of the band and of DC banging on about the concept behind the concept album. In addition, the DVD includes the full 15-song album in never heard before demo form! Some of the demo versions are surprisingly different to the finished tracks.
wearables
Three ROOT! wearable items are now available for purchase from roottheband.com.au - the ROOT! baby bib for the well attired child, the ROOT! 'Beatles' t-shirt, and the ROOT! 'logo' t-shirt. Click on thumbnails for a larger view. Right click thumbnails to download large images.
- Buy ROOT! baby bib - $15
- Buy ROOT! Beatles t-shirt (click the appropriate size) - Small | Medium | Large | Extra Large | Extra Extra Large
- Buy ROOT! logo t-shirt (click the appropriate size) - Small | Medium | Large | Extra Large | Extra Extra Large
more merchandise
Here's some images of other ROOT! items that have previously been available. Click on thumbnails for a larger view. Right click thumbnails to download large images.
who are ROOT!?
Under the cowboy hats, there's lined, road-weary faces that speak of many rock miles. There's the speculation over singer DC Root's shadowy past. There's the reports of their riveting, rollicking performances, combining rock with poetry, biting social commentary and post-modernist hip hop beats and samples. ROOT! are a "new" band, yet they have the air of lost innocence about them.DC Root dismisses the rumours with an apocryphal story: "One morning I woke up and I was a country singer. You can't be a proper country singer until your looks have gone. I checked in the mirror, and that confirmed it."
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more ROOT!
Some fun ROOT! related things...- The ROOT! Compendium: the original ROOT! fansite. Created before anyone knew or cared who ROOT! was. A comprehensive collection of news, gigs, reviews, lyrics and more.
- CarbieWarbie's photos: an awesome collection of photos. Carbie's not your mum's photographer, these shots are great. Look out for the ones tagged with 'ROOT!' here.
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