Bio

Damn The Maps is Martin Green and Nick Riley.

Martin began performing in Hamilton under the name Nervous Wreck in 1998 with guitarist Ryan Tattersall & Jay Pinfold, playing around 100 shows before moving to Auckland in 2000 and then Melbourne in 2001.
There he played in several line ups before meeting Nick Riley in 2003.
They changed the band name to Damn The Maps in around 2005 and have played hundreds of shows in Australia and New Zealand.
They released their first album, Input Output in 2008 with drummer Mark Coats. Input Output was written mainly for radio with several pop rock numbers like All Aboard and Real Girls intertwined with their more favoured alternative indie rock sound bordering on metal in songs like Grind.
At this time they started releasing videos for their singles. They released 6 music videos from Input Output.

Mark Coats departed the band a year or so later so Martin & Nick split from management and their label and went their own way on their second album, Something is Askew with darker, more epic songs with less radio friendly sounds and even more conscious vocals. (eg Conditions Apply, Had A Great Fall) The album was recorded on the old Neve console at Hothouse in St Kilda with drummer Huw Elias. Huw moved interstate days after Something Is Askew was completed, leaving DTM unable to tour. It was then that Martin & Nick decided... No more drummers!
They switched their focus to what they do best: Writing and recording songs and making videos. They released 5 videos for the second album.

By the time they started their third album, Ongoing Madness, recording software and particularly drum software had reached a point where it had become very difficult to tell the difference between software drums and real drums. Martin & Nick finally found a drummer that would always show up. Everything was moving to streaming services like iTunes and Spotify and so they released Ongoing Madness song by song in the order that they were completed. You can hear Damn The Maps' progression from start to finish. To add to the challenge of releasing each song one by one, they made a video for all 12 songs on the album.

This method of recording one song at a time has worked well for Martin & Nick and they continue to record this way on their fourth album, The Sleepwalker Menu. At the time of this bio, they have finished 11 songs for album number 4 and released 3 singles.

Band Members:
Martin Green (vocals, bass)
Nick Riley (guitar, vocals)

Links

• Artist Website
• Facebook Page
• Youtube Page
• Bandcamp Page
• Spotify Page
• Apple Music Page