Robkaay

Robkaay is an Australian author and musician.
Robkaay began his music career in the late-1990s when he wrote, sung, managed and played bass in his first surf rock band called Wax Tadpole based in Perth, Western Australia in 1997.
In the year 2000, he moved to Melbourne, Australia, where he co-wrote, sung back-ups, managed and played bass in a politically aggressive rock band called Full Scale. The band signed up to the independent label, Popstar Records in 2002. After playing on the local stage of the Perth Big Day Out<ref name="PR-newswire"/> and becoming a headline band of their own, Full Scale were signed by Columbia Records in 2004 and the band moved to Los Angeles, California.<ref name="east-carolinian"/> A self-titled debut album was released by Columbia<ref name="east-carolinian"/><ref name="PR-newswire"/> and the band toured America before parting ways at the end of 2005.
For the first half of 2006 Robkaay lived in Venice Beach, California, where he compiled a series of fictional books about his musical experiences called the Robkaay Journals. The first volume from the series is entitled Robkaay Journals; My Glorious Nightmare. It is about an Australian rock musician moving to Los Angeles after being signed to a major American record label. The Robkaay Journals are loosely based on Robkaay's own ten year musical experiences told in a diary format. The first volume was released at the HiFi Bar in Melbourne on October 2008 and is available from selected bookstores across Australia, his website, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Barnesandnoble.com.
The second half of 2006 saw Robkaay move to the Gold Coast, Queensland, where he became the new bass player for metal band Sunk Loto. The band had been writing a new album for the past few years and was meant to release it in 2007, but they decided to call it a day after doing an Australian tour with Cog and playing the Brisbane Overcranked Festival in March 2007.
Out of the Sunk Loto wreckage Rob, Jason Brown (singer) and Dane Brown (drummer) decided to start a new band with Robkaay (bass) tentatively called The Flood The Flood. For six months, five days a week, they demoed nearly 20 songs. But, after a brief break, at the end of 2007, the guys unanimously decided not to release any of the songs and end the project. During this time Robkaay had been writing his first Fantasy/Thriller Novel entitled Silverbirch.
After being away from his family for over 8 years, in January 2008, Robkaay moved back to Perth, where he concentrated on writing and releasing new novels and music. In October 2009, he released the first chapter of Silverbirch; A Tear in the Fabric of the Night Sky in Podcast format. The Audiobook and Paperback version followed.
Discography
* Full Scale (Full Scale 2005 - Columbia Records)
* White Arrows EP (Full Scale 2003)
* Black Arrows EP (Full Scale 2003)
* Poxy By Proxy (Wax Tadpole 1997)
Books
* Robkaay Journals; My Glorious Nightmare 2008
* Silverbirch; A Tear in the Fabric of the Night Sky 2009
Producer
* Ezekiel Ox 2003 - Winter in Suburbia
* Three Orange Whips 2002 - Keep It Unreal
Record Label Releases
* Columbia Records (2004 - 2005)
* Popstar Records (2000 - 2004)

Main Menu

See Also

Main Menu