Bored Shorts

We're just trying something else again.

Bored Shorts was born from a 10-year friendship between Dom Hoban and Will Blackburn, who have collaborated on bedroom tracks since the day they met in Margaret River, WA – with no intention of the world ever hearing them. But I guess that’s all changed now.

Now based on the East Coast, the band has grown into a ragtag group of Aus indie future has-beens. Hoban and Blackburn recruited Ash Bundang (Classic) alongside Charles Rushforth (FLOWERTRUCK ) and Nick Griffith (Big White), to bring their once-dormant odes to love and loss as twenty-somethings to life on record and on stage.

The band's debut EP “Looking Up” was released in 2018, earning love on radio and blogs, and sitting pretty on playlists like Local Noise. Their song "Day & Age" was even used in a surf video by STAB, but maybe they just got confused by the band name.

The band has shared stages with Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Alex Lahey, Goon Sax, The Belligerents, Body Type, Crepes, Babitha and a tour bus with Milk Teddy. They've been immortalised in tiny font on festival posters amongst artists like Tropical Fuck Storm and Cloud Control (whose fonts were way bigger).

In the early months of 2020, Bored Shorts hunkered down in a South Coast basement studio to collect their thoughts and the forgotten gems of iPhone voice memos past. These scraps of song have since flowered into the band’s debut album which will be released in September 2021 via Spunk! Records.