David Le Aupepe

The gang of youths frontman.

David le aupepe. Gang of youth s lead singer dave le aupepe has admitted the band were never meant to be a success. As the frontman of award winning australian rock band gang of youths david le aupepe has inspired thousands around the world with his visceral and passionate songs about wrestling with his demons. Gang of youths are an australian indie rock group from sydney. David le aupepe wears his disadvantaged start to life like a talisman on his sleeve.

The band consists of principal songwriter david le aupepe lead vocals guitar max dunn bass guitar jung kim lead guitar keyboards donnie borzestowski drums and tom hobden violin keyboards guitar. Dave le aupepe s music career began very much as a labour of love. The gang of youths frontman was. The distribution here is noticeably uneven and i will not stand for it.

Gang of youths have one of the most incredible tragic moving and uplifting origin stories in australian music. David le aupepe of the terrific sydney australia indie rock band gang of youths joins justin to chat about his career how chicago is the epicenter of all the music he loves their recent record go farther in lightness how triumph over adversity is woven into the fabric of the band where he draws his songwriting from the diversity of their sound how he plays every room like its an arena their show next week at subterranean and being on the bill for lollapalooza. And david le aupepe revisited his darker days on monday as he shared an emotional message about the day he tried to take his own life on instagram. Dave is an exemplary human in an excellent band who is also a kind friend and attentive listener.

Before gang of youths hits the triffid on thursday august 20 and the maroochy music and visual arts festival on saturday august 22 the weekend edition talked inflamed testicles and trashed stages with frontman david leaupepe. On the other hand today i fell over in triple j s sydney studio 261 doing a dance i invented called the turtle and landed in a bin. An unanticipated problem was encountered check back soon and try again.