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Eight Days Away is the debut album by Australian punk rock band One Dollar Short. It was released on Rapido in 2002 and charted in the ARIA Top 10. The album was recorded at Mangrove Studios on the Central Coast by Matt Lovell.

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as "proto-punk" music, punk rock bands rejected perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. They typically produced short, fast-paced songs with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through independent record labels and other informal channels.

One Dollar Short were an Australian punk rock band. Formed in 1998, and hailing from Terrigal in New South Wales' Central Coast region, members included Michael Smith (drums), Trent Crawford (guitar), Tim Flaherty, Adam Check (bass) and Scott E. Woods (vocals). After putting out an independent EP in 1999, One Dollar Short's debut top 40 single "Board Game" charted at No. 37 on the Australian ARIAnet singles chart in 2001 and was produced by Sydney producer Greg Stace. Their most successful release was the EP Press and Hold, which charted at No. 23 in the same year. Flaherty left before the release of Press and Hold to form another Central Coast-based pop-punk band, Best Kept Secret, who released the Unorganised Crime EP in 2003 before disappearing. He was replaced on guitar briefly by Michael Kemp, formerly of Sydney band Second Best. Kemp departed the band in mid-2001.

Central Coast (New South Wales) City in New South Wales, Australia

The City of Central Coast, a peri-urban region in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), lies on the Tasman Sea coast north of Sydney and south of Lake Macquarie.

It spawned the singles "Is This The Part?" and "Ten Years". The music video for "Ten Years" features Leigh Whannell.

Leigh Whannell is an Australian screenwriter, producer, director, and actor. He is best known for writing films directed by his friend James Wan, including Saw (2004), Dead Silence (2007), Insidious (2010), and Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013). Whannell has directed two films, Insidious: Chapter 3, released in 2015, and Upgrade, released in 2018.

Track listing

  1. Shots Were Fired (Bloodstains)
  2. The Letter
  3. Is This The Part?
  4. Unsung Hero
  5. Silence
  6. 10 Years
  7. Another Day Away
  8. Satellite
  9. Colour Red
  10. Board Game
  11. A Theme For New Years

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