After eight years nonstop with his band Steriogram, a restless creative feeling was stirring within Bradley Hanan Carter. Reading about Ben Gibbard & The Postal Service, it inspired him to get together some friends and start his own long distance project across the internet. Anders Borgh the Swedish bassist entered the picture when he was an exchange student in 1997 staying with Carters family in Whangarei.

Michael Guy Chislett the Australian guitarist became friends with Carter around 1999 whilst visiting NZ with his band Abel. He now plays for Chicago based band The Academy Is. Gavin Kerr the kiwi drummer was a good friend of Carters and played for Channel Z darlings Wash. Shortly after recording & releasing the band’s first EP “Smiling Can Backfire” in Bradley flew the other members of Pistol Youth to Los Angeles to finally meet, write and record material. “My Own Private Amsterdam was then engineered by Eric J (Weezer) & mixed by David Kahne (the Strokes, Matisyahu, Regina Spektor). Already the band’s epic ‘Golden Girls’ video for ‘In My Eyes’ which was featured on Pitchfork Media, has had over 50,000 plays, and was selected to appear in the LA film festival alongside videos from Radiohead and Santogold.

For Fans of: Weezer, All-American Rejects, Steriogram