Portugal. The Man and The Temper Trap

The rock band from Alaska consists of members, lead vocalist, John Baldwin Gourley, who also plays the, guitar, organ and drums, Zachary Carothers on the bass guitar, Kyle O'Quin on the keyboards, synthesisers and guitar and Jason Sechrist on the drums.

The original members of the band met at high school, where they began jamming, -playing music together- in the Wasilla High School in Wasilla, Alaska. The original members were John Gourley, Zach Carothers, Kyle O'Quin, and Jason Sechrist.

The original band formed in 2002, and they called themselves, "Anatomy of a Ghost", which was the work of John Gourley and Zach Carothers. However the band was not very successful andThey decided to split. Then in 2004 formed, 'Portugal. The Man'. The band started recording in studios and two years later release their debut album "Waiter: 'You Vultures!", on Fearless Records.

The North American band continued to release more albums and toured Europe. After numerous festival appearances including two performances at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival and St Jerome's Laneway Festival portugal. the man decided to embark on releasing a short film which featured some of their songs from their successful studio album, "In the Mountain Cloud". The film featured themselves and involved lead man John Gourley being abandoned whilst dog sledging, evidentially he is left dead. The film entailed a very brief 13 minutes of Alaskan wilderness.

The Temper Trap was formed in 2005 when Mandagi, who was already teaching Aherne to play guitar, met Dundas and the three of them formed a band with Mandagi on vocals and lead guitar, Dundas on drums and Aherne on bass. They had auditioned a number of guitarists and eventually settled on Dundas’ former college roommate, Lorenzo Sillitto. In 2006 the group signed with Liberation Music and released their first EP entitled “The Temper Trap,” which was well received; additionally their live performances garnered a lot of praise.

While recording their second album “Conditions” the band traveled to the UK and gained more attention, leading to their signing with Infectious Records for European release. Additionally they traveled to the United States where they played a few gigs and were signed by Glassnote Records for US release. “Conditions” was released in 2009 led off by the single “Sweet Disposition” which reached three times platinum in their home of Australia, platinum in the UK and gold in the US. Throughout 2010 The Temper Trap set out on tour across Europe, including appearances at various summer music festivals such as Reading & Leeds, Glastonbury, V Festival and Roskilde Festival. Towards the end of the year they toured the United States and won the Best Group award at the 2010 ARIA Music Awards.

Throughout early 2012 the band extensively toured the United States, the UK and Australia and made numerous appearances at festivals worldwide. In addition they also released their sophomore album, “The Temper Trap” led off by the single “Need Your Love.” In October 2013 it was announced that Sillitto parted ways with the band and was replaced by Joseph Greer.