The Decline (band)

The Decline were formed in Perth, Western Australia in 2005 by school friends Pat Decline, Dan Cribb & James Davies. The Decline performed numerous punk shows in Perth during their formative years, most notably as an opening act for Frenzal Rhomb at Club Capitol in Perth on December 8th, 2007. At this time, all of the members of The Decline were underage and lied about their age in order to be able to play the show. In 2008 Nathan Cooper was added to the lineup and The Decline recorded and released their first release, The Same Kind EP.

In August 2009, The Decline recorded their debut album "I'm Not Gonna Lie To You" at Blasting Room Studios in Fort Collins, Colorado with Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore. The album was released on March 19, 2010 and generated the first Australian tours for the band.[7]

In early 2010, James Davies left the band. His final show was supporting No Fun At All & The Flatliners at Amplifier Bar in Perth on March 11th, 2010. Davies was replaced by Harry, who first performed with The Decline on the album launch tour for I'm Not Gonna Lie To You in April 2010.

In June & July 2010 The Decline embarked on The Pinkeye Tour with Newcastle Skate Punk band Local Resident Failure. The tour visited South Australia, Victoria & New South Wales and included both urban and rural shows.

In 2011, The Decline signed to Australian punk and hardcore record label Pee Records and recorded and released their next album, "Are You Gonna Eat That?", on September 23, 2011.[8] This album spawned a large touring cycle for the band in Australia, and was followed by their first international tours in 2013 in Europe, and in Japan with Useless ID and Implants.

On March 3, 2014 The Decline appeared at the Soundwave Festival in Perth alongside Less Than Jake and Alkaline Trio. During this performance The Decline announced their upcoming fully crowd-funded EP Can I Borrow A Feeling and debuted new songs Yahweh or the Highway and Cool Kids Can't Die. Can I Borrow A Feeling was released on April 18, 2014 and was supported by a national tour.

On January 5, 2015 former bassist and vocalist Dan Cribb announced the departure of himself and guitarist Nathan Cooper from The Decline. On January 9 of the same year, Pat Decline announced that longtime friends of the band, Ben Elliott and Ray Chiu would be taking over guitar and bass duties and that The Decline were entering the studio to begin working on their third studio album.[9] Subsequently, The Decline released a new single entitled "Giving Up Is A Gateway Drug" and embarked on a national tour, performing headline shows and as a support act for Local Resident Failure, Guttermouth & Frenzal Rhomb.

On June 12, 2015, the band released their third studio album "Resister" through Pee Records. Resister was distributed internationally by Bird Attack Records (United States), Finetunes (Europe) and Bells On Records (Japan).[10] In support of the album, the band went on a worldwide tour. This included appearances at European summer festivals including Punk Rock Holiday, Brakrock EcoFest, KNRD Fest, Dumb & Dumber Fest, Resurrection Fest & Rebellion Fest, European club shows supporting Teenage Bottlerocket, a full tour of the United States including an appearance at The Fest in Gainesville, FL, a tour of Japan supporting Useless ID & Versus The World and a Mexican tour supporting A Wilhelm Scream. After which, The Decline were invited to support A Wilhelm Scream in Australia the following May. [11]

In March 2016, Pat Decline played bass in PEARS during their Australian tour with Strung Out.[12]

In July 2016, The Decline embarked on the second touring cycle for their album Resister visiting Europe during summer for festival season and club shows with The Flatliners, The United Kingdom with Manchester's Fair Do's, The United States with MakeWar and the Australian East Coast with Local Resident Failure on The Pinkeye Tour; Round 2.

In June 2017, The Decline performed at Jera On Air festival in The Netherlands and supported CJ Ramone throughout Germany and The Netherlands. In August 2017, The Decline & Direct Hit embarked on a co-headlining tour of Australia[13]. Following this, The Decline commenced a West Coast tour of The United States with San Diego's Caskitt. Jared Stinson of Sic Waiting filled in on bass during these shows.

In October 2017, The Decline played on the We Are One Tour in South America supporting Face To Face, Ignite, The Fullblast & Much The Same. The tour visited Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia & Costa Rica.

In July 2019, The Decline toured their latest single Verge Collection nationally in Australia and announced the upcoming release of their fourth studio album, "Flash Gordon Ramsay Street". During this tour, Josh Barker from The Bob Gordon's filled in on drums for Harry, who had broken his arm and dislocated his shoulder in a mountain biking accident. Flash Gordon Ramsay Street was released on August 30, 2019 and followed with an Australian tour in October 2019 supported by Nerdlinger.[14] Subsequently, The Decline were announced on festivals in Europe and as a support act for Lagwagon for the following summer.

• "I'm Not Gonna Lie To You" (2010)
• "Are You Gonna Eat That?" (2011)
• "Resister" (2015)
• "Flash Gordon Ramsay Street" (2019)

• "The Same Kind" (2008)
• "We Lied" (2011)
• "Can I Borrow A Feeling?" (2014)

• "4 Way WA Punk Split 7"" (2013, with Scalphunter, The Bob Gordons & Silver Lizard)
• "Great Thieves Escape 3"[16] (2016, with Bad Cop Bad Cop, Success & The Bob Ross Effect)
• "Local Resident Failure Vs The Decline"[17] (2017, with Local Resident Failure)
• "Year Of The Crow/Stay Awake" (2020, with Sic Waiting)

• "Can't Have Both" (2016) Digital release only
• "Verge Collection" (2019)
• "The More You Know" (2019) Digital release only
• "Brovine" (2019) Digital release only
• "It Was Always You" (2019) Digital release only
• "War" (2019) Digital release only