It was 2008 when sisters Jess and Sarah Renehan woke up their sleepy little town in South Australia with a deafening harmony; a call for Utopia. It was a call that young cellist turned bass-man Tom Schumacher and seasoned English born punk rock drummer Tony Long had been waiting to hear. And then… there were four. As many who’ve grown up in a small town will know, isolation can be the ultimate catalyst for imagination. Yours is a choice between walking in circles on that familiar road to nowhere or taking what you know, re-mixing it with your dreams and paving your own yellow brick road to somewhere new, somewhere where change isn’t a battle but an inevitability. For the Renehan sisters, music infused more than their dreams, it was in the air they breathed. From school choirs to national youth choirs, teen rock bands to recording studios, they both knew that when life hit a bump in the road they could find and each other, and their sense of purpose, in rock’n'roll. But it’s a long way to the top, as fellow Aussie rocker Bon Scott so wisely decreed some 30 years before their time. In Sarah, Jess, Tom and Tony’s case they kicked off that rock’n'roll journey in late 2009 with a 1631km drive north up Australia’s East Coast to the city of Brisbane. If these four likely adventurers had set off to see the wizard, they found him in the form of Brisbane record producer James North. After an intense month of recording and arranging 13 tracks, refining a unique image and exploring the wilds of the city, Calling Utopia’s debut album ‘XIII’ was locked, loaded and ready for release in 2010. Calling Utopia describe their music as honest, heartfelt, energetic, catchy and playful. Blending their lyrical content from both personal experience and imagination the band draw on their respect for acts like Pink, Evanescence, Avril Lavigne, Jewel, Michelle Branch, Suzie Q and Paramore for musical inspiration. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.