THE BAND COMPRISES OF ROB WARREN (GUITARS & VOCALS), GARTH WARREN (BASS & BACKING VOCALS) AND GARY PARKER (DRUMS & BACKING VOCALS) - A CULMINATION OF YEARS OF SOLO AND SESSION  WORK; INFLUENCED BY THE LIKES OF U2, THE CHILLI PEPPERS, FOO FIGHTERS, THE POLICE AND SUBLIME.

BUT WHY THE NAME THIRTY-THREE? (NO, IT’S NOT THAT THEY ALL HAVE 11 TOES AS HAS BEEN RUMOURED)…IT’S FROM THE NUMBER OF THE FLAT THEY LIVED IN WHEN THE BAND WAS FORMED.

SHORTLY AFTER HAVING BEEN FORMED, THE TRIO ENTERED A LOCAL ‘BATTLE OF THE BANDS’ COMPETITION AND WENT ON TO THE SEMI-FINALS ALONG WITH TOP DURBAN ACTS. THE GIG’S KEPT ROLLING IN AND IT WASN’T LONG UNTIL THE BAND BEGAN RECORDING THEIR DEBUT ALBUM, ‘TRAGICALLY FORGOTTEN’. THE ALBUM WAS SHOWCASED AS ‘ALBUM OF THE WEEK’ ON 5FM AND RECEIVED SIGNIFICANT AIRPLAY ON COMMUNITY AND CAMPUS RADIO STATIONS AROUND THE COUNTRY.

THEIR CURRENT ALBUM ‘I AM THE HI-FI’  HAS BEEN RECEIVED WELL BY CRITICS AND FANS ALIKE. THE FIRST SINGLE ‘WALK OUT IN THE SUN’ SHOT TO NUMBER ONE ON DURBAN’S ‘HOME OF THE HITS’ EAST COST RADIO  AND THE NEW SINGLE ‘NO ONE LIKE YOU’ IS SET TO BURN UP THE AIRWAVES. THIRTY-THREE HAVE ALSO SIGNED A DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITH AN AMERICAN COMPANY SAREPTA MUSIC, BASED IN KLOOF, DURBAN.