"The bottom line is this: Hills & Trains have the songs and it is because of this - they have been fortunate and deserving enough to play support to the likes of James Reyne, The Badloves and The Audreys. Supports such as these aren’t dished out to scrubbers pissing up the side wall of some local dive bar. Hills & Trains give us all a lesson in how to write clever melodic and catchy pop songs in an indie-alt-country vein and execute them with impressive results." Quiet Pop Magazine Hills & Trains are Jess Atkinson (the project, the pod, white montana), Curtis McKay (She Said You, Rustflower), Travis Dragani (Maeder, the project, Six Hours) and Charlie Carroll. Their prior lives have seen them spending their days and nights touring, playing or living locally, interstate and overseas and supporting the likes of Alice Cooper, Judas Priest, Powderfinger, Something for Kate, Regurgitator, Paul Stanley and You Am I to name a few. Their musical worlds collided in early 2009, each member looking for a vehicle for their original compositions. Charlie & Jess having spent the last few years playing solo shows and promoting solo albums, while Curtis and Travis played and released original material in local and interstate acts. August 2010 saw them complete their debut EP ‘Kicking & Screaming’. Recorded at Broadcast studios with Tom Barnes (who was fresh from his Empire of the Sun demo session) they have emerged with a 3 track release that sums up their Ryan Adams/Tom Petty feel. The EP contains a track from each of the singer/songwriters and also includes guest performances by the Lucky Sevens horn section on ‘Airports’ and lap steel duties by Junior’s Steve Pederson on ‘Airports’ and ‘Ride’.