are an original four piece rock band playing a mix of styles from Heavy Rock, to middle eastern riffs, to surf rock, to punk. Rogue State play with and mix up many feels to create their own unique sound, with plenty of protest songs against injustice with a hard rocking edge.  With a high-energy rock show, Rogue State are not only visually entertaining, they ROCK - filling pubs and thrilling audiences with their catchy riffs, pumping songs and expansive lyrics.

Are based in Byron Bay and are releasing their first independent CD in 2008 ‘Moondust and Mayhem’ featuring 10 great rock songs about sex, lust, wrongfully invading Iraq and Afghanistan and the environment following the online launch of their haunting middle eastern inspired grunge rock song ‘Moondust’.  They will be touring the album extensively. 

  Academy award nominee, filmmaker David Bradbury has Rogue State’s protest song ‘The Whisper’ (inspired by his film ‘Blowing in the Wind’ about depleted uranium weapons) for the closing minutes of his latest documentary about the military exercises at ‘Shoalwater Bay’, Australia.

’s main songwriter and singer Andy Bambach was the main songwriter and front-man in influential Perth band ‘Miscreants’ and the Melbourne band ‘Love Junkies’, playing hundreds of gigs across the country including music festivals in front of thousands of people with residencies in pubs and nightclubs ‘The Miscreants’ toured throughout Western Australia on the ‘Tour De Obscure’.  His bands recorded songs have had radio airplay and appeared on compilation albums and live video compilations. ‘The Miscreants’ recorded the vinyl single ‘Fate’ with accompanying gothic film clip and the ‘Love Junkies’ recorded a four-track cassette featuring the haunting ‘Eerie Thing’.  Andy has appeared and played several songs live on FM radio.

have over eight hundred international subscribers to their mailing list and have had over 54,000 hits on their web sites. 

  Live gigs include

Great Northern (Byron Bay)

Byron Community Centre

Byron Entertainment Centre

Bangalow Hotel

Winsome Hotel (Lismore)

Tatts Hotel (Lismore)

Lennox Head Hotel

Northern Rivers Conservatorium Arts Centre