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refimprove|date=February 2007Infobox musical artist| name = One Dollar Short| image =| caption =| image_size = | background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Central Coast, New South Wales|Central Coast, NSW , Australia | genre = Punk rock Alternative rock Pop rock | years_active = 2001 in music|2001 & ndash;present| label = Festival Mushroom Records Rapido | associated_acts =| website =| current_members = Scotte Woods Trent Crawford Adam Check Michael Smith Daniel Daly| past_members = Michael Kemp Tim Flaherty Joel Core Attenborough One Dollar Short were an Australia n punk rock band. Formed in 1998, and hailing from Terrigal, New South Wales|Terrigal in New South Wales ' Central Coast region, members included Michael Smith (drums), Trent Crawford (guitar), Tim Flaherty (guitar and backing vocals), Adam Check (bass) and Scott E. Woods (vocals). After putting out an independent EP in 1999, One Dollar Short's debut top 40 single "Board Game" charted at #37 on the Australian ARIAnet singles chart in 2001 and was produced by Sydney producer Greg Stace . Their most successful non-LP release was the EP Press And Hold (containing fan favourite "Satellite"), which charted at #22 in the same year. Flaherty left before the release of Press And Hold to form another Central Coast-based pop-punk band, Best Kept Secret, who released the Unorganised Crime EP in 2003 before disappearing. He was replaced on guitar briefly by Michael Kemp, formerly of Sydney band Second Best. Kemp departed the band in mid 2001.
One Dollar Short's debut album Eight Days Away peaked at #7 on the albums chart in 2002. http://www.australian-charts.com/showitem.asp? interpret=One+Dollar+Short& titel=Eight+Days+Away& cat=a The album was recorded at Mangrove Studios by Matt Lovell . In July 2004, their follow-up album, Receiving Transmission , was released along with single, "Some Assembly Required" - neither of which were hugely successful. In early 2005, the band went on hiatus indefinitely, but in 2011 they have reformed to play at the Coaster music festival.
Some Assembly Required (Rapido/Festival Mushroom, 2004)
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External links
http://www.amo.org.au/artist.asp? id=1016 Australian Music Online profile
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Music/God-save-the-teens/2005/03/31/1111862521836.html Sydney Morning Herald article on band's influence in the Central Coast region, and status as of April 2005
http://www.myspace.com/trentdavidcrawford Former guitarist Trent Crawford's Myspace page
