The original
Letterbox.
Four musicians. A city of suburbs. A name with a story inside it.
Where it began
Everything starts somewhere.
Letterbox began as a band in Sydney in 2002.
I chose the name because of everything it suggested to me. A letterbox is such an ordinary suburban object, something familiar from the streets where we all live. But it's also a place for communication: messages arriving, stories being shared, something travelling from one person to another.
And then there's letterboxing in film — the way an image is framed for the screen. That idea appealed to me too: how we frame and re-frame the things we see, the stories we tell, and the meaning we make from them.
A familiar object. A message. A frame. A different way of seeing.
All of those meanings seemed to belong together. I loved the name Letterbox for what it evoked. And that's where this story began.
From the archive · Original publicity
Smokey cool urban pop.
Our original Letterbox promotional poster — complete with reviews, star rating and the invitation: “C’mon, get in the car!”
A little piece of the band's Sydney beginnings, preserved just as it was.
The original lineup · 2002
Four people, one band.
Before Letterbox became a home for songs, images and interactive stories, it was four musicians making music together in Sydney.