Growth, grunge and going against the grain: How Ocean Grove became an “antidote to the mundane”

Sometimes, one single decision can have a huge impact on your life. It doesn’t even have to be one you make yourself – it can be made for you. That’s something Dale Tanner learned early on in life. Having been raised in what he calls ​“sort of a rough neighborhood” in Melbourne, the Ocean Grove frontman got the opportunity to join a private high school. Even though he didn’t know anybody there, he took the chance. Not only was one of the first friends he made Luke Holmes, with whom he started Ocean Grove in 2010, but the whole experience shaped the kind of person that Dale would become.  “Coming from a slum-ish area,” he begins, ​“and then having that contrast of going to a private high school that was in sort of a rich area – even as a young bo...

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