Press & Reviews – Martin Cilia – Australia's Premier Surf Rock Guitarist

Review: Continental Magazine #38 – Here Comes The Sun

May 10, 2025

Martin Cilia – Here Comes The Sun CD(Surfersaurus) ★★★★½ Famed Australian guitarist, with years of experience in The Atlantics, Mental As Anything and The Radiators, is probably best known amongst instrumental rock and surf fans […]

Pipeline #130 Review: Martin Cilia – Here Comes The Sun

April 21, 2025

Surfersaurus SUR2024; Australia 2024; 58 minHere Comes The Sun / Nowhere Man / I’ve Just Seen A Face / Something / Glass Onion / Let It Be / While My Guitar Gently Weeps / Birthday […]

Review: Dawn of the Surf Guitar by Glenn A Baker

July 14, 2024

Glenn A Baker There seems to be one in every musical generation of Australian music -a deft player of energy and adaptability able to fill a hole in a range of bands who might have […]

Pipeline Instrumental Review Issue 127

March 7, 2024

The latest album from Australian guitarist Martin Cilia, best known to us as the lead player with The Atlantics, packs quite a punch. Martin recorded all of the guitar parts himself but was joined by […]

Continental Magazine Review

March 7, 2024

This 2024 release by Australian guitarist Martin Cilia, despite the title, is really a journey from the beginnings of surf and instrumental rock instrumentals all the way to today’s modern surf sound. As you listen […]

Interview with Stuart Coupe on Dirt Music, 2SER Radio

March 2, 2024

PLAYLIST Badinage Imagination Britti Back Where We Belong Ondara An Alien In Minneapolis Ondara Winter Depression Ondara A Drowning In Mexico City Ondara A Seasoned Amnesia The Leads OD’d On UV Mia Dyson Dare DeadJazz […]

Interview with Woody’s Aussie Country Music Show on Coast Radio

March 2, 2024

On the couch with Woody

Pipeline Magazine: Issue 124 Spring 2023

March 26, 2023

A great review of 6 Track EP, as well as The Atlantics Still Making Waves from our friends in England, as well as No.1 & 6 on the playlist!

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Pacific Longboarder: The Atlantics “Still Making Waves” 60 years on!

January 26, 2023

Believe it or not, Australia’s surf-music super group The Atlantics has just released a new album of all-new original songs. Jim, Martin & Bosco – even Peter Hood can be heard on the closing track. […]

ABC News: Australian surf rock band The Atlantics are Still Making Waves, six decades later

January 26, 2023

By Mark Bannerman It was 1961 and two boys from Maroubra Bay High in Sydney are talking after school. One is Peter Hood, the drummer in a new band called The Atlantics. The other, Jim Skiathitis, […]

Noise 11: Mental As Anything Guitarist Martin Cilia Releases Solo Instrumental ‘Live It Up’

October 30, 2022

Martin Cilia, Mental As Anything guitarist from 2015 to 2019, has released a solo instrumental version of the Mental As Anything classic ‘Live It Up’. Martin says, “Having played this song many many times with […]

Interview: Stefan Warnqvist

February 18, 2022

Interview with Martin Cilia – part 1 Martin Cilia, who joined Mental As Anything in January 2014, has been kind enough to take the time to do an email interview for this forum, about his […]

Newcastle Herald: BAND REVIEW: Veteran Sydney rockers The Radiators keep a COVID masked and seated crowd their moneys-worth with a night of fan favourites at Lizotte’s, Lambton, Friday, February 4, 2022

February 11, 2022

Ian Kirkwood Pictures: Paul Fuller (on Instagram @fullerpix) MOST of us grow older convinced that the golden years of our youth were the best times ever for music. But by any standard, the late 70s […]

Australian Musician: Martin Cilia Delivers Everest in Lockdown

September 15, 2021

Greg Phillips Sep 14, 2021 Original Link: https://australianmusician.com.au/martin-cilia-delivers-everest-in-lockdown/ Martin Cilia, Australia’s premier surf guitarist & member of legendary surf band, The Atlantics and guitarist with Mental As Anything has spent his lockdown wisely, releasing Everest, a […]

Guitar Speak Podcast: Episode #149 – Martin Cilia

January 9, 2021

Martin Cilia joins us to talk about a career that has seen him play with legendary Australian surf band The Atlantics, the chart topping Mental As Anything, release a number of albums under his own name and a host of other projects.

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Guitar World review: This week’s essential guitar tracks

September 6, 2020

A mutual love of the Shadows brought these big-name Aussie guitarists together for a new instrumental that stays true to the quintessential surf sound. As you’d expect, cavernous spring reverb and fat single-note lines are […]

Noise11 review: Martin Cilia and Joe Matera To Team For Instrumental Surf Collaboration

September 4, 2020

Martin Cilia and Joe Matera To Team For Instrumental Surf Collaborationby PAUL CASHMERE on SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 During the Covid lockdowns Sydney’s Martin Cilia and Melbourne’s Joe Matera have teamed to remotely record a couple […]

Vintage Guitar Magazine Vol.43 No.06 April 2020

February 27, 2020

Martin is the featre of a 6 page article in this month’s Vintage Guitar magazine. He talks about his influences, experience and shares some of his vintage guitars. Read as a PDF

Night Star in Vintage Guitar Magazine

December 24, 2019

Enjoy Australian surf legend Martin Cilia and his ’61 Strat (in Olympic White with green guard) playing “Night Star,” from his new album, “Shadowman.” He’s running through a vintage Fender reverb tank and Boss DM2 […]

Shadowman Review: Vintage Guitar, Dec 2019

November 7, 2019

Australian guitarist Cilia joined noted surf band the Atlantics in 1998, but his roots go much deeper. He spent his first 10 years in England, where he saw clips of the Shadows on TV. After […]

Australian Musician: Martin Cilia: The ‘Shadowman’ Interview Oct 2019

October 15, 2019

Source: https://australianmusician.com.au/martin-cilia-the-shadowman-interview/ AustralianMusician Oct 15, 2019 Martin Cilia is Australia’s self-proclaimed premier surf rock guitarist and he certainly has the credentials to back the claim up. Growing up in Essex in the UK, Martin was […]

J Dubber Music Promotion: Interview Oct 2019

October 9, 2019

Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157387773720210&set=a.10151908199410210&type=3&theater Hi Martin! Thanks for taking time out to talk with me. The last time we met was at the Charles hotel in a Perth, it’s such a good venue with so much history […]

Review: Pipeline Magazine, Issue 112

July 12, 2019

Interview: Pacific Longboarder, Volume 21 Issue 4

June 24, 2019

An interview in the latest issue of Pacific Longboarder, and a review of Shadowman.

2019 News

Interview: Martin on The Profile Ep 98

June 10, 2019

Mr Martin Cilia played guitar in Messenger, Invasion Force, Flying Fonzarellis, Midget and the Farrellies, Dave Warner and the Suburbs, Atlantics and these days he’s as Mental As Anything. He has a successful career recording […]

Review: By the C at Wollongong, 20 January 2019

January 27, 2019

Original article: http://rockclub40.com/review-by-the-c-wollongong-20-january-2019/ After a scorching week, going outdoors for a whole day event requires some level of craziness. I was excited to be able to attend “By the C – Wollongong” at Stuart Park. […]

Guitar World: 10 Instrumental Surf Rock Songs You Need to Hear Now

March 12, 2016

Posted 03/10/2016 by Damian Fanelli I spent the good part of 10 years as the guitarist (and chief songwriter) in an instrumental surf-rock band. We played for very little money … drove for hours looking for gig parking […]