Paper Road are James Lindsay, Andrew Vann and Roger Greig. Formed in June 2021, the Brisbane-based band began as a group of mates looking to stay connected and have a bit of fun making music. Over time, the group evolved into playing gigs and creating original songs born from weekend sessions, good wine, lived experience, and real conversations.

Samuel Geddes, based in Magandjin/Brisbane, and Alistair Seawright, living in Naarm/Melbourne, combined their songwriting talent just earlier in 2025, developing the first demos from shared Google drives and exchanged audio files from their respective cities. After an intensive few days in a makeshift studio with Jye Geltch (Jye, Soft Porn), their darkwave post-punk project truly took concrete form. With ferocious sincerity, mtv was born; the first song they wrote together while being in the same room.