Sarah Gardiner

Sarah Gardiner

Sarah-Jane Gardiner (born 7 November 1989) is an Australian musician and member of the Australian indie rock band Operator Please. She is the band's keyboard player, and along with Amandah Wilkinson one of the band's two songwriters. She is distinguishable as the shortest of the five members of the band, which include Amandah Wilkinson, Taylor Henderson, Ashley McConnell and Tim Commandeur. Gardiner has written songs for Operator Please such as “One Yellow Button", and the B-side from the first single (‘Just a Song About Ping Pong’), “In Motion”. She has also co-written “Emo Erotica” and “Two for my seconds”. She is often noted for her stage charisma.

Early life and forming the band

Gardiner was classically trained on piano by her Grandmother from the age of six. She started playing modern pop music at the age of fifteen which coincided with Wilkinson forming a band to enter their high school's Battle of the Bands competition. This band was the foundation for Operator Please.

Leaving the band

On the 18th of April, 2008, it was annouced through several media sources that Gardiner had quit the band . The first to report the story were nme.com, who found the information through an unnoficial blog post Gardiner had made on facebook.com . The band have been quoted saying the decision to split was mutual, following Gardiner's two-month break from touring in early January.