Define your genre in five words or less:
Psychedelic pop waffle rock beats.
How long have you been gigging and writing?
As the current collective group about a year, but the Gilligan Smiles music making started at the end of 2011.
Which band would you most like to have a battle/showdown with?
Maybe The Flaming Lips and Miley Cyrus collaboration, mainly because it would be the most ostentatious show ever. We wouldn’t win, but hey we’d get to play with the Lips.
What inspires or has influenced your music the most?
I’d say the more widely accepted DIY approach to recording songs these days, and artists who are able to do everything themselves. There’s something refreshing about Mac Demarco and Kevin Parker’s approach to production that is really cool, and that I think has opened up people’s views on what a recording should, or could, sound like. Why not have a flanger over the whole mix?
What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed?
Write good, honest, original songs and play as much as possible. But then again, success is all relative to that artist. What someone may achieve and view as being successful may not be success for someone else. Just have fun I guess.
Why should everyone come and see your band?
Because we’re a bunch of lovely chaps who, if you boogie to our music performance, will probably buy you beer.
GILLIGAN SMILES play The Workers Club every Tuesday in September. On Tuesday September 22 they’re launching a music video and projecting it live during the show.
