Who is in Customer?
Shauna Boyle (Cable Ties), drums/vocals; Tom Bradbury (Big Tobacco), guitar/vocals; Jackson Payne (the Tropes), guitar/vocals; and Matt Veitch on bass.
What’s with the name?
Tom and I are both huge fans of the Replacements so we borrowed it from a song of theirs by the same name. It’s also a word you can kind of spit out.
What are your influences?
The Replacements. We’re a big fan of heart-on-your-sleeve songs with simple, catchy choruses. So the Nerves, Big Star, Neil Young, Teenage Fanclub and the DB’s all tick those boxes for us. Shauna is a huge fan of Burger Records’ bands and Matt has a weird penchant for Top 40. But we love him anyway.
Why should people come to your show?
Well, Synthetics are amazing and have members of Hi-Tec Emotions and the Bunyip Moon. Pete plays in Immigrant Union and BC has Christina from Stina Tester & Cinta Masters. Need I say more? With those credentials you’d be silly not to. Also, we’re not awful.
Where can people find your music?
You can hear our single Mean Thoughts off our first EP by the same name at customerband.bandcamp.com, and hopefully on the wireless. We’re releasing it as a 7” on Saturday July 9 upstairs at the Grace, with some mates (Hi-Tec Emotions, Shrimpwitch and Time Robb), but you can preorder if you want, as there won’t be many of them.
