Define your genre in five words or less:
Snarling rock’n’roll.
How long have you been gigging and writing?
Hell Crab City was born in 2003.
Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like?
The Powder Monkeys in a fist fight with Radio Birdman.
What do you love about making music?
Only the sweaty 45 minutes or so spent onstage.
What do you hate about the music industry?
That word, I guess. You know – industry. Makes me think of factories: production lines, bosses, workers…Thankfully, we’re not much a part of that type of industry. We’re more about making a niche racket. We are pretty much outliers.
If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why?
Maybe Stravinsky. I’d want to see if our noise would freak him as much as his first performance of the rite of spring did to his infamous Parisian audience. It fascinates me to think what those classical dudes would make of contemporary music – though I guess they’d probably think it was rubbish.
What’ve you got to sell CD-wise?
Two albums – Nicotine Blues and the more recent Full Bore – on Brisbane garage punk label Turkeyneck Records.
When’s the gig and with who?
Friday July 18 at The Old Bar with Powerline Sneakers, Drifter and Two Headed Dog. Saturday July 19 at The Reverence as part of the Dry July benefit with Bombs Are Falling plus many more!
