Define your genre in five words or less:
Bollard rock (it’s a bit bigger than ordinary ‘post rock’).
Do you have any new releases?
Yeah, this will be our third album. We gave some of our fans a multiple choice question on what they thought was the best album title – Painted Mantra was the most preferred so we went with that. We like it too, of course. It kinda sums up the duality of audio and visual art we put into our live performance. We’ve always like that slant; suits us as instrumental songwriters.
So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing… what do they say?
Who’s the singer, and when’s he gonna sing something?!
Why should everyone come and see your band?
We have our own sound. Our style is something we’ve developed since jamming as young guys at uni (studying visual art). And it’s exciting to hear unique styles, I think anyway.
Do you play the same songs each performance?
No, we like to vary our setlists, especially favouring the new songs. But it’s good to revisit older songs as well, which also helps sell the older CDs.
What part of making music excites you the most?
Watching a song develop is pretty cool, from embryo stage in the jam sessions to fully-fledged live track. We like to structure our songs’ development in three categories. First is the improvisational stage where ideas are created and jammed out. This may include some ‘induced-assistance’… Second stage is hard work, and being sober. Nailing the composition and licks. Stage three means it’s ready to graduate to the live stage. We debuted a new one called Majestic Blackness in front of a big audience the other night at our Espy show with Sydonia’s album launch. We pulled it off, and that’s definitely an exciting aspect of making music.
Are you going on tour anytime soon?
Yes, as soon as we get this album out we’re touring around Australia, and then there’s a few international destinations in mind, Japan being one.
When’s the gig and with who?
It’s on Saturday May 17 at the Northcote Social Club with Anna Salen, The Black Galaxy Experience and Roni Shewan’s band, Shiver Canyon.
