Describe frontwoman Stevie Joy in five words.
Beautiful, talented singer. Likes cats.
How did you all get together?
Stevie and Jason began writing songs in late 2011 but the band was not formed until early 2012. We’ve all been friends for a long time and mostly met through music courses around Melbourne.
With so many members, is it hard to find time to all rehearse together?
Organising eight people can be a bit of a headache sometimes, but with advances in modern technology like Facebook, we’re able to all write our availabilities in our private band group page. It makes life so easy.
Your Happy Days video launch is happening this week, what can we expect from it?
The idea behind the clip is to show people doing whatever makes them happy. We put a call out to all our friends and family to be a part of the video. So for example, if eating a chili bacon bean burrito makes you the happiest person alive then we would come film you eating it. Without giving anything away, we’ve had a lot of great clips for people’s “happy days.”
You’ll also be raising money to help your album along, set for release in 2015. How far along in the songwriting are you?
We have about 15 songs written then we will pick ten of the strongest songs from that. We’re always writing new songs so I am sure there will be more added to the list.
STEVIE AND THE SLEEPERS will launch the video for Happy Days, this Saturday December 6 at Yah Yah’s to cap off 2014. Doors from 8pm, $13. Get on down.
