60 Seconds With… Straw King Eye
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04.12.2013

60 Seconds With… Straw King Eye

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Define your genre in five words or less:

Australian garage.

 

Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like?

They’d probably just say something about Rowland S. Howard.

 

Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them?

We have an album called The Girls of Paradise available at Polyester and on Bandcamp.

 

When are you playing live/releasing your album/EP/single/etc?

We’re playing The Evelyn Monday night residency in December and we’re also recording a couple of tracks with Marcus from East Brunswick All Girls Choir. Those recordings should be available some time early next year.

 

Tell us about the last song you wrote.

I wrote a song about a missing person for my solo collection. I took the inspiration from a house I had seen last year near the west gate bridge below these power-lines. I found it had an eerie sentiment and it felt like such a good setting for a story. So I decided I’d think about this place for the inspiration for a song, one which was something more like a short story which you could follow as it unfolds. It’s basically about a couple who are trying to have a baby and one night the man hears her talking in her sleep then in the morning she’s gone.

 

Where would you like to be in five years?

Living in an art deco apartment with a motorbike and a cool cat.