Define your genre in five words or less:
Psychedelic swamp rock.
When’s the gig and with who?
The single launch for the Glow 7″ is this Wednesday October 30 at The Workers Club. We’ve got Fucking Teeth coming over from WA to supply the rawness and Brother James which is a bit of a supergroup of The Vasco Era, Rat & Co, Second Hand Heart and The Exploders members. We’ll all be coming straight from playing Kennedys Creek Music Festival so we’re expecting a really fun night.
What can a punter expect from your live show?
Spacey jams, bass fuzz, spilt beer, slide guitar, a sore neck and an onslaught of sound with hopefully a catchy tune buried underneath.
What do you love about making music?
Everything. The first spark of an idea when you’re jamming at home and hear something interesting form in your head, fleshing out that idea and being really excited, all the twists and turns it goes through along the way with everyone’s ideas coming in. Then when it’s done you get to play it in front of people and if you’re lucky someone will come up to you and say they really liked that new song.
What inspires or has influenced your music the most?
Probably just music in general. There’s so much awesome stuff out there and people are making amazing music right now and that inspires us to want to make the best possible music we can; ambition is not a bad thing.
Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it?
We love a good pump-up song as we’re approaching the city after a boring drive. Something like Bleeding Through or Slayer.
Tell us about the last song you wrote.
It came from a Warren bass delay noodle that we turned into a morphing, rising kinda jam. It was cool because we don’t usually get to work on songs from scratch in the band room, usually the idea’s already half there.
Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them?
Our new single Glow is available in 7″ vinyl. You can grab one from a show or from thefirealive.bandcamp.com. There’s also an old EP there.
