Define your genre in five words or less:
Melodic rock’n’roll.
Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like?
I can honestly say I have no idea. It’s hard to make a judgment on these things when you’re in the middle of it. It’s melodic rock’n’roll, in the same vein as The Killers, The Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, The Wombats, U2, The Kooks.
What do you love about making music?
I love taking the seed of an idea and fleshing it out into a fully blown tune that we can take out on to the road.
If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why?
Well if I could go back in time, I’d scrap our music all together, take with me the complete Beatles songbook and release every song they eventually would only three months earlier.
What can a punter expect from your live show?
Three guys attempting not to care that their Sammy Davis Jr look-a-like who’s fronting the band seems to have periodic epileptic fits on stage
When’s the gig and with who?
At the Wheelers Hill Hotel, over a few Sunday arvos in September – Sunday September 9, Sunday September 23 and Sunday September 30, all with Zoophyte.
How long have you been gigging and writing?
As a band we’ve been playing together for just over two and a half years. Played around 80 plus shows in that time.
What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed?
I’m not sure there is a formula. I think you’ve got to make the music you want to make and if at some particular time, whatever it is you’re doing is in vogue, you might be in with a shot. But changing to fit a market is a risky strategy in the long run as it’s harder to continually make music you don’t truly believe in.
What part of making music excites you the most?
Not knowing what you could come up with tomorrow.
What part of making music discourages you?
Knowing there are bands who I love who haven’t achieved the success they deserve and that the same could happen to us.
What’s the strangest place you’ve ever played a gig, or made a recording?
I once played a solo gig in a beer garden where the only audience member was a pet gala that someone in the pub had brought. After every song the bird would make its noise and I would be left to playing the next song.
