Define your genre in five words or less:
Toxic horror rock.
What do you love about making music?
Billie-Jade: Creating another world where no boundaries exist and being able to invite others into your world and share the experience.
Howsie: Freedom and the adventure of starting with nothing and ending up with something.
When’s the gig and with who?
This Friday July 26 at The 86, Fitzroy. We have just returned from LA recording so we have decided to throw a launch party instead of a live gig with our friends Sarah Eida and Miss Nic performing before we present our new music video.
How long have you been gigging and writing?
H: Hatchet Dawn’s first show was back in January 2009, my first ever show was in October 2001 with a local Deftones/Sunk Lotto rip off band.
BJ: Been gigging since I was 14 and writing since I could talk.
What inspires or has influenced your music the most?
H: Originality is a big thing for me. I don’t like trends and have never followed them. Going against the grain has always inspired me. I always have been obsessed with dark themes and music. Biggest influence musically is a hard call…I listen to everything I can get my hands on. It’s a shame boobs don’t make a musical note.
BJ: Anything modern, dark, haunting including movie soundtracks and images…I am just a typical gothaholacostic.
Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them?
H: We have our third release due to bounce onto CD shelves this Friday July 26. It’s a limited edition EP pressing on CD which includes our latest music video. For iTunes folk it’s only a single release, we hope everyone buys the CD with more content before it ends up on torrent download sites in the next month or so. Strategic marketing, let’s call it that!
Tell us about the last song you wrote.
BJ: A horrific disco number one hit, should be charting shortly.
H: I’m writing some dark metal songs for fun at the moment, not over thinking the process, just letting it flow and it’s actually been quite therapeutic…like a chai latte.
When, and why did you start writing music?
H: I have been writing music since 1999. I wanted to bring something new and deadly fresh to this planet. I am a zombie rocker that’s returned from the dead to get my ghoul on…long story.
BJ: I cannot even remember a time when I wasn’t writing music, I write music because it comes naturally and because I have a lot to say. Howsie calls me the ‘The Lips’.
Where would you like to be in five years?
H: Sipping a chai latte still and writing music, while having all the projects I am working on now off the ground. Some long worldwide tours under the belt with some serious cheddar in my pocket to open some businesses sitting in my pipeline.
BJ: On tour.
