]With the inaugural COLLISION AT THE CORNER festival about to hit The Corner Hotel this Saturday, we put two of the festivals dirtiest bands up against each other for an all out brawl, tackling all the big issues from alcoholic grandmas to time machines.
Adam (Bugdust) questions Dale (The Deep End):
You have shared the stage with some awesome Aussie bands. Tops work lads! Giants such as Airbourne, The Angels, Rose Tattoo, Screaming Jets and Hoodoo Gurus. If you were to do a Christmas EP with one song from each of those bands to give to your gran, what songs would you choose?
Talk about asking the tough questions… My Gran is a pisshead so I reckon she will love Cheap Wine & Cheaper Women by Airbourne, she’s also a loose cannon on the swearing (we can’t take her out anymore) so Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again? by The Angels is on there. Then round it out with Bad Boy For Love by the Tatts, Better by the Jets and Crackin’ Up by the Gurus!
If you turned up to the local Deep End pub for a quiet drink with ya band mates and there was a tribute band called The Shallow End playing, would you A) Be embarrassed B) Get up and have a jam with them C) Tab out the guitar riffs on beer coasters and flick em at the guitarists eye?
How about option D: Quit playing music and become their roadies.
Your drummer builds a time machine between soundcheck and doors…. what Melbourne band that is not playing around anymore would you kill to travel back in time and catch a show?
That is a STUPID question, everyone knows that drummers are good for nothing other than every now and then keeping time… BUT, if Professor Frink did happen to come on tour with us and this did happen, it’d have to be Mammal. Their shows were intense!
Blue wifebeaters or white?
Blue all the way. Unless you go to Stereosonic…Then again…don’t go to Stereosonic.
Dale (The Deep End) retaliates at Adam (Bugdust):
Have you ever considered moving on from Bugdust to front a ZZ Top tribute band?
Nah, Uncle Billy is a top bloke but too sharp to even consider trying to jump on his mojo. Thought about starting a Deep End Tribute though.
Tell us what kind of weird shit you got up to whilst recording near the US/Mexico border?
If we told you there would be no mystery factor to our band’s existence… but here we go in a Stiffys inspired answer… Midget Strippers DEA Officers Sheriffs Over Sized Fender Plectrums Beer Mole’ Late Nights Nose Bleeds Al Jorgensen Mirrored Coffee Tables Cannibal Corpse Shootings Vomit Pecan Pie Tecate Buckets Rock’N’Roll!
Has JT recorded any shittier bands since recording our first EP some years ago, or are we still the worst?
Yeah truckloads. It’s kinda funny he actually puts more effort in recording other bands than he does training his moustache! No you are not on top of the worst band list…we are!
Who are your favourite Melbourne bands to play with and why?
The Stiffys coz they like hydration, Cold Harbour coz they smear dusty evilness, I Am Duckeye coz they actually do all the stupid shit at shows we wished we had the balls to do, Dallas Crane coz those guys know how to have a wrong party, Redcoats coz they sucked me into a mind altering hypnotisation meth induced psychosis, Steel Birds coz those good looking fellas are sharp dressed motherfuckers and can write amazing tunes and have a pretty rad lead guitarist, The Black Stypes coz they are Darkness and Evil!
