Growing up.
My mum always had great music on around the house when I was younger, always lots of Motown and soul. Percy Sledge, the Four Tops and Ray Charles were all big favourites of mine.
Inspirations.
At the moment I’m loving Father John Misty, Tame Impala, Royal Headache, The Drones, Frank Zappa, The War on Drugs and Title Fight. Through high school I got deep into the punk and ska scenes so naturally worshipped punk heroes like Joe Strummer. This led me to get into a lot of great ‘80s hardcore stuff from America like Bad Brains, Descendents and Minor Threat.
Your Band.
JP, Liam and myself went to high school together where we all played in bands. After school JP and Jesse played in a reggae group the Reefs. We formed shortly after they broke up. I think we’ve been playing for almost 4 years now.
The music you make.
I would describe our music as indie rock with splashes of punk, shoegaze and some psych-y stuff. We are pretty guitar driven and pretty pedal crazy at the moment, but our writing style tends to change every couple of months. We just released a new single Feel our Cold, which is the first taste of an upcoming EP/mini album.
Music right here right now.
I think the Melbourne scene right now is really quite good. There’s heaps of great venues in town and some absolute legends playing in bands. My favourite Melbourne bands are Tully on Tully, the Sinking Teeth, Mercians, Playwrite, I’lls and the now defunct Red Lights.
NEIGHBOURHOOD YOUTH play North Melbourne Meat Market on Saturday November 14 with World’s End Press, Foreign/National and more for Melbourne Music Week’s Lost Children Found festival.
