1. Growing Up
One of my earliest music related memories is that whenever I would run, dance or jump around to music, my mother would always tell me she could see I had a natural sense of rhythm. That always stuck with me, and wasn’t a bad thing to have in my back pocket when I took up playing drums at age 15.
2. Inspirations
Most of my favourite musicians I discovered by hearing them sing or play guitar on records, but then when I came to learn about them I found out pretty much all of them started out as drummers. I like my favourite musicians in very different ways. I’m a huge fan of Dave Grohl and Jack White for the way they play their instruments, run record labels and make films etc, but don’t really care for most of the music they make these days. Mark Lanegan, Nick Cave and Josh Homme I like for similar reasons, but still love almost all of their recorded output.
3. Your Crew
“I DJ on the weekends to pay for my full-time habit as a musician/producer” is a line I hear myself saying a lot. Not to say I don’t love the DJ’ing as much as the other stuff. My main collaborator in the T-Rek live show, or my two piece rock band (Low Fly Incline) is (Mad) Mitch Mcgregor. He also has/does play drums for No Zu, Damn Terran and Children Collide.
4. The Music You Make
Psychedelic/percussive/guitary/disco/drone/boogie kinda stuff makes up the live show. I have a new single (Still Born Monsters) coming out in the next few weeks on Nick Coleman’s Suck Music label.
5. Music, Right Here, Right Now
The music scene is alive and well as anyone with one ear to the ground knows. I think the obstacles that musicians have to overcome in this day and age all boil down to the same thing any of us have ever had to overcome at any time, and that’s trying to be heard above the sea of noise.
T-Rek will play alongside Pachanga Boy, Optimo at more as part of Melbourne Music Week at the Queen Victoria Market on Wednesday November 19.
