“We were running out of budget so we just kinda went to Savers and spent up big there and then shot clip,” enthuses singer and vocalist Brenton Perry, who is currently driving from Adelaide to Warrnambool with band members Henry Hollingsworth (drums), Tom Snowdon (guitar) and Steve Peluso (bass).
Musically, Meet You There has a punk grounding in its delivery. Lyrically and stylistically, there is an undeniable sense of fun to it. Perry discusses this. “As a band, we don’t take ourselves super seriously but I guess a lot of our songs have serious subject matter,” he says. “Meet You There for us is sort of tongue-in-cheek, so that’s why we did the clip a little bit silly as well so everyone got it. We’re letting everyone know that we’re not so serious because the last two clips [Old & Grey, Do Or Die] have been a live performance and a serious video.”
The song’s lyrics and this theme are truly at the fore of Meet You There. Having admitted that the band’s lyrics have been a defining feature of the method and mood of his band since their inception, Perry chats about what this song means, referring to his wife – vocalist Amanda Perry. “We had only just been married maybe a year, and she was sort of coming to terms with being married to a musician who is away a lot, and then on the weekends that we were home together she would be working and I work during the week. So on the weekends when I wasn’t playing, I would
“We had only just been married maybe a year, and she was sort of coming to terms with being married to a musician who is away a lot,” he says. “Then on the weekends that we were home together she would be working and I work during the week. So on the weekends when I wasn’t playing, I would want to go out and see another band. I would end up staying out all night. I wanted to write the song about that, but also that we always found a way to work it out.”
However, there is one song off Brothers that is particularly meaningful to Perry and to close out the interview he talks about it.
“There’s a song She’ll Be Right that we all really wrote together, and Tom [Snowden] was going through a really weird stage in his life with work and his relationship. He was just at that point that everybody goes through near their mid-twenties I suppose – ‘What am I doing?’ and ‘where am I going?’ He wrote this really emotional song that basically says, ‘I refuse to accept that this is all my life is going to be’, and when he played it to us – oh man – it was just so bloody moving to be honest.”
By Dan Watt
