The First Record I Bought:
The first music I ever bought was when I was around ten-years-old. I got True Colours by Split Enz on vinyl. Mum took my wad of savings to the record store and made the purchase. I Got You was probably my favourite song at the time. I remember miming to the album with a tennis racquet in our back room. From then on all I ever wanted to do was sing in a rock band.
The Last Record I Bought:
The last music I bought was the Captives EP, Butterflies, Diamonds and Lightning. I love this band. I was made aware of them when we were included on the Brewtality Festival lineup. I looked up their stuff on YouTube and it instantly resonated with me. I saw them play live and reconfirmed that they’re awesome.
The First Thing I Recorded:
I first got involved in performing through musical theatre at school. I was in a couple of bands through high school, but never recorded anything until Suiciety did our first demo tapes. I haven’t heard those tapes in many moons, and not sure if I want to [laughs].
The Last Thing I Recorded:
We haven’t recorded anything officially since Crawling Machine Edition EP in 1996. We recorded that one at Sing Sing with Kalju Tonuma. He’s a great producer… Totally mad. We decided to release it after we’d been catching up writing together. We were super keen to play live again, so it was a perfect opportunity to release the EP. The lead track Toma Esto es…. (‘here it is’ in Spanish), still sounds great live and we were really excited about doing the launch shows to see how the songs are received. We’ve started to demo some new stuff, too, which is sounding great.
The Record That Changed My Life:
So many albums changed my life and inspired me as a person and a performer over the journey. If I had to pick one it, would be Back In Black by AC/DC. A friend at school put it on a cassette for me, and holy shit, it was like I’d been in a coma and woken up by demons. I still listen to it now and for me, it is probably the greatest album of all time.
Catch SUICIETY celebrate Crawling Machine Edition on Friday October 30 at The Evelyn Hotel in Fitzroy, with Mammoth Mammoth, The Hidden Venture and Boxhorn. Suciety’s EP Crawling Machine Edition is out now through Desert Highways.
