Define your genre in five words or less:
Sonic protest cosmos rock genre.
What inspires or has influenced your music the most?
S.E. Hinton. Heartache. Ledbelly. Picasso. People who aren’t considered beautiful. François Truffaut. The Velvet Underground. Poor kids. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Diego Maradona. The Deal sisters. Jean-Paul Belmondo. Queensland. Montaigne. Henry Lawson. Andy Warhol. The guitar that lay under my mother’s bed for years. There’s so much – I really don’t know.
What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed?
Again I don’t know. I think the best thing any band can do is to concentrate on making their art better. Success, whatever that means, is a cosmic lottery, if it doesn’t come, you still have an art. Treat it like a friend. Success for me was music and art getting me out of a potentially bleak future.
When are you playing live/releasing your album/EP/single/etc?
Launching 10″ EP Troubled Trees at The Spotted Mallard on Saturday April 20. I hate the word launch though. I’d rather lunch.
What’s the strangest place you’ve ever played a gig, or made a recording?
Gaslight Radio once mixed an album at Garry Gary Beers studio, that was quite strange I suppose. There was caviar in the fridge. There was MTV awards laying around like old shoes. I remember thinking both his wife and maid were beautiful. We also stole 30 personalised Garry Gary Beers guitar picks and nearly killed his dog. We were all on the dole at the time.
