Ten bands everyone should know about:
The Advertyres, The Hussy Hicks, Steve Smyth, Babette Hayward, The Villages, Benjalu, Current Swell, Half Moon Run, Craig Sinclair, Genevieve Chadwick.
Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party:
Chilli Kettle Chips, pho, rice paper rolls, Buddy Burgers from a Canadian chain fast food called A and W, broccoli, King Island cheese, Skittles, salt and pepper squid, quiche.
Eight possessions that define you:
My songs, guitars, van, surfboards, a rock that never leaves my pocket, headphones, pedal board and kick drum.
Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mix-tape:
The Wall, Searching For Sugarman, Free As A Dog, Morning Of The Earth, The World’s Fastest Indian, Into The Wild, Flight Of The Concord.
Six bad habits you can’t escape:
Going too fast, breaking guitar strings, fear of stagnation, Open D, Obsession with pho, eating too many oranges.
Five people who inspire you:
Neil Young, Villa Lobos, Justin Vernon, Bob Dylan and Tom Waits.
Four things that turn you on:
Fender Nocasters, female bass players, Angourie Point at six foot, and nasty distortion pedals…in particular the dirt transmitter.
Three goals for your music:
Help people, inspire people towards their own goals and to never arrive.
Two live gigs you’ll never forget and why:
1. Montreal Jazz Festival (police arrived to deal with an extra 3,000 people crowded across the street and guerrilla CDs sales of over 700 copies).
2. Busking in Canberra when an old lady on a walking frame danced to a crowed of 50 odd people for 20 minutes straight!
One day left before the apocalypse and you:
Probably remain in a cynical state and get on with life as if it’s not going to happen. With perhaps the occasional look upwards for aliens.
When’s the gig / release?
Thornbury Theatre on Friday March 15.
