Name:
Phoebe (Heaven The Axe) and Dan (Frankenbok).
Define your genre in five words or less:
Phoebe: Beards, hair, flannos, laughs, metal.
What can a punter expect from your live show as part of The Regional Roulette Tour?
Phoebe: Doors are at 8pm! Don’t be late! Yeti Bok the MC will be inviting members of the crowd to randomly select the playing order of the bands on the night. So you won’t know who’s on and when. It adds heaps of fun and suspense for everyone, especially the bands playing.
What have you got to sell CD-wise?
Phoebe: The Frankenbok, Dreadnaught, Heaven The Axe and Abreact Merch table is bigger than Highpoint, so make sure you pick up the goods.
Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like?
Dan: Hopefully nothing like Falling In Reverse.
So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you… what do they say?
Phoebe: “I CAN’T HEAR YOU!”
How long have you been gigging and writing?
Phoebe: Since before we had pubic hair.
When, and why did you start writing music?
Phoebe: When I was 13-years-old, I saw a hot guy driving a panel van cranking Napalm Death. I wrote my first song called Hey Mr Bad News I Wanna See The Back of Your Panel Van. Little did I know that guy was actually my guitarist and partner in crime today. We have a station wagon these days. Dreams do come true.
Tell us about the last song you wrote.
Phoebe: Good Things Come To Those Who Hate is our new single. It’s about fake friends. I just deactivated my Facebook ’cause my real friends are my real friends and know where to find me. Life is much richer for it.
Which band would you most like to have a battle/showdown with?
Dan: Those jerk-offs from Falling In Reverse.
What inspires or has influenced your music the most?
Phoebe: Lately it’s about the chemistry we create as humans together, we collaborate with a close knit circle of people who are right in there, wormed into every aspect of our lives. Then the music just explodes, it’s like making love now. We’re in too deep to not look each other in the eye.
What makes you happiest about what you’re doing?
Phoebe: The band family we’ve created.
And what makes you unhappiest about what you’re doing?
Phoebe: The lack of real acknowledgment from the mainstream for metal in Australia despite the fact Soundwave sold out in a minute.
When are you doing your thing next?
Phoebe: The Regional Roulette tour plays Yahoo Bar Shepparton this Friday June 28, then Melbourne on Friday July 5 at The Bendigo Hotel followed by Wagga Wagga on Saturday July 6.
What advice would you give to bands that are new on the Melbourne music scene?
Dan: Do the complete opposite of anything those pretentious ball fondlers from Falling In Reverse do.
