Q&A: The Government Yard
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Q&A: The Government Yard

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Define your genre in five words or less: 

Punk without power chords.

When’s the gig and with who? 

Gasometer Hotel Saturday December 29 with the Actor Buddhists and Glaciers $5 free albums on entry, our old album is around town as well.

What inspires or has influenced your music the most?

The swamps and Banksia woodlands of Perth, compulsive 1950’s style land clearing of bushland for electrical appliance showrooms, Black Flag.

What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed? 

If more bands wrote about the reality that is their specific natural environment and not this man made constructed farce there would be more interesting songs floating around. To get on triple J it seems like muzak disco is in.

Name an interview question you wish someone would ask you, and answer it.

What species do you think would inspire some decent musical imagery?
To diverge from the Australiana; the Manned Wolf has an intense appearance that has led to its persecution through man’s fascination.

Anything else to add? 

Come on down and metaphorically destroy the Gasometer hotel on Saturday we have T-shirts and you can have one if you ask us, cheers.