Define your genre in five words or less:
Balls to the wall rock.
What can a punter expect from your live show?
Two tall, leggy, attractive Croatian show ponies trying to out-zazz each other while the rest of the band focus on rocking hard. And that’s just the males in the band.
What’ve you got to sell CD-wise?
Our first two pressings of our last EP Bombshell have sold out, so for the first time in Australia, we will be selling our European-only album Dirty Devil Music, which contains our first two EPs and six exclusive live tracks taken from our headline show at the Hi-fi Bar last year.
If you could assassinate one person or band from popular music, who would it be and why?
I was listening to Nova the other day, and for an hour I didn’t hear a single song that wasn’t saturated in auto-tune. Whoever’s fault that is, I will kill them to death.
What’s the strangest place you’ve ever played a gig, or made a recording?
How about a sold out show at Etihad Stadium opening for Bon Jovi? Since then, we’ve spent the last 12 months touring Australia and Europe on some pretty big stages to some pretty massive crowds, but now we’re keen on booking some shows somewhere really intimate and in-your-face. Being 50 metres away from your audience is really isolating and you lose connection. I want to be able to get up in people’s faces.
Why should everyone come and see your band?
Because we put on a damn good show. Bruises, stitches and concussions are all part and parcel of a Scarlets gig. People come to our shows because they want to be entertained, and that’s what we do. We are entertainers, performers. We have no sense of self-consciousness or shame and are fired up and crazy whether we are playing to 8 people or 80,000.
When’s the gig and with who?
The gig is our third birthday show at the Espy Basement on Friday September 7 with Dead Star Renegade, Los Amigos, and Kill Shot. We’re ditching our usual blinged-out costumes and fancy lights. This will be a raw, stripped back, intimate and loud fucking show. We are doing it to celebrate the three years we have been doing things our way and working our fingers to the bone, and it’s a free show as well so everyone can come down and spend their entry money on beer.
