Define your genre in five words or less.
Subterranean-post-balloon-rock.
What do you love about making music?
Creating emotion through sound. Music makes us feel things and we don’t fully understand why. But when you can affect someone’s emotions, bring something to the surface or inexplicably get stuck inside someone’s mind making them feel great or melancholic or anything, it’s a magical thing.
What do you hate about the music industry?
This necessity to carefully consider the things you do, say and how you come across in order to be pigeonholed as ‘cool’. Secret tracks on 7″ vinyl, warehouse parties, being excitable on social media. It’s too much effort, I think I’m just happy bobbing around in these lukewarm waters hoping that our good songs makes up for our lack of designer jeans and garage-rock sound.
What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed?
I think a band needs to write and release the right song at the right time, to be listened to and talked about by the right people in the right places and the rest of the bunch will follow. It’s a bit overwhelming. But I genuinely believe that if you write great music, you’ll get somewhere. The other elements lining up just determine how far you get rocketed along.
Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it?
Pre-gig warm up usually involves getting all zen-master focussed. I’ve started getting into vocal warm ups (kids, if you’re a singer.. they’re really important) which involves making strange, strange sounds with different parts of your voice. I embarrassingly pocket-dialled a friend of a friend and left a five minuite voicemail of me making weird sounds, by myself, in a van.
What can a punter expect from your live show?
We like to mix it up, throw in a little bit of live electronica and dubstep. It always gets mixed reactions, mostly good however we have played at some places where people don’t know what to think of the variety. In rehearsals, have the attention span of a small marsupial. Songs tend to jump around with a bit of a bag-of-allsorts kinda vibe.
When’s the gig and with who?
We’re playing Workers Club this Friday November 2 with local heroes Animaux and March of the Real Fly, it should be a great night.
What’ve you got to sell CD-wise?
We’re touring our follow up EP Open Ears Open Minds.
