Ten bands everyone should know about:
Too many Australian bands to name. Here’s ten in no order: The Stevens, Velcro, Summer Flake, Bruff Superior, Sounds Like Sunset, Unity Floors, Nun, Thigh Master, Cured Pink, Blank Realm.
Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party:
Hard breads, mushy eggplant (look it up), hash brown pile, quail bgg (they’re little), haloumi stacks ($$), novelty cakes, beef jerk(y), lush dips (all flavours), brews.
Eight possessions that define you:
Dick’s jam room (not really ours), numerous rabbits, colourful dresses, Sam’s crusty car, Lani’s lovely, heavy synth, Caro’s seasoned bass, Matt’s (actual lack off) drum equipment, leaky roofs.
Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mix-tape:
Cocoon, Tampopo, Step Brothers, ANVIL: the story of Anvil, BBC Synth Britannia, Do It Yourself: the Story of Rough Trade, The Valleys.
Six bad habits you can’t escape:
Gum in hair, Facebook, biting nails, sleeping on your face, $8 Bourby cokes, abbreviating shit. YOLO.
Five people who inspire you:
David McComb, Lawrence (from Felt), Lætitia Sadier (Stereolab), Alan Partridge, Divine.
Four things that turn you on:
An electric shock, counting unused election ballots, long and grim bus trips, waking up at 3am to cats fighting.
Three goals for your music:
To hopefully entertain people, to have fun, to make bank bro.
Two live gigs you’ll never forget and why:
The Cannanes, Sounds Summit, Newcastle, 2012
Lovely afternoon set by one of our favourite Australian icons.
Towards the end of the set someone switched the AFL final on down the other end of the room. The Cannanes continued on. Didn’t affect much, they were great as always. I think the Swans won the final…
My Bloody Valentine, ATP, Melbourne 2013
The first time any of us had seen them before and it was pretty amazing. Everything you wanted to hear from them as well as the brutal ending, the skull-crushing drone section in You Made Me Realise (that everyone’s probably heard about, even if you weren’t there). I literally saw a girl’s knees buckle when the song dropped back in.
One day left before the apocalypse and you:
See above.
When’s the gig/release?
Tussle out now. The Hi-Fi with Deerhunter on Wednesday December 11, The KVB at Boney on Thursday December 12.
