Ten bands everyone should know about:
Spinning Rooms, Deep Heat, New War, Batpiss, TV Colours, Spite House, Hoodlum Shouts and High Tension, Deep Heat and Batpiss.
Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party:
Power gain formula, energy drinks, hot tequila, viagra, wasabi, servo hot dogs, warm milk, strawberry ice cream and swordfish steaks. i wouldn’t want to be there, but how could that combination fail to kick arse.
Eight possessions that define you:
Orthodox guilt, one set of clothes, a 1973 HQ Panel Van up on blocks in a paddock on the peninsula, three broken noses still worn, every piece of shark paraphernalia ever conceived from the dawn of time, gifted on birthdays and packed to the roof in a 1973 Panel van up on blocks in a paddock on the peninsula, 85 VHS videos containing 176 of 180 episodes of Seinfeld taped off Tasmanian TV from 1994-1999, some with garish advertising, others edited, The distortion pedal that Dr Know from the Bad Brains used to record Rock For Light with and a jar of tears.
Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mix-tape:
Hot to Trot, Short Circuit 2, Blind Fury, The Boy Who Could Fly, Darkman, Predator 2 and Slapshot.
Six bad habits you can’t escape:
Moping, trying to find new lows of self deprecation to beat the encroaching hordes to the punch, nailing my thumbs to things with nail guns, roof renovations at the end of gigs, assessing people’s bad heads and thinking about their lives and screaming in my sleep.
Five people who inspire you:
Tim Brennan from Tym Guitars in Brisbane who does more for music in a day than most people do in a lifetime. Alex Gillies who is an artist and musician from Brisbane who excels at anything he turns his hands to with a nonchalance that is maddening. Charles Mingus, Lita Ford and Scotty O’Hara.
Four things that turn you on:
The sound of Rossi boots unbuckled in a hallway, closing my eyes while playing the guitar and opening them again, having not been dime bagged, harmonies and shark death.
Three goals for your music:
To not get shot in the face while performing it, to play a set with one hand while throwing more picks at the crowd than Rick Nielson from Cheap Trick and to play Launceston and leave of my own free will without being escorted.
One day left before the apocalypse and you…
Go to the Tote and wait for the fuss to pass with the other cockroaches. Then walk around picking up loose change like it’s New Year’s Day.
When’s the gig/release?
Tuesday November 19 at The Residence for Melbourne Music Week launching our new single Diminishing Returns out through Poison City Records.