Ten bands everyone should know about:
(Not all “bands” technically, but good music none the less) The Stepkids, FKA Twigs, Fantomas, and from Melbourne, all these mad dogs: Sex On Toast, Mayfair Kytes, Kirkis, Silent Jay, Clever Austin, Ainslie Wills, Demian, Oh and lucky number 11, from NYC, Emily King.
Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party:
The main thing you need is good friends (and lots of booze). And also smoked salmon (but only the good shit, Huon brand from Tassie is da bomb). And lots of hummus. Anything Morroccan is also the best thing ever.
Eight possessions that define you:
I don’t define myself by possessions, man. Unless it’s music gear. But I can’t give away my secrets can I? But seriously, I wear the same shit everyday. I do love my Lexus and my grills though. And my subterranean Orca tank.
Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mixtape:
Black Mirror, Mulholland Drive (and every other thing David Lynch has done, basically), The Sopranos, Nausicaa of The Valley of The Wind, (and all the other Myazaki stuff, Princess Monoke, Spirited Away etc.), Curb Your Enthusiasm, City of Lost Children, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Six bad habits you can’t escape:
Overwhelming Pessimism About How Shit People Are At Running The World (including Abbott, GUUHHHHHH), wasting time on the internet, wasting time in general, getting fatter on tour, being overly romantic/keen in situations where it’s definitely a really bad idea, overthinking everything.
Five people who inspire you:
Stephen Hawking, Alan Watts, David Attenborough, Bjork, Batman.
Four things that turn you on:
Mad Skills. You know, like nunchuku skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills…guys only want to have girlfriends who have great skills. Enough brains to have a healthy scepticism. Other things way too lurid for these pages, but not too lurid for Tumblr. But really, I’m a hopeless, old school romantic at heart; I seriously drive around listening to Golden Days radio thinking, what happened? Give me a saccharine love ballad and some slow dancing any day.
Three goals for your music:
To work with an orchestra plus some sort of giant percussion group (I imagine this gig in my head constantly). To keep evolving and make people’s brains melt at every gig, even if they’ve seen us a bajillion times. To record an album in the deepest part of the ocean…THE MARIANA TRENCH.
Two live gigs you’ll never forget and why:
Our first ever London gig at XOYO was probably the rowdiest (in the best possible way) bunch of motherfuckers ever. Holy shit, it was hot, sweaty madness, and the sang along to everything, guitar riffs included. Every heavy jilt groove felt like we were at a drunken high school party going mental to House of Pain’s Jump Around. And of course, supporting Erykah Badu in Columbia and Detroit was a huge, huge honour.
One day left before the apocalypse and you:
Let’s be honest, I think I’d be with a lot of you here, and don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about…NO HOLDS BARRED ORGY. I mean, we’re all gonna fuckin die, innit?
When’s the gig?
We’ll be playing Falls Festival on Monday December 30 at Lorne. While you’re there, make sure you go see Mangelwurzel at the Village Stage at 2am New Year’s Day. Hotties. Also playing the Summer of Soul event as Mossvale Park, South Gippsland on Saturday January 4.
