Name/Band: Felicity from HOY.
Ten bands everyone should know about:
The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Radiohead, Blur, The Beastie Boys, Portishead, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, The Dirty Three, The Go-Betweens.
Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party:
D’Affinois cheese, extra virgin olive oil, green olives, boquerones, rosemary scacciata, duck confit, coleslaw, potato gratin, tart tartin, clotted cream.
Eight possessions that define you:
My 1950 Otwin parlour guitar, my Martin acoustic guitar, my flared jeans and leather boots, eyebrow brush, a 1975 edition of Baudelaire poems, my notebook, my marble pastry board.
Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mix-tape:
Johnny Stracchino, Betty Blue, Cool Hand Luke, The Cars That Ate Paris, Star Wars (the original), The Never Ending Story, The Man from Snowy River.
Six bad habits you can’t escape:
Reading crime stories backwards, buying luxurious food items like 1,000 year-aged balsamic vinegar when I can’t afford to, stealing grapes from supermarkets, foraging the local tip for old fish tanks, cooking too many treacle puddings and doing burn outs in the neighbour’s paddock every time there’s a full moon.
Five people who inspire you:
Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Sr Carmel (my primary school principal), Liam and Ceci .
Four things that turn you on:
My sweetheart, Neil Young’s guitar in Cortez, Italy, Swiss raclette with pickled onions and a croissant dipped in coffee.
Three goals for your music:
To tour the whole world with our band, sing opera in Italy, …keep on rocking in the free world.
Two live gigs you’ll never forget and why:
Neil Young at the Myer Music Bowl. I was there with my best friend and band mate, Liam. The afternoon sun was spectacularly golden and it was stinking hot, so everyone’s skin was glistening with sweat and we were all so excited. Neil was on another level. It was a holy night.
Taj Mahal in at La Cigale in Monmartre. He was so charismatic and the band was brilliant and I was in Paris!
One day left before the apocalypse and you…:
Morph into cockroach.
When’s the gig / release?
This Thursday July 18 and the following Thursday 25 at The Spotted Mallard launching our first single Get Some Sleep from our upcoming record Aquaslum, due out later this year.
