Hey Sime. Curate your fantasy festival. Ten bands:
Righto. 3pm Dirty Projectors. 4pm Quantic Soul Orchestra. 5pm Feist. 6pm Amy Winehouse. 7pm The Darkness. 8pm The Arctic Monkeys 9pm The Strokes 10pm The Beatles 11pm Kanye West. 12am Daft Punk
Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party:
Nine dim sims.
Eight possessions that define you:
Guitar, surfboard, wetsuit, laptop, home, footy, car, my girlfriend (if she is a possession?). (No Sime, she is not a possession – chick Ed.)
Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mix-tape:
The Office, Extras, Wilfred, Love My Way, The Wire, 7’s Magical Moments.
Six bad habits you can’t escape:
Drinking coke. Over estimating. Playing the same scale every time before a gig. Eating all my vegies before I even touch the meat. Tipping North Melbourne when I know they are going to lose. Youtube.
Five people who inspire you:
Ricky Gervais, Julian Casablancas, Taj Burrows, Stevie Johnson, Shane Warne.
Four things that turn you on:
My girlfriend, holidays, surfing, April.
Three goals for your music:
To make more good songs, play to more people, maybe be someone’s answer to question five.
Two live gigs you’ll never forget and why:
Neil Finn at Meredith. Just his voice and a guitar, captivating and spine tingling performance.
And James Brown at the BBC studios. I watched the band rehearse for about an hour, they were ridiculously tight. Then he came out, could hardly walk, 2 girls draped the cape over him, then he started doing all these moves and belting out his yelps; I was laughing at how good he was still.
One day left before the apocalypse and you…:
Have a barbeque with my family and mates all day and listen to that keyboard intro on Still Dre. The cling cling cling one. Would love to find that sound.
When’s the gig / release?
We are playing at the Toff on Saturday August 13. We are being supported by a really good artist called Myles Mayo. We would love to see you all there.
