Ten bands everyone should know about:
Menahan Street Band, any band on Daptone Records, Truth and Soul records, Colemine records…MF Doom, Grizzly Bear, Hiatus Kaiyote, The PutBacks, The Bombay Royale, Sex on Toast, The Do Yo Thangs.
Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party:
Stan the man’s mixed souvlaki, super burger from Miller’s Fish & Chips, Hudson’s Peanut Butter, Singapore Sling (Singapore’s famous cocktail), 8 packets of Tim Tams, Big Lou’s Donuts, Hello to the queen (a dessert we had in India), Nachos, Godfathers Four Cheese Pizza.
Eight possessions that define you:
Danielle (Hudson’s little red car), Shebam, Hudson’s alphabetical bear chart, Super Nintendo, Doritos, starburst, tim tams and mango nectar, the shed, Shiver (our loyal hound), Bikes.
Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mix-tape:
Tim & Eric Awesome show great job, Breaking Bad, Standing in the shadows of motown, Bobs Burgers, Soul Train, Adventure Time, Keeping up with the Kardashians
Six bad habits you can’t escape:
Tim Tams, 2nd dinners, Rivets Beer from Aldi, Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act, Tim Tams, 3rd dinners.
Five people who inspire you:
Gabriel Roth, Beyonce, Pharrell, Tommy Brenneck, Walt Druce.
Four things that turn you on:
Beyonce, Beyonce, Beyonce, Beyonce.
Three goals for your music:
To have our music featured in Christmas greeting cards, for Quentin Tarantino to use our music in his films, for our music to be arranged for Greek instruments and played at Stan The Man’s Souvlaki House.
Two live gigs you’ll never forget and why:
Supporting the mighty Charles Bradley in Sydney & Melbourne. He’s an excellent performer and has a huge amount of soul. We all travelled to Sydney to see the Daptone Soul Revue and also ended up seeing The Budos Band from a mere 1m away at Sydney’s Goodgod Small Club. I can still taste the sweat.
One day left before the apocalypse and you…:
Start to work on building the largest hover craft ever conceived by man, built primarily out of records and clag, this thing should hold almost 5,000 people. We’ll rally the smartest, the fittest and the funkiest for a total exodus to the moon, where we’ll relocate and start a prisoner of war style camp designed to produce the most wu-tang Soul group this side of the sun. Check mate.
When’s the gig / release?
Launching our new album Wooden Boy this Thursday September 5 and Friday September 6 at the Northcote Social Club. Supports include The PutBacks, The Seven Ups, The Do Yo Thangs and Sex On Toast. Get your tickets from thecactuschannel.com. Wooden Boy by The Cactus Channel is now in stores on vinyl, CD and digital via HopeStreet Recordings.
