The Kings Fool

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Source - Official Press Release

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Thursday November the 6th draws ever nearer, and planning for the Awards night is in full swing! Last year’s winners The Seabellies will open the show, and the evening will be hosted by Libbi Gorr and 1233’s Breakfast presenter Aaron Kearney…. and many more acts will be announced soon. It’s a great evening of music and entertainment, and certainly worth coming to, if only to support the many great local original musicians in our region.

Tickets will be on Sale from Monday the 22nd of September from the Ticketek website and the Civic Box Office of course.
www.abc.net.au/newcastle

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Source http://www.fatasbutter.com.au/

http://www.myspace.com/fatasbutter
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Fat As Butter is where the love spreads easy and the fun just rolls of the tip of your tongue. Committed to brining you some of Australia best dance & hip hop acts on offer. The table setting just can’t get any better, placed just opposite Nobby’s Beach & around the corner from your home, you will be satisfied in every single way. So if you can’t beat them then join them on Sunday 2nd November at Camp Shortland, Nobby’s Beach in Newcastle.

Dandy Warhols (USA) Faker, The Potbelleez, Regurgitator, Butterfingers, Ajax, Grafton Primary, Bag Raiders, The Seabellies, Beats Working, Gameboy Gamegirl, Tenzin and Timmy Trumpet, with more to be released… Sunday 2nd November General Admission $77+bf 15+ Age limited, children under 15 must be accompanied by an adult Gates open 12pm – 9pm TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE- mothershipmusic.com.au / Ticketek / PROticket Or available in store from Abicus, Ramjet and The Rock Shop.

“The Great Hauntingly Beautiful mousemoon Life, Love and Beauty Celebration Circus, SEPT 2002: 15 hours of music, four stages, 150 performers, 30 bands, circus freaks, jelly wrestling, genital mutilation and Maynard’s wheel of wispy. The Sydney Sun Herald’s Metro named The Circus as one of the top 5 live music events in 2002″.

This is my interview with Mousemoon’s guitarist and one of the circus’s key organisers Dave “Calf” McCarty on the day of the circus, which was held at the Cambridge Hotel.

 

 Mousemoon Circus Interview with Dave "Calf" McCarty 2002: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is an interview i recorded with Ben Hutton of Newcastle outfit Paperadio in 2002 for the Wet Cement program on 2NURFM, just after their song Safe Home became a finalist in the inaugural 1233 ABC Newcastle Music Awards, in the rock category.

 

 Paperadio Interview with Ben Hutton 2002: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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HAS YOUR BAND GOT WHAT IT TAKES

TO WIN THE HUNTER’S LEADING

BAND COMPETITION?

If you answered, “yes” than make sure you enter

RESONATE- The Music Industry Showcase!

Kicks off at The Brewery in August and

bands will compete every Thursday night

YOUR band could win a prize package

worth …………. $20,000

All band members must be over 18 years of age on the day before
heat 1 commences on Thurs 7th August 2008.
The band must reside in the Newcastle and
Hunter Region; between Forster/Tuncurry (north),
Merriwa (west) and Gosford (south).

HURRY…..

Entries close Mon 30 June so get them in now!

For more Information and entry forms please go to
www.eao.com.au <http://www.eao.com.au> call Me-Shell 4962 1855 or
or www.qwb.com.au <http://www.qwb.com.au> or www.newcastlemusicweek.com.au

This is a story i put together for Triple J’s Hack Program in 2005.

 

 Gentrification of The Hunter's Pubs: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Sleight of Hand Interview

Circa 2006

“It means you’re shifty bastards” I playfully tease the boys, as I ask the unavoidable question of how the band’s name conceptualised. “The initial idea came from an art teacher in high school who had a band called Bubble Juggler, who had a song called Sleight of Hand on their EP. At first I didn’t know what it meant, just like quite a few of our fans that ask us the question,” singer/guitarist Benj Axewell divulges.

“What it means to me is that it is all to do with cards tricks and hiding, and that kind of thing. It’s like, just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean that it’s not really there. It’s this underlying passion that you have for writing music and performing it for people, and creating, if you will, and that isn’t always a visual thing. Music is an audible thing, but just because you cant see it doesn’t mean it’s not there”.

After seeing Sleight of Hand in the flesh many a fan has invested in their debut EP Breathe (into its third pressing), which, apart from the fact that they can pen a mighty fine hard-rock song, can be put down to the fact that the boys gig like dogs. This strong work ethic and dogged self-belief is the reason that the guns these boys have stuck to have developed into some very heavy artillery.

In this scribe’s humble opinion, Sleight is one of if not the, best live performing band in the city. Even if you don’t like their music your attention is drawn to the energy pulsating from the front of the room. Singer/guitarist Benj Axewell especially, exudes a stage finesse as magnetic, energetic and genuine as INXS’s Michael Hutchence, or the Mars Volta’s Cedric Bixler-Bavala. If he could play his guitar and sing whist operating a pogo-stick I’m sure he’d jump at it. The rest of his motley crew tear up the stage as well, bassist Corey Porter is infamously renowned for a bit of impromptu instrument demolition as he flings himself around the stage, like paint splattered randomly about a canvas.

The Sleight boys are huge fans of our strong local scene of musicians and are doing their part to build upon the genuine sense of community that seems to be reappearing in our city, with more and more bands adopting the myspace.com friend networking philosophy. The guys have started their own little commune where they and half a dozen other bands rehearse and record each week. Tucked away in a light industrial estate in Mayfield, the boys ‘renovated’ a couple of adjoining storage sheds, constructing themselves their very own soundproof music temple, where they and their friends go to blow of steam. A home away from home of sorts.

“You can put us on the record; we all work in shitty job,” Benj disclaims. “We know we’re capable of so much more intellectually and some of us have taken the measures to pursue that in the future, but we just have such a good time in the rehearsal studio, and we have really started to get into this zone now, where we have got our song-writing chops down, where a song would take us the better part of a year to write, now we go in and whack one down and just go, ‘there we go, there is one from start to finish’ and we can work on that or we can just leave it but at least we’ve got something down and since we left the studio we have probably written the better part of 40 new songs”

That’s a lot of new material, some of which got its inaugural airing recently at The Queens Wharf Brewery, where the boys got to perform an unheard of double shift of new material. It is a testament to their shit hot stage personas. This group of individuals are obviously in the moment for being in the moment, and it is this passion for their craft that has allowed them to move to the next level; touring on the national circuit.

Sleight met their tour companions Brisbane’s This Collision, on the Myspace network. Myspace it proving the best way for aspiring hopefuls to team up on the road making it easier to line up gigs about the place. The Hands Collide tour is a three week sabbatical of the east coast snaking its way down from our Northern most capital to the Southern tip, stopping in at the Cambridge Hotel Friday the 11^th of August, whilst the new breed are not forgotten with an ALL AGES extravaganza at the Black-box on the 13^th.

The Final Salute

Sleight of Hand
Myspace Blog
05 Feb 2008

The Final Salute
Sleight of Hand are playing their final shows in Newcastle on May 3 at The Loft in the Hunter street mall and the 9th May at the Cambridge Hotel. We’ll be playing a lot of songs from both releases, some new stuff we were working on and some really old songs that are embarrassing but guilty pleasures never-the-less. Thank you to those that supported what we loved to do as a band over our 8 years together and we hope to see you for our final salute… breathe.

Sleight of Hand
Myspace Blog
09 Feb 2008

Some Further Explanation
Hey everyone.. as so many of you are wondering we thought might give you some more insight..
Yes it’s true.. we boys in Sleight are calling it a day.. and it is with great pride that we have decided to do this on a good note. (excuse the pun!)
Having played hundreds of shows.. traveled thousands of kilometers again and again..and with two studio releases, we as a band still remain very close but feel this is as far as we are willing to go..
With so many great moments and the success we have achieved it has been a tough decision but all of us are happy to move to the the next chapter in our lives knowing that we went out strong, so rather than the possibility of letting the band slide into oblivion, why not just go out with a huge bang (as you all know S.O.H. have never done anything quietly!)
We would like to express our gratitude to all of you who have shown support at this time, and during our whole career in Sleight of Hand.
So please come and celebrate our last shows with us, as we are excited to show our appreciation to all our friends, fans and peers, when we hit the stage for the last time..
thank you,
slice of ham
N.B Corey I just want to say that your execution of the English language is something that is envied and admired by myself, if I had tear ducts I’d be weeping. Well put Benj

The Kings Fool spoke with vocalist / guitarist Ben Leek, better known to fans as Benj Axewel, about the bands career and how they have grown.

Eight years is a long time for a band to be together, what do you put it down to, what are the secrets of your success?

“What do i put the longevity of our band down to? Well it has a lot to do with the people who really cared about our music, people who say to us that this song really meant a lot to them and it had touched them and helped get them through something tough in their life. You know, those comments are usually reserved for acts that i look up to, you know what I mean, so to have someone retort back to you is a really good inspiration and can basically override any financial compensation that you’re not receiving.

“And just the intrinsic value of writing a song. Last night we had our last rehearsal, and the last song that we have ever written we are going to be playing at our last gig, and Haff made the comment that ‘it is the song that we have never been able to write’, and I found that really odd because the song is called Step Into The Future, and it is about moving forward and moving on, and the next phase, and sort of looking positively to what could happen next. And to have those intrinsic factors and to have somebody, even if they are in your own band, validating the fact that what you’re doing has a purpose and feels good.

“Whereas everyone is caught up in their day to day 9-5 drawl, there is this life out there if you will, and i guess that is what you’re chasing when you’re in a band, that you’re really pushing and pursuing, and you want to inspire others the same way you have been inspired”.

So how did you manage to keep inspiring one another? Do you think is it because you’re such good friends and the music is just a side relationship to that, or did you become such good friends because of the music that you shared?

“Well, early on we used to have constant arguments, so i think its just a matter of compromise like in any relationship but not in any way a compromise that you sacrificing anything that you want, its more about how to understand others. For example i would come to a rehearsal and have an idea and then the next week someone else would have an idea for that idea. Whereas we used to arc up and go ‘no, no, no, no, no’! Now its, ‘alright well we will try it’, and nine times out of ten, with the ideas combined, the sum was better than the parts that made it.

“In order to stay constantly inspired I think it had a lot to do with finding ourselves. When you start a band everyone has their own individual influences, and after being together for so long and writing the sheer volume that we did, and you know a lot of them will never see the light of day, there is a stage where everything starts to sound like “our band”, and I guess, more so than anything, we were inspired by each other and our own music. We were constantly looking for new ways to develop our sound, a sound that became us. Everyone will go through their dull patches, everyone goes through their lulls. But I guess that constant source of inspiration comes from always maintaining that openness to other peoples ideas, not just within your band, but within opinions not just music”.

So those things that the band taught you about interacting with people, how have you put that into practice in your wider life?

“Well, you have to treat your band like a business as well as a recreational artistic endevour. The amount of stories that you hear about bands getting fucked on, by record labels, signing shitty record deals and getting fucked over on tour. But I mean with anything that you want to do in life, it’s worth doing well. If you’re prepared to work through the hard stuff you come out the other side stronger, and there is nothing more true to that than being in a band, because there is nothing harder in this world than trying to get into something that is almost impossible to get into to start with. I mean, with all the problems in music at the moment as an industry, not necessarily as an art form, you know, its already really tough!

“You have to callous the mind. It hardens you up. I find that I take a lot less bullshit from people. Anything you pursue as part of a passion you’re going to develop some kind of skill, Now that might not always be clearly evident to everyone around you, but its boiling under the surface; it’s something that you can feel within, about yourself”.

High-lights and Low-lights of your career?

“My favorite moments haven’t been from gigs or recordings they have actually been moments on the road with the boys in the car. I guess what i really like about being in a band is being able to make friends all over the country. We have friends from Brisbane and Adelaide coming down for our final show. That’s the best feeling, the friendships and relationships that you make along the way. In terms of gigs, touring with Blindside was the highlight and we were all over it. We rehearsed our arses off and it was probably the best we have ever played on that tour.

“Worst gig moments their have been a few of those, but by no means at any time have we ever tried to be clinical about things. Umm, I tend to talk a lot as you have probably gathered from this interview, I tend to get up there in between songs and have a bit of a yarn. Sometimes I mouth off and I offend people, so probably the worst gig moments are more in relation to that. Corey slamming into my amp and knocking it over, when it was brand new, like $5000 worth of equipment that was a scary moment. Playing in front of a few thousand people in Toowoomba that was pretty amazing and playing in front of two people in Wollongong. You know we have done it all, apart from your Acer arena type stuff. No one moment, but the best moments are not usually music related, they are usually band related, being around your mates”.

So its all about the journey not the destination!

“Definitely!”

And finally a closing statement for everyone…

“I’d like to share my appreciation for all of your support over the years, and to all of those people who didn’t show your support over the years and let us know rather vocally that they didn’t support us either. Both of those provide inspiration and we really relished in the reaction that our band could garner within the music community. At least it gave people something to talk about!

“And to those who are considering pursuing music as an endevour, regardless of what people tell you, with the lack of financial rewards that it usually renders, the hard work and the time, and the sacrifices, the social sacrifices that you make, is COMPLETLEY worth it, because you’re not going to take money and cars and houses away with you when you die, you know what i mean? It’s the “Rocking Chair Syndrome”.

“I’m really thankful that my band has had, and i will call it the success that we have had, because to have even a handful of people who have come to every gig and buy everything that we have put out, is just such an amazing, intrinsic high. I can look back at it and say that “we did a good thing and we don’t have any regrets”. Actually thank you to everyone positive or negative who had an impact on Sleight of Hand!”

The Final Details

Sleight of Hand
Myspace Blog
21 Apr 2008

Update on recording and last shows
Cambridge Hotel 18+
8.30 - 9.00pm: Galileo’s Ghost
9.15 - 9.45pm: This Collision
10.00 - 10.30pm: Level 8
10.45 - 12.00pm: SOH
Entry is $10, get there early for Rookie’s band GG, he’s been talking it up and reckons their shit hot, only time will tell (talk about pressure haha).
Our mates in TC are coming from QLD just to play, and are animals so get amongst it.
L8 will no doubt make you shit your pants and will drink you under the table.

MERCH - is going keep, like $10 a tee and $30 a hoodie cheap, you can also get our EP and SOMP single together at a ‘cheap cheap good quality’ price.

I think thats everything, Haff wants to play Promised land but I conveniently forgot the lyrics!
Hope to see you give the final salute!
SOH

Sleight of Hand
Myspace Blog
12 Mar 2008
What’s up in Camp SOH
Then on April 12th and 13th we are recording some demos in Newcastle that we wrote for the album, in a nutshell we can’t afford to record them the way we wished and were hoping to get a publishing deal and we will still be sending them out to various industry reps to see if we get any nibbles around winter. We put a lot of hard work into these songs and fingers crossed a company would like to help fund our venture however if this doesn’t happen we will put up a demo song to download every few weeks so you our friends can have them for your collection. Our goal is to get 10 solid tunes done to join the single tracks with our long time engineer Sean Brown.
Apart from that we are looking forward to playing extended sets in May pulling out some really obscure songs from our past and test our memories and getting reeeeaaaaaal drunk haha.
If you have requests best get them in now because we are sifting through the tunes and no Promised Land will not be getting a run, the song blows, the verse and chorus don’t even fit, if you want to listen to it pull out ’First Demonstration’ haha.
Poice Benj.
Tracks include:
- Give in forgiving^ - Education - Running with the flesh - I swore - Neighbour - Confidence man - Running with the flesh - King among kings - Internal Affairs - Broken heroes - Step into the future

Morgan Evans

2007 has been the busiest and most successful year of young Morgan Evans career. The lead singer guitarist of local punk pop rockers Solver (formerly Extortion) has made it BIG in the world of country music after taking out the 2006 Telstra Road to Tamworth competition. His new songwriting cohort, former Supersonic guitarist and lead vocalist, Mark Wells, is in this years final vying for his opportunity to follow in Morgs footsteps.

Wicksy sat down with the duo find out about their new songwriting direction and the single they co-wrote which is being released through Sony music September 8th.

“I have always thought that a good song is a good song, and that the arrangement sort of follows and sort of colours it”, starts Mark when i comment upon the maturity of their combined contemporary sound. “If you’ve got a good chorus and a good verse and it moves you, then your half way there. The lyrics can obviously be put into a genre and the arrangement can, but really its about the song and that’s the thing that gets people”.

Mark Wells

“Definitely and you see a lot of that in music at the moment with people like Ryan Adams (who the boys go to see perform in Sydney later that evening, and an artist whose material Mark performed in his Road to Tamworth Heat) who do rock, but is it rock or is it country but is it folk but is it … just good music”, concurs a considered Morgan. “And then there’s people like the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band that have been singing this stuff for years. People like Tom Petty who are rock but appeal to everyone, and then there are people like Bon Jovi who just decided to do a country album, which is awesome.

“I’ve been into country music since i was a kid and there are not that many outlets for it here in this country which was kind of unfortunate up until now, when this competition came along i thought why the hell not I’ll get up and give it a go. I had been doing a few solo gigs anyway and ended up doing really well and getting into the final and playing a song I wrote with this guy, and was lucky enough to win that, which took me all over the place this year which has been cool”.

Part of the Morgan’s prize pack included recording time in Nashville and L.A and the release of a single through Sony.

“So, the single, the big question, the catalyst for our conversation, give us the details…”

“It’s called Big Skies”, announces Morgan, “do you want to tell the story”, he says to Mark proddingly.

“I was actually in hospital at the time for various reasons and they are not the most inspiring places at times, and we had always wanted to write a big song. It was kind of a way of writing a song about getting out of a confined space and enjoying life to its fullest potential”, Mark animatedly explains.

“I think we done alright too” says Morgs adamantly and modestly. “It certainly makes me feel that way”

It sounds Big” he cheekily harps drawing laughter from the lot of us.

The chances of moving to America are longterm plans, but they are realistic considering that on his trip to Nashville, Morgan got to open the main arena on the closing night of the Country Music Awards Festival to over 35,000 people.

“This is something that just doesn’t happen to anyone, you were picked for obvious reasons they obviously thought that you were capable of doing it, so you know, these are things that have to be weighted, you have to be ready for it. How at home were you up there? Were you ready”?

“Yeah i was actually” he confidently replies with true humility. “I played those two songs which i had written with Mark and they were about that kind of thing”.

“Yes i believe the phrase was ‘let’s write a stadium song’” chortles Mark.

“We wrote a stadium song and i got to play it in a stadium not long after, I think i remember telling the crowd that. I’ve seen video footage of the performance and i had the biggest goofiest grin plastered on my face the whole time, it was great. And you know, i would never rule out the option of moving there, i would love to do it at some stage in my life, it’s just a matter of when and how and in what capacity.

Big Skies will be launched through Sony Sept 8th with the lauch party on the 29th of September at the Queen’s Wharf Brewery Newcastle from 6.30 out on the wharf. Special guest appearances may include Marisa Saroca, Adam Miller and more

www.myspace.com/morgev

www.myspace.com/markwells1

The Kings Fool speaks with The Evening Son and Light Noise

Newcastle is made up of all of these scenes within the scene. Small communities of musicians who literally band together and make music…sweet music. Newcastle has a sound.. A sound that is not all that easy to describe per say. It is easier to give reference points to highlight this description. Two of these reference points Light Noise and The Evening Son are at the forefront of a musical explosion that reflects the sound of the city both in mood and history. I asked Cain Horton (guitar) and Jared Melrose (vox) of The Evening Son about how local culture affected them and their songwriting?

“Definitely, and I think that it is very subliminal with us,” starts Cain. “The sound of the city tends to come out within the music of The Evening Son to a degree, more so for myself I feel, being born and bred here. Everyone wants to bust out of Newcastle, there are so many bands, so many good ones and a lot of shit ones as well, and I think that The Evening Son kind of oozes that tension of, i don’t know, i am looking for a better word than an “explosion” in music, but it really feels like a lot of it is about to start ripping at the seems” he shares enthusiastically.

“I hear some industrial sounds in our music, some mechanical sounds but that also has a lot to do with the evolution of who we are I guess”, shares Jared. “For me it does and the story telling aspect of our music and but when it comes to what the harbor does for it – I don’t fucking know!” he laughs.

“It’s funny I know what he is talking about because the music is very mechanical and very regimented, but at the same time given the environment of Newcastle, if we are going to relate it to that, it is still very organic, it’s real basic, it’s real minimalistic to a degree but at the same time it is still very mechanical,” elaborates Cain.

For centuries music has been identified through genre, but many have forgotten that once upon a time that these genres were defined by nothing more than geographical divide. Music, more often than not, reveals to the observer more about the artists cultural surroundings than other art form. And in an age where our culture is ever-increasingly bastardised by foreign pop-culture it is refreshing to know that some musical artists genuinely choose to reflect the primary culture they absorb, the musicians directly around them.

You will find that nine times out of ten the bands that succeed in the world are the bands that best reflect their local region in the art that they create, you know “don’t forget where you come from”.

That is why the best music is something that comes from within, the result of what is happening around you.

“I wouldn’t doubt that our musical peers from the local community definitely have something to do with it (influencing our sound). I think that you can apply that to any music scene in any city,” offers Cain. “The people you tend to hang out with tend to shape and mold what the sound is going to be like, the kind of platform your ideologies are going to be on. Not that we try to push anything hard. I think that a lot of it has to do with the relationship we have with one another. We are just mates. It’s the relationship more than anything else. More than just writing music whilst we are very serious about making music, its a really small place Newcastle.”

“I think being aware of the relationships that we have and being able to be so honest with each other. Not to feed of each others emotions but really shine lights on each other and each others weaknesses as well,” shares Jared.

Their debut single Lemming will be released sometime in October as part of Triple J’s Oz Music month with the album Blah, Blah, Blah to be released some time in Autumn. The lead single is the perfect analogy of the frustration that many local musicians feel at the world. “Its exactly that game”, affirms Jared as i make mention of the 90’s computer game where little creatures would blindly follow the one in front of them under your direction. “I used to love watching those things splat on the ground or go through the big cogs and get churned up. I see it everywhere, I see it in my workplace, I see it everywhere. That song is about pointing a big finger at the man and saying “I see you”.

As we brainstorm ideas for the film clip Jarred suggests throwing a television off a cliff to which Cain responds, “smashing any kind of technology is cool. I used to watch people smash guitars on stage and i would think “why the fuck would you do that? You could have given me that guitar”. But the more and more i get into it, I kind of wish i could just smash a guitar. Luke Price smashed a guitar last year, and I think that that is was quite possibly the coolest thing that i have heard of, that he was prepared to waste a guitar just for the hell of it. That was at The Chair gig. I didn’t get to see it but i heard he fucked that guitar up good,” laughs Cain.

The Evening Son spawned from Paperhalo, a band who garnered Triple J airplay with their three successive wins at the ABC music awards from 2002, dominating the Heavy Rock category. Vocalist Jared Melrose, guitarist Cain Horton and bassist Cameron Groth recruited drummer Sam Peterson from south coast trio “Quirk” and formed The Evening Son in 2005. Groth left the band late last year and Luke Price filled his shoes for a while before commitments with his project Light Noise took priority. Heather Barnes of The Good is playing bass live with The Evening Son till the end of the year, before she takes up a position with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. An interesting point to make and one that highlights the “incestuous” nature of our musical community.

Around the early 00’s Luke and Paperhalo were two bands that heavily influenced the progressive rock genre in Newcastle, both directly and indirectly. For instance, The Evening Son are similar in sound to Luke and Paperhalo, which is only natural seeing as The Evening Son feature former members of Paperhalo who were also heavily influenced by Luke. Light Noise are another band that were heavily influenced by Luke and it is easy to see the correlation when you know that lead singer guitarist of Luke, Corey Sleap, produced Cotton Sidewalk’s debut album Mass Transit Radio. Cotton Sidewalk feature Adam and Renee Price, Luke Price of Light Noise’s siblings.

Luke Price struck up a conversation with drummer Jae Nelson of The Good whilst the pair were air drumming along to Shihad one night at the Cambridge and from there they started jamming with bassist Joel Henderson soon after. Nelson was replaced by Damo Davey early this year.

Which leads us to the famed instrument destruction at last years new years eve gig with Silverchair at The Brewery, and Price’s relished reputation as a bit of a bad boy on stage, playfully abusing friendly and not so friendly members of the audience and even fellow band members, you know a typical Aussie bloke.

As Adam Sandler says in the wedding singer “Well i have the microphone and you don’t so you have to listen to every damn word I have to say” I’ve said that a few times,” he laughs. Well, I was told that it’s got to be one or the other, they have got to love you or love to hate you. The Silverchair gig i destroyed a guitar i bought on ebay for like $500. It was a Gibson. I had dropped it at another gig, and it was damaged from that so i had been waiting for an opportunity to destroy it, and the Chair gig presented itself. I was having issues with Jae at the time and was going to smash his kick drum with it, but it was covered in mics that weren’t his so i just smashed it on the ground and jarred my wrist a bit, but smashed it again before i threw it. The delay pedal was going mad and i just walked off stage”.

“Lately our growth has come about in a business mindset,” shares Davey. “We have started to get a lot more organised. We recorded with Velvet sound and Mastered with Don Bartley at Benchmark, his own studio, Reign Records are releasing us through MGM in Australia and New Zealand”.

“They usually got to the bands that have a strong local following, but for some reason this time they they have come to us, and we know that we don’t have a huge following so i am assuming its on the back of saying that we have supported Silverchair, we can say we have won the Brewery comp and the music itself,” says Price humbly.

I ask Price how it feels when those outside the circle start showing their appreciation through professional interest?

“You appreciate that there are people in the industry that think like you do, that encourage you to follow your heart with your music because it is just as hard a journey regardless of whether you take the strictly commercial angle. It refreshing to know that the industry isn’t as fucked as you think it is. You can go down that road and its just as hard”

http://www.myspace.com/theeveningson

lightnoise.com.au