1. Growing Up

My grandfather was a guitar player/band leader and my aunty was a guitar teacher who gave me my first guitar at age 5. This was a juxtaposition to home life, where my mother played Nana Mouskouri albums and brief visits from my father yielded gifts like albums from The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. All could have been lost until I found a Rolling Stones single at a fete and then discovered The Sex Pistols.

  1. Inspirations

My early favourite musicians were John Lydon and Suzi Quatro, for their attitude and the rawness of their music, and later on it was acts like Swervedriver & Sonic Youth that inspired me to explore more with song writing.

  1. Your Band

She’s The Driver were originally a fuzz rock two piece, with myself and Steve (drums) having previously played in Melbourne band Violetine. We released three albums as a two-piece, until friend and bassist Joe Golotta thought we needed to expand the sound and joined us in 2015 to record our last two albums with us. We’ve worked with some great producers along the way like Greg Wales, Paul McKercher, Wayne Connolly and Woody Annison.

  1. The Music You Make

We recorded our debut album on The Hawkesbury River with good friends Cal Orr & Wayne Connolly and mixed in Melbourne with Greg Wales. Following this, we’ve completed 4 albums at our studio in South Melbourne, Black Garage Records, and have enlisted various producers to mix. As a live act, we’re a bit rougher round the edges than our recordings; sometimes you have to compensate polish for energy!

  1. Music, Right Here, Right Now

I’m not too sure of how the music scene is anywhere at the moment, as we seem to operate outside of it, just getting gigs with friends and through our label Laneway Music. Any spare time is spent selfishly in our own little bubble writing music and working with young bands. The best bands I’ve seen lately are ones that I’ve worked with like Mallards or Buzz & The Pickups, but like a lot of good music, maybe no one will ever hear of them!

She’s The Driver perform with Anatomy Class at Waywards Newtown on Friday June 9.

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