There are species of shark that remain pregnant for close to four years.

As gestation periods go, that leaves elephants in the dust, and we paltry humans don’t even make it into the finals. But our creative progenies are different stories, and spending several birthdays on a single release is no rare feat. Debut album Crashing Into The Sun is still a few months away, but Hey Geronimo have been building towards this moment for years. Frontman Pete Kilroy talks us through the video for latest single ‘Boredom’.

“It took maybe four or five takes,” Kilroy recalls of the clip that features a who’s who of Brisbane music, and plays out as an homage to TISM’s ‘Thunderbirds Are Coming Out’. “By the end it was a case of everyone slowly getting the shits. I did that classic thing of telling everyone it’d take an hour, and after two hours people were starting to check their watches. Everyone was still in a good mood, but we’d run out of beer after the first take. The second-last take was decent, but we wanted to try one more time because it had to be timed perfectly. I said, ‘Boys, for God’s sake, we need to get this right.’ But mostly, everyone was just happy to be there. We had a lot thanking us for just inviting them at all – everyone was really happy to be in this community. It’s funny. There were a few bands that never returned our calls, so, into the black book with them! Some of the people who helped us out, like the dudes from Sheppard, we were almost surprised at how generous they were.”

Kilroy laughs. “Somebody asked, ‘Why do we have to have TISM in there?’ And it’s cause otherwise we’re just stealing someone else’s idea and we’re basically c**ts. If they’re in there, it’s OK.”

Hey Geronimo’s debut will finally be unveiled on Friday July 1, though you can catch their upcoming gig at the Hotel Steyne for a taste of what to expect. It is an album over three years in the making, and has seen a lot of change as their sound and lineup has evolved. Now that the work is done, however, Kilroy and co. are already champing at the bit to see the next project gain momentum.

“By now, anything that could have been changed about it has been changed. There’s well and truly a full stop on it. Whatever anxiousness was there is gone. There are certain things we agonised over, like the art, but we’re just happy for it to come out. I’ve been told I’m not allowed to speak about this, but we’ve already started recording the next record. We’re been really looking forward to this coming out, and it’s really something that’s as good as it can be. As good as we can make it. And what else can you do? You get to a point where you have to let go, and we’ve already passed that.

“This album is a bit of an evolution, cause it’s been a couple of years in the making. There were songs that were written years ago, and some more recently, and they do tie together. But it is an evolution of the band, which is kind of what a debut album is supposed to be. It’s like a foal that’s still stumbling before it walks. If the foal can walk in a straight line, then everyone gives it a thumbs up. I think our foal is alright, I don’t think it’s going to fall over. It’s like a ‘best of’ album, but at the start of our career instead.”

Hey Geronimo’sCrashing Into The Sun is out Friday July 1 through Chugg. Catch them at Moonshine Bar, Hotel Steyne, Thursday April 21, withTwin Haus.

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