1.Growing Up
My childhood is a complete blur until I met my three best friends, Teddy, Pencil and Jarleth. We grew up together teaching each other Strokes riffs in Teddy’s garage while we flagged school.
2.Inspirations
As a collective I think our favourite band would have to be The Strokes. No-one does a hook quite like Julian. Although artists like The Beatles and the Stones and The Clash have definitely helped shape our sound.
3.Your Band
There’s four best buds that make up The Rumies: Pencil (vocals), Teddy (drums), Jarleth (bass) and Jake (guitar). We all met in the school yard trying to outdo each other’s stupidity for some attention. We eventually worked out that we could all play music and that’s when The Ruminaters were spawned. We all have similar taste in music that’s totally not restricted to one style, which is probably where our versatility comes from.
4. The Music You Make
I guess the music we make generally falls into the garage/psych category with a little pinch of nice too [laughs]. Over the years our sound has definitely developed and we are now writing music that best represents our direction. We’ve just completed recording four tracks with Mr. Steve Law of Sunroom Studios, a studio located somewhere between Mullumbimby and Lismore amongst a macadamia forest. Nuts! The first of the four tracks, ‘Mr Bubbles’, is scheduled to be released this week, which will feature on our next seven-inch vinyl that will be released later this year.
5. Music, Right Here, Right Now
I’m not gonna whinge about the current music scene because I am constantly hearing and seeing sick new music. I won’t deny that there are a few popular styles of music at the moment that I would like to put in a spaceship and send to the moon, never to be heard again, but hey – it’d probably fuck the moon up. We see bands all the time that inspire us, but from a live point of view, I don’t think anyone is doing it better than King Gizzard. Those guys bring a disgusting amount of energy to their live sets and that definitely encourages us to do the same.
The Ruminaters playMoonshine Bar, Hotel Steyne in Manly on Friday February 19.
