1.Your Profile

We are just five guys from Sydney who play thrash-pop music – a bit heavier than guitar-pop, not as heavy as punk rock, but also with real nice melodies. If a song we make hasn’t got an instantly catchy melody, it gets scrapped!

2. Keeping Busy

Over the past couple of months we’ve been really busy. Gigs are always coming up and we’ve only recently released our latest single ‘Unsatisfied’, which has been well received so far. Apart from that, it’s mostly just continuous writing, jamming new songs, creating new ideas, trying to work out the perfect setlist as well as plan for what songs we are going to release next.

3. Best Gig Ever

We’ve had a few really good gigs. When we released our latest single a few weeks ago we played at the Oxford Arts Gallery Bar. It was packed and the energy from the crowd was really good, so that was awesome. We also played with our mates The Rubens in Newcastle a few years back at Bar On The Hill and it was much the same – heaps of people and heaps of energy. That was also probably the tightest we’ve ever been live as well.

4. Current Playlist

We are always listening to new music. City Calm Down’s new record is up there, but we listen to heaps of different stuff. I’m getting into a lot of alt-country kind of music like The Jayhawks as well as listening to heaps of old-school hip hop and some old-school funk. I remember seeing Paul Simon a year or so ago and his tour manager said the only way you’re going to make an album like Graceland is if you go outside of your usual musical spectrum, and that always stuck with us.

5. Your Ultimate Rider

Usually we are just happy with beers and water; Matin our drummer always needs water. I’ve been backstage at some big venues with big acts and they have roast chicken dinners and champagne and then there are other bands who ask for socks!

The Indians play at the Brighton Up Bar on Friday November 27.

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