1.Your Profile
Blues rock influenced by garage tones, angry neighbours and home brewed beer. We like to keep it raw, loud and slightly intoxicated. We’re all about touring the country in a van, drinking beer with our mates and smashing out some tunes. We grew up around the corner from each other, just down the road from the beach, so we spend a lot of time down there. At our shows we love to see the punters getting sloppy, sweaty and having a ripper of a time!
2. Keeping Busy
We finished the last tour and went straight into the studio. We’ve been writing and recording new tunes for a new EP, which will be released later in the year. We drove out to the bush and came back with some bangers. We recently took some time off and road-tripped down to southern Victoria with our mates for New Year’s. We’re slowly getting back into the swing of things now and looking forward to a loose 2016. Coming up in the near future will be a massive national tour and heaps of new tracks and getting done.
3. Best Gig Ever
It’s hard to pick our best show ever, as all shows on our last national tour with Dos Enos were rowdy as. It was our first time playing in a lot of the towns and we were stoked with the turnout. We can’t wait to get back on the road and catch up with all the legends we met on the way, and hopefully meet some new frothers. Our worst gig ever was when Joe nearly broke Jimmy’s nose with the back of his head, Jimmy broke a mirror, and as a result we now have years of bad luck. The locals weren’t too happy about the ruckus we caused and were ready to knock our teeth out; we don’t know how to fight so we bought them a VB, and VB makes everyone happy.
4.Current Playlist
Gang Of Youths, Dos Enos, Tame Impala, Shakey Graves… we’ve been getting back into Shannon Noll’s 2005 album Lift and are currently blasting some Smash Mouth.
5. Your Ultimate Rider
Our ultimate rider consists of quality goods: four goonies (Fruity Lexia), one cricket bat and a watermelon, six potato scallops, $3.50 Aldi red wine, one Jim Jefferies and one fishing rod. Our usual rider request is whatever we can get from the venue. Most of the time it results in us having to drink warm beer in the van outside.
El Grande plays Moonshine, Hotel Steyne onFriday January 29, with Jesse Redwing.
