1. Your Profile
Chase The Sun is Jan, Ryan and Howler. We play blues-inspired rock with some other stuff thrown in. When not playing music we like to work really fucking hard. Most of our fans are people who work really fucking hard and like to play hard too, as long as they can get a babysitter.
2. Keeping Busy
Rather than save money to record our next album, we decided to blow it all on our own studio. Now that the Gyprock is in we’ve started demoing tunes for our long-awaited third album.
3. Best Gig Ever
We’ve had a lot of best gigs, but the bestest were probably at Bluesfest. The worst was at the MusicOz Awards in about 2009. Some bright spark decided to just leave 1,000 bottles of beer unattended so by the time we got onstage at 1am it was a disaster waiting to happen. Ryan stomped on his fuzz pedal for the biggest part of the first tune and missed, totally trashing the board and removing all trace of the bass from the mix. I think we’d just won an award for something and three minutes into the performance people were just looking at us going, “I thought these guys were supposed to be good.”
4. Current Playlist
We’re listening collectively to the new Clutch album Psychic Warfare. Mutemath’s Odd Soul has been on high rotation for a few years. We just recorded an AC/DC cover for a charity tribute album Back In Blues, so the Dacca are getting an airing. Also Time by Big Daddy Wilson, and Sipping On Rocket Fuel by our homeboy Marshall Okell get a solid airing at our place.
5. Your Ultimate Rider
If we were able to request anything at all in our rider we wouldn’t know where to start. Our standard rider document is three words long: beer, water, food. We don’t always get food.
Chase The Sun,Lloyd Spiegel and Claude Hay appear at The Basement on Saturday February 20,
