1. Your Profile
We sound like a sloppy-dressed cowboy drew his piece at dawn, fired a warning shot into the Senate, and announced that Eden-Monaro is God’s country. Or you could just call it alt-rock. We enjoy spending quality time with each other, which is slightly harder for us than some bands cause we’re spread four hours across the New South Wales coast. We also like playing tennis, touring as much as possible, plus a bit of political discussion here and there.
2. Keeping Busy
We’ve just finished recording our new, as-yet-untitled record last month, at Gigpiglet studios in Redfern. Ben Moore from Harvest Recordings produced it and we had such a sweet time! Can’t recommend those guys enough; the studio’s awesome, especially if you dig some pig aesthetics. Now we’re keen for the rest of 2015, and excited to be touring the east half of Australia again this August.
3. Best Gig Ever
Tough call, but I guess we would go with playing with The Smith Street Band, Pup, Great Cynics and Apart From This in our hometown of Batemans Bay back in February. That was a special one, being part of such a great lineup and partying with all our friends! The worst gig ever was our first one, no brainer. We were underprepared, had a pretty sizeable turnout and the power cut out onstage two songs into the set. It wasn’t the easiest introduction to the whole live music thang for our (then) brand new frontman, Jesse.
4. Current Playlist
At the moment we’re loving The Bennies, Jeremy Neale, Caribou, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, the new Alpine, and the new Modest Mouse.
5. Your Ultimate Rider
Depending on how broad your parameters are, and keeping in mind that we consider ourselves lucky to be given anything at all, our ultimate rider is three chilled beers and one Long Island iced tea, served atop an electoral ballot box by Christopher Pyne, wearing nothing but a manic smile. Although there was that time when our bassist Kai thought he’d scored himself a nice bottle of pinot, but we’re pretty sure we accidently thieved the Sticky Fingers stash.
Latham’s Grip play Frankie’s Pizza on Sunday August 2.
