1. Your Profile
I think we sound sort of like a natural disaster occurring, but in a good way, I hope. It’s loud, very loud. We like to see live music – you can probably find us without a lot of effort if you are in the Valley on a weekend night… or any night.
2. Keeping Busy
So busy… no time off, none of that shit. We have recorded an EP, released a single and a video, written a bunch of new songs, and booked a tonne of festival and tour dates that will take us to the end of the year. It’s been the best!
3. Best Gig Ever
I think our Bigsound set last year is still my favourite; we were on a bill with some amazing artists like Eves, Little May and Client Liaison. But we all feel like we’ll top that show soon!
4. Current Playlist
On the international scale, the new Everything Everything, Wolf Alice and Kendrick albums are amazing. We’re also really excited for the Fidlar stuff – oh, and we found this crazy group, Prayers; they are pioneering a new genre called ‘cholo goth’. It’s like super intense, hyper-aggressive lyrics and vocals with really cool gothic techno beats. They released a new album last month I think and it’s sick. Locally we are loving the new Born Lion record, The Creases’ new song is great, The Jungle Giants’ new stuff – I could go on [laughs].
5. Your Ultimate Rider
Well, we really, really, really like beer and also scotch. And to be fair, we get that now, but way more of it would be good. Once we start getting served plates of cold cuts we’ll know we’ve made it, but then who wouldn’t want some baller-as rapper rider with cases of liquor and chocolate fountains and that? The weirdest thing in our rider was actually a joke our manager slipped into it– he requested that Norah Jones be present backstage at each of our shows with a baby grand to entertain us with sweet background music. Pretty weird… anyway, needless to say we were pretty confused when Norah Jones was backstage at every single show we played.
Waax play Waywards on Friday July 24.
