1. Your Profile

The best way I could describe Black Aces would be the ominous sound of lightning and thunder cracking over the dusty plains of the Australian outback.The sound of cracking that first ice cold Vic after a hard day’s work in the sun. It’s the sound of all the pubs and clubs at last call across this fair land of ours! [Laughs] Nah, we are just a chest-beating Aussie rock’n’roll band that love to play hard, have a drink and have a ripper of a time doing it! Our fans are just like us, people that love rock’n’roll and a good time.

2. Keeping Busy

Over the last few months we’ve been concentrating on organising the album release. We’ve still been playing plenty of shows all over the east coast over that period though. Now we are just working hard at this current tour and getting the album and show out to as many people as possible. We are really just going to keep tacking shows onto the tour and play as much as possible. Following that, our plan for before the year is out is to hit Europe hard to promote the release of the album over there.

3. Best Gig Ever

It’s hard to say which individual show has been our best over the years. We try our guts out every night onstage to put on the best show we possibly can. We leave everything up there – blood, sweat and tears. Saying that, we’ve had some great nights playing at Cherry Bar and Frankie’s. We’ve been lucky enough to have shared the stage with some great bands such as Dallas Crane, Cosmic Psychos and The Casanovas, which were all classic nights. As for worst gig, we were once asked to play at a certain hotel in central rural Victoria that’ll remain nameless. We went onstage, looked out and saw all of three people in a room that could hold 200. We then began to play. One-and-a-half songs and the publican pulled the plug, screaming the band is too loud and that the gig was over. This resulted in some choice words coming from the stage, almost an exchange of blows and us leaving with my car being bloody graffitied!

4. Current Playlist

We listen to a pretty eclectic mix. There are the standards that always get a run, stuff like AC/DC, Rose Tattoo, The Angels and Slade. We do listen to a lot of stuff that people probably wouldn’t associate us with. We are big fans of the great songwriters, people like Bob Dylan, Warren Zevon and Elton John. We mix it up a lot. There is always heaps of blues and soul getting spun at home.

5.Your Ultimate Rider

Geez, our ultimate rider would be pretty simple, just the standards. Enough piss to drown a ship of drunken sailors, seven Vestal Virgins, the soul of Mike Baird’s first born son, the Ark of the Covenant and somewhere to smoke. [Laughs] Nah, if any band member had a strange rider request they’d be exiled to the station wagon without any dinner. To be honest we are happy with enough beer to get drunk on and maybe a cheeky bottle of Scotch.

Shot In The Dark by Black Aces is now independently, and they appear at Brighton Up Bar onFriday February 19 with The Bitter Sweethearts and The Last Cavalry.

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