Western Australian rockers Baby Animals are set to embark on a national tour with The Superjesus under the banner She Who Rocks. From the title of the tour alone, the intentions are clear. Baby Animals frontwoman Suze DeMarchi says the She Who Rocks banner came about after both acts were given their marching orders from the proposed Cheap Trick/The Angels tour earlier this year, which was eventually rejigged with Billy Idol brought in to headline.
“[She Who Rocks] was actually a band page that began on Facebook, and it sort of took off and just started gathering a lot of likes and we decided that we would go out under that banner and see what we could do with it, you know?
“The Cheap Trick tour falling through was the beginning of it, I guess,” DeMarchi continues. “We were talking – well a lot of people actually on that site and on our page as well were saying, ‘You guys should tour together instead,’and we had played before together, so it just kind of gathered weight.”
Baby Animals and The Superjesus together certainly makes for a great double bill, and DeMarchi is looking even further beyond the tour for She Who Rockscollaborations.
“I think it’s two very similar kind of bands, and under that She Who Rocks banner, I mean, it’s something that we could do every year if we wanted to with different bands who just have a female presence in the band.
“I see it as being a potentially ongoing thing. We’ll just see how it goes. It’s nice bringing other people into it, you know?”
There’s no shortage of Australian rock acts with female members – be it all-girl bands or those with one or two in the lineup – so making up the numbers would pose no problems at all. In fact, the She Who Rockscrew have called for local acts with female members to enter a publicly voted poll to decide who’ll open the upcoming gigs.
“There’s a lot of girls out there playing in rock bands,” says DeMarchi. “Well, it doesn’t have to be rock, but just women who go out there and put themselves out there a bit. We’ll see how this one goes and maybe it’s something that we can do every year.”
After returning from a 20-year hiatus with 2013 comeback album This Is Not The End, DeMarchi reveals Baby Animals are gearing up to enter the studio again later this year.
“That is the plan. We’ve started writing for it, and I’m doing a little project on my own, and then we’ve got the tour in May – and then we’ll be writing pretty much the whole of the year to get ready to record and go to the studio towards the third part of the year. We want to do another record for sure.
“I feel like we’ve been very lucky in that we had such a long break and when we did come back we found that we had such loyal fans. We’re very, very grateful for that. That’s been cool, that we could come back and we could still do shows and people still loved the music, you know? I think we’ve still got stuff to say and stuff to do and shows to do and there’s a lot to be done still, I feel.”
Baby Animals playShe Who Rocks withThe Superjesus atMetro Theatre onSaturday June 6.
