1.Growing Up
My household is an assortment of mixed nuts. My dad is devoutly into tango and opera, my mum loves ABBA, and my older brother exposed me to everything else from electronica, metal and R&B to rock.
2.Inspirations
Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin and Brandon Flowers from The Killers. They are both babes in their own right. I don’t know, maybe it’s got something to do with flora? When I first heard ‘Whole Lotta Love’ I shat myself with excitement. Plant’s vocals. That riff…
3.Your Band
Hurst is a group of hooligans who collectively love making loud noises and we write and produce all our own material. We have myself on lead vocals and keys, Jake Bisognin on gat, Ben Zamor on bass and Dick Dammit on drums.
4.The Music You Make
We play rock music usually written about our drummer or my pet peeves. We draw a lot of influence from Jack White, Led Zeppelin, The Pixies and Radiohead. When you see us live, you can expect to see a lot of hair, bum and frantic jumping. Music is my outlet, so I let it rage. We’re about to release our EP titled IV on October 1. We recorded it up at The Grove Studios with Josh Telford. The Beards were recording their new album in the next studio over, and I caught them all swimming in a pool together. It was a beautiful sight. But don’t tell them. They don’t know this.
5.Music, Right Here,Right Now
We are pretty surprised with how well our music has been received at the venues we’ve played so far. When we started out we were scared that we would be too heavy for most venues. We aren’t even that heavy. But when you see a girl with a keyboard and singing lead, I guess you expect something more… tame. But people are always up for something different, which is what is great about the local scene. There’s a lot of variety if you look for it. The latest local band I’m frothing over is Octavian. They have a killer sound.
IV out Wednesday October 1, independently. Catch Hurst atFrankie’s Pizza onWednesday October 1.
