1.Growing Up
Nat Tyrrell: We all grew up listening to the same sort of stuff really. My old man played guitar and always had some rock’n’roll bangers by Metallica, Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd blaring through the speakers while my brothers and I were running around the house with sticks.
2.Inspirations
Joel Tyrrell: The tunes that stand out are for us are bands like Black Lips, The Cramps, Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall. When we first started playing together we always covered these bands, and every now and again we throw ’em into a set.
NT: Bands back home like Gardens and Vanilla Gorilla shred super hard, so that inspires us to play better as well. Also doing stupid stuff with your mates is always good inspiration too.
3.Your Band
JT: Los Scallywaggs is made up of the three of us. Nat and I are brothers, and Dale is our good mate we have known forever.
NT: Our music has changed a little over the last couple of years. It has definitely gotten faster and faster, which is sick because it makes the shows about ten times more fun and energetic for the people who come to see us play.
4.The Music You Make
NT: I live on a farm on the Mid North Coast and we have a sketchy shed at the back where we write and practice, record and throw parties. We had a party in there the other week and all the walls have massive holes from people throwing their heads through. It’s cool.
Dale Smith: We try to keep the music we make raw and fast. We definitely have this weird psych/punk rock thing going on, which is dope. We don’t want to get anyone to produce any of our songs, because if it’s too polished it will just ruin what we are going for with our music. DIY for life.
5.Music, Right Here, Right Now
DS: The Australian scene is great. Solid Australian bands are making waves at the moment all around the world. It makes me proud to be an Australian citizen. Bands like King Gizzard are killing it over in Europe, as well as Hockey Dad and The Gooch Palms over in the states.
Los Scallywaggs playOxford Art Factory on Friday October 14, with Crocodylus and Wolf Cola.
