1.Growing Up
I learnt from a pretty young age that life is short and to not sweat the small stuff, so music was always an escape growing up. Seeing Metallica as a 14-year-old was my initiation into the world of rock’n’roll. From then on everything else took a back seat and I spent most of my time listening to music and going to see bands.
2.Inspirations
As a band we are all inspired by different things, which gives us a good range of styles across our songs. For me though I was blown away by Queens of the Stone Age and The Brian Jonestown Massacre more than any other music in recent times. Both bands still put out albums better than anything else out there, and if I only had all their albums to listen to for the rest of my life I’d be happy(ish).
3. Your Band
Kane McBride (guitar), Warren Bridges (drums), Tommy Spillane (bass). I would follow them into the mists of Avalon.
4.The Music You Make
We love to play rock’n’roll with a dark and dirty vibe that gets you off your arse and makes you wanna howl at the moon. We love playing live and have a bunch of new songs to try out at our upcoming shows before we hit the studio to record our debut album.
5.Music, Right Here, Right Now
I miss the danger in music and I don’t think that radio takes risks on guitar bands anymore. The songs that are spoon-fed to the masses are very music by numbers and rock’n’roll barely gets a look-in. There is a hell of a lot of good music out there, but not much of it makes it to the mainstream, which is a shame. Give me like-minded people with a hunger in their hearts and an instrument in their hands bashing out songs for the sheer joy of it and I’ll listen to whatever you got.
The Zoo City Lads play the Gallery Bar, Oxford Art Factory, onFriday March 18.
