1. Growing Up
My earliest memories of music are sneaking into my older brother’s room to listen to his albums. He was really into grunge bands like Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots and Pearl Jam, et cetera. From there I progressed into butchering all those songs on his guitar when he was out.
2. Influences
My main influences are bands that create huge energy through their music and live shows. I’m a ’90s music kid, so I grew up on a staple diet of surf videos and Tony Hawk soundtracks. I like artists like Radio Birdman, The Hives, At The Drive-In. I remember the first time I listened to Relationship Of Command by At The Drive-In – it completely blew me away.
3. Your Band
We’re a three-piece band who grew up playing shows together in different bands. We’ve always got along like a house on fire so it was a pretty easy transition into writing music with the fellas. Me and [Dave] Edwards started hanging out and recording music at my house about a year ago. After writing a few tracks we took them to Dave [Gorman] in hope that he’d play drums for us. Thankfully he said yes as we didn’t know any other drummers.
4. The Music You Make
I guess the genre would be a mix of garage and surf rock. We’ve all been mates for a long time so we have a laugh and talk a fair bit of rubbish while we’re writing and usually just aim to make upbeat music that’s fun to play live. We went DIY on the EP and recorded it ourselves, which was fun – a stress-free process.
5. Music, Right Here, Right Now
We’re from Newcastle and there are a lot of good local bands coming through. However, there’s a real lack of venues that will play original acts. That’s why we love coming to Sydney venues like the Oxford Art Factory and my favourite venue on the planet, Frankies Pizza. Lately I’ve been listening to local bands like Trophy Eyes, Paper Thin and Safe Hands.
The self-titled Dun Robin release is out now independently, and Dun Robin hit Frankie’s Pizza, Wednesday April 12.
