1.Your Profile
DCR sounds somewhere between 1970s NWOBHM bands like Judas Priest, Saxon, Black Sabbath and late 1980s bands like Alice In Chains and Guns N’ Roses.All we like to do is play shows and tour.DCR fans share pretty much the same traits, regardless of where on Earth they are from. They like to get crazy, do their best to drink the bar dry and have a bloody good time.
2.Keeping Busy
We have spent the last few months playing shows – we had back-to-back residencies in Melbourne along with various other shows. We just got back from a tour of Indonesia and WA – four shows in WA then ten shows in nine days in Indonesia. It’s brutal over there. We took our mates from Melbourne, Child – they are killer stoner/blues rock.Next, we are moving to Europe in March 2015. Our tour starts on the 18th in England and this time we ain’t comin’ back unless it’s to tour Oz.
3.Best Gig Ever
That’s a bloody hard one…I’d say either playing in Rome supporting Mastodon to a full house, London supporting Skid Row/Ugly Kid Joe or our hometown show at the Palace supporting Skid Row/Ugly Kid Joe. Worst show?We played on the border of England and Wales on our first tour – we played to two bar staff, no PA, I actually sang through a little practice amp. [Laughs] We had full stacks and they made us turn ’em down so low I basically sung over them. But we did get a bed and a steak dinner so it wasn’t all bad.
4.Current Playlist
Mate, the amount of killer bands out there in the world right now is staggering! Here’s but a few of our favourites: Rival Sons, Child, Redcoats, My Left Boot, Crobot, King Of The North, Gypsyhawk, Chainsaw Hookers, Scalphunter, Blackwitch… bloody hell, the list is endless.Saw Blackwitch in Perth – killer!Saw Child every night on tour, they kicked my arse.
5.Your Ultimate Rider
Before all the touring I would have said booze and women, but I’m 32 and bloody married now. We learnt after three tours of Europe that you can’t party like you’re Guns N’ Roses – you will just suck. My ultimate rider would just be decent food, a shower and a massage, maybe a wristie off the missus [laughs]. Our rider (if we are graced with such luxuries) is just water, a case of local beer and some decent food. They usually give us pizza. We have seen riders for a few of the bigger bands we have supported in Europe – some odd stuff, but man, if you make it to that level in this game you deserve to ask for a well-done whole pig stuffed with dollar bills floating in champagne.
Catch them atFrankie’s Second BirthdaywithCosmic Psychos, The Art atFrankie’s PizzaonSunday December 7.
