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The Convicts are a five-piece melodic punk / rock band from the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The music created can best be described as a blend of Californian 90’s punk rock mixed in with Classic 1980’s Australian rock, with a consistent and melodic feel evident throughout the music. The Convicts intend to represent the thoughts and feelings of a disillusioned generation struggling to come to terms in an increasingly desensitized world. Chris Williamson and Grant Lockwood answer our questions. 1. What was the first band you saw live? My first gig would of have to have been back in the old days of Silverchair and Grinspoon at the Derwent Entertainment Center in Hobart. Hitting the seats up in the all ages area with one of my best mates banging our heads and our chairs, drinking cans of coke to Post Enebriated Anxiety and undecided. - Grant 2. What’d you learn from them? I learnt that loud bands, cold beer, rowdy slam pits, head banging, checking out cute girls walking by, and freedom of speech was exactly the way I want to spend my days. - Grant 3. Got any pre-gig rituals? I walk around in the lane / street outside a venue and sing City and Colour songs to myself. If anyone is around to hear me they probably think I’m crazy. Having a sound check dinner with good friends is another, Grant is normally warming up screaming at the world out the back somewhere and doing pushups, Ewan is normally cutting up shirts and sweating and wetting himself with water in the bathroom, Eggy is still on his way, and Toby is normally hanging in the back corner chilling out on a few lagers with friends and the Tattoo crew. - Chris 4. What do you think the most important issue effecting artists in NSW is today? The biggest issue affecting artists today is the lack of live music venues. Due to the continual increase of poker machines in NSW clubs and pubs the kick of a drum or the strum of a guitar will soon be replaced by the ring of a poker machines free feature. Not only are poker machines destroying Sydney's live music scene, they are also destroying peoples lives and as Tim Freedman said ‘their taking the food off the table so they can say that the trains run on time’. – Chris 5. If you weren’t a musician what do you reckon you’d be doing? Traveling the world eating the strangest foods I could find! Yeah that sounds about right – Chris
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Posted Mon 30th Aug, 2010 by Sean Calalang.

Jinja Safari

As their Twitter profile says: 'Pepa Knight & Marcus Azon frequently dress as forest animals and scurry through the underbrush'- certainly an interesting insight to their personality and also to their music. Described as surf rock meets afro pop, Jinja Safari were Unearthed winners for this year's Splendour in the Grass. The duo have recently launched their debut EP Jinja Safari, and will be playing Big Sound in Brisbane and later this year at One Movement in Perth. Marcus answers our questions: 1. What was the first band you saw live? Frenzal Rhomb. I was probably about 14, They played at a small country fair, in the south of Tassie- i told my parents that i was staying the night at my friends farm, which was around the corner from where they played. 2. What'd you learn from them? I don't know if you go to a Frenzal Rhomb concert expecting to learn anything, i was pretty young so i think i learnt a few things about the male and female anatomy - But i do remember being impressed/amazed/confused by the way they could move and gyrate around the stage, while still kind of playing in time. It was a hub-juble of limbs and shapes. If you play most of your set in the right key and in time, the rest is up to the individual. 3. Got any pre-gig rituals? Pre-gig rituals include-30 mins of driving around the carpark of any venue, due to our poor sense of direction, looking for a load in area: an hour if its a university show. 30 mins working up the courage to ask one of the other bands if we can borrow a instrument lead, because we always seem to be one down every night. Half an hour tuning Pepa's Sitar, and 1 hour of tweaking with the input so it doesn't feedback, 2 hours of mic'ing up Strals percussion extravaganza, 1 minute for jacob to set up his entire drum kit and sound gear, a solid hour to convince him to leave the rider long enough for us to play a set, then we do a quick group huddle before we go on - like what you see on a basketball movie, without the natural athleticism, co-ordination and flexibility, but all the sweat. 4. What do you think the most important issue effecting artists in NSW is today? Same as always, new music relies heavily on the support of local radio stations, and small venues. They, in turn, rely on us to support them. Pay 10 bucks to see a couple bands you haven't heard before, become a supporter of FBI- Lets keep the big musical wheel a turnin'. 5. If you weren't a musician what do you reckon you'd be doing? Ninja. Or Crime Scene Investigator. We are actually in the middle of a concept based, reality children's program called Ninja-Safari Investigates. If we didn't have to play shows, we'd have more time to work on this. MySpace Twitter

Posted Wed 25th Aug, 2010 by Sean Calalang.

We Are Volcanoes

November two thousand and eight marks the birth (or for irony's sake, the 'eruption') of the musical collective We Are Volcanoes. Comprising of three very strange, yet compatible artists, the band, whose sounds are influenced - though not entirely defined by - a myriad of genres, mainly accredits the product of it's creative work to the widely differing traits of each member. (Taken from their MySpace). 1. What was the first band you saw live? Jacob: I Killed The Prom Queen Dean: PVT and Sigur Ros. Tim: Philadelphia Grand Jury, everything before that was dead 2. What'd you learn from them? Jacob: I learnt that a lot of entertainment does not have to come from the band (directly) if the crowd is active enough. I also learnt if you're a gig-attendee planning to dive into the crowd from atop a 5m tall speaker stack, make sure the crowd is willing to catch you. Dean: A couple of sweet drum beats. Tim: They taught me the importance of a good performance, pretty songs are nice, but the majority of people want to see someone eat a microphone and almost die, I know I do! 3. Got any pre-gig rituals? Jacob: I haven't been to enough to develop any! But alas I am young and the HSC is almost over! Dean: Shave & tap my testicle. Tim: I spend a few minutes laughing at dean because he only has one testicle. 4. What do you think the most important issue effecting artists in NSW is today? Jacob: Bass player leprosy of sorts; causing bassists to lose use of their fingers, particularly on their right hand! Bassists are using picks! I think it's becoming an all too common! Dean: The ever-changing face of the music industry. Tim: Making a living off music is difficult in NSW, that’s what the veterans tell me anyway, I am not educated enough to give you a resolution, but the masses need to be told there are alternatives existing right underneath their noses. Lil John ain’t bad ass, we’re bad ass. 5. If you weren't a musician what do you reckon you'd be doing? Jacob: I would have traveled to Russia (something something) and taken up bodybuilding. Dean: Being a captain of industry, the engineer. Tim: I would be playing the drums, get it?! MySpace

Posted Fri 13th Aug, 2010 by Sean Calalang.

Super Florence Jam

Sydney rock band super FLORENCE jam are a volcanic mixer that's two parts guitar, four parts vocals, two parts bass, one part keys and one part drums. But there are only four of them. Made up of Adam Krawczyk on vocals and guitar, Laurence Rosier Staines on guitar, vocals and Casio, Mike Solo on drums and Alex Tulett on doubleneck bass, they've bashed out songs in styles ranging from blues, to progressive rock, to punk, to funk (not necessarily in that order) before emerging with their latest lick: the single “Anastasia Won't You Sleep With Me”, a blistering fireball of garage rock crunch, backed up by two songs that extend the frenetic sexual urgency to levels not heard since Little Richard. Alex answers our questions.: 1. What was the first band you saw live? Of any significance - The Who. 2. What'd you learn from them? That I hope I die before I get old. 3. Got any pre-gig rituals? I personally listen to Kanye West's magnum opus "The Good Life" featuring T-Pain. It gets me into a real Next Level Zone. 4. What do you think the most important issue affecting artists in NSW is today? A lack of good songs. 5. If you weren't a musician what do you reckon you'd be doing? Critiquing other musicians - haha just kidding, I do that all the time anyway! I'd probably exercise, that looks like it could be a good time. Website MySpace Twitter YouTube

Posted Fri 6th Aug, 2010 by Sean Calalang.

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Stay at home dad, maybe running an ebay store on the side.

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