We’d like to know a little bit about you for our files, however we don’t like regurgitating press releases or asking the easy questions. No-one gets out of the Tone Deaf Inquisition lightly, so just hold still, grit your teeth, clench your buttocks and be still while we put on the rubber gloves, apply the thumbscrews, and pull out our thermometer while you open up and say ahhhhhhhhhhh… Truthful answers only, or we bust out the Billy Ray Cyrus.
Everyone joins or forms a band to get laid. If your band represents your sex life are you Casanova or spending plenty of time doing the five knuckle shuffle?
I’m well acquainted with Madam Palm and her five daughters.
We don’t want to know about the painfully hip bands your press release says you’re influenced by. Take us back to your bedroom when you were 14. What band posters did you have on the wall? I never had posters of musicians on the wall but at 14 y.o. I was a big fan of Deep Purple, along with Marc Bolan, Suzi Quatro and Alice Cooper. What’s not to like about all of that?
What’s been your worst gig and why are you glad there’s no footage of it on Youtube … yet? Well, there was one very drunken afternoon show at the Tote Hotel in Melbourne. We were too fucked up to play ‘Louie Louie’. That’s pretty bad.
Tomorrow’s payday, so we’ve only got $20 to get you drunk. Where do we go and what do we buy with it? Go to any liquor store that sells o.k. “cleanskins”. Two bottles of cheap red – then back to mine to play CDs and watch music DVDs.
We’ve been looking in the $2 bin at Dixons Recycled and also bidding on eBay – what releases are we looking for there that your band has put out? Well, a fan recently reminded me about a long-lost Gurus rarity: the original 7″ vinyl single of ‘Middle Of The Land’ (from ‘Blow Your Cool’) was inadvertently released with the wrong mix on the A-side before being hurriedly withdrawn from sale and remastered correctly. The “wrong mix” version came from a session we did for John Peel on the BBC. It’s significantly different. Some people prefer it – either way it’s super-rare. No-one had ever breathed a word about its existence until we discussed it on our Facebook page the other day.
Suppose we put a gun to your head and force you to kiss a member of another Australian band. Who, which band and why? Ron Peno from ‘Died Pretty’. We’re very good friends and kiss each other all the time anyway. No tongues.
‘The Hoodoo Gurus ninth studio album Purity of Essence is out now’
Watch the Hoodoo Gurus’ music video for ‘What’s My Scene’
