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?
It’s just like everything else, to quote a dead man, sometimes you kick, sometimes you get kicked. However, usually we kick.
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?
For some reason, a really lame U2 Zooropa tour poster with Bono and the boys dressed up in silver spacesuits. I don’t really know why, that was probably the worst era of a band I’m not even really fond of. I also had a small Living End poster that folded out of the “Second Solution” single.
What’s been your worst gig and why are you glad there’s no footage of it on Youtube … yet?
We once played a secret gig under the moniker of “The Trawlers”, wearing fishing related clothing, and we decorated our guitars like oversized deep sea delights. I actually wish we did have footage, but for some reason, no-one can find any.
Tomorrow’s payday, so we’ve only got $20 to get you drunk. Where do we go and what do we buy with it?
You might struggle with 20 bucks, although cask wine is very affordably priced nowadays.
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?
We’ve released an E.P called Sirens a few years ago, then released our debut album “Take Me to Town” to some serious critical acclaim. We’re also featured on a number of compilations including an Easybeats tribute called Easyfever. We have just returned from recording our outstanding sophomore record in Los Angeles.
Suppose we put a gun to your head and force you to kiss a member of another Australian band. Who, which band and why?
Juanita Stein of Howling Bells and Waikiki fame, although you won’t need the gun, I think she’s gorgeous.
Skybombers play Ding Dong Lounge on Saturday 10th April 2010.
