With so much new music floating around the interwebs, sometimes it’s hard to dig a little deeper and find out more about a promising artist.
That’s why The Profile is breaking it down for you. The Pitch takes care of the nitty gritty factual bits, The Plot serves as a Q & A with the artist, and The Plug is where you can go for more.
The Pitch
To the unaccustomed, a gnarly, gut-wrenchingly authentic blend of late 90s garage and lumbering, distorted country/blues is not exactly what’s expected from a band named East Brunswick All Girls Choir. Songs bulging with the strain of relentless tension and commanding honesty, a tribute to the art of getting down and dirty with music-making. This is exactly the brand of music this fearless ensemble is championing.
Having enjoyed a year-long stint in Berlin following the independent release of 2009 mini album Dead Air, the now Melbourne-based quartet returned to home soil to finish work on their much-anticipated debut full-length album Seven Drummers.
The Plot
Hometown:
“Rob and I are from Bendigo, specifically I am from Maiden Gully and he is from Golden Square. I tend to write a lot of songs based on locations or things that happened somewhere specifically, it’s generally non fiction so for those who can understand the references there is definitely a lot of Bendigo in there. Characters, places, idiots and jerks.
I still go back to Bendigo to write songs if I get stuck. Melbourne city has too many distractions for me if I want to get things done. The internet has ruined my life.
Rie is from the Hinodecho region of Yokohama, I have been there a few times. Her Dad really wanted to be a rock and roller and still plays shows around the place here and there. His undying love of The Beatles has washed over Rie significantly. I’m not sure if he approves of her stoner rock leanings.
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I think Jen was born in Melbourne, I’m not 100% sure. She is part Greek and her mother once drove us to the airport before drinking too much coffee. Jen has two dogs.”
Influences:
“When I first heard Jason Molina it hurt my mind, I have to thank A.Wallace for showing me many great things over the years. Jason taught me that you don’t have to busy up your music. Six strings and a voice. I saw this show below and hadn’t ever really bothered to look up any images of him. He came out short in stature, receding, polite. He strummed his guitar and it sounded but it didn’t add up. Then he bellowed his first note and a tear almost ran straight down my cheek. I recall after the show he stood where all the patrons had to leave next to the staircase of the Northcote Social Club. He shook everyone’s hand and thanked each person for coming.
Black Dice then taught me that you could orchestrate filth, that it didn’t have to be pretty, hit notes and tones that stabbed the ear drums. I saw them when they came for one of the What is Music? Festival years mid 2000’s. They played until the staff at the corner hotel turned all the lights on, they smiled at each other and carried on. You can do what you want, just make it loud.
Also, the album Trance Gong.”
Dream collaboration:
“I feel I am quite lucky to play with the people I play with now. I dare not sully an idol with my shitty guitar playing and my inability to play music by ear.”
Venue or festival you’d love to play:
“Check out Duna Jam, I’ve never been but it looks pretty ridiculous. It may not run anymore though. I am useless.”
Favourite local act:
“Drumheller. I can do that right?”
First song you ever wrote:
“I think my sisters might have written this but it was a family song at least. My youngest brother used to have the multi coloured pants when he was three years old. It went “Smack your bum to make it clean, one side’s yellow and the other’s green”. They spanked him at the same time. That’s pretty fucking weird now that I think about it because I heard that song a lot.”
The Plug
East Brunswick All Girls Choir’s debut album Seven Drummers – aptly named for the total number of drummers the band has seen come and go in its lifetime – will be released in early 2014.
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