With tickets to the first Melbourne show being snapped up for Two Gallants and Deer Tick extremely fast, a second show was announced at Northcote Social Club. Deer Tick and Two Gallants head off around the country on a co-headline tour stopping off in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.
Their new album ‘The Bloom And The Blight’ is out now on Warner and we caught up with Tyson Vogel to chat tour van munchies, dinner parties and food on the road, as Two Gallants kick off their tour with Deer Tick this weekend. You’ll find the full tour details here:
What were your food influences when you were growing up and what kind of food did you eat at home or with your family?
I grew up lactose intolerant, so my palate was very limited as younger person. our family ate healthfully, in moderation, chicken and turkey mostly, with the occasional red meat addition, salads, vegetables prepared in different forms. My mother is natural in the kitchen, i think that her guidance has given me a mature palate with breadth.
What dish or cuisine do you most like to eat on tour and why?
Touring is not the easiest environment for a well balanced belly of health, but we try to eat as locally and organically as possible… any meal is a gift. I think when you can find a big healthy salad with any ingredients from fresh lettuce, spinach, kale, beets, nuts, tomatoes, carrots, avocado, broccoli, cauliflower and/or onions, and a strong
but subtle dressing… it is always a bit of special occasions. Most of the places we have played are inclined toward fried food… some greens are a bit of a novelty.
When you tour overseas, what food from home do you miss the most?
Vietnamese Food.
What’s your signature go to dish to cook?
Cook Salmon in a red wine reduction, bok choy or broccoli, served with warm quinoa.
Imagine for a second you can request anything on your rider for your upcoming tour in Australia, what food do you put on it?
Aborginal food.
What are your favourite tour van munchies?
Marijuana Brownies.
If you were throwing a dinner party and could invite any musicians, living or dead, who would they be and why?
Harry Nilsson and Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy… i think company like that around the dinner table would create interesting food selections that are off center, alcohol consumption in great volume and educated taste… and desert
would probably result in a fight.
If Two Gallants could invent a candy bar or lolly for merchandise what would it be?
It would be called a 2GS bar, and it basically would be a really hard chocolate bar, with soft almond butter insides, concealing a fortune with psychedelic properties to the ink of the words.
This is your last day on earth, what would you eat for your last breakfast?
My mothers minestrone soup….
