Truth, Beauty Love and… Korn?

Above: Korn

He laughs a coaxed, “G’day,” in a decent Australian accent, as I try to get softly spoken Jonathan Davis, lead singer of Korn, broken in and feeling comfortable for a candid interview. But the man needed no taming. For Davis, the days of conforming to rock god status expectations are gone and we are left with little banter and sad truths without masks or games.

“We were just this band having fun before we got so big, playing shows for beer tabs, stuff like that,” recalls Davis fondly of the early days with the band. But things changed and Davis admits that he has been in the business so long that he’s watched others go through the same cycle – the rise, the explosion of fame and the pouring money. “It changes people and makes them different. But, if you stay in it long enough you become grounded again and stop that crazy shit,” he says. A strange insight from the mouth of one of the worlds highest rated metal vocalists, into the music industry many mortals crave so badly.

Having done the full rotation, Korn steered their lyrical ship in sights of that virginal state of when they first started out by, “going back to the music we want to make and not falling into outside influences,” says Davis, who also stated that Korn’s recent record release, Korn 3 – Remember Who You Are is, “100 percent truly real from the heart.”

Surprisingly in making the change, Davis doesn’t feel caged by the image that the band has created for themselves. “I just sing whatever I feel. So if I want to try something different, I do it. There’s a rule when I’m making music, if it makes me scared, or I don’t know if what I’m doing is good, that’s a good feeling, because I’m letting go.” Says Davis who doesn’t like staying in his comfort zone.

Korn 3 is the third record that the band has worked on, with close friend and mad genius producer, Ross Robinson, who produced Korn’s first two records Korn and Life is Peachy. Since then, Robinson has also worked with rock god greats such as Slipknot, Limp Biscuit, Machine Head and The Cure and most recently has taken The Klaxons, under his ‘God Father of Nu Metal’ wing. “He is definitely different.” Davis says of Robinson. “He’s kind of maddening and hard but I love him. He is a great producer,” adds Davis, who also stated that to work with Robinson is an experience you would never forget as he has an amazing way of pulling things out of people that no one else can do.

Davis describes Korn 3 as, “something minimalist and in your face raw.” The band locked themselves in a little room and wrote and recorded the music together on a two-inch tape without the use of computer programs like Click Track, or Pro Tools. “By doing that we remembered how much better music flows. It has a soul of its own,” he says.

Above: Cover of Korn 3 - REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE.

Jonathan Davis has been a great many things, including lead singer and front man of Korn, guitar, drum and bagpipe player, social outcast, victim, actor, DJ, score composer for the sound tracks of films such as Queen of the Damned and The Twilight Zone, asthmatic, mortician, depressant, drug addict and family man. That’s right. The man who’s lyrics contain many themes of a tortured soul is actually the loving, hands on father of three boys, who along with ex-pornographic wife, Deven Davis, are Davis’ best friends. “I don’t really like people,” he admits bluntly. “Being a role model isn’t something I asked for… I don’t go and hang out with new people, it just doesn’t work, people always have some kind of agenda, and so I pretty much keep to myself,” he adds. Davis also states that the only new friend he has made recently is Kalen Chase who is the back up vocalist for the band.

In the peak of his Rock God state, Davis credits his boys for saving his life, when he decided to bin the drugs and alcohol in 1998 and remains sober to this day. “If I could do drugs every once in a little while, I’d do the fuck out of them,” he laughs, admitting that in his unconventional work setting he craves them every single day. “But I know if I did, I would be dead and I want to be with my children. It’s a deterrent,” he says. Giving them up was the hardest thing Davis has even done, detoxing for over a year. “Drug detox is a couple of months and alcohol detox is a couple of months, but mentally, to get all the chemicals back together it took almost a year. It was fucked up,” he admits. Davis did do drugs and alcohol before he was a part of Korn to help him deal with his life and believes that in moderation they are fine, but becomes a problem when a person comes to rely on them, or uses them to be a better person like Davis did. “I got going with this rock star life and I thought it was something I had to do to be a rock star. That’s what really started me and then it became a problem… I needed them to keep going. I needed to write good songs and once I got on them, I was ten times better.” Davis is aware that many people who come to their shows do drugs and alcohol because “they don’t think they can have a good time without them.”

The bands lyrics have been highly criticised in the past for their dark themes and negativity and Davis reads all the reviews, taking the good and leaving the bad. “Life is too short to be walking around paranoid all the fucken time,” he says. But all one must do is flick the contrast switch and the dark becomes light. Davis is a role model and pioneer of Nu Metal. “A lot of people come up to me and thank me for the records and say with out it, they would be dead. It feels really good that my music can affect them positively like that,” he says. As a father role model, david wants to pass on two core values to his children, the first being respect, the second being to work hard. “Respect people, respect yourself, respect everything. If you treat everything in life with respect, it will be given back to you. That’s a big thing with me and my boys,” he says, accentuating ‘my boys.’ The other thing is that nothing will ever be handed to his children. “No matter what they get, they are going to work for it in some kind of way,” both values are what makes someone a ‘good’ person in Davis’ eyes.

In 1999, the year Issues was released, Davis was in detox mode, he would perform shows then lock himself away in his room. Following on from then, it became clear that he could in fact write decent songs without drugs or alcohol and over the next 10 years the band experimented heavily with their records with each one of them receiving Platinum certification. It appears now that the band is much more grounded, realising they have nothing more to prove. They don’t need to conform to what they think we as fans, or others in the music industry expect them to be. But as far rock god status goes, Davis doesn’t see himself that way. “Its weird, I just write music and perform it live.”

Korn will be touring Australia in December this year, performing some shows each with Guns and Roses, Shihad and Sydonia. For more information on the upcoming tour, or Korn 3 - Remember who you are, visit their website at, http://modlife.com/korn

Stay tuned.

Stay tuned over the next week or so for write ups of interviews with New Found Glory, Korn, and Melbourne based Tom Kline. Also there will be a review of Lior’s sold out show at The Corner Hotel last Saturday night.

Peace.

15 minutes with Luke Yeoward from King Cannons

Above: King Cannons opening for Bedouin Soundclash recently at The Prince.

Photography by Nic Bischop Photography

“It’s like baking a cake,” enlightens heavily tattooed, rockabilly-esk King Cannons (KC) lead vocalist Luke Yeoward about the bands creative process of song writing. “Some times I’ll come up with something, a little riff, or hook and other times me and someone else will come up with something and we will just build on it from there,” he adds. With culinary skills like the ones KC processes, the sharp looking crew need to get themselves onto Master Chef quick sticks, after a particularly noteworthy performance at The Prince in St Kilda recently.

The New Zealand birthed, Melbourne adopted band, consisting of Luke on lead vocals and guitar, Rob on electric, Johnno on bass, Josh on drums, Mike on keyboard and the lovely Lanae on percussion, (the bands token female,) started out in New Zealand in 2008, as a group of mates and acquaintances who showed up at the same gigs. “We had a bit of a jam in a friends lounge room, wrote some tunes and that was pretty much it, we started playing shows,” Yeoward says in a ‘bobs your uncle’ manner.

KC have recently toured with Canadian, Bedouin Soundclash as their support act on the Australian leg of their journey. “Its pretty hard to find bands in this part of the world that sound like Bedouin Soundclash OR King Cannon for that matter. It was definitely a good match for us and a good opportunity to play to the Bedouin Soundclash fans. We were pretty excited about it,” says Yeoward.

Despite spending most of his life in New Zealand, Yeoward likes Melbourne. “Melbourne is wonderful, I was born here even though I grew up in New Zealand… Yes my accent is fucked,” he laughs. Yeoward likes a casual scene when he heads out, despite living in Australia’s cultural capital. “I like going to the Gem in Collingwood and having a beer there. That’s my kind of place. It has a pretty chilled out mood and the people are always friendly.” Although Yeoward admits he will never be the poster child for city living. “If I didn’t have to live in a city with people and petrol and folks doing crazy things, I wouldn’t fucken be here. I’m only here for the music necessity. That’s what keeps me in the city,” he says. With themes of serenity and healthiness running true throughout the bands songs, with titles such as, Smoked out City, Time to Yourself and Teenage Dreams. However since relocating to Melbourne, Yeoward has yet to find a nice getaway place in Australia and likes to go back to New Zealand and chill by a lake.

Yeoward got his first guitar as a gift from his mother when he was ten. She taught him a few chords then bought him a guitar book so he could teach himself. He sings about this in the song, Teenage Dreams, as well as his experiences growing up, how money was tight and his salvation was music. Once Yeoward had mastered the basics, he took to the streets, “I used to go out busking and that’s how I got my first electric instrument and started a band when I was 13. That’s how I got into playing,” says Yeoward.

Noteworthy also is the bands image. KC present themselves a way that is rarely done these days, wearing a uniform of crisp black shirts and pressed black trousers, with black dress shoes. A look any mother would be proud of and Yeoward says his parents have been supportive of him from day one, despite him getting his first tattoo at the age of sixteen. “It was a skull and cross bones on my back and was done in Taupo in New Zealand. My mum thought it was a fake tattoo and she tried to scratch it off… no parent really wants their child to get tattooed,” he laughed.

Those who have not heard music by culinary experts KC, can expect influences from a wide variety of sources, making them a band with something for everyone. “You sort of mash them all up and that’s how we have come to be,” says Yeoward. With a heavy influence of world music, as well as pre 50’s blues, rock and roll, ska music in the 60’s, rock steady and reggae right through to dance hall, electronic, hip hop and country mixed with punk rock backgrounds, it all makes for a hefty performance, or tasty cake.

“Its really important to remain open minded when it comes to music and everything tells a story,” says Yeoward, who has been playing in bands for the last ten years and has developed a thick skin from an early age. “Criticism can be taken on board when its constructive and everyone’s got an opinion,” he says. And where would Yeoward like to see the bank in two years time? The answer is simple. “In as many peoples record collections as possible and in as many different continents as possible, that’s all I could ever hope for.”

King Cannons will be playing at the East Brunswick Club in Melbourne on November the 25^th.

To find out more, visit the bands website at http://www.kingcannons.com/

Or to try a piece of King Cannons' toe tappin’, rock‘n’rollin’ cake for yourself, please visit their Myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/kingcannons

They will be more than happy to have you for a bite. They do cake for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Also, see below for a review of their recent gig with Bedouin Soundclash.

GWAR to penetrate Australia.

Ahead of GWARS long overdue penetration and beating of Australia, Oderus Urungus spoke with Miss Drew of Faster Louder ahead of the No Sleep Til festival and upcoming record release.

“We are very, very excited. I’ve never eaten hippies in the pacific before and I’ve never had sex with a great white shark either - I’m looking forward to both of those experiences.” Enthuses Oderus Urungus, lead vocalist of GWAR, the world’s only openly extraterrestrial band. “It looks like our Australian children have been able to escape our wrath for a little while. I tell you, the beating is long overdue.”

For many, GWAR need no introduction, with over 25 years of bandmanship terrorising the earth. For others, their presence at No Sleep Til later this year will be a delightful insult of the senses. Consisting of Oderus Urungus on Vocals, Balsac-The Jaws Of Death on Guitar, Jizmak Da Gusha on Drums, Flattus Maximus on Guitar and Beefcake The Mighty on Bass, they belong to an ancient order of aliens called “the scumdogs of the universe.”

GWAR’s banded, brothers originated billions of years ago, but it was not until they were banished to earth for committing cosmic crimes that the group truly bonded, enduring a series of rather unfortunate events. “There were lots of dogs. Dogs were fucked. Cows were fucked. Snakes were fucked. Whales were fucked. Jellyfish were fucked. Maggots were fucked, big maggots, big maggot pussies. Mostly apes though.” Said Oderus, by the by. “We hoped that when we fucked the ape, we would create some kind of super ape, kind of half GWAR half ape. Then we got this strange pinkish, hairless creature – yourselves - so ah, you know, we are a little disappointed with the outcome. We’re not going to fuck anymore apes.”

Upon hearing of the unforgivable act, being the creation of humans, the Scumdogs Master imprisoned them in layers of thick ice in Antarctica, remaining until the 80’s, where the overuse of hairspray was so fierce due to the rise of Hair Metal, that a hole in the ozone was formed and the scumdogs thawed. They were taught how to play instruments, got hooked of crack cocaine and since that time, they have been blood-mad, alien-undead, demon lords of the most wicked metal band in the universe!

Oderus remembers growing up, “I fell out of a womb, it was a birth in that chemical agents were created with each other and I fell out of something that looked like a pussy directly onto the penis of a clown I might add. I was raped at birth in a gladiatorial pit. Not an easy childhood, but one I have overcome through heavy reliance on sex, drugs, alcohol and music - that’s helped as well. Metal has turned out to be the most reliable form of rock and roll kick that you can get.”

However despite Oderus’ hardcore masquerade, his life is not always the Rock Star scene it appears to be. “There is a very small soft spot, everyone has their sentimental core and I am no exception, but I am trying to have it removed. Conditioning, drug abuse, alcoholism then therapy and if all those don’t work, then surgery, I will actually have my heart removed from my body.” He says. “It can be difficult. And now that Michael Jackson has fucked off, I don’t really have any other aliens that I can hang out with and have a good time. So it’s pretty much just me, back at the castel in Antarctica, creating shit sculptures and eating crack. I don’t smoke crack, a lot of people seem to think that I smoke crack. I eat crack!” He pronounces agitated, emphasising each syllable.

GWAR is known for their witty, political (anti or otherwise) lyrics, and have actually been band from areas of the states due to their debauchery. However, their artistic process is possibly not unlike that of any human band known to man, “I don’t know if we really write music so much as we argue with each other and break pieces of equipment over our heads and smash amplifiers which are costing us billions of dollars. It’s a writing process but it is also a process of gladiatorial combat.” He says fondly.

Ahead of GWAR’s thirteenth record release titled, Bloody Pit of Horror, the bands current mission is simple. “Take all the elements of gross liquid that people have inside of them, you know whether its pus or blood or urine, diarrhoea or congealed seamen - did you know that on average human beings have up to 14 pounds of impacted faecal matter stuck in their testicles alone? And what were trying to do with GWAR is loosen up a lot of that baggage.” He says. “Fly, be free!” He adds in a tone similar to that of Adam Sandler in Billy Madison. But inevitably GWAR will cause the demise of the world.

“I think this could be a sign of end the end times.” Oderus said thoughtfully. “I’m honestly surprised the world has lasted 25 years. So getting to Australia and doing all the great cocaine down there could be the one thing that pushes GWAR over the edge.” Then Oderus changes his tone. “But I think it would be a shame to have that happen too soon though, we would like to come to Australia at least four or five times.” He said. “And I want to get a blow job from a Great White Shark.”


GWAR officially releases Bloody Pit of Horror in December this year and will also be playing at the No Sleep Festival.

A Review – Bedouin Soundclash supported by King Cannon.

The Prince Hotel, St Kilda
Thursday 14th October 2010




Above: Bedouin Soundclash Supported by King Cannon.
Photography by Nic Bishop Photography



9:30pm and the support act graced the stage.
“I think they have an image problem.” Ironically joked a nearby man, referring to King Cannon’s (KC) uniform of crisp black dress shirts and trousers, complimented by stylish belts and shoes, as they opened for Canadian, Bedouin Soundclash at The Prince Hotel in St Kilda. There was no denying it. The group looked smart. Later a fellow gig goer would also say, “there is a famous quote from Anchorman that applies to KC, that they 'dressed so fine that they made Sinatra look like a hobo.’”
Heavily tattooed Lead singer, Luke Yeoward’s, alluring blue eyes peered out and met the gaze of many beaming folks as the band played through their set. Played titles included Time to Yourself, Smoked out City and Gasoline, the most notable being Teenage Dreams, which is worth checking out on the bands Myspace page. Luke later told me in a post show interview that everything from world music to early blues and rock and roll, SKA music in the sixties, to reggae, country and punk rock were influences on their sound.

After one passionately played song, Luke paused to pull out a hair comb that sat neatly in his back pocket. He combed his rockabilly style hair back off his face and then beamed into the audience once again. There is no doubt that he is a large personality of the band, but the performance of Mikey on Keyboard with his heart felt singing and enthusiastic keyboarding, and Johnno on bass, who bopped around stage with an appreciative innocence of a young child were also notable personalities in this performance.

10:30-10:45-ish. Bedouin Soundclash (BS) Emerged. The masses compacted.
It is Bedouin’s third time to Australia as a band, but for newest member, Sekou, it’s his virgin experience down under. “I love being here. I love it.” He oozed enthusiastically in a pre show interview. “I keep hearing about how dedicated the Australian audiences are to having a good time.”
Sekou played most of the show with his eyes closed, an act that in many other circumstances would be detrimental to such an intimate performance. But he played each beat whole-heartedly with his entire body, accenting the particulars of rhythms with his shoulders and used every aspect of his face. “Its like a life’s blood” he said before the show. “I definitely feel the music before I think about it. Some of my favourite music doesn’t even have lyrics in it. Some don’t even have drums in it!” He said with slight irony. Wearing a check red and white shirt, looking casually cool with a tooth pic between his teeth, Sekou soulfully felt every moment of his performance, which the audience shared by watching his own personal gratification.

Bassist and back up vocalist, Eon, must have worn hole in the souls of his black Adidas shoes as he strutted his stuff around his corner of the stage in a confident, self assured march. “There was a time when I used to get nervous.” Said Eon, pre show. “ But, I know what’s going to happen, no body else does. I am in control of the whole situation.” He laughed. Generally he favoured marching forward and back, with a little pause on the height of each leg, mixing it up with a little of the old, side to side step. “I also first feel the music too.” Eon added, pre show. “Getting my bass, using a sampler or the keyboard, can sometimes help me express things that I don’t know how to express with words or in any other way.”
He accented particular notes mostly with his eyes. Expressions ranged from quirky, “Uh-huh, damn, you felt that there didn’t you!” to honest responsiveness towards the crowds emotional participation in many of the songs, particularly towards the end of the evening.
“This guy here is the coolest customer you’ll ever meet, everything is just ‘ok, cool-bananas.’” Stated Sekou about Eon. Which shows during his quirky, jerky, kind hearted stage presence.

Jay, the band’s sweet heart and lead singer, in a black T-shirt, grey pin stripe waist coat, black pants and smart dress shoes, sung beautifully as his voice resonated around the room. He smirked in between songs and certain boyish high school charm oozed out over the first three rows at least. He also donned a delightfully worn in brown hat, “I love his hat. I have seen him wear it so many times and I was wishing and waiting for it to ‘accidentally fall onto my head.’” Said a fan post show. When items of clothing are tracked, that is a sure sign of a loyal fan. (Or stalker.)

The band began their set with Mountain Top,’ the first track of their newest record titled Light the Horizon, soon to be released in Australia. Followed by Jungle and St Andrews. With Jay airing inadvertent displays of sex appeal at random intervals.

Between song banter was scarce. “To everyone who had a birthday this year, Happy Birthday.” Jay said, in response to a drunken/drugged man in the front, which was followed by claps and cheers. Bedouin tended to let the music do all the talking. There were some initial technical difficulties with Jays guitar early on the set, causing the band’s tour manager, Nunya to hover like a hawk-eyed, mother ninja for the rest of the night, which payed off as Jay also broke another string later on, but continued to play out the song.

After a long basic drum and electric introduction, Jay sung Ben E. King’s, “Stand by me” flowing almost seamlessly into the bands own, When the Night feels my Song” as the final song of the evening, largely lead by the audience, whose attention to harmony was surprisingly and pleasurably good.

But after woman warrior cries, chanting and applause, the band returned to the stage to play a further two songs. “I’ve got nothing more to say. Thank you Melbourne.” Jay said sincerely, a perfect introduction to the song “nothing to say,” and farewell to chuffed lyric drunk Melbourne fans.



Edited version of this review can be seen at ttp://www.fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/events/25964/Bedouin-Soundclash-King-Cannons-The-Prince-of-Wales-Melbourne-14102010

An Interview – Bedouin Soundclash.

Above: Bedouin Soundclash, Photo By Nic Bishop Photography

Eon and Sekou of Bedouin Soundclash take time to speak to Miss Drew ahead of their performance at St Kilda’s Prince Hotel this last Thursday. They spoke about Jesus, the bands latest record and Milo bars…

“Street Soul.” If he could, that’s what Eon would brand the genre that Bedouin Soundclash currently falls into. Interviewers, reviewers and fans a like have been trying to classify the bands genre for years, bickering amongst themselves like dishevelled, screeching cats. Fellow band member, Sekou, nodded in agreement, “I could live with that.” He repeated twice, with a thoughtful tilt to his head. And so it would be that in the first five minutes that I talk with Eon and Sekou - two thirds of Canadian, Bedouin Soundclash, (BS) I would solve one of the biggest controversies surrounding the band’s existence.

The band have recently toured this sunburnt country of ours ahead of releasing their latest record Light the horizon. Bassist - Eon and guitarist and lead singer - Jay, have been to Australia twice already, but for newest member, Sekou, the bands drummer, it is all just a little too much. “You guys have the two step flush thing with your toilets here. We don’t have that. That’s brilliant.” He heartily laughed. “I love being here. I keep hearing about how dedicated the Australian audiences are to having a good time. In Canada, the audiences are what we call, ‘stoosh,’ they wait for you to entertain them.” He demonstrated by crossing his arms across his chest, feigning ‘sullen,’ in jest.

Light the Horizon, which will be released in Australia later this year, is the bands forth record, but first to be recorded “live off the floor,” rather than in pieces (tracking.) “You talk about thinking and feeling. When you’re tracking, you’re thinking, “Arrrgh! lets go back!” But there are mistakes on that record; I know I’ve made mistakes. But they’re not mistakes because the feeling of that moment was so strong that were like, “we’re putting that on!”

With no die-hard motto, honesty is something that that the band regards highly. Notable from the moment I shook the warm hands of the chatty pair.
“We want to be honest because at the end of the day, that is what the band is known for. Its what we are comfortable representing, its not like us to fake.” Said Sekou who replaced the bands former drummer Pat Pengelly, after difficulties within the band some time before the record.
Eon followed on, “When we first started, things happened really quickly. We began to grow really fast and our first real opportunity to sit down and look at what was going on with us was about two years ago. That’s when we decided to change it and having experienced that event, I know it’s something that we are going to do more regularly, because you can avoid a lot of issues going forward if you reflect.” He said. It is this honesty and reflection that has Light the Horizon, being hailed as the best work of BS so far, and the band looking the happiest they have been in a long time.

BS are not ones to air their dirty laundry, but before I rounded off the interview I tried my hardest to get the dirt and answer some of the oldest touring questions know to man. The first being, who of the band snores the loudest? “Jay is up there, but I think its Sekou.” Volunteered Eon.
“Oh me. It’s just gotta be.” Chimed Sekou, before also confessing, “I will say this. I will share anything… but I have a woman’s addiction to chocolate. I’m not playing,” He said, as I giggled. “It’s brutal, I will tell people when I am sharing stuff… ‘anything you need from me, money, cloths, food you got it, but this (chocolate) right here, this is mine.’” He laboured trying to convey the seriousness of his addiction, as Eon laughed louder along with me. The boys’ favourite chocolate in Australia, that they don’t have at home is the Milo Bar, which they tried two days before the Melbourne show.
“I was telling Jay about Milo and he was just laughing about the whole idea of it as a powdered drink, because he wasn’t familiar with it. Then first time I go into seven eleven, I was like WHAT? I used to take scoop fulls of the powder when mum wasn’t looking and just eat it.” Eon said as they both laugh. “And it’s like sticking to your teeth.” Eon points to his teeth, as the pair have a moment.

And if the pair could meet anyone in history, who would it be? “Probably Jesus.” Said Eon as Sekou erupts in laughter. “I’d like to see what that guy was really all about. We could go to the beach and play volley-ball and stuff. He seemed to have his finger on the pulse of life at the time and I’d like to know how he did that.”
I mention that he could also get a great pair of sandals. “Exactly. I’m sure he wore havaianas though.” He replied wittily.

As finished up the interview with Eon and Sekou from Bedouin Soundclash, each shook my hand once again, smiled at me warmly and thanked me for my time, seeming to have genuinely enjoyed the interview. We once more had a laugh over the ‘ambience’ of the interview location, which was out the back of the band room, where bar’s men were clanking empty bottles and opening doors. Then they pointed me in the direction back to the concert room, where I would see them perform one hour later.

Stay posted for full interview recording and also review of the gig.

Welcome.

Welcome to a little place in cyber space.
Work on the blog is still in progress, but please keep checking back, as it will be up and running and in full swing in the not too distant future.


You can look forward to interviews with:

-Perth hardcore band, Break Even, who in a recent interview with Miss Drew spoke about their tour with Alexisonfire and also their participation in the upcoming No Sleep Til Festival.

-Oderus Urungus from GWAR - earth’s only extra terrestrial Metal band, about their latest record titled, Bloody Pit of Horror, and their first time in Australia ahead of No Sleep Til. Oderus described the Australian accent as, “delightfully sexy.” He said, “I think it’s rad. I think it savage with the murmurs of the outback and the farting of blue whales.” It will definitely be an interesting read, so all you No Sleep Til fans stay tuned.

-Luke from New Zealand birthed, Melbourne adopted six piece, King Cannon spoke to Miss Drew from the back of a taxi on his way home from touring with Canadian Bedouin Soundclash. He spoke about first tattoos, his favourite place in the world and his mother, who gave him his first guitar when he was ten and was a large influence on his success as a musician.

-Eon and Sekou from Bedouin Soundclash spoke to Miss Drew pre gig last Thursday about Milo bars, Australian audiences and their admiration of the Australian “two flush” toilet system. Cool, calm and excited for the show, their down to earth honesty made for an interesting interview and a great write up.

You can also look forward to a review of the recent Bedouin Soundclash gig opened by King Cannon at The Prince Hotel in St Kilda this past Thursday.


Tired little rock’n’monkeys are currently chained to their laptops with headphones, leads and recording devices working very hard to get the blog on its gritty feet.

So stay tuned for the above promised and much more.

PEACE and DASIES