I was very young - very very young – and I tried something for the first time and it was at Big Day Out and Sound Garden were playing and it was meant to be the last Big Day Out ever and I was lying down on the grass watching Sound Garden and feeling [ahh] pretty good. laughs
Ideal Lineup? Wow this could take me days to go through – The Birthday Party, Scientists, The Drones, The Stabs who are a Melbourne band, Hungary Ghosts… I could go on for ever!
Fave artist you've seen at a Music Festival? Oh, when I was really really young, too young to be at a festival I got snuck in to Summersault Festival and saw Sonic You play… that was amazing!
Tips for attending a Music Festival? Stay out of the sun definitely! I’m a very very white man and at Big Day Out I got burnt just walking from our band tent to the stage… 30 seconds in the sun – so definitely slip slop slap!
IF
WE WERE HANGING WITH YOU AND YOUR BAND BACKSTAGE, WHAT WOULD WE BE GETTING UP
TO?
Probably eating food and walking around naked.
IF
YOU COULD REQUEST ANYTHING ON YOUR RIDER WHAT WOULD IT BE?
We had a cute puppy to play with on our rider for awhile, i wonder if soundwave will grant that?
GIVE
ONE OF YOUR PERSONAL FAVOURITE BANDS A PLUG!
Two up and coming bands Amely & The Wonder Years are killin it right now.
WHAT'S
YOUR MOST ESSENTIAL ITEM TO TAKE ON TOUR?
Baby wipes and Gold Bond....use your imagination.
WHAT'S
YOUR SECRET TALENT?
N/A
Send
this to my mate
The Fray
Posted 29/12/2009
If we were hanging with you and your band backstage, what would we be getting up to?
We do this stupid… I don’t know what it is. It’s where you put your hands in the middle and do this little cheer on three. (laughs) It’ll change every night. Usually it will be nerdy and dorky. We’ll see what’s happening in that moment. We’ll do a call out and then we’ll yell… we’ll all do it. We do really nerdy stuff.
If you could request anything on your rider what would it be?
Usually there would be chocolate. I’m addicted to chocolate. I’d be eating that. There’d be red wine.
Give one of your personal favourite bands a plug.
Woo. Actually there’s a new band called Vedera. They’ve got a female singer, kind of 90s inspired. I just find it refreshing. Nowadays it’s all about the pop female singer with crazy stuff going on. That’s a good, melodic rock n roll band.
What's your most essential item to take on tour?
I’ve got to take an extra cell phone charger. I always leave my cell phone chargers in the hotel room. I usually have about three or four in my bag. And extra socks. You get dirty socks and there’s nothing like putting on a dirty sock. You look in your bad and there’s this old pair from last week and you have nothing left. (laughs)
What's your secret talent?
I’m a mad ping-pong player. I’ve got to say I’m a self-proclaimed ping-pong warrior and I typically will have tournaments at my house. I have a machine that serves me balls…like a baseball thrower, a ping-pong thrower and I just hit it. I’m kind of a geek when it comes to ping-pong.
AND... Where are we best to stalk you: MySpace, Facebook or Twitter? Which one's updated the most?
I think twitter is probably the best right now. That’s a unique way of connecting with people. I’d pick twitter.
Down With Webster
Down With Webster a 7-member, genre-bending, musical juggernaut draws on disparate influences to create a wholly original musical feast. Their chaotic live shows are the stuff of local legend, selling 1000+ tickets as headliners in their hometown of Toronto as an indie band before ever releasing a single or video.
The band writes, produces and performs all of their music, garnering attention from industry veterans as varied as Timbaland and KISS front man Gene Simmons, both of whom wanted to sign the band to their respective labels. DWW won the Rogers Mobile/Universal Music best unsigned artist in Canada contest in 2008.
