Tag: Feature
[MUSIC: Interview] Graveyard Train
“The concept of the band came before the band itself,” singer Nick Finch says. I’ve asked whether his infamous horror/country/chain-gang collective Graveyard Train have become more concept-focused than intended. “The idea was to have a country-horror band with a whole bunch of guys making a whole bunch of noise on stage and singing songs about death and stuff. It has really developed a lot since then; we were a lot more country in the early days, but we are not really now.” The band are getting set to launch their new album Hollows, a dark and rollicking eleven tracks of minor chords and morbid lyrics. “I wonder if fans are going to like this,” he says. “It’s a long way from where it started.”
Posted: June 7th, 2012 under Brag 465 (June 4), Feature Music, Music, Music - Interview.
Tags: Brag, Feature, Graveyard Train, Hollow, interview, Krissi Weiss, Music, The Metro Theatre
[MUSIC: Interview] The Jezabels
Hayley Mary, the singer and the face of Sydney’s The Jezabels, has just arrived in Seattle and is settling in for a rare day off when we talk. At just 25 years of age, she is weary from travel and repetitive interviews but still incredibly warm, and exhibits a confusion over why anyone would be interested in her that’s both self-effacing and charming. She is shocked that she is morphing, slowly, into a bona fide rock star; the personification of a band that began at the University of Sydney as a four-part democracy of simple music making.
Posted: June 7th, 2012 under Brag 465 (June 4), Feature Music, Music, Music - Interview, New.
Tags: Australian Tour, Feature, Hayley Mary, Hordern Pavilion, interview, Jezabels, Krissi Weiss, Lights, New, The Jezabels
[MUSIC: Interview] Group
Here is a band that knows no name – and as frustrating as that may be for music journalists and fans alike, they’ve got a damn good reason. “I want whatever happens with this group to be representative of it,” guitarist James Manson says. “There’s a whole bunch of really terrible bands out there that have great names, and a lot of people get sucked in by that. We’ll stand on our own, with our music.”
Posted: June 6th, 2012 under Brag 465 (June 4), Feature Music, Music, Music - Interview.
Tags: Benjamin Cooper, Blues, EP, Feature, Group, interview, OAF, Oxford Art Factory, The Blue Tape
[MUSIC: Interview] Elizabeth Rose
At the age of 21, Elizabeth Rose has already been jilted by Baz Luhrmann. “His office contacted me through triple j,” she says. “He wanted me to do a DJ set at his private house party for The Great Gatsby – but I couldn’t do it! Then they wanted me to write music for the film, in the same style as my song ‘Throw Me To The Stars’, so I got to go on the set. They didn’t pursue the song, but I turned up and saw them shoot a scene in the Gatsby house. It was so cool!”
Posted: June 5th, 2012 under Brag 465 (June 4), Feature Music, Music, Music - Interview, New.
Tags: Elizabeth Rose, Feature, interview, Laurence Rosier Staines, Music, New, Ready, The Standard
[MUSIC: Interview] Lanie Lane
The only thing giving away Lanie Lane’s hangover today is the slight wilt to her quiff. Everything else is as it should be – the bright red lipstick, the gold hoop earrings, the enviable style and those wry, striking eyes – but before our interview has even started I’m digging out the Nurofen while her tour manager runs off for water.
Posted: May 23rd, 2012 under Brag 463 (May 21), Music, Music - Interview, New.
Tags: Feature, interview, Jack White, Lanie Lane, Metro Theatre, Music, Steph Harmon, The Brag, Tour

