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Sticking True To Yourself With BENNY WHISKEY From THE FINAL FALL · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hey guys, are going Betty Whiskey here from the Final Fall. We've got
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  a brand new release coming out with a film clip called sold and yeah,
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  pretty excited to do it all again with Heavy mag Beautiful Betty, Good to
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  see you smile and face again. Runner. Yes it's his man always as
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  you say. The final four are premiering in new songs Sold are Selling Out
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  Part two through Heavy at four pm on May tenth. So tell us a
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  bit about the song musically, bro, Yeah, so it's it's a bit
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  of a journey. If you've had our music obviously, it's a lot of
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  punk and metal and a bit of hardcore and there, and this one we
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  once again just wanted to push the boundaries. It's actually the sequel of one
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  of our songs we wrote about a decade ago called Selling Out, and the
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  same with that one, just pushing the boundaries musically and lyrically. Yeah,
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  it's almost I guess sort of that off the aim sold selling Out sould We're
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  just trying to keep the same sort of sequel going. But yeah, just
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  in a short note, just don't sound on your friends or your family,
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  because yeah, that's that's what gets you through life. So now she's an
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  interesting track, mate, We're just over a minute of jamming at the start
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  before the vocals keep in, Like, I actually thought it was going to
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  be an instrumental there for a while. Yeah, that's I guess that comes
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  back to the music, because again, we wanted to do a song that
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  doesn't go verse well into a verse chorus, into a verse chorus, you
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  know that that sort of cliche way to write a song. That's a bad
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  way to put it. But this one, yeah, a bit of a
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  solid intro, which, yeah, it goes through a couple of different journeys
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  through punk and hardcore and metal. And then the main thing with that is
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  there's only really one piece in the music that repeats itself. That's kind of
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  why we did it together. Which finder like songs like I'm sure Propaganda have
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  a few, but the one that comes to mind is Linoleum No Effects.
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  It's one of the best songs ever written and there's no chorus, which is
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  just amazing. So we yeah, sort of got a few ideas off that
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  and just just roll with it to see what we come up with. Well,
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  as you say, man, like you've explored a number of different genres
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  in the one song ranging from punk to hardcore to rock to metal. Could
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  he run us through them all then tell us how they actually fit in with
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  your sound? Yeah? I guess that comes comes from our roots, because
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  yeah, I grew up with a punk and hard cale and Paul he did
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  and called metal beans back in the day, and just yeah, taking it
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  back to where we first met all them years ago and started jamming, and
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  I come up with riffs that I think are punk rock, and then he
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  just plays this huge sort of metal bed I guess. And then that's just
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  how things happen. It's just so easy now we sort of know each other
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  inside out, and he makes Yeah, he makes the rifts even heavier than
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  I guess they are. Like you said, there's a lot going on there
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  bro So and then the writing process, like how difficult is it to get
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  the balance right of all those genres? And like how do you know when
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  you've gone too far with one on not far enough with another? Is it
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  trial and error or do you just do you just know? Jam? And
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  I would say to every bend, just jam out the bits and you know
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  yourself. If like we didn't really have trouble with that, we had it
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  you know, we spent a few weeks, a few months, right,
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  and then I guess, yeah, there was a lot of shopping. I
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  think the hardest bit is getting the chopping changes that some work, some don't,
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  and just finding that balance so it's not all just sort of dropping into
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  each other. They mentioned that this is a sequord of the song that first
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  came out back in twenty eleven, I think, and it was just called
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  selling Out. So thirteen years a long time between drinks, bro Like,
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  how did the songs connect? Do they connect musically? Do they connect lyrically?
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  Do they connect not at all? Yeah? It a bit of both
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  there, because obviously we didn't break up sort of or was it eight nine
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  years ago? I just I just went overseas for a bit of a stint,
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  and yeah, coming back, tried a few different things with music and
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  then always best made with the boys and as funny as as soon as we
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  got back together a few years ago, that was almost the topic, should
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  we do it? It's just our favorite song. I don't know why it
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  just stuck out on the on the record we did back then and selling Out,
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  and I suppose we wrote sort of three four songs and that was maybe
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  fourth, and we're like, right, let's let's try and do a sequel
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  to this, And basically, if you listen to that song, the last
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  breakdown piece, that's the start of this song. So we sort of tried
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  to yeah, great, great a sequel because, as you know, some
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  some suck. That's mainly that's mainly movies when it comes to music. I
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  think, is it's cool. I mean, I'm trying to rattle off a
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  few bands. I'm sure between the Barrider and me have done that a few
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  times. A lot of bands haven't. I think it's awesome because if you
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  like that song, then it's definitely gonna like the sequel too. You know,
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  there could be more, who knows, we might see, but yeah,
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  lyrically it's yeah, just open up another another page of the book of
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  selling Out and just yeah, just just pushing all the all the ideas we
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  have with that song. Fucky is it? Guys are slow readers. If
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  you talk about turning the pages of book like it took me thirteen years to
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  turn one, fucking yeah yeah, I mean yeah, that's just life.
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  It goes quickly. Tell us a bit more about the final four man like
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  you returned after a ten plus year absence last year with a single the pm
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  A Effect, and you find that up earlier this year with Live every Day
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  or Live every Day. But what's the back for those who aren't familiar with
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  the band. Yeah, so yeah, Live every Day that one. It
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  is confusing every time. Yeah, it's yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
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  it does stay ten years, but you know, we're together before that,
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  before we started releasing, So I think we we just spent a year
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  writing new stuff and then yeah, it's only sort of been the last couple
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  of years. We've sort of come out of the shell and start doing shows
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  again and yeah, having an awesome time and a couple of its ten years
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  that's pretty crazy, But I think it's just, yeah, we we were
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  together. We just hadn't really released an egle done any shows. But yeah,
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  just that little quick trip to London and I did sort of nine years
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  ago and sort of stuffed it up for the boys. But well, speaking
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  of that poorly that basically travels the world every month, so yeah, he
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  lives a bloody good life. That sounds like right now. The music world
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  would have changed a hell of a lot in the time from when you started
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  to when you started releasing music again. So did you find a difficult slotting
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  back in as a band with so many changes? Oh? Yeah, I
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  guess so. I mean that excuse me back where we started, Well,
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  yeah, not even the internet was really popping at that stage. I think
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  that was even pre MySpace or whatever it's called. And yeah, we're sort
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  of used to pushing ourselves as the way word of mouth. And again I
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  don't do too much, but there was a lot more music ben news back
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  then, cure pop, you know, there was just there was so many
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  more places to play. And yeah, and that sounds I think it's harder
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  on the show side of things. And as far as recording goes and pushing
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  out there, it's actually a lot easier with the internet now to get your
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  music out there, which is which is a cool thing. Wait, now
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  it's selling out part too, part of a bigger picture made? Or is
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  it just a sand load single? On this stage? Oh, if Clinton
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  was there, he would probably say that we're going to do ten more.
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  So we we did recorded three or four songs and that I don't know,
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  that just stands out even in the studio, got pretty emotional. That's crazy,
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  how you just I don't know, you hear a song and you get
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  goosebumps, but when you're when you're physically singing it, sometimes I just hit
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  you and yeah, that that one got me good in it. I just
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  knew. I just thought that's gonna be my favorite song, and yeah,
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  it definitely is. So for now, we're just going to be running through
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  the singles and see what happens. That's it, mate. Yeah, well,
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  yeah, there's talk of we've already we've already written probably oh three three,
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  yeah, maybe three new songs and a couple of old riffs that sort
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  of got wasted. Yeah, which is kind of nice, just to say
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  they're going to see the light, which is cool. So we're probably gonna
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  look at, yeah, our first actual EP release or I don't know if
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  you call it AP album probably not, I don't know, but yeah,
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  that'll that'll probably come out next year, I reckon. That's that's the plan.
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  Very sweet. I'll see you've been playing a few live shows so too,
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  maye, like, how have they been so good? So fun It's
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  just funny enough if you've been around the scene long enough, a lot of
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  bands are still actually doing it and it's good to see. Yeah, good
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  to see friendly faces and people still getting out there to support because it can
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  be very hard at times. But yeah, the the punkin and well especially
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  that of course scene is just popping off right now, which is awesome.
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  So yeah, it kind of makes life easy doing shows. And we've got
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  some really good ones coming up this month, actually, yeah you have.
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  Speaking of those, you've got two coming up at Vinnie's Dive Bar on May
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  the sevent eighth, and made the twenty second. One of them's are again
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  with a few Southern bands and No Quarter, Gold Coast too, friends with
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  the Animal and out of Control, but on the twenty second it's a pretty
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  big support for you, mate. Tell us about that huge mate, Yeah,
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  I wish I had the shirt, but I haven't got one. Couple.
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  Yeah, So yeah, lords, absolute lords of the punk industry.
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  Belvedere just absolute shredding band. We get a huge, huge inspiration from these
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  guys and just they pushed the boundaries musically and and these vocals are just amazing,
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  and yeah, we're very very honored to be supporting these guys with legends
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  from Perth to Decline. Shout out the pat. I don't know if you
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  help out there with thanks mine. Yeah, just to you know, an
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  absolute shredding Conani band. And then the Decline is just Aussie punk legends.
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  You know, it's still like living in and friends will have done a lot
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  of shows with them, but still going. So hats off to those guys.
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  And then you've got one on the eight eighth of the Punk and Pain
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  Flash, which is a bit of a tattoo convention from what I can Yeah
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  again, just you know, we're just sort of excited to do some shows
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  and definitely something different. So the boys resident I've known a few years,
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  they're legends and Big Jimbo yeah started putting some really cool things on there,
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  and yeah we're stokes to play that with. My good old friend English is
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  a new band, Black Black Vatican Desk Squad, probably the best name I've
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  ever heard. Where's that one? That bro? I couldn't couldn't find a
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  location for it? What's that means? Someone that I couldn't find a location
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  for it? Oh? So iron A resin in corumb It's awesome. The
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  boys love Hope Rods and Harley's and bikes and just good coffee. And yeah
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  they've got a bar which is great, you know, a beer two and
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  watch them my music. Just it's a cool place and yeah birds are fake,
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  they're really cool to that. They're on the bill as well, so
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  very cool. Tattoos come and get tatted fucking more? Can you want today?
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  Then? Looking forward, you've got Rock Beats Depression at the Mansfield Tabnent
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  on September seventh too. That's always a good cause. But there there's a
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  lot of good bands playing there this year. Good bands, mate, Yeah,
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  I can never she had out enough to Katie. She's an absolute legend
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  and yeah, I cannot imagine it's hard enough to put on one show with
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  four or five yeah, that many bands and four of course too. There's
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  a lot of work that's good on you, Katie. Yeah, Rock Beats
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  Oppression, Yeah, really good mix of punk, metal, hardcore and and
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  whatever else is on the bill. So yeah. Oh and I noticed looking
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  through your Facebook page there's links to all of those shows on there where people
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  can buy chickens and find out more information. So is that the best place
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  to hit you up on your facy? Yeah face your Instagram one of the
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  two. Yeah, fantastic mate. All right, Well thanks for your timing
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  and Betty always approach to chalk with you. Mate. The track sold selling
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  out. Part two premieres at four pm. I made the tenth and it's
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  another slab of fucking insanity from you guys, bro Like, I wish you
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  put out more to fucking loveless learns. But yeah, well that's the plan.
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  Next year, hopefully we can hopefully Pauli stays in the country for longer
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  than a month. And yeah, we've got some got some really cool things
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  coming up, so yeah, we're excited.