Latest / HEAVY Music Interviews / Repent Your Sins With GEOFF O'LEARY From PISTONFIST

Transcript

Repent Your Sins With GEOFF O'LEARY From PISTONFIST · HEAVY Music Interviews

• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Hey guys, Jeffrey here from Piss and Fist. Here are
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: you going?
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: I'm here with Chrispy from Heavy May. We're going to
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: talk piston Fish stuff.
• 0:32
  Speaker 3: Beautiful Jeffrey, thanks for joining us, brother too good.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: I'm stoked to be here. Chrispy, cheers for having me.
• 0:38
  Speaker 3: Always a pleasure, mate. So, Piston Fish premiere your new
• 0:41
  Speaker 3: track Repent this Friday, October the eleventh. So how you
• 0:44
  Speaker 3: felt about it?
• 0:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: Really stoked, by far, the heaviest one that we've written.
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, really really stoked and really keen to
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: hear some feedback from him.
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: And you mentioned that it is the heaviest one that
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: you've ever written, mate, So what made you decide to
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: go heavier? Like you've got You've got your niece in
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: the hard rock scene where you are, so why go heavier?
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: Made it? Wasn't I suppose the hard rock thing was
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: probably a little bit wiser.
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: Our original guitarist, he wrote a bunch of our first tracks.
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: We've got a bit of a new lineup and that's
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: that's the that's the school we're from when it comes
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: down to it. You know myself, Maddy even surf like
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: like we you know, we're Australian heavy rock all day long,
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: but we're still Pantera, Curple Tour Machine had you know,
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: that's the ship that's well personally, that's the ship I
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: grew up on proper, So that influence was always gonna
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: come out sooner or later, and I just think it's,
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: you know, it's just come out. We've got a bunch
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: of new tracks that we're we've written that are gone,
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: that's the first track off the album.
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: And we've got a.
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: Bunch of new tracks that we've written that have kicked
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: back a little bit, you know, but but yeah, that's
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know, We're I've set it from the start,
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: and I really like the idea of writing and playing
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: songs that you enjoy, not not sticking to a particular
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: niche or whatever because that's what you should do or
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: that's where you've been pigeonholed. I've just gone, you know,
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: let's just do what we enjoy doing. And if this
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: is what comes out when we're writing songs and we're
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: all grin and like dickheads while we're while we're playing it,
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: then let's fucking do it. You know, you won't you
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: won't find any black metal or death metal with us.
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: But you know, this is this is this is pretty
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: much as heavy as it gets.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 2:52
  Speaker 3: Well, it also comes to pretty cool music video too, bro,
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: So tell us what's going on there.
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we we worked pretty hard on that one.
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: Kile worked really really hard on that one. He bus
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: these balls.
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: We found a place that we probably I'm not too
• 3:12
  Speaker 2: sure how legals roll with this, but we made our
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: way in there, you know, and it was a really
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: really cool, cool place to run the video. And yeah,
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: I'm really stoked with the outcome. It come up really good.
• 3:26
  Speaker 3: Now, you mentioned that it is part of a new
• 3:28
  Speaker 3: album cycle, Bro, what more can you tell us about that?
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's the plan.
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: Manent you know, we've got we've got a we've got
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: a bit of stuff demoed, and we're just working our
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: bums off behind the scenes.
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: Again. Now, this is just what you're doing it.
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: You know, we released that one, we've toured it, we
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: released Redline and to it a bit, and now we've
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: got to get something something else.
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: So we're pushing for June July ish.
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: Hopefully we can get something out then and it'll all
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: come together really really nice.
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: You mentioned the album red Line which was your debut
• 4:04
  Speaker 3: album release last year. So was it received as well
• 4:06
  Speaker 3: as you hope?
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, It's funny.
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: I just I just did a little bit of homework
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: before the interview and I read a bit of Jimmy
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: Listener's review and it was an absolute piece. So yeah,
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: you know, we did get some really good reviews.
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: It sold really well in Europe. We sold out.
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: I should have taken more copies. I kind of stuffed
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: up there. So yeah, I'm really really stoked. We don't
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: have a great deal of copies left of actual you know, vinyl,
• 4:38
  Speaker 2: but yeah, you know, I'm super stoked with it, and
• 4:41
  Speaker 2: just we're all really keen now to write again. There's
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: a couple of new guys in the band since we
• 4:47
  Speaker 2: wrote Redline. Everybody's got different influences, so I'm expecting something special.
• 4:53
  Speaker 3: So what lessons learn out of making Redline do you
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: think you'll take into the next one?
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: That's interesting.
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: It's well, I'm not sure if it's it's lessons as such,
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: but you know, I've put the guitar down now we've
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: got a full time rhythm guitarist in there, so that's
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: taken a bit of pressure and a bit of extra
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: work off me. I don't have to worry too much
• 5:18
  Speaker 2: about two things. When I go in the studio, I
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: can just worry about nailing vocals.
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 5:25
  Speaker 2: That's a bit of a win. And we had two
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: different drummers work on Redline as well. We're just going
• 5:33
  Speaker 2: to be nice and solid with Ryan this time.
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: Ryan's been a great addition to the band. He's working
• 5:41
  Speaker 2: really hard.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: The same with Sev. He's busting balls. So yeah, I think,
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: if anything, it should be an.
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: Easier process after rolling the first whole album, we should.
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: Should through it with no dramas.
• 5:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, are you not too long back from your first
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: international tour through the UK and Europe with Sin Soto
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: and Chaos just made like how did that go?
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 6:07
  Speaker 2: It was amazing. Europe was dope. I cannot cannot say
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: that enough. They've just got their shit together when it
• 6:15
  Speaker 2: comes to live shows, people going out, people turning up
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: the shows. You know, we had good crowds on Tuesday
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: nights in Europe. It was ridiculous for you know, none
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: of us were super well known over there, so we
• 6:32
  Speaker 2: had to work to pull the crowd and they turned
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: up and the amount that you get looked after in
• 6:41
  Speaker 2: comparison to Brisbane. You know, like we turned up the
• 6:44
  Speaker 2: shows and they just here's the food, here's the piece.
• 6:47
  Speaker 2: You know, what do you need?
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: What do you want that?
• 6:50
  Speaker 2: They were just just amazing. And I know it's a
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: money thing over here. The money's not in the venues
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: to look after bands up well, but yeah it was.
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: It was a bit not.
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: Hard to come back to, but you know it's an
• 7:04
  Speaker 2: eye not to say the least, and brilliant it. We
• 7:07
  Speaker 2: self funded it, so it did it hurt financially, but
• 7:11
  Speaker 2: well well worth it. I don't think any of the
• 7:13
  Speaker 2: boys who got any regrets. Yeah, it was well worth
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: it and can't wait to go back. I just all
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: of the boys just you know, tourings what it's about,
• 7:23
  Speaker 2: isn't it.
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: So we were stoked.
• 7:26
  Speaker 3: And your music was really well received over there for
• 7:28
  Speaker 3: more report it was your best to your story, our.
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: Best to a story. There's a lot mate.
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: We had a We had an absolute cracker in Chech
• 7:41
  Speaker 2: the guy that owned the vin venue. Him and his
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: father built the venue by hand with these big rocks
• 7:48
  Speaker 2: and ship It was insane. They built it on like
• 7:51
  Speaker 2: the idea of a Viking hall and it was ridiculous
• 7:56
  Speaker 2: and you know, there was a chacuzzi for the bands
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: out the back. Everything was laid out ridiculously. Well, the best,
• 8:04
  Speaker 2: probably the best crowd that we had in Europe was
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: at that venue. And yeah, the best venue we played with,
• 8:11
  Speaker 2: the best crowd with the probably the best or the
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: most we've.
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: Been looked after that.
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: That place was exceptional and they partied that they didn't
• 8:21
  Speaker 2: shut up till about seven point thirty in the morning,
• 8:26
  Speaker 2: and a few of the crew had to walk back.
• 8:29
  Speaker 2: I won't say names, but they were mounted like like
• 8:32
  Speaker 2: it was. That was the party. That was the absolute
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: pissa right there.
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: It was. It was epic and it's one of them
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: venues that, you.
• 8:40
  Speaker 5: Know, if if we were to get to certain heights
• 8:45
  Speaker 5: and we absolutely killed it, that would be a venue
• 8:48
  Speaker 5: that I would work hard on going back to every
• 8:51
  Speaker 5: time we went to Europe, no matter what, you know,
• 8:53
  Speaker 5: I would go back and look after that guy as
• 8:56
  Speaker 5: well as as he looked after us kind of thing.
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: You know, like he was saying he had ginger in
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: there a few years ago and they absolutely killed it.
• 9:05
  Speaker 2: But now we can't get them back because they're at
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: that height, you know. So yeah, I'd like to you know,
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: if it was ever big dreams Forrah, but if we
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: got to that height, this is a place that I
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: would go back to to say thank you and to
• 9:22
  Speaker 2: pack his venue and make sure he turned over some
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: money because the guy was an absolute champion and it
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: was like that everywhere Chrispy like you know this guy.
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: The boys were in the Chakuzi having a drink and
• 9:32
  Speaker 2: the guy that owned the venue came over and said,
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: you guys ride for a drink?
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: What do you want?
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: And ow thend guy said, I'd love I'd love a
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: shot of Jaeger and I may just turn around went bottle.
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: He goes, no, no, just a shot, It'll be good,
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: and he went a bottle and came back with a
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: bottle of Jaeger for him.
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: You know, this is like looked after proper.
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: I've also recently signed with Rising Australian X Music. So
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: tell us about that partnership and what opens up for
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: Piston pist.
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're super stoked with it.
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: You know, you know Tim, he works hard, he's he's
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: already looked after us as.
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: Far as you know.
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: The Alice Cooper shows, Smashing Pumpkins, Change ad Dition that
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: them shows were huge for us and we're very very
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: lucky to be able to play on them shows. And
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: you know yourself and Chris had yourself and Tim had
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: quite a bit to do with that. So we've he's
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: already proven himself to us as far as we're concerned
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: his work ethics there and yeah, really looking forward to
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: having a good time and working hard with him. It's funny,
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: you know, it just seems like now you've you've signed
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: your contract. Now it's now we've just got to work
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: harder to make it all work, which isn't it's not
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: necessarily a bad thing, but you know, we just can't
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: take our foot off that pedal. We've got to push
• 10:59
  Speaker 2: hard and make sure that we've got a product for
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: Tim to be able to promote.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: That's what we're after.
• 11:05
  Speaker 3: Now we're running out of time, brother, but you've got
• 11:07
  Speaker 3: a few shows coming up. The first is Dimebag Memorial
• 11:11
  Speaker 3: Show at the back Room in Brisbane on December seventh,
• 11:13
  Speaker 3: and then you've got Monk and Pedal Festival on January
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: fourth with like Thieves, Area seven, Punk Rock, Hillbilly and Moore.
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: So they both sound like pretty cool shows.
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, looking looking very forward to both of them. We're
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: we're not going to be able to play a great
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: deal of shows in Brisbane next year because we're going
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: to be really busy.
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: So we're looking forward to both of them.
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: The Pantera Show, the Dimebag Tribute that's free entry, so
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: we're expecting a pretty big, pretty big night on that one.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: And then you know Monk and Pedal that's that's a
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: cracking lineup and bright Side's always a win outside and
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: inside there at Brightside. So yeah, both of them shows
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: should be absolute pissers.
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: But in the meantime, Piston fis have you a new single,
• 11:57
  Speaker 3: Repent premier in this Friday, an absolutely cracker and he's
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: heavy as bowls as Jeffrey bull It best Black with
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: a bride will catch up saying.
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, cheers, Chris, thanks for having me man, and get
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: your ease on for a pent legends.
• 12:51
  Speaker 6: You my summarize.
• 12:54
  Speaker 4: Say you love You're never say it does things? You
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: live a lie, fall by what leven lay your god
• 13:08
  Speaker 4: and you know what you're going have fucked up.
• 13:11
  Speaker 6: Mothers and.
• 13:32
  Speaker 4: Side aside what you're type of din renoicides can you
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: me hoday you as what do your brast own recorside?
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: What of the damn your doll.
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: And you got it.
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: So what don't you see the belt of my long.
• 13:54
  Speaker 6: Y'all love you when your gods are fucked up?
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: Like that's my young way that side this guy your.
• 14:13
  Speaker 6: Were but.
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: Young side wide outside.
• 14:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but.
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: That's my young ross wid the side well, that's mynoritea
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: do say say?
• 15:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah? What? S M sorry Wed?
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: Whats your time? Stop s