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Darkness From Light With INEFFIGY · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  We are in Effigy. This is Joey. We've got Jess over here,
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  Joey's vocals, jets, guitar and to buy us some bass. Drumber is
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  currently working in the kitchen. Good that should be thanks for joining us to
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  say, guys, good to catch up in Effigy. Have a fair bit
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  going on in the near future, but we'll start with Lighthouse Rocks where you
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  weren't the right to play after winning the Triple and Battle the Bands in Bunderberg
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  recently. So congratulations on that. Yeah, thank you man. Yeah,
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  yeah, it's been auto Man. We get to open for Living end of
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  a massive, massive living end feeling. Who isn't iconic Australian band? Yeah,
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  tell us a bit about that. Guy's like, I love your music
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  and a lot of a lot of people do, but it's very rare for
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  someone of your style to win a Battle of the Bands for a radio station
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  like Triple M. So tell us a bit about it. Roy chopped us
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  as the shop everybody else. Don't worry. We're usually just going to things.
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  We usually just goes into those things because they're a heap of fun.
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  It exposes us to no pun intended, exposes us to a different crowd of
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  people. Yeah, it sort of opens us up to the like the more
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  the more stable local base of music fans. But yeah, no, we
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  we no, we didn't expect to win it. And if you go back
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  and watch that video, we were just just as stunned as everybody else was.
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  I didn't even when they said our name, Mike didn't even hear it.
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  I'm just standing there and they're going, come forward, come forward,
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  and I'm like, but what for what did we win? We check with
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  j like did they just saying it? And I'm just like, I don't
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  think so. Bro should be honest though, Chris, like after last year,
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  we went in this year because we wanted the pre tickets to see the
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  living end, because you get free tickets for going. So we're like,
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  no, we're going to go on. But we just just I had just
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  to do what we always do. We didn't change it and go We didn't
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  make it for a different crowd. We just went out there and did our
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  thing. And we're kind of lucky lately because we're getting a huge ground swirling
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  of support from locals up here and Bunny. It's strange for us where it
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  used to be in the underdogs, so it's really nice to have that local
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  support. Good ideas. Man and Light House Rocks will be held in Bunderberg
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  on October forty eight, featuring The Living End, Screaming Jets, baby animals
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  and more like. I was going to ask you most looking forward to playing
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  with it, but he's have already answered that with the Living End, Yeah,
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  and Screaming Jets, So I want to want to catch up with Screaming
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  Jets. They're amazing to shine your atage, They're a bit mate. I
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  used to go and interview living In back in the Nomity, so best to
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  both worlds. Yeah, I've sworn of myself. I'm going to get a
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  foot with Chris Chaney's Grudge guitar. That's that's my goal. He can play
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  that motherfucker like. He's a very good he's unbelievable, one of those unvalued
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  and appreciated fucking streaders in Australia. I was second that notion. I second
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  that. So it's probably the biggest show yet for in effigy guys. Like
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  he's starting to get nervous, Oh bro, I never get nervous in my
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  first in my first seven four a in the live music. I was in
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  a rap metal band years ago when I was like seventeen years old and the
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  crowd was so hostile they were throwing bottles at us. And from that point,
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  man like, honestly, like nothing scares me, dude, I'll go
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  out and play to anyone anywhere. And look when you're playing with the rest
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  of the guys in an effigy and that he kind of don't get nervous going
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  on stage. He kind of just you get excited. It's and you know,
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  you're going to just go out there and do what we do. We've
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  been playing a lot like then, we just kind of go out there and
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  just focus. It's just have much. Yeah, as much as it's going
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  to be a fun thing for you guys playing on it, like is there
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  a more serious sight too, Like he's going to be watching what the other
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  bands do and how they prepare and how they gay, Like is it a
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  bit of a learning experience too or is it just fun? Definitely play I
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  don't anyway, Yeah, definitely. I don't think we ever play a gig
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  where we don't try to take away something like to learn, like we see
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  something something better, we know how to we're gonna We're gonna find jack that
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  that process, like, that's that's the only reason why we've we've always sort
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  of we started off as a scrub band and we were just playing a nobody
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  basically like most bands start out, and we just we stopped giving a funk
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  about that pretty early on in the game. So we we always just try
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  to learn and always try to be better. And even though we're back having
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  fun for us, we're also about professionalism. We always make sure we turn
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  up on time. We'll always make sure we're there and if we can learn
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  any way of honing that professionalism from other two bigger touring bands, will certainly
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  be taking notes, don't you worry. Yeah, just one tip boy,
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  you guys, just in case you're sort of unaware the festivals like there's just
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  make sure you're watching your set time, like if they give you twenty minutes,
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  don't go over bro, Like that's a big thing. These festivals,
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  like the bigger shows do like I know that, like things like Big Day
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  Out and Ship they actually find bands going over time, so that that would
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  be the biggest tip point. Don't don't go over like finished Actually funny to
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  bring that up, Yeah, that's funny to bring that up. Will be
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  first, we did a very babble of the bands when we're all organizing it,
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  standing out coming a C and the Organ Boston in Bedford Dead. You
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  know, at big festivals no one needs a ship. Why you go over
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  time, but they will get the ships if you do get over go over
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  time and that, Like again, I learned from that and I've paid really
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  close attention to that, and I've always been really focused on that in terms
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  of being really really clear on our set times and getting the fuck out of
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  everyone else's way. I didn't think i'd have to tell you that, boy
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  to just sort I'd let you know just in case. Yeah, we're always
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  happy to get some tips, don't you worry brout it. I'm four of
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  them. They're usually all bullshit, but I've got a couple of good ones.
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  So also, as part of the prize for winning that Battle of the
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  Band's you also get to play a song on air for Triple M. So
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  tell us about some tomorrow. I believe this has becoming our Friday, so
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  we'll say this morning, but tell us about it. Well, we working
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  and play it live. But I put a drill through my finger today at
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  work and it's pretty much look that on a halt. So we're just going
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  to play something from our spotify which is we're a bit a big demo about
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  but Sore gig this weekend with I'll Be Happy but literally, Jill been completely
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  my finger on the bone. That's where you work in Dangerous. So yeah,
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  so that put a bit of a kibosh on it. Unfortunately, the
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  metal gods have spoken, they don't want your want radio. We're still we're
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  still going to do the interview. Oh look, but at least now,
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  like yeah, see, we're going to have to go in and do an
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  acoustic number because they couldn't fit it. So at least now they'll get to
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  hear what we're actually like when they play a song my need good. And
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  also part of that prize is a three song recording session to go with it.
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  So what's the plans with that? Oh man, we're still, in
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  true in effigy fashion, we have we're still on the pot with that one.
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  We're still working out fighting which songs are going to make those three songs,
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  But we'll get there, man. Again, in true and effigy fashion,
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  we'll fucking work it out, right, in them in the midnight hour.
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  Yeah, and then the suspense is real for everybody. What are you
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  going to do with that? You're gonna release those three either as singles or
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  as a small pay are you going to put them towards an album in the
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  future? Right, Well, we'll probably this one. Look, it comes
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  down to how it turns out. If we're quite happy with the recordings and
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  we want to present it, we'll probably end up either bringing out as a
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  few singles. We're talking to a few people about hopefully doings of video clips
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  in the future, so if we can do a bit of thunk around a
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  couple of these songs, we'll probably just release it one at a time as
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  singles. But really, when it comes down to releasing EPs and albums,
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  we're just happy just to be keep flicking songs out. We're going to hopefully
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  go in and do some recording tune anyway, So this is just kind of
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  being that process up. But we've kind of made the decision a little while
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  ago just to kind of drip feed until we've got enough to maybe print vinyl
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  or something. But I think the day and age with digital stuff, we'll
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  just be able to get it out there having visuals with it, like to
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  be able to do visuals. We've got local people that do some amazing stuff
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  and they want to work with us and we can do that in the future.
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  That'll just take what we do that step further cool. Speaking of recordings,
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  you've also recently released a live album called Live at the OBT. Like,
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  what the fuck's a OBT, right, that's the Bundeberg, that's the
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  Bunderberg home of alternative music. That's the pub on Key Street and anyone that
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  doesn't fucking know needs to go there that The venue has been absolutely awesome for
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  live music here and Bundy. They've really really helped us out. They've helped
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  everybody involved with the East Coast Alternative. They back us one hundred percent.
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  They support us a lot. It's called the Old Bundy Tavern. Yeah,
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  ob Team, it's just one of the older pubs here and Bundy, and
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  going knew the stuff and he worked out again now, but he hooked us
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  up. We had nowhere to play in Bundy. There was no venue it's
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  willing to put gigs on for any bands like us, So we just kind
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  of band together and we formed East Coast Team. When we did them up
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  one month, can put gigs and then yeah, no worried so and it's
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  really now like we're think people from everywhere like it's it's becoming we're very proud
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  of. But yeah, ob team means Old Bundy Tavern and it was ordered
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  live. That's what we do with East Coast Alternative. We thought we release
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  it because it's a good example of what we did. Very cool. I'm
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  glad you brought up the East Coast Alternative guys, because he's a very big
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  part of that, and there's a collection of musicians from Bunderberg trying to build
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  the music scene there. So tell us a little bit more on that and
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  what you do and how people can get hold of you. Okay, So
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  the East Coast Alternative basically started out as a playlist that I've put together on
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  Spotify, all the local bands that we played with that I was, I
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  just fucking adore the shit out of them, bands like Rumination, East Coast
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  Alternative, fucking Dirty Brew Forest like and it's sort of evolved from that because
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  we as a band have played two empty rooms like the scene did not exist.
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  Crown Ruckus, who is basically fronted by the boys from Exotic Position Cookies.
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  They were trying really hard, but they're really really big bands growing away
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  and doing nothing's really happening here. We wanted something that was ground and solid
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  on live music in Bundy and developers scene. There is there's no like Sam
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  from Bullman Street Massive asked me about like fees to get involved. Man,
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  there's nothing like that. Like if we love you and you want to come
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  and play with us, you can come and play with us. We'll throw
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  you on the on the Spotify playlist, will promote you when you bring out
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  new material. Because realistically, all we want to do is make Queensland music
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  fucking awesome and we really really want to push it and we want people to
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  listen to it and get familiar with it, sing along with it and get
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  way behind it. It's not even just for in effigy. It's not just
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  for us, it's for for everybody. Know, how do people get a
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  hold of you guys for that bright just sit us up on a Facebook Look
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  at East Coast Alternative. We've got a group and a page. The page
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  is for all just anyone posting any of their experiences with the East Coast Alternative
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  coming out and place some photos. The group is more for the back line
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  and how you're getting time quick. We have music working myself, So yeah,
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  just looks up and facing dot car. That's far good right now.
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  But yeah, if you just can't alternative on base page, come and like
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  I said, we're piston Fist coming up. They're just trying to create a
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  space that other bands can come and play with and a professional space, and
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  that's where we're trying to create fullage. We do videos, we do live,
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  we recalled live, and it just allows bands, especially local bands,
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  like there are some amazing musicians in this bund Bunderberg wide Bay area now through
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  us doing these gigs that being able to hone their skills. There's bands like
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  Reckless Are they're a local punk band and they basically started with the very first
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  couple of Battle of the Bands and now they're they're they're just carving it up
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  because they get to play live. They get to hone those skills on a
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  live setting on a stage with other bands that come through a bit like kind
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  of we're talking about what tips are we going to learn when we go to
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  the fast Wool. We're kind of giving that to the local bands and for
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  us we want to kind of hope that there's a lot of young people that
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  are kind of catching on. So hopefully instead of thinking on we're in a
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  rural area, there's something happening, maybe they might just go, we'll bug
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  it. These clowns are playing music, we might do it to you.
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  Yeah. And I think the fundamental thing too is that, like as an
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  Australian, Australian bands, venues on the East Coast are few and far between.
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  So if we can encourage other venues to to open up their doors and
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  put bands on and create spaces for more bands to play because they can see
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  that it's profitable. Like male heads love to fucking drink man, and like
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  our bars make a lot of money over the over the bar and they're fucking
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  like Old Bunny Tavern has in an effigy cocktail for eighteen dollars and like you'll
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  fucking seed everyone with one in their hand, you know. Like, but
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  we just we want to create the entire Queensland space of live music because the
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  sparsity of space between every venue all the way up the coast is massive.
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  You know, this is a huge country and it's really really hard to get
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  venues behind you I mean you're down in Victoria. You can play us down
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  in bob and or or down in Sydney order, but Queens, you know,
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  like it's here. People want it and we want to work to give
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  it to them in a professional We have a really back line. We have
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  really good like I says, we record everything, we have professional level geography,
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  broad rising title of s are ships. We're just trying to make everything
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  better for everybody. Good on you, guys. And this Saturday night you
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  played Metal United worldwide at the Sugarland Tavern with pistol fist, exotic postion,
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  cookies, masters and mayhem and steroids like sounds like fun. Tell us about
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  that fucking Batman and that venue is crazy. It's it's an old, closed
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  down three story nightclub and it has just been beautiful. CD fucking Vine to
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  her mirrors and more little little alcoves and rooms than you could poke a few
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  things. Are so many nooks and crannies for cocaine and Chris, There's so
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  many nooks and cranks