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Down And Dirty With BENNY & JOSH From THE WHISKEYS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Thanks for having us on. Christy, we are the Whiskeys, and I
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  just want to say, tweet pride worldwide, Fenny, Yeah all the way.
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  So mate, Yep, we're here. We're talking about our single Hodown.
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  It's coming out, Benny. When's it coming out? Next Friday?
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  Next Friday? Yeah, twenty third, it is indeed, ladies and gentlemen,
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  the suspense is killing me. Thanks for joining us tonight, gentlemen,
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  thanks for having us man, thank you. Well. Hopefully get it right
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  this time, like the Whisky is releasing your debut single, Hodown on February
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  the twenty third. Now, I don't know about you, guys. What
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  I always thought Hodown was a brothel with one sick recer. Yeah right.
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  I've never been to one of those with that, babe. But that's all
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  good. Hodown's a party, brother, Chris, b It's a part ey
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  cool. Well, tell us a bit more about that party made from a
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  musical point of view, yeah, man, So just yeah, I guess
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  that's one way to put it. And then just us doing our thing,
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  everyone there having a good time, motioning, dancing, all types of dancing,
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  just sort of getting all together at one place and forgetting about the world
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  dramas for a bit and just just ripping into the music and having a bloody
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  good old hond in mate. That's that's what's all about this song. Oh
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  so it's not like you're just by slapping like country sort of beat top one,
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  is it? Well? I mean there could be some elements in there,
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  you know. We we've got a bit of a mixture in it in
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  music, so there's definitely some foot tap and leg slap. It happened,
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  that's for sure. Modern. It's a modern It's a modern version of country
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  metal with a bit of rock, a bit of blues. The whole kitten
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  kerboodle there, crispy, awesome, and this is of course your debut song.
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  Guys, So what choose this song to introduce the world to the Whiskies.
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  I think it has everything that the Whiskeys is got, power, aggression,
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  feeling, passion, and the tempo is upbeat. Just I think it's
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  a perfect fit for what we're doing. If you could ask what the Riskies
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  was, I say that'd be a perfect song to say, yeah, welcome,
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  welcome to the holdout. So we would you say it's a good indication
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  of your overall sound or is it just one element. I'd say it's a
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  good indication actually, mate, Yeah, so an element, but it's a
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  good indication. It's not like if you heard that song you'd be like oh,
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  and then you heard the next song you'd be like, oh, that
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  was nothing like your other song. I don't think you feel that at all.
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  Yeah. No, is it just a standalone single for an hour?
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  Is it part of a bigger picture? Yeah? So the plan is to
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  get this one out there and and then I reckon, we'll just slap him
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  with the Holy EP right in the face. Right, I'm taking that EP
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  has already been done or is it yet to be written? Yeah? Mate,
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  Yeah, all done once again by the master Scotty French at Love Street
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  Rumman absolute lord. Yeah, we've been recording with him sort of all my
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  bands. Yeah. I love the sound and yeah, and the shout out
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  to Bocky one Way Boulevard for the film clip that's coming out with it too.
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  So yeah, exciting. And what about the rest of the songs of
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  the EP? Like I thought, I what musical direction do they take?
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  Good question mate. It's a lot of influences in there. It's a bit
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  of Zeppelin, there's a bit of refuse, mused in there with fleshed out
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  with hunk metal, classic rock. It's all in there, mate, because
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  our history as musicians is very varied and wide, and it's sort of all
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  just like bomb as jammed into this one thing. But it works. I
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  don't think it's you know when you're listening to some things and there's this different
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  sounds and vibes going everywhere. I don't think it has that feel at all.
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  I think it's it's it's pretty fluid and makes sense. So check mate,
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  you're just gonna have to check it out. Yeah. Now the Whisky
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  formed in northern New South Wales in twenty nineteen, made like my arithmetics not
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  that good. But that's five years from starting to release in your first song
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  like that seems like a bit of a long time. Yeah, well we
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  mede Josh, you go way way back. I guess the old the punk
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  metal scene on the Gold Coast. Yeah, we'd always cross paths and I
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  guess yeah, I didn't even know if there's nine and I guess it was
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  in we just started gaming, I guess for a bit and then just been
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  doing a whole heap of showers. We do we obviously do like original shows,
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  which we love probably the best. But you know, we rip a
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  couple of the covers here and there at a few pubs, So I guess,
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  yeah, I guess it was just just the process always takes longer than
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  you like. Yeah, just working out what sort of sounds you want to
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  do, And I think the more we jam together, the more inspirations and
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  stuff we've come up with. Well, we did, we did write,
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  we did when we first started gym and we can't. We did write a
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  batch of songs that were real cool, but then we sort of changed the
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  direction of the sound, so that took time, and we weren't in any
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  Russia. It's it's the songs are good, and I think that's the best
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  way sometimes. This had just happened slowly over time, and we're really happy.
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  We played the songs a lot to a lot of crowds and know which
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  ones work you won't throws on me. I had a freeze to. So
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  your sound is it's a blending of blues and rock and reggae, and there's
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  some fund in there as well. So did that come about by trial and
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  error or it just sort of set out to make that sound when we first
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  started it. It's probably just natural and yeah, that's where it started.
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  And then as Josh was just saying, of course we step back into a
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  heavy hardcore roots I guessed, and just a bit of a taste into all
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  those genres and went back to what we know in a bit of a way.
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  I think it's important to know the two guys that you are just a
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  duo as well, Like what's that? What's I'll stop you theresy piece two
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  Beece duo has two acoustic guitars or a bass sorry Chrispy two piece to stand
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  corrected. So you guys are just a two piece, But what's the what's
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  the meaning behind that? Like I said, because you couldn't be playing with
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  other people, or because he's you've got to the two of yours. I
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  just I've been doing a whole bunch of solos as for all and just out
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  experimenting with different pedals and stuff and just run out of bass and all the
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  time, and it just become natural and me and Josh have just never looked
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  back. I've just always jammed the two of us and it's yeah, it's
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  just it's worked really well for us, So no need for a bass play,
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  sorry, guys, but no need for one as luggage. If we've
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  been on a sixty percent of bass players the gold guitarists anyway, I'm not
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  also Christmas, just the two like having the two piece was it something fresh
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  and different than neither of us had sort of done before. And it's as
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  you go along your journey as a musician, like we're both like twenty years
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  at least twenty five years almost into our careers, you search for different ways
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  to express yourself and sometimes or less it's more and then we could we just
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  seen that the two of us just make it work and that that element,
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  not saying that the bass player rad bass player wouldn't make it better, or
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  we're too good for a bass player. It's just not the element we were
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  consciously going for. Hate Let's do a two piece and see if we can
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  make it work. It and it does any holp any holds it down in
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  all elements of vocals, guitar and bass. So shout out to the brothers.
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  I believe you guys have also got some tours and some video clips planned
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  for this year. What's to tell us more about that? Yeah? So
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  it we teamed up with our good Brothers, Bocky One Way Boulevard got a
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  fresh clip that we did. Half of it was recorded Eddie's and then the
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  other half. We love Eddie's grabs by the way, cool on Getner check
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  it out. But ow the new love of a gig is rails and born
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  absolute rip and plays who let's just do our thing? We literally, yeah,
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  we just rip into maybe a Pantera mere telling the cover no one cares,
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  and then we just rip into our songs and it's just the atmosphere there
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  is unreal. So to capture this whole down, whole thing was just perfect.
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  To have Eddies in the rails. Yeah all right, guys, Well
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  that's pretty much all I've got for you and I. But the debut single
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  from the two piece, The Whiskey's Hodown, is out February twenty thirty.
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  Just set your click and make sure you check it out.