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Ripping It Up At WALLAPALOOZA With DAMO From 28 DAYS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Yeah, it's just game Ori from twenty eight Days here and yeah, just
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  we're playing Wallapalooza on the fourth of November, which would be awesome. Played
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  it last year and it was six so this year it'll be really cool.
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  And I can't wait to see Cog. I haven't We haven't played with Cog
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  for probably fifteen years, I reckon, so it'd be good to catch up
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  with those guys again. And yeah, play with them. So we always
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  used to play kind of freezer gigs with them, you know, at all
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  ages things back in the day. So yeah, it'd be awesome. Oh
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  thanks for joining us today, dam all. Good cool. So as your
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  say, man, twenty eight Days will be one of the headlining acts that
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  Wallaboloes are twenty twenty three at the Wallaby Hotel the Gold Coast on November the
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  fourth. Now, I know you played last year and it was at the
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  it was at the Showgrounds, but it's actually going back to the Wallaby Hotel
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  this year, so it'll be some different player. Yeah. Last year was
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  cool, it was huge, and I don't know, it probably would have
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  been a bit too you know, too much of as to pull it off
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  every year. I think he's planning on every second year or something. But
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  yeah, we actually stayed at the wall of the hotel last year, so
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  it'd be good to get there and yeah, and they kind of walked us
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  through where it is, you know, like the layout when it's always there,
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  so it'd be cool. It'd be ace to get there and play.
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  You know. We like those kind of little festivals, you know what I
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  mean, like the two thousand type people. They just seem a lot more
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  like intimate, but still with enough of a crowd to you know, make
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  it really hyper. They touched on I see it before, but what the
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  Players also features Cog Butterfingers, fuck Antie and a whole heat more. But
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  how good is it to see our one hundred Australian music festival these days?
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  That's very rare and very awesome. Like I don't know, it seems like
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  a lot of promoters seem to think that they need an international act to make
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  it like, you know, I don't know, legitimate. So this is
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  really cool. I really love how like Andy always just tries to he has
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  I suppose it's always been just Australian. So yeah, this is kind of
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  like a really really cool initiative and I kind of a lot of people should
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  follow suit I reckon because it's really really hard these days for like so many
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  young bands to actually get a gig, not let alone get on a festival.
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  So this is an awesome kind of stepping stone for a lot of those
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  you know, up and coming bands to actually play a festival. So the
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  big question is made, what can fans expect from twenty eight days on the
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  day. Well, we've kind of haven't really put out any new music for
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  a long time, so but we're fortunate enough to have quite a few songs
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  that have kind of stuck around, I suppose for our fans. So we're
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  one of those bands that just want to we play what, you know,
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  like what fans want to hear, I suppose. So we don't come out
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  and go, oh, we've written seven demos and we're going to play five
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  of them this, you know, we just play like rip it up,
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  sucker, goodbye, what's the deal. We just play all of those and
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  yeah, just try and have as much fun as we can because we don't
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  really play probably play on average five gigs a year, a busy year.
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  So yeah, we just try and have as much fun as we can because
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  we don't get to play that much, so this is awesome. Yeah,
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  I mentioned songs like Rip It Up and or What's the Deal? Like the
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  probably would have been twenty years ago you wrote those songs, man, So
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  like, did they still have the same meaning to your playing them these days?
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  Is what they did when you write them? Yeah, probably a lot
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  more meaning these days because we get to we've got to see from the start
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  now how they've kind of evolved in how our audience has evolved. So it's
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  kind of amazing to see. Like back in the day, we just wrote
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  them and thought, oh, you know, these were a right, they're
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  pretty catchy. But now like we've got people coming up to us at shows
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  going not so much Rip It Up and What's the Deal, but we've got
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  a few other songs like Goodbye and stuff, and people are coming at,
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  you know, up to us that show's going, Oh this song really helped
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  me in a really difficult time. And you know, like when I was
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  a teenager, now I'm forty with four kids and I'm you know, my
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  son's playing it and loving it. So it's just really weird. So it's
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  kind of the songs are like a journey that we're all kind of us and
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  our fans are all on this, you know, like twenty year like journey
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  that's still going. So yeah, it's amazing. We love playing those songs.
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  We never get sick of it. Like it's it's always cool every time
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  we just there's always something like, I I know it sounds a bit kind
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  of wanky, but every gig there's always something a little bit different about how
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  you play them, and it's always kind of spins you out every time you
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  play them. I'm talking about journeys, mate, Like, let's go back
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  to the beginning of twenty eight Days back in nineteen ninety seven, Bro,
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  what was the musical climate like that gave birth to the band and where did
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  you fit in back then? Well, back then in ninety seven, we
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  were all into, I suppose a lot more hardcore stuff, but especially the
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  New York style of hardcore. So when we first started, we were like
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  a pretty much a hardcore band, but our singer was actually a really good
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  rapper. It was probably a better rapper back then than he was a singer,
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  so we kind of incorporated a bit of that. It was funny.
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  We don't let people are going, oh, you know you were ripping off
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  Limp Biscuit and all that, but we'd never heard of those bands. We
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  didn't didn't know who Limp Biscuit was or the only kind of band that we
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  ever heard that rapp was an event called down Set and there were a huge
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  influence on us. But back then, yeah, we just started off playing
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  all the pub scenes in Melbourne, like the Art House. We drive to
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  Sydney every second weekend and play the Iron Duke nearly every second weekend in Sydney
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  and we just kind of did that for about two and a half years,
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  and we were lucky enough to get one of our songs heard on an independent
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  radio station called Trip Blah. Our former label boss actually heard a song on
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  Triple R and came and saw us at one of the gigs and kind of
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  liked what he saw and signed us on the spot, which is kind of
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  would never happen today. I don't reckon like that, but yeah, it
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  was, Yeah, it was kind of It was all whirl wind from then
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  on all right? And was it to your second album Upstyle Down that Froddie
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  our days really smashed it on the music scene, mate, Like, what
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  was it about that album? Do you think there was so made the public
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  connect with it so much. I reckon we had time in the studio to
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  kind of like explore new stuff and actually finish songs and polish songs, and
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  and two were a recording it and then go no, we should do this,
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  we should do that, and we just yeah, we had a lot
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  more time to write and record and think about. So that was when we
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  signed I suppose Festival Mushroom Records. They were a major label, but more
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  on the kind of indie cusp I suppose. So we had a really really
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  cool label then that we're really behind, like especially behind their Australian bands back
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  then. So yeah, we had like really cool label pushing it, and
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  we just toured and toured and toured and played and played and played and just
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  kept touring and playing and to the point where we thought, oh, we
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  can't keep playing the same spot. You know, we've been to Sydney seven
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  times in three months, but each it was funny. Each time we go
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  back, it just get bigger and bigger and bigger, and we're like,
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  what's going on? You know, we aren't people sick of this yet.
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  So yeah, it was just kind of hard work, a lot of hard
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  work, a lot of thinking through the songs and not just you know,
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  putting them out. Like if we were on a major, major label,
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  they go, you just got to get something out, rush it out,
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  get it out. But our label was kind of totally different. They're like,
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  you know, I don't care if it takes a year, it's got
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  to be good. You've got to be happy with it. So that's yeah,
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  that's how that all kind of came about. I was start of touch
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  on this before, mate, But twenty eight Days haven't released any new materials
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  since the single Unmarked Graves back in April twenty fifteen. So you plan on
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  anything new in the future made or are you're just happy to keep it your
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  existing catalog. I didn't know we'd we would know. It's so hard to
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  kind of get everyone together to let alone jam, but not not only jam,
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  but right. But I suppose it's a lot easier these days with you
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  know, like just sending people files and stuff. I would like to say
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  that, yes, we would love to eventually do something, but we're not
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  kind of pushing ourselves to. But we've always got people of ideas and everyone's
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  like floating around riffs and you know, like and just floating around ideas,
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  but I don't know, they just at the moment don't quite eventuate. We've
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  just got so many half songs and bits floating around that Yeah, we'd love
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  to one day, but it's still like, it's kind of hard because I
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  don't know. When we play shows. Like I said before, people really
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  don't want to hear new stuff. It's kind of sad, but it's kind
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  of cool in a way too to actually have a catalog that people still want
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  to hear. So yeah, so I would never. IM not going to
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  say never, but there's nothing on the cards, all right, Okay,
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  Well, before we letting you go May, we're starting up three new Spotify
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  playlists based on songs from artists we speak to. So using twenty eight days
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  songs, can we have a song for the playlist to get the party started,
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  one for a playlist to save your marriage, and one for a playlist
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  to potentially end your marriage. Oh, to get the party started? That
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  would definitely be ripping up. That would have to be the party starter for
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  sure. One to save your marriage, we'd be I might ask my beautiful
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  wife. Twenty eight days song to save your marriage would be Yeah, yeah,
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  photos or song for Jasmine. Song for Jasmine. It's about our guitarist's
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  daughter, so that would be that's a nice family orientated, feel good song
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  and a song to to know your marriage, to finish your marriage, potentially
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  end your marriage. I know that awful. Oh yeah, we did a
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  B side. We did a B side. It's called I'm the Guy and
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  it's j reading an interview. He's actually reading an interview and singing a Simmons
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  interview and he's talking about how he slept with three thousand women and stuff.
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  So the song is called I'm the guy in brackets who slept with three thousand
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  women. So that's definitely the song that would Thanks very much for your time.
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  Maybe we got through it so it was bored to say next weekend awesome,
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  thank you very much. Good one