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Rocking The Blues Away With LUKE KAROLAK From RUINATION · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  My name's Luke Carrolla. I play guitar and singing. Nation Brady he's a
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  bass player, and Josh Brooks is the drummer powertru rock band I guess,
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  harkening back to the ninety grungs with metallic metal sort of style riffs. M
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  Rock Beats Depression is actually something that we were asked to do last year.
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  We were fortunate enough to get a foot in the door and get into it
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  and to be asked back again. It's pretty it's a big thing because we
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  love what it stands for and Katie's amazing, like totally and there's so many
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  awesome bands on it again this year, so it's going to be great.
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  Indeed, it is made thanks for joining us today, leg Yeah, no
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  worries man Ruination one. I want a many bands for forming at Rock Beats
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  Depression that Mansfield tabin on September sixteenth. So well, what does play and
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  it's something id This actually meant you guys a lot, because not only do
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  we get to travel away for the night and you know, play off well
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  yeah you know, within reason, I guess, but we get to play
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  and share the stage with so many awesome bands. Um and the rock beats
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  depression as a whole as how is it's a pretty big for us um ovis
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  Lee you know, the dealings with it, and we've have friends deal with
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  I guess you know, not that sort of depression and anxiety and all the
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  rest of it. I just I just think it's an amazing cause, great
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  bands, great venue, and we're always we're always treated like I mean,
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  we're always treated so well there, so it's good good great reception you know,
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  means a lot. And you mentioned the last year is a great light
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  up spearheaded by Dream Colors, Black Whiskey, a Flyer, There's Tale Made,
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  Rejects, Craven More Made. But are you both looking forward to playing
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  with it? Why? Honestly, I'm really I can't really say any one
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  band in particular, like there's there's you know, like I think, is
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  it Seven Enemies. We played with them at the Tribe club House and they're
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  pretty phenomenal. Um I mean, dream Killers, for goodness sake, going
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  I was a kid that grew up in the nineties. I know who they
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  are. So that's that's going to be a mind blown young fanboy moment for
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  me. But I mean, it's it's I just can't pinpoint any one band
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  in particular, because I mean there's gut a Fire, Taylor Made rejects,
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  as you just said, I mean, the list goes on and on.
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  You know, it's it's going to be an epic night, epic night.
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  Of course, we've got a touch on this. As much fun as the
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  day is going to be, there's also a more serious side to it.
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  As an a rock Beast depressions the jets, how important, how important our
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  events like this when it comes to helping those with mental illnesses and all depression.
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  To us, it's a it's a pretty big deal, Chris, because
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  you know, without going too far into it, I mean we we've all
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  everybody, we've all been affected by someone or some form ourselves and we've actually
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  ourselves up here lost a couple of musician friends in the last twelve months due
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  to the Black Dog, and man, if we can, we can provide
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  our services and raise money toward that. That's how you've done, you know.
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  And I say, like the depression something that affects a lot of a
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  lot of musos as well. Like I know, in my role, I
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  speak a lot of international and national musos of the some of the biggest artists
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  see the world suffer from depression. Like not that you think they would do,
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  but like people look at mesos and see them up on stage, you'd
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  being extroverted. But that doesn't necessarily mean that everything's going to look for them
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  exactly. And you're rod on there man, like absolutely. I think that's
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  why we as. I mean, you've got your normal life, which is
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  your your daily nine to five grind, and then you've got your music gigging.
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  In the last like two years since ruination has been a thing, I've
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  met some of my best dearest friends in the scene, whether it's Brisbane,
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  Bunderberg, you know, like here, Harvey Bay, like wherever. And
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  I think it's because there, as you just said, there is that I'm
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  spoken, you know, there's that. We all rapple with it, and
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  that's why we do what we do. I guess it's to get the the
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  nasty out and some people unfortunately don't have that. We're lucky. We're lucky
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  in a way we can get up there and scream and have distorted guitars and
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  heavy riffs and have people pick up on the energy. And that's that's what
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  the forty minutes on stage makes all that go away. So if I can,
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  I mean not myself personally, but if we can help people feel like
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  that and raise a bit of money while we're doing it, how awesome.
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  My age, brother, my age. So what what message would you hope
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  if people take out of a day like this? Well, look, I
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  would myself personally because obviously we're going to be there as supporters as well as
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  on stage. So I think to take away just I'll be number one,
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  the amazing I mean, Katie, she's put it all, put it together
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  like you guys, all the is all the other bands, take away back
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  that go away from the day. You've seen all these local musicians who we're
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  all the same, all in this together. We're all the same, and
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  as you said earlier with your national acts, like we put on a brave
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  face, but we're all you know. To take away from the day,
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  I guess would be just a day of coming together having fun. You know,
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  That's I guess all I can think of. And another good thing about
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  days all this, of course, is your variety of bands that play.
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  Like the bands there, the people haven't heard before, So just say someone
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  there they're unfamiliar with ormination mate. Tell us a bit about the band.
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  Well, look, we're we're a power trio. We're a three piece,
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  we're a hard rock band. We go back to I guess a lot of
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  I mean, we got diverse, like such diverse tastes as musicians. But
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  I guess you could say we're grungy, but with the we got like metallic
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  rips over the top of it. And we're a bit of a live entity
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  on stage, like a bit of a thrashing mad act. Not that I
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  can ever remember any of it because it goes too quick. Man. It's
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  just like as I said before, it's just that it's it's like that drug.
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  You get up there and you're for the forty minutes and it's just gone,
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  and it's just like wow, that was like it was like a cleansing
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  of the soul. So I guess that's what people they're gonna They're going to
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  get a pretty um yeah, and we're a bit of a I guess we'll
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  like to have the audience in on the as if they're actually up on the
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  stage with this like a bit of banter, a bit of comedy maybe depending
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  on how many how many schoolies have been put down before. And that's Brooksly
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  the drummer. Though he's the he's the schooy king all drums made. Drummers
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  are just piss recks machine man. Yeah, Like, I mean, I'm
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  kind of a bit of a good boy. I behave myself until I've played.
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  But I think we're on like pretty late, so I'm gonna probably maybe
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  have one or two strengths, in mean, just to take the nerves away,
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  because you got the nerves, but they're good nerves, you know,
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  because we haven't haven't had bought and chairs, tables thrown at us yet,
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  so I don't think that bad. Probably won't start advance to it either because
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  it's the fucking ice stage. Yea, they're not gonna be able to throw
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  them that it's beautiful like because last year, I believe Chris, they had
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  the other was it the function room and we played in there and we went
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  in and watched I think it was Hammers. I can't remember if piston Fists
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  played last year, can't no, Actually, sorry, I saw them at
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  the back room. We played the back room the brew Fest production. Sorry,
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  I got those two mixed up for a minute. Um and yeah,
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  we I remember going in those two stages and stuff like, and it was
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  amazing in there, like so cool. Look and I've actually never been there
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  before until last year. Great, Oh it's it's definitely one of the best.
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  But you guys down there and got so many awesome venues, like so
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  many awesome venues. Like I'm a big fan of the Tribe club House and
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  King Lee has Throne, Like yeah, what those guys are doing too,
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  you know, like they've got a cool message as well, But I mean,
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  yeah, probably all happening. It. Guys are in the process of
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  recording a four track EP, mate, so tell us a bit more about
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  that. That is actually Christa on actually this Saturday Sunday we venture to the
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  studio. It's it's basically it's like, um, it's more of a teaser
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  towards which I really want to put out an album after this. We've got
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  it. We've got more than enough material. And it just every time we
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  jam and write, things just come together so easily. It's not like pulling
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  teeth. It just it just comes together. But this four track EPs,
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  well it's actually four but I'm possibly going to chat to the lads about we've
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  got another tune that are to be a fifth five song EP. I'd like
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  to put a fifth song on it, but it's it's pretty much. It's
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  it's us. It's just a more I guess because the songs on our first
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  epre in world before there was ever a band, and then when we came
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  together, we we wrote the songs and we got the songs together. But
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  this time we've we've played live more too, and we've played we'd like to
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  play. Like most bands, we play test our new songs on live audiences,
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  and I think this this new EP is going to be pretty cool.
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  Man. It's chronically it's it's no, it's not different. It's going to
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  be like obviously, spend a little bit more time on it because we've built
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  the kiddie up from playing live shows and stuff, so we've got a little
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  bit more money to throw at it. But it's it's gonna for fans of
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  the first EP and people who like us. They're going to pretty much get
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  the live version of us recorded. So it's going to be cool and you're
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  going to be able to write any of them at a rock beat depression.
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  Any new ones, Oh, definitely, man, definitely, we'll be debuting
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  some some newer tunes. So those of you out there that have heard us
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  and familiar with us, you'll be hearing some new stuff. So yeah,
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  absolutely for the for the rock Beats Depression crew man awesomely well, thanks very
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  much for your time to man being a pressure chat with your rock beast.
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  Depression is only the Mansfield Tabot on September sixteen kickets are through Ostis and likely
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  say. She's for a great cause. So even if you don't like music,
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  get down there and just show your face. Get on it. It's
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  awesome, a great great gradients and I'll be there, made, I'll be
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  there. We'll catch up and we'll over one of those sneaky beers before you
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  get up there, I think so, man, I'll give you a T
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  shirt and some stickers too. Over there and allowing me to do that,
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  I make sure you get one, all right. I'll come up and I'll
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  introduce myself and shake your hand and suits together there. Thanks very much,
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  Chris, I look forward to that, dude,