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If you live in Melbourne, and are a guitar-driven live music enthusiast, we're sure that you already know all about East Brunswick All Girls Choir. If you are but you don't know them, they please weep horrible tears of ignorance, or at least read this interview so you can sound really with it the next time you're trying to impress your fellow gig-going friends at The Workers Club or wherever it is you hang out.
The reason why they're one of Melbourne's best unsigned gems is their music. Here are a bunch of shoegaze, noise kids who don't do pretentious or self-indulgent. They released an EP called Dead Air some time back which left a trail of dropped jaws in their wake (here's what the Mess+Noise crowd had to say), and you should definitely start saving up for round two of jaw surgery because we heard it from a small bird that there'll be a new record in a few months.
The caption for this on their MySpace is "Gullfuck".
Paper-Deer asks main vocalist, guitarist and resident-dead-panned-onstage-banter-person Marcus Hobbs some annoying questions.
Does the name “East Brunswick All Girls Choir” get confusing since there’s only one girl, you’re not really a choir and none of you have ever lived in East Brunswick?
There has been a fair amount of occasions where we have turned up to a venue and explained who we were, probably something to do with trying to get free drinks and they seem astonished that there isn’t actually a girls choir. I used to drive through East Brunswick, I’ve been everywhere.
Do you get asked that a lot?
I expected it.
Why the name change from Smokin Hot Bitch?
It’s just not appropriate really, I don’t actually mind that name as such but for the music that was rolling along with it the title didn’t really work and it was in every sense pretty stupid.
I noticed that all of your Dead Air EP covers are different. Mine has a rat on it. Did you all have to painstakingly make different covers for every copy?
Yeah we do but it’s not actually that much effort. I think for the next release I’ll be sticking with a set cover design though. We poach all the materials from our work spaces though so it turns out to be really really cheap to make CDs up... but that is countered by the fact that you have to sit there and make the CDs up.
Why was Dead Air recorded over just one sitting?
Money.
Was Thanks For the Fucking Job written in response to a particular job?
Ahhh it’s not really about a job at all but I think I had written it perhaps just after starting a new job. I was rolling home on the train and saw two transient looking fuckers drinking Woodstocks and having a blast. They seemed happier than every other dog on the train in a suit. I think the title comes from knowing that you will eventually have to work and be grateful for getting work but generally it’s all a big shit in the mouth.
How would you describe the East Brunswick All Girls Choir sound?
I think we’ve turned into a loud band, somehow. Which is fine but there’s some blues elements with noise and maybe some folk. Perhaps even a stoner rock bass line here and there. They’re just songs, just songs played by us.
There’s the three of you, and then there are a whole lot of drummers. Why the rotating percussionists?
We keep picking drummers who end up in the following months to have a million engagements. The problem is there are a fair few drummers in Melbourne but only a handful who I really want to play with. Basically, good drummers are already taken or too busy. But we want them.
Any embarrassing secrets or funny stories about East Brunswick All Girls Choir that you’d like to share with Paper-Deer?
There is too much disgrace to even get started.
DATES:
- July 31: Builders Arms
- August 20: The Empress Hotel
- East Brunswick All Girls Choir Facebook
- East Brunswick All Girls Choir MySpace
- East Brunswick All Girls Choir on Triple J Unearthed
- Shoot an email to eastbrunswickallgirlschoir[at]gmail.com for your own copy of Dead Air to play obsessively.
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