Tell us about your music - how did you develop your sound?

We grew from the humble beginnings of a Fremantle busking duo after feeling rather insignificant sans a band kicking it with a battery powered Casio keyboard doing all the dirty bossa novas.  We decided to surround ourselves with as many wonderful musos as possible so every gig could feel like a big ol’ (dirty bastard) party.  But teaspoons of rider beer later, we settled down with eight members each bringing an eclectic variety of influences to the table, which has all helped and contribute to what our sound is today.  Whilst we’re always evolving; essentially we write feel good epic pop songs entwined with afro electro, hip hop, ska, dub and big band music; all key ingredients in the pot.  But when it comes to the crunch, we simply like to create a fun party vibe for our audience that can lift spirits and make everyone feel happy.

What can the audience expect at a gig?

We’ve made a name for ourselves with the live show so if you bring big grins and shoes with fair bounce; we’ll provide something a little bit mad, quite often incoherent but always catchy and full of excess energy.  When we started out as a band we had one main rule, and that was to boycott the motionless stage presence with the idea that the sooner you jump around like idiots not giving a shit; the sooner you’re audience will as well.  One of our emcees Rezide also brings a lot of fire to the stage and extensive damage to our percussion rigs.  When we played at the campus band comp finals on the gold coast at Sea World a couple of years back, The Doctor told him “you’re one crazy motherf***er!”  It got worse…

How is it working as an orchestra – how do you manage rehearsing etc.

Our conductor resigned, the tuba player jumped off a ferry and our guitarists strummed their wayward ways into the horizon singing ‘oh what a night’; but somehow eight of us manage to meet at the very least once every couple of weeks; just out of a shared love of avoiding a ‘career’ path.

What’s coming up in the 2011?

We kicked off the year supporting Arrested Development on NYE and played at WA’s Southbound Festival; and we’re continuing the exciting trend with some more festival slots lined up, including the Perth leg of Future Music, Fairbridge, Nannup and some other potentials in the works.  We’ve also got an east coast tour pencilled in for around July (Melbourne / Sydney folk start spreading the word and if we can get a grant hopefully more cities too) and we’ll also release our debut EP sometime mid year amongst much, much more.

Australian music is?

So fulfilling.  For us living in Perth, our lives are forever entertained with first class local music day in day out blowing our socks off; so apply that on a national level and you’ve got yourself a pretty decent slice of aussie pie.