Artist info
Genre
Pop, Punk, Rock
Sounds like
Skegss, Hockey Dad, Good Doogs, White Blanks
band members
Alex Robertson - Tubs Noah Egan - Gits
Influences
Skegss, Hockey Dad, Dear Seattle, Pandamic
Unearthed artists we like
RUBY FIELDS, Skegss, Surf Trash , Milky Thred, Dear Seattle, Slinky Red, DUNE RATS, Quite Like Pete, TOTTY, White Blanks, NOODLE FROTH WHITE WASH
Website
Bio
Debbies from Jervis Bay.
This week on triple j Unearthed we're Featuring Jervis Bay, Unearthed High finalists and this year's Yours & Owls comp winners, Debbies!
Tell us about your music and how did you dvelop you're sound?
We like to think our sound is bright and jangly and sorts of stuff like that. We developed it from drawing heaps of inspiration from artists that could make big sounds such as DZ Deathrays and Violent Soho but then we really frothed the energy and pace of Skegss sides of things so we draw from heaps of stuff. Our greatest source of inspiration in making music has to be just going out and experiencing everything we do together but with a song wrtitng lens on. It’s pretty funny going to parties with each other then by the end of the night having a new song that we have wrote about the stuff we’ve liked about it and stuff we’ve hated. Also we love drawing in the area of Jervis Bay to our inspiration cause it adds a bit of sentiment to it which is sick. If you're expecting a ‘all went to plan’ performance then you're very wrong, we have so many problems and stuff ups but the crowd seems to love it but the energy is always present haha. Definetely a more pissed crowd and a more pissed Debbies is a funner show thats for sure haha.
What’s the best advice you’ve been given and who was it from?
Best advice we have gotten is probably from Robbo’s dad, something like “don't let your heads get big” kinda reminds you not to take it too seriously and that we just love making music for how much fun we have.
You’re the DJ at a party. The dance floor is pumping. What Australian track do you put on next?
Definitely 'Down Under' by Men at Work, gotta put on a song that's going to keep the dance floor pumping let's be honest.
What Australian track would you play to someone to make them cry?
'My Happiness' by Powderfinger definitely gets us in the feels. Ever since music classes in Year 8 we have frothed it and always chuck it on, I reckon you could get someone to cry from it easily.
What was the last local gig you went to? How was it?
Last local gig we went to was at the Husky Community hall, it rarely has any gigs on but this local punk band Rat Coffin was playing and we still look up to them heaps. It’s sick to see how the older guys do it and take ideas for our own shows its punk as. We really want to pack that place out one day, it would mean alot to us.
Tell us about the bands or people in the Jervis Bay music community that inspire you.
There’s only really one band that inspired us to kind of kick off our push for a music scene in the Jervis Bay area and that was Rat Coffin. We went to a gig before we were even Debbies and they just made Robbo and I get so keen to record and start playing shows.
What are your plans for 2019?
For the last end of 2019 we just want to enjoy it, we are finishing up school at the moment then getting right into it at Yours & Owls festival then jumping on the Surf Trash ‘Friends’ tour on the Melbourne and Sydney leg. Hopefully a new single lies on the horizon before the end of the year, which we will then dig into our first EP for hopefully early-mid 2020!
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Debbies are right in gear on this big, hearty, crunchy anthem. It doesn't get better than this!
Debbies are right in gear on this big, hearty, crunchy anthem. It doesn't get better than this!
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a big arm in arm, blood in the throat type singalong from the jervis bay jokers.
a big arm in arm, blood in the throat type singalong from the jervis bay jokers.
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Debbies coming in hot with perspective, big belting guitars and they certainly know how to throw a party while they're at it too. Nice one legends!
Debbies coming in hot with perspective, big belting guitars and they certainly know how to throw a party while they're at it too. Nice one legends!