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Perth MusicA Decade Today Interview
A Decade Today are a melodic/post hardcore rock band from Perth who have been playing music together for several years. A Decade Today has an original sound consisting of melodic passages coloured with vocal and guitar harmony, heavily contrasted with brutal, disjointed sections of carefully structured chaos, delivered with raw, honest intensity. Soon to be recording their first EP, Perthmusic caught up with guitarists Wayne and Damian for a chat.
Q. So where did the name for the band come from?
Damo: It came from my tattoo, which I got for my Grandpa who died. Later I was explaining to the boys that it was a decade that day since he had died, hence the band name A Decade Today.
Q. What bands have had the greatest influence on you and who are your favorite bands at the moment?
Damo: I think the bands that have influenced us all as a group is Beloved, Thrice, Thursday, well myself and our singer/bass player Steve anyhow.
Wayne: Yeah, the bands that have influenced our sound the most would be those three, but as for favorite bands, they probably wouldn’t sound much like what the band sounds like and the list would be really long.
Q. Ok, your ultimate gig to play? Who would you play with, where would it be, and who would you be playing to?
Wayne: I’d like to play to a crowd of midgets, just to make myself feel really big.
Damo: I’d like to play at that castle the Chilli Peppers played at…
Wayne: Slane Castle…
Damo: Yeah… with Beloved, Thrice, Metallica and the Dixie Chicks
Wayne: Yeah… the Dixie Chicks…
Q. What plans do you have for the band in the upcoming months?
Wayne: We’re going to be recording an EP soon and we’re playing a few festival shows down south as well as organizing a small tour to Geraldton with a few bands that we play with and organize shows with a lot. Then we are playing a show on a boat on the Swan River, ‘Revert On The River’. Should be an interesting couple of months…
Q. If you could have written any song, what song do you wish you had written?
Damo: I wish I had written Stairway to Heaven because everybody knows that song, it’s one of the most famous songs ever.
Wayne: I wish I’d written Classical Gas, because its just so cool.
Q. What are some of your favorite venues in Perth to play?
Wayne: The Swan basement is good, and Mojos.
Damo: I really like playing at castlerock, the kids down there fucking rule man..
Wayne: Yeah anywhere down in Rockingham, the kids go nuts….
Q. What is you favorite A Decade Today Song?
Damo: A new song called ‘Abigale’ otherwise, ‘Strange Turn Of Events’.
Wayne: Yeah, ‘Strange Turn Of Events’, or ‘For We Are Not Here’. They are good songs to play live because they have energy and the crowd gets into it more.
Q. How often do you write songs? What percentage of those do you end up keeping? What’s the song writing process like?
Damo: I write songs whenever I pick the guitar up, it’s a matter of liking what comes out enough to keep it.
Wayne: We jam on a lot of new stuff all of the time and filter out what doesn’t fit into the song we’re trying to write and maybe save it for another song.
Q. Anything you’d like to add or plug?
Wayne: Revert On The River, May 27th , $25, Streetlight, Anime Fire, A Decade Today, SixteenSixteen and Pride Before Fall. All on the swan river. Value for money! www.revertentertainment.com for more details.
Damo: Also check out our Myspace www.myspace.com/adtband. Leave us a message and maybe you’ll be lucky and get a free breast massage!
Interview by Mandy Jones
