Perth Music

Calerway are a local band set for big things in the music industry. They have only existed for a few years but individually JP, Chedda, Riley and Cam have grown and matured to become a band that is ready to take on the world head on. They have released two EP’s and have their debut, as yet untitled, album ready for release next month. Lead singer/guitarist JP caught up with Justin Middleton for this exclusive interview.

“We’ve been together for about three years and formed purely from a bunch of different bands, it wasn’t really a side project but we all left our other bands. We then recorded our first EP without playing our first show yet. We then did a whole lot of shows and last year we didn’t do too many to concentrate on recording. We will be launching our album in May which was engineered by Adam Spark (Birds of Tokyo)”

A bunch of songs from the upcoming album are available on the bands MySpace page (www.myspace.com/calerway) and I asked JP to explain the process the band went through when recording. “We tried something different for the recording of the album. All our other recording have been layered but for our demos for the album we tried them all live and they all actually sounded better. So for us it just made sense to do the album that way and it’s cheaper too. We went down to Margaret River and booked out a big house, put all the amps into a room and rocked it.”

“We recorded three songs last year which were supposed to be on the album, kinda the first little batch. But after we did that we ended up writing a whole bunch of new songs so the first three didn’t even end up on the album. So all the songs on the album are basically new except for 1 or maybe 2.”

The band have planned a few album launches around Perth in May (dates available below) and I asked JP if there was any planned touring for the East Coast as well. “We are looking to do some touring from July. We have one run booked but we know that you need to do a few runs in a tour to make it successful. We booked some shows and went over East a couple years ago and, here’s some advice for other bands, it was a waste of money. We didn’t promote it and it was just like going to the pub in Perth when nobody know about it and nobody cares. Now we are going to push it properly and promote it properly. So bands that are thinking of going over East to play shows just for the sake of it, don’t do it. Use your money on something else and do it when are really ready.”

Calerway’s debut album is available in May 2008.

You can catch the band playing at the following dates:
19 April - Private Function for EatingWA (www.eatingwa.com.au)
2 May - UWA
7 May - The Foundry, Cannington
8 May - The Breakwater, Hillarys
9 May - HQ (AA), Leederville
10 May - Amplifier Bar, Perth
11 May - Mojo’s, Fremantle

For more info on Calerway visit their MySpace page - www.myspace.com/calerway

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