The Inches play Ric’s Thursday 25 January 2007, The Pavilion Friday 26 January 2007 and The ChopHouse Saturday 27 January 2007.
Myspace hackers beware! Be careful who you pick on, do your research before breaking into someone’s account – and for the love of God, stay away from The Inches!
“Yeah we had our account hacked recently,” singer/guitarist Andrew Fruze laughs. “There’s a little cheeky bug going around where a little pop-up goes to the sign-up window and they get your user name and password and they send out Viagra shit to all your fans and stuff. I’m a bit of a pedantic bastard so I tried to track them down, found him and wrote a blog exposing him to all. I’m not endorsing the product though – everything’s alright downstairs, don’t worry.”
Viagra aside, you only have to visit this Melbourne band’s website to see they clearly have a sense of humour, and with a hot new self-titled EP brimming with ballsy rock sounds and a current tour, you’ll get plenty of opportunity to see this for yourselves.
“We all share a mistrust of bands who stare at their own feet and take themselves really seriously,” he explains. “I just don’t think that’s why people go out to shows to see live music. We do have serious songs, but we’re pretty much there to have a good time and to make each show a bit special and a bit different.”
Citing classic 70s material as major influences, Fruze explains that while the band’s roots lie in the past, they’re not following in the steps of other retro-rockers.
“One very lazy reviewer called us ‘the first band of the Jet generation’ this week,” he says scornfully. “It’s classic, really, because we sound nothing like them and I think that it’s good to wear your influences on your sleeve, to a point. But I’m yet to meet anyone who pegs all our influences too accurately and I reckon they’re buried enough in there to make it somewhat original and interesting. We have a weird blend of 70s rock stuff, which Wolfmother and Jet ape very, very, very well, but it’s also a mix of 80s pop influences like David Bowie, Talking Heads, Roxy Music and things like that.
“I think the main comparison to Wolfmother is that Manny [Bourakis, drums] has got curly hair, and that every drunk guy at the bar over the age of 35 in regional Australia likes to yell ‘Wolfmother’ whenever we walk into the place,” Fruze laughs. “That is definitely where the comparisons stop, though.”
Self-titled EP out now through Red Label.
