Hell Of A Band
“This was the first record ever where we were open to the idea of working with others.”
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“This was the first record ever where we were open to the idea of working with others.”
“We were all very hungover, hence the name of the album, so we don’t really have many memories of it at all!”
“Dick Clark mentioned that everyone should go out and buy ‘Rock Doll’, which was the golden stamp because if Dick Clark said that, then it often meant a quarter of a million records sold.”
“It turned out that the song was inspired by the Foo Fighters’ ‘Skin and Bones’.”
“It’s timeless [rockabilly] and it will always be there when all these hipster bands are gone forever.”
“We wanted to reiterate that we hadn’t really gone away and that we hadn’t split-up…”
“…Paul Lovell Newman who, it has to be said, has the appearance of an extra from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’.”
“We were saying yesterday that it’s almost based on The Simpsons when Homer Simpson goes to Las Vegas and gets married!”
“I guess because we’re so far away that Australians have a different kinda twist on the whole scene whereby we do things differently to other countries.”
We’re all [rockabilly scene] covered in tattoos and we all grease our hair and wear clothes that make people look at us in a really weird way, but when you get inside a club or a party you feel like you belong.
It is not only the music of the Wild Ones that compels, largely consisting of their own compositions, but the fact that the band brings something slightly different to the rockin’ scene.