The southern river band
with
Callum Kramer
I heard The Southern River Band is a bunch of red necks from Thornlie. Can you tell me who makes up this four piece posse?
Well that all depends on how sunburnt we are at any given time, if you let Jase fall asleep at the beach he’ll wake up 6 hours later with a neck as red as a smacked arse and be able to pick the Banjo like a 4 year old picks a nose. But yeah, you’ve got Jase on Guitar, Ace Dindar on Bass and Shouty Man, Carlo ‘Problem Solved’ Romeo on Drums, and me on Cal sorta just giving it a red hot go.
Name three bands you dig so our readers know where you're coming from.
Narrowing it down to only 3 is pretty hard, but, I’d have to say David Lee Roth’s Van Halen, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble. I like to think that our band is somewhat a really really shitty amalgam of these guys, but, then again, I also like to think Dave’s gonna come down to Lakers for a couple one day. So make of that what you will.
Now name three bands you dislike (hate).
See now 3 here is reaaaaaaal hard. I’ll start at the top, U2, can’t fucking stand them. Van Hagar, Sammy is great on his own or in other bands but he knew full well what was happening to Van Halen and he just stood there and let it happen. Lastly I’d have to say Red Engine Caves.
Home recording is becoming a much more common and affordable way of laying your tracks down. How've you found driving the machine at home with 100% creative control as opposed to a studio environment with someone telling you what to do?
From a technology viewpoint my knowledge is, ah, ‘extremely limited’ so it’s been a real big learning curve the whole way through, and its only getting bigger, but there’s pro’s and con’s with everything, having zero moneys means doing it from home is kinda the only option at times too. The freedoms great, but at the same time, all that matters really is the quality of the product at the end of the day, if it sounds like shit, it doesn’t matter where it’s done, it still sounds like shit, and vice versa.
SRB has been hitting some regional shows lately, give us a detailed timeline of being on the road with the Bandits, from leaving home to arriving home.
Alarm goes off about 10:30, check the gram and that, then start calling around to find out where the boys ended up. Regroup, rehydrate, load up the rigs, do up a few new mix tapes for the earholes, and head off to wherever we’re going with enough time to get there allowing for everything to go wrong at any given time. Check out a coupla the finer servo’s some of these towns have to offer, have a decent look at the menu, spend a good half an hour mulling over whether to go with the lukewarm beef pie, or the lukewarm sausage roll as is the extent of most of the culinary options available. Piss, head back out on the road, Arrive at the venue (hopefully), say the g’days that need to be said, locate the rider, make full use of the rider, set up, serenade the people, try and locate another rider, head back on home. Rinse & repeat.
I think people have the wrong idea about Thornlie, it's such a nice place. I remember the first time we walked to McDonalds from your house and ended up spending 45 minutes hiding in someone's front yard waiting for some heavies to get out of our way. What's your take on it.
Yeah, but thats just the Friday Night Fight Night crowd at Lakers, are you gonna argue with them? I’m not, I was quite happy in that bush waiting for them to pass. You really get to meet all types out here though man, and I mean the best of the best and the worst of the worst. But at the end of the day, its all entertaining, and you’ve just gotta take it as what it is. You learn a hell of a lot when it all boils down though, because of the - I dunno if, "cultural" is the right word, but definitely the diversity that the mighty 6108 provides. It’s all education.
Your arch nemesis Outback Cal has been off the radar for a while, I even heard he skipped town. If you had one last thing to say to that man, what would it be?
Whispers are he might be making a comeback or sorts, but I’d say - Fuck Outback Cal (please)
Which bands in Perth are doin' it good right now?
Man, Old Blood are my favourite band hands up/down/ sideways, but theres some killer bands getting even more killererer, the ones i’m digging hard are Apollo's Son, Wheelers of Oz, The Durongs and Teischa! Paying money to see a band is still paying money and that’s something i don’t really have, but i’ll fork out to see these guys any day of the week!
Oh and The Southern River Band and Red Engine Caves. DEFINITELY ALWAYS GO TO SEE THE SOUTHERN RIVER BAND AND RED ENGINE CAVES, ALWAYS.
The Southern River Band's debut album will be out soon!
Well that all depends on how sunburnt we are at any given time, if you let Jase fall asleep at the beach he’ll wake up 6 hours later with a neck as red as a smacked arse and be able to pick the Banjo like a 4 year old picks a nose. But yeah, you’ve got Jase on Guitar, Ace Dindar on Bass and Shouty Man, Carlo ‘Problem Solved’ Romeo on Drums, and me on Cal sorta just giving it a red hot go.
Name three bands you dig so our readers know where you're coming from.
Narrowing it down to only 3 is pretty hard, but, I’d have to say David Lee Roth’s Van Halen, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble. I like to think that our band is somewhat a really really shitty amalgam of these guys, but, then again, I also like to think Dave’s gonna come down to Lakers for a couple one day. So make of that what you will.
Now name three bands you dislike (hate).
See now 3 here is reaaaaaaal hard. I’ll start at the top, U2, can’t fucking stand them. Van Hagar, Sammy is great on his own or in other bands but he knew full well what was happening to Van Halen and he just stood there and let it happen. Lastly I’d have to say Red Engine Caves.
Home recording is becoming a much more common and affordable way of laying your tracks down. How've you found driving the machine at home with 100% creative control as opposed to a studio environment with someone telling you what to do?
From a technology viewpoint my knowledge is, ah, ‘extremely limited’ so it’s been a real big learning curve the whole way through, and its only getting bigger, but there’s pro’s and con’s with everything, having zero moneys means doing it from home is kinda the only option at times too. The freedoms great, but at the same time, all that matters really is the quality of the product at the end of the day, if it sounds like shit, it doesn’t matter where it’s done, it still sounds like shit, and vice versa.
SRB has been hitting some regional shows lately, give us a detailed timeline of being on the road with the Bandits, from leaving home to arriving home.
Alarm goes off about 10:30, check the gram and that, then start calling around to find out where the boys ended up. Regroup, rehydrate, load up the rigs, do up a few new mix tapes for the earholes, and head off to wherever we’re going with enough time to get there allowing for everything to go wrong at any given time. Check out a coupla the finer servo’s some of these towns have to offer, have a decent look at the menu, spend a good half an hour mulling over whether to go with the lukewarm beef pie, or the lukewarm sausage roll as is the extent of most of the culinary options available. Piss, head back out on the road, Arrive at the venue (hopefully), say the g’days that need to be said, locate the rider, make full use of the rider, set up, serenade the people, try and locate another rider, head back on home. Rinse & repeat.
I think people have the wrong idea about Thornlie, it's such a nice place. I remember the first time we walked to McDonalds from your house and ended up spending 45 minutes hiding in someone's front yard waiting for some heavies to get out of our way. What's your take on it.
Yeah, but thats just the Friday Night Fight Night crowd at Lakers, are you gonna argue with them? I’m not, I was quite happy in that bush waiting for them to pass. You really get to meet all types out here though man, and I mean the best of the best and the worst of the worst. But at the end of the day, its all entertaining, and you’ve just gotta take it as what it is. You learn a hell of a lot when it all boils down though, because of the - I dunno if, "cultural" is the right word, but definitely the diversity that the mighty 6108 provides. It’s all education.
Your arch nemesis Outback Cal has been off the radar for a while, I even heard he skipped town. If you had one last thing to say to that man, what would it be?
Whispers are he might be making a comeback or sorts, but I’d say - Fuck Outback Cal (please)
Which bands in Perth are doin' it good right now?
Man, Old Blood are my favourite band hands up/down/ sideways, but theres some killer bands getting even more killererer, the ones i’m digging hard are Apollo's Son, Wheelers of Oz, The Durongs and Teischa! Paying money to see a band is still paying money and that’s something i don’t really have, but i’ll fork out to see these guys any day of the week!
Oh and The Southern River Band and Red Engine Caves. DEFINITELY ALWAYS GO TO SEE THE SOUTHERN RIVER BAND AND RED ENGINE CAVES, ALWAYS.
The Southern River Band's debut album will be out soon!