The second coming of Cut Copy

Along with just a small handful of bands who’ve been most successful in bringing rock together with dance music, Australia’s Cut Copy are your quintessential indie/electro band. But don’t mistake that for saying they’re your ‘average’ indie/electro band. Instead, they’ve been responsible for creating the blueprint everyone else has tried to follow. It’s been a while between drinks, but in 2008 the ‘Cutters’ are back with a national tour to show the wannabes how it’s done.

By Angus Paterson

“We’re actually in Texas at the moment,” Tim Hoey says down the phone line. Hoey plays guitar with Cut Copy, and was largely responsible for bringing such an authentic indie rock sound to the group when he hooked up with vocalist, dance music producer and founding member Dan Whitford in Melbourne back in 2003 (drummer Mitchell Scott joined shortly after). But it’s where Hoey is located that throws me off just a little as we begin our conversation, because at the time of speaking, Cut Copy’s sophomore album In Ghost Colours is on the cusp of its Australian release. You’d expect that they’d be locked and loaded back home for local promotional duties. Not so. But this demonstrates just how international the band’s appeal is.

“I think we’ve kind of neglected our overseas audience for a year or so,” Hoey says. “We were so busy in Australia touring last year,” he says referring to the extensive touring the band did after unveiling a special sneak peak of the album, “Hearts on Fire”. But whether their international fans were feeling neglected or not, it was something the band quickly rectified after we finished talking. Barely flying back into the country to unveil In Ghost Colours with a few shows at the V Festival across the country, the boys hopped straight back on a plane for an extended bout of touring across the UK, Europe and America. Which all emphasises the fact that for a band with as much appeal as Cut Copy, it ain’t just about the Australian market anymore.

Read the full story in Corker Issue 2: Winter 2008

Tour Dates

4 June 2008 - The Forum, Melbourne
5 June 2008 - The Forum, Melbourne
6 June 2008 - The Forum, Melbourne
7 June 2008 - WrestPoint Entertainment Centre, Hobart
8 June 2008 - The Batman Fawkner Inn, Launceston
12 June 2008 - HQ Complex, Adelaide
13 June 2008 - The Capitol, Perth
14 June 2008 - The Capitol, Perth
18 June 2008 - The Great Northern, Byron Bay
19 June 2008 - Coolangatta Hotel, Gold Coast
20 June 2008 - The Tivoli, Brisbane
21 June 2008 - The Enmore Theatre, Sydney

Photo courtesy of Cut Copy