Five minutes with Grafton Primary

Vocalist Joshua Garden from indie dance trio Grafton Primary takes five minutes out of his pre-tour schedule to talk to Corker about his band’s debut album Eon, raising children and why his brother Ben is the sexiest of them all.
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Corker Radio: Plastic Palace Alice Interview

Angus Paterson chats to Huw Murdoch from Melbourne band Plastic Palace Alice about their debut album The Great Depression. Listen to the exclusive Corker Radio interview here.

British India lose their innocence

Their eldest band member is only 22 years old, but British India are already looking back longingly on their “golden years”. Frontman Declan Melia explains.

Interview by Michael Huynh

“I think being 22 is such an interesting time in your life,” Melia says when describing the song “Golden Years” off their latest album release, Thieves.

“You move out and you’re faced with all these questions. You start to think about your future. Friends of mine are starting to finish uni and getting jobs and you start to wonder what your life is going to be like. People start to have less time for stuff and the innocence is gone – that’s what ‘Golden Years’ is about.”

Look out for the full feature and exclusive pics in Corker when Issue 3 comes out in October.

Photo by Ashley Mar

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. [Read more]

Midnight Juggernauts bridge the great divide

If you’re an old school rock fan who doesn’t rate dance music, chances are you’ve been finding it increasingly difficult staying on your side of the divide, thanks to crossover acts such as Midnight Juggernauts.

By Angus Paterson

The summer of 2008 was always set to be at least partly owned by Midnight Juggernauts. Given a brief moment last year to exhale after an extensive tour of North America and Europe, they were flung headfirst into headline slots at the Meredith and Falls festivals in Victoria, Sydney’s Field Day and then, in January, a place on the travelling circus that is the Big Day Out, Australia’s biggest and most enduring music event. In March, they say goodbye to our country and the summer with the Farewell Australia Tour. [Read more]

Cut Off Your Hands - Say Yeah!

They haven’t even released their first LP, yet Cut Off Your Hands have already charmed the New York and London music scenes, broken limbs, and got into almost as many fights as they have piss ups. So how are the new darlings of indie rock adjusting to spiralling fame?

By Lizza Gebilagin

Philip Hadfield, bassist and self-professed number two drinker of Cut Off Your Hands, can pinpoint the exact moment when their destiny went from recording in home studios to strutting around the world in tight new jeans thanks to their Levi’s owned record label Levity. [Read more]