Me And The Grown-Ups q'n'a
By Andrew P Street
What are you up to? We're touring right around Australia, playing nine cities in 15 days, to launch our new single, 'My Perfect Storm'. It features full orchestra, electronica beats, choir and accordion, along with our usual guitar, viola and vocal harmonies, and we felt it deserved a similarly bombastic itinerary. We're also introducing our music to new audiences around Oz; no-one else is doing the classical-pop blend quite like us so it's important for us to perform for people who haven't heard it before.
Why should people get along to your show? Well, our music is nice and there's nothing else like it on (until the next time we play in Sydney), if you're up for something different you'll definitely want to come along. We're devilishly funny and attractive as well, I mean, look at the photo: Anita even cuts a sexy cadaver, imagine what she's like ‘live'.
What's the best pub/venue/bar/restaurant in Sydney, and why? Any pub that has us playing in it immediately triples its cred. I'm not a Sydnarian, but Micky's Café on Oxford St. has fed me beautifully more than twice, and the Basement is incredibly atmospheric: you can feel that so much love for music has been expressed there and it was a real honour for us to play there last year.
What's the best joke you've heard recently? If you put it on your website you'd be filtered out by every NetNanny known to man - it was fantastically obscene! (I may tell it at the Vanguard on July 9th, you never know...). Printing it might get your magazine suspended for two weeks and your head of comedy replaced, you know how these things go nowadays...
Xbox 360 vs Wii vs PS3: who wins? As a fan of classical music I'm still tossing up between kraps, dice and marbles...
What's the best song about Sydney, and why? The Whitlams: 'You Gotta Love this City', for its body and not its brain, apparently... though I like to spend a little more time with someone before reaching those conclusions.
Me And The Grown-Ups play at the Vanguard on Thu 9 July.
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