Star Assassin on East Coast Tour
Melbourne’s Star Assassin will this weekend bring some good old fashioned rock to Brisbane when they play the Globe on Saturday night. After captivating audiences in Melbourne, Sydney and all around this fine land of ours, the Star Assassin boys have recently released a new single ’sickness’ on iTunes, and have been met with an overwhelming response.
If you like your music with depth, you’ll love Star Assasssin.
Sarah caught up with lead singer Simon for a chat about what’s coming up for this exciting Victorian band.
1. You’ve got an East Coast tour coming up which is exciting? How does playing on tour differ from playing in your hometown of Melbourne?
A lot of driving and the fact that we are no longer in Melbourne are the two most apparent things to me, but apart from a bit of site seeing and trying not to eat large amounts of take away road food, all the shows are great and the fans make the road a nice place to be.
2. Your new single ‘Sickness’ was released on iTunes May 10 – congratulations! It’s got a harder edge than some of your other tracks. Describe the new sound to us, and why you went in this direction.
“Sickness” is basically a song for the band to rock out live with our core fans. After we started with our new drummer “Mike White” we basically just wanted to put some heavy rock out, which was also raw and edgy with no plans for radio etc, just print media and touring and then we planned to sit down and record all the more everything friendly stuff, but we just had to get this out of our system first before the album was recorded.
3. You’ve had some sync deals and also some placements with Men’s magazine samplers Ralph and Zoo. How did these come about? How do you feel about sync in general – is this the way a lot of musicians will be heading?
I have strong views in relation to the direction the music industry should go especially for savvy independent artists and that’s the exact direction it’s already heading. I think already and more so in the future that people will find and hear about their music from many, many sources, of course where there is a nice harmonious market there will always be some corporation wanting to control it… I could go on forever.
4. What’s been your favourite moment as a band so far?
Honestly, no one moment sticks out, it’s all one ride for me.
5. What’s next for Star Assassin?
Tour, Media, Shows, Repeat.
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