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THIS IS NOT A DRILL, PSYCHADELIC PORN CRUMPETS ARE DOING A SUPER SPECIAL ONE OFF SHOW AT THE EVELYN HOTEL
ORIGINALLY FORMED AS A UNI COURSE SOLO PROJECT FOR MCEWAN, WHO MOVED TO THE BARN WHILE “TRYING TO LIVE THE BOHEMIAN LIFE… UNTIL I RAN OUT OF INTERNET”, PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS’ NIGHT-LONG JAM SESSIONS AND UNCONVENTIONAL ABODES ARE JUST THE TIP OF THEIR ICEBERG OF HAPPY ACCIDENTS. HE AND FELLOW BANDMATE AND GUITARIST LUKE PARISH MET THROUGH A “LOCAL COURIER”, WHILE THEIR UPCOMING RECORD ‘HIGH VISCERAL’ – A RIOTOUS STOMP OF PSYCH-ROCK ESCAPISM – WAS INSPIRED BY THE MOST UNLIKELY OF SITUATIONS: THEIR TIME AS TRADIES, WORKING ON BUILDING SITES. THE TWO THEN TEAMED UP WITH DANNY CADDY & LUKE REYNOLDS, COMPLETING THE LINE-UP. J
ACK AND PALS NEEDED SOMETHING VISCERAL. “WE TOOK THE HARDER APPROACH – BIG RIFFS,” HE SAYS WITH AN AUDIBLE GRIN, “WHEN YOU’RE ON A SITE FOR SIX DAYS A WEEK, IT’S NICE TO GET BACK IN THE EVENING AND GO ‘RAAAAARGH’ INTO A MIC.” THAT PRIMAL, INTUITIVE STYLE FOLLOWED THEM THROUGH TO THEIR LIVE SHOWS, WHICH WOULD SEE THE BAND WRITING A SONG ONE EVENING, AND PLAYING IT IN THE LOCAL PUBS THE FOLLOWING NIGHT, INCITING MOSH-PITS AND WIG-OUTS WITH BARELY A PAUSE FOR BREATH.
THAT UNFORGETTABLE NAME IS YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THEIR GO-IT-ALONE APPROACH - “I WANTED SOMETHING MEMORABLE LIKE MARMITE – YOU EITHER LOVE IT OR YOU HATE IT,” LAUGHS JACK. CRACKING A BEER AND PREPARING FOR ANOTHER EVENING IN HIS BASEMENT STUDIO, HE PARAPHRASES AN ESSAY BY FELLOW PERTH RESIDENT NICK ALLBROOK OF POND AS KEY TO HIS MUSICAL MINDSET: “EVERYONE CALLS PERTH THE MOST ISOLATED CITY, AND YOU KIND OF ARE… YOU’RE UNAFFECTED BY GREAT ARCHITECTURE, OR 1000 YEARS OF HISTORY, SO YOU WANT TO CREATE YOUR OWN TALE.” ONE THING’S FOR SURE - THE PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS’ TALE IS ALREADY ONE FOR THE AGES.
