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We asked Sydney band Glass Towers a quick 6 questions ahead of their FUSE festival gig tomorrow night. Tickets are only $5, perfect! It’s kicking off at the Adelaide Fringe Club (Rymill Park) tomorrow night at 11.50pm so head on down and spend your Friday watching live music! #chyeah
Scroll below the photos for the q & a’s!
Glass Towers was originally a solo act, that then became a four piece. How did it all come about?
Glass Towers was the name I used to release the songs I was recording in my bedroom, I grew sick of being a bedroom musician so the band was formed as a way of taking the songs to a live setting.
Neil Finn selected you to tour with him with his new act Pajama Club. How did it feel to have an artist of that calibre personally choose you for tour support?
We were stunned when our management told us that he had selected us, it came completely out of the blue and I think it took us all by surprise!
How did the name ‘Glass Towers’ become the name you chose for your band?
There’s no story or anything special to tell about the name, I just couldn’t think of anything else and so I stuck to “Glass Towers”. Can’t really remember how I thought of it either. I don’t think band names are that important anyway. I mean look at “Arctic Monkeys”, that’s got to be one of the worst band names ever but they’re doing alright aren’t they.
What/whos is your biggest musical influence?
Our influence list is way too long to write down here and I don’t really think I could whittle the list down to just one big influence. But for the sake of the question I really love The Smiths and Interpol.
You released a single ‘Jumanji’ earlier this month, is this relective of what we can expect from your debut album?
Yeah I guess that’s the general “sound” of the album, there’s some darker sounding songs on there but also some even brighter ones when I think about it.
What’s your favourite Australian live music venue and why?
Funnily enough it’s actually The Northern in Byron Bay. It’s where we played our first few shows and back then I didn’t think there was anything special about the place. But now that we’ve played all around the country and performed in a fair few different venues I’ve realised that no other place has that same vibe or feeling about it. The stage is nice and big and the sound system is amazing which is something you really miss when your on stage at a sub par venue somewhere struggling to hear yourself sing. Also I saw the best show of my life there, Foals last year, was magical…
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