So, I have been trying to postpone this post so I could get more info on the latest shows but I'm giving up. If you've been there and would like to share your stuff feel free to email me (andrealmeneses@hotmail.com).

Shall we work with what we have then, right? Besides some not very meaningful news like Nic selling his flat in St. Kilda (there's even his address on the article, but no girls, I'm not posting it!), we have Chris being nominated for a APRA award for "Song of the Year" with "She's a Genius". The awarding is in June 21st.

On March 27st the band played a much awaited show in Texas, at the Caesar's Palace:















Cold Hard Bitch - Caesar's Palace, Texas


Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Caesar's Palace, Texas


And now I've got leave cause there's a barbiecue waiting for me, so I leave you with a good Mark interview for Mlive.com and a special video below:




Mark Wilson, the bassist for the Australian rock band Jet, has a habit of remembering “weird” shows. That includes a gig performing for Olympians at this year’s winter festivities.

“It was cool but it was a weird one,” Wilson said via telephone from Los Angeles. “The weird ones are always the fun ones. You do a million gigs but the weird ones are the ones that stand out in your mind. It was freezing cold. We were doing a gig in the freezing cold when usually it’s the opposite. It’s usually boiling hot. You’re in a theater or whatever and there are hot lights. It was freezing cold and it was raining on us. The crowd was also dressed in snow gear and they’re all from all over the world. Everyone had a different kind of flag. It was great. Normally, you can’t tell where people are from. You just look out and see people. At the Olympics, everyone’s wearing their country’s colors. Even when you go out to the bar, everyone was wearing their country’s colors. It was pretty fun. You could tell instantly where people were from because it was literally on their face."

The band is playing a handful of dates in North America, including one on Monday at The Machine Shop. Wilson had heard of Flint, but not necessarily The Machine Shop, a renowned club among heavy metal musicians.

“I’ve heard of (Flint) through Michael Moore documentaries,” Wilson said with a laugh. Upon being told about The Machine Shop, Wilson added, “I love those gigs when the promoter or owner just loves music and loves having bands around. They really take care of you. Some places don’t take care of you. They give you a (crappy) dressing room. You can really tell when a place loves bands and musicians being there. That’s your life. When you’re on tour, the dressing room, the venue and how you’re treated are the ups and downs of your day. There’s nothing, you live on a tour bus and it’s great if somebody’s putting in the effort to do something nice for you.”

The band is on tour supporting its album “Shaka Rock,” which was released in August of last year. It marks the first time Jet has produced its own record.

“We made it in Austin, Texas,” Wilson said. “It’s our third record and it’s the first that we’ve produced. That was a great experience but also stressful. You’re accountable. It’s a great thing to be able to do yourself, but you have the final word. So it can be scary, too.”

Wilson explained it was challenging because all four members in the band — which also includes Nic Cester (vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, tambourine), Cameron Muncey (lead guitar, backing vocals) and Chris Cester (drums, percussion, backing vocals, guitar) — have very different personalities.

“We’re not a band who has one guy who writes all the song and the other guys just play,” he said. “We’ve got four guys who write songs. You’ve got to work on four opinions there. It can take awhile to get to the answer or to resolve a problem or whatever. Everyone is pretty opinionated and everyone has their own ideas.”

Because all four members pen songs, the songwriting process changes for each tune.

“For example, with ‘She’s a Genius,’ Chris pretty much had everything done, except for some guitar bits and maybe some bass bits,” Wilson said. “Most of it was there like the lyrics and everything. A song like ‘Times Like This’ was written with all of us in a room, ‘I’ve got this bit.’ ‘I’ve got that bit.’ ‘Oh I’ve got this other bit.’ Literally, all four of us wrote all four parts of that song.”

Perhaps that’s why Jet songs are so varied, he said. They vary from straight-ahead rockers (“Are You Gonna Be My Girl”) to Beatlesque ballads (“Look What You’ve Done”).

“We don’t really do just one thing,” Wilson said. “Sometimes it’s maybe to our detriment. That’s just who we are. We get bored I guess. We’ve always been like this.”

The shows change just as Jet’s music does. Instead of relying on one set list, the band will mix it up to keep it fresh.

“We’re going to be doing our thing,” Wilson said about The Machine Shop show. “We’ll be playing our show like we always do. I think we’re going to play a good amount of songs this time. We worked on a really good set list over the past year. It’s got a lot of new stuff, but it’s not going to be one of those things where people just get up, play all their new songs and B-sides. We like to play songs that people like to hear. All the old ones that people love as well. We don't really plan out a show. Some bands will have it all choreographed and stuff. Maybe we’re lazy. We don’t bother with any of the choreographing of stage moves. We’d get bored if we had to do the same thing every night.”

Tchau.