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Interview for Laptorockers

2011-10-28T14:34:00.000-07:00

Before we go to the interview, let me just recomend you to take a look at Damndogs facebook. They post pics, talk to the fans and give a heads up on what's going on with the band (they don't have interviews though! so don't stop visiting us here!).

So, this website Laptorockers was doing a remix contest of Damndogs songs a few days ago and the band was interviewed. Here it is:

Chris Cester and Mark Wilson already made name & fame as core members of the Australian rock outfit Jet, but have taken a different direction as DAMNDOGS. Completed by longtime friends Mitch McIvor and Louis Macklin, the band doesn't produce rock music à la Jet, but a unique style of their own.

Currently DAMNDOGS are running a remix contest here with us at Laptoprockers, offering a perfect opportunity to have a chat with Chris about what's driving him.

With Jet you guys more or less enjoyed the status of rockstars. The direction you took with DAMDOGS tends more to have an underground scope. How does that feel?

"With DAMNDOGS, people are more interested in the sound we are making than how quickly we 'made it', or how much money we earned or what we are trying to sound like, or any of that crap. It's clearly not in a Jet sort of 'realm', sonically speaking."

Is that why did you started DAMDOGS in the first place - or did you become sort of Jet tired?

"None of those reasons. DAMNDOGS has nothing to do with Jet at all. It started because my cousin Mitch and I had always wanted to make music together and Jet had some time off...so off we went."

Do you think DAMDOGS will get you back into the charts?

"If it did, that would be an incredible coup, given that at the moment the charts are full of formulaic nonsense, it's all the same song to me. No - we are on our own mission. We'd rather have a packed room of people who are having their minds blown than an interview with Matt Lauer. We're winning respect as an interesting band with a great live show, so those are our charts."

Why did you decide to put up 5 brand new tracks in a remix contest?

"We thought it would be a great new way for people to hear the band and also to differentiate DAMNDOGS from Jet. This EP is perfect for remixing, because the tones are cool, and the songs are quite sparse, which means there is plenty of room for imaginative remixers to do something interesting with it."

What do you expect or hope remixers will do with your music?

"Really I think we just want the people involved here to throw away the concept of the original song and give us back something that's inventive and interesting. The winning remix is going on our remix EP, and there are some stellar remixes already going on it, so I'd want people to really push themselves. We're all really excited to hear what people have done with this."

What will be next from DAMNDOGS?

"It's gonna be a big year for DAMNDOGS. We have some festival shows coming up in Australia this summer, which is December....but even before that, we have some more US shows lining up, on the East Coast. Following that, we will be in the studio making an LP. We can't wait to get there...we have 25 songs already and it's only September!!"

The Vine interview

2011-10-24T18:05:00.000-07:00

Damndogs has finished their round of gigs in NYC for the CMJ festival. We don't know what their next steps are gonna be but meanwhile I'll leave you with some pics from their first gig in the city on Oct. 18th, click here to check them out.

Finally, I'll post another interview but before that let me just remind you all that the Damndogs EP "Strange Behaviour" is available on the Itunes here. Don't forget to buy it and leave a review. Now let's take a look on a interview for Thevine.com.au:

Not every drummer is content to sit behind their kit while the band gads about, blissed out by beats as their face contorts into strange concentrative grimaces. Some are itching to get out and take control. Some like Chris Cester from Jet.

With older brother Nic and guitarist Cameron Muncey off enjoying Jet's unspecified hiatus, the almost 30-year-old drummer and songwriter has broken away with bassist Mark Wilson, touring Jet keyboardist Louis Macklin and best friend/cousin Mitch McIver, to form a new band distant from Jet’s radio friendly meat and three veg rock. And this time he’s holding the mic.

After playing their first gig in an LA strip joint, one reviewer slapped DAMNDOGS with a “Gorillaz procreating with PiL” label, and it has to be said there is a similarity between Cester and Johnny Lydon’s curt, sleazy vocals. Marry that to dark, fuzzed out bass, sinister dubby synths and catchy dance hooks, and you’ve got a recipe that may leave Jet fans scratching their noggins.

Back briefly in town for a gig to share his new baby, Cester took a break from rehearsals to discuss hash-induced revelry, partying with Scott Horscroft, producing Japanese bands in kimonos and his joy of not being boxed in by Jet.

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How long are you back in Melbourne for?

Two weeks, just for a week of rehearsals and then there’s a week in between the Melbourne and Sydney shows, so I get to go to a footy game.

Who do you support?

(Hesitates) Umm Collingwood, sorry. Everyone fuckin’ hates Collingwood, I don’t understand it. In the modern era, there’s no more bogans.

Well I must know a lot of bogans…So how long have you been back home?

I live in LA. I got back into town a couple of nights ago and I’ve been trying to get back on schedule. It’s horrible that flight. I’ve only been in town for a couple of days and we’re pretty much straight into it. We had everything going pretty good when we did some shows a couple of months back, but you need some refresher courses, y’know? Just like surgeons have to do it.

So you guys played your first gigs in LA?

We just sort of went there on the back of the Aussie Invasion South by South West tip—they take a bunch of bands through LA and they had one band drop out. And since Mark was already in town working on new stuff with me, we went 'OK, we’ll just get the other guys over here and we’ll just do it.'

It was so last minute, we got everything together in a week and because of the few people that have heard bits and bobs of what we’d done, we were all of a sudden getting all these gig offers. We went and played at Crazy Girls (LA strip joint) which was the weirdest show I’ve ever played my whole life. It was bizarre—playing weird, spaced out, ice age like, super refined tunes to a crowd that probably expect Motley Crue. And obviously that’s pretty surreal for me having the background in Jet and everything.

They wanted a rock band to get up there and turn it up, but it was so different. And also trying to concentrate and remember all the new lyrics…they came up to us at the start and they were like, 'Do you want the girls to be grinding on you and stuff?' That was so ridiculous. So the girls didn’t actually get up on stage but it was bizarre to say the least. A surreal gig. That was a warm up and then we did the Aussie Invasion show at Echo Park and then we did a closing show at a place called Harvard and Stone. It was just great, we sort of surprised ourselves, it came up quickly and we got it all together and how natural everything sounded.

How did DAMNDOGS come about?

Louis Macklin was Jet’s touring keyboardist and percussionist for the last few years. So we became really close on Jet tours. And Mitch is my first cousin and has been my best friend since we were kids.

So Mitch and I started the band and I would go on Jet tours and we would talk about it with Louis. And then Mark (Wilson, Jet bassist) perked his ears up and got wind of it and was really into it. So we basically just talked the band into existence for a couple of years. We just didn’t have time to actually get it together. And then finally when Jet decided to go on a longer break…I’m not good with doing nothing, y’know? I can’t just sit at home and wait for something to happen.

So we just ploughed through, kept working, and visiting each other. I’d come down, we went and tracked the EP at Big Jesus Burger in Sydney. And then some of the guys would come back in dribs and drabs to LA and we’d work on stuff. We just slowly put it all together. People just started to take notice so it became real pretty quickly.

Where’s the name DAMNDOGS from?

That happened in Marrakesh… there was one tour I think Jet played a couple of dates with the Stones, and after that there was a little break and I’d just broken up with my ex girlfriend and didn’t really want to come home to an empty house. So Mitch came out and met me in Morocco, and we basically just had the craziest time. It was such a surreal place to hang out on the other side of the world with your best friend.

One night we’d been up drinking wine all night and we were at our hotel watching the sun come up. It was first light and the call to prayer would come over the loud speakers and in Marrakesh the dogs in the city aren’t domesticated; they’re just scrawny, demonic little retches. And when they heard the loud speakers crackling to life in the morning they just went absolutely beserk! There’s like thousands of wild dogs just roaming around the streets looking for scraps.

The combination of hearing the mosque prayers and the dogs going absolutely mental with the sun coming up, it was just such a surreal combination. That’s where the name was born from. And that was the first thing—we’d named our band before we’d even made one note.

I think that’s probably a good thing. Because the whole coming up with the name thing can be so frustrating—i you’ve already got your sound and then you can never find the name to fit. I think it’s good to come up with the name first and then make the sound.

I agree, it’s a real pain. Especially when you’re sitting there with a handful of songs and you’re trying to find a name that encapsulates what you do. It’s ridiculous. It doesn’t make any sense. When you’re having a baby you normally name it before you see it, otherwise you’re going to have a baby with no name. It’s the same thing, it makes sense to name it first.

Although I’ve known people who’ve had a nameless baby for quite a few weeks.

Me too. I didn’t do that. I have a daughter, her name’s Coco. She’s 10 and a half months.

DAMNDOGS is a pretty major departure from Jet. Do you and Mitch share a similar kind of love of that dark electro rock stuff?

It’s funny, Mitch and I never even really discussed what the band would sound like. Because we’ve been friends for so many years… we just started talking about the band, doing something together. And there was a couple of loose riffs that were hanging around that I’d been working on that really didn’t fit...it wouldn’t have worked with Jet. And definitely more leaning on the stuff that I fell in love with from Primal Scream’s records like XTRMNTR and stuff like that.

And we never even talked about it. All we did was name the band, basically, and then smoked hash in Morocco for a week. That was pretty much the formation. And then when we got in a room together it sort of naturally went where it went. The weirdness...the difference in the music between this and Jet was obviously pretty staggering. But we never talked about it, we just kept pushing it through and refining it. And taking things off the table, because this band is more about what we weed out rather than what we put in. It’s more sparse, like what I was saying before about the Ice Age. I always think of that. I suppose now that it’s sort of progressing and we have fourteen or so songs. Its funny I don’t think this band is really influenced by bands and sounds, as [much as] it is by a kind of feeling of a song. I won’t tell you which ones they are but there’s about five songs and they all have a connection to each other.

Something like David Bowie’s Fame for example. They’re sort of cynical and it’s dark a little bit, but it’s also funny. It’s a combination of those flavours. It’s not happy dance music. It’s like the last couple of years the electronic sounds that have been coming out are quite sugar-coated and for me they don’t make me feel anything.

Very 80s….

Yeah exactly. It’s like that revival of attitude and that’s fine. But I just don’t get anything out of that. I didn’t get anything out of that over the last few years of popular music. And so it’s just a reaction to that I suppose.

You mention cynical and listening to the lyrics of single 'Very First Century', it’s definitely got a cynical edge to it.

I suppose it does. But like I said, we don’t sit around and think about it. Often times with DAMNDOGS, a lyric will be born out of how you push the words out of your mouth rather than in the beginning what you’re saying. And then gradually over time, you work those syllables into real words that mean something to you. And that’s really a different approach to how we did it with Jet—or how I would write with Jet. Which is more of a classic thing, where you sit down with a guitar and work out a song in that way. But DAMNDOGS is all about the percussive elements, so the lyrics would be born out of that. As opposed to sitting down and thinking about something to write a song about, y’know?

A bit more organic. What do you mean when you describe it as the Ice Age?

When I hear our stuff—especially the new stuff we’ve been working on the last couple of days—it makes me think of the ice age. It reminds me of…the song we all really love is 'The National Anthem', I think it’s the first track from Radiohead’s Kid A record [It's the third track - Ed], which is really tough, and [has] a really defined beat. But the soundscape behind it is really minimal. It still feels like it’s right on your eyeballs, but there’s nothing really happening. And that always makes me think of an ice age when I hear that song.

And you recorded with Scott Horscroft, have you worked with him before?

I’ve worked every bar, restaurant and pub in Sydney with him for the past few years (laughs). But we did do some work with him. How we met Scott was Mark and I—it wasn’t public knowledge in Australia—Mark and I started a production company and just did this one job, we produced a Japanese artist. I can’t even remember what the band’s called now. So we booked time up in Sydney and this Japanese pop group came out to see us and we made this really weird…they wanted us to get them a Jet sounding kind of record, but Mark and I wanted to use it as an opportunity for our stranger musical leanings. So we kind of pulled them in there and they were a bit surprised when we came up with the song that we came up with. Because it didn’t sound anything like Jet.

But anyway Scott Horscroft was operating those sessions. In fact I was just up in Sydney a couple of weeks ago and I was sitting across the table from Scott and I was…when we hang out, basically my life just gets shut down for a week because we just basically party.

Oh one of those friends…

Yeah. And I said to him, 'How did we first become first good friends?' And he lost it. And he recalled this story of us in BJB sitting around with a VB in a kimono…because all the Japanese record company had flown out, there were about 28 people in this tiny little studio: costume designers, A&R people, managers, agents—they were all there. They’d all flown in. It was the most ridiculous thing, they must have spent so much money on this one song. And they gave us these kimonos as gifts. And basically we just wore them the whole time making the record. So that’s how we met Scott, somewhere between surreal and bizarre.

So you’re obviously a fan of his work with people like The Presets?

That’s right. So after we’d done the Japanese record, we talked about getting in the studio and doing another project. And [about how] Scott was such a great guy to do it with. We just get along so well and, I think, trust each others instincts. And obviously that element coming through from [his work with] The Presets. It was good for us because we didn’t want to go with somebody who was going to make us sound like Jet. And it worked out really well.

And is it good to get out from behind the drum kit? Does it feel freer or a bit weird?

It feels great. Because I’ve written songs in Jet for years and, honestly, it’s difficult sometimes to write a song, and then almost give it up—you’re watching it happen from back on the drums and you can’t deliver it the way you want to. Nic’s been killing that for years, he’s been doing a great job. But it’s like you have to let go of your song in a way, and now I don’t have to do that. And I get to control every moment and every aspect of it; from the creation through to playing in front of an audience. So there’s a lot of freedom that comes with that and I’ve really been enjoying it.

You’re not nervous to be out the front?

I guess I get nervous before DAMNDOGS shows where I haven’t gotten nervous before a Jet show. I couldn’t even tell you when, because we’ve been together for so long now. But with this project I get nervous about it running exactly the way we have it rehearsed. But I don’t get nervous about standing in front of a crowd. I think if you’re nervous about standing in front of a crowd and you’re a musician then its probably time to reconsider your life.

So what is Nic up to? Is he based in America as well?

Nic lives in Como (Lake, Italy) and he has a place in Melbourne. Honestly I think the break [with Jet] has been really good. We haven’t really kept up with each other so much. I think we’ve been enjoying going off and living our lives for a minute. I mean, we’ve been together for so long as brothers. People normally go away from each other in families— like when you leave school and stuff—but we went straight from school pretty much, into a tour bus. And we’ve been doing [that] for years.

So I don’t really know. I know from all reports, from my friends that have run into him, he’s doing really well. And he’s really happy to be having his own time, as I am.

Much needed…. and I guess you’ve seen since all the DAMNDOGS stuff started coming out all the fans are in a total panic thinking that Jet’s broken up?

I suppose so. It doesn’t matter how many times you tell them that you’re not. Obviously people read into a new band and they think that means they can’t exist in the same world, but that’s ridiculous. Its good, I don’t know what’s on the cards for Jet at the moment. We literally haven’t spoken about what we’re doing and it’s been the first time, like I’ve said, in 8 years, that we haven’t had a plan. So it remains to be seen when we’re going to get together again. But for sure it will happen.

The more time I get to work [DAMNDOGS] into something on its own steam...that suits me down to the ground, y’know? I’m really enjoying this work and I’m really enjoying the difference and the freedom that it gives me. There’s no barriers here. There’s no world that we’ve boxed ourselves into. It’s a fresh start and it’s a new opportunity to grow.

So when’s the EP out?

We’re meeting our manager about that later today actually. There’s no deadline date locked in but it will be in August.

You mentioned before there’s 14 songs so there’s obviously an album planned after that?

Yeah, absolutely. And we haven’t mapped out where and who we’re going to do that with. So far I’m just enjoying this so much, because in Jet we’d have had that conversation 4 months ago and gone into the studio.

We’re listening and as the music changes, so too do the names that come up for production. And also just floating around and having other producers put their two cents in, there’s some really interesting people in the mix. And I can’t wait to get back into the studio to see how far we can stretch this, and how wild we can make it.

So you’re playing the Toff in Melbourne? It’s such a hot spot for bands now.

I wouldn’t know. Whenever I do interviews now, especially in America, people ask me “What’s the scene like in Melbourne?”. And it’s really hard to say. Whenever I’ve come into town it’s changed so radically. I swear the last 8 years Melbourne has been changing faster than ever. Places go up and go down in a matter of weeks now I feel like. But I like the Toff, I’ve had some good times there. There’s always Big Day Out after parties there. I’ve been kicked out of there a few times which is usually a good sign. Hopefully we won’t get kicked out on gig night. Maybe afterwards though, you never know.

Annika Priest

JETthefuckingband.com new looks!

2011-10-21T17:07:00.000-07:00

So, as you probably noticed we've got a new cleaner look and a new layout! We got sick of all the black, dark stuff. Also, we've got a new domain, we're now Jetthefuckingband.com, like it used to be. Lastly, there's a new tool on the website where you can share our posts on Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Orkut or through e-mail. It's right there above the comments part.

We hope we can improve the website as the time goes and we're glad to take your suggestions!

Moving on, Damndogs are currently in NYC playing for the CMJ Festival but so far we didn't come accross anything on their latest gigs. Therefore, we're gonna continuing our interviews post and this one is from Ausralia's The Age:

Eclectic canines learn new tricks

MARK Wilson lowers his head in mock shame. The musician, best known as the bass player for the multimillion-selling Melbourne band Jet, has committed a social media faux pas in helping to launch his new group, Damndogs. An extra keystroke on the registration screen and the band is profiled on Facebook as Damn Dogs, a typo that is not amended easily.

''If more than 100 people like you on Facebook, you can't change your name,'' Wilson says, sitting outside a Brunswick cafe as his border collie, Sailor, bounds around. ''You have to write to the company and ask them to fix it for you. That's one of the problems with doing everything yourself - you have to take the blame for your mistakes.''

Online blemishes aside, Wilson is excited about the band, which sees him playing alongside Jet's drummer, Chris Cester, who steps out from behind his kit to serve as frontman, keyboardist Louis Macklin and guitarist Mitch McIvor. The tightly bound four-piece - Macklin has toured with Jet, while McIvor is Cester's cousin and best friend - are about to follow up their debut shows in Los Angeles, where Cester lives with his partner and child, with Melbourne and Sydney gigs. They also have an exceptional EP awaiting release.
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Wilson and Cester's connection as a rhythm section shines through Damndogs' initial handful of songs, where lean, pronounced grooves that recall punk rock's discovery of dub and disco provide the foundation for sparse, expressive guitar licks and atmospheric keyboards. The verses of Very First Century suggest Ian Dury and the Blockheads and the chorus Beck, while Cocaine is a suitably murky jam that recalls Happy Mondays' melding of indie music and acid house.

Damndogs' eclectic sound sits in plain contrast to Jet's embrace of rock'n'roll tradition and with the latter on an extended hiatus - ''We talk regularly but we don't have anything planned,'' Wilson says - the former is working towards recording a debut album and touring widely next year. This should disperse the usual concerns about side projects being no more than enjoyable diversions.

''We're taking this seriously; it's not just a project for fun. This is our new thing,'' Wilson says. ''A lot of people will be challenged by it. If someone likes Damndogs, it's definitely possible they'll never have cared for Jet … We want that. We didn't want to put out something that was essentially the same.''

The idea for the group has been gestating for years. Cester and McIvor decided to start a band while on holiday in Morocco several years ago (a pack of stray dogs they saw inspired the name), while Wilson and Cester talked about the nascent outfit's aesthetic at length throughout the touring for Jet's third album, 2009's Shaka Rock.

Afterwards, emails carried ideas back and forth, as tracks were cut up and reassembled in various time zones. ''Chris has been dying to be a frontman for years,'' Wilson laughs.

For the bassist, this is also something of a coming of age. Having been the last member to join Jet, arriving in 2002 as their career trajectory was about to go vertical thanks to Are You Gonna Be My Girl, he spent his 20s finding his feet through repeated album and tour cycles. Now, with his hair slicked back and sporting an aristocratic van Dyke beard, Wilson looks and sounds ready for the spotlight.

''We've got our fingers in all the pies,'' he says. ''We don't have a record deal and, while we've been talking to people, we don't care if we don't have one. We're happy to do it all ourselves. We sort our own gear, figure when to rehearse, stay at each other's house to save money. We're working with various people but no one's putting it all on a schedule for us.

''It's a lot easier starting a band the second time,'' Wilson says with a smile. ''Because you actually know what you're doing.''

CMJ Festival

2011-10-19T14:38:00.000-07:00

As I mentioned before, Damndogs are doing a round of gigs for the CMJ Festival in NYC. Two nights ago, the guys played at the Tammany Hall and we've got a little bit of
"Love" on video:

About last night's gig, all we've got is a pic of them performing:

Also, the blog Thrillcall interviewed them and here it is:

Australian-formed band, DAMNDOGS are ready to take over the states as they are set to headline New York’s CMJ Music Marathon 2011 starting tonight! With their Strange Behaviour EP out now, Chris Cester, Mitch McIvor, Mark Wilson, and Louis Macklin are clearly on the brink of something big. These Aussies are not new to the scene, however, as two of the band members made up half of JET, (Cester and Wilson). The reviews are in, and across the board, DAMNDOGS are being called “dark and dancey,” with complicated beats and an intentional lack of genre, you will want to, scratch that need to, listen to. Their Facebook Bio sums up their sound better than any reviewer could: “DAMNDOGS carve out a bombastic warpath to the dancefloor, conjuring images of Gorillaz in a coke-fueled fistfight with the Beastie Boys at a Clash show in one of Andy Warhol’s factories.”

For those of you with DJ aspirations, check out the DAMNDOGS remix contest, where you can submit your personal remixes of their hit songs. If you submit by October 27th your remix will be considered for a chance to win prizes that include impressive music mixing software and hardware. While your unconscious brain plans out the acts to catch for CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival 2011, and simultaneously nabs synths for your first DAMNDOGS remix, let your conscious brain get to know DAMNDOGS as they answered our questions below:

Thrillcall: If you were to rate your popularity, how would you compare to The Beatles?

DAMNDOGS: If the Beatles were “bigger than Jesus,” then we’re easily bigger than L.Ron Hubbard.

Thrillcall: What band inspires you, especially when it comes to your genre?

DAMNDOGS: We’re trying hard not to be in a genre…without trying to sound elitist or something like that. We’re just as inspired by mad Latino records as we are ghostface killah.

Thrillcall: Where do you see yourselves in five years?

DAMNDOGS: I’d love to take this band to new, or previously untapped, places that don’t rely on apps to tell them what’s cool. Ex-Soviet states?! Who knows…we’re building this block by block and without labels and charts…the exciting thing is that we have no idea where we will be. Hopefully there are lots of people there with us…wherever it is.

Thrillcall: What is the fastest time you have had from writing a song from scratch and having it recorded and finished in the studio?

DAMNDOGS: Probably “Dog One,” our first tune. How long does it take to plug in and press record?

Thrillcall: If you were not a musician what other career would you want to have?

DAMNDOGS: Tough. Cartographer! Fucken love maps. Maps!!

Thrillcall: What are some of the differences between your home-based fans in Austrailia, and your US fans?

DAMNDOGS: It’s pretty similar. Leave the big cities and everyones mad for it…go back to them, and people prefer crossing their arms and ‘discussing.’

Thrillcall: What is your favorite song to play on stage and why?

DAMNDOGS: Cocaine. Louis invented an instrument for that one, the ‘swoopaphone’…it’s like jamming on the Hoth system. Our favourite gig would be anywhere with a big Fuck-Off PA system. We aim to rattle rafters, teeth and bones. It’s a good time. We don’t jump around like bunny rabbits but we try and bring the backstage party to the audience.

Tour and Interview

2011-10-17T19:03:00.000-07:00

As promised, I'm gonna begin tonight a round of posts with interviews Damndogs did over the last few months. Also, this blog is soon gonna become a website with its own domain and new looks! So keep checking back!

Before we start though, I'd like to fill you up with their tour dates. Right now they're in New York City playing a round of gigs for the CMJ Festival (more info here and here) and they're also on the line-up of Homebake 2011 to be held on December 3rd in Sydney, Aus.

We're gonna begin with an interview for the Examiner where Chris and Louis give us an idea of what they're aiming with this new project.

The formation of Australian rock outfit DAMNDOGS was completely organic and born wholely from the pure, deep-rooted passion of four talented musicians. Chris Cester, Mitch McIvor, Mark Wilson, and Louis Macklin set out to create a sound so unique, so interesting, and driven solely off their love for music, that it would defy genre chategorization- and they succeeded. Wanting to separate themselves from the mainstream melodies of Cester and Wilson's other band, the highly successful Jet (which Macklin has also been touring with since 2009), DAMNDOGS deliver weird, dark, danceworthy, tunes that are impossible not to get addicted to. I recently spent an evening with Cester and Macklin, two of the nicest guys I have every encountered, and they filled me in on playing shows, the human-to-hipster ration in Melbourne, and just how much they love this new band.

The guys have been through Denver before, but not with DAMNDOGS. “DAMNDOGS have never been to Denver,” Cester shares. “Jet went through Colorado a couple of times in the last two years alone.” One of those times happened to be in Colorado Springs with Denver’s own Photo Atlas providing support. “At the Black Sheep?” Macklin asks. “That was a great show! It’s a strange town there. It has a spectacular backdrop, but it's really weird.” “I really remember that show,” Cester marvels. “And I hate to sound cocky now, but I particularly remember we were f****** on fire that night, it was a really good gig. We rolled up to the venue and were like, ‘What the f***? This place is crazy, who’s going to come out to death alley and see a gig?’ But people were there and it was rocking.”

The musicians found Colorado Springs to be a bit weird, but how do they feel about Denver? “It’s beautiful,” Cester shares. “As far as the town goes, I haven’t really had a chance to spend time there. You know, you’re there for a day and then you wake up hung over, go to soundcheck, play the gig, then you leave. It’s difficult to get out and explore. But the fans are good.”

Though he currently lives in Los Angeles, Cester is originally from Melbourne, Australia, where Macklin still resides. Since I have never been to Australia, I wonder what the music scene is like over there. “It’s more backstabbing in Melbourne than it is even in LA,” Cester reveals. “It’s a strange juxtaposition of support and discerning crowds,” Macklin concurs. “Everyone’s in a band- absolutely everyone. So someone could be in the back watching you play, with their arms folded thinking to themselves, ‘I’m having the best time of my life, this band is incredible’, but not expressing it in any way.” “There is no sense of camaraderie really,” Cester chimes in. “It’s pretty poor. Everyone’s got something sh**** to say about you. Unfortunately, what Melbourne has going against it as well, is it has probably the worst human-to-hipster ratio on the planet,” Cester explains and we all burst out laughing. “I’m serious," he relays. "The hipster to human ratio is f***** up down there. I don’t want to paint a horrible picture of it, it’s my home and I love it more than anywhere else, but it can be quite snobby. Sometimes that’s good, it inspires us.” “Ultimately it forces you to work harder,” Macklin adds. “It forces you to play your ass off when there’s a sense of competition.”

DAMNDOGS released their debut EP, Strange Behavior, in August and the music is already receiving superlative reviews. “We aren’t expecting to sell one million copies of it,” Cester admits. “This is a first step for us. We’re doing this on our own right now and we’ve had opportunities to get into bed with companies- record companies, publishing companies, and that sort of stuff- but so far we’ve stuck to our guns and not gotten involved with any of them. So for us this is a really important first step in just announcing our existence to everybody.” “In the short term, it’s an album,” Macklin shares. “The EP songs were recorded about a year ago and it’s such a common predicament for bands to be in because it takes so long to release the music.”

“We really want people to hear about this band organically,” Cester says thoughtfully. “I’ve been in another band where that wasn’t the case. When companies get involved they can get in and f*** that up and really steer you in directions that are out of your control. We want to be massive, everyone does. You don’t do it unless you want everyone to love you. If you don’t think it’s worth people’s attention, you don’t put it out at all. We have a lot of belief in the band, but at the same time this is a really organic process and it’s been a real pleasure to do it in this way, to grow it the way we’re growing it. We were in my backyard two weeks ago hand-stamping our EPs. It was great."

In support of the EP release, DAMNDOGS played a string of California shows, as well as a couple of sold-out Australia gigs. “It was amazing,” Cester says. “The shows were really great. There’s something really freeing about what we’re doing. It’s a little bit more genre defying then what I was doing before and so there’s two great elements to that: one is that people who come expecting a rock and roll band aren’t getting it and I enjoy that confusion; and two, people who don’t know anything about us are hearing something they’ve never heard before. So the shows were great.” “That’s exactly what I was going to say,” Macklin agrees. “We played totally diverse venues as well. In San Francisco we played in a dirty punk club, you know, and here in LA we played in a couple of small, hip bars.”

It is obvious in hearing the gentlemen talk about DAMNDOGS that they're riding off of sheer love and fervor for the music. When they write songs for this band there is nothing inhibiting them, no one telling them to do it in a particular way, no industry folks telling them the music is too weird. Besides, in their minds, the weirder the better. “We try not to be a rock band,” Cester says matter-of-factly. “We’re not a rock band. I don’t even want to put any tags on it because that just fuels the fire and you end up answering questions about genres for the rest of your life. It’s definitely not a rock band. We’ve said to the people that are helping us build this that we’re not interested in going down that road- we want it to be as weird as possible. In my conversation with our manager I said, “I don’t want to play in rock clubs, I want to play in gay bars, bowling alleys, I don’t care'. You’ve got to go where you’re not wanted. Everyone’s seen a rock band. These are strange times as well, so why not be strange?”

DAMNDOGS are currently in the writing process, but soon enough they will hit the road again. And when they do, you will not want to miss an opportunity to see this band perform. Between their one-of-a-kind hooks, their contagious energy, and their kind, friendly, laid-back personalities, this foursome is headed for greatness.

Tchau.

DAMNDOGS

2011-10-15T18:50:00.000-07:00

Hello, it's been a while! So, in case you're wondering, I left this blog a year ago and a few days later I was invited to run JETtheband.com, which I did until June this year. I "quit" it cause I like to do things my own way, you know. And I decided to come back because... well, I missed it. There, I said it.

Let's make it less about me and more about Jet, the fucking band. Well, the band itself has been on a year break. But it's not like its four members die or go into a coma when they're not a band. They naturally have gone into something meanwhile. And that something is called Damndogs.

This project came about in June with the release of the video above. Just a quick sum up if you haven't been updated yet, Damndogs is comprised of Chris (here on vocals and jumpsuit), Mark (bass), Mitch McIvor (guitar and Chris's cousin) and Louis Macklin (you've seen him if you've been to a Jet gig, he's been Jet's touring keyboardist since 09) and they play some kind of disco, pop, I don't know how to define music. They've released an EP in August called "Strange Behaviour" and they've done a few gigs in the US and Australia.

I don't wanna be an ass and post the links to the EP songs on Youtube so I'm gonna do better than that. One of their gigs in Australia, in Melbs to be more precise, had a few songs filmed. So take a look at the Damndogs:

Low

Love

Daughter

Wonder Why

Well, that's it for now. Over the next few days I'm gonna post some of the interviews they've made so far. The comments are opened as always and I might give the blog a little change on the looks, but I need some help with that. So let's see.

Tchau.

The last post.

2010-08-13T11:43:00.000-07:00

I'm really sorry to say this, but honestly I can't keep up with JETthefuckingband.com anymore. Jet is a fantastic band and especially for me cause music plays such a big role in my life. But some bands, even when they sound amazing, they just don't deserve the fans they have. And that is sadly Jet's case.

Therefore, I took the tough decision to shut down JETthefuckingband.com. The people who have been reading my posts know that this was really important to me. But it's just so hard to keep up with the enthusiasm when the band doesn't give a fuck about playing to you. And I'm sure I can say this on behalf of many people, cause today you all could see the tons of people asking about a South American tour and Chris just pretended they weren't there (yeah, I know, WWE Music didn't show them up as well but all he had to do was read his timeline). So, as many fans were let down today, I was and continuing to do this makes no sense to me anymore.

So, thanks for everyone who have been reading my posts for all this time, since JETBrasil.com and all. It was much fun!

Cheers!

Andie.

JET live at Shepherds Bush, London

2010-07-19T16:26:00.000-07:00

I told you it'd be big! We've got a couple of interviews, fan review and videos of last night's gig in London. The last one, by the way, before they head to Australia for the much awaited tour with Powderfinger. So this post should make it up for the whole month of August. And damn, it will!

Cam was probably the chosen one for interviews yesterday cause we've got two here with him just before the gig. Check them out:

Elliot Mitchell Chats To Jet

I was lucky enough to interview Melbourne based band Jet ahead of their Shepherds Bush Empire show in London on Sunday after winning a competition with GigsAndTours. From the phenomenal worldwide success of debut album “Get Born” in 2003 Jet were catapulted onto the music scene with a raw, hard rock sound and with the likes of The Strokes, Kings Of Leon and the White Stripes. Since “Get Born” Jet have release two more albums: “Shine On” (2006) and more recently “Shaka Rock” (2009). Both albums have reached commercial success however have been criticised by some for not reaching the bar set in “get born”.

After watching a sound check I managed to catch up with Cam Muncey, the lead guitarist from the band.

How do you find touring Europe in comparison with Australia?
It’s better. Life on the road can be boring especially in Australia when you can drive for 10 hours and nothing changes. In Europe that’s totally different, there’s just so many great places here. However, I love being home as anyone does, and touring itself doesn’t have any character because all you’re doing is driving or flying or whatever and after a while it gets pretty boring.

Obviously you play a lot of countries on your dates, which country would you say has the best crowds, atmosphere etc?
London is great, the UK crowds are always up for it which is amazing and I live in London myself so I love the place. Japan have a very unique way of interpreting music; it could be said the fans are almost like a cult in Japan. The group of people who like western music are really into it, almost like an obsession, which is great for us. I was surprised at how much the Swiss were into it as well.

When you broke out in 2003, it was in a similar time that bands like the Strokes, and the White Stripes were also coming onto the scene. Was it harder for you to keep up with these bands as they were from the US and you were from Australia on the other side of the world?
We just had to get away from it really and put ourselves out there and move away. Once we managed to break into America it managed to sort itself out around the world, because both the UK and the US have great music scenes. We always had the mindsets that if it didn’t work in the US or around the world, we could always go back home to Australia and we would always have support there, and we relied on that.

Shaka Rock almost has a bluesy feel to some of the tracks and you have really gone back to your roots with this one, and are more “comfortable in your skins” as it were. What’s your favourite piece of work you guys have done and why?
Well you can never recreate that first one you know, because it’s so new and exciting, we had such an exhilarating time with it. I’m really pleased with this album (Shaka Rock) because we co-produced it ourselves so we had lots of freedom over this album to make it sound how we wanted. We also changed labels, which was a big thing for us. At first producing the album was daunting, however in hindsight it’s been a good move for us.

Some bands say they experience a moment, an out of body experience as such, in which they just feel “yes, we’ve made it”. Have you experienced this feeling yourself?
When we play big gigs we naturally get nervous, so I play a confidence trick on myself and play it down acting like it’s not a big gig at all. I guess the nerves of a huge show almost take away that feeling of “we’ve made it” as you said, but once you get into a huge gig and start enjoying it, it’s amazing. For example when we played Madison square garden with Oasis, we went out there thinking, “we’re going to show Oasis…", and we were almost competitive!

Do you manage to keep up with new music on smaller labels?
Yeah definitely, when I’m at home and not touring it’s a great time to look into new music. On tour there are too many distractions and I just love going to a record shop and actually buying something I can hold, I hate buying records over the Internet.

So are you a vinyl man then?
Not really, I just stick with CD’s to be honest, although I do have an old “technics” turntable, which my brother gave me, which I need to set up really, it’s just finding the time you know.

You’re playing with General Fiasco tonight, do you usually get to pick your support acts when you go on tour?
Yeah we usually have an input however tonight it was organised by someone else. We’re playing with Powderfinger in Australia next month, which we’re really looking forward to, as it’s their farewell tour and they are like a national institution, like the oasis of Australia. We like to pick the support acts when we can - we’ve had some great support acts in the past.

Was starting your own label hard for you?
Not really as we haven’t really done anything with it yet, we’re just waiting for the right project to come along, and when it does we’ll try and develop it and do something with it.

At this point Jet’s manager turned up as we had ran out of time.....

Source: Gigsandtour.com

Gig Junkie caught up with Cameron Muncey before the show to pick the lead guitarists’ brain a bit and talk about Jet’s upcoming tour.

Q. What can people expect from Jet in the next coming months?
Cameron: Well, we’re doing a tour of Australia for 3 months in September with Powderfinger which we’re really looking forward to. It’s going to be a nice tour through all of Australia, we’re going to all different places like Mackay, Albury and Ballarat. I’ve been to most of these places but it’s always nice to go back, it’s a bit nostalgic.

Q. You’ve toured with several leading bands in your 10 year career from The Rolling Stones to Green Day – are there still any other artists that you’d like to share the big stage with?
Cameron: No, not really. I’m looking forward to playing with Powderfinger though, we’ve never played with them before so that should be cool!

Q. What music are you listening to at the moment?
Cameron: Hmm let me think. I really like The National and The Black Keys. And I’ve also been listening to quite a bit of Sleepy Sun lately.

Q. What was the very first gig you ever went to?
Cameron: It would have been AC/DC! They were incredible!

Q. What’s your favourite song to play live?
Cameron: Definitely one of my favourites would be ‘Come Around Again’ from the very first album ‘Get Born’, but I like all of them really *laughs*.

Q. Do you ever play any cover songs in your concerts?
Cameron: We actually haven’t played any cover songs in ages, but we usually do.

Q. What can you tell me about your guitar – are you subject to brand loyalty or will you play with whatever's available?
Cameron: As long as you can get a basic tune and bang about, I’ll play with whatever. Usually it’ll be a Les Paul though, I’ve got a couple of them.

Q. What made you choose to play the guitar in the first place?
Cameron: Well, I started learning the trumpet at first but I soon realised that the only things I liked musically had guitar in it and that was my problem. So that’s why I left the trumpet behind and started playing guitar.

Source: Gigjunkie.net

Now, you guys know how much I hate journalist reviews so I'm putting up now this review written by @NinaSupersonic, massive fan who has just rediscovered them:

It’s not like me to review the same band twice in a row, but there is a reason behind my fangirling.

“Are they still going?” was the question that followed almost every mention of going to see Jet. Almost as frequent was this exchange, recounted verbatim:
“Who are Jet?”
“You know, Are You Gonna Be My Girl?”
“Oh yeah! God, are they still going?”
My favourite remark came in the amused and slightly condescending dismissal of the band with, “Jet, haha brilliant! So retro!”

Having learnt the back catalogue crash course-style in the week since rediscovering them at Portugal’s Optimus Alive festival, the week preceding their only UK date before disappearing back to Australia, I find these questions harder and harder to comprehend. Not least because Are You Gonna My Gir?, the song that propelled them into mainstream consciousness, has been far surpassed by their later musical output.

I’ve speculated for longer than the dilemma probably warranted, but it remains a source of bafflement to me that Jet have managed to stray into obscurity in the UK, especially after the experience of seeing them live outside a festival setting.

Opening with a snarling That’s All Lies, the tone of the gig was set. Retro it was, but in the best of ways. At the front amongst the pogoing the atmosphere was more reminiscent of a 70s punk gig, raw with aggression and resulting in much bruising from over-exciting jumping.

The set list was nicely split between the three albums. Highlights included the monstrous Black Hearts (On Fire), seeing the venue’s crowd-surfing ban pushed to the max and frontman Nic Cester smouldering his way through the lyrics. La Di Da proved an unlikely touching singalong, and the outrageous tidal wave of riffs that is Start The Show was played ironically in the encore. Are You Gonna Be My Girl? inspired its expected spree of head banging and shouty-pointing from the crowd, while songs like Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, Hey Kids, and Walk have choruses made for stadiums. Songs with less impact and similar appeal have achieved that in the past (Arctic Monkeys, anyone?), and with much less stage presence and charisma to back them up. So why not Jet?

Nic played his part to perfection, swaggering with Godlike arrogance and his vocals alternating between a combustible growl and deranged screaming. His love for demanding a bit of audience participation apparently never gets old either, judging by Seventeen and Beat On Repeat.

Meanwhile drummer Chris Cester, also on backing vocals, attacked his drum-kit with the intensity of an unhinged vigilante pulverising a floored mugger. The effect was too big for Shepherds Bush, and only served to reinforce the question of, why aren’t they bigger?

There are a few theories that carry weight. One, that they are Australian and therefore not taken inherently seriously by the rock ‘n’ roll aficionados governing UK airplay. Two, that Are You Gonna Be My Girl?, while so incredibly successful at making their name, with a tune that is played in introductions and adverts to this day, became their downfall in the eyes of the UK music Press. They ‘sold-out’, or became ‘too commercial’ or ‘mainstream’; all these words and phrases now so commonly used with fashionable distain.

Whatever the explanation it’s a sad conundrum. Far from the gimmick that the UK’s knowledge of them makes them out to be, Jet are a fantastic and truly underrated rock ‘n’ roll band. Capable of far more than walls of noise and catchy riffs, their songs range from the grandiose to the gritty; wryly comical (“There is good and there is better/Just like imitation leather”, courtesy of Beat On Repeat), uplifting, raw, anthemic, intelligent, and simple, the best examples of which are sadly not given half of the credit they deserve.

Come back soon, Jet. I do hope that one day we’ll be ready for you.

Source: @NinaSupersonic's tumblr

And finally, my favorite: videos! We've got "Are You Gonna Be My Girl", as always, and my favorite ever "Walk":

Looks like the crowd was so into it, must've been a hell of a gig!

So, since we're not having any JET for a whole month, thought I should show you these two videos from their shows at the Gurten Festival and the Florestglade Festival, great stuff!

Phew! See you someday, people!
Tchau.

Gurten and Forestglade

2010-07-17T17:58:00.000-07:00

Two shows on the last two days. That's how busy Jet is and I've got some things to show you.

On the 15th, the guys headed to Switzerland to play at the Gurten Festival. I can say I had a hard time trying to read the websites in German (is that German?) but I found some pics:

I've gotta admit that some pics were only updloaded so you could check Nic's new hair cut and his disastrous pair of shoes.

Source: Tilllate.com

And yesterday they were in Austria, also known as Australia, attending to the Forestglade Festival. Again, the language barrier was tough but Youtube is always a good friend:

Very good quality video!

So, tomorrow Jet is playing at the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire in my beloved London. So jealous! I can't wait to put my hands on some footage!

Tchau!

Recent interview

2010-07-14T21:00:00.000-07:00

Quick recent interview with Nic Cester while we wait for the next show.

Source: Australian Times

Jet taxi into London
As Jet’s European tour comes to a close, frontman Nic Cester tells Shannon Crane why the boys were so keen to rock out in London before heading home.
Shannon Crane

IT’S been ten months since Jet paid their loyal UK fans a visit, but the Aussie boys promise to make up for their absence with a “fun, mixed bag” in London on Sunday.

The Melbourne-raised rockers took a break from touring early this year but they’re getting back into the swing of things with some of Europe’s biggest summer festivals.

Frontman Nic Cester was looking forward to a bit of fun at their Shepherd’s Bush gig, Jet’s last stop before they head back to Oz.

“London’s always been really positive,” he said from Lisbon, Portugal last week.

“No matter how well things have been going, the crowds and the shows have always been good.

“We try and make it as much fun as possible, it’s always a pretty mixed bag. It’s got to be fun for us as well as for everyone else.”

The four-piece – Nic, his brother Chris, Cam Muncey and Mark Wilson - shot to fame in 2003 with their debut album Get Born. It sold a massive 3.5 million copies but Jet were unable to match that success with the albums Shine On (2006) and Shaka Rock, released last August under their own label, Real Horror Show Records.

Jet have copped a fair amount of flak over the years for trying to mimic the greats like Oasis and The Beatles, but Nic says the boys haven’t let it get them down.

“We’ve been getting all kinds of reviews since we started. I’m aware there were some bad ones but there were also some really good ones as well,” he insisted.

“You only concern yourself with the opinion of those that actually matter to you.”

Touring and living abroad has seen the band unearth strong fanbases in some unlikely places.

“Canada’s always been really strong for us,” Nic, who spends much of his time near Milan, Italy, said.

“There are certain pockets in Europe that do really well and then there are other pockets that aren’t as strong.

“It’s always surprising to me. It keeps it interesting.”

They’re about to leap back into the music scene Down Under, supporting long-time buddies Powderfinger on their farewell tour from September.

“I just said it in passing as a joke to Bernard (Fanning), ‘like, so are we going to do a tour together or what?’,” Nic recalled.

“The very next day he was like, ‘you know what, that’s a good idea, let’s do it’.

“I didn’t realise at the time they were actually planning a tour at all, let alone their last one.

“It’s going to be a fun way to wrap it up.”

Jet rock The Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London on Sunday, July 18th. For tickets go to www.gigsandtours.com

Tchau.

BBK Live 2010

2010-07-11T19:06:00.000-07:00

My bad, my bad. I said on the last post that Jet's next stop would be Austria but there're actually two more dates till then. So their tour schedule in Europe goes like this:

July 10th - BBK Live 2010, Spain
July 15th - Gurten Festival, Switzerland
July 16th - St. Polten, Austria
July 18th - Shepherds Bush Empire, England

Therefore, Jet played last night in Spain at the BBK Live and I've got here some professional footage of "Seventeen" and "Get What You Need":

Looking forward to their London show, though I won't be there. It'll be their first solo show outside the US in ages. Should be great!

I'll be back next week, tchau!

Optimus Alive 2010 (video)

2010-07-10T14:27:00.000-07:00

IOL Musica published today a little sum up of Jet's performance at the Optimus Alive Festival, in Portugual. The video features bits of "That's All Lies" and "She's a Genius" and you can check it here.

I was hoping to find a interview on that website too, they're always interviewed by them in Portugal, but so far nothing. If I have more news I'll post it here!

Tchau.

Optimus Alive 2010

2010-07-09T18:40:00.000-07:00

Jet played earlier today at the Optimus Alive Festival in Lisbon. By what most of the articles say it was a warm show, since the band was opening the second day of the festival. I'll come back soon with some videos but for now you can have a look at some pics here.

Jet's next stop is Austria (though their website says "Australia", bad bad webmaster) on the 16th of this month at the Frequency Festival.

Tchau!

Special birthday post!

2010-07-06T11:08:00.000-07:00

Today the very best rock'n'roll singer in the world, in our humble opinion, is turning 31! In nearly 10 years with Jet, Nic Cester has more than proven to us that we're right. But if anyone here still have any doubts, I invite you to check the opinion of some other artists, like Muse and pretty much every Aussie big band out there. Are you ready?

Silk Suits (Kram)

On My Mind (Powderfinger)

These Days (Powderfinger, Missy Higgins and Kev Camordy)

Evie Pt.1 (The Wrights Supergroup)

Hold The Line (Tex Perkins)

Revolution (The Living End, Spiderbait, Even)

Long Tall Sally (Powderfinger)
Download
Preview:

Hard to Handle (Rocket Queen and Dave Larkin)

Back in Black (Muse)

Is that enough to you?

Happy Birthday, Nic!

Tchau.

2010-07-05T07:43:00.000-07:00

Jet is playing an one-off gig in London on the 18th and the British press has already started the interviews:

Stereoboard grab the opportunity to interview Australian rock group Jet, prior to their upcoming gig at The Shepherds Bush Empire in London on the 18th of this month.

We find out a little more about the group and the upcoming gig as well as their latest album ‘Shaka Rock.’

Tell us about your impending UK show at The O2 on the 18th July and can we expect to see you in the UK again before the end of the year?

"The show will be our third or fourth in London for this record! The biggest one too…so I think it's likely that we will split the cash four ways after it, and then work out which banks to heist in the off season. We'll be back in 2011"

Last year was a big year for you. A world tour, a set at the winter Olympics and the release of your latest album, Shaka Rock. What have been the highlights for you during this time?

"Nic (Nic Chester who plays guitar and sings vocals.) passing out onstage from a virus of unknown origin was strange. It was a symptom of everything being on level ten for a whole year I think. It wasn't a highlight but it certainly was memorable. The Olympics were a pretty massive deal too. It felt strange to share a stage with people who have dedicated their lives to a winning mentality and a physically and mentally gruelling lifestyle"

For anybody unfamiliar with Jet, how would you explain your sound and what can people expect from a live performance?

"Well, most people have an opinion of us already. To someone who hasn't, I would say that we do it without pretension and we play our asses off…so if you like rock and roll and you like walking out of a building having had a sing-along and with a smile on your face…"

How happy are you with your latest album and how does it compare with the material before it?

"We don't release anything if we're not satisfied that it will stand the test of time. That's our only judge really. Compared to the others? Well, it's got a confidence about it, like a kid who just spent four years at college and who is finally joining the real world. I never did that…but I imagine it feels pretty good. You've been in someone else's system your whole adult life, and then you're out. We cut all our old ties and affiliations on this record and it was beautiful"

With a lot of groups coming and going nowadays, what is the key to your longevity, considering that you have been on the scene for a few years now?

"Songs. You've got 'em or you don't. Fads go in and out of style and fade into obscurity, or fall off your head entirely…a good song lasts a lifetime and no amount of posturing can create one of those. We've played our own game"

How much do you enjoy playing live and how do fans in the UK compare with your fans at home and across the world?

"They're more English. They sing louder. They drink more"

Having already released Shes A Genius and Black Hearts (On Fire) as singles, are there any plans to release any more of the albums tracks as singles?

"Seventeen will be our next single in the UK. It's one of our best ever songs in my opinion.

How easy is it to spend so much time in each other’s company and time away from home when touring?

"Being in a different city every day, playing to thousands of people who have assembled in a building or a field for sole purpose of getting out of their heads for a minute? I couldn't think of a better life. You miss people. I'd miss this more"

Who have been your musical influences when putting material together and are there any current acts that you are particularly fond of at the moment?

"Influences for me don't come in regular recognizable patterns anymore, it's not always music that influences me, in fact, it's usually not music, so I'll stick to talking about the music I like right now…which is the new Black Keys record. I've played that one for a week straight. The best songs they've ever written. If I want something a little darker and weirder, I'll listen to Unkle, the War Stories record. It's Level ten"

Source: Stereoboard.com

Thinking of Jet the first thing that probably springs to mind is their hit single 'Are You Gonna Be My Girl?', but much has changed since their debut in 2003. Today they're three albums down the line, the latest of which (2009's 'Shaka Rock') boldly took them down the independent release route. In their native Australia lead single 'She's A Genius' was certified gold, and featured a hell-raising bicycle riding wookie in its video. So far, apart from Australian and foreign festival dates, their only planned UK appearance is a one-off gig at London's Shepherds Bush O2 on 18th July. Ahead of this sold out show we were able to speak with their lead guitarist, Cameron Muncey.

A lot of the band are hitting thirty years old now, how do you feel about that?
Well I don't care about the others, I just deal with my own thing! I'm happy about it, still kicking and screaming. You see I had a good time in my twenties. I'm still waiting to gain wisdom, but so far that hasn't happened yet.

Where would you hope to be in, say, ten years time?
Oh, I don't know. I guess having my own place by the sea, just living by the sea. I grew up by the water so sometimes I miss it. I live in London now and living in London can get boring after a while. Anyway I've got ten years to decide haven't I?

You've changed record labels a few times, are you settled yet?
Yeah, we're settled, we're happy. I mean we're not really on a record company now - EMI does the distribution, but we're in control. The way it's [the record industry] changing so much you wonder if you'd be staying on a sinking ship, with the corporate stuff. Like shareholders - if you're a big shareholder then you'd have a say. It's a lottery, you have to trust the people you're working with. Like when you're doing well everyone's your friend, then you have a cool period and they all disappear, and you're there saying, "Hey, where have you all gone?" I guess they have to get their quarterly reports for sales, so it's not always their fault, it's very cynical. It's exciting being on an independent though.

Do you think your next album will be as long in the making as the last two? If you're thinking of doing another yet, that is.
I'm not sure about that yet, we haven't really thought about it. We've still got side projects, we're still writing like always. Since we co-produced the last album 'Shaka Rock' we've got more confidence about our music and stuff.

What kind of side projects?
Well we've had The Wrights and stuff like that. Nic's doing something with an old friend of his in Melbourne. Don't ask me about that because I have no idea what they're doing! Chris, our drummer, is doing some things with his cousin. I'm doing my own thing - I'm just enjoying the time off, you know? I might go back to school actually, it's been a long time

Some see 'Shine On' as your weakest album, would you agree?
Really I don't listen to any of our records. I mean, looking back I would change some things, there was a real rush to put it out. We were on the road so long [before recording 'Shine On'], our management would tell us they had a gig booked six months ahead for £100, 000, and we'd never seen money like that before. Of course we were like, "Yeah, yeah!" In the end we'd been touring two years, then we started panicking, saying "Shit it's been two years, we have to put a record out!" It took eight months to get the thing out after it was finished - there were some mixing issues... but it was a tough record. It was very emotional, with the death of Nic and Chris' dad, a lot of stuff was going on. The whole thing felt really surreal, and when you have an approach like that it's going to affect the sound of the record. It was arduous, I would say it was our most difficult record.

Do you take criticism on board, or turn a blind eye to it?
Well we've had some over the years! I don't read everything, but someone else will always tell you about it. Like they'll start off saying, 'they're good BUT', and it's that BUT part every time. Yeah, we've had a few ribbings (is that the right word, the word you use?), but I guess you get used to it eventually. They have the powers to be really insulting though, you know what I mean? It's difficult in the beginning [of your career], especially when they start off praising you all the time.

What do you think about bands that only tour in their home territory?
That's however they like to live their lives, I can't tell them what to do. There's people who could've toured all over but they chose family over their careers. There's always two sides pulling you. I know that with Australians, English and Americans they can have a set area to tour. Like all the English speakers tour the English speaking countries so they have that option. There are so many weird countries out there that don't get visited. Yeah, like not everyone goes to Japan. I don't know if they'd want to hear records in English, because they just speak Japanese, they'd mainly just buy Japanese records. It's a big world out there. I hope I answered your question.

Do you think that Nic's vocal nodules have altered the sound of his voice or his capabilities?
I don't think so, I think his voice is as strong as it has ever been. He's got a very powerful voice, it can be really aggressive. In the beginning we'd do a forty-five minute set, but now we do one and a half hour sets, and that's hard going. In our shows we can go from a ballad to a rocker and that isn't easy on the voice, but he can do it. Of course I'm always worrying about it. To be honest I think it's more to do with living unhealthily. Nic still pushes himself, he really screams it out - 'til he sees the stars and falls over backwards! He's like a masochist, almost.

What's the worst interview you've ever had?
So many, so many. A lot of those strange internet things, fanzines by kids who own their own website. See the record label thinks that's how reach out to the kids, so they get you to do it. They can be so awkward because the kids [the interviewers] don't know what they're doing, you feel silly.

What kind of questions do they ask that are particularly bad?
Erm, I don't know, I can't really remember. We get a lot of groupie questions, they're pretty bad. I'm married so I don't do the groupie thing! Normally it's bringing up all these clichés, which are just ridiculous. Particularly in the US, there's these US DJs who want to vicariously go through all your past exploits. It's like, [puts on stereotypical American accent] "Hey, what you been doing with the girls lately?"

Source: Glasswerk.co.uk

The band's next stop is this Friday in Portugal. They're playing a couple of dates more until they head to Australia for the Powderfinger tour in September!

Tchau.

Pele or Maradona?

2010-06-23T18:34:00.001-07:00

While we're at this World Cup mood I managed to find two interviews with Nic on that subject. I just bought my World Cup stickers album and as I was having a look at the teams I saw this "Vincenzo Grella" on the Aussie page. That name sounded familiar to me so I googled it and I came across these two interviews. Really cool stuff, check it out:

(By the way, Nic and Vince Grella attended to the same school)

Jet frontman Nic Cester talks Iggy Pop, being on the bench and average Blackburn players...
There was a time when Australia was just a sprawling country, populated by men standing around, wearing kaki and squinting. But those days are a thing of the past - well, mostly - and the land of Oz is home to some great bands and some not bad footballers. We meet Antipodean rockers Jet's front man, Nic Cester, and get the low down on travelling around the world as one if the nation's biggest exports since Fosters and Prisoner: Cell Block H. They have seen it all - Miami, Milan, Motherwell....

So Nic, the new album is out, you guys happy with the result?

Yes, definitely. We feel that is our most mature album yet, we have really shed some skin with this one. Everyone in the band is happy with the way the album has turned out. And we had a lot of fun doing it too.

I am sure you did, considering some of it was recorded in Miami. Is the place as good as Will Smith bangs on about?

Yes, it's a great city, we went over there to record and we also recorded a track with Iggy Pop, as he happens to live over there. It wasn't for the album, it was for an Australian commemorative thing but it was great to do something with him. He is one of those iconic figures. He was a really nice guy too.

Nice. Did he manage to keep his top on the whole time you were there or did he get the guns out?

Funny you should say that. We all had bets on how long it would take before he took his top off. We weren't disappointed, he took it off within five minutes.

Your Joking? What does he look like under there these days, a bit like a lizard we presume?

I though he would look a bit like a piece of KFC but Iggy is actually a bit more leathery these days.

Did he mention he was in a naff car insurance advert over here?

No, he didn't say anything about that.

I am not surprised...But it must be great you guys are getting the opportunity to work with guys like that?

We have been pretty lucky really. Some other bands can be successful but never quite make it in America. We have done quite well out there and it has raised our profile, so we are lucky in that respect.

Seen as we are a football site, it would be remis of me not to mention the beautiful game. Are you guys big footy fans?

Yeah, we definitely like our football. We like to watch it and love a kick around too.

Good lads. Are you a bit tasty on the field??

I used to play a bit when I was younger but I was not too great. When I played with the school team the coach used to think my best position was on the bench unfortunately. But I was fairly decent I like to think.

What team do you support, are you a big fan of the Aussie A-League?

Actually, I live in Milan most of the year and the team I probably follow most is Inter-Milan. They are sort of my local team as it where.

That's a bit posh, how did you end up living in Milan?

Well I am half Italian, so its a bit like a second home. I am also half-Scottish, my grandparents emigrated to Australia. My family in Scotland come from a place called Motherwell.

I know it well. I have to say I am surprised you choose to live in Milan rather than Motherwell. If you are Scottish, the question has to be asked, are you a Celtic or Rangers man?

I suppose I would have to support my local team and be a Motherwell fan. Also, I have a Motherwell jersey. But we went to a Celtic v Rangers game when we were on tour in Glasgow once and it was f***ing crazy. I have never witnessed such hatred between two sets of fans but it was a great experience. We were in with the Celtic fans but i think it was at the Rangers ground. The Celtic fans were calling it Castle Greyskull. But Rangers won, the Celtic fans weren't happy.

It is indeed mad up there. What about down South, you ever been to a game?

I went to see a Chelsea game once, but that was a while ago. But I can't remember who they were playing or what the score was.

Another memorable day at the bridge then. As a proud Australian, do you think the Soccero's will have a good World Cup in South Africa?

Yes hopefully, the team is good, since we have a lot of players playing in Europe these days. I used to actually play with one of the players when I was at high school, Vince Grella.

Source: Toepoke.net

Sport.co.uk caught up with Nic Cester, lead singer of Australian rockers Jet, and did that thing we do where we natter idly about sports with famous musicians. Some, though, are a tad more interested than others…

So, were you watching the Ashes closely?

Not really. I actually find cricket pretty f***ing boring, to be honest. I think I’m one of the only Australians you’ll ever hear say that

Fair enough. Do you follow the soccer team?

I do. I used to play when I was a kid. I’d be lying if I said I follow it intently, but I do enjoy it. I moved to live in Italy a few years ago, so I followed it a little bit more than I would have if I’d stayed in Australia, I guess.

Is there a particular club side you support?

Inter. I lived in Milan.

I was told that you guys are fans of Brett Emerton…

We met him! We had an acoustic show a couple of weeks ago and…we just met him briefly, and it happened to be the night that he wrapped his Ferrari round a pole! So there was a big picture of us in the paper the next day, insinuating that we had something to do with his drunken state. (Chuckles)

Was this in the Australian media?

No, it was in The Sun, I think.

I only ask because they were trying to stick the knife into Tim Cahill recently, only to be proven hopelessly wrong. Going off on a slightly different tangent from this, do you think the Australian media are feeling threatened by soccer’s increasing popularity, fearing that it will eventually dethrone the national sports?

No. No way. But I do think, if anything, that there may be a sense of jealousy at how much of a bigger deal football is now compared to Australian football. First of all, it’s international. And the amount of salaries and wages that English football players get, I’ve no doubt that would piss off a lot of the Australian footballers!

If soccer continues to increase in popularity over there – say, on the back of the Socceroos enjoying another strong World Cup showing – then will it only be a matter of time before Australia becomes one of the world’s top footballing nations? You guys haven’t done that bad a job at dominating other sports…

Yeah, well, Australia is a very sporting nation, I guess. Much like in America, everyone plays football when you’re a kid. But then for some there comes a certain age and you switch to Australian football. I guess it’s just part of the culture there. But they’ve restructured the whole league in Australia; they’ve been doing it over a period of about ten years. It’s much healthier than it was before and it’s created a better breeding ground. The culture of – I’ll call it ‘soccer’, otherwise it’ll get confusing – definitely has been getting better for a long time, which obviously promotes more players and better skills, and I’m sure Australia will continue to get better and better.

As you’re not into cricket, I’m not sure if you read about Justin Langer’s leaked dossier on the English cricket team…(Sport.co.uk briefly describes what was said)...Do you think there is a crucial difference in mentality between English and Australian sportsmen?

I would imagine that Australia has a lot more confidence as a cricketing nation than England. Australians love the fact that we more often than not beat you at cricket. It’s a part of our national pride! And it’s been happening consistently for a while, so one would imagine that would be why that reaction happens. If it [the Langer dossier] was vice versa, would the Australians question themselves as much as the English do? I guess not.

Do you follow other sports?

Not really, man.

Do you follow the English football league at all?

Did Vince Grella just get moved to Blackpool? I went to high school with him. He played for Napoli and then Parma for a while, I think.

And finally, what are you up to with the band at the moment?

The album’s coming out in a few days over here, so that’s why we’re in England at the moment; to do a tour and promote the album. Then we go to Germany and…we’re just on tour for a long, long time now.

Source: Sport.co.uk

Yeah, sad thing Australia got knocked out of the World Cup today. I've been following the tournament very closely and always supported them. Well, they can support Brazil now!

Tchau!

Tacos and solo projects

2010-06-18T17:22:00.000-07:00

Advertising moment here on JettheF:

Do you enjoy some Tacos? Mark Wilson's got them for only 5 bucks at the Taco Brothers!

Mark has put the music business aside and is now running his very own tacos van. Yes, it's in a van! As reports Herald Sun:

Thanks to @anaisabelle, as always!

Interesting article, by the way. Chris and our taco boy is working together again (in 2008 they produced the Japanese band Superfly under a name I can't recall now); Nic is doing his own thing (that should be great, I feel like Nic could do a brilliant solo album). But yeah, that's always good, as long as the band stay together, we're happy!

Speaking of Nic's projects, besides being Muse's new official "Back in Black" singer, there're rumors he's playing bass (!) for a Melbourne band called Ross de Chene Hurricanes. I remember he also mentioned he'd be collaborating with some other Aussie guy but my memory isn't helping today.

About Cam... well, I haven't heard from him in a while. Have you?

So let's end this solo projects moment by going back to what we really like. Nic, Cam, Chris and Mark together in an interview, click here to watch it!

I've gotta go now. Make sure you enjoy some tacos with Mark if you live in Melbourne and tell him that I want my part on the profits for the advertising here!

Tchau!

Rock in Rio 2011

2010-06-13T17:29:00.000-07:00

OK guys, are you ready to vote?

Rock in Rio 2011 (this time really in Rio) wants to know what bands the Brazilians want to play on the festival. And surprisingly we've got Jet amongst the options! So, you can go here and pick your favorite bands (and pick Jet of course, if you're reading this you probably like them at least a bit). If you're not Brazilian, we'd appreciate if you could vote as well and spare us from having Paramore and Mcfly instead!

Before I go, let me sum it up in Portuguese and Spanish:
Negócio é o seguinte: o Rock in Rio quer saber quais bandas devem tocar no festival ano que vem e o Jet é uma das opções. Então, você vai lá no link marcado ali e votem neles!

Rock in Rio quiere saber qué bandas deben actuar en el festival el próximo año y Jet es una de las opciones. Así, todo lo que tiene que hacer és clic en el link de arriba y votar!

Tchau.

Nic plays with Muse... again.

2010-06-09T17:53:00.000-07:00

And that's all people are going to talk about for the next week. Muse was playing for a packed stadium in Milan last night when Matt announced a special guest. Guess who it was? Italy, Muse, guest, doesn't that sound familiar to you? Oh yeah, here we go again:

How cute is Matt jumping around like a 10 year-old?

Tchau!

Jet Covers!

2010-05-22T13:25:00.000-07:00

So, it's been two weeks. Actually, this band's break isn't helping us and also I had the first part of my uni exam last weekend. I passed, so I need to keep studying for the next two weeks for the second part. Wich means I'm not having much time for Jet right now.

But since we've got no news at all (even their website is being striked by hackers) I decided to post some good covers today. Covers played by the band, that is.

1. Black in Black (AC/DC)- Muse ft. Nic Cester:

2. You Don't Miss Your Water (The Byrds):

3. That's Alright Mama (Elvis Presley):

4. Never Tear Us Apart (INXS):

Click here to watch it.

5. Sooner or Later (NERD):

Click here to watch it.

If you know about another cover not posted here, please tell us!

Tchau.

2010-05-09T12:50:00.000-07:00

Happy Mother's Day to everyone! Some people asked me on Jettheband.com to translate some parts of the interviews posted last weekend. That was pretty much old stuff but I managed to compile the best bits:

Mark and Nic on Nic passing out in London:

Mark (Bogota.vive.in)

"He was very sick on the day of that gig. The doctors had told him not to play, but he thought it'd be a bad idea because we don't like to let people down. He felt he could go on. But he couldn't help being sick. Then, he passed out and had to stay in hospital for a few days, but now he's fine, and we keep doing more shows."

Nic (peston.info)
“I was fucked, with some very bad fevers. They gave me some injections before the concert, but the dosis weren't enough. After the diagnosis they recomended me some resting, but I just wanted to go out and play. I don't like these fucking bands who cancel gigs for this kind of thing. No matter what the doctor says, I'm always sure that's what I've got to do."

Nic with the best answer for the "What does Shaka Rock mean?" question:

Nic (peston.info)
“‘Shaka Rock‘ is the definition that we've done our own music style, that it can get to Africa, to the tender world of children or to the Far East. That's how Jet is. We're open to everything. Our music has a bit of every and each one of the possible different cultures all over the world. That's what "Shaka Rock" is for us."

Cam on their retro rock tag:

Cam (revistadonjuan.com)
DJ.: The band was named after a Paul McCartney song and is influenced by bands like The Who and The Ramones. Anyway, you don't seem very confortable with the retro rock tag.
Jet: At one moment we liked to mention all those bands, but then it became a headache. We have these fifty-year-old followers who cross entire states to see us in the US because they think we're a 60s band, but we're not. We're open for all the kinds of music and we want to be a modern band, we want to play rock'n'roll.

Chris trying to explain why they haven't come to South America after freakin 6 years:

Chris (Liveforever-arg.blogspot.com)
–Your records were all sold in Southamerica. Why have you never played here?
–I tell you something: now we're just working on playing in Southamerica next year. Our management is talking to a few producers from there so we can travel next year, 'cause everyone in the band want to go to Southamerica. We want to play a few shows in some cities because we've got the best references and also it'd be our first time there. Now that we have a new management it's the right time to do it, wich used to be a recurrent question “Why have you never toured Southamerica?” Actually, I didn't have an answer for that. Or yeah: we were badly managed. Now everything changed. We know we've got many Argentinian fans and our website from Brazil is always asking us to play there, so we're working on it.

Chris on the best advice he ever got (reading this in Spanish was actually kinda funny, cause I dont know about you but for me Spanish makes things sound quite dramatic):

–What was the best advice your father left you?
–I remember one day I was with my old man walking down a park; he was ahead of me and I, being still a little kid, was walking a couple of meters behind him and couldn't reach him. And then my old man turned around, looked at me in the eyes and said: “Chris, if you decided to walk, you walk”. That was the best advice I ever had.

Their website from Brazil is now sick and tired of asking them to come. That's why, as some of you who follow me on twitter might have noticed, I decided to leave the boat if the band doesn't come with an answer (even if it's a big fat "no") until August. That's right, I'm shutting JettheFband.com if they still ignore the fans begging them to play in their country until August. And what pisses me off the most is that, as you may see on the next interview, they're planning to tour the US AGAIN in June. They play there 50 times a year and we have to go down on our knees and beg them to come at least once? Guess I'm getting to old for this.

Alright, "confessions of a broken-hearted fan" over let's head to the next interview where Cam talks about the plans for the next album:

UG: What is the status with the songwriting process for the next JET album, have you put together some initial early ideas?

Cameron Muncey: No we haven’t got anything as yet. To be honest, we can’t really write when we are on the road. I mean we always sort of plan to but in the end, we never do and so it never happens. I think we are just destined to do it when we are off the road. Anyway we always like to write fresh material. There are a couple songs I would like to record for the next record that we already have got from the last album sessions, but like I said, it’s always good to have new tunes as it makes it exciting. I think we do want to get together at some point this year and sort of rehearse and play together in a room and write like that. So we are not too much concentrating on the recording as yet. I really don’t like doing demos as much as I did in the past, as I believe its better to be fresh going into the recording studio after having put songs together in a rehearsal studio. So when we come to record them, they’ll be fresh and new.

What’s the songwriting process like within the framework of the band?

Certain times it could be where anyone could come in with an idea while in other times, it could be something collaborative, where then the process will become quite democratic. And then sometimes, it is like a one person song and when that happens, that person has a bit more say over it. Overall though, we just try and be really fair with it all.

As a band, now that you’re three albums in, has it got easier making records?

Yeah I think we can get what we want so we are pretty confident with it all, definitely.

Shaka Rock really sees the group coming into its own, and finally getting a sound and style of its own compared to its previous two releases which saw the group wearing its influences proudly on its sleeves…

Thank you. On the next record we are going to expand further on that. And I really want to spend a lot of time writing the next album too and getting it just right. I really like Shaka Rock but I feel we didn’t take very long with it all. But I think that the next record has to be something pretty special and I really think we are ready to do it.

Shaka Rock was co-produced with Chris “Frenchie” Smith, what was that experience like for the group?

It was fun and really taught us a lot. We learned from the ground up, how to think of the song as a whole and the album as a whole and to take responsibility. It was also just a lot more being in touch with everything because you have your finger in every pie so to speak. So it took it away from just being a guitarist, where you have a bit more of an overview. It is really interesting because you learn a lot more interesting things that way and develop confidence, though we already had confidence to say what we want. And though it was just hard work it was really great fun too.

Why did you decide to go with “Frenchie” in the first place?

We just wanted someone we could work with and whom we enjoyed and who understood us. And he was a big fan of the band so we went with our gut feeling.

Do you see yourself going into producing some day?

I don’t but Chris [Cester] would love to do that. Actually though Chris may be the drummer, he is involved in a lot of other things too, he also writes a lot of the songs on guitar as well.

You used to play a Gibson Flying V a lot on stage but in recent times you are playing a Les Paul predominantly?

Yeah that is right but its not that I have anything against Flying Vs now. I still have that one, the original Flying V, it is just that I went into Gibson a while ago and found a couple guitars and one of them was the Les Paul. And when I picked it up, that Les Paul just spoke to me and so it has become a good workhorse type guitar.

Speaking of gear, what did you use for Shaka Rock?

I used the Les Paul and another guitar and used those two pretty much on the whole record. And as for amps, I used a Marshall.

And what about Nic Cester’s gear?

He used a Gibson 335 through a Vox.

If I asked you, what is one piece of gear you are very fond of, what would it be?

I have a Guild acoustic guitar at home and I really love that guitar because I can pick it up anytime and play it a lot and it always feels like an old friend.

The group has toured extensively over the years across the globe, so how do different audiences compare around the world?

Well we have just been having some great responses recently in Australia so we have just had a great time doing it in Australia. Elsewhere, American audiences can be really great as well. To be honest the audiences are great all around the world but recently we found that we have been having a blast just playing at home again.

And how does touring differ today to the early days of the group’s world tours?

It is still the same sort of deal but I think that we are so used to it now that it has become second nature for us.

How important do you think coming from Australia has played on your musicianship and character, I mean if you were from another country, do you think Jet would have sounded nothing like the way they do?

Absolutely that is definitely how it affected us.

Looking over your career thus far, what have been some of you most embarrassing moments?

When I look back and look at the clothes sometimes I think we definitely went a bit overboard there. Also there was a time when I took a guitar solo in the middle of a song and suddenly nothing, no sound came out of my amp, it had just been sitting there working fine until that moment and suddenly it didn’t work. That happened at the Live 8 show, so I ended up almost miming up there on stage.

You have toured with Oasis, what was that like?

It was a fantastic time but I didn’t really go out much as I was trying to stop drinking at the time so I was really a lot more relaxed but the other guys had a ball. So I don’t know as much as the other guys as how it all was as I trying to chill out.

Having the Gallagher brothers in Oasis and the Cester brothers in JET, it would have made for some interesting times, I’m sure…

Yeah, I think Liam and Noel made Nic and Chris look like the ideal family you know.

Do you listen to much current music out there?

Yeah I do. Recently I have been listening a lot to Charlotte Gainsbourg. Also I have been listening to the albums Amnesiac and In Rainbows by Radiohead. As to other bands, I like listening to [Australian bands] The Drones and Eddy Current Suppression Ring.

Any plans for JET to release another DVD sometime in the future?

Not at this point but we are definitely planning to put together some live stuff that we have recorded. We recorded the whole last tour of the US, so we are going to put that together and see how it all comes out.

Nic [Cester] has gone and done side projects in the past, have you any plans to some day do something similar?
Yeah next year I will definitely get into stuff like that. I don’t really know quite what yet as I need to write some music first. But yes…

You now live in the UK, so what has it been like living overseas compared to when you were living in Australia?

It is a lot different. You are not going to run into people you know as much too. I love the culture aspect to it very much. It is really deep and it goes on in the history of it [England] and you can really feel that in the place. But I still love Australia especially for it being a much fresher and newer place historically.

You recently were married, how has that affected you in general?

It has been beautiful and it has helped me chill out a lot more.

Do you take your wife with you on the road?

I am going to bring out my wife to the Powderfinger tour we are going to be doing later this year in Australia.

What has the rest of 2010 in store for JET?

Lots of touring, we may even have a US tour in the works for June of this year.

Have you any last words for all your fans out there?

To all the fans I want to personally say thanks for the support and do come to the gigs, as that is the best place to rock music.

Source: Ultimate-guitar.com

Bite me.

Tchau.

Post especial para Sudamerica y España

2010-05-02T09:41:00.000-07:00

Bueno amigos, el post de hoy és dedicado a la comunidad de hablantes de español. Recogí algunos artículos y entrevistas en Español ya que no tenemos noticias esta semana. Obviamente, esto tiene que ver con la posible gira en Sudamérica y en algunos artículos que podemos verlos citan eso.

Por lo tanto, tengo una idea. He tentado e-mail su management pero no tubo respuesta. Creo que si todos hacemos lo mismo podemos tener una idea de cuándo la gira va a ser. Puedes enviar uno e-mail para info@10thst.com.

Excusa me pelo Español, no tengo ninguna intención de matar a su idioma.

Vamos a empezar con este artículo de la Argentina, una entrevista con Nic Cester:

La avanzada australiana del retro-rock quiere retomar sus días de gloria con su primer disco en tres años: "Shaka Rock". Al teléfono, su cantante habla de sus expectativas y de su probable visita.

Aterrizarán finalmente en Buenos Aires? Como sea, Jet vuelve a volar. Cuando Are You Gonna Be My Girl?, sonaba en todas las radios, la banda australiana decidió hacer lo que hacen todos los grupos cuando pegan un hit: irse de gira. Recorrieron Europa, Asia, América del Norte y hasta allí llegaron.

Tiempo atrás, cerca de 1998, un grupo de amigos argentinos formó Jet y registró el uso del nombre en el país. Cuando la banda australiana quiso tocar en tierras gauchas, se encontraron con una traba legal. No podían usar la palabra para vender ni promocionar sus productos dado que la propiedad intelectual estaba protegida. Nic Cester, guitarrista y cantante principal de la agrupación australiana tiene un mal recuerdo de aquella situación, aunque pareciera no retener el origen de la banda que los demandó. "Hace tiempo que queremos ir a Argentina, pero una fucking banda sudamericana nos quiso demandar porque tienen el mismo nombre que nosotros. Esos motherfuckers nos impidieron tocar allá", relata Nic. El australiano no recuerda bien como terminó la historia pero sí sabe que hubo dinero de por medio. "La verdad que no estoy seguro si hubo un juicio. Pero a esos fuckers tuvimos que darles dinero".

En noviembre de 2007 Jet terminó una gira por el mundo y decidió tomarse un tiempo. Shine on, su segundo CD, no tuvo el éxito que su antecesor, Get Born (2003) y por sobre todas las cosas, la muerte del padre de los hermanos Cester fue el golpe de nocaut que terminó por desmantelarlos.

-¿Qué logró unir a la banda nuevamente?

-Teníamos algunos asuntos sin terminar. Siento que es el LP que más necesitábamos sacar dado que las cosas no resultaron como queríamos con el anterior y que nuestra vida personal no estaba en el mejor momento.

-Salvo la última canción, el CD tiene mucho agite..

-Es lo que quería. Sonar más como antes.

-¿Fue volver a las raíces?

-Creo que Shaka Rock es lo que somos. Shine on fue distinto por lo que pasaba alrededor nuestro: por suerte todo se tranquilizó.

-¿Cómo definirías el sonido de la banda?

-La palabra que más nos importa es Roll. De ahí viene la onda. Podría decirse que somos una banda de Pop and Roll.

-¿Están satisfechos con como quedó el disco?

- Sí, yo por lo menos sí. Debe ser el álbum más interesante que hemos hecho hasta ahora ,porque nos desafiamos de formas en que no lo habíamos hecho antes. Siento que más allá de lo que pase en el futuro, este será nuestro mejor álbum.

Antes de que Shaka Rock saliera a la venta, en el sitio oficial de la banda (jettheband.ning.com) adelantaron dos temas; She's a Genious y Killed In Action. Ambos aparecieron con videoclip, pero el de K.I.A tiene una particularidad. Para su realización no llamaron a algún director famoso o amigo, sino a unos chicos que suben sus videos a Youtube. Resulta que los hermanos Cester encontraron unos videos muy buenos y sobre todo graciosos, al menos en su juicio. Se contactaron con los creadores y les preguntaron si tenían alguna idea para Killed In Action. El resultado fue un clip asquerosamente gracioso y rockero en el que, entre otras cosas, a una chica le rebanan la cara con una máquina para cortar fiambre.

Actualmente están en New York promocionándose en todo programa de televisión les prenda las cámaras. Luego iniciarán una gira mundial que según Nic los dejará en Buenos Aires: "Estoy muy ansioso. Se de la tradición de rock que tienen en Argentina. ¡Y que la carne es muy buena!"

Source: Si.clarin.com

Antes de continuar, permítame mostrarle este pedazo de artículo publicado por Rocknrollstar.wordpress.com:

Right. Ahora, una entrevista con Mark Wilson de Bogota.vive.in de Colombia, por supuesto.

En la enérgica escena del rock australiano, JET ya no quiere ser un aliento contemporáneo de AC/DC. Para su tercer álbum en estudio (cuarto si se cuenta EP 'Dirty') siente que ha establecido la distancia creativa necesaria con la cual decirle al mundo que mira más allá de la cultura 'vintage' y las melancolías 'setenteras'.

"Queríamos hacer un álbum más moderno y nos llegamos a cansar de los elementos retro", explica Mark Wilson, el bajista del cuarteto de Melbourne que sacó al mercado el pasado jueves el álbum 'Shaka Rock'.

El disco comprende 12 cortes entre los que se destaca el sencillo 'She's a Genius', con el que la banda intenta alcanzar el impacto en el mercado que tuvo su canción 'Are You Gonna Be My Girl?'
Preceden a 'Shaka Rock' los álbumes 'Get Born' (2003) y 'Shine On'.

"En el primer trabajo, eso de lo retro fue muy bien recibido y estábamos felices de sonar así, pero pasaron los años y fuimos creciendo y encontrando nuevas cosas" explica Wilson, y añade que "este es un rock del mundo real, es un rock de ahora, suena genial y estoy muy orgulloso".

Algunos críticos como Rob Sheffield, de la revista Rolling Stone, creen que JET aún sigue bajo la sombra de su coterránea de los años setenta: "JET regresa con otra vuelta al catálogo de AC/DC", afirmó recientemente.

Levantando el ánimo

Más allá de las críticas, 'Shaka Rock' representa además un retorno esperado que casi se ve truncado, pues Wilson, los hermanos Nic y Chris Cester y Cameron Muncey casi se separan tras la última gira, que se produjo en el 2006.

"Creo que fue muy duro el seguir trabajando, ir de gira y hablar de lo que ocurrió, así que entramos en un momento muy oscuro", afirma el bajista, al recordar el impacto que tuvo la muerte del padre de los Cester, a quien fue dedicado 'Shine On'.

Todos nos separamos un poco, hicimos espacio, necesitábamos volver a encontrarnos como una banda de cuatro y comenzar todo de nuevo -explica-. Por eso este disco es tan importante para la banda y para unir a todos".

Ahora, JET emprende un nuevo recorrido. Aún se desconoce si existe la posibilidad de una gira por Suramérica. Un reciente desmayo de Nic Cester en el escenario del Hard Rock Café de Londres trajo alarma a los fanáticos del grupo.

"Él estaba muy enfermo el día del concierto -recuerda Wilson-. Los doctores le habían recomendado no hacer el show, pero él pensó que eso sería una mala idea porque no nos gusta quedarle mal a la gente. Él sintió que podía seguir. Pero no podía evitar estar enfermo. Así que él se desmayó así nada más y tuvo que estar en el hospital varios días, pero ahora está bien y seguimos haciendo más shows".

Source: Bogota.vive.in

Otra entrevista con Nic, desta vez de España:

Ajetreados han sido los últimos meses para los miembros de Jet, aunque no se trate exclusivamente de cuestiones musicales. En todo caso, lo que ahora importa y lo que les ha devuelto a la actualidad es la publicación de su tercer larga duración, “Shaka Rock” (Emi, 09), un disco con el que buscan mantener su nombre en boca de los fans.

Al día siguiente de nuestra conversación telefónica con Nic Cester en Londres, se casaba en la capital inglesa Cameron Muncey, el guitarrista solista de los australianos. Y aprovechando la coyuntura, qué mejor que una sesión con la prensa tras varios cambios de hotel, diseñada para dar a conocer a la tercera criatura de Jet, el variado “Shaka Rock”.

Días antes habían corrido ríos de tinta por la red. El cantante de la banda, Nic Cester, con quien conversamos, se desvanecía para ser ingresado de urgencia. “Estaba muy jodido, con unas fiebres muy altas. Me dieron unas inyecciones antes del concierto, pero la dosis no fue suficiente. Tras el diagnóstico me recomendaron hacer reposo, pero yo sólo quería salir a tocar. No me gustan esas jodidas bandas que suspenden una actuación por ese tipo de cosas. Ni aunque me lo diga el doctor, yo siempre tengo claro que es lo que debo hacer”.

Aunque Jet nunca han sido paradigma de ser una apisonadora en escena, los discos han aguantado el tirón, gracias, en parte, al nexo común de unas canciones que entran a la primera. Ahora han buscado encontrar ese anhelado equilibrio, algo más compacto, más variedad en el menú. “El disco lo acabamos hace unos seis meses, lo que ha sucedido es que rompimos con nuestro anterior sello, y tuvimos que buscar otro que quisiese publicar nuestra música. Son las miserias y esas cosas ocultas u oscuras del negocio de la música. Ha sido frustrante y bastante duro aguantar todo este tiempo, pero como no podíamos hacer nada por cambiar esa situación, tomamos otra determinación: relajarnos y dejar que el tiempo pasara.

En cuanto a la grabación, todo ha sido diferente. Hemos creado una atmósfera nueva, y los objetivos eran otros. Desde el productor al lugar en el que hemos grabado. Nos trasladamos tres meses a Texas, y allí hemos vivido todo ese tiempo. La experiencia nos ha curtido. Necesitábamos estar de nuevo excitados ante una aventura, y así es como lo hemos logrado”.

En un momento en el que The Strokes parecen fuera de combate, The Hives tocan techo, y Kings Of Leon despegan como un cohete, Jet se encuentran en tierra de nadie, en busca de una identidad perdida. “El disco es muy ecléctico. Ninguna de las canciones es indicativa de cómo suena el conjunto. El single, ‘She’s A Genius’, es muy dinámico; el inicio del álbum sorprende con ese toque tex-mex, y nunca antes habíamos escrito una canción como ‘Seventeen‘. Las guitarras suenan más modernas, la calidad de sonido es más concreta, tocamos de otra manera… estamos contentos con todo el trabajo realizado. Han pasado seis años desde nuestro primer disco y la escena musical era distinta por aquellos días. Ahora fluye todo con más naturalidad. Con ese debut exploramos, empezábamos a sobresalir como grupo, y, por suerte, creo que pudimos vivir ese momento para gozar ahora de esta nueva situación. Todo ha cambiado mucho en el entorno de Jet“.

El extraño título del disco juega al despiste, si bien ellos tienen una explicación sobre esa decisión. “‘Shaka Rock‘ es la definición que hemos hecho nuestro de ese propio estilo musical, que puede llegar hasta África, al tierno mundo de los niños o a Extremo Oriente. Así somos Jet. Estamos abiertos a todo. Nuestra música engloba todas y cada una de las posibles culturas distintas que hay en el mundo entero. Eso es para nosotros el ‘shaka rock‘”.

En el Myspace de la banda se puede ver la reunión junto a Iggy Pop para registrar juntos una canción, una experiencia inolvidable para el cuarteto australiano que un día reinó con aquel hitazo que era “Are You Gonna Be My Girl“. “Nos propusieron grabar ‘Wild One‘ con Iggy Pop, y durante tres días fue nuestro invitado de honor en Miami. Al principio nos lo imaginamos como una prima donna del rock, y el primer impacto fue de impresión. Era el cantante de The Stooges quien estaba allí con nosotros. Después, una vez hecha la primera toma de contacto, descubrimos que no se comporta como una estrella al uso. Es un tipo muy cool”.

Source: Peaton.info

La siguiente entrevista és con Cameron, yo penso que és de Colombia también:

Apenas han pasado un par de semanas desde que el guitarrista Cameron Muncey contrajo matrimonio con la que fuera su novia por años. También han pasado un par de semanas desde que se pusiera a la venta el incendiario tercer álbum de su banda, Jet (la última gran sensación mundial del rock australiano). Y más allá de los estados civiles, todo indica que el voltaje se mantiene por todo lo alto. "No somos una banda que se baje del escenario y se siente silenciosamente al lado de la fogata", dice Muncey en su acento de Cocodrilo Dundee. "En el rock una vejez desagradecida puede ser lo peor; pero, ¡hey, man!, yo todavía estoy en mis veintes".

En este nuevo Shaka Rock el cuarteto -completado por los hermanos Nic y Chris Cester (baterista y cantante/guitarrista, respectivamente) y Mark Wilson (bajista)- apenas incluyó un par de números suaves y le subió el volumen de los Marshall nuevamente al máximo, alejándose de la experiencia confusa en la que resultó Shine On (2006) y rescatando el condimento vintage del rock más directo que hizo a su debut trasnacional Get Born (2003) soplar como un viento millonario (con los sencillos Are You Gonna Be My Girl y Cold Hard Bitch el disco fue un éxito de ocho veces platino). Pasada la luna de miel y con Shaka Rock ya en los oídos del mundo, Muncey habló con DONJUAN antes del comienzo de su gira.

DONJUAN: Es fácil distinguir la influencia de AC/DC en ustedes. Pero hablemos del gran legado de otras bandas australianas como You Am I que, si bien no son conocidas internacionalmente, también lograron marcarlos.

Jet: Mientras crecíamos en Australia el grunge estaba vivo en Estados Unidos y todos oían eso. Pero como australianos realmente no nos sentíamos tan deprimidos como en Seattle, era inspirador ver estas bandas armar toda una nueva escena, pero acá necesitábamos hacer nuestra propia música. Así que bandas como You Am I o Tumbleweed realmente nos llegaban, las íbamos a ver en vivo y te trasmitían esa forma australiana de ver el mundo, mucho más descomplicada. Fue importante tener nuestras propias bandas y nuestros propios festivales como referencia e inspiración. También muchas bandas que venían de Inglaterra fueron importantes para nosotros, a Chris nuestro baterista le gustaba mucho Oasis, y mientras Nirvana terminaba en suicidio Oasis cantaba "eres un rockstar" y "tú y yo vamos a vivir por siempre", cosas que te hacían sentir como un gigante. Ese mensaje fue inspirador para nosotros, y cuando salimos a tocar nuestra música esa idea permaneció cercana a nuestros corazones.

DJ.: ¿Sus canciones tienen algo de particular para que sean incluidas en videojuegos, campañas de celulares y iPod, series de televisión y películas sin problema?

Jet: No sé, creo que a veces la gente piensa en nosotros por lo que hicimos con I-pod y eso evidentemente ayudó a que la canción (Are You Gonna Be My Girl) se hiciera realmente grande. Hemos hecho campañas que han ayudado a difundir nuestra música, pero claro, eso también tiene su lado perjudicial, porque hay gente que no te toma en serio.

DJ.: ¿Los sorprendió más que los Rolling Stones los llamaran para abrir su gira de 2003 o que los llamaran de nuevo en el 2007?

Jet: La segunda vez fue como la cereza en la punta, era genial volver a hacerlo. No podía creer toda la fruta que servían en ese backstage, era algo difícil de creer que estabas sentado ahí y que después de ese gran banquete ibas a ver a los Stones; Chris (Cester) terminó en la fiesta de cumpleaños de Ron Wood. Pero bueno, creo que la primera vez nos sorprendió más porque salió de la nada: los Stones venían a la ciudad, nosotros éramos una banda joven, habíamos grabado nuestro primer disco y no teníamos nada más. Es cool que una banda como esa que ha estado desde siempre les dé una oportunidad a los chicos nuevos. Lo que hicimos fue disfrutarlo mientras duraba, éramos pulgas en la espalda de un elefante.

DJ.: ¿De alguna manera sienten todavía el peso de su primer álbum?

Jet: Creo que ese primer disco demostró de lo que éramos capaces. No en una actitud amenazante, sólo un miren que aquí estamos y esto es lo que hacemos. Es raro que el primero vendiera tanto, el segundo vendió como un millón de copias igual pero no funcionó porque "oh, diablos, es un desastre solo haber vendido un millón de discos" [risas].

DJ.: Debutaron en un período en el que The Vines, The Strokes y The White Stripes eran considerados pares de Jet. En este momento en el que ninguna de esas bandas lanza material nuevo, ¿sienten que el camino está menos definido por lo que hacen los demás?

Jet: Creo que sí. Pero nunca tuvimos la aclamación crítica como The Strokes, ellos eran una banda neoyorquina cool y nosotros unos recolectores australianos de mango [risas]. Tampoco somos un proyecto tan artístico como The White Stripes, que hacían un rock' n roll estupendo, no me malinterpretes, pero la cosa del rojo, blanco y negro tampoco era lo nuestro.

DJ.: Bautizaron la banda por una canción de Paul McArtney y agrupan influencias desde The Who hasta The Ramones. De todos modos no parecen muy cómodos con la etiqueta retro rock.
Jet: En un momento nos encargamos de citar todo ese tipo de música, pero después se puede convertir en un dolor de cabeza. Tenemos estos seguidores de cincuenta años que atraviesan estados enteros para vernos en Estados Unidos porque creen que somos una banda de música de los años sesenta, pero no lo somos. Estamos abiertos a mucha clase de música diferente y queremos ser una banda moderna, tocar rock'n roll.

Source: RevistaDonJuan.com

Y por último, una breve entrevista con Chris de uno blog de Argentina. Me pregunto sobre qué página web que está hablando:

–Sus dos discos anteriores se editaron en Sudamérica. ¿Por qué nunca vinieron a tocar aquí?

–Te adelanto algo: ahora justamente estamos trabajando para ir a tocar a Sudamérica el año que viene. Nuestro management está poniéndose de acuerdo con algunos promotores de allí para poder viajar el año que viene, porque todos en la banda tenemos ganas de ir a Sudamérica. Queremos dar algunos shows en algunas ciudades porque tenemos las mejores referencias y además sería la primera vez en ir hacia allá. Ahora que tenemos nuevo management es el momento indicado para hacerlo, lo cual antes era una pregunta recurrente. “¿Por qué nunca hicieron una gira por Latinoamérica?” La verdad, no tenía la respuesta. O sí: estábamos mal manejados. Hoy todo cambió. Sabemos que hay muchos fans argentinos y nuestro website de Brasil siempre está lleno de pedidos para que vayamos, así que estamos en eso.

–¿Shaka Rock continúa la tradición de rock visceral más cercana a Get Born?

–Sí, es un disco muy fuerte, para escuchar bien alto. A nosotros nos etiquetaron como una banda de sonido retro y setentona, pero si escuchás nuestro nuevo material vas a ver que no tiene nada que ver con los ‘70 sino con los tiempos actuales. Lo que pasó fue que muchos periodistas tomaron canciones del primer disco como Are you gonna Be my Girl o Cold Hard Bitch y nos clavaron esa etiqueta. Está bien, acepto que en aquel momento tal vez sonábamos de esa manera, porque las influencias se notan más cuando empezás. Hoy, Jet tiene ya once años y todos hemos crecido, lo que te lleva a ir creando tu propio estilo. Shaka Rock es el disco de una banda que tiene más de una década y que ha viajado y aprendido mucho. Yo amo el rock de los ‘70, como también amo a Daft Punk o a Primal Scream o a The Sunnyboys.

El hermano Chris asegura que australianos y sudamericanos comparten un rasgo íntimo que los hace pueblos luchadores, y que ese nervio abreva en el temple para aceptar retos adversos y una forma de hacer y decir. “Shaka Rock es un poco eso, rock bastardo, rock sin vueltas, pero hecho desde la pasión. En mi país se vive y se siente así: si vas a ir, anda derecho; si lo vas a decir, decilo fuerte; si vas a hablar, que se escuche. Nosotros pensamos así y así pensamos este disco. Lo marcan nuestras influencias, como AC/DC. Cuando ellos están en el escenario, están ahí. El escenario es de ellos y no se lo vas a quitar porque te parten la cabeza. Eso es rock and roll, más allá de lo que escuches y lo que hagas, andá y decilo. Si vas a tocar, tocá duro. Ese es el mensaje.

–¿Cuál fue el mejor consejo que te dejó tu padre?

–Recuerdo que un día estábamos con mi viejo cruzando un parque; él iba adelante y yo, que era chiquito, venía caminando dos metros atrás y no lo podía alcanzar. Hasta que en un momento mi viejo se dio vuelta, me miró a los ojos y me dijo: “Chris, si decidiste caminar, caminá”. Fue el mejor consejo que recibí.

Source: Liveforever-arg.blogspot.com

Entonces, eso es todo por hoy, amigos. No te olvides de enviar los e-mails, ok?

Adios, cabróns!

On the other sides of Nic.

2010-04-25T19:44:00.000-07:00

It's late night in Brazil and I've got school tomorrow but I thought: "Can I leave my dear Jet fans without watching this?" Absolutely not!

If you know how to create emoticons, please, do one of Nic's dance move. I BEG YOU!

Click here to watch and have a big laugh.

Right. Are you OK? Have you wiped the tears off your eyes? Your cheeks aren't hurting anymore? So you can watch this recent Triple M interview now:

Before I leave I need to mention that Jet has added to more dates in Europe. They're going to Spain, United Kingdom and I heard something on Twitter about a festival in Switzerland. Lucky you!

Tchau.

Good news, bad news.

2010-04-17T15:52:00.000-07:00

Mistery solved. Chris is going to be a father in September as you'll read in one of the million interviews that go bellow. But first, if you excuse me, I need to say something to my Brazilian fellas about the Brazil tour (wich, as you might have observed, has gone down the hole), so I need to do this in Portuguese so everyone can understand me:

Bom, amiguinhos brasileiros, eu vinha postando já há algum tempo que estávamos na iminência de ter as datas brasileiras confirmadas. Eu, como vocês, sonho com isso há muito tempo, mas temos que ser realistas. Olhando os fatos, a banda tirará uma merecida folga nas 6 próximas semanas e, em junho, vão pros festivais europeus. Depois disso, temos um buraco nos meses de julho e agosto, e em setembro a banda vai sair em turnê com o Powderfinger. Acontece que em setembro também nasce o filho do Chris e como vocês podem imaginar ele vai ter muito trabalho depois disso! Então, a banda já mencionou ter planos de tirar um ano de folga depois dessa turnê, e aí, desculpem-me pelo termo, fudeu!

Resumindo, é julho ou agosto, ou nunca. Vou tentar descubrir mais a fundo e se tiver mais alguma info, posto aqui!

So, let's get this Tupiniquim moment over with and head to the interviews. The Age interviewed the band and we could finally know who's is pregnant after all. Also, on this interview, us Brazilians had some sad news concerning touring plans... I think we can get over it:

HOMETOWN rockers Jet flew into town this week after 18 months on the road touring their third album, Shaka Rock.

They will enjoy some time off before joining Powderfinger on their farewell tour across the country in September and October. ''We've just been around the world three times and we didn't even stop for Christmas, so we're looking forward to six weeks off,'' says frontman Nic Cester. ''But all things considered, we're pretty healthy - compared to the Jet of yesteryear. No one hates anyone too much and we're looking after ourselves much more.''

What does the band put that down to? More vegetables in the diet?

''Just getting older and boring. You get a bit sick of feeling like shit everyday,'' he says, referring to the band's notorious partying ways.

Guitarist Cameron Muncey says the band bonded with the 'Finger on the recent national Big Day Out tour.

''During the Big Day Out Nic said to [Powderfinger singer] Bernard, 'So are we going to go on tour?' and he said 'All right!'. That's how the deal was made. We're really looking forward to it. There are lots of places I haven't been before. And being their farewell tour will add lots of intensity. I've never been on a farewell tour before.''

When the tour finishes, the band plan to take a year off. Muncey, who lives in London, has started renovating his Collingwood house, which he has found a ''grounding'' experience, and Cester, who will release an album with You Am I's Davey Lane next year, is trying to sell his St Kilda apartment to move into a house.

''I need some barbecue space,'' he says.

Sometimes it's hard being rock stars. Last year Nic embarked on a month-long worldwide tour with his brother Chris to promote the new album, which entailed, generally speaking, talking about themselves and drinking beer.

''It gave us a chance to hang out for the first time in ages,'' says Cester. ''It's hard to have heart-to-hearts about serious issues on tour, because there's always so much pressure, booze and frustration. Usually we can only focus on one thing at the time. But on this trip the fact that Chris is going to have a baby set in for the first time.''

While the band enjoyed the sunny blue skies of the Big Day Out tour, they experienced the polar opposite at the recent Winter Olympics in Whistler, Canada.

''After the awards ceremony every night they had bands playing. But to be honest, it was pretty bleak,'' says Muncey, who said the band was underdressed in jeans and leather jackets. ''It rained the whole time and was about minus 20 degrees. We played on a plastic, slippery floor. I almost got electrocuted.''

''We were there for 24 hours and watched a few events,'' adds Cester. ''From the comfort of our hotel rooms.''

Source: The Age

Continuing their promo week in Australia, the guys went to Nova FM to talk about airplanes (no puns intended)and the Powderfinger tour. They alsoplayed a brilliant cover of INXS's "Never Tear Us Appart". By the way, you can find a lot more videos here.

Now, I had a podcast from Triple M here somewhere but I lost it, as soon as I recover it you'll see it here.

Now, we're going back to the US when the band was interviewed at the 95 Will Rock You radio station and Cam did this really cool interview to FreshScouts.com:

Jet's also been to Hey Hey show in Australia but I'm still trying to get the video. Plus, they were interviewed by Fuzzy (L) and I shall be posting it as soon as it's out.

Thanks for your attention but now I've got a few drinks to have.
Tchau.

Babies, jams and burps, all in once.

2010-04-10T16:00:00.001-07:00

I can't stay a week out and all these cool interviews, videos and news come up. First, the big news, Jet announced a tour with Powderfinger and The Vines (L) for September and October in Australia. A long seven-week tour for you lucky Aussies, however some great news might be making this time a little shorter. It was said by an Aussie paper that Chris is due to become a father around that time, though some fans are considering a mistake there so it could possibly be Nic. Anyway, as soon as I know for sure I'll confirm it.

Moving on, we have a really nice jamming filmed in Atlanta with the Crash Kings on probably the last date of the US tour:

By the way, this photographer took some really nice shots of the band on that gig.

Plus, Q101's Kevin Manno interview Jet in Chicago. But before I show this interview, you should watch this Jet interview in 2006 for this very same radio station:

They look more... how can I say... sober right now, don't they?

Now let's go back to January this year around the Big Day Out festival, when the band was interviewed by NovaFM, click here to watch it.

Alright everyone, I don't know when I'm coming back since the band is about to get in that period when they completely disappear and we have no news. As soon as I know who's about to be the fist daddy of the band I'll come running to tell you!

Tchau.

2010-04-04T10:25:00.000-07:00

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.

JET - Seventeen (feat Nicole Atkins)

2010-04-01T07:51:00.000-07:00

via jettheband.com

Seattle and Portland

2010-03-27T18:26:00.000-07:00

Hello again, people!

Let's go straight to the topic here. The band played in Seattle and Portland since we last talked (actually they played Salt Lake City last night, but that's for next week) and you can watch some videos below:

She's a Genius, Seattle (Showbox Market)

Cold Hard Bitch, Seattle (Showbox Market)

AYGBMG, Seattle (Showbox Market)

She's a Genius, Portland (Roseland Theatre)

PYMWYMI, Portland (Roseland Theatre)

Get Me Outta Here, Portland (Roseland Theatre)

Rip It Up, Portland (Roseland Theatre)

Start This Show, Portland (Roseland Theatre)

KIA, Portland (Roseland Theatre)

The good thing about US tours is the good amount of interviews that come up. Cam was interviewed by Aspen Daily and if I didn't know the band as I read it, I'd think they're a bunch of scumbags. They "diss" the band all over it:

Off stage, you might mistake the members of Jet as just another four brash, beer-drunk blokes from Melbourne killing a winter in Aspen.

When the band plays the Belly Up on Monday, March 29, you can count on the club being packed with hard-partying Australians and a round or two of the “Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi” soccer chant.

Guitarist Cam Muncey said they’re always glad to see their rowdy down-under brethren come out and wave the flag, but he’s sick of the chant. “It’s getting old,” he told me after playing a show at the Winter Olympics in Whistler. “We need a new chant.”

Over the last seven years, the greasy-haired Aussie rock outfit has developed a reputation for kinetic volume-up-to-eleven shows, incessant touring and the ability to write the kind of infectious, anthemic no-frills tunes that you swear you’ve heard before. V-guitars in hand, Jet has proven there’s more to Australian rock than Men at Work.

Take the screw-you attitude of AC/DC, add the stage mastery of the Rolling Stones and the dirty pop sensibility of The Faces and there you have it: Jet.

Some have derided Jet’s music as derivitave and unoriginal, and written off the boys as some of the less creative figures in the garage rock revival led by The Strokes and The White Stripes. Muncey doesn’t mind being lumped in with those bands, and says that the lo-fi sounds are more diverse than people might think.

“We’ll always be identified with garage music and I like a lot of that music,” Muncey said. “All that ‘garage’ says to me is that it’s a bit raw. You look at the Strokes or the Stooges or what Jack White is doing and I think it’s actually a wide cross-section of music.”

Jet’s first record, “Get Born,” sold millions — fueled largely by “Are You Gonna Be My Girl,” which Apple used in one of the first ads in the now-iconic dancing silouette iPod campaign.

The quartet — Muncey, bassist Mark Wilson, and brothers Nic and Chris Cester — have played hundreds of shows a year to support that record and follow-up hits like “Rollover DJ” and “Cold Hard Bitch.” They’re currently touring in support of their third studio album, “Shaka Rock.”

They’ve done two stints touring with their heroes, The Rolling Stones. And they also seem to have taken a page from the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll book of Stones guitarist Keith Richards — developing a reputation for coke- and booze-fueled nightly bacchanals wherever their tour bus goes.

When I saw Jet at the House of Blues in New Orleans on the “Get Born” tour, they played a raucous sold-out show — oozing a shaggy, snotty charm, passing a bottle of Jack Daniel’s around the stage and then tearing up the French Quarter’s barrooms. These are the kind of guys who might puke on your shoes or screw your girlfriend if you get too close to them.

And Muncey says age and years on the road hasn’t slowed them down. “If anything we could probably drink our old selves under the table,” he laughed. “It’s mostly just from the pure excitement of being on the road. But we’ve learned to party smarter. We’re not going to come into some town on a Tuesday where nothing’s open and try to party ‘til sunrise.”

As we have the crappy interviews we also have the boring ones. I even considered not posting them but, you know, this is the only way we get to know something about them. There you are:

Indy: Your latest CD, Shaka Rock, has its share of rowdy rockers, but you also have some more multi-faceted and poppier songs, such as "Seventeen." What does that say about the musical development of Jet?

NC: What we were really proud of this album was just the uniqueness of the songs, you know. We always knew that we could write good songs, and we've got a knack for writing melodies, and we're good with structuring and layering or whatever, you know, the mechanics of it. But I think now we've reached a new level of maturity ... I just think we're a lot more comfortable in our own skin now.

Indy: So have you also grown more mature in your touring lifestyles as well?

NC: I think that the thing we're enjoying about touring most of all this time around is I guess being a little bit older and a bit wiser. In the past we've been, you know, pretty reckless when it comes to extracurricular activities. But I think this time we're all looking after ourselves a lot better than we ever have and actually going out and seeing these towns that we're touring and, you know, going to restaurants and just actually exploring America for the first time.

Indy: It sounds like you guys took a bigger role in the making of Shaka Rock, which you co-produced. So how were things different with your involvement in producing the album?

NC: I think we realized that, whatever the end result was going to be, the amount of enjoyment we got from actually doing it like that and the whole process was so much fun that we knew that we were going to be very happy and proud at the end of it anyway. We're pretty confident that whatever we're going to do, if we apply ourselves, we're going to do it really well.

Source: CSIndy.com

The US tour is over next week and the next thing we don't know. I'll be back for any news during the weekend!

Tchau.

2010-03-23T16:38:00.001-07:00

I just had to start off my post saying that even being a massive Kasabian fan and having seen them 4 times, Franz Ferdinand just beat them up Sunday night! Their gig was WILD! Best one I've ever been to, despite the fact that I lost my beautiful Brazilian flag (though they gave me an old ripped one signed later).

Anyway, this ain't a FF website so let's get back on topic! Tonight we're having interview with Cam and Chris and Jet live at the Varsity.

First, news for the Mexicans, you had Mark Wilson and Cam Muncey for a couple of days. Mark was Djing somewhere. And they're slowly coming down...

Right, interview with Chris and Cam from Backbeatseatle.com:

Jet’s new CD, Shaka Rock, is smashing. It’s thrilling that this band has released three snappy albums and Jet remains a favorite of mine. Their rock, unabashed and timeless, is food for the heart and soul. I got to talk with drummer Chris Cester and guitarist Cam Muncey, separately, about the new album, Australian music and that awesome green hat Cester used to wear. Jet is set to play Showbox at the Market in Seattle on March 23rd.

Cam, who came up with the name Shaka Rock?

I did. We sort of wanted something that sounded like a genre of music.

Did you try for a different sound for the entire CD?

We changed up the process of how we did things – things were written in a different way so we just did what amused us and what was exciting for us and that was naturally different from what we’d done before.

Chris, the song Beat on Repeat specifically – was this something that you tried to have a totally new sound with?

We’re always listening to different things all the time and I think the difference between a song like Beat on Repeat that couldn’t possibly have appeared on Shine On is the fact that we produced this record ourselves. We’ve always been into changing things up and keeping things interesting for the sake of our own sanity, really. In the past we’ve been in the studio and certain producers or forces are working against you and it’s not an easy process to go through to get that difference because people have an expectation of you. Sometimes we have, in the past, let that get to us. On this record we felt we’d done enough, put in enough time to do whatever we wanted it to be. That’s why it came about with such ease. Actually I wrote the song around the time of Shine On but it didn’t make it onto the record for those reasons I was telling you.

You were co-producers on the CD?

That’s right. That was a pact that we made to each other before we embarked on this record adventure. We made it completely under our own terms.

Cam, what’s it like working with brothers? Can it be difficult?

Sometimes it can be. When you’re not family you tend to try to keep things more calm. You don’t want that fighting or tension in the air. But when you’re brothers you don’t give a damn. You don’t care if you piss your brother off.

What song are you most proud of?

I really like the way She Holds a Grudge came out. The whole band shaped that tune – I wrote it but we just sat and played it a lot until it had a lot of soul and feeling in it. There’s a lot of slide guitar in it, which we experimented with.

Chris, what song have you written that you’re most proud of? Song you like doing live?

There’s a song on our second album called Shiny Magazine. [Live] Beat on Repeat. I like the feeling of Seventeen as well. I really like Shiny Magazine.

Cam, you went to Catholic school?

For most of the time, except towards the end I sort of left.

It must have been a very strict environment.

It could be. Sometimes it was strict, other times there were aspects of the school that were a bit more bullheaded, meatheaded for someone with a little more sensitivity [to them]. You had to be a bit macho and stick up for yourself.

I wondered about that. Is Australian culture kind of macho?

I think so, yeah.

Is Australian rock different from other music in the world?

I think it’s definitely affected by other things in the world but a lot of Australian bands sound like they could have come from nowhere else. I like the bands that sound Australian and haven’t changed their sound to sound American or English because they’re the nearest touchstones to what music we listen to down there. Not try for the populist thing. Be what they are.

Chris, did you live in Morocco for awhile?

I holidayed in Morocco in between the second and third album. I’d gotten out of this long-term relationship and I wanted to do something a little more out there [in] a world that I knew nothing about for a while just to get out of my brain and force myself to think in different ways.

I’m guessing the food was really good.

The food was great. It gets repetitive because when you’re living in the States or somewhere in the western world you go and have Moroccon food and it’s a once every while sort of thing. When you’re there, that’s all there is.

Cam, do you ever dream songs in your sleep?

Sometimes, but I’ve never been able to put that down to paper. In your dream it’s the most incredible song, there are a million fans, screaming. And then you wake up and you can never remember the melody. Paul McCartney remembered Yesterday.

Do you ever think about doing solo work?

Yeah, me and my brother play together every once in a while. I like to experiment with recording by myself. I’m not sure what kind of form it would take as far as releasing it. You should always be experimenting.

Did Jet have about a two-year break between Shine On and Shaka Rock?

We never had a year off. At most we had about three months. Even if not everyone’s there I’ll go to Chris and start writing or go hang out with Nick. It’s good like that, we mix it up. It took us about a year to get out of our record deal.

Chris, when you were a kid what was your favorite TV show?

Voltron. I have to say a cartoon called Voltron. I think they’re making it into a motion picture.

Cam, what hobbies do you have?

I’m teaching myself French. It tends to help in those times when I’m in a hotel room for six hours or backstage – instead of just being sat there and staring at the walls, which I’ve done. Reinvorgate the mind.

You worked with Iggy Pop a while ago. How was he?

Iggy’s really easy to hang out with and he’s a very chilled out person. At the beginning it’s, he’s a legend, and then after a while you’re having a couple glasses of wine. He’s a gentleman and it was a fun experience.

Chris, I love that green hat you wore when the band first came to the States. What was it? Do you still have it?

I’m looking at it right now. I keep it in my studio. It’s just an old military hat. It came with us on a photo shoot in New York and some of the photos ended up on the Get Born album. They were trying to get us to wear these clothes and we were like, no. Towards the end of the day [the stylist] asked if any of us wanted to try this hat. I ended up using it in the Are You Gonna Be My Girl video.

Cam, do you have a favorite Beatles song?

I can give you one. I love I’m Only Sleeping. My little nephew, he’s about 7 years old and he loves that. He always gets me to play it for him on guitar. I think it’s got that sort of dreamy feeling to it. I always play it to him before he goes to bed.

A week ago Jet played at the Varsity, few songs go below:

AYGBMG

Look What You've Done

Rip It Up

KIA

Holiday

That's it for now. Jet's playing tonight in Seattle and I've seen something about this festival in Spain with Jet on the line-up, I shall be confirming that later.

Tchau!

"And being Australian, we generally work better when we’re more laid-back"

2010-03-18T18:22:00.000-07:00

As you all might already know, the band relesead "Seventeen" as the new single and it has a video:

I think it's a shame they wasted such a good song. Not that it's a bad video but the song has such good lyrics that'd make a much better video.

Anyways, before we head to the gigs, let's read this cool interview (one of the best lately) with Cam:

This is your first time through Portland since the release of Shaka Rock, and you got married last year… how has all that been with touring?

It’s been good. We started down in California, we did something at the Olympics… which is different. We’ve been up in the Northeast now for a while. Which is cool, you know? It’s good to be back on the road again. We’re touring with a band called the Crash Kings, it’s good times.

As far as the writing and recording of Shaka Rock, did any one person write most of it or did you all do it together?

It depends… some of it is written by mostly one person. And other times, it’s just playing. Sort of set up and play the song through, and let everyone play it how they feel like they want to play, and see if that leads anywhere. It’s sort of different for every song. If you look at the credits, as to who wrote the tunes, you’ll see that a lot of people had different contributions as songwriters. We try and keep it as low-key as possible. And if anyone has an idea, [we] play it out, out of respect for each other’s abilities.

You guys recorded and wrote in a lot of different locations for this album. How did that happen?

Because we live everywhere, all over the world, we have to take our opportunities when we find them. So when we all know we’re going to be in the same place, we’ll work there. We found ourselves in Miami after working with Iggy Pop. We worked there and felt that everything was going quite well, so we thought we’d move to New York and do some demoing there. After that Nic had the idea to work with our friend “Frenchie” Smith in Austin, so we ended up in Texas. [Laughs] We just sort of play it by ear, and it keeps it interesting. We love to travel, [and] love to see, live in different places. So we’ve seen a lot of the States… through that sort of thing. It keeps things fresh.

So, where do you live these days, when you’re not on tour anyways?

I live in the UK.

So you guys are really all over the map then.

Really, we are. It’s crazy… it takes a bit of planning sometimes to work it. We’re pretty good at it now, it’s been a few years doing it. The only thing is, you tend to spend a lot of time away, because [we're] not all based in the same spot. I can’t just call up Nic and say, “Hey I’ve got this idea for a song.” He’ll be one of two places. He’ll either be in Italy or Melbourne or something [laughs] so it takes a bit of planning.

I’m sure file-sharing on the internet has to help a lot, because you couldn’t have done this 10 years ago.

Well, I have sent files before. Songs and things. But I really think for us, it hasn’t come to much as of yet… it’s definitely something I’ll continue to try. But that sort of one-on-one… it’s all about communication, writing songs. It becomes a very different prospect when you’re not sitting in front of someone [and] can’t communicate your ideas properly.

What do you think you were trying to accomplish on this record versus Shine On or Get Born.

I think we wanted to, first and foremost, change the process and then see what happened. We always realized that, for the stuff we’re going to do and write, it’s always going to sound like us. But [we wanted] to go back, do it ourselves, and trust our own skills in the studio. We’ve spent a lot of time in the studio at this point, so we thought, “We don’t need the crutch of a quote-unquote big-name producer.” We felt like, “Let’s go in there and do it ourselves.” We obviously had our friend Chris “Frenchie” Smith, and not subtracting from what he did at all. He’s a great producer, and a great creative guy, and that really helps. But we wanted to take more of the responsibility, and change-up the process, and not be in L.A. We’ve done the last two records in L.A. A change of scene and a change of attitude. Texas provided that really well, it’s a laid-back sort of place. And being Australian, we generally work better when we’re more laid-back [laughs]. It worked for us, and we’re really happy with [that]… It sort of opened a lot of doors for us, thinking about what we’ll do next time and in the future, because you learn even more when you do it by yourself.

This was the first time you guys produced your own material or even co-produced with a producer, right?

Yeah. We feel like we did on the last two records, [but] it wasn’t there on the sleeve, and we wanted to make sure this time that we started out the process and everybody knew that “This was the deal… this is how it’s gonna go down.” And the band was gonna have complete and ultimate control. We didn’t have to discuss something with someone when we wanted to do it, [like we did] before. The four of us in the band shouldn’t have to explain to anyone why we want to do anything. It’s our record, it’s going to have our name on it in the end. We felt like everything should revert back to us.

What happened with your label between Shine On and Shaka Rock?

We felt like [Atlantic] didn’t really get the band. We felt like ultimately we didn’t trust them, so “Let’s get out of this deal.” It took us a while to get out. We had to delay the release of the record, but we felt like it was worth it working with people who we could completely trust [to] see eye-to-eye with. As opposed to starting out with someone you’re not sure [of] and then it goes tits up. You can die a very slow death if your label isn’t on par.

Labels can basically hold you for five records and put out compilations until you die.

Exactly. “Soft release” is another word. We weren’t sure that that’s what they were going to do, we just didn’t quite trust them. They could do that…

Looking through your new material, two names came up: Real Horrorshow Records and the imprint Five Seven Music. Are those your labels where you’ll be releasing material in the future? Are you guys thinking about releasing records from any new bands through those?

Well that’s always an option. We’ve definitely got other projects that we would love to work on on that imprint. It being ours, I think that the other guys in the band, and me also… to have a vehicle to do that sort of thing in the future would be great.

Who’s inspiring you musically right now?

I got the Charlotte Gainsbourg record, I really like that. There’s a Melbourne band called the Drones I really like to listen to. Very intense, very heavy sort of music. Off the top of my head… [laughs] I don’t remember. I’ve been meaning to go down to the record store actually.

It must have been great to perform at the Olympics. Did you guys have a chance to actually spend some time in B.C.?

Really, we were sort of in and out. We didn’t really see much, so no unfortunately [laughs].

I got a chance to see the video from the Olympics for “Seventeen.” Is that going to be something you guys release as a single, or is that just new material you’re showing right now?

Yes it is, there will be a new single actually. That will be towards the next thing we release, I would think. I think it’s already out in Australia, and it’s doing quite well.

Do you know when the US release is going to be?

I couldn’t tell you actually… stay on the website, it should be closer there. When it is, we’re gonna release more videos first on the internet, sort of a viral thing. I’m not sure. But it’s moving in that direction.

What would you want to be doing right now if you weren’t on tour? What do you miss most being on the road all the time?

Well, home I guess. I’m looking forward to writing some music. Getting home and setting up my home studio again, and doing the other side of a band which is writing actual music. I’ve got a lot of ideas, and we just got on the road. I don’t really write on the road, so it will be good to get back to that.

Source: Oregon Music News

Earlier this week, the band played at the St. Patrick's Day Festival in Columbia, check it out:

Are You Gonna Be My Girl, St. Patrick's

Shes a Genius, St Patrick's

Look What You've Done, St Patrick's

Walk, St Patrick's

Holiday, St Patrick's

Beat on Repeat, St Patrick's

And before I go, Virgin Mobile released this video that I think it was supposed to be about Jet but 90% of it is the band and the audience speaking about the Red Room venue.

Ok, so I see you next week since I'm not posting this weekend. I'm heading to Brasilia (capital of Brasil, wich is not Rio, uau) to watch Franz Ferdinand's gig!

Tchau!

This (long) week for Jet:

2010-03-13T16:09:00.000-08:00

I hope you've got a lot of free time on your hands cause I've got some things to show you.

This is going to be a long post, so just so you know today we're having 2 interviews, the entire Richmond gig (last Thursday), videos from their Boston gig earlier this week, Jimmy Kimmel and even a nice mention made by Nic about a fan who had come from Argentina to watch them.

You guys know I'm a shiite fan of Jet but this girl beat me. She went to Boston from my neighbour country here just to watch them. Here's a nice little mention by Nic (God knows how he knew she was there, or maybe she knows, so if that's you reading this, please get in touch!):

Since we're already in Boston, let's stick around a little bit and check three songs from their gig at Paradise Rock Club:

Shine On (Paradise Rock Club, Boston)

Get Me Outta Here (Paradise Rock Club, Boston)

AYGBMG (Paradise Rock Club, Boston)

Alright, so let's move on, shall we? We're in Richmond now and I don't know what happenned to these Jet fans but they just decided to record every single song of this show. The amount of videos (very good quality ones) of this gig on Youtube is incredible, so let's have a look:

Cold Hard Bitch (The Hat Factory, Richmond)

Holiday (The Hat Factory, Richmond)

Black Hearts (The Hat Factory, Richmond)

Get Me Outta Here (The Hat Factory, Richmond)

KIA (The Hat Factory, Richmond)

Rip It Up (The Hat Factory, Richmond)

Kings Horses (The Hat Factory, Richmond)

Shine On (The Hat Factory, Richmond)

Skin And Bones (The Hat Factory, Richmond)

Get What You Need (The Hat Factory, Richmond)

AYGBMG (The Hat Factory, Richmond)

Walk (The Hat Factory, Richmond)

Goodbye Hollywood (The Hat Factory, Richmond)

Beat On Repeat (The Hat Factory, Richmond)

PYMWYMI (The Hat Factory, Richmond)

She's a Genius (The Hat Factory, Richmond)

And this week we all poor non-Americans finally could have a look on the band's performance on Jimmy Kimmel 10 days ago or so, dunno, but here it is:

Cold Hard Bitch (Jimmy Kimmel)

Black Hearts On Fire (Jimmy Kimmel)

Seventeen (Jimmy Kimmel)

Ok, done with gigs and TV performances. Let's move to the fun part, the interviews. The four of our kids went to this radio station to have a 6-minute interview about only one thing: food.

And I'm gonna leave this link for an audio interview with Chris. Nothing very exciting to be honest, but it's here anyway.

Wow. That was probably the longest post I've ever written here. But I can see why this is happenning, dunno if you noticed this but everybody is talking about Jet again on Twitter, Facebook and I've never seen Youtube so packed with their videos. It even reminds me a little of the Get Born times. Good ones, weren't they?

I need to go now. Gonna walk downtown and have me some fun! Tchau.

2010-03-10T15:40:00.000-08:00

How about two interviews for the night?

JET brings Aussie rock to the Varsity

It has been a long time since the Australian band JET made a smash impression on fans - not since 2003's Get Born was released. Their latest album Shaka Rock returns to that same feel-good Aussie rock, and you'll have the chance to see them live. Appearing at The Varsity on Tuesday, Mar. 16, JET will make themselves your new old-favorite.

"Shaka literally means bastard," said drummer and vocalist, Chris Cester. "Oh, can I even say that?"

And a bastard of an album it is, too. Even in comparing first impressions of the album, visually, the differences in this album to previous albums are striking.

"Yeah, if you look at the difference in black and white on our other albums and this one's all in color," Cester revealed in his rolling, swarthy Australian accent. "It's like, exploding." Indeed, this album is a very colorful display of the band's personality: both raw and genuine.

"I actually do think it's a better album," said Cester, "It's more diverse. It really stands on its own. You know when you start out as a band it's really all about your influence."

When asked about their favorite place to play, Cester didn't hesitate. "Glasgow, definitely. They're wild. They, and I don't say this as a put down, they throw their cups of beer at you onstage. They like to have fun. They sing a lot. A lot of times you might leave a show in Glasgow drenched in beer, but it's all in good fun."

Just for a laugh, Tiger Weekly ran Cester through a game of "Kill, F--k, Marry," Cester had never played the game and it was apparent that he was trying to catch his footing throughout.

"Who would I f--k? Hmm, who's that...Yeah, Rachel McAdams. No wait, I'd marry her. Okay start with that." It didn't take long for Cester to admit that it was Angelina Jolie he would fancy a ride in the hay with, but when it came time to kill someone, a name couldn't be found, "Kill? Ahhh, no, I couldn't kill anyone. I won't do that to you."

Chris Cester is a nice guy. He wouldn't hurt a fly, and he definitely wouldn't get into it with his brother and fellow bandmate, Nic. The two brothers are about as far away from the Gallagher brothers (of Oasis) as one could imagine.

"No, we're definitely not like [them]... They can't stay in the same room for more than two minutes. Nic and I get along, especially these days. And it's better for our shows... we don't perform all wasted."

Be prepared to see a reinvigorated JET on Tuesday, Mar. 16 at the Varsity. It seems as if the band is in good spirits, and with the rock-solid new album, Shaka Rock, it's not hard to see why. For more information, check out varsitytheatre.com or jettheband.com.

Source: Tigerweekly.com

Jet: Australians Go Green for St. Pat’s

It was only seven years ago when Australian rocker’s Jet burst onto the international music scene with their hit song “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” with a little help from an Apple commercial. Seven years and 4 million albums sold later, Jet is still on the world stage touring the States and performing at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Jet will be in town this Saturday headlining a St. Patrick’s day lineup that includes a variety of acts, including Saosin, Robert Earl Keen and Sequoyah Prep School.

We had the opportunity to chat with Jet’s Mark Wilson about the evolution of music over the last ten years, their performance at the Olympics, the fact that advertisers love their songs, their advice for local bands trying to get ahead in their music scene and how they celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Australia.

Jet On Playing at the Olympics

Just two weeks ago, Jet took the world stage performing at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. “It was kind of crazy because we played right after an event and everyone came running up to the stage when we started.” Jet took the stage for an hour and ten minute set, playing in a one inch puddle from the rain pouring in on them. Good practice for a St. Patrick’s day that has in recent years, been more renowned for the amount of rain than anything else. Unfortunately for Jet, the Olympics were an in and out event. Hopefully they’ll have time to enjoy a green beer or two in 5 points Saturday. Will Group Therapy have Green Fosters on tap?

The Evolution of Music in the 2000’s

“I think we were the first ones to do the IPod commercial and now it has become an almost sacred spot. Bands die to get on that you know.”

The evolution of music and the way it is promoted has changed more in the last ten years more than it ever has. As a band, Jet has grown up and changed with the times of music promotion and made the most of it. “When we started there was no such thing as Youtube, Myspace, Twitter and Itunes…I guess Itunes was where we started.” Mark discussed in a kind of nostalgic way how no one really understood how these things were relevant at first. “It was weird to have none of that, then have your managers telling you, you need to be online more.” We basically went from an era where rock stars seemed untouchable and inaccessible, to an era where they are forced to be more “in touch” with their fans.

This led us into the discussion about the fact that advertisers seem to be drawn towards their songs. In the last couple of months their songs have been used by Bud Light, Victoria’s Secret and they set the bar being featured on the IPod commercial in 2003. “I think we were the first ones to do the IPod commercial and now it has become an almost sacred spot. Bands die to get on that you know.”

Jet on getting started as a band

“Before you start something, you want to make sure it’s fucking awesome before you do it”

From there we brought the conversation back down to our level and discussed how local bands should work to try and get ahead and what they did to get their music career started.”When we were starting out, instead of trying to just book shows every weekend in our local area, we would rehearse a lot and really work on recording ourselves, just on four tracks really cheaply. Just make sure your songs are really good before you go out. There’s not many things you would go out there and do a shit job of. Before you start something, you want to make sure it’s fucking awesome before you do it”

This is really some of the best advice you could give a band. Bands often rush the fact of playing shows, before they have a quality product to push. Before Jet signed to Elektra their Dirty Sweet EP was good enough to get their music in front of the right people.

Do you celebrate St. Patrick’s day in Australia?

“America has this thing where you’ll celebrate being Irish if you weren’t born there…”

“I’m sure we do a little, but you guys kind of get right into ya know. There’s not that many Irish people in Australia. America has this thing where you’ll celebrate being Irish if you weren’t born there, but Australia you wouldn’t really do that. I guess we really do celebrate it in Australia, but it’s really just the Irish people I guess.” I don’t think it could have been said better.

Come out Saturday to the St. Patrick’s day festival in 5 Points and drink some Green beer with 1,000’s of people that aren’t Irish and sing along with your favorite Jet songs.

Source: SceneSC.com

I'll be back later for their latest gig in Boston.

Tchau!

2010-03-08T17:02:00.000-08:00

I may watch this Intro a hundred times and I'll shiver every fucking time! Boys and gilrs, Jet live at the Starland Ballroom:

Intro

Start This Show

Are You Gonna Be My Girl

She's a Genius

Rip It Up

Is it me or this US tour is being overwhelmingly exciting?

Tchau.

2010-03-07T15:32:00.000-08:00

And they thought a fan would cool things down. Not with Jet live at the Northern Lights, NY:

Are You Gonna Be My Girl

Cold Hard Bitch

La Di Da

Tchau.

2010-03-06T16:49:00.000-08:00

102.1 The Edge Live at 228 - Toronto

Don't we love acoustic performances?

Seventeen

She's a Genius

Eleanor

Tchau

"My hands were freezing up."

2010-03-06T15:08:00.000-08:00

Another interview this time coming from sir Mark Wilson. Still have no info on their last gig in Toronto but as soon as I get any you'll see it here.

A look at the band’s grueling tour schedule may confirm multi-platinum Australian quartet Jet’s status as the hardest-working band in rock music. Just look at the past few months—the United States, Australia, Japan and New Zealand in late 2009 and January 2010, followed by a short “break” during which Jet flew up to Whistler, British Columbia, for a frigid Feb. 24 performance before 5,000 fans at the Winter Olympics and did a taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live! in Los Angeles two days later. Oh, and another North American tour starts March 5 in Toronto. Six weeks, this time.

Whew.

But that’s what life is like when you’re one of Australia’s top musical exports. Formed in Melbourne in 2001, Jet consists of brothers Nic and Chris Cester (vocals/guitar and drums, respectively), guitarist Cameron Muncey and bassist Mark Wilson. The band scored huge with 2003 debut album Get Born, propelled by a handful of irresistibly infectious singles led by larynx-shredding, ass-shaking monster hit “Are You Gonna Be My Girl.” Counting 2006 follow-up Shine On and the band’s most recent album, 2009’s Shaka Rock, Jet has racked up stratospheric sales of more than 4 million of those little silver discs.

Given the band’s somewhat insane work ethic, Fender News was delighted to get a March 1 phone call in which longtime Precision Bass® guitar devotee Wilson updated us on the latest from the Jet stream …

FN: Could Jet be any busier?
MW: We’re always really busy. I guess when you’re from Australia—it’s funny, you just don’t run home for a couple of weeks. So you tend to keep busy. You get home when you can, you know, but it’s 24 hours of hell to get there. Most bands will just go home quickly—even bands from Europe—but we tend to stay out on the road for a bit longer, and then have a break at the end.

FN: You guys tour hard.
MW: Yeah, that’s what we do. I think this one goes through mid-April, and then we break for a bit, and then I guess we go to Europe for some summer festivals; then Japan and back in Australia. I reckon we’ll be touring all this year.

FN: How was the Winter Olympics gig?
MW: It was awesome. Yeah, it was cool—it’s always cool to do weird shows; things that aren’t what you’re normally used to. And it was definitely weird to do a show where it was below freezing.

FN: How did you and your gear hold up for such a sub-arctic show?
MW: Oh, it was hard. I had to go buy some gloves and cut the fingers off, because at the sound check my hands were so cold, and the bass was so cold as well. That was the hardest bit—not only are your hands cold, but my bass strings and the neck on the bass was so cold that it was making my hands even colder. My hands were freezing up. Nothing went out of tune or anything—I think it’s more when the temperature’s changing that it goes out of tune or whatever, but everything stayed in tune.

And it was raining as well. It was raining on my pedalboard, and I was scared to touch it and get electrocuted. But I came out alive, so that’s good.

FN: And then it was straight to L.A. for the Kimmel show, right? How’d that go?
MW: It was cool. That’s a good show, because they give you a real stage to play on; it’s not like a “TV stage.” A real stage with monitors, and you play three songs as well. And at the Jimmy Kimmel show, there’s an audience there, so it just feels like you’re doing a weird gig.

FN: What songs did you play for that taping?
MW: We did “Black Hearts (On Fire)”; we did “Cold Hard Bitch” because Jimmy asked for it—which we probably wouldn’t normally have done because it’s such an old tune—and then we did “Seventeen” off the new album as well.

FN: Where do you find time to write new material? Do you write while on the road?
MW: Um, we always say we’re going to do it next time, but it’s really hard to do. You’re so busy when you’re on the road, you know—it’s not just doing sound checks and doing gigs; there’s loads of interviews and radio station visits. You can’t just spend all day on the stage sound checking, because there are other bands and curfews and noise restrictions, and the crew needs to have a break. We do write, but not as much as we want to.

FN: You’ve been a devoted Precision Bass guy pretty much from the start. What’s the appeal?
MW: I just like the sound of the P-bass. I’m thinking of getting a Jazz Bass® for fun, but I’ve got about seven P-basses now.

FN: And your amp rig is treating you well?
MW: I like it—it’s two 15s and six 10s. It’s great because you can modify it for different rooms, so that if you’re doing a smaller room or a club show, you can just take half of it. Or if the stage is a little smaller, we’ll use just the six (6x10), and that’s cool. And the other guys in the band use combos now, too. Everyone used to use two big stacks—I’d have two bass amps just to make it look good, but now it’s much better like this.

When we were in Japan, we only had certain gear there. We didn’t have the 15s, so we made this thing called “Everest,” which was the 8x10 with the 6x10 on top—that was pretty mega. There were a lot of speakers. It sounded good, and it looked funny, too, because the little one was on top, and we called it Everest (laughs).

Source: Fender News

And yes, I know the band played on Jimmy Kimmel a couple of days ago but I can't watch the videos or anything so if you go on Jettheband.com you might find something.

That's all for now, folks. Thanks for reading!

Tchau.

Brrrrazil

2010-03-04T17:22:00.000-08:00

So that's it, I already know the season I'm becoming a poor beggar this year and that's in the summer. Cam said in the interview below that Jet's coming down to the south hemisphere:

Kayley Guyette: You’re out on tour how’s it going?

Cam Muncey: We just preformed at the Olympics a couple of days ago then came back to LA. So we’ve just kind of been hanging out, kind of a slow start to the tour. So we are on tour, we’re on the road.

Guyette: On the topic of the Olympics, how was performing there?

Muncey: It was great. There was a special kind of feeling going on for everyone in Vancouver. I was pretty happy to be there. It was fun, it was just kind of constantly raining on us. There was a definite chance of electrocution. But we were lucky.

Guyette: Your album, Shaka Rock, come out this past summer, how was recording it?

Muncey: It was good. We did it in Austin. It was nice to spend all day in the studio then just go out in Austin. Everything’s outside and it really suited us. We liked the place and the people.

Guyette: How does Shaka Rock differ from your earlier albums?

Muncey: Well we produced the album ourselves. It just shows that we’ve tried to get back to basics. By doing it ourselves, we didn’t have to over think stuff. It has more of a rock and roll mentality to it, it’s not too overcooked.

Guyette: Do you think you’d self produce more albums in the future?

Muncey: I think so, yeah. I was just talking to our drummer, Chris, the other day. That we should just go self produce again and go somewhere really cool. Just go somewhere that inspires us and make the music. Let it play out. Some people can just be too analytical about it, you know?

Guyette: Do you have a favorite track off the album?

Muncey: There’s one, that I think will be one of the next singles, called ‘Seventeen’ that we were quite happy with how it turned out. It’s one of our sort of big melancholy songs. It’s a melancholy rock song. I like that one, it was fun to write. When we wrote it, it was an incredible experience. There are good things associated with that song, in my mind.

Guyette: Besides ‘Seventeen’ do you have plans for any other singles at the moment?

Muncey: I think there will be a couple more singles this year. But I can’t even think what the next one will be. You just kind of think about the one you’re doing at that moment and see what happens. It will be all rock songs, though ‘Seventeen’s got a bit of a pop edge to it.

Guyette: What can Jet fans expect from you guys in the coming months?

Muncey: We’re thinking about videos and things like that. Thinking up some new ideas to do and getting this tour done. In the summer we’re probably be going to Europe. Head down to the southern hemisphere, go to Australia and Japan again. Our minds are just kind of set on the road ahead. Maybe write some more music again. Keep ourselves busy.

Guyette: Would you mind sharing a little known fact about yourself or the band? Something that makes you guys unique from the other bands out there?

Muncey: We live all over the world, we all live in different places. Chris lives in LA, Nick spends half his time in Italy, Marks in Melbourne, I live in London. We can’t stand each other, so we all have to live halfway around the world [laughter].

Guyette: Does it make it hard for you guys to record since you all live all over?

Muncey: It does actually. I think the for next one, we’ll all just sort of go somewhere and bring our wives and girlfriends. Then just live and record there. When we recorded in Austin, we all sort of lived away from our homes. We probably won’t be doing that any more. I’d like to be able to be off with my wife. To be able to come home in the nighttime and not sleep alone. In the future, it’ll just be better to move our wives around with the band. As opposed to being away, being a bachelor for three months or however long it takes to record an album.

Guyette: Well that’s all the questions I have, is there anything else you’d like to add?

Muncey: We’re looking forward to being in Boston, we haven’t been there in awhile. It’s cool being in a big music town. We always have a good show there, so I’m looking forward to coming out. Should be good.

Source: SHREDnews

Anybody needs a kidney? A liver maybe? I'm selling mine!

Tchau!

Brrrr...

2010-02-25T15:30:00.000-08:00

Get your coats on and let's take a look at Jet's performance at Winter Olympics in Canada:

First of all, this little review taken from this blog.

"(...) After spending three days going to adrenaline packed events–Men’s Combined (Downhill and Slalom), Team Ski Jumping, Men’s Giant Slalom, and Women’s Bobsled–a day to rest and a relaxing evening spent at a Medal Ceremony was exactly what we needed…NOT.

Once the athletes had left the stage, the band for the evening, Jet, made their entrance, along with the extra 2000-3000 people outside the gates, waiting for the musical performance (tickets weren’t needed to see the band). Within a few minutes, the fence we were leaning on (yes, the fence in the VERY front!) became the fence we were pressed against by the thousands of people now behind us. I didn’t mind; I was 30 feet away from the lead guitarist of JET!

The biggest problem (for my parents, anyway) was probably how we were right outside the entrance to the mosh pit; those people pushing up against us were the impatient 20-something-year-olds that decided that they didn’t have to wait to be inside the mosh pit to start dancing like maniacs.

While my dad looked rather overwhelmed, trying (and succeeding =]) to take pictures of the band, I was absolutely loving it. The energy given off by the band onstage and the mosh pit right next to us gave me what was probably one of the biggest adrenaline rushes of my life. I have never been that close to a band before, and for my little brother, Trevor, this was his first ever concert! He came out saying, “That was the best hour of my life!”

When he said that, all I could think of were the Olympians, whose effort was finally rewarded; it was the best hour of their life too.

Jillian Neault"

Cute isn't it? But cuter than that was how Chris looked like he was dressed by his mom and how they all look like they're freezing:

Source: Gettyimages.com

Also, there's a video interview here wich I can't watch probably because of my country, but maybe you can!

By the way, can you believe I've never seen or touched snow in my entire life? I feel jealous in my tropical weather here!

And before I forget, two more dates (in bold letters) were added at the US Tour in April. If your city wasn't listed before, maybe this is your lucky day:

JET With The Crash Kings Tour Dates

March 5 - Toronto, ON (The Opera House) – More info here.
March 6 - Clifton Park, NY (Northern Lights) - More info here.
March 7 - Sayreville, NJ (Starland Ballroom) - More info here.
March 9 - Boston, MA (Paradise Rock Club) – More info here.
March 11 - Richmond, VA (Hat Factory) – More info here.
March 13 - Columbia, SC (St. Patrick’s Day Festival) – More info here.
March 15 - Little Rock, AR (The Village) – More info here.
March 16 - Baton Rouge, LA (The Varsity Theatre) – More info here.
March 23 - Seattle, WA (The Showbox at the Market) – More info here.
March 24 - Portland, OR (Roseland Theater) – More info here.
March 27 - Las Vegas, NV (Rock N Roll Wine Festival at Caesar’s Pool) – Tickets On Sale 2/17
March 29 - Aspen, CO (Belly Up Aspen) – More info here.
March 30 - Colorado Springs, CO (The Black Sheep) – More info here.
April 2 - Kenosha, WI (The Brat Stop) – Tickets On Sale 2/8
April 5 - Flint, MI (The Machine Shop)
April 6 - Dayton, OH (Mc Guffy's House of Rock)

Guys, it was nice to have this monologue with you tonight but I should go back to my books if I wanna have a degree on something one day.

Tchau!

Bloke-O-Meter

2010-02-14T12:00:00.000-08:00

Hello, folks! I've got a TripleM video for you:

What is this "J Bomb" thing?

Tchau!

Here I go again...

2010-02-13T08:41:00.000-08:00

Sorry for my absence, I've been really busy! Actually, there're no news right now but I just wanted to say that I went back to school so I could apply for another course at uni (I used to study Computer Science but I can't stand it!) and now I'm trying to apply to Civil Engeneering if that's how you call it. So, I'm gonna have to study my ass off again and I'll update Jetthefuckingband weekly.

Are you from Nic's team? So, be jealous!

Tchau!

Japan dates

2010-02-05T16:55:00.000-08:00

JET is going to Japan in June. These two dates are on their Facebook:

June 7 - Nagoya, Japan (Diamond Hall)
June 8 - Osaka, Japan (Osaka Hatch)

That's probably not all, they might be going to Tokyo also. But that makes me wonder if they're comingo to South America before or after that. Hopefuly after, need to save some money!

Tchau.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Muncey!

2010-02-04T18:13:00.000-08:00

Guess who's turning 30? Let's make a before and after here.

Before: Live at the Forum, Melbourne - Hey Kids

After: Live at Wiesbaden, Schlachthof - Come Around Again

The years are doing no bad for Cameron! Happy Birthday!
Tchau.

Holla muchachos! Yo tengo info de la US gira!

2010-02-03T19:31:00.000-08:00

Americans, continue reading after the article!

I just had to use all my knowledge in Spanish to translate the article you're about to read. Since neither Spanish or English are my native languages you should ignore any faults! Just for the record, I got that link from the official forum member "Ceci" posted in a very popular Argentinian topic!

Nic Cester (Jet): "We're a pop and roll band"

The Australian band wants to have their glory dates back with their first record in three years: "Shaka Rock". On the telefone, the lead singer talks about his expectations and his probable visit to Argentina.

Years back, around 1998, a group of Argentinian friends formed Jet and resgistered it as their name in our country. When the Aussie band decided to play on these lands, they faced a legal issue. They couldn't use the word "Jet" to sell or promote their products. Nic Cester, guitarrist and lead singer, has no good memories of that situation. "It's been a long time we've been trying to play in Argentina, but a fucking Southamerican band wanted to sue us because we had the same name." says Nic. He doesn't remember how they worked it out but he knows there was a lot of money involved. "Actually, I'm not quite sure if there was a trial, but we had to pay those fuckers."

Q: What did join the band again?

A: We had some issues to work out. I feel that was the record we needed to release since everything had gone on the way we wanted with the previous one and our personal lives weren't in the best moment.

Q: Except for the last song, the record is very rocking...

A: That's what we wanted. To sound like before.

Q: Did you try to go back to your roots?

A: I think Shaka Rock is what we are. Shine On was different because of what was going on around us: fortunately, everything cooled down.

Q: How do you define the sound of your band?

A: The most important word for us is Roll. I can say that we're a Pop and Roll band.

Q: Are you satisfied with the record?

A: Yes. That's probably the most interesting album we've done so far, because we were challenged as we never were before. I think as long as the present goes, this is our best album.

"I can't wait. Argentina has a great rock tradition. And the meat is very good!"
Source: Si.clarin.com

And if you've got no idea of what I wrote on the post title, it means "I've got info on the US tour" in a very cheesy Spanish (By the way, have you watched Jet's Haiti video?). So, Jet shall be visiting the Americans during the whole month of March and the Canadians will have their piece too!

JET With The Crash Kings Tour Dates

March 5 - Toronto, ON (The Opera House) – More info here.
March 6 - Clifton Park, NY (Northern Lights) - More info here.
March 7 - Sayreville, NJ (Starland Ballroom) - More info here.
March 9 - Boston, MA (Paradise Rock Club) – More info here.
March 11 - Richmond, VA (Hat Factory) – More info here.
March 13 - Columbia, SC (St. Patrick’s Day Festival) – More info here.
March 15 - Little Rock, AR (The Village) – More info here.
March 16 - Baton Rouge, LA (The Varsity Theatre) – More info here.
March 23 - Seattle, WA (The Showbox at the Market) – More info here.
March 24 - Portland, OR (Roseland Theater) – More info here.
March 27 - Las Vegas, NV (Rock N Roll Wine Festival at Caesar’s Pool) – Tickets On Sale 2/17
March 29 - Aspen, CO (Belly Up Aspen) – More info here.
March 30 - Colorado Springs, CO (The Black Sheep) – More info here.
April 2 - Kenosha, WI (The Brat Stop) – Tickets On Sale 2/8

Lucky you!
Tchau.

US Tour Dates + Muse interview

2010-02-02T07:33:00.001-08:00

We all know that Jet's heading to the US in March and a few venues have already confirmed the dates, three of them go below:

March 23 - Seattle, WA (The Showbox at the Market) Click here for more details.
March 29 - Aspen, CO (Belly Up Aspen) Click here for more details.
March 30 - Colorado Springs, CO (The Black Sheep) Click here for more details.

Dom Howard from Muse was interviewed at the BDO 2010 and he talked about how the "Black in Back" cover with Nic Cester came up.

Muse are one of the biggest bands on the planet, but in Australia for the Big Day Out, all they wanted to do was sing an old Aussie classic, AC/DC's 'Back in Black'. And who better to perform it with than Nic Cester from Jet?

Dominic Howard from Muse told thehothits.com in their dressing room at the Big Day Out that the duet, performed at both Sydney and Melbourne Big Day Outs, has been a highlight of their careers.

"Nic Cester, which is his surname, coz I always actually introducing HIM as 'Nic Chester', but then his brother said 'listen man, that's the wrong bloody surname', and I was like 'oh bollocks!'," Dom admitted to thehothits.com.

"He's a bit of a friend of ours - we've known him for quite a long time," says Dom.

"I had this idea ages ago that we definitely wanted to play 'Back in Black' at the Big Day Out because I think every year there's a rumour that AC/DC are going to play and they never do, so we thought we'd do a little tribute to our favourite Australian band and he's got the perfect voice for it. He's got that lovely high raspy voice him, so we asked him and he said 'yes'."

Even for a band that have played the biggest stadiums in the world, the cover was a big deal for Muse.

"It was the most fun thing we've ever done onstage!," says Dom.
Source: Thehohits.com

Tchau!

Lily vs. Chris?

2010-02-01T17:37:00.001-08:00

Just wanted to share with you this link found by the member of the official forum "kori". It's that interview about the feud with Lily Allen and all that stuff. A good one!

Click here to watch it.

Thank you, kori!

Tchau!

2010-01-31T14:03:00.000-08:00

Last time, I swear!

The proshot of Muse ft. Nic Cester - Back in Black:

Oh, so proud!

Big Day Out - Perth

2010-01-31T11:43:00.000-08:00

Tonight for me they're playing a gig that they've already played and I've already got the pics and vids of it, how confusing are these timezones?

Jet live at Big Day Out, Perth

(EDIT: Youtube player isn't cooperating right now, so click on the song titles for the videos)

ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL

GET WHAT YOU NEED

COLD HARD BITCH

What's next now? US? Time off? South America maybe? Who knows...
Tchau.

Big Day Out - Adelaide

2010-01-30T08:53:00.000-08:00

Last night there was Jet again playing at the BDO, this time in Adelaide:

SHE'S A GENIUS

LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE

Courtesy of our dear friend Gusta, we're making available for download the promo released for She's a Genius. It features some versions of the song and the acoustic version of Seventeen:

She's a Genius (Album Version)

She's a Genius (Laid Back Version)

She's a Genius (Acoustic)

She's a Genius (Instrumental)

Seventeen (Acoustic)

And last but not least, I've got here a video interview I found with the four of them speaking about the new album. Couldn't put the player up here so click here to check it.

Tchau!

"Copyright restricts us from playing this in your country!"

2010-01-28T18:57:00.001-08:00

In a very good Portuguese: Ah, meu, vai cagar!

Another link for you Aussies to check out and pleeease try to rip it!

From mtv.com.au, click here.

Tchau, Aussies!

Absoluteradio.co.uk

2010-01-28T18:49:00.000-08:00

Who else love interviews?

Mark and Chris for Absoluteradio.co.uk

And I also have something especially for the Aussies. Click here and check another interview with Mark, Chris and Lily Allen. Yes, that one. If any of you could rip it it'd be great since it's only available for the Aussies (why on Earth do they do that?!). In case you get it send me to andrealmeneses@hotmail.com

I leave you tonight with "1, 2, 3 take my hand and come with me" live at V Festival 2009:

Eddies Desk

2010-01-27T08:36:00.000-08:00

Last Monday Jet was at the Triple M's Eddies Desk to perform "Seventeen", here it is:

According to their tour schedule, they will do Adelaide on the 29th and Perth on the 31st. After that it's all mistery! I heard they're going to the US in March but I have no ideia of what's hapenning in February for Jet. Let's wait and see!

Meanwhile, I leave you with "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" live at Sydney's BDO:

Tchau.

Who would Jet drink, jam and sleep with?

2010-01-25T17:13:00.000-08:00

Here I am again with some late news!

First, there's this scan @anaisabelle kindly sent me from the Herald Sun newspaper in Australia (by the way, Happy Australia Day everyone!). It features a quick interview with Nic and Cam back from the BDO Auckland.

Click here and here for the scans.

Second, back on Homebake earlier this year, the duo were interviewed by Triple M and I think I only posted the first part of the interview. But the second part is so funny that it deserves to be here. So, parts 1 and 2 for you all again!

Tomorrow (or today, depending on where you are) Jet plays at the BDO Melbourne.
Tchau.

"Back in blaaaack, baaaaaaaaaaack in black!"

2010-01-25T11:21:00.000-08:00

If the whole world can't get over it who am I to move on?

Muse (feat. Nic Cester) - Back in Black (filmed from the backstage!)

Tchau.

Interview from Videohits.com.au

2010-01-24T16:59:00.000-08:00

Quick video link sent to me by @anaisabelle! Thanks a lot!

It's a cool interview with that girl Fuzzy from Videohits.com.au and they give us more details on Green Day's pranks:

Click here to watch.

Tchau.

Big Day Out in Sydney - Day 1

2010-01-22T17:44:00.000-08:00

Busy day for Jet in Sydney! As posted by Gusta, Nic was invited to play "Back in Black" during Muse's set at the BDO in Sydney. You watched the video and now I show you a couple of pics (you've got love Matt's little legs):

Source: Twitter.com/muse

When they annouced playing at the BDO I told you there would be some camaraderie between them and Kasabian. But maybe it goes far beyond than that:

"Pizzorno and his singer Tom Meighan are best mates with the Jet lads and are also keen to acquaint themselves with Perth psychedelic rockers Tame Impala after being turned on to the band by their friend, The Mighty Boosh comedian Noel Fielding. "Those Jet boys are really beautiful people, nice chaps," Pizzorno says.

The guitarist is known to call Jet drummer Chris Cester at all hours of the day and night and sing bizarre songs quoting his name down the line."
Source: News.com.au

Well, right. I leave you with a couple of pics from Jet's set today at the BDO in Sydney and an acoustic performance of "Look What You've Done" a few years back that I came across on Youtube (take a little look at their trousers, how could they wear that?).

Source: Gettyimages.com

Tchau, see you tomorrow!

MUSE AND NIC CESTER ON BDO

2010-01-22T11:22:00.001-08:00

Nic Cester and Muse - Black in Black (AC/DC Cover)(live sydney BDO)

tchau.

Hot BBQ

2010-01-18T21:04:00.001-08:00

Just a few pics from the Hot BBQ gig so you can have a better look at the guys.

Videos time

2010-01-17T11:58:00.000-08:00

Scroll down and you'll see Jet's famous sing-alongs and crowd surfings at BDO 2010 and Hot BBQ.

ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL - BDO 2010 AUCKLAND

SHE'S A GENIUS - HOT BBQ (bad audio quality, but very close to the stage)

ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL - BDO GOLD COAST 2010

COLD HARD BITCH - BDO GOLD COAST 2010

And just a nice little mention from Eskimo Joe's myspace:

"I must say, it was nice to find out that I wasn't the only one to miss their flight. Chris from Jet waited till arriving at the airport to ask his brother Nick if he needed a passport to go to New Zealand. Bit of a Spinal Tap moment for poor old Chris."

Tchau.

Big Day Out 2010 - Auckland

2010-01-15T15:30:00.000-08:00

Just pics for now and Nic's is sorta flying in one of them!

Source: Nzherald.co.nz

Source: Zimbio.com

More backstage pics here.

Tchau!

2010-01-14T13:18:00.000-08:00

Interview with Nic Cester from NZ Herald. That's all for now, tomorrow I'll be back with Jet's first gig for the Big Day Out festival in Auckland. See you!

On a more confortable flght path

With their flared jeans, cocky swagger, and catchy garage rock, Jet were one of the biggest bands in the world back in 2003. That year the Australians released debut album, Get Born, which included break-through hit Are You Gonna Be My Girl, and follow up singles Cold Hard Bitch and Rollover DJ, and sold more than 3.5 million copies.

But their success was short-lived and these days they're just another rock'n'roll band touring the world and plying their trade. Yet brothers Nic and Chris Cester, and their bandmates Cameron Muncey and Mark Wilson, are doing okay.

"It's become more fun," says frontman and older brother Nic on the phone from Orlando, Florida, where the band are about to play the House Of Blues. "We're a lot more comfortable and confident because we know the right way and the wrong way to go about things. We look after ourselves a lot better than we used to too," he laughs.

Cester especially sounds as though he's doing nicely off the royalties from those first three big hits. He divides his time between Australia and Italy and he calls his Milan home his "escape from this lifestyle and this world of debauchery".

"And my father was Italian. I'm half Scottish and half Italian which is why I've got a big nose and blue eyes I guess," he laughs again.

He says they had a hoot off the back of Get Born but also admits things got out of control.

"What happened to us with our first album was unrealistic and I don't really think we were equipped to deal with the success.

"Initially, when everything happened so quickly and we were young, and there was a little bit of fear and nerves, the way we dealt with that was drowning ourselves in alcohol and other things."

To make life worse, in August 2004 and at the height of the band's success, the Cesters' father died of cancer. They wrote the song Shine On in tribute to him and it would become the title track to their second album in 2006. However, the record was not well-received and their popularity waned.

"We survived all that and we're a much better band for it," says Cester light-heartedly. "We're stronger, more savvy and more comfortable in our own skins."

But rather than it just being a matter of the band growing older and wiser, Cester says after these tough years they decided to refocus - and the result is third album, Shaka Rock, released in September last year. "It's a new level of commitment and we realised if we were going to do this seriously we needed to change our attitude.

"The basic plot was to have fun again and take back control of our lives and careers - and we really wanted to do something musically that was more indicative of us again. By that I mean a really fun album, and an excited rock album, and add a few more twists in there that people wouldn't normally expect."

Live footage of JET live at the Metro, Sydney

2010-01-11T12:56:00.001-08:00

OK, I swear this is the last post today. Now I found this video footage of their last gig in Sydney on December 4th at the Metro. And the coolest thing about it is that Craig Nicholls is in it! Love his childish smile when he joins Jet to perform She's a Genius. Really, this is priceless!

Moshcam.com - JET live at the Metro, Sydney

Enjoy!

JET LIVE AT STUDIO COAST, TOKYO (videos)

2010-01-11T11:23:00.000-08:00

Right after I finished last post I found these three videos on Youtube from their gig in Tokyo. There you go:

SHINE ON - LIVE AT STUDIO COAST, TOKYO

COME AROUND AGAIN - LIVE AT STUDIO COAST, TOKYO

GOODBYE HOLLYWOOD - LIVE AT STUDIO COAST, TOKYO

JET JAPAN TOUR 2010

2010-01-11T10:55:00.000-08:00

Once again, Smashing Mag is providing the pics from their latest gig in Nagoya, on Jan. 8th. The next step for the band is Big Day Out 2010 wich will be a particularly fun festival 'cause their friends from Kasabian will be there and they sort of promised a big party with Jet.

Hopefully we'll have pics of that!

JET LIVE AT NAMBA HATCH, NAGOYA (JAN. 8TH)

SETLIST

She's A Genius
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Beat On Repeat
Hey Kids
La Di Da
Walk
Cold Hard Bitch
Get What You Need
Skin And Bones
Come Around Again
Shine On
Black Hearts
Take It Or Leave It
Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Seventeen
Rip It Up

Encore

Goodbye Hollywood
Holyday
K.I.A.
Get Me Outta Here

Tchau!

JET JAPAN TOUR 2010

2010-01-08T17:12:00.000-08:00

Hello, kids! Now that I'm back home we can talk more about Japan. For the last three days in a row (and also tonight) the band has been touring Japan. As we all know, the band seems to be quite popular over there, so naturally you assume I'd have loads of reviews and stuff. Well, I did find some but the language is a problem here. Therefore, we're checking now some pics from Tokyo (Jan. 5th) and Nagoya (Jan. 7th).

But if you attended to one of those gigs and would like to share the experience (in English, please!) I'll be more than glad to post it here. Just e-mail me to andrealmeneses@hotmail.com

All the pics are from Smashing Mag.

JET LIVE AT STUDIO COAST, TOKYO (Jan. 5th)

SETLIST

Rip It Up
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
She's A Genius
Beat On Repeat
Hey Kids
Walk
Get What You Need
La Di Da
Come Around Again
Kings Horses
Skin And Bones
Take It Or Leave It
Black Hearts
Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Seventeen
Holyday
Cold Hard Bitch

Encore

Goodbye Hollywood
Shine On
Times Like This
Get Me Outta Here

JET LIVE AT DIAMOND HALL, NAGOYA (Jan. 7th)

SETLIST

Genius
Money Mouth
Beat On Repeat
Hey Kids
Holiday
Walk
Cold Hard Bitch
Get What U Need
Skin And Bones
Come Around Again
Shine On
Black Hearts
Take It Or Leave It
R U Gonna
17
Rip It Up

Encore

Goodbye Hollywood
Kia
Get Me Outta Here

Band is playing tonight in Osaka and then they're heading to the Big Day Out 2010.

Tchau!

JET to play at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games

2010-01-06T14:50:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone, how's your 2010 going so far?
I just came back with a quick update. Actually it's non-confirmed news but good ones for the Canadians:

In the midst of their third trip around the world to support their new album, Shaka Rock, Australian rockers JET will be making a distinguished stop in Vancouver to perform at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. JET have been invited to perform on Wednesday, February 24 during the two-week long event at the Whistler Medals Plaza, among fourteen other top North American headlining acts such as Usher, OneRepublic, The Fray, The Roots and All American Rejects.

The band recently finished an Australian trek with Green Day, in which two of the dates became the #4 and #8 highest grossing concerts in the world according to Billboard’s Boxscore.

With more than four-million albums sold worldwide and four Top Ten Modern Rock hits, JET recently returned to form with Shaka Rock, an album that parallels their smash, Get Born which produced hits like “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” and “Cold Hard Bitch.” The new album closes the gap between the raw roots of Get Born and the grace and melody of Shine On (recorded just after the passing of Nic and Chris Cester’s father), which together went on to make JET an international band of style and substance. Shaka Rock captures the charisma and energy of classic rock and roll with just enough punk swagger and contemporary flair to create something uniquely JET.

Source: WMMR

I'm spending a few dys at a friend's place in the capital so I'll post about the latest gigs in Japan as soon as I get home!

Tchau!

Happy Holidays from JET

2009-12-21T15:13:00.000-08:00

From the bottom of their heart or maybe just from a piece of paper:

This week for Jet...

2009-12-20T17:12:00.000-08:00

Man, I have so many things to post! My internet is finally back and I've finished my university exams (yes, again, I'm trying to move to Architecture now) so I'm ready to enlight you with pics, reviews and videos.

Before we start, I was taking some pics from Fasterlouder.com.au gallery of their gig at Sydney's Metro when I came across pics of Craig Nicholls from The Vines! Like, on the same gallery as Jet. I'm a huge Vines fan so CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN WHAT IS HE DOING THERE? Craig and Jet together would be too overwhelming for me! (EDIT: Oh my! He joined Jet to sing "She's a Genius", videos anyone?)

Right, so shall we check how this last week was like for Jet:

JET LIVE AT ROD LAVER ARENA, MELBOURNE, DEC. 14th (Supporting Green Day)

Review from Fasterlouder.com.au and check a few pics on this Flickr.

As the gates opened, the early bird crowd flowed in thick and fast to catch the support act, and buy overly priced merchandise. Melbourne’s very own international success story Jet opened the night to a slowly growing crowd. Judging from my eavesdropping while waiting in line, some attendees were a bit surprised that Jet were added as Green Day’s support slot, but the overall audience reaction was a very positive one. Jet opened their set with Nic Cester walking onto the arena stage, taking to the mic and declaring ‘We are Jet, let’s rip it up!’ instantly jumping into Rip It Up.

Thankfully, rather than play obscure songs from their catalogue, Jet had arranged a setlist full of their most popular hits. Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is continued the night, which was followed by She’s a Genius the first single from recent album, Shaka Rock. By this point, those who were Jet fans were absolutely loving the atmosphere, and those who weren’t could not help but get into the mood. The highlight of Jet’s set came in Are You Gonna Be My Girl? At this point, they had well and truly settled in on stage for the night. Slowing things down, the mood calmed during Look What You’ve Done. The arena was deadly quiet, so Nic proclaimed ‘It’s so quiet here, you’d think we were at the tennis, sing along if you know the words.’

Get Me Outta Here and new single Black Hearts (On Fire) lead the conclusion of Jet’s surprisingly enjoyable set. They closed the support proceedings with Nic Cester taking to the front of the catwalk, thanking Melbourne for coming down early, as guitar riffs played melodically in the background before screeching the opening cry of the final song, Cold Hard Bitch. You’ve got to give it to Jet, they provided a very enjoyable set and proved they clearly have what it takes to warm the crowd up for one of the biggest bands in the world.

JET LIVE AT ROD LAVER ARENA, MELBOURNE, DEC 16th (Supporting Green Day)

Thanks to Georgia Gutjahr who kindly e-mailed these priceless videos:

JET LIVE AT THE CHAPEL, SYDNEY, DEC 17TH

Next three pics taken from Poisonivyjones.blogspot.com

JET LIVE AT METRO THEATRE, SYDNEY, DEC. 18TH

Source: Fasterlouder.com.au

JET LIVE AT THE PALACE THEATRE, MELBOURNE, DEC 20TH

Source: Fasterlouder.com.au

That's it for now, I could've mixed some pictures but I think I got it all right.

And when I say that's it I mean that's really it! Jet's next stop is Japan in 2010.

If any of you want to share your pics and stuff from the Australian tour, feel free to e-mail me (andrealmeneses@hotmail.com).

Cheers everyone, see you next year! Happy Christmas and have a stunning New Year's Eve!

December, 12th, 2006

2009-12-16T12:10:00.000-08:00

Tell you what, my week has been a big stinky piece of garbage. There was a big rain here a couple of days ago and my bedroom sort of flooded and my internet died. Therefore, I'm leaving the posts about the last two Melbourne gigs for the weekend, when hopefully things will go back to normal.

So let's talk good things. On December 12th, 2006, the band was releasing one of the most important singles of their history. Shine On was released and today we're getting to know a bit more about it.

"Shine On" is a song by Australian rock band Jet, and is the seventh track on their second album Shine On. In March 2007, the single was released as the third single from that album in the United Kingdom and Australia. An EP was released to the American iTunes Store in December 2006.

The song was written by Nic to comfort his family after his father's death. He is quoted of saying "It was inevitable I would write a song that dealt with all of that, but it was almost too big a subject for me to handle," Nic says. "Then I got a phone call from my mom saying everyone was depressed so I wrote the song through Dad's eyes, what he would say to help everyone through. We recorded it in one take, but it was emotional, very heavy. We couldn't be happier with this album."

The song was featured on the final episode of the television series The O.C. and also in a season final episode of Cold Case. It is also rumoured to be the song played at the funeral of one Robert James Sloan. In a recent interview with Heat magazine, the comedy chathost declared, "I love this song. I would be more than delighted to hear it through my coffin!"

The song charted poorly in the UK missing the top 75 altogether and also charted poorly in Australia missing the top 50 altogether. The song failed to chart in the United States but it did chart on the Modern Rock charts at #30.

Source: Wikipedia

SHINE ON FOR FRED HOLLOWS

SHINE ON - LIVE PERFORMANCE

A couple of years ago, when we were still Jetbrasil.com, we did this voting thing for people to choose their favorite Jet track. Shine On won it and we had several download links for you. Here they are (if you notice any problem with the links, please let us know):

Package with some versions of Shine On

Shine On - Live for an Italian Radio show

Shine On - Live on Conan O'Brien

Shine On - Live at Metropolis Studios

Shine On - Live at Radio Rock (San Diego)

Shine On - Live on Sunrise

SHINE ON - LYRICS

Please don't cry
You know I'm leaving here tonight
Before I go I want you to know that there will always be a light

And if the moon had to runaway
And all the stars didn't wanna play
Don't waste the sun on a rainy day
The wind will soon blow it all away

So many times I've planed
To be much more than who I am
And if I let you down I will follow you ‘round until you understand

That if the moon had to runaway
And all the stars didn't wanna play
Don't waste the sun on a rainy day
The wind will soon blow it all away

When the days all seem the same
Don't feel the cold or wind or rain
Everything will be okay
We will meet again one day
I will shine on, for everyone

So please don't cry
Although I leave you here this night
Where ever I may go how far I don't know
But I will always be your light

That if the moon had to runaway
And all the stars didn't wanna play
Don't waste the sun on a rainy day
The wind will soon blow it all away

When the days all seem the same
Don't feet the cold or wind or rain
Everything will be okay
We will meet again one day
I will shine on, for everyone
When the days all seem the same
Don't feet the cold or wind or rain
Everything will be okay
We will meet again one day
I will shine on, for everyone

You can purchase your copy of Shine On single here.

Tchau!

Quick post!

2009-12-13T19:14:00.001-08:00

Enjoy, tchau!

JET live at Acer Arena, Sydney, Dec. 12th

2009-12-12T14:52:00.000-08:00

I'm going to show you a video now of Jet playing last night (that would be tonight for me, crazy timezones) and let's see if you all agree with me. I think this time Jet is really being the support band, I mean, the Papa Roach's fans didn't seem to give a damn about their set. That's what appeared to me by reading reviews and stuff like that.

And check these lovely pics by Daniel Bedford:

See you, tchau.

JET live at Acer Arena, Sydney, Dec. 11th

2009-12-11T22:16:00.000-08:00

Man, I was playing The Sims 3 and I just realised it's 4 am! Just in time for Gettyimages to upload pics from last night's gig!

Just to make something clear here, it's not that I've developed an obession with Nic but lately he's got all the attention from the photographers.

Tchau.

JET live at Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Dec 9th

2009-12-10T12:38:00.000-08:00

Before we start I just wanted to remind you guys (as I was reminded myself on the band's offical forum) that the NME Awards 2010 voting is open. Go here and vote for Jet!

Last night the band played their second night in Brisbane as part of the support tour for Green Day:

December 10th, 2009: Under the rooftop of Brisbane’s Entertainment Centre last night, excited fans were treated to not one, but two excellent bands in one evening of power rock ballads and searing lyrics to rival the heat in South East Queensland.

On the menu this evening, guaranteed to get the crowd revved up - Melbourne band Jet(an Aussie rock institution since their 2003 breakout hit single ‘Are You Gonna Be My Girl’) and perennial International superheroes, Green Day.

The stage was set for three-plus hours of scorching rock melodies that only Jet and Green Day can bring to Brisbane! Jet, the evening’s warm up act had the show rolling at around 7:30pm getting the three quarters filled centre fired up with their hit songs.

Acoustics were not much of an issue, as the Entertainment Centre was more-or-less designed for concerts so we did not have to suffer through some of the sound quality issues we were subjected to at the U2 concert in Sydney back in 2006.

Jet’s front man Nic Cester did his best to get the crowd involved in the songs, but one couldn’t help but sense that the amassed fans were perhaps saving their vocal cords for the headline act.

By the time we heard Jet’s signature song, the crowd were fully engaged, joining the band for the chorus.

Several of Jet’s more recent singles also played through the night until they bowed out just before 8:30pm.

Picture and review taken from here.

Tchau.

JET live at Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Dec. 8th

2009-12-09T15:36:00.000-08:00

And just retweeting them, the tour bus video was released earlier (read: they couldn't reach 4000 followers) and they posted a link for a very nice accoustic performance and interview.

I don't know about you guys, but I think their twitter was much more fun when Chris tweeted once in a while. Ok, they want more followers, but what for?

Tchau.

Scrabble, yeah...

2009-12-07T15:53:00.000-08:00

Before we start I'd like to ask the Aussies if they could send us anyhting about Homabake 2009. I've found loads of pics, but some decent review and maybe a video would be better. So, if you're were there, please send us your anything to andrealmeneses@hotmail.com

So, shall we start cause I've got a bunch of things to show you tonight.

Band played on the 6th in Adelaide as part of their supporting tour with Green Day. Pics to go:

Going back a little bit, on the 4th, Jet played their first night with Green Day and here's a video performance of "Look What You've Done":

Now let's go one day forward at the Homebake Festival and watch this video interview with Nic and Cam:

After this journey in time check this remix by Timbaland of "Timothy". The song is part of his new album:

Don't forget to share your videos and reviews, Homebakers (?)!

Tchau.

JET live at Homebake 2009, Sydney

2009-12-05T11:13:00.000-08:00

Just to give you a taste:

Hey, if you were there and watched our boys, you can send me (andrealmeneses@hotmail.com) your review and/or pics and share them with all the Jet fans around the world!

Tchau.

"There's a lack of ego when it's all one nationality"

2009-12-05T06:25:00.000-08:00

The tour supporting Green Day started last night in Perth. Reading some comments around the internet, it seems that if these support tours are meant to give them a few more fans I guess they'll be more successful this time around. All the die-hard Green Day's fans are saying positive things about Jet's act (I say that because I'm usually really bored during the support acts on my favorite band's show). Here goes a few pics from Fasterlouder.com.au and a video of "Are You Gonna Be My Girl":

Moving on, tomorrow the band plays at the Homebake Festival with several Aussie bands. The atmosphere around there seems to be a little more light than in the US:

SYDNEY has welcomed in the summer festival season with Homebake, led by rock heavyweights Powderfinger and Jet.

The home-grown festival, held in Sydney's Domain, celebrates the bands that have made it - or are on the way up - in Australia and overseas.

Returning Down Under after extensive touring in the US, Melbourne band Jet said they had managed only seven hours' sleep in the past three days but were thrilled to be back.

"We are so happy to be here - I know that's such a cliche, but we really do spend a lot of time in the States," drummer Chris Cester told AAP.

"Summer in Australia, you can't beat it.

"There's a lack of ego when it's all one nationality - it feels like a bit more of a get together and have fun experience."

Cester said he likes the laid back attitude of Aussie bands and festivals in this country.

"American bands tend to be really dogged with their fascination with appearance ... You get bands who aren't even bigger than us rolling up with four security guards each," he said.

"I hate that about festivals, it takes away from the experience.

"This is one of the only ones in the world where that is happily absent from the scenario."

Sydneysiders turned out in their festival finery on a perfect sunny summer day for the sold-out over-18s event.

Some sported rockstar wigs and Santa hats, while one turned up in a banana outfit and others in nurses' uniforms.

Bands got into the spirit, with Bumblebeez taking to the stage in rabbit masks.

Other punters opted to keep cool by wearing as little as possible - swimsuits and denim shorts for the girls and bare chests for guys.

"There's a lot of flesh back there," said Howling Bell's frontwoman Juanita Stein.

"I suspect it's only going to get fleshier as the night goes on."

Others on the bill include Hilltop Hoods, Sarah Blasko, Tim Finn, Daniel Merriweather and Eskimo Joe.

Eskimo Joe's Joel Quartermain said he always felt excited when festival season rolled around.

"As we drove in, I actually got the first little pang of nerves, which is always a good thing," he said.

"It doesn't happen all the time, but at festivals it always happens.

"It reminds you of being a young band and that exciting time."

Source: The Daily Telegraph

See you tomorrow then!

Tchau.

JET live at Club Nokia, LA

2009-12-02T13:11:00.000-08:00

Just look at the atmosphere of this gig, man! Brilliant!

"We’d spent all this money..."

2009-12-02T11:22:00.000-08:00

And as I promised here goes the interview with Chris:

JET. For serious.

I must have caught Chris Cester in a philosophical mood. The Jet drummer hadn’t left his hotel in Raleigh, North Carolina, for 24 hours - “Some cities are better left unexplored". Since the Australian rockers’ 2003 debut 'Get Born' tore the rock world a new A-hole, the band has been proud exports; travelling the globe in full excess. Six years, a virtual Pacific Ocean of vodka and some painful epiphanies later, the band transformed their battle wounds into their most eclectic record yet; the psychedelic 'Shaka Rock'. Cester’s older, wiser and a bit sober now; promising a world-class show for Big Day Out 2010, and a good dose of insight into a band that managed to escape the industry machine with their bloody souls intact.

COUP DE MAIN: How does it feel to be in America?

JET- CHRIS CESTER: You know, it’s a very interesting experience for me this time round because I haven’t had a drink in about 6 weeks – it’s been interesting looking at this country through sober eyes... It’s a much bigger country than what I remember from when I was drunk every day.

CDM: Jet has had a lot of success in the States from a few years back – is it a better trip this time round? Sober eyes and all that?

CHRIS: Well, you know, there’s really no way to compare the first time to the fifth or sixth time you do it. There’s a different kind of energy and excitement around the time of your first record. What I remember form those tours, is that we didn’t really play all that well... we didn’t really string a sentence together, let alone put an hour and twenty minutes down. Now, we want to put on the show we didn’t all those years ago – now we’ve got three records... it’s much more entertaining. I look forward to the show every night, rather than the party, which is what I used to look forward to.

CDM: Were you caught unawares on that first tour? Were you ready for it?

CHRIS: Technically, not ready for it. I suppose we all thought we were. When you’re 21 years old and all your fantasies come true, there’s no other way to look at it other than “here we go – let’s do it, let’s live it up” – we sorta did it like that. We didn’t know what were doing, or what we had achieved until three years later when our father passed away and we just went crashing back down to earth, took stock in what we’d done and thought “well, shit. Maybe we’ve blown right out of the gun, gone for two years and haven’t even realized it". It’s interesting. Now I’m just concentrating on the music. I know it sounds bizarre to say this, but even though that first record came out in 2003, it’s taken us until 2009 to really buckle down. I mean, every tour means something, every tour is great, but we’re finally on top of our game I would say.

CDM: You’ve said that recording the new album 'Shaka Rock', was one of your more pleasurable recording experiences – why is that?

CHRIS: Well, the first two records we made with a producer, Dave Sardy [ The Dandy Warhols, Marilyn Manson ]. The first record – we did it so quickly, I think the whole thing was done in about six weeks. To be honest with you, I don’t really remember much of that experience because, well... I was hugging the vodka bottle most of the time – I don’t really know about the other guys, but I was enjoying myself. On the second record an interesting thing happened which we didn’t expect – we’d sold a lot of records and then all of a sudden there was a thousand extra people who all had opinions about what we do and what we did, which is a bizarre concept when you think about the fact that we were the ones who came to them with the songs in the first place... the songs that did well in the first place – all of a sudden the record label, the management, they all have opinions about how to hang on to that success that you’ve created. I mean, ultimately, no-one knows better than yourself what you should be doing musically. I remember during the second record feeling really stifled and feeling like it was more like a circus than a creative experience. On the third record we decided to clean house. We got rid of our management – not because anyone was doing wrong necessarily, but just because it was time for some spring-cleaning. That’s one way in which this album was more pleasurable.

CDM: So it was a new beginning of sorts – I imagine your family tragedy [ Nic and Chris Cester’s father’s death in 2004 ] would have shaken things up too?

CHRIS: Yeah. It was a difficult year. It was a good twelve months before anyone started feeling normal again. At the same time as our father passing away at 46 years old, we were coming down as well; from all the hype we experienced from the first record. That was basically a 2-year, no hold-barred party. It takes a while to come down from that – it was accelerated by his passing. It was a very sobering experience, the whole thing. It’s funny, it was just a reality check for us I suppose. What have you got left? Who is left? That kind of thing. For quite a while it was like a “who knows if the next album’s actually gonna happen” kinda thing, which I never thought I’d end up thinking.

CDM: So now, we do have the new album. It’s quite eclectic in relation to the other ones – were you guys quite deliberate about that?

CHRIS: See, that’s one of the perks of taking the reins and saying - “We’re gonna have control of this”. The situation then is that you don’t have anyone sitting there telling you who your fans are. That was something we had to deal with – it was a big pain in the arse. For example, with the first album we leaned quite heavily on our influences – as we grew up we wanted to steer away from that, but we found it more difficult because our producer would sit there and tell us: “Well, you know, you’ve got this song but you need that to sound like 'Let It Be'. You need to make it sound like this and that". It just got really tiring. So when it came time to produce 'Shaka Rock', we did it ourselves and decided we were gonna try everything – all our ideas, really try and be more adventurous and find our own swing. I think this record is the first step in that direction. I think our next record will be our best record yet... we’ve lost a whole lot of our baggage – we’ve got a good momentum going on right now.

CDM: The new record sees Jet joining a long and illustrious line of bands who have sung songs about seventeen year-olds. [ ‘Seventeen’ – “I get back home at a quarter to four, what you doing with your keys inside my door? Seventeen and you never been here before...” ] – Was there an actual seventeen-year-old involved?

CHRIS: Yeah, but...

CDM: It’s not what you think?...

CHRIS: ...Not as naughty as it sounds. A friend of mine was renting an apartment in New York. He’s a director for a massive film company out there. They gave him this huge apartment that he couldn’t be in anymore because it was too noisy for him. He said “look, you’re here in New York, why don’t you move out of that hotel and come live in my apartment?” – I don’t think he told the landlady, because I went out for a pack of smokes really early one morning – I was halfway through writing this song. When I came back, there was this young girl and her boyfriend at my door with a pair of keys trying to get in to the place... she must have heard the other guy had moved out and she was trying to get in there and get up to something; I don’t know what. Basically, it just started my imagination going – I started thinking of myself at seventeen; it’s not so much about a seventeen year-old girl, it’s just about being seventeen – you’re somewhere in between being self-righteous and having no idea. It’s just such an interesting time in your life – there I was at 27, ten years later thinking about whether I had turned out the way I thought I was going to – it’s about that question I suppose.

CDM: Well. No scandalous tales there.

CHRIS: No scandalous tales.

CDM: Whose van are you burning on the cover of the 'Shaka Rock'?

CHRIS: That’s ours. We bought it and then blew it up.

CDM: Perfect.

CHRIS: It was just an idea. We’d gone and met this photographer and we were talking about putting ourselves on the cover again, and we just thought that was really boring – we’d done everything else differently. We were standing on a corner in New York and one of those trucks drove past, the ones with all the graffiti on it, and Cam just said - “Why don’t we just get a truck like that, write shit on it, blow it up and be done with it?” He was kinda joking, but we loved it. Funnily enough we thought; “yeah, let’s just make it cheap and nasty and make it a statement in that way" – and then it turned out to be the most expensive album cover we’ve ever shot.

CDM: You’ve got to afford yourself some excesses...

CHRIS: The idea of it, was to do it guerrilla-style. The van only cost us a thousand bucks. We had to pay fire marshals and stuff. You can’t just set a truck on fire in the middle of town and expect to get away with it. We had a graffiti crew paint it up and then set it on fire. Bizarrely, this one website that had always trashed our band loved the record – but they laughed at the cover, saying we’d photo-shopped it, and shit! We’d spent all this money...

Source: CDM Magazine

"I still worry about whether we’re going to sell out shows in Melbourne – we always do."

2009-12-01T13:31:00.000-08:00

I've got two interviews here, one with Mark and other with Chris, but I guess I'm posting only one at time so you can taste them better!

As they're going to their native country we'll probably find some interviews in Aussie websites, and this one comes from Rave Magazine.

SHAUN NANCARROW discovers that JET bassist MARK WILSON is just an ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation.

Life changes somewhat when you find yourself a member of one of the biggest rock bands Australia has produced in the last decade. A humble trip down to your local cafe or restaurant, for example, can become a mite more uncomfortable than it once was.

“Back in the early days when our first album was blowing up,” says Jet bassist Mark Wilson of his group’s ARIA Award-winning debut, Get Born, which has sold 3.5 million copies worldwide and even received platinum certification in the US, “sometimes I’d go out with my friends to a restaurant – and everybody in Australia’s got that album, one in 15 or one in 20 people own that album. I’d go out for dinner with some friends, and every now and then, the person who ran the cafe would go ‘ah, the guy from Jet’s here. I know what he would like to listen to – let’s put his album on’,” Wilson says with a vaguely flabbergasted chuckle. “I tell you, man, it’s crazy that someone would go, ‘I know what he wants to hear, it’s his own album.’ That was the weird thing – it happened so much, and every now and then it still does.”

Not all of Wilson’s chance encounters with his own band’s music are quite so embarrassing, however.

“Being in Australia, I hear my friends whinging to me that it’s hard to turn on the radio without hearing us every few minutes. But you still get a real buzz from hearing your song on the radio, because it just sounds a little different: it’s in the car or whatever. If you can’t get excited about that – I don’t know. I generally tend to turn it off, though,” he adds with a laugh, “because I wouldn’t want anyone to see me driving down the road listening to myself on the radio.”

While Jet have never matched the overwhelming success they achieved with Get Born, they still retain a more than respectable fanbase in 2009, both in terms of album sales and packed out gigs. I wonder, given the often transient nature of success in the modern music industry, whether Wilson thought back in 2002 that Jet would still be charting in the Australian top five – as they have with their new album, Shaka Rock - in seven years’ time?

“The first album was so big that we thought the second album would be just as big or bigger.” Wilson says. “It wasn’t, but still, we’ve got a lot of fans. I don’t like to take anything for granted because, once you do, there’s no fun anymore. I still worry about whether we’re going to sell out shows in Melbourne – we always do. Or in Japan, I say ‘I hope people come along’, and then you play to 10,000 people – of course they came along. I guess it’s just part of my nature.”

In some quarters, Wilson notes, Shaka Rock has been received much better than its predecessor, 2006’s Shine On, which drew a somewhat mixed critical reaction, with one famous review on Pitchfork Media consisting of nothing more than an image of a chimpanzee urinating in its own mouth.

“That was good, that was funny,” he says of that particular piece. “Obviously they didn’t like it – it’s a pretty good bad review, if you ask me. You can’t get personally offended about that stuff; it’s just one dude’s opinion. If you can’t laugh at that, you’re a pretty boring person. We just have fun making our music. There’s a lot of stuff I’d probably put that review on,” he chuckles.

To Wilson, the sound of Shaka Rock is the sound of Jet finding their own voice, an important development for a band that has been accused in the past of being overly derivative of musicians ranging from Iggy Pop to the Rolling Stones.

“I feel like it sounds like Jet, rather than sounding like Jet influenced by other people,” he says. “Everything comes from something – nothing just appears out of nowhere on its own anymore, but I guess it’s us finding our sound, finally.”

Unfortunately, though, it seems Jet aren’t the only band out there trying to find Jet’s sound, as Wilson discovered one dismal Wednesday night in Ballarat.

“This is a funny thing,” Wilson begins. “I was on this buck’s night, and I knew the guy, but I didn’t really know any of his friends. And the buck’s night took us to Ballarat from Geelong, to this fucking pub, and the cover band in there – one of the classic shit Australian cover bands – must have recognised me, because they started playing every song of ours they knew. Badly, mind you. And there’s not really many people who can sing like Nic,” he says, referring to Jet vocalist Nic Cester. “And then they were trying to get me to come up and play a song with them. We had the worst day: I’m in a pub in Ballarat on a Wednesday night with this bad cover band playing my songs, butchering all the parts they could butcher. And they were doing half songs, as well,” he adds in an amused tone, “not even finishing them off because they couldn’t really remember how to play them.”

Instances like these serve Wilson as a stark reminder of the surreal aspects associated with the whole experience of being in a successful rock band.

“When things like that happen, it really makes you laugh, man – it makes you realise what you do is really weird, and how people think about you. Because you’re just a normal guy, walking around, doing what you’ve always done, into the same things, with the same friends – but people have this other expectation of what you are, who you are or what you’re going to be like. And it’s pretty amusing sometimes.”

Tchau.

JET live in Detroit, Nov. 1st

2009-11-30T14:56:00.000-08:00

Our kids are taking a break now and will be heading to Australia on Dec. 4th. Meanwhile, I'd like to show you a very special review from their last Detroit gig.

I once said how much I love to post fans reviews rather than journalist's ones and that's because we can really tell when it comes from the heart. It might be sounding a bit too deep, maybe it's the soap opera I'm watching now. There you go:

A Little Background:

I’m Jonathan, and I’ve been a huge fan of JET since Get Born, which came out when I was twelve years old. Before then, I was really not into or hugely aware of modern music. I grew up being exposed to lots of classic rock by my parent, The Beatles being [and still being] my favourite band of all time. My dad played guitar and sang, and he influenced me to want to be a guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

I still remember the first time my dad played me the “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” music video, saying he heard the song on the radio and though I would dig it. I did dig it, so much, in fact, that I went out straight away and bought Get Born. I really loved the record, and I listened to it nonstop as well as watching all the videos I could find and reading all of the magazines with articles on this new Australian band. I eventually got the Family Style DVD as a Christmas present, and lapped up every minute of it At that young age, I looked up to those guys. They were the first band that I wanted to look like, the first band where I knew when I went to see a concert, that they would be the same guys as in the videos, other than a much older version.

I am not a Papa Roach fan. I’m not entirely justified to dislike them, because I think I’ve maybe heard one full song years ago, and I couldn’t even hum it to you. But I know for a fact that it is not my genre of music. I’m sure they’re very talented, and obviously they have their fans, but it’s just not my thing. But regardless, I was going to see JET!
The venue was The Fillmore. I had been there to see The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather [both of Jack White’s non-Candy Cane projects], and had enjoyed the venue both times. I had been there enough to know around which time to get there to get close to the stage, so we left to go get in line.
When I went to go grab the tickets from will call, though, I saw the line for the early entry, and running it were some people that I knew from a local radio station my band had done some work with. Apparently they had a few extra passes left over, so they gave them to us! Now I was even more excited. I was going to be meeting JET! They led the line of people into the venue, and the first thing I saw and heard was JET sound checking Skin and Bones. They led us past the stage and into the basement. They handed us some posters and told us the guys would be down in a few. It was surreal watching them walk in, I know they’re just normal people like the rest of us, but when it’s people you’ve looked up to so much, it’s strange seeing them in person. I nodded to Nic, and he nodded back, smiled, and said, “cool haircut, man,” referencing my long shaggy hair that usually has people asking if I’m in a band the first time they meet me.
I got all four of them to sign my poster, and I handed each of them a copy of my band, The Wall Clocks‘, brand new debut full length album, Odds and Beginnings. After being influenced so much by their music, it was a real thrill thinking that at least one of them might actually give a listen to my own work, and hopefully enjoy it. They graciously accepted it, each thanking me. Chris said he would definitely give it a listen on the tour bus, and he complimented the album artwork. I told him that the band’s twitter www.twitter.com/thewallclocks was following his, and that it’d be cool if he let me know what he thought on there. They were all extremely friendly, Nic asked me if I was Italian because I looked it. I told him that I was in fact, 100% Italian. He said he was too, and we talked a bit about where what parts of Italy we were from. I complimented his very cool jacket, and then we took a group photograph. They filed out of the room, each stopping to thank me for the disc as I wished them a good gig, and now it was time to go upstairs to see the show!
I wasn’t overly impressed with either of the opening bands after checking out their websites before the show. They, again, just weren’t my type of sound. But they left a bit of a better impression live.
Aranda rocked pretty well. Shreddy guitar leads aren’t really my thing, but I’ve got to admit, the guitarist was talented and put on a pretty good show. They also did a pretty good cover of Dazed and Confused, which can very easily go badly. I’ve got to give them credit for hitting those notes and pulling it off.
Kill Hannah was definitely not my thing at all. They had mini laser-beamish type things on each of their guitar headstocks, which was an interesting gimmick, but got pretty old pretty quick, especially when the bassist kept accidentally blinding you with his across the front row. The singer, though, was a pretty good showman, and he worked the crowd nicely. The crowd was definitely more weighted towards the Papa Roach side, and JET went before them.
JET’s crew got their equipment set and sounchecked, and then they ambled out onto the stage, starting with Cold Hard Bitch. I don’t remember the set list in order, but I’m pretty sure I can remember almost all the songs they played. I had asked Chris if they’d be playing Beat on Repeat [a personal favourite off of the new album], but he said they weren’t because they were trying to stick to the heavier songs because of touring with Papa Roach.
And that they did. The slowest songs of the night were the mid tempo Skin and Bones and Goodbye Hollywood and Seventeen. There was no Look What You’ve Done, no Shine on , no Move On, etc. They actually didn’t even encore, neither did the other two openers. But I’ve got to give it to them, you didn’t really miss the slow songs with the rocking set they provided. They covered a lot of material, playing Last Chance, Get What You Need, Are You Gonna Be My Girl, Take It Or Leave It, and ending with Get Me Outta here, from Get Born. From Shine On, they played Skin and Bones, Money Mouth, Rip It up, and a huge shocker, the Shine On version of Hey Kids! I had always wanted to hear a live version of that album version of the song, and as far as I know, they had never done it before until this tour. I hadn’t seen it in any videos, pro shot or fan shot, and I did not see it coming at all. They did an amazing job on it. From Shaka Rock, they played Genius, Goodbye Hollywood, Start The Show, Black Hearts, and Seventeen.
There were definitely some memorable moments within the set. It was a bit of a loose performance, there were a few rough bits, but the guys just looked at each other and laughed them off, which was nice to see real group unity from them again. It’s been said a lot in interviews lately that they’re all getting along better, and they really did look like four close friends up there having a great time. Nic spent a lot of time at the front of the stage, and frequently made eye contact with me, as did Chris who was beating the shit out of his drums. At one point, Nic fucked up the beginning of Goodbye Hollywood, afterwards claiming that a chick in the front row had “the biggest fucking tits” he’d ever seen, and he had failed at not being distracted by them.
It was a great show, and I’m glad to have been able to see JET for the third time and to actually be able to meet them. I hope they make another great album and come back soon, but until then, I’ll be rocking out to Shaka Rock for a long time.

JET and my band, The Wall Clocks share a lot of influences, so I hope maybe you guys might enjoy some of our tunes. You can give them a listen on www.thewallclocksband.com or search The Wall Clocks on Facebook. Our album is now available on Itunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, etc. I would really love to know what you guys think of our stuff, I hope the guys enjoyed the copies I gave them, and maybe you will as well! Thanks for reading and listening!

Thanks again, Jonathan!

27th of November, 2006

2009-11-28T08:18:00.000-08:00

"Rip It Up" is a song from Australian rock band Jet's second album Shine On. It was released November 27, 2006 as the second single from that album in Australia. The song became controversial when the lead singer (at a concert) announced the song was about Paris Hilton. A music video was made for the single. "Rip It Up" was originally titled "Nothing to Lose". It debuted at #67 on the ARIA Singles Chart and peaked at #49 for one week before leaving the top 50 altogether.
The song was also featured on the soundtrack for the 2007 animation film TMNT and in the 2008 comedy Drillbit Taylor. It was also played as a safety-car song in the 2007 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000. It was also played at the 2007 AFL Grand Final in the opening ceremony on the day. The song features a line from The Wizard of Oz: "I'm gonna get you my pretty, and your little dog too".
In Australia in 2007, the song was used in Holden commercials.
The song was released in the UK as the fourth single from Shine On and a limited edition "7" vinyl was released there.

Source: Wikipedia

RIP IT UP - LYRICS

Did you ever get the feeling you were born to lose
Smacked in the face with a silver spoon
Skinny doll gimme your magazine queen
Just spread your legs for the silver screen
From the bedroom baby to the city a' light
You look pretty good but you're not so bright

Flashin' your stash ain't nothin' new
I'm gonna get ya my pretty...your little dog too
Make me rich, your doctor said
And if you ever break down i'll cut you up again
On the bedroom wall the stars look bright
But they don't belong in the city a' light

Get on your feet boys
Rip it up, rip it up if your ever gonna make it!
Get on your feet girls
Rip it up, rip it up if your ever gonna make it!

Well well well what a wild wild dream
Monkey do, what a monkey scene
Daddy done bought you a record deal
Bargain basement boy how does it feel
From the bedroom baby to the city a' light
Look pretty good but you're not so bright

Get on your feet boys
Rip it up, rip it up if your ever gonna make it!
Get on your feet girls
Rip it up, rip it up if your ever gonna make it!
Rip it up, rip it up, rip it up, rip it up
Rip it up, rip it up, rip it up

Get on your feet boys
Rip it up, rip it up if your ever gonna make it
Get on your feet girls
Rip it up, rip it up if your ever gonna make it

Get on your feet boys
Rip it up, rip it up till it's amputated

Get on your feet girls
Rip it up, rip it up to the high rotation

Get on your feet boys
Rip it up, rip it up watch em go home wasted

Get on your feet girls
Yeah i know your gonna make it

Get on your feet boys
Rip it up, rip it up got a lot don't waste it

Get on your feet girls
Rip it up, rip it up get a new decoration

Get on your feet boys
Rip it up, rip it up money face is waitin'

Get on your feet girls
Rip it up, rip it up get a new fascination

Get on your feet boys
Kiss, blow a kiss to the wall your facin'

Get on your feet girls
It's time to collect from the bank generation

Rip it up, rip it up, rip it up, rip it up
Rip it up, rip it up, rip it up

RIP IT UP - VIDEO

RIP IT UP LIVE AT SOUND RELIEF

If you want to purchase your copy of the Rip It Up single go here.

" I do an amazing bolognese sauce that has been passed down through generations of my Italian ancestors"

2009-11-24T12:19:00.000-08:00

Uau, well, the bolognese thing and more you check on this interview:

Australia is a megadiverse country, meaning that it houses a majority of the Earth’s species. It is also megadiverse culturally, from macho hard man like Mark Brandan “Chopper” Reed to hard rocking bands like AC/DC, The Easybeats, INXS and Silverchair. Australia might not be as productive as say America at pumping out rock stars but every so often they let one out of their grips with a rippling effect across the world of music. Back in 2001 while bands like Limp Bizkit were dominating the world, a certain area of Melbourne was birthing a band called JET, and six years on they are one of the biggest bands around. Before their recent co-headline tour we got to get involved in a conference call with Nic Cester and this what he had to say.

Can you give us a sense of how this tour came together with Papa Roach and what you expect from it?

Well, I guess to name the main reason why the tour came about is because we switched to a new management company who manages both bands and in starting a new relationship we are trying to be open minded with the new company. We have toured the states so many times so we didn’t want to just preach to the converted again so we are trying to be open minded and roll the dice.

Papa Roach have a real hard rocking fan base, what is your anticipation for putting JET in front of a crowd like that?

First of all I think we have played so many shows in all different shapes and sizes and our fan base has always been pretty interesting. We’ve always had the ability to cross quite comfortably.

How do you think your fans are going to take you touring with Papa Roach?

Yeah to be honest that was the bigger question for us, Papa Roach is Papa Roach and they do their thing but we were more concerned about our fans. To be honest I have no idea and we realised that we were rolling the dice with this tour but we wanted to give it a go because we have toured the states a few times and it can become soul destroying, which it has been in the past. Doing a tour and realising that you haven’t really achieved much at the end of it and then you think what is the purpose and why are you doing it. So we are not really sure what is going to happen but were open minded and we are willing to take a chance.

Is there any certain aspects of touring that you are enjoying now?

I think the thing that we are enjoying about touring this time around is I guess being a little bit older and a little bit wiser. In the past we have been pretty reckless when it comes to extra curricular activities. I think this time we are looking after ourselves a lot better than we ever have and actually going out and seeing the towns we are touring, going to restaurants and actually exploring America for the first time I guess.

Now growing up in Australia were there bands there that inspired you or was it international bands rather?

It was mostly Australian music that I was listening to, there are obvious big ones that are like huge shadows looming over you like The Beatles and The Stones but more directly it was bands that I could actually get on a train and go and see in Melbourne. Melbourne is a really strong music city probably the most, no actually with out a question the most important rock n roll band was a band called You Am I. You ask any Australian band and they will cite them as an influence.

Shaka Rock has been out for a while, what sort of perspective do you have on it now, have there been any suprises for you?

Because we were so involved in every step and every process of this album, we were co-producer’s not just writers this time. I feel like we really understood every aspect of these songs in a way that we didn’t on previous albums so there haven’t been any suprises at all this time.

You did so much on your own for this record, with that must come a lot of pride and ownership. However was there something to it that was maybe a little scary?

No not all, honestly it wasn’t at all. I think we realised that whatever the end result was going to be the amount of enjoyment we got from doing it like that, the whole process was so fun and we knew that we were going to be very happy and proud of it in the end anyway. We are pretty confident that whatever we are going to do, if we apply ourselves we are going to do it really well.

The songs on Shaka Rock show a new dimension, do any of the songs on the album point to where you would like to see JET going in the future.

I think actually 17 is a song that we have all echoed what you have said. That was a song we were all very fond of very quickly and for those reasons. I think what we are really proud of on this album is the uniqueness of the songs. We always knew that we could write good songs and we have got a knack for writing melodies and good at structuring and layering the mechanics of it. I think now we have reached a new level of maturity and I think we are a lot more comfortable in our own skin now and with that comes a little more uniqueness I guess.

The cover is also unique, could you explain the cover of the album?

Ha ha, I guess we were having a discussion and we were meeting with seven photographers that were all a bit la dee da. We just thought that every process of the album had been quite organic and we one of the guys said as a joke when we were in New York. We saw one of those boxed trucks drive passed and it was all graffitied, they’re pretty common in New York. So Cam said “why don’t we just get one of those trucks and write our name on it and be done with it”, almost half joking. We all laughed and said it would actually be a pretty good idea, I don’t know were the idea came to burn it but it did. We actually bought the truck ourselves on the internet and someone drove it down to Los Angeles in the desert. There were two graffiti gangs that did either side of the van so there is two versions of it and we filmed the whole process of it being painted and burned eventually.

Before Shaka Rock and just after the Shine On tour you guys did some side projects, how was it getting back into the studio as a group?

It was weird and institutionally it’s always a little weird after we have a bit of a break, people go off and become independent people again and you have to establish or re-establish an operating mode and the balance of ego’s ect. So the first month is always tricky and then we always settle into a groove.

Out on the road what do you do to keep yourselves entertained when not playing?

Well we are trying really hard to curb our ways a bit but looking back at the last european tour we got a bit loose towards the end and we had an 80’s party one night which happened to be the night Patrick Swayze passed away aswell which led to some tribute pieces. We are all a lot healthier than what we have been and we all enjoy eating good food and I’m about to go and have a Vietnamese soup with Mark our bass player and a few others. We generally try and locate the best Vietnamese in town as soon as we arrive in.

Lastly, Do you have any other special talents other than music?

I’m an excellent cook.

Do you have any specialty entrée’s?

Yip, being an excellent cook an entrée is what we like to call the main. I do an amazing bolognese sauce that has been passed down through generations of my Italian ancestors, but unfortunately I can’t part with any of this information otherwise I would have to kill you.

Source: Clink Music Magazine

Soon I'll back with something on the last night's gig!
Tchau.

JET live at the Nokia Theater, NYC (Nov. 12th)

2009-11-23T15:32:00.000-08:00

While we wait for the people from LA to come back with some videos and reviews from tonight's gig, I bring you some video footage from their last gig in NYC at the Nokia Theater (November 12th):

WALK

LAST CHANCE

SHE'S A GENIUS

HEY KIDS

COLD HARD BITCH

Tchau.

JET THE FUCKING BAND - www.jetthefuckingband.com­

Interview for Laptorockers

The Vine interview

JETthefuckingband.com new looks!

CMJ Festival

Tour and Interview

DAMNDOGS

The last post.

JET live at Shepherds Bush, London

Gurten and Forestglade

Recent interview

BBK Live 2010

Optimus Alive 2010 (video)

Optimus Alive 2010

Special birthday post!

Pele or Maradona?

Tacos and solo projects

Rock in Rio 2011

Nic plays with Muse... again.

Jet Covers!

Post especial para Sudamerica y España

On the other sides of Nic.

Good news, bad news.

Babies, jams and burps, all in once.

JET - Seventeen (feat Nicole Atkins)

Seattle and Portland

"And being Australian, we generally work better when we’re more laid-back"

This (long) week for Jet:

"My hands were freezing up."

Brrrrazil

Brrrr...

Bloke-O-Meter

Here I go again...

Japan dates

Happy Birthday, Mr. Muncey!

Holla muchachos! Yo tengo info de la US gira!

US Tour Dates + Muse interview

Lily vs. Chris?

Big Day Out - Perth

Big Day Out - Adelaide

"Copyright restricts us from playing this in your country!"

Absoluteradio.co.uk

Eddies Desk

Who would Jet drink, jam and sleep with?

"Back in blaaaack, baaaaaaaaaaack in black!"

Interview from Videohits.com.au

Big Day Out in Sydney - Day 1

MUSE AND NIC CESTER ON BDO

Hot BBQ

Videos time

Big Day Out 2010 - Auckland

Live footage of JET live at the Metro, Sydney

JET LIVE AT STUDIO COAST, TOKYO (videos)

JET JAPAN TOUR 2010

JET JAPAN TOUR 2010

JET to play at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games

Happy Holidays from JET

This week for Jet...

December, 12th, 2006

Quick post!

JET live at Acer Arena, Sydney, Dec. 12th

JET live at Acer Arena, Sydney, Dec. 11th

JET live at Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Dec 9th

JET live at Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Dec. 8th

Scrabble, yeah...

JET live at Homebake 2009, Sydney

"There's a lack of ego when it's all one nationality"

JET live at Club Nokia, LA

"We’d spent all this money..."

"I still worry about whether we’re going to sell out shows in Melbourne – we always do."

JET live in Detroit, Nov. 1st

27th of November, 2006

" I do an amazing bolognese sauce that has been passed down through generations of my Italian ancestors"

JET live at the Nokia Theater, NYC (Nov. 12th)

JET THE FUCKING BAND - www.jetthefuckingband.com