FLANNELETE READY TO ROCK iRISH ¢LUB WITH SOME GREAT SOUNDS

Hard HITTING bRISSIE ROCK BAND FLANNELETE ARE HEADING TO THE iRISH ¢LUB ON aPRIL 10.

bEGINNING IN 2012, FLANNELETTE HAVE EXPLODED ONTO THE MUSIC SCENE IN SPECTACULAR FASHION, ACHIEVING NO. 2 ON tRIPLE fflED’S HOT 100 IN ONLY THEIR FIRST YEAR TOGETHER AND HEADLINING bRISBANE’S HI-FI FOR THEIR FIRST SHOW IN FEBRUARY BEFORE BUSILY GIGGING EVERY WEEKEND THROUGHOUT aUSTRALIA’S EAST COAST.

fiITH A RAVED-ABOUT eP LAUNCHED ON ItUNES, FLANNELETTE ARE RAPIDLY ON THEIR WAY TO BECOMING THE NEXT BIG THING FOR THE ROCK MUSIC SCENE.

bAND MEMBER mATT ¢AMPBELL SAID THE NAME FLANNELETTE WAS DECIDED LONG BEFORE THE BAND WAS EVEN FORMED.

“mY ORIGINAL GUITARIST AND i WANTED TO START A BAND WITH ONE WORD THAT MEANT aUSSIE PUB MUSIC AND ALSO GRUNGE ROCK MUSIC. sO NATURALLY, FLANNELETTE WAS DECIDED,” HE SAID.

“fiE’RE PRETTY PROUD TO SAY OUR MUSIC DOESN’T JUST FIT SNUG INTO ONE GENRE, IF YOU GET THE CHANCE TO SEE US LIVE YOU’LL SEE US COVER A BROAD RANGE OF GENRES WHILE STILL BEING ABLE TO DEFINITELY BE ‘US’ AND THAT COMES DOWN TO OUR INFLUENCES.

“bETWEEN THE FOUR OF US THERE ARE OBVIOUSLY A FEW COMMON INFLUENCES WHO MAKE THE BAND GEL, LIKE aUDIOSLAVE, mETALLICA, sILVERCHAIR. bUT WE ALL HOLD OUR OWN UNIQUE LOVE FOR ARTISTS, INCLUDING MINE FOR tHE bRONX, JAYMES’S FOR tHE ¢LASH, sHAUN’S FOR bLACK sABBATH, AND GORDO’S FOR Kiss. iT’S A CRAZY BLEND BUT IT MAKES A WEIRD INBRED MUSIC BABY THAT JUST WORKS.”

mATT SAID THE WAS NO COMMON THEME TO THEIR SONGS, BUT USUALLY THERE WAS SOMETHING TO BE WHINGED ABOUT.

“tHERE’S A FEW POLITICAL RANTS, SOME SEXUAL TUNES AND OUR NEW eP’S OPENER HIT THE ffALLEY IS ABOUT THE $400 FINE i GOT FOR A SLIGHTLY RUSTY BACK NUMBER PLATE,” mATT SAID.

“sO YEAH, WE DEFINITELY COVER SOME GROUND.”