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The Anyones.
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The Anyones' lead singer / guitarist / flautist Steve Pinkerton
is one of my favourite people in Aussie rock for a bit of a
conversation, maybe now was not the time - they're still promoting
the same album, still doing the same tours, still playing the
same songs. But it is worthwhile to note that the band are coming
to play Jive and that you should all attend. OK?
Pinkerton is also at a loss to give me any real exciting happenings since we last spoke. "You're right, I suppose since last time, I think you've seen us since Livid, and Christmas was great fun, and the Big Day Out was a lot of fun..."
And is there anything else to report? "I can tell you, I suppose I should tell you what we're looking at doing at the moment? At the moment we're trying to get an American release, we've hooked up with a label for the album. That stuff can invariably fall over because two record companies have to negotiate with each other but it is quite exciting, I'll keep you posted on that, but if we're over it would be nice to have that because the audience is ten times higher than here! You sell ten times the amount of CDs, so we could sell at least a hundred! So that's promising anyway, we're looking at doing that too... And I think since I saw you, yeah, we've been touring a bit with You Am I, which was fun, they were great shows."
Changing the topic, Pinkerton alludes to how he expects to bring home the bacon with his musical endeavours. "They still play the song on 'The Secret Life Of Us'; actually, I saw the first episode and they played us at the very start, which is nice, so that's another massive royalty check..."
Seeing as we still don't have enough news for an article's length, Pinkerton expands... "You can waffle on about my potential overseas, huge deal, probably gonna collapse... Yeah, that's it, that's the plan and we're actually trying to work on all that stuff at the moment. So when this deal comes over, we'll be touring the States, in August, so that will be massive. And we've got a booking agent over there already, which is the big one, the Agency Group, and if we sign the deal over there, Bob's your uncle. It will just be limousines and cocaine."
And as for the future here in this country? "I guess I can talk about our demos, we've actually recorded, we've got about an album and a half's worth of demos, so we've just got to choose, pick those and hopefully get an album out much quicker than we did the last album. We'd like to get one out this year, but there might be another single coming out, so we're just pushing the record company, see how much we can milk from the new album... But it would be nice to have a new album out. I mean the Beatles used to get two out every year!"
Other than that, I suppose it's the States that are calling the Melbourne five piece away from us now. "Well, if it rockets to superstardom, which I expect it to - you know me, I'm a harsh realist... No, we're cynical enough to know that nothing might come out of it, but you've got to aim high, I suppose. [Over in the US], radio's so bought up, it's even harder than here - well, I guess it's much the same as here, where you have to almost pay to get on radio, but we'll aim for the college circuit I guess." The American equivalent of Triple J then? "It's funny, that's all we aim at, it's a bummer that commercial radio doesn't support all these Aussie bands much more.
"We've been on commercial radio stations both here and in Sydney, but they've always been on Aussie music shows that start at about 10pm... It's a bummer, because as much as we love Triple J and it's fantastic, there aren't many bands that can make a living in Australia if that's what they're relying on, because it's just not big enough, and that's why we have to look overseas. The market's much bigger."
Ben Revi
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The Anyones play at Jive on Fri 5 March with The Trafalgars.
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