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Evermore.
 After spending most of 2004 touring, 2005 for Evermore will begin in much the same way. Having recently announced a slew of dates around the country that will take them well into April, the Sydney-based trio of brothers get into the swing of things with a run of O'Ball shows.
"It's going to be good," enthuses lead singer and guitarist Jon Hume after almost eight months of non-stop touring. "We get the odd bad tour here or there, but we're sort of incorporating some new things into our show - we've been spending the last few days editing up some video projections to go along to the songs as we play them. Pete's mainly doing that; Dan does more the website and posters and t-shirts and stuff," he explains.
"We're still in the process of working out all the technical side of it like, are we going to use a DVD player or are we going to use what? How's it all going to work? If it works, it will be amazing, if it doesn't it will be an omen," Hume laughs. "But we always seem to slightly overstretch ourselves; we always try to do a little too much, but that's just kind of the way we work. It was the same with the album; we set ourselves a big goal and usually just get there by the skin of our teeth."
Hume met the album's producer, Barrett Jones, through the members of US band Brad. With Evermore playing more retro-sounding, riff-based pop-rock at the time, Jones was surprised at their change in style when it came time to record Evermore's debut album 'Dreams'.
"When we came to the album we wanted a more kind of spacious sound, like an atmospheric type of vibe to it," Hume explains. "I think what it is, is I really like ambitious, big sounding music, and so I do really like those Silverchair and Muse albums, and also stuff like Pink Floyd. During the recording of the album we were really interested in the whole idea of making a concept record; there's little elements of that in the album, but we sort of had to tone it back a bit, because we wanted to make a double album. By the end of sort of spending six months on what you hear now, we were pretty tired and we were pretty happy with it the way it was."
Upon hearing their track Too Late was to be a used for the TV series 'The O.C', Hume says the band was happy, but didn't see it as a huge deal. "Then suddenly all these people are like 'oh, you guys are The OC band', and we're like 'What?' But it's actually been really good; it's just gotten our music out there, and it's amazing how, if people hear something on television, they can connect with it easier or something... I mean, it wouldn't work if people didn't actually like the song, so it's been good, but it's funny..."
For now, though, it's plane flights and Taragos for Evermore. When asked whether touring with his brothers is at all strange, Hume thoughtfully replies "I guess we're pretty used to it. If there were any problems, we would have self-destructed by now. Somehow we just seem to get along pretty well on the road. There's the usual things; in the end I think it's like any band: you have your problems occasionally, but you generally work them out and carry on."
As for tour antics, Hume says the brothers are all equal troublemakers, but points out they're pretty mild compared to some other bands doing the rounds. "We did this tour in New Zealand with a band called the Feelers, and they just got out of control with these practical jokes," Hume laughs. "Like, one day they took the wheels off the other bands car drove them into the middle of the town and put them in the middle of the town square or something. And they jacked the car up on blocks, but the car had fallen off the blocks overnight and cracked the brake pads or something, and it was just so stupid. It was getting to the point where it was just costing them thousands of dollars... we didn't get involved, we just let them do it."
Ann Marie Sosnowski
 | Evermore play the Adelaide Uni O-Ball on Sat 26 Feb. |
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