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Further.
Let's say that you're in a band called Further. Let's say that
you fancy releasing a single - called, say, Fools In Love.
Thing is, you're going to need some b-sides, right? And you
have a bunch of demos that your previous band recorded, and
so do all your bandmates...
"Well, we kinda did have some b-sides, but we just wanted to do something different," Further's Matt Coyte explains when I congratulate him on his band's impressively efficient recycling effort. "We thought 'oh, maybe we should do a bit of a history lesson'. It shows a progression, I guess - some of it's kinda really heavy, some of it's instrumental, so I think it should give people a good idea of where we're coming from. Which is a good idea, I guess."
The single contains tracks from Tweezer, Quoit, Galuuci, The Government and Gentlenemy, and since the tracks are all plausibly Further-sounding I was surprised to hear that these tracks weren't re-recordings but the originals. "Yeah, they're old tracks from our older bands." Surely that would have involved going back to ex-bandmates and negotiating to use certain tracks? "Um, yeah, there was a bit of a logistical nightmare involved to get everyone to agree to it," he chuckles darkly. "I mean, everyone was into it, but there was a bit of 'I want this song to go on' [from former band members] and we [Further] were like 'er, I dunno, we wanted to choose the tracks...' I mean, it all worked out - we got what we wanted in the end."
I'm embarrassed when Coyte reveals that Further have been to Adelaide a few times, but am reassured that they've done so hidden in the support slots of other bands. "We did a couple of Mark Of Cain tours and we've come down with Screamfeeder, but that's about it really. So no, we've not been down much. Not enough!"
Further are about to do a lap of the nation in the company of ex-Perth-now-Sydney noiseniks The Tucker B's on what they've dubbed 'The Moody Prowl tour'. "When they used to live in Perth we'd go and see them when we were over, and when they were here [Sydney] they'd go and see us, and I guess we had a bit of a mutual appreciation society going on, but we never really played together until December last year. It went really well: everyone said they really liked the mix of the two bands and we thought we'd go on tour together. It all came together really quickly, actually."
Certainly, having been playing Further's self-titled album and the 'B's recent 'Chubby' a good deal lately, the bands sit well together on the dB Magazine stereo - so they should work equally well at the Rocket Bar. "Live they're probably heavier than us, which is interesting," Coyte muses about his tourmates. "Their songs take on a completely different form - a lot of people hear all the melody on their record and think 'ah, they're an indie-pop band' and they're not really like that at all when they're completely drunk and screaming their heads off."
Talk of Further's possible Japanese release leads to talk of the Tucker B's Japanese stage invasion - in, er, Perth. "You can see it on their website," Coyte explains. "There's all these people in kimonos with Samurai swords bum-rushing the stage. I've never asked them about it, but I assume it was pretty disturbing. It looks pretty mental."
So that's the vibe they're hoping for the Adelaide show? "Well, we always like some insanity to occur. Actually, last time we came down was pretty weird: we ended up at some odd bikie after-wedding party or something. I was there with John Stanier [TMOC's drummer] standing in the corner, and he was going 'um... is this the after party or what?'"
However, the big question about the Moody Prowl show is this: what song will the two bands choose for the inevitable and obligatory all-star jam? "Well, we've all been thinking about that," Coyte confesses. "We've all been arguing about what songs to do. They want to do Knights In White Satin," he sneers of the 'B's admirable suggestion, "but we're like 'um, I don't know about that.' I think it was a Moody Blues/Moody Prowl thing..."
Andrew P Street
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Further and The Tucker B's play the Rocket Bar on Sat 31 March with Straight To Video. Fools In Love is out now through Chatterbox.
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