Winners of the Heavy Award at the 2020 South Australian Music Awards, Adelaide's post-hardcore rockers NO NO NO NO NO have released their second EP, '30mg'.
If punk-rock hardcore is your jam, you better tune in."We can't believe it's finally out, it's been such a long road to get here, but we're so glad to share our latest EP with everyone," NO NO NO NO NO says.
The band will be taking to the stage at The Gov (Adelaide) in early February to launch the EP with support from up and coming metalcore act Line In The Sand, local Adelaide favourites Dilettantes, and the hard-to-miss Nocturnal Animals.
Who is NO NO NO NO NO...
(Declan) Our elevator pitch is 'Weezer played by The Amity Affliction'. I think that sets the scene pretty well. I'd also say Four Year Strong, Dance Gavin Dance, Don Bronco. Luke says Blink-182 a lot, but I think he’s an idiot.
(Luke) Catchy pop punk being played like hardcore.
(Dylan) Think Bring Me The Horizon, Enter Shikari, Blink-182 had a threesome and had a baby that sounds a tiny bit like them, but not that much really, and you've got us.
Our first gig was... (Declan) It was back in 2019, right at the start of the year, we played at The Crown & Anchor with Burjon, Shaman Eyes and Ponytail Kink.
When did you settle on the group's name, and was it a unanimous decision... (Luke) It was dumb enough to be memorable, but not too dumb that it made us cringe. Everyone agreed apart from Hayden who still thinks it's stupid, but he was outvoted.
In the studio we usually...
(Luke) I'm running around pulling my hair out and reminding people how their parts go and repeating "it sounded better in the demo for some reason".
(Hayden) I usually have three, four solid takes, redo a couple fills or sections to make things sound interesting then try to sneak away for a tasty kebab or burrito.
(Declan) I'm usually sweaty from singing and having blown my voice out, either that or falling asleep on the couches in the control room.
(Dylan) I come in for 30 minutes, bang out my stuff and go home because I'm a lazy prick who likes to be at home.
If we could tour with anyone...
(Declan) Honestly, I'd be happy with a personal guitar tech. But if we're going big, 100 Gecs or The Dirty Nil.
(Luke) Dustin Dollin, that guy's mental and it's not a real tour unless you come home with broken bones and a drinking problem.
(Dylan) Throw us on a tour with Enter Shikari and I'd die happy, or maybe Totally Unicorn from Sydney, I think they'd be fun to party with every night.
(Hayden) I think a tour with Mammal would be pretty killer.
Social media is...
(Luke) Dope, how else would everyone know how hilarious I am?
(Declan) Would be a great way to keep in touch with my Nanna, if she had a computer. But she doesn't, so I'm pretty indifferent towards it.
(Dylan) A stain on society, but also like, really great for advertising; we wouldn't have half as many fans without it.
(Hayden) Incredibly addictive, but extremely useful. An awesome way to reach our fans who don't have the joy of seeing us every second weekend.
My favourite app at the moment is...
(Dylan) The COVIDSafe app. The layout, the colour scheme, it's really a masterpiece 10/10.
(Luke) Flashlight so I can see where I'm going in the dark.
(Declan) Settings. My idea of fun is getting blackout drunk and changing the password on my phone and inverting all the colours on my screen and seeing how long it takes me to change it back to normal in the morning.
(Hayden) Clash of Clans. It gives me something to do while the other three are trying to remember their parts during practice.
To date, my most embarrassing moment was the time...
(Declan) One time at a show, I accidentally played a G#m7 chord instead of a F/Gsus9 and everybody pointed and laughed. I played with my back to the audience for the rest of the set.
(Dylan) I wore shorts on stage at our first ever gig, I mean what the hell was I thinking?
(Luke) We dressed up as a black metal band for Halloween but my corpse paint started running and I just looked like a fat, sad, clown and everyone kept calling me Jared Leto's Joker.
(Hayden) Watching the three others cower in front of a child's cowboy party hosted at McDonalds.
Life on the road can be...
(Declan) Great! My house sucks, so I personally prefer sleeping on a bench seat of a rusty Toyota, or if I'm lucky, a fan's couch.
(Hayden) Exciting, a change of scenery is always refreshing.
(Dylan) It gets hard being hungover for that long, but you know I couldn't be around these three sober for more than a few days.
(Luke) Exhausting. Living on Maccies and beer gets old after a while.
If you'll have us on your bill, all we ask is that our rider contains...
(Luke) A carton of cigarettes 'cause everyone always smokes mine at gigs and I run out.
(Declan) Marlboros. I'm sick of smoking the cheap sh.t that Luke buys. And Red Bull, lots of Red Bull.
(Hayden) Beer and whiskey.
(Dylan) A bowl full of only pink M&Ms... they don't have pink ones? Well, someone better get out the food-safe paint.
The most scary scenario I've found myself in, was...
(Luke) An unnamed interstate show, we ended up at a house party afterwards with a friendly but intense drug dealer.
(Dylan) At that same party I knocked over a shelf in the bathroom and all their magazines and air freshener fell in the toilet, so I left and pretended it wasn't me.
(Declan) At the same party, I was coming back in from a servo run and accidentally let the host's cat out. Spent the next half an hour under his neighbour's car trying to get the little sh.t back inside.
(Hayden) Barrel rolling my car down the highway at 110km/h.
What celebrity/ famous person would you love to be spokesperson of the band...
(Dylan) Don Vito. People would be thinking about every press conference for days after, only because they would be trying to figure out what the hell he said, and also why he's back from the dead.
(Hayden) Arnold Schwarzenegger. He'd have a few great one liners that you couldn't forget.
(Luke) Henry Rollins, so I could write his script and make him say sh.t I know he would hate saying.
(Declan) Vince McMahon. No good reason, I just love the sound of his voice.
If you had to live in a city abroad, where would you choose and why?
(Luke) Tokyo, but then I'd go mad after a few months and move to Melbourne.
(Hayden) Vienna – pretzels, salami, beer and metal gigs every weekend.
(Declan) 'Had to' is an interesting stipulation. I WISH I 'had' to live in Los Angeles. Best city in the world.
(Dylan) Wales, because I'm an old woman at heart and want to live a quiet life in the countryside.
Three people you'd like to invite around for a dinner party...
(Luke) The other three guys in my band <3
(Dylan) If I say anything other than these guys I'll look like a dick now.
If we were coming over to your place, what would you cook us?
(Dylan) I can cook eggs, would anybody be interested in some eggs?
(Declan) I'd probably suggest some vegan sh.t that I like so you'd politely refuse and I don't have to cook or do dishes. Mujadara anyone? No? Didn't think so.
(Luke) Nothing, you bring your own food or eat before we hang out. I don't have time for that.
(Hayden) Spaghetti.
No matter the expense, send me a case of...
(Dylan) Sables fortified wine, you know what better make it two cases, I really like the stuff.
(Luke) Hardys RR 1 Litre Cab Sav.
(Declan) NOS energy drink.
(Hayden) Johnny Walker Double Black.
The last time I saw the inside of a gym was...
(Luke) Last week when Dylan made me go watch him power-lift and take photos without a shirt on.
(Hayden) Whenever I look on Instagram. I always see Luke's photos.
(Dylan) Yesterday, you wouldn't know it by the way I look, but that's because I'm a powerlifter, we're supposed to be fat okay?!
(Declan) I only go to those cool outdoor gyms they have in parks. Why would I limit the number of people who come to see how huge my arms are?
What's the one chore you dislike the most?
(Declan) Feeding my dogs. I've had the same dog for nearly 20 years, you'd think after all that time of watching me feed him he'd figure out how to do it himself. Imagine if my mother still fed me? Ridiculous.
(Luke) Hanging out washing, that's such a bullsh.t job.
(Dylan) Putting away washing after you take it off the line. I live out of laundry baskets for that reason.
(Hayden) Washing the dishes, except if they're mine. I leave no traces of food.
Do you have any phobias...
(Hayden) Losing my arms and/ or legs.
(Dylan) Funko Pops.
(Declan) Nope, not one. I'm fearless.
(Luke) To quote a great poet: "A normal life is boring." - Eminem, 'Lose Yourself'.
Would you ever partake in a reality show?
(Luke) 'Big Brother', that show needs to come back into fashion.
(Declan) Yeah, 'Big Brother' was sick. Remember that one season where the twins went on and they'd switch places every few days? I'd do that.
(Dylan) Yeah, 'Big Brother' gets my vote too, because Michael Crafter was on that show and he's my hero.
(Hayden) Probably 'Fear Factor'. How hard could it be?
If you could prank any of your friends, who's your target, and how are you bringing them down?
(Dylan) Yeah, Luke for sure. He gives it out the most, so he deserves to have it done to him. I'm not very creative so I'd probably just piss in his shoe or oven or something.
(Luke) Hayden, 'cos he gets it enough from us anyway, but for good reason. Never trust the quiet ones.
(Declan) Luke, no good reason, just an easy target. I'd do a Bam Margera and set fireworks off in his car when he goes to work at 6 in the morning, or maybe tear gas him just for a laugh.
(Hayden) Dylan. I'd take a patch cable out of his pedal board and watch him struggle to get any sort of noise out of his bass.
NO NO NO NO NO play The Gov (Adelaide) on 5 February.
