No-fi rockers Super Wild Horses will embark on their Crosswords album launch tour next month.
The second album from duo Amy Franz and Hayley McKee, the Crosswords release follows their recent US tour and festival appearances Australia wide. “Since our debut [album] we got to tour America and got the opportunity to play with lots of great bands,” Amy says.
“I guess it’s responsible for allowing us to meet a lot of excellent people and allowed us to travel a fair bit through our music, which is really fun way to travel because you instantly connect to a community as opposed to travelling on your own.”
It’s always five ‘o’clock somewhere, and Amy says performing at music festivals is an experience like no other. “When we played at the Golden Plains festival and also the Big Day Out, we were the first band on both those times. So for both of those gigs beforehand Hayley and I ended up drinking whisky to try and calm our nerves. It was definitely pretty strange being half drunk in the morning trying to play a gig and pretending it was twelve at night.”
When it comes to crazed fans and interest from the opposite sex, Amy says there’s a distinct lack of both for the Super Wild Horses duo.
“Surely there is some point playing in a band, getting free drinks or something? [But] it’s kind of nice that we have a lot of people who seem to come to a lot of our gigs, and it’s enjoyable to see their faces and getting to know them through gigs, but no crazies or stalkers that we know of. I remember Hayley and I used to laugh because we were saying we never got hit on, I don’t know what that means about us, maybe we look scary or unapproachable or something.”
Following in the footsteps of debut album Fifteen, Crosswords is almost autobiographical. “I think it’s a big reflection on the last couple of years Hayley and I have had I think. I don’t know if most bands are the same but we’ve always mainly written from personal experience or personal emotions, never really from a third person’s perspective. So most of our songs are sort of autobiographical in some sense.”
Super Wild Horses tour dates:
Fri May 10 — Goodgod Small Club (Sydney) (w/ Day Ravies, Family)Fri May 17 — Black Bear Lodge (Brisbane) (w/ Day Ravies, The Kramers)
Sat May 25 — The Bird (Perth) (w/ Gunns, Dianas)
Fri May 31 — The Tote (Melbourne) (w/ The Living Eyes, The Clits)
Crosswords is out now.
