Veteran Melbourne rock & rollers The Detonators keep ticking over as one of Australia's hardest working bands.
Earlier this year, The Detonators released their sixth studio album 'Monster In A Box' featuring all new material. Double bass slapper, 'Doghouse' Dave says most of the music comes from the weird and whacky people they meet out on the road. “It's an album of original stuff that we all wrote,” he says.
“We write stuff basically about people we meet on the road, at gigs and out in the middle of nowhere.
"My favourite is 'Monster In A Box, the title track. It's about a bloke we know and his wife was on the wine cask, and when he tried to get the cask away from her, here comes monster in a box,” Dave laughs, “she'd go right off after a cask of wine, that's where that came from.”
This month, the band play at the Sydney Rock 'n' Roll & Alternative Market Christmas Edition. Dave says he and the band think of the gig as a festival and that marketeers can look forward to a high-intensity set of new songs and old favourites. “We just get out there and go flat out from start to finish,” he says. “We'll just go for it the whole time. We'll pick all the stuff we know works at festivals and play all that.
You'll probably hear most of the songs off the new album plus a bit of the old stuff as well. “None of our songs are exactly brain surgery and we're on a strict three-chord limit. We might go to four chords but that's as far as it goes.”
The Detonators perform at the Sydney Rock 'n' Roll & Alternative Market Christmas Edition at Manning Bar on 27 November.
