Attention United Paper People!
We all know Opinions Won't Keep You Warm At Night, but if you Turnaround and pay attention, this surely will! I,Brendan the blind guy recently caught up with Darren from Melbourne's immensely beloved rockers KISSCHASY at the start of their highly anticipated national tour of Australia! Darren and I chatted about how the band were getting back in the studio and back onto stages after being away for so long, what each band member have been up to in that time and general life in a rock band and the WTF moments that come with them!
Kisschasy @ Crowbar Sydney 03/05/2023 by Brendan Lewis
Opinions Won’t Keep You Warm At Night, but true-blue, high energy pub rock gigs surely will!
As Kisschasy’s lead singer Darren told me in our interview, seeing great bands in pub venues, venues where you can “smell the beer in the carpet” in a laid-back fun vibe is really special to Australia and Darren loves those kind of venues, and both Darren and I agree that it’s devastating seeing so many of these great iconic venues closing and being replaced with generic money-hungry venues with no soul.
So seeing a true-blue Aussie rock band of such quality in exactly one of those pub venues is worth getting excited about.
Darren told me that the bands energy on stage will mainly just be in the music as they’re older now and not as flexible to go rocking out too fiercely on stage.
The result?
There still was plenty of movement going around on stage, but that aside, you could just really tell they were having the time of their lives on stage being back doing what they love for their loyal fans after so long away! They might not have been jumping and causing mayhem on stage, but they gave the crowd everything in stage presence and musical energy. They were constantly connected with their fans.
Even being away for so long, the sound from the band was without fault, despite the band only getting back into the rehearsal studios recently, the only down side, was I thought there was slightly too much bass in the sound mix and it overbeared Darren’t vocals slightly at times and gave a harshness to the sound mix, but that’s me being hyper-analytical, I mean come on, I am reviewing the show after all. But I doubt the sold out crowd were paying too much attention to that, not with the way everyone was energized and rocking out with the band.
Even though this isn’t a reunion tour as such, and no new music is set to come out from the band as Darren said the band just weren’t on the same page musically towards the end of their last album, but who knows, after this long apart they might find themselves on the same page again? Either way I do hope to catch these guys at a show again hopefully soon as they definitely do give fans a night to remember!