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 The Home Sweet Home Tour features three Australian acts that have been wowing worldwide audiences for most of the year. On its eve, JAMES O’BRIEN from THE BOAT PEOPLE, SEAN and EDDIE from Newcastle’s THE SEABELLIES and MEGAN from WASHINGTON join forces to field questions from MITCH ALEXANDER.
MA: Think back to the start of 2008. Did you achieve what you set out to do? Do you have unfinished business to complete in 2009?
EDDIE: I think we’ve achieved a lot this year. It has been an amazing blend of live shows, recording and plenty of traveling. We’ve released three singles, had our first American experience and been on a national tour. Our unfinished business will be the release of our debut album in 2009.
JAMES: It’s been a massive year for The Boat People and me. We finished and released our second album Chandeliers, we’ve been overseas twice, toured locally four times and I also moved to a new city (Melbourne)! The whole of 2008 has been a complete blur. I really don’t feel like I live anywhere at the moment as I’ve been traveling so much and my new home is still so fresh.
MA: How did the three acts come together and decide to do a tour?
MEGAN: We decided to tour together because all of our names have some sort of nautical reference ... Boat people, Seabellies, etc. My name has absolutely nothing to do with anything nautical. I don’t think the other bands have noticed that I’m ‘different’, yet. Hopefully by the time they do it will be too late...
MA: What have been some highlights of 2008, professionally, personally or otherwise?
JAMES: There has been a lot of highlights for me in 2008. I think playing our first headline show in the America – Spaceland in Silverlake, Los Angeles – was a real watermark for us. It was a very successful show and felt amazing to play a gig on the other side of the world and have people turn up who know your music so well!
MA: What can we expect from the show?
JAMES: A cover-version of a classic late 80’s stadium anthem featuring all of us. Really. Get ready!
MA: Love it or hate it, we’re getting dangerously close to another Australian Summer, with Christmas, New Years and all that stuff. How does everyone plan to spend it?
MEGAN: My summer will be spent crammed into a studio finishing my album. Which is coming out at some point in the future, between now and the end of time. I’m also going on tour with Whitley through January, and I’m expecting that to probably end with someone in jail. That will be fun, too.
SEAN: We’ll be working (the shitty kind, not involving music), partying, practicing, and getting stuck into pre-production for our debut album … exciting times! As usual we’ll make resolutions to be wiser, nicer, and better – then retreat to the darkness and attempt to sleep off the spiders and flashing things.
JAMES: A bit of family time, a bit of party time and then The Woodford Folk Festival. I just need to buy some shorts…
THE HOME SWEET HOME TOUR takes in the Great Northern, Byron Bay on Thursday Dec 11; the Miami Shark Bar, Gold Coast, on Friday Dec 12; and The Valley Studios on Saturday Dec 13. The Boatpeople’s Chandeliers album, Seabellies’ Feel It Leave single and Washington’s Clementine single are all out now.
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