High Side Driver Vs Written Ruins
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High Side Driver Vs Written Ruins

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 Rod (High Side Driver) questions Jess (Written In Ruins)…

 

What’s the meaning/thinking behind the name Written In Ruins?

The guitarist, Matt, and I share a passion for ancient history and mythology so it just spawned from that. We went though a lot of choices but WiR stuck for a lot of little reasons.

If you were to visit some ruins and write something in them, which ruins would it be, and what would you write?

I wouldn’t want to spoil any pre-existing ruins! But we play at The Evelyn a lot so maybe I should scratch some of our song lyrics into the wall for someone to find in a couple of hundred years?

What’s it like being a female fronted band in a very male dominated genre? Do you find it sets you apart?

It’s empowering because I feel we have to work that extra bit harder to sway an audience who are used to a male fronted genre. We feel we are doing something unique as there’s not many Australian bands that do what we do.

Last album you acquired, and did you pay for it?

Anberlin – Vital. I’m definitely a CD girl so yes I paid!

Jess (Written In ruins) questions Rod (High Side Driver)…


What is a High Side Driver?

Matt the guitarist would probably be better off answering this. He works for Holden, a high side driver is a small electrical engine component. That’s the extent of my knowledge of it.

 

Five words to describe your sound…

Loud, soft, powerful, soothing, anthemic, reflective. Sorry, cheated.

If you had to describe you band as a particular animal, what would it be and why?

Does ‘party animal’ count? Just kidding. Maybe a big cat like a lion or tiger. It can be big, bold and ferocious but then it can loll around lazily and languidly in the sun, doing very little.

 

Tell us about your current single See You Next Tuesday and what we can expect to see in the accompanying video clip.

Behind the cheeky title lies a song with a fair bit of pain in its lyrics. But even though the lyrics are painful, the music is quite ‘up’. So it’s a real contrast. Overall it’s one of our more accessible songs. The video was filmed on a shoestring budget in less than 24 hours. It’s quite dark and brooding, but with a sense of ‘moving on’ at the end. It’s a very simple storyline, the main character’s (Rob) girlfriend (played by Naomi, who is actually the ex of Ian Kenny from Karnivool and Birds of Tokyo) leaves him for another woman (played by Ana, who is a 19-year-old model). There is generally a gritty depiction of the main character’s descent into alcohol fuelled oblivion.

 

If you had the opportunity to get on stage with one artist, living or dead, and perform one song who would it be and what song would you choose?

My all-time favourite band is the Canadian band Rush, so I would be onstage in front of 20,000 people playing drums to Spirit Of Radio or Tom Sawyer. Both those songs are miles beyond my meagre drumming talents of course, so it’s pure fantasy stuff!