RAW: Sounds of Suburbia Music Fest – Interview with These Wild Animals

By Rupert Hogan-Turner

Music festivals are something Adelaide can’t get enough of, with this in mind, Kryztoff spoke with local band These Wild Animals about a brand new Adelaide festival showcasing local live music, Sounds of Suburbia.

What do you think of Sounds of Suburbia?

It’s a great opportunity for live, original local bands like us to play in front of a big crowd on a big stage.
It provides a good mix of genres which produce a more diverse crowd and the fact that it’s held at The Gov, one of Adelaide’s premier live music venues, is just awesome.

Are there enough opportunities for bands to play in South Australia?

There are plenty of opportunities to play in Adelaide but we don’t just want to play to an empty room. We want to perform to an audience but there aren’t many places with a ‘walk in’ crowd around here.
Many local venues expect bands to bring their own crowd, so we’re trying to play less often and turn our gigs into events which we heavily promote resulting in greater attendance and a better atmosphere.

These Wild Animals

Have you played anything like this before?

We played scorcherfest early this year, which is also a mini-festival that promotes local music. We sold a lot of tickets and it turned out to be a really valuable experience for us.

Are you about to release an EP/Album?

No, not in the near future, but we do have a 4 track Demo that we have been handing out at gigs.

Besides the sounds of suburbia festival where else will we be seeing “These Wild Animals”?
We are playing at new event at Higher Ground held in the basement, called “HigherUNDERground”.
It’s this Friday, the night before Sounds of Suburbia music festival and we are playing with Kingston Downes and The Underwater Adventure Series.
It’s going to be a little bit different to your ordinary gig with the bands playing in the centre of the room and the crowd surrounding us. Also later on in the year we will playing at another Scorcherfest in Adelaide and will head interstate a couple of times too.

Catch These Wild Animals, the Shiny Brights, Smells Like September, Kingston Downes, Irie Knights, Semi Normal and The Killgirls this Saturday at the Governor Hindmarsh. Doors open at 6:30pm.