Sassin Fras
Sassin Fras an Aussie two piece doing good. I dug what I heard and an interview was a must.
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1. Are you happy how things have gone for the band so far?
Yeah! Only a year ago we weren’t even a band. A mate asked if Adam and I would play a rock show about a week before his house party, so we chucked together a shitty thrash rock set and played one of the funniest shows to date. After that we just kept writing songs together and since that time we have played a heap of shows and met some really cool bands and people along the way.
2. What inspires the band when writing music?
There are heaps of things that inspire song writing. With us tho most of the time it’s a couple of beers and just jamming on a simple 3 chord progression until we find something that is exciting. I’m eating cheese right now and I feel like picking up my guitar so maybe that’s all it takes.
3. What is your latest song about?
This one is interesting even to us. Adam and I wrote this song in the kind of state where it made total sense to us, some kind of profound statement about unknowingly doing what you are told by blindly following the stupidity of many old traditions. Then when we read it back it meant something entirely different to both of us. So without sounding like the biggest cliché if I haven’t already this song really can be what you want it to be.
4. What do you like about touring?
Hanging out with other bands making new friends that share pretty much the same interests. It feels like school camp, especially when someone is asleep and all you want to do is see how many things you can put on them until they wake up. God, Adam is good at that game!
5. What has been your favorite show to date?
There are two that come to mind recently, playing Cooly Hotel with Dune Rats on Australia Day and playing the Great Northern in Byron Bay with The Love Junkies. The junkies are so fun to hang out with, I want to go to Perth later in the year and do some stuff with them. xoxo
6. How does social media help you as a band?
Heaps! So far it has helped us reach people in the world that would have never had heard or music if it wasn’t for social media. We were looking at our statistic report of who is listening to our music and one week the top 5 countries playing our songs were something like Germany, Japan, US, Russia and the UK! It’s so mad what it can do for a band. I think its super important for bands to understand how to use social media. It’s almost as important as playing your instrument.
7. How important is connecting with your fans?
Our fans quickly become our friends. So keeping in touch with them is very important to us. We have met some really cool people its actually how we found the guy who plays bass with us now (Barra Mundee). Best dude!
8. If you could have any body in a video clip who would it be?
Oh so many people, it depends on the idea of the video tho. It would be so good to have the cast from Round the twist do a reunion episode as the video clip. This question is so broad if I answered it properly I would take up the page. We recently bought a green screen and have been mucking around with that heaps so we might not even have a body in our next clip.
9. What’s your favorite venue to play at?
Great Northern Byron Bay. Byron is always a rad place to play, I don’t know what it is but we always have a good time in Byron. We have a bucket list of venues we want to play in Australia and we will be ticking a lot of them off this year.
10. What does 2014 have in store for the band?
This march we are touring our single ‘Madeline’ around the place. We will be travelling to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Byron Bay which we are pumped for. We are so keen to meet as many people as we can and run around the cities. After the tour we are recording. We have heaps of material that we want to get recorded and release by midyear. We are having so much fun writing songs recording them and playing shows so we are going to be doing that as much as we possibly can.
