The interview with Plymouth, live @ the Espy on Wednesday, March 18th for Emergenza Festival Australia: 

LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR BAND NAME: WHO CHOSE IT AND WHY?

Well actually I (sasha - guitarist) chose the band name because I was watching a show on the first ever affordable cars: the Plymouth, and they ran under the tagline of "if you have a good job, you can afford a Plymouth".. I thought that was a funny way to market cars so thus the band name.

PLEASE TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR BAND: HOW AND WHEN WAS IT BORN?

The band was born out of myself and Tobias (our keyboards) jamming together aimlessly for about a year, me slowly learning Tobi's delicate touch on the keys and Tobi slowly learning my love for psychedelia and dreamy guitar tones.

WHEN DID YOUR INTEREST IN MUSIC BEGIN? AND HOW HAS YOUR MUSIC CHANGED FROM THE MOMENT YOU BEGAN TO PLAY TOGETHER?

Personally my music interest began when riding in the car with my mum, me playing random songs on her triple classical music compilation CD and her trying to guess what song was being played. The next step was my discovery of blues. I would say our music has altered simply from playing with other people: one must compromise and minimalize sometimes so that was hard to learn.

WHAT ARE YOUR MUSICAL INFLUENCES?

I think what makes us special is that we all have a totally different taste in music while often converging in what we all think is "good". I love psychedelic rock and all the groove that comes with it whilst our singer, Zac, likes more of a folky soft touch and acoustic guitar compisitions, our Keys player is a fan of all things dance, from disco to funk to EDM, and there's a reason our drummer bangs as hard as he does, he loves hard rock! Having recently added a bass player and sax player it's incredibly exciting learning their musical influences too.

IS THERE A SONG THAT IS SPECIAL FOR YOU? IF SO, WHICH ONE AND WHY?

Okay my turn to take over (Daniel) the song that is most special to me would either be People or Rocking Chair. People because the second half of it is a massive dedication to Pink Floyd, a common favorite amongst all of us & Rocking Chair because of the raw energy that is produced between all of us when we play it. All of us really connect with each other as musicians especially when we are playing these two songs.

WHERE DO YOU GET INSPIRATION TO WRITE SONGS (EVENTS, MOOD....)?

So we get our inspirations very randomly. Either by complete chance something will come into one of our heads and we'll try put it down and send it to the others so we try pick things out of a jam that happens completely naturally.. or sometimes our keyboard player will try out-do himself with complicated chord progressions.

HOW DID YOU KNOW ABOUT EMERGENZA FESTIVAL AND WHY YOU DECIDED TO TAKE PART IN IT? WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM EMERGENZA AND HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT YOUR FIRST EMERGENZA CONCERT?

We found out about Emergenza Festival from an e-mail send to out band address and we were incredibly attracted by the final being held in an open air festival in Germany. Otherwise we love going to the Espy (or at least some of us do) and would love to play a kickass show there and then at the HI-FI lounge if so happens.

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