Quan Yeomans REGURGITATOR
September 16th 2010 07:46
Updating this to mark the moment we noticed the interview being hit back from The Vine. Nice.
Regurgitator are Australia’s most renowned and successful experimental art-rockers, who have achieved triple-platinum status in Australia - an astonishing feat for such an uncompromising band who never shy away from the unusual, the untried, or indeed any genre that attracts their creative sensibility.
Q and A with Quan Yeomans from REGURGITATOR
David Jobling
David: How did you start out?
Quan Yeomans: We started out as a hobby band, a side project to our other more focused bands. Things just naturally grew out of hand.
David: Are you consciously giving any, message through your work to people listening?
Quan Yeomans: I am consciously aware of what I produce but not consciously aware of how an audience might perceive it.
David: What goals do you have with your music over the next decade?
Quan Yeomans: To survive and perhaps rediscover that naive creative spirit that is ever more elusive with extended experience in the same field.
David: You are approaching your music and the distribution of it in a cutting edge way - can you explain a bit behind the thinking and inspiration to do that?
Quan Yeomans: It's been a reaction to a multitude of radical changes (from our perspective) in the industry over the last few years. Technological transitions are notorious for bewildering a whole cultural set who have grown up with a certain industry methodology for most of their former careers. We definitely fall into that category and are beginning to accept that the new paradigm is in a state of flux and can only be respected and adapted to.
This is why we are beginning to naturally shed some of the old habits of a 'band'.
Album production was initially geared to provide marketing impetus for the sale of vinyl records. More and more young people are not listening to music this way. They download music for free and they pick and choose tracks and create playlists or rely on blogs to automatic generate such playlists.
This actually suits a home recording/producing musician more because it is more natural to focus and create one track at a time, release it then move on to the next one. To be truly independent of the record industry you should forget the old release mentality and match the current listener mentality.
This is what we will be doing in the future. We like doing lots of different things as well so this will creative attitude will apply across any of the disciplines we feel like playing with.
David: What do you get out of a tour?
Quan Yeomans: I like to scream. Because I am a relatively quiet person at home.
David: Do you draw on any particular traditions as you present your work, such as art movements or music genres?
Quan Yeomans: I think over the years as a practising artist you can become very 'genre-conscious', particularly if you have wide interests.
We have diverse influences ranging from comic art, art brut to documentary films, performance art, noise bands, ambient artists to old school punk, hiphop, nowave, nu wave. Pretty much everything that catches your eye really. For me inspiration comes when I hear or see something i like and simultaneously hear or see how I can twist it a little and make my own.
David: How far can you book yourself up for touring and gigging without it getting scary? Or is it always scary? Or never?
Quan Yeomans: It's only scary if it's something we've never tried before. But if we get overwhelmed in terms of overextending ourselves we just put our heads down and do the work.
David: Many thanks for answering a few questions.
Faster Louder presents
REGURGITATOR
plus RAT VS POSSUM (expect WA shows)
and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH (except TAS & WA shows)
with co-headliner DJ KRUSH from Japan (Brisbane show only)
WED 15 SEPT Hobart REPUBLIC BAR
plus RAT VS POSSUM
Tickets from Ruffcut Records - 6234 8600, Moshtix and The Republic Bar - 6234 6954, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
THUR 16 SEPT Adelaide THE GOV
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets from www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 438 849) & Moshtix outlets, www.venuetix.com.au (ph 08 8225 8888) & Venue*Tix outlets & at the venue 11am-9pm Mon-Sat, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
FRI 17 SEPT Melbourne THE HI-FI
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets online from www.thehifi.com.au Phone Tix 1300THEHIFI (1300 843 4434) & Polyester Records - Fitzroy & City, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
SAT 18 SEPT Brisbane THE TIVOLI
with DJ KRUSH (from Japan) plus LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH and RAT VS POSSUM
Tickets from Ticketek 132 849, www.ticketek.com.au, Rocking Horse Records (07) 3229 5360 and regurgitator.oztix.com.au Doors at 7.00pm
SUN 19 SEPT Byron GREAT NORTHERN
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets from venue, www.oztix.com.au (ph 1300 762 545), oztix outlets, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
WED 22 SEPT Katoomba HOTEL GEARIN
plus RAT VS POSSUM
Tickets from www.oztix.com.au (ph 1300 762 545), www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 438 849), the venue, all Oztix & Moshtix outlets, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
THUR 23 SEPT Canberra THE MARAM
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets from www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 438 849), Moshtix outlets, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
FRI 24 SEPT Wgong UNI BAR
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets from Redback Music, the venue, Oztix, www.bigtix.com.au, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
SAT 25 SEPT Sydney MANNING BAR
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets: www.manningbar.com (ph 1300 762 545), www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 438 849), the venue, all Oztix & Moshtix outlets, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
An official selection of Sydney Fringe 2010
SUN 26 SEPT Karratha WA WALKINGTON THEATRE
Ph: (08) 9159 6859 for ticketing.
MON 27 SEPT Perth AMPLIFIER BAR
plus BOYS BOYS BOYS!
Tickets from Bocs, Moshtix, 78’s, Mills, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
RAT VS POSSUM
...play experimental pop music. Layered and looped, billion-part harmonies, tom-heavy percussion, drum samplers, jangly guitars, casio keyboards and loop pedal. They released their debut ‘Daughter of Sunshine’ in April through Sensory Projects. A collection of psychedelic, faux-tribal pop songs written for the Summer, recorded during the Winter of 2009.‘Daughter of Sunshine’ is an album of multi-coloured ecstatical indulgences, chiming guitars, Cash Converters’ keyboards and a bandwidth of beats that documents the band’s first year of music making; capturing their evolution from a glitter-obsessed two-piece, playing to handfuls of barely-amused friends in living rooms, to the current five-piece, drum-heavy incarnation of the band packing venues ll over the place amid performances with Passion Pit, Jonathan Boulet and the like...
"...joyously experimental, infectious and unique."- Tom Hawking, Inpress
"Rat Vs Possum seized the stage quite unlike any act we’ve seen at the seasonal Triple R showcases and offered themselves up as one of the acts to catch in 2010.”– Sam McDougall, Triple R
“This is one tribe I am more than happy to be cannibalised by.”Wilfred Brandt, TwoThousand
"…absolutely inspired neo-tribal bliss and shambolic, shouty freak outs.”- Lawson Fletcher, Mess and Noise
"Dan Kelly wished he was 21 and living on acid and baked beans again at the Rat Vs Possum gig."- Dan Kelly's rad facebook status
www.myspace.com/ratvspossum
LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Laneous & The Family Yah make Grunty Indie Soul and Croon Punk for your earholes. Together with the all singing, all dancing Bird Fire Choir, Laneous navigates his band through abstract hip hop, punk and old soul. Alternatively cheerful, smooth and demented he cuts through the Family Yah’s at times fiercely syncopated, occasionally bombast and otherwise wobbly grooves with his trademark falsetto croon and charming hip hop murmurs. Bubblin’ up out of the artisan hot bed that is Brisbane’s West End, L&TFY are amongst the hardest working on the East Coast Touring Circuit. Their 2009 Debut LP “St Ill Regal” pushed the band onto the National stage with Triple J spinning Searing Life on High Rotation, a QSong Award and FBI rotation for Bubblegum, a triple j Unearthed ‘Parklife’ Win and critical acclaim around the country. This saw L&TFY spend the best part of a year on the road. Still though they found time to record and release 3 Limited Edition EPs – all now sold out and ascended to the vaults. Having finely tuned a high energy and dynamic live show the old fashioned way – through grueling trips up and down the coast, crashing on floors and fighting for DJ duties in the tour bus, their Sophomore Album “Found Things” is Laneous & The Family Yah at their most direct – a fight between the animal and the evolved, an uncompromised and highly joyous offering of soul, punk and hip hop. It’s release in September 2010 (through Bird Fire Records) cements L&TFY as amongst one of the most prolific acts in Australia.
www.myspace.com/lachlaneous
Regurgitator are Australia’s most renowned and successful experimental art-rockers, who have achieved triple-platinum status in Australia - an astonishing feat for such an uncompromising band who never shy away from the unusual, the untried, or indeed any genre that attracts their creative sensibility.
Q and A with Quan Yeomans from REGURGITATOR
David Jobling
Album production was initially geared to provide marketing impetus for the sale of vinyl records. More and more young people are not listening to music this way. They download music for free and they pick and choose tracks and create playlists or rely on blogs to automatic generate such playlists. - Quan, Regurgitator
David: How did you start out?
Quan Yeomans: We started out as a hobby band, a side project to our other more focused bands. Things just naturally grew out of hand.
David: Are you consciously giving any, message through your work to people listening?
Quan Yeomans: I am consciously aware of what I produce but not consciously aware of how an audience might perceive it.
David: What goals do you have with your music over the next decade?
Quan Yeomans: To survive and perhaps rediscover that naive creative spirit that is ever more elusive with extended experience in the same field.
David: You are approaching your music and the distribution of it in a cutting edge way - can you explain a bit behind the thinking and inspiration to do that?
Quan Yeomans: It's been a reaction to a multitude of radical changes (from our perspective) in the industry over the last few years. Technological transitions are notorious for bewildering a whole cultural set who have grown up with a certain industry methodology for most of their former careers. We definitely fall into that category and are beginning to accept that the new paradigm is in a state of flux and can only be respected and adapted to.
This is why we are beginning to naturally shed some of the old habits of a 'band'.
Album production was initially geared to provide marketing impetus for the sale of vinyl records. More and more young people are not listening to music this way. They download music for free and they pick and choose tracks and create playlists or rely on blogs to automatic generate such playlists.
This actually suits a home recording/producing musician more because it is more natural to focus and create one track at a time, release it then move on to the next one. To be truly independent of the record industry you should forget the old release mentality and match the current listener mentality.
This is what we will be doing in the future. We like doing lots of different things as well so this will creative attitude will apply across any of the disciplines we feel like playing with.
David: What do you get out of a tour?
Quan Yeomans: I like to scream. Because I am a relatively quiet person at home.
David: Do you draw on any particular traditions as you present your work, such as art movements or music genres?
Quan Yeomans: I think over the years as a practising artist you can become very 'genre-conscious', particularly if you have wide interests.
We have diverse influences ranging from comic art, art brut to documentary films, performance art, noise bands, ambient artists to old school punk, hiphop, nowave, nu wave. Pretty much everything that catches your eye really. For me inspiration comes when I hear or see something i like and simultaneously hear or see how I can twist it a little and make my own.
David: How far can you book yourself up for touring and gigging without it getting scary? Or is it always scary? Or never?
Quan Yeomans: It's only scary if it's something we've never tried before. But if we get overwhelmed in terms of overextending ourselves we just put our heads down and do the work.
David: Many thanks for answering a few questions.
Faster Louder presents
REGURGITATOR
plus RAT VS POSSUM (expect WA shows)
and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH (except TAS & WA shows)
with co-headliner DJ KRUSH from Japan (Brisbane show only)
WED 15 SEPT Hobart REPUBLIC BAR
plus RAT VS POSSUM
Tickets from Ruffcut Records - 6234 8600, Moshtix and The Republic Bar - 6234 6954, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
THUR 16 SEPT Adelaide THE GOV
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets from www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 438 849) & Moshtix outlets, www.venuetix.com.au (ph 08 8225 8888) & Venue*Tix outlets & at the venue 11am-9pm Mon-Sat, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
FRI 17 SEPT Melbourne THE HI-FI
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets online from www.thehifi.com.au Phone Tix 1300THEHIFI (1300 843 4434) & Polyester Records - Fitzroy & City, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
SAT 18 SEPT Brisbane THE TIVOLI
with DJ KRUSH (from Japan) plus LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH and RAT VS POSSUM
Tickets from Ticketek 132 849, www.ticketek.com.au, Rocking Horse Records (07) 3229 5360 and regurgitator.oztix.com.au Doors at 7.00pm
SUN 19 SEPT Byron GREAT NORTHERN
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets from venue, www.oztix.com.au (ph 1300 762 545), oztix outlets, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
WED 22 SEPT Katoomba HOTEL GEARIN
plus RAT VS POSSUM
Tickets from www.oztix.com.au (ph 1300 762 545), www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 438 849), the venue, all Oztix & Moshtix outlets, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
THUR 23 SEPT Canberra THE MARAM
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets from www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 438 849), Moshtix outlets, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
FRI 24 SEPT Wgong UNI BAR
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets from Redback Music, the venue, Oztix, www.bigtix.com.au, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
SAT 25 SEPT Sydney MANNING BAR
plus RAT VS POSSUM and LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Tickets: www.manningbar.com (ph 1300 762 545), www.moshtix.com.au (ph 1300 438 849), the venue, all Oztix & Moshtix outlets, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
An official selection of Sydney Fringe 2010
SUN 26 SEPT Karratha WA WALKINGTON THEATRE
Ph: (08) 9159 6859 for ticketing.
MON 27 SEPT Perth AMPLIFIER BAR
plus BOYS BOYS BOYS!
Tickets from Bocs, Moshtix, 78’s, Mills, and regurgitator.oztix.com.au
RAT VS POSSUM
...play experimental pop music. Layered and looped, billion-part harmonies, tom-heavy percussion, drum samplers, jangly guitars, casio keyboards and loop pedal. They released their debut ‘Daughter of Sunshine’ in April through Sensory Projects. A collection of psychedelic, faux-tribal pop songs written for the Summer, recorded during the Winter of 2009.‘Daughter of Sunshine’ is an album of multi-coloured ecstatical indulgences, chiming guitars, Cash Converters’ keyboards and a bandwidth of beats that documents the band’s first year of music making; capturing their evolution from a glitter-obsessed two-piece, playing to handfuls of barely-amused friends in living rooms, to the current five-piece, drum-heavy incarnation of the band packing venues ll over the place amid performances with Passion Pit, Jonathan Boulet and the like...
"...joyously experimental, infectious and unique."- Tom Hawking, Inpress
"Rat Vs Possum seized the stage quite unlike any act we’ve seen at the seasonal Triple R showcases and offered themselves up as one of the acts to catch in 2010.”– Sam McDougall, Triple R
“This is one tribe I am more than happy to be cannibalised by.”Wilfred Brandt, TwoThousand
"…absolutely inspired neo-tribal bliss and shambolic, shouty freak outs.”- Lawson Fletcher, Mess and Noise
"Dan Kelly wished he was 21 and living on acid and baked beans again at the Rat Vs Possum gig."- Dan Kelly's rad facebook status
www.myspace.com/ratvspossum
LANEOUS & THE FAMILY YAH
Laneous & The Family Yah make Grunty Indie Soul and Croon Punk for your earholes. Together with the all singing, all dancing Bird Fire Choir, Laneous navigates his band through abstract hip hop, punk and old soul. Alternatively cheerful, smooth and demented he cuts through the Family Yah’s at times fiercely syncopated, occasionally bombast and otherwise wobbly grooves with his trademark falsetto croon and charming hip hop murmurs. Bubblin’ up out of the artisan hot bed that is Brisbane’s West End, L&TFY are amongst the hardest working on the East Coast Touring Circuit. Their 2009 Debut LP “St Ill Regal” pushed the band onto the National stage with Triple J spinning Searing Life on High Rotation, a QSong Award and FBI rotation for Bubblegum, a triple j Unearthed ‘Parklife’ Win and critical acclaim around the country. This saw L&TFY spend the best part of a year on the road. Still though they found time to record and release 3 Limited Edition EPs – all now sold out and ascended to the vaults. Having finely tuned a high energy and dynamic live show the old fashioned way – through grueling trips up and down the coast, crashing on floors and fighting for DJ duties in the tour bus, their Sophomore Album “Found Things” is Laneous & The Family Yah at their most direct – a fight between the animal and the evolved, an uncompromised and highly joyous offering of soul, punk and hip hop. It’s release in September 2010 (through Bird Fire Records) cements L&TFY as amongst one of the most prolific acts in Australia.
www.myspace.com/lachlaneous
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