Depth Perception
Grant Walmsley (aka Grant Walmsley Freebird), formerly of The Screaming Jets, Hang Seng, Agents Of Peace, currently of Grant Walmsley Freebird Blues Band and Monsters Of Rock Down Under talks to DPPOD. Grant talks of growing up in a house full of music and how The Screaming Jets came to be
info_outline DPPOD S06E06 - Murray CookDepth Perception
Murray Cook AM (aka Murray Wiggle), formerly of The Wiggles, currently of Bang Shang A Lang and The Proposition talks to DPPOD. Murray talks of being introduced to music by television, wanting to play guitar at a young age, moving to Sydney and being immersed by Sydney's music scene, and getting involved with a children's music project at university that would be the inception of The Wiggles
info_outline DPPOD S06E05 - Pete CooperDepth Perception
Pete Cooper (aka Pete Porker), of The Porkers talks to DPPOD. Pete talks of how he found music in his youth in Newcastle, seeing Johnny O'Keefe live, finding Ska music in his late teenage years, forming The Pork Hunts which would then have to become The Porkers, and the trials and tribulations of keeping The Porkers going.
info_outline DPPOD S06E04 - Charles CiliaDepth Perception
Charles Cilia, of Charles Cilia Custom Guitars Australia (Cilia Guitars) and formerly the guitarist of bands Jerk and Ink talks to DPPOD. Charles talks of becoming obsessed with guitars when he was a teenager, playing in bands as a teenager, how making his first guitar would eventually lead to a career as a luthier, and how answering a musicians wanted ad in Drum Media would see him become the guitarist in the band Jerk.
info_outline DPPOD S06E03 - Dave LarkinDepth Perception
Dave Larkin, of Dallas Crane, Gun Street Girls and the Dave Larkin Band talks to DPPOD. Dave talks about the music of his youth, the moment he decided to buy a guitar, the life and times of the band Dallas Crane, and of being a graphic designer
info_outline DPPOD S06E02 - Steele SaundersDepth Perception
Steele Saunders, Melbourne based comedian and prominent Australian comedic podcaster of I Love Green Guide Letters and Steele Wars talks to DPPOD. Steele talks of his skater punk youth, starting a punk zine Return Of The Punk Guy, and how the band Descendents would become the most important band in his life.
info_outline DPPOD S06E01 - David McCormackDepth Perception
David McCormack, of Custard, David McCormack & The Polaroids, formerly of The Titanics, Who's Gerald?, COW, Silver Backwash, Miami, Static Exhale, and The Millionaires (amongst other bands too) talks to DPPOD. David talks of his Brisbane beginnings, finding The Beatles and Devo as a child, his exposure to several musical instruments. The rise, the fall and resurrection of the band Custard. And making a living composing music for cinema and TV at Sonar Music.
info_outline DPPOD S05E07 - Roderick KemptonDepth Perception
DPPOD - Roderick Kempton (aka Wally Kempton and Wally Meanie), of The Meanies, Even and X, and also of Cheersquad management, talks to DPPOD. Wally talks of his music beginnings, booking bands in Melbourne, becoming the bass player in the Meanies and Even, managing bands and the struggles of managing too many bands at once, and how he recently got asked to join X.
info_outline DPPOD S05E06 - Russell HopkinsonDepth Perception
Russell Hopkinson (aka Rusty Hopkinson), of You Am I and Treatment, previously of Radio Birdman, Nursery Crimes, Vicious Circle, Cremator, The Kryptonics and The Bamboos (among several other bands) talks to DPPOD. Rusty talks of his punk and hardcore origins in Perth, the life and times of You Am I, starting his own record label/distrubution company, and of being the Asia-Pacific representative for Daptone Records.
info_outline DPPOD S05E05 - Tony MottDepth Perception
Tony Mott, music photographer talks to DPPOD. Tony talks of how a mere hobby of photography would eventually turn into a profession that would allow him to work with a multitude of musicians.
info_outlineDPPOD - Reg Mombassa (Chris O’Doherty) formerly of Mental As Anything, currently of Dog Trumpet, also currently of The Pinks, and iconic artist talks to DPPOD. Reg talks about early memories of listening to music in NZ as a child, then moving to Australia, playing guitar and going to art school which would eventually see the formation of the Mentals.
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