Garage-rock outfit Drunk Mums are feeling fresh, having just released new hard-hitting music and survived an heart-pounding moment on their overseas tour.
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The band takes the stage at The Eastern on January 25, with vocalist Adam Richie promising a decent amount of fun and revelry onstage.
“We don’t want to stand around looking like a bored bunch of dudes. We kind of get into it, but we try not to make it rowdy, it’s that crowd that does that,” Richie said.
Touring Europe in September and October, Richie said the band and crew experienced some pretty scary close calls with the law in Germany, inducing sickness and a unexpected ski trip.
“It was pretty nuts, our driver and tour manager got arrested as we were driving over there, and that was pretty terrifying,” he said.
“We couldn’t speak the language, we didn’t know where he went so we were walking around trying to find him, I vomited from having a panic attack.
“He was taking codeine because he was sick, and codeine is classed as an opiate over there, so he had to get blood-tested and everything to make sure it wasn’t heroin.
“We had a cancel a show in Berlin because we had to drive north another eight hours … but we went to the Swiss Alps instead and just relaxed so it was like a blessing in disguise.
“Looking back now it’s funny, and I would do it again.”
Four track EP Denim was launched on January 8. Richie said the band recorded half in a home studio at the start of 2017, before completing it later on.
“It’s similar to EP Leather, because that’s the point, they’re supposed to be similar-sounding,” he said.
"The idea of it wasn't to exactly change the sound of the band or anything, but kind of put it into a different direction of straight up rock ‘n’ roll.
“As the band collectively has more of an understanding of the music they like, and what influences us, it has kind of just gone into that direction. It’s for the better.”
Latest single ‘Hot Flush’, which was a feature single on the ABC television program Rage, is an uncompromising and unapologetic rock tune that motors along.
Richie chalked the popularity of Drunk Mums to their willingness to tackle any topic with gusto.
“It’s just the honesty of it, we write songs which are pretty stupid lyrically at times, and then also things that are a bit more personal like anxiety,” he said.
“That’s what people can really relate to, rather than writing about metaphors or anything like that.”
Drunk Mums take on The Eastern on Thursday with Dumb Punts & Vintage Crop. Tickets $13.