? Jokes on Calling All Cars Cassandra Tobin | 14th August 2011
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Calling All Cars plays the Beach Hotel, Byron Bay Thursday, August 18.
SuppliedCalling?All Cars did not let second album jitters get in the way of a good laugh.
Lead vocalist Haydn Ing talks to Pulse while the recording sessions for Dancing With A Dead Man are still fresh in his mind.
“I really need to just take a step back now because we’ve just come out of the studio,” he says.
“I’ve just listened to each song so many times I don’t like any of them that much at the moment.”
The band’s drive to create and move on is how they ended up with a new record so close to the release of their debut.
Little more than 12 months between sessions is fast for the often-feared sophomore record.
“You always hear about the dreaded second album so we were stressing ourselves out about it and decided to just get straight in there,” Haydn says.
Writing while touring their debut – Hold, Hold, Fire – meant the Melbourne-based trio, including Haydn’s brother James (drums) and Adam Montgomery (bass), had about 40 songs to choose from.
The ones that made the cut stood out, says Haydn.
“During sound checks we were actually working on new riffs,” Haydn says.
“I always carry a dictaphone with me so I can record anything we come up with.”
Dancing With A Dead Man, released last week through Shock, is heavier and faster than its predecessor.
The drums just keep rolling from one track to the next and heavier riffs dirty up an otherwise polished release.
The album was produced with Tom Larkin (Shihad’s drummer), who also worked on their debut.
If you’ve been reading about some sweat-box recording sessions Haydn says he may have some larrikin mates who like adding to the band’s Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia isn’t the only place to gather CAC misinformation.
The boys have their own youtube.com channel – CallingAllCarsTV – where they’ve put up a few interviews, clips and a cooking demonstration.
Haydn and Adam spent some time in the studio filming a clip about the recording of the album while James laid down the drum track.
Haydn discusses the album in terms of “the growth of life” with his tongue firmly planted in cheek.
However the joke was lost on some and the clip lost the band a few friends on their Facebook page.
“We had been watching all these other bands talk about their albums – I won’t say who – and some of them were really bad,” he says. “So we thought we would do one too.”
Next time they’ll make sure they identify it better as a parody though, says Haydn, who for the record doesn’t think the album is like a “juicy plum”.
CAC toured 2010 with the prog-rock icons of the Australian music scene, Birds Of Tokyo and Cog, before graduating to a support slot with AC/DC and Queens Of The Stone Age this year.
“They are both equally amazing,” Haydn says of choosing a favourite between the stadium tours.
“I guess we’re all really big fans of Queens Of The Stone Age, so watching them side of stage was amazing.”
Plus hanging out with the “massive rock gods” was inspiring.
“I think the first time we saw Josh (Homme, frontman for QOTSA) he said ‘you boys drinkin’?’, so we were like ‘ah ... better go grab a beer’,” Haydn says, laughing.
“They’re both amazing though and they’ve been doing it all their lives. I think you pick up bits and pieces from every band you play with.”
So long as they keep that sense of humour as well as the drum beat rolling, Calling All Cars have many stadiums to fill.
You can catch Calling All Cars at the Beach Hotel, Byron Bay on Thursday, August 18 with support from Boy In A Box and Redcoats.
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