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\n<\/a>\u201cI guess we really just want to achieve a strong bond with our crowd; we\u2019re going with the kind of means of slowly blowing air into a balloon and not having it pop too quickly and just letting it float up in the air for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having already played countless shows over the last few years building a now loyal fan base and having released an EP in 2011 when we then deemed Redcoats as one of our \u2018Best Things You\u2019ve Never Heard\u2019, we now have their debut full length album being released today and it is a rocker! Armed with a completely modern yet classic rock sound, this self-titled album will most definitely open some ears and plenty of ears. This is rock and roll!<\/p>\n

We chatted to Redcoats vocalist Emilio Mercuri about the creation of their debut album released today, the bands live show and their plans for the future\u2026<\/p>\n

The album drops today, for those that have never heard of you give us a little mini review here of what people can expect to hear.<\/strong>
\nAbsolutely, its big classic guitar riffs, a very talented rhythm section who have been friends for a very long time and have a jerking synchronicity with one another I guess, and just stories about real life events that we\u2019ve all gone through together and I guess our journey to this point anyway.<\/p>\n

Song wise you talk about journeys but was there a specific inspiration behind what has ended up on the album?<\/strong>
\nThere wasn\u2019t really a specific inspiration as such, it was more so I guess just gathering certain sparks from day to day life and finding inspiration in anything you can find really.\u00a0 Anything that pops its head up and that we find interesting we usually take as a new muse.<\/p>\n

How were the songs crafted for the album, was it a gradual period of writing since the EP release or was it more a case of let\u2019s head to the studio and see what happens?<\/strong>
\nNo, we spent quite a while writing together, the four of us we write together and we tend to go away and just kind of isolate ourselves, and jam on an idea and a certain tangent and let it expand and then we just break it down in to smaller little pieces we enjoy and mould a song out of it.\u00a0 It took us about a year and a half, two years to build up 30, 40 songs that we were really happy with, then a few weeks before we went into the actual studio we started culling down songs and figured out which 10 we wanted to give away with the LP.<\/p>\n

How did you go in to the recording process of this record compared to your EP from last year?<\/strong>
\nI guess so, it was a bit more of a bigger ballgame this time around for us, with the EP we did it in a much smaller environment, with someone that had worked a lot of amazing artists, but I guess within a different kind of realm to the producer we had this time who was Dave Schiffman from LA, he came down and we really operated well together and he kind of just bought the best out of us.\u00a0 We lived on the campus where the studio was this time and we spent a little bit more time and we just had a bit more freedom in experimenting.<\/p>\n

Was Dave Schiffman able to bring something to the table that you may not have considered doing?<\/strong>
\nDefinitely he did, he brought a knowledge that has obviously spanned across 30 \u2013 40 years in the industry and we\u2019re all in our early twenties and we would\u2019ve been na\u00efve to not listen to the things he had to say and we definitely worked as sponges in trying to comprehend some of the different perceptions of things that he had.\u00a0 In saying that I think his role was just to nourish our ideas and bring them a certain level that we knew we could achieve but we just needed that sort of boost in moral and just boost in general knowledge on the way things can work.\u00a0 It was a great experience.<\/p>\n

What I love about the album is the fact that it sounds like updated classic rock if you get my drift, it’s a massive wall of sound, was it an exercise to get the band to exactly how you sonically wanted it to sound?<\/strong>
\nWe play a lot together, this is our day to day life and we just wanted to try and replicate a live show, get it as live as possible so the listener was almost feeling as though they were in the room with us.\u00a0 It was in the front of our mind to try and engage the listener like that and have a big wall of sound like they\u2019re watching us live but obviously embellish in part that we could, so I guess so, yes.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Did you record in the studio live?<\/strong>
\nWe did, we did as much of it live as we could and obviously we were up there for about three weeks and there were a lot of parts that stayed within the recording live and then Neil and I, Neil who plays guitar, we went over there and overdubbed a whole bunch on things we wanted to I guess perfect in a different kind of sense, same as Rhys, we just had a little more time to not polish things up but get them the way we had them in our heads.<\/p>\n

So, what was the most rewarding aspect of putting the album together, just finally having it done?<\/strong>
\nAbsolutely man, we like the theory of constantly moving forward to bigger and better things and its always a case that the next thing we write together and the next thing we record together is better than the last, so we didn\u2019t want to dwell on it for too long and I guess become too involved with it this time around in the sense that we probably spent too much time on it, so there\u2019s always that risk that we found anyway, recording like that, you get \u2018demoitis\u2019 and just want to repair things that don\u2019t need repairing.\u00a0 I guess the most rewarding part of it all was getting it finished but also absorbing a whole new spectrum of knowledge that we were never privy before.<\/p>\n

You’re heading out for some shows in November, for those that haven’t seen you perform live before, run us through what a typical Redcoats gig is like\u2026<\/strong>
\nWell this is the first time we\u2019ll be doing our own headlining gigs I guess, more than a couple of gigs around Australia so we\u2019re pretty excited to be able to indulge in our live set and not try an, not that we consciously do, but not try and mould it for a support slot and try and capture a crowd that\u2019s not necessarily there to see you.\u00a0 So we\u2019re really looking forward to playing to people who are coming to see us and offering them things we wouldn\u2019t normally get the opportunity to in other forms, so just a big live cohesive set with the raw energy we\u2019ve tried to generate the whole time we\u2019ve been performing, that\u2019s our playground I guess, the live stage that\u2019s where we really get to let out everything and let out every sort of emotion we\u2019ve got and try and connect with the crowd.<\/p>\n

One of my favourite tracks from the album \u2018Mean Money\u2019 which is the one with the approximately 48 minute instrumental break, yeah?\u00a0 Can you give us a story behind that one?<\/strong>
\n(laughs) Yeah, Mean Money, like we\u2019ve always said, we mould songs from jams, they all go for anywhere between ten minutes and an hour at their most primitive point and we felt as though it was necessary to let people hear that part of us and just obtain that knowledge through the album and a necessary part of our process.\u00a0 Lyrically it\u2019s about getting a little aggravated consciously in the way people take from the Earth and the way in which people perceive wealth and success and something tangible and golden that they can hold in their hands and put on their mantle pieces, but to us it\u2019s something a little more internal and something a little bit more lucid in which its more so the connections in your natural environment and connections with people around you that are what really weigh up to be actual success and actual wealth.\u00a0 I guess it was just a note to leave people on at the end of the album and open new doors as to what\u2019s coming in the next releases.
\n When will that be do you think?<\/strong>
\nWe are working on it at the moment actually, we\u2019ve been in the studio getting the set ready for the tour and a whole bunch of songs have just come up naturally that we\u2019re really excited about, it\u2019s really taking shape.<\/p>\n

Any plans to take this internationally?<\/strong>
\nAbsolutely, there\u2019s always plans but as you know things change along the way on a day to day kind of reality, so I guess we really take pride in offering our stuff to our home country and earning our stripes I guess and not going over anywhere prematurely.\u00a0 We\u2019re pretty happy bunkering down here for another six months, twelve months to offer it to anyone who\u2019s watched us for the past five years and then we\u2019ll definitely take it over to new territories.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look ahead to 2013 – what would you love achieve in the next year?<\/strong>
\nI guess we really just want to achieve a strong bond with our crowd; we\u2019re going with the kind of means of slowly blowing air into a balloon and not having it pop too quickly and just letting it float up in the air for a while, we really want the people that come to our shows to enjoy it and come again with their friends and get to know them on a deeper level than just floating through every twelve months and playing their biggest venue in their city and then pissing off again.\u00a0 I guess it\u2019s something that we\u2019re trying to focus which is actually getting to know the people who are trying to get to know us.<\/p>\n

CATCH THE REDCOATS WHO\u2019S ROLLIN\u2019 ALBUM LAUNCH TOUR<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Presented by Street Press Australian and Faster Louder<\/em>
\n8 November\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Karova Lounge \u2013 Ballarat, VIC
\n9 November\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Bended Elbow \u2013 Geelong, VIC
\n10 November\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ding Dong Lounge \u2013 Melbourne,\u00a0VIC
\n15 November\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Star Bar \u2013 Bendigo,\u00a0VIC
\n16 November\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Whalers Hotel \u2013 Warrnambool,\u00a0VIC
\n17 November\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jive Bar \u2013 Adelaide, SA
\n22 November\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alhambra Lounge \u2013 Brisbane, QLD
\n23 November\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Great Northern Hotel \u2013 Byron Bay, NSW
\n24 November\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spotted Cow \u2013 Toowoomba, QLD
\n29 November\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Great Northern Hotel \u2013 Newcastle, NSW
\n30 November\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Annandale Hotel \u2013 Sydney, NSW
\n1 December\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Transit Bar \u2013 Canberra, ACT<\/p>\n

Essential Information<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> Melbourne, Victoria, Australia<\/p>\n

Band members: <\/strong>Emilio Mercuri \u2013 Vocals, Andrew Braidner – Drums, Rhys Kelly – Bass, Neil Wilkinson – Guitars<\/p>\n

Latest release:<\/strong> Redcoats (Universal Music Australia)<\/p>\n

Check out our review of Recoats’ debut album here…<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Check out our original chat with Redcoats here\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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