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\n\u201cI think timing in the world works for it now. We\u2019re in this world of change and to be changing with it works for us, and it\u2019s been surprising to us how much people are picking up on it, and you wonder why things don\u2019t work at other times but I think it\u2019s just the way the world rolls out, you can\u2019t make things happen, the more you want something the further away it gets you know? When you least expect it, when it\u2019s your time, that\u2019s when it happens and I think that\u2019s what\u2019s happening for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Tour Release: Diva Demolition just got off their tours with Aerosmith, KISS, Motley Crue and Thin Lizzy, playing to tens of thousands of people nationwide. In August they head out on their \u2018Miss Adventures\u2019 tour with Melbourne based alternative rockers \u2013 Bellusira. Diva Demolition will release their highly anticipated album, produced by Craig Porteils, \u2018Like It Too Much,\u2019 which is a snapshot of the past twelve months of their wild musical ride, their relationships and new insights into life.\u00a0 Good straight Rock \u2018n Roll with a taste of cherry pie.<\/p>\n

We had a chat with Kylie from Diva Demolition about the band, their debut album, touring and especially touring with the likes of KISS\u2026<\/p>\n

So to start off, can you give us the short version of the Diva Demolition story and how you came together?<\/strong>
\nPartnerships are always interesting and they come from a long journey, and I suppose the Diva Demolition partnership is me and Sherree and we\u2019ve been playing together for many, many years, going on eight and that\u2019s a long time in the rock world let\u2019s face it, bands come together and split up and come together in that time. We originated in Adelaide and we were an all-girl band for some time, about three years ago we moved to Brisbane and the all-girl band struggled and we had to make money to release the third album, which was recorded but not paid for, so we went hard here in Brisbane and I think we played more shows than we had anywhere, ever, in 2012, but four of those shows we played with Doc Neeson, and people saw us at that show and we got signed up. Our alter ego was reinvented I guess, we got away from the all-girl thing and we renamed ourselves \u2018Diva Demolition\u2019, kind of a similar situation to the Flowers \/ Icehouse thing, we had an album called \u2018Diva Demolition\u2019. A few people gave us advise even before we were signed up, we met up with Ross Wilson one night and he listed to our CD and loved it, and he sort of said you need to reinvent yourselves now and do this and that and that\u2019s how we sort of came about.<\/p>\n

After being around in bands for quite a while, what is it about Diva Demolition that works?<\/strong>
\nI think timing in the world works for it now. We\u2019re in this world of change and to be changing with it works for us, and it\u2019s been surprising to us how much people are picking up on it, and you wonder why things don\u2019t work at other times but I think it\u2019s just the way the world rolls out, you can\u2019t make things happen, the more you want something the further away it gets you know? When you least expect it, when it\u2019s your time, that\u2019s when it happens and I think that\u2019s what\u2019s happening for us.<\/p>\n

For those that have never heard you before, how would you explain the sound of the band?<\/strong>
\nAussie rock but with a chick twist I guess.<\/p>\n

Your debut album ‘Like It Too Much’ is released on August 2nd, how excited are you to get it out there?<\/strong>
\nOh very excited, it\u2019s been a long time coming. Well we\u2019ve been playing the songs around for about a year now and some of them have a history and some of them are brand new as well, some of them are very, very new and we\u2019re excited as it\u2019s been the ride of our lives getting to this point, so it\u2019s a good time to release the album. We couldn\u2019t do it any earlier as we\u2019ve been too busy\u2026<\/p>\n

On that\u2026 you’ve had some amazing support slots with the likes of Kiss, M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce, Aerosmith and more. How was that experience for you?<\/strong>
\nOh, you know it\u2019s like watching television in many ways as you\u2019re watching your idols but they\u2019re in real life, it\u2019s like you\u2019re in some sort of television show *laughs* and I don\u2019t know if that actually happened, I could wake up tomorrow and it could\u2019ve been a dream.<\/p>\n

No, it happened, I saw you open for KISS and Motley Crue in Sydney\u2026<\/strong>
\nYou did? It was real? Well I\u2019m relieved to hear that, because it\u2019s a bit like that, once something\u2019s gone you\u2019re onto the next thing and like wow, you have these memories and say \u2018Jesus Christ, that just happened\u2019, now I didn\u2019t actually see Jesus Christ, because that would be something indeed if I did see Jesus Christ, but it was KISS, that\u2019s kind of like rock religion. Gene was my crazy uncle for like three weeks. *laughs*<\/p>\n

Did you pick up any tips from watching those bands play?<\/strong>
\nYes\u2026 that the work just gets harder and harder and harder, what happened there is I came off the biggest tour of my life, I\u2019m exhausted after it, you know what they did, they just went onto the next tour and they\u2019ve done another one and another one after that. You know what it taught me, get ready to work harder and harder and harder to be successful because these guys have got this brand happening and it\u2019s this ongoing this. Gene and Paul and the members that have been with them for years and years, much longer than everyone remembers Peter Criss and Ace Frehley and these guys have probably been in the role longer than they were, but they just tour and tour and tour, and it\u2019s not an easy thing to do, these giant costumes and make up and people everywhere, it\u2019s a circus. They\u2019re performers and they\u2019re very professional and it\u2019s not the party that everyone thinks it is either, it\u2019s just hard work.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I saw you guys play here in Sydney and reviewed it which you posted on your site, thank you, now for a crowd of rockers out there, you guys did a great job, but were you nervous playing for a \u2018Motley Crue\u2019 for lack of a better term?<\/strong>
\nYeah we had this plan before we even got on tour of what we\u2019d say if people booed us and stuff, because we\u2019re from Adelaide and to be a support for a big band in Adelaide you\u2019ve got to be ready to take it. We had a few plans *laughs*, if people said \u2018Boo, Boo\u2019 we were going to go \u2018Boobs, Boobs yeah, love those boobs\u2019 *laughs* and if they said \u2018Go Home\u2019 we were going to say \u2018Oh are you from Adelaide too?\u2019 and working out these sorts of things as we never knew what we were going to get *laughs* we just had no clue. Were people going to like what we do? We didn\u2019t know, as it\u2019s a scary position to be put in. I lost five kilos just thinking about it, no joke.<\/p>\n

Is there anyone on your hit list that you want to play with?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019d really love to do one of the female idols, I\u2019d love Suzi Q, she\u2019s a bass player, I\u2019m a bass player and we\u2019d love to support her around the country. Joan Jett was close and it never happened. I love The Baby Animals, they were my cup of tea when I first got into music, and the Superjesus not long after that, that\u2019s eighteen or so years ago when I started getting into them\u2026 to be doing something rock chick now is amazing, because, of course Magic Dirt, but I don\u2019t think we do good service to our rock chicks here in Australia, I think a lot of them do it very hard. I go into this and I think what\u2019s in it for me?<\/p>\n

‘Rock n Roll dream’ is a great track; do you feel like you’ve been living just that?<\/strong>
\nYeah, art imitates life, I\u2019m so glad I wrote that song, if Alice Cooper comes through we\u2019re in and he does, we\u2019re looking forward to that tour *laughs*and Bon Jovi, we toyed with that idea and we hoped it would happen, but it was never going to happen. *laughs* There\u2019s a bit of a rock resurgence coming through again and eventually we\u2019ll be cool\u2026<\/p>\n

Now you have the ‘Miss Adventures’ tour coming up with Bellusira, how much fun is that going to be?!<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s going to be an interesting tour, there\u2019s no doubt about it, it\u2019s a pretty strenuous tour, we\u2019ve got no time for rest, we\u2019re flying around, so its early flight and a bit of stuff going along with it, like I\u2019m trying to stuff in Sydney with young rock chicks coming up to tie it in with the tour. It\u2019s all going to be done in a month\u2026 we thought about adding some more dates on Thursdays and Sundays, but we\u2019re at that stage where we need jobs, we can\u2019t just exist on this, it\u2019s difficult, we do all sorts of things to try and make ends meet, so ironically we just have to do Friday and Saturday nights so that everyone\u2019s lives are still on. We\u2019ve come to an interesting point in our career about members and stuff too, Shez and I are ok when it\u2019s just the two of us, but the concept of a band is different as well\u2026 and Ricky of course our second guitarist is off on tour with The Dead Daisies, so we\u2019re hitting this as a three piece, so we\u2019ll miss Ricky, but the songs work, it\u2019ll work.<\/p>\n

Does everything feel like it\u2019s settling in now for you?<\/strong>
\nNo, the extremes are extremes because of what\u2019s happened and how you live your life and what your expectations are our expectations were a lot less a year ago, but whereas when other people also have expectations of you, you have to work harder to meet them, but your own expectation of you can forgive your own failures if you know what I mean *laughs* we want tit o go well and so do many people, and really I guess when one thing I\u2019ve sort of learned with life is that if you never aim for higher heights, you never have the failures, and it\u2019s a very safe way to do nothing. A lot of people scoot around on that area and don\u2019t take risks or opportunities, just to be safe, but when you take a big opportunity or a risk that\u2019s put in front of you that you can\u2019t say no to, like touring with KISS *laughs* and Aerosmith, and having the opportunities to be signed up to a record company\u2026 we used to be an indie pub band and were comfortable with moderate success, but when the bigger successes come, the bigger expectations come and that\u2019s hard to deal with in your real life as well, as you\u2019ve still got to do your job and all that sort of stuff, and it\u2019s a big risk.<\/p>\n

What’s next for the band?<\/strong>
\nWell we\u2019re going to keep touring for the rest of the year, a lot more live shows, there\u2019s a lot of regions that people want us to come here and there, and there\u2019s a lot of pissed off people because we\u2019re not in Newcastle, and even a discussion of Bathurst tonight. You\u2019d be surprised where people have come to see KISS and they\u2019ve seen us, it\u2019s fantastic, what an amazing start to our career here as a band in Australia, I couldn\u2019t ask for anything better. We\u2019ve been exposed to people that like rock music from all ages, from teenagers and you\u2019d be surprised how many teenagers are there because their parents love KISS so the teenagers by default they\u2019re there *laughs* and we\u2019ve got a real cross section of people who are tuning in and listening, it\u2019s really good. We finished the tour in Mackay and that\u2019s our biggest fan base by a long shot, well everywhere else we played first or people were trying to get there on a school night or they\u2019re trying to buy merch before they go in, so we probably played to between two and six thousand people each night we played in the cities, but in Mackay everyone was there early, there was twenty one \/ twenty two thousand people outdoors and it was massive and so that is a real market for us, being here in Brisbane we\u2019re going to work that as much as we can.<\/p>\n

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

From:<\/strong> Brisbane, Australia<\/p>\n

Sounds like:<\/strong> Aussie Rock and Roll<\/p>\n

Band members:<\/strong> Kylie Cowling \u2013 Bass \/ Vocals, Sherree Newton \u2013 Guitar \/ Vocals<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> www.divademolition.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Latest release:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2018Like It Too Much\u2019 (MGM \/ Spitfire Music)<\/p>\n

Catch Diva Demolition on tour in Australia with Bellusira at the following dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday August 2 –\u00a0<\/strong>Factory Floor, Marrickville NSW<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday August 3 –\u00a0<\/strong>ANU Bar, Acton ACT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday August 9 –\u00a0<\/strong>Tempo Hotel, Brisbane QLD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday August 10 –\u00a0Coolangatta Hotel, Coolangatta GC<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday August 30 –\u00a0<\/strong>Enigma Bar, Adelaide SA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday August 31 –\u00a0<\/strong>Esplanade Hotel, St Kilda VIC<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday September 1 –\u00a0New Market Hotel, Bendigo VIC<\/strong><\/strong>
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