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\n<\/a>\u201c\u2026when we first started playing festivals, we almost found it more natural to us than some of the smaller venues because our form of music is so upbeat and has a lot of audience participation, so when you actually get a big crowd into it, it\u2019s kind of a magnified effect, so we never had troubles with it in the past and I\u2019m just stoked to be able to give it another whirl on the Soundwave stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

AREA-7 are by far Australia\u2019s most successful Punk \/ Ska band. Their career over the last two decades has seen some amazing highlights \u2013 they\u2019ve hit the main stage of all the major festivals of their time, being a major player for festivals like Van\u2019s Warped Tour, Pushover, Big Day Out, Offshore, Falls Festival, Homebake and many more. AREA-7 earned a reputation for being one of Australia\u2019s hardest working bands, touring the length and breadth of the county dozens of times, including tours with their peers and major overseas acts and whilst AREA-7 has never \u201cofficially\u201d split, the last few years has seen them taking a far more relaxed approach to shows, with the band playing \u201cwhen they feel like it\u201d or as they put it, \u201cfor special occasions\u201d.<\/p>\n

We chatted to Chucky (he said I could call him that) of Area 7 about the bands return to the stage and more importantly, their upcoming appearance at Soundwave\u2026 and much more!<\/p>\n

Now of course we’re here because you’ve joined the massive Soundwave bill, how pumped are you to be a part of that?<\/strong>
\nOh it\u2019s astoundingly exciting, from my point of view it\u2019s the biggest show in town and you know we\u2019re really excited to be on board, and I\u2019ve gone to the last couple and really enjoyed them so it\u2019s obviously a new format with the two days per city and flipping them with paired city, so it\u2019s going to be really interesting to be on that tour, but yeah, we\u2019re mega excited. It\u2019s so mega, you just have a look at it and it\u2019s hard to keep track of how many bands are on there, for myself every day that I\u2019m there I think I\u2019ll get something different out of it, so it\u2019s fantastic.<\/p>\n

Anyone you’re excited to be sharing the tour with?<\/strong>
\nTo be honest it\u2019s hard to get past the fact that we\u2019re on the same day as Faith No More and Soundgarden, given I know we\u2019re a very different style of music but it\u2019s our generation, I\u2019m a 90\u2019s teenager and I\u2019ve never actually seen either of them live so I\u2019m really excited to see both of them as headliners, but some bands that you might say are a little left field to someone like myself, I\u2019ve heard a lot of Atreyu but I\u2019ve never really seen them or gotten that deep into their music, so I\u2019m really interested in seeing them as they have a great reputation. Then obviously the other similar band, local band The Bennies, they\u2019re a fantastic ska punk band and we\u2019ve got a great relationship with them so they\u2019re probably the handful I can think of.<\/p>\n

Playing pretty much every festival in Australia before, will this be an easy slip back onto the big stage?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s a really good question, as while we\u2019ve done every festival that I can think of in the time we have been active, it has been a while, so we\u2019ve played a lot of big shows in the last few years, we did The Living End tour which was to some big audiences but it\u2019s different to the festival thing, when we first started playing festivals, we almost found it more natural to us than some of the smaller venues because our form of music is so upbeat and has a lot of audience participation, so when you actually get a big crowd into it, it\u2019s kind of a magnified effect, so we never had troubles with it in the past and I\u2019m just stoked to be able to give it another whirl on the Soundwave stage.<\/p>\n

I saw you guys open for The Living End in 2012, which were your first shows back in a while, was that the main catalyst for this resurgence of Area 7?<\/strong>
\nWell it\u2019s kind of just been good timing with where our lives are at\u2026 a couple of us have had kids over the past ten or so years and with the early stages of having kids you really can\u2019t do a lot. So our kids over the last few years have just been getting to an age where we can tour and go forth a bit more and we were really hungry to do a tour and The Living End opportunity came up and that sort of sparked us into action in terms of playing more live shows etcetera and we\u2019ve been more active, but it\u2019s funny, just when the time is right to do it a lot of opportunities have come our way so we\u2019re very, very fortunate.<\/p>\n

Have you enjoyed getting out there and playing shows again?<\/strong>
\nOh yeah we love it. A lot of people have heard the recorded stuff on radio and they like it but it doesn\u2019t quite gel with them until they see us live and then they completely get it, so for us connecting with the audience is what we do.<\/p>\n

Yeah and I noticed that at The Living End shows, it just seemed that you guys had so much fun up there\u2026<\/strong>
\nYeah we genuinely enjoy it *laughs* for Area 7 there\u2019s no real pretending, you can\u2019t really get up there and fake the fun that we have you know? *laughs* I think I\u2019ve said before, our main mantra in no matter how well it\u2019s going or how badly it\u2019s going is just to focus on enjoying it, because rock and roll is s very hard industry to make money out of and make a living out of, so if you\u2019re not enjoying it even when things are going well it\u2019s going to make you pretty miserable. So you just focus on enjoying it and the rest tends to happen and we\u2019ve found that to be true and that\u2019s why we\u2019ve been together for twenty years mate, we just keep having fun and we\u2019re still really good friends.<\/p>\n

In terms of the Punk \/ Ska scene in Australia and you guys as somewhat pioneers, where do you see the scene today compared to when you began in 1994?<\/strong>
\nWhen we were playing in \u201994 it was very much focussed on the past, it was focused on that late 60\u2019s early 70\u2019s two tone thing, and we were obviously heavily influenced by that and heavily into it, but we\u2019re always about doing our thing and taking it forward and not being afraid of being Australian *laughs* we didn\u2019t try and sing like we were American or English or anything like that. So when we first started we were a little bit of an outlie to be honest, and as time went by and bands like Goldfinger and Reel Big Fish and Bosstones were coming out of America, they\u2019d sort of taken their own approach as well which was complimentary to what we were doing and we got swept up in a wave of that big thing through the last 90\u2019s and early 2000\u2019s, and now with all those barriers up of it all being to a specific style of music has just disintegrated and so obviously people are right into the ska punk and obsessed with it, but it\u2019s far more obsessed than people that are into Metal or hardcore or just mainstream music than it would\u2019ve been in the 90\u2019s and I\u2019ve really watched that evolve as it was quite a closed community when we started out.<\/p>\n

Who do you see as the up and comers in Australia at the moment?<\/strong>
\nIn our genre there are a few good ones, I mentioned The Bennies before, they are an absolutely fantastic band live and recorded and I think they\u2019re already getting huge and will only get better. Then some local talent like Resonators are a really string band, there are a lot of bands that play a little bit of ska but don\u2019t really specialise in it, but keep your eyes on The Bennies they\u2019re going to be huge.<\/p>\n

So in the twenty years since the bands beginnings, has there been one highlight that stands out for you as one you\u2019ll always remember above all others?<\/strong>
\nWell probably not one event, but I think our first album, we did a couple of Ep\u2019s before then, but our first album \u2018Bitter & Twisted\u2019 and the tours that we did around that and everything about recording it, it was just one of those points in time where everything came true in 12 \u2013 24 months and that period of time around 2000 was just a brilliant period of time, and the festivals we were doing were all just great fun , so I think that period was just great for us.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been almost ten years since your last album, so can we maybe expect new music anytime soon?<\/strong>
\nUm\u2026 the short answer is probably no\u2026 I think a couple of us are in other projects doing stuff, and it\u2019s a big effort for Area 7 to go in and record and if we\u2019re going to do it we\u2019ll have to do it properly. So we may look at doing just a couple of tracks, we\u2019ve been talking about doing that over summer, but in terms of an album I think that\u2019s pretty unlikely, but our last album we did completely independently, I produced it, we arranged it all, we did it all on our own time and it was a great experience to do that and it took a lot of work, and I think we don\u2019t do things by halves and we don\u2019t want to put out something we can\u2019t dedicate as much time as we\u2019d like to, but yeah we might do one or two songs and maybe cut a clip or something like that. I think it\u2019s unlikely to see an album released in the near future\u2026<\/p>\n

What about maybe filming The Soundwave shows and releasing a DVD or something like that?<\/strong>
\nYeah we\u2019re actually pretty keen to do that and we\u2019ve got a massive back catalogue of videos and obviously live recordings, we did a couple of Triple J \u2018Live at the wireless\u2019 but I don\u2019t know what the deal is with those if we can use those, but we\u2019ve got a whole lot of stuff that will never get lost but would be great to just put together and put it out there as a bit of retrospective and be able to have that, so we may look at something like that.<\/p>\n

In terms of touring, you\u2019re out on the Double Cross tour right now, you hit Sydney earlier this month, are you excited to be out again?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s been awesome, it\u2019s actually been a good warm up for us for Soundwave in any case, we\u2019re actually pushing ourselves to do a whole heap of songs that we haven\u2019t done in a long time and obviously on those shows we\u2019re doing a longer set, but for Soundwave we\u2019re going to pump out the ones that people want to hear, but it\u2019s been outstanding to see how many people have stuck with us and also a lot of new young fans out there. We asked the question of how many people in the audience were younger than twenty and it was about a third of them *laughs* and this band is older than a whole bunch of its followers\u2026 and it seems like an odd concept but you look at a lot of bands on the festival, it\u2019s pretty much the majority of bands on Soundwave have been around longer than a lot of the fans going to see them, so it\u2019s great that it goes on through different generations\u2026<\/p>\n

Yeah, like me, I\u2019ve got band T-shirts older than people I work with\u2026<\/strong>
\n*laughs* yeah, I think it\u2019s great!<\/p>\n

Lastly, let\u2019s predict the remainder of the year, so finish this sentence, by the end of 2014, Area 7 will\u2026<\/strong>
\nwrite some new material\u2026 there you go, there\u2019s a commitment for you.<\/p>\n

Well you\u2019ve got to stick to that now!<\/strong>
\n*laughs* we do, we do\u2026<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Catch Area 7 as part of Soundwave 2015 at the following dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n

SATURDAY 21 FEBRUARY & SUNDAY 22 FEBRUARY, 2015
\n<\/strong>BONYTHON PARK, ADELAIDE<\/p>\n

SATURDAY 21 FEBRUARY & SUNDAY 22 FEBRUARY, 2015
\n<\/strong>FLEMINGTON RACECOURSE, MELBOURNE<\/p>\n

SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY & SUNDAY 1 MARCH, 2015
\n<\/strong>OLYMPIC PARK, SYDNEY<\/p>\n

SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY & SUNDAY 1 MARCH, 2015
\n<\/strong>BRISBANE SHOWGROUNDS, BRISBANE<\/p>\n

For tickets and more information head to<\/p>\n

soundwavefestival.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0facebook.com\/soundwavefestival<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0twitter.com\/soundwavefest<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

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

Band members: <\/strong>Chucky T \u2013 Guitars, Dan \u2013 Drummin, Handsome Andy \u2013 Bassy, Pauly West \u2013 Trombone, Occa \u2013 Sax, DJ \u2013 Keys, Stevo – Vox.<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/area7band<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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