{"id":34364,"date":"2018-04-06T07:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T21:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=34364"},"modified":"2018-04-02T09:44:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T23:44:29","slug":"ross-knight-of-the-cosmic-psychos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2018\/04\/ross-knight-of-the-cosmic-psychos\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Knight of The Cosmic Psychos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cI\u2019m not quite your Axl Rose who sits down for six months to just find two words, mine just falls out of my ass really quickly and if I don\u2019t write it down quick I\u2019ll forget about it, so I think for every eleven albums I\u2019ve written songs for I\u2019ve probably forgotten fifty albums.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Release: The Psychos are back, mate!\u00a0 Australia’s most legit export since Crocodile Dundee have announced the release of their eleventh studio album, ‘Loudmouth Soup’ on April 6, 2018. Having sent their previous record labels broke, the ‘Psychos will release Loudmouth Soup on April 6 on the band’s own label GO THE HACK Records. The LP was recorded last year on singer Ross Knight’s storied farm, Spring Plains, and produced by longtime collaborator Silvia Vermeulen. Flown into to the rugged fields of Eastern Victoria especially for the gig, Vermeulen has been the Psycho’s trusted live engineer in Europe for longer than they can remember.<\/p>\n

While sitting in his ute in a paddock miles from nowhere staring at his bulldozer sitting at the bottom of his dam we gave Ross a call to talk about the band\u2019s new album \u2018Loudmouth Soup\u2019, its creation, their touring schedule, vinyl, Elle Macpherson, and more\u2026<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2018Loudmouth Soup\u2019 is just over a week away from release, what can people expect from this new album?<\/strong>
\nNothing new, of course in the Psychos tradition *laughs* we write songs when we feel like writing songs and then we record them and have a few beers and then we do it all again in another few years and that seems to be what we need to do and all we want to do too. It\u2019s the same formula, a bit of fun and yeah all a bit tongue in cheek and something you can sit down and have a beer to hopefully.<\/p>\n

Your album titles have always been great, how did \u2018Loudmouth Soup\u2019 win the naming rights?<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t know, it\u2019s just a term I\u2019ve used for beer I\u2019ve picked it up off some old blokes I remember hearing people call beer loudmouth soup back in the 70\u2019s and it just sort of comes through every now and then people just talk about what they did on the weekend and how much fun they had and too many cans of loudmouth soup and got themselves into trouble and all that stuff and I think I just figured it seemed to be a good old Cosmic Psychos album name really. It\u2019s very apt for our intelligent song writing.<\/p>\n

This is your eleventh album, how if in any way has the creative and song writing process changed for you throughout the years?<\/strong>
\nProbably if anything, look my song writing just comes very quick and I don\u2019t try to write songs I think that\u2019s the secret, I\u2019ll be sitting on the dozer and I\u2019ll think of something a line or a riff and if I can remember it I\u2019ll go home and play it or jot a few pointers down but things just happen instantly. I\u2019m not quite your Axl Rose who sits down for six months to just find two words, mine just falls out of my ass really quickly and if I don\u2019t write it down quick I\u2019ll forget about it, so I think for every eleven albums I\u2019ve written songs for I\u2019ve probably forgotten fifty albums. Maybe when they do an autopsy on my carcass they\u2019ll find all these missing songs stuck to my brain somewhere, you never know.<\/p>\n

As the connoisseurs and consumers of beer, much like music beer seems to have evolved also, and much like music it\u2019s gotten shitter in my opinion. What are your thoughts on the craft beer movement?<\/strong>
\nLook, like any musician I don\u2019t want to hang shit on any musician, I don\u2019t want to hang shit on anyone that makes beer, but, I reckon some of the craft beer available now they can maybe hold off on a bit of the smashed avocado and passionfruit juice that they\u2019re putting in it nowadays and just make beer that tastes like beer perhaps. I know a lot of people that are passionate about it but there\u2019s a lot of craft beers I\u2019ve put to my mouth and I can\u2019t get it past my nose ya know. Whatever floats your boat!<\/p>\n

2018 sees you out playing a shit tonne of dates, for someone who may never have seen you before, what three words best describe a Cosmic Psychos show?<\/strong>
\nThree words to describe us live? Well\u2026 loud, stupid and relentless.<\/p>\n

So what can people expect at these shows, the new album, straight up hits?<\/strong>
\nWell we\u2019ve never had a hit so I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll be having too many hits but we\u2019ll just pull songs and try and put something from every record we\u2019ve ever done I guess. We\u2019ll be adding a few new songs as we go and as people get used to it, if I was going to go and see AC\/DC or The Rolling Stones I don\u2019t really want to listen to their whole new album, we\u2019ll try to give a fair representation of the garbage that we\u2019ve been performing in the last thirty five to thirty seven years.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve been doing this now for a long time, what do you still enjoy about being in this band?<\/strong>
\nHanging out with my mates, I don\u2019t see Macca and Dean or Digger our glorious roadie unless we\u2019re doing the band, we just have so much fun on tour and I don\u2019t think there\u2019s been a band and I\u2019ve yet to see a band in my time that has as much fun as we do, we actually really have a good time and it\u2019s a wonderful opportunity and I feel a bit of a privilege to plonk yourself around the world with free beers and cheese platters all over the joint. I wake up every day wondering what\u2019s real, is going to work real or is going on tour real? I can\u2019t decide whether reality or stupidity which ones which.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s easy to say what\u2019s changed over time but what would you say is the one thing that\u2019s stayed the same in The Cosmic Psychos?<\/strong>
\nProbably I would say the most consistent thing about the band would be my out of tune bass sound I suppose that\u2019s been the one consistent ever since I picked up a guitar and that\u2019s playing through an old cheap ass fuzz box. That\u2019s been consistent and the other thing is not taking things to seriously, I do a lot of and write a lot of songs of things that piss me off but it\u2019s all tongue in cheek so we\u2019re not trying to save the world but people might just sing along and enjoy a hangover with us, it\u2019s as simple as that.<\/p>\n

I asked a mate of mine who\u2019s a big fan of yours for a question and he came up with this one. Did Elle Macpherson ever thank you for the beautiful song you wrote for her?<\/strong>
\nNo, she didn\u2019t. Look I actually though, there was a couple of times when she was single and it was only a matter of time before she\u2019d ring me, but unfortunately there was nothing there.\u00a0 That song itself, if there hadn\u2019t have been that copy of Sports Illustrated in the studio when we were looking for one more song to record or write it never would have happened but it\u2019s as simple as that but she never rang\u2026 she never rang.<\/p>\n

Maybe she\u2019ll see this and maybe it\u2019ll happen one day\u2026<\/strong>
\nMaybe one day but she better hurry up because I don\u2019t know how long my mortal coil will be standing upright for so she\u2019s running out of time.<\/p>\n

Now a lot of your catalogue has been reissued on vinyl, can we expect more along the way such as \u2018Blokes You Can Trust\u2019?<\/strong>
\nYeah look I think so, we\u2019re going to try and bring it out and vinyl is making a screaming comeback now and I\u2019ve always been a huge fan of vinyl and still have a huge vinyl collection so if anyone wants a Psychos vinyl record we\u2019re gonna try and bring them out anyway.<\/p>\n

And you guys have got your own label as well which is great\u2026<\/strong>
\nYep, we decided we\u2019d experiment with our own label and rip ourselves off and then if that\u2019s successful we\u2019ll sign other bands and rip them off so that\u2019s the plan. *laughs*<\/p>\n

Lastly as always let\u2019s look ahead to the future, so finish this sentence for me, in 2018 The Cosmic Psychos will\u2026<\/strong>
\nIn 2018 The Cosmic Psychos will be very tired by the end of it. We\u2019ve got the Australian run then a European run and then I think there might even be Canada and US shows coming up too so it\u2019s gonna be busy. I\u2019ll hope the farm stays in one piece while I\u2019m spending all this time away.<\/p>\n

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\u2018LOUDMOUTH SOUP\u2019 TOUR DATES<\/strong><\/p>\n

TICKETS ON SALE NOW<\/strong>
\nwww.cosmicpsychos.com.au<\/a>
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\nWed April 4\u00a0<\/strong>– The Basement, Canberra
\nThurs April 5\u00a0<\/strong>– Uni Bar, Wollongong
\nFri April 6 –<\/strong>\u00a0Bald Faced Stag, Sydney
\nSat April 7\u00a0<\/strong>– Long Jetty Hotel, Central Coast
\nSun April 8<\/strong>\u00a0– Cambridge, Newcastle
\nThurs April 12\u00a0<\/strong>– Prince of Wales, Bunbury
\nFri April 13\u00a0<\/strong>– Rosemount, Perth
\nSat April 14<\/strong>\u00a0– Mojos, Fremantle
\nSun April 15<\/strong>\u00a0– Mojos, Fremantle
\nTues April 24<\/strong>\u00a0– Karova Lounge, Ballarat
\nWed April 25<\/strong>\u00a0– Fowlers, Adelaide
\nFri April 27<\/strong>\u00a0– Club 54, Launceston
\nSat April 28\u00a0<\/strong>– The Brisbane, Hobart
\nSun May 6\u00a0<\/strong>– Cherry Rock, Melbourne
\nThurs May 17\u00a0<\/strong>– Racecourse Hotel, Ipswich
\nFri May 18<\/strong>\u00a0– Triffid, Brisbane
\nSat May 19<\/strong>\u00a0– V Room, Noosa
\nSun May 20<\/strong>\u00a0– Shark Bar, Gold Coast
\nSat May 26<\/strong>\u00a0– Croxton, Melbourne
\nFri June 1\u00a0<\/strong>– Tanks, Cairns
\nSat June 2<\/strong>\u00a0– Dalrymple Hotel, Townsville
\nSun June 3\u00a0<\/strong>– Mt Pleasant Tavern, Mackay
\nSat June 9<\/strong>\u00a0– The Rails, Darwin<\/p>\n

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

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

Band members:<\/strong>\u00a0 Ross Knight \u2014 lead vocals, bass guitar, John McKeering \u2014 lead guitar, Dean Muller \u2014 drums, backing vocals<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> \u00a0http:\/\/www.cosmicpsychos.com<\/a>.au<\/p>\n

Latest Release:<\/strong> Loudmouth Soup \u2013 (Out Now \u2013 Go The Hack Records)<\/p>\n

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