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\"\"<\/a>Official Tour Press Release:<\/strong> \u201cRewind to August last year – CALLING ALL CARS released their second album, the ARIA charting \u201cDancing with a Dead Man\u201d, and set off on a tour cycle around the country. Taking their triple j featured album to the masses on the back of national airplay and hot supporting cast that introduced Redcoats and Boy In A Box they played to sold out rooms and stamped themselves as one of Australia\u2019s most incendiary, young, live rock bands.<\/p>\n

Calling All Cars finished 2011 in a blaze of glory supporting their new best friends\u2019 the Foo Fighters and being added to the East Coast run of The Big Day Out. After an unexpected blow to the jaw of lead vocalist Haydn Ing prematurely ended their Sydney BIG DAY OUT performance earlier this year.\u00a0 Melbourne\u2019s CALLING ALL CARS have bounced off the rock& roll canvas and are ready to rumble!<\/p>\n

With the starters flag unfurled Calling All Cars are set to roll out THE DELIRIUM TOUR, and in their continuing efforts in the war against the jive have invited co-conspirators Strangers and Arts Martial along for the\u00a0 fun.<\/p>\n

Named after the barn storming, live favourite \u2018She\u2019s Delirious\u2019 and with a new video by the same creative team that made their \u2018Reptile\u2019 and \u2018World\u2019s Collide\u2019 clips, this 12 show victory lap around the country will be their last national headline tour before taking a well-earned break and beginning the process that will create album number three!\u201d<\/p>\n

In the midst of writing and rehearsal sessions, we chatted to Haydn Ing about the upcoming touring action and progress so far on the bands third album.<\/p>\n

Hey Haydn, thanks for taking the time to chat today.\u00a0 So how are things going right now in the Calling All Cars camp\u2026as always, it seems like there\u2019s plenty happening!
\n<\/strong>Yeah man, it’s non stop for us.\u00a0 Even though we may not be in the eye of the public at the time, we are always doing something behind the scenes.\u00a0 Since the Big Day Out we’ve been in the rehearsal room writing as much of the new album as we can.<\/p>\n

As you mentioned, you have started on some work for the new album\u2026.at what stage would you say you are at with that right now, is that still in the jamming out ideas\/songwriting stage, or are you actually a little more advanced than that?
\n<\/strong>We are still very much starting out at this stage.<\/p>\n

Starting out on the journey for the new album, did you have a few ideas lying around from the last album sessions, or are you starting totally new?
\n<\/strong>Starting a fresh is always good I think as we’ve still got the leftover stuff from the last album as a worst case scenario.\u00a0 It’s always good to try and keep things new and fresh and to beat the last song you’ve written!<\/p>\n

I know it\u2019s only early days, but are you anticipating to turn around your 3rd<\/sup> album in a similar timeframe as you did between your 1st<\/sup> and 2nd<\/sup>?
\n<\/strong>No not really, it just totally depends how we go really.\u00a0 The last one we really pushed ourselves to get it out there as quickly as possible to really keep our band name out there.\u00a0 At this stage we just really want up focus on making the best album we’ve made, so we’re concentrating on writing right now to get a good, solid album together.<\/p>\n

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Calling All Cars, Melbourne Big Day Out. Photo by www.lensofrock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Going into the 2nd<\/sup> album, you obviously were much wiser for having recorded your 1st<\/sup> album\u2026now with the 3rd<\/sup> album, what\u2019s the mindset, are you approaching this in a different way in terms of likely writing and recording processes, or were you happy with the process for the last album?
\n<\/strong>Exactly, we kind of found our niche with the second album how we work as a band.\u00a0 The first album I guess was an experiment of sorts I guess.\u00a0 We’ve kind of found what we want to do and found things to do and keep things fresh but we probably won’t stray too far from our sound. That first album was just like, holy shit, I’m actually not that good.\u00a0 Then for the second album we had our shit together and we could have a bit of fun during recording.<\/p>\n

Have you gotten to the point where you are also considering who you might want to produce, and where you want to record the album?
\n<\/strong>Well we are definitely looking at doing it overseas, so we will probably head to the States I guess.\u00a0 I don’t know about producers at this stage, I think once we have more idea on how the album is sounding, that’s when we’ll see where we head.<\/p>\n

You guys must be pretty damn happy with the way people responded to that album?
\n<\/strong>We never really go out with expectations really, we just go out and do what we think will work, or hope will work and hope for the best really.\u00a0 But everything we’ve got from that album has been awesome, we’ve been stoked.<\/p>\n

How much interest did you get from overseas on the back of Dancing With A Dead Man?\u00a0 Is that something you might be looking to focus on in 2012?
\n<\/strong>There’s certainly been interest, for sure, but I think it’s more been a case of us wanting to get our shit together before we make the move.\u00a0 We want something new to be able to sell and hopefully have the strongest album to date before we actually hit it.<\/p>\n

Whilst we\u2019ve had this talk of the new album, Dancing With A Dead Man is still going strong, and you\u2019ve just recently released a new video clip for She\u2019s Delirious.\u00a0 I\u2019ve gotta ask, who came up with the concept for that video clip?
\n<\/strong>All of us actually (laughs).\u00a0 Initially we thought we will just do a performance clip as that\u2019s what we are good at, then someone brought up that every time you see a performance clip it starts as a performance clip and then ends as a performance clip and it’s the same old thing that’s been done a million times.\u00a0 We started exploring ways of how we could make that different, so that’s how the women’s clothing and the chicken and the milk thing came in as an added feature.\u00a0 It was definitely….interesting!\u00a0 We had to do that take like 15 times, it was so shit, I even got an allergic reaction to the makeup and woke up the next day with my face all swelled up.<\/p>\n

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Calling All Cars, Melbourne Big Day Out. Photo by www.lensofrock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking of your face being swelled up, I know there has been much discussion of you getting knocked out at Sydney Big Day Out, you\u2019ve supported the Foo Fighters and there\u2019s been lot\u2019s of touring action, what do you consider to be your personal memorable moments over the last 6 months?
\n<\/strong>I think we’ve been pretty lucky the past year, so I’ve definitely got a few of them.\u00a0 Doing the Queens Of The Stone Age support was insane.\u00a0 Also the Foo Fighters support.\u00a0 So I got to meet Josh from QOTSA and also Dave Grohl, then there’s the Tenacious D guys as well.\u00a0 They were all awesome guys and pretty much everything you’ve heard is true.\u00a0 Dave Grohl especially, he’s just the same guy on stage as he is off stage.\u00a0 I think it was in Adelaide, he rocked up to the show riding a Mountain Bike and short, shorts and a singlet, they\u2019re just such cool guys, so that whole tour was a massive highlight.\u00a0 Seeing just how those guys work as well, they’ve got thousands of people coming to see them, so they are clearly doing something right!<\/p>\n

Looking to the future, you have another tour you are embarking on.\u00a0 Last time you unearthed Boy In A Box and Redcoats, this time you\u2019ve got Strangers and Arts Martial heading out with you, what can you tell us about them?
\n<\/strong>Well we haven’t played with Arts Martial yet, but Strangers, we did a single tour with them last year.\u00a0 They’re just rad dudes and they’ve got an album coming out very soon, an awesome band, I think we will definitely be hearing more about them.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s obviously now an interesting position where Calling All Cars are at with regards to support acts, given you have been given amazing opportunities by bands such as Foo Fighters, Queens Of The Stone Age etc, then in a way you get to repay the favour to the bands you take out on the road with you, is this the case?
\n<\/strong>When we are out on the road with a band like the Foo Fighters it’s interesting to see how they work as they are obviously like a well oiled machine now.\u00a0 They just know now after doing it for so many years that the easiest way to deal with things is to just be nice.\u00a0 Which at the end of the day is the easiest way.\u00a0 So definitely we’ve learnt from that and be nice to our support bands!<\/p>\n

Where are you at with regards to thinking about a setlist for this tour, are there any potential new songs you might be looking to roadtest?
\n<\/strong>We are, but I’m not sure if we are quite there yet, but we are going to play a couple of the new ones anyway and see how they go.\u00a0 We are also going to play a couple of songs off the second album that we’ve never played live before.\u00a0 I think it’s actually going to be the longest set we’ve played!<\/p>\n

Now before we wrap up, I saw a post on your Facebook asking people to list their 3 desert island discs.\u00a0 Apologies, but I\u2019m going to put you on the spot and ask you for yours\u2026
\n<\/strong>This is tricky. \u00a0We chat about it a bit and it\u2019s one of those things we chat about when travelling in the car out on tour or whatever. \u00a0Id probably go……oh man, this is so hard.\u00a0 Queens Of The Stone Age – Rated R<\/em>, Nirvana – Nevermind<\/em> and then I don’t know, maybe The Beatles Greatest Hits or something.<\/p>\n

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

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

Band members: <\/strong>Haydn Ing \u2013 Vocals\/Guitar, James Ing \u2013 Drums\/Backing Vocals, Adam Montgomery – Bass\/Backing Vocals<\/p>\n

Website: <\/strong>www.callingallcars.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Latest release:<\/strong> Dancing With A Dead Man (2011)<\/p>\n\n

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