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A (Musical) Note From...

Jarrad Morrice (Black Aces)

It is probably a bit of a strange thing for a out the ‘Cooked With Alex’ and ‘Aces Classic it, especially with Tyler working by day as a
band with two albums to then go and put out Albums’ web series on YouTube. We wanted bricklayer, and Alex as a mechanic. Pete and
an EP. I suppose we had toured pretty hard, to show people another side of the band, have I have also done our fair share of time pushing
particularly in the UK, on the back of the ‘Any- a bit of fun, and basically show people what wheelbarrows around job sites, and there
where But Here’ album, and once we stopped we are all about. would be plenty of people out there who know
to take a breath, realised we had really burnt I am not totally sure if the EP will be out by exactly what we are talking about.
ourselves out, at least financially. We decided the time this is online, but I will say that the I have just moved up to Bendigo from Mel-
that in 2019 we were going to do something ‘Feverdreams’ clip is one we are pretty proud bourne, so for the first time ever Black Aces all
different. We knew we wanted to release some of, a bit of a tongue-in-cheek look at the morn- actually live in the same city. Before that I was
new music, but we didn’t want to just chuck an ing after a huge night, and the song is kind of driving up from where I lived to Bendigo most
album out for the a hang- weekends. For those in the UK, that is like liv-
sake of it. A lot of o v e r ing in London and playing in a band based in
great people con- Black Aces are a supersonic, hard-rocking t h e m e Birmingham and keeping that up for four
tinue to support the Australian four-piece featuring Tyler Kinder song. We years. We now live within five minutes of each
band and if we also did other, rather than two and a half hours, so
half-arsed an on vocals/lead guitar, Alex McMillan on bass, our first those that are waiting for the next Aces album
album because of Pete McMillan on drums and Jarrad Morrice ever lyric can rest easy – it’s coming thick and fast!
a deadline we in- on rhythm guitar. Here, Jarrad gets us up to video for After that the next goal is to get back over-
vented, we would speed on what the guys have been up to lately. ‘ T o o seas and do some more touring. The Quire-
be ripping those New EP ‘Never Change’ is out soon on Off Yer M u c h boys were amazing to us the last time we were
people off. So we R a i n ’ . over there, as were their fans. We can’t wait to
pulled together five Rocka Recordings. Check out the video for the There is get stuck into it again. We have already an-
tracks we really title track on YouTube. Jarrad says, “It will a drought nounced we will be appearing at Wildfire Fes-
liked and headed make you feel young again, and want to get up on here tival 2020 in Scotland, but we have a few more
back into the studio and do all sorts of crazy dancing”. in Aus- things in the pipeline so definitely keep your
with the plan to do tralia so eyes peeled!
three videos as a the title Cheers.
tie-in. We have r a i s e d Jazz Black Aces
never really done more than one or two videos some eyebrows, but Tyler wrote the song
with a release so we figured it’d be something about the monotony of mentally wasting away Visit www.blackacesrock.com for more info.
different to do three, plus we started churning doing menial labour. The band all got behind

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