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assive formed in mid-2012, al- Forward (lead guitarist). “Brendan was ac- Brad says, “We’re in a very happy place as
Mthough the foundation was ce- tually the sound guy in our manager’s bar a band. We’re four guys that love playing
mented years earlier at school between that he owned. We were there and this guy music, so… when everyone’s on the same
frontman Brad Marr and drummer Jarrod was doing sound. One day we asked him if page and everyone’s happy and willing to
Medwin. Brad tells Black Velvet, “I was a he wanted to audition because he was a put in the hard graft, it makes it a lot easier.
year above Jarrod. In our school, there guitarist. He had one audition – he nailed it. It doesn’t feel like work. We slog it out a lot,
weren’t enough musicians to have a class The next week I was actually playing at the we do some pretty long kilometres on the
for every year, so we were in the same bar and he was doing the sound and we road. We tour a lot so it is hard in the sense
music class but we were in different year asked him to join the band and he said yes. of sometimes we don’t get much sleep and
levels, which is kind of strange. We were We had to drive to Newcastle, which is work 20 hour days but it’s four guys that
the two guys that at lunchtime everyone about 11 hours north of Melbourne, that love what we’re doing. It’s easy and it’s
went to play football and we stayed in the night. He said yes so we said, “Get in the fun.”
music room and played our instruments. van ‘cause you’re going away for a week on In ‘Blood Money Blues’, Brad sings,
We were the two guys that knew we actually tour with a rock ‘n’ roll band!” and he did. ‘Here’s your chance to be someone today’.
wanted to do this.” He fits in very well ‘cause not many people Black Velvet asks Brad who he’d like to be.
The guys played together in other are mad enough to jump in a van with only He says that he’d like to ‘be’ successful.
bands prior to Massive and joined forces the clothes on their back to tour in a band.” “There’s no actual pinpoint to where we
yet again in 2012 before finding Aidan Mc- With their second album, ‘Destination want to get to. We want to be musicians for
Garrigle (bass) and most recently Brendan Somewhere’, having just been released, the rest of our lives, so… I think the dream

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