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of being a world famous rock star isn’t really a portant thing. As reckless as we are some- song so I just finished it. I wrote the music there
real dream, you just want to make music for a times, we still make sure we’re at a place at a and the fact that our bass player hadn’t come
living. That’s where we want to be and where certain time.” home for a couple of days, I had something to
we want to get to.” Liking a drink is, unsurprisingly, a topic that write about, so yeah, those lyrics came out.”
He’s happy with how things are going at appears on their new album. ‘The Way It’s Al- “It’s not a bad song about him,” he adds.
the moment though. “We’re not where we want ways Been’ was written with bassist Aidan Mc- “He knows he likes to party, that’s just who he
to be as the end goal yet but we’re on our way Garrigle in mind. Brad explains, “That song is is. As I said, he’s Irish. The Irish like a drink or
so we can’t complain with that. We’re doing very much about Aidan and his messed up 20. It’s the life and times of the trouble that
what we like to do.” ways. He’s an Irish guy and he likes to drink, Aidan gets himself into.”
he likes to party, and when we were in Europe,
fter signing a five-album deal with Ear- he drank every night to the point where he was idan’s drinking, however, could be to
Aache Records in 2014, the label re- paraletic. To his credit, he played gigs perfectly, Ablame for other incidences. The band
leased Massive’s debut ‘Full Throttle’ album the afterparties he pushes himself to the limit. are known to prank other bands at the end of
and since then the quartet have been on the That song is very much just a biography of a tour and decided to streak on stage when
road supporting the likes of The Screaming Aidan McGarrigle. He ‘lives on the wrong side they supported The Screaming Jets in Sydney.
Jets, Blackberry Smoke and UK’s The Treat- of hell’ because he gets himself into situations Brad says he thinks it was Aidan’s idea. “I’m
ment, as well as performing headline shows of where he shouldn’t be – the girls he hangs out pretty sure it was Aidan’s. It wasn’t a very smart
their own. New album ‘Destination Some- with, and the places he goes and the people idea and I’m not proud of it. We like to play
where’ was written on the road and the touring he sees is kind of mental.” pranks at the end of the tour and that was the
life is its overall theme. Brad tells Black Velvet Brad tells us that he started writing the last show of that tour. We got very drunk and
what the band have learned to do and not do song with Aidan but finished it himself. “We we decided to get naked. And The Screaming
on the road. “You’ve got to make sure you get were playing in a country town in South Aus- Jets, their fans are all 50-year-old men. They
to the gig,” the frontman says. “As stupid as tralia. Everyone else left and it was just me and don’t appreciate four young guys getting up on-
that sounds, we’re a band that likes to party a Aidan in the hotel, everyone else went home. stage naked. It didn’t go down well at all. It’s a
lot and we do; we go harder than we should So we were just sitting there with an acoustic very Australian thing not to see another man’s
sometimes, but we have a rule that you can go guitar so started writing that song. We started penis. That’s not great. Here we are on stage
out and you can get drunk and you can do there and we didn’t finish it. Then when we in front of 1000 people… It wasn’t the smartest
what you want, but there’s a time you’ve got to were in Europe, Aidan went on a three-day thing we did but it was definitely something we
be back. So I think curfews are the most im- bender and never came home. We had this did!”

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