Down and Out

Down and out is not your typical pop punk band. “I mean you can go anywhere and watch 5 dudes play music but there's precious little of our genre available to local punters. When you’re looking for energy you either have to go to metal or like underground punk. Sometime you just get that catchy pop punk itch that indie bands can't quite scratch you know.”   

Tell me how did you come together as a band? 

“I wanted to be in an active band again because my current band was on an indefinite hiatus. Luke put a post up on a Facebook group with the EP, it was exactly what I wanted to be playing so I hit him up”- Henry. 

What got me into the band was Alec, Luke and I were already in a band previously and after a while that band just stopped doing stuff. Luke sent me a copy of an EP and I remember thinking “holy shit this is really good stuff.”-Brad 

What made you all want to start playing music? 

I stared to play guitar to impress some girl at school. I enjoy the creativity of songwriting as well as the fun of performing it. -Alec 

Wait that’s why you started playing guitar? I don’t know what drew me into music but in primary school when I was about 8 we got a music teacher and she show me the drums and I was paying them and I was like “Yep” and I've been playing music ever since. - Luke 

I did piano lessons as a kid and I have never picked up an instrument that I haven't been able to play to some degree so I thought I should at least pull that string. - Henry 

I started playing music in year 8. when our teacher said go pick an instrument, I picked up the bass thinking it was a guitar and then thinking afterwards this is what I want to do. -Brad 

I think I started playing guitar because it was something to do during school. -Blake. 

Do you feel like you have bought different sounds to the band coming from all different backgrounds? 

That’s a bit of a hard question. All of our released songs are written by Luke and our old guitarist. However, the song we are working on now definitely have different aspects and it's interesting to hear other people's aspects and other ideas when presenting a song concept to them. - Alec 

How do you think all the new sounds will go with your music and how do you think the audience will like it? 

Offt that sounds like a Luke Question. - Henry 

What audience? - Luke 

The best part of being new and not having much of an audience at the moment is that there are no expectations. - Luke 

I feel like at this point, anyone can do anything in music. There are so many sub genres in sub genres that I think all we really should do is write shit we think is good and hope people like it. - Alec. 

Sometimes we will be like “we need a BANGER” or we need a slightly heavier song”  and we will try to direct the song that way, but more often than not I think we just write whatever comes out without putting too much though into the form and if it doesn't fit into a specific sound it doesn't matter as long as we think it sounds good. - Luke. 

Do you plan on putting out new stuff soon? Have you been working on anything since the world went quiet? 

Not as much as we should have. It's cool and fun to watch yourself waste time with laziness. We have been working on some stuff though and we will be back in the studio next month to do a few songs. - Luke. 

How do you plan on building your audience? 

Hopefully by writing Undeniably incredible songs that people can't help but listen too. - Luke 

I guess keep releasing content, whether it's just music or music and the video, as well as playing more live show in venues and new locations. - Blake