Ass kicking is something all girls should be participating in nowadays, but now there’s a band that provides you with some ass kicking music to go along:
BOAT SHOW is the denomination of a 5 piece garage punk band from Perth. You may recognize some of their members from other great sound creations, with lead singer Ali Flintoff having background in Dream Rimmy and Gunns, guitarist Jenny Aslett from Gunns, as well as guitarist Stella Donelly, who has launched her own solo work. For a recently budded band, they’ve definitely got chops.
As of February this year, their debut album Groundbreaking Masterpiece –props to whoever fabricated the name – was released, going on to receive acclaim from The West Australian, and Triple J with an average ranking of 4-5 stars.
The album features a perfect total of 10 songs that contain grungy, belligerent vibes, yet also tackle both the ability to relate to everyday emotion, and to address bigger issues such as gender roles and sexism that is still present in modern day society. *sighs*
The band have released a new single as of Friday, entitled “The Big Smoke” in which Ali, in shrill fashion, sings about Victoria’s capital Melbourne and whatever must be so much better about the city than Perth that makes all her friends want to move there (heads up, Perth has better music by far). Another hit, the song is already copping a good 4+ stars, and with the rate of work in a year alone, perhaps another album may be on the way.
As far as live shows go, the band has their schedules filled in quite regularly. Earlier this year they toured as an opening act for Freo band San Cisco, as well as following with a number of ‘world tour’ shows across Perth and Fremantle.The band have also found the time for retaining frendships with other musos such as POND, GUM, Cam Avery and The Murlocs to name a few.
This August and September expect to see them branching out to reach cities Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne to promote their new single “The Big Smoke” as well as the Groundbreaking Masterpiece album.
*Pictures sourced respectively from Conniption Hammerlessnail and Cam Campbell
Article written by Emma Newbury for SOUNDCHECK on August 18th 2017 (Was not published :/ )