{"id":28349,"date":"2016-06-16T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/?p=28349"},"modified":"2016-06-16T18:40:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T16:40:10","slug":"itw-methyl-ethel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/itw-methyl-ethel\/","title":{"rendered":"ITW – Methyl Ethel | Initially the whole idea was to be faceless and genderless"},"content":{"rendered":"

Methyl Ethel<\/strong>\u00a0is a three-piece band coming all the way from Perth, on the Western coast of Australia, somewhere where it gets scorching hot in the summer. A place that drives creativity in Methyl Ethel’s<\/strong> realm. A place that could easily melt your\u00a0brains like butter. A feeling the three band members thrive in and get inspired. They’re in Paris for The Great French Escape, sharing the stage with three other bands from Australia, and the coolest Danish boyband to surface this year: Liss<\/a>.\u00a0They’re here\u00a0in support of their re-released album “Oh Inhuman Spectacles” (listen below) out via 4AD on May 16th globally. Sophie sat down with Tom, Chris & Jake from Methyl Ethyl<\/strong> and chatted\u00a0French culture, history, the album, and asked them to recommend a few local australian bands for us. Read on.<\/p>\n

Interview by\u00a0Sophie<\/a>. Introduction by Sodwee<\/a>. Photographs by\u00a0Michela Cuccagna<\/a>.<\/h6>\n[separator type=”space”]\n[separator type=”thick”]\n
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Jake, you started Methyl Ethel as a solo project to finally end up as a trio with Thom and Chris. Can you come back on this\u00a0?<\/h5>\n

Jake\u00a0: I think it became a band primarily because I got invited to play a show by our local Perth community radio station so I put together a band for that. I never intended it to be a gigging band. It was mainly all girls and these girls played in another band from Perth. They had another show to play so these guys came on board, we\u2019ve been friends for a long time, \u00a0and it became a band. I just cut the story short\u00a0! (laughing)<\/em><\/p>\n

You released your first album last year but it has been globally released this spring. Isn\u2019t it kind of scary to promote this album for the second time\u00a0?<\/h5>\n

Jake\u00a0: (laughing)<\/em> It\u2019s ok, we get to come here and promote it\u00a0!<\/p>\n

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