For more than forty years now, the Hoodoo Gurus have been amongst the shining lights in Australian rock.
Their feel-good brand of rock has endeared them to many, both here and abroad, proving the common belief that there is something in the Australian air that just keeps rock and roll alive.
After initially planning to set out on tour to celebrate the occasion in December of last year, the band had to endure another setback when their April shows were also postponed, but now the stage is set for a massive run of shows stretching from Brisbane through to Perth.
Frontman Dave Faulkner joined HEAVY to chat about the shows and 40 years of being a Guru.
“I know, I know. It’s hard to fathom, really,” he exclaimed. “We’re still the same band that we started out as, we just wanna get to the next thing. Can we make a record? That’d be great, let’s do that, and the next thing you know you make another one, and you go 40 years later, and you’re still doing the same thing. You don’t think ahead, like let’s do five albums, and get this famous, and do that, none of that. It’s just literally following your nose and where the career takes you, you follow. Whether you wanna do that or not.”
The question is after 40 years are the excitement levels still the same?
“Totally. We still love playing music – that’s why we’re here. I…I the whole thing with COVID has been really weird because this is the longest period of my life of not playing a lot of shows. We managed to get a few shows in over the last three years, but it’s been pretty strange. I’ve realised that a part of my psyche is like locked in the dungeon, you know? Part of me can’t express itself. It’s pretty weird. Slightly… suppressed or something.”
In the full interview, Dave talks more about the upcoming shows and what to expect, the two postpones of the runs and how they affected the band, taking The Dandy Warhols with them and why, surviving in the industry for so long, why he thinks rock music is timeless, releasing new music and more.
