Photos by Sydney photographer Daniel Boud
The wailing vocals and big fuzzy 70′s rock sound that this threesome of unassuming lads emit is staggering.
I saw Wolfmother back in May at the same venue, in front of about 30 people including the band’s mothers (it was mother’s day, they dedicated the song Woman to their mum’s, so charming). It was quite a contrast to the heaving sold out crowd of 5 months later. Since that show, which was their third ever, the band have signed a record deal, they’ve toured Australia and briefly the US, their songs are flogged on the radio and they’re officially ‘the next big thing’.
and when they become the new faces of the ipod or etsee lauder or space travel or whatever, we can say that we were there at the beginning, before the product endorsements, before the heiress girlfriends, before they sold their souls to marketing.
its a sad world.
hype doth smile upon them.
how much does the phrase “next big thing” spell death for you
Well people have said we sound like pre romatic metal , so maybe, next big thing is code for pre death metal. Glad you digged the Mothers Day Special.
I did dig the Mothers Day Special. I think half the hype you guys have is from me and my buds telling all and sundry how shit hot this lil band called Wolfmother is.
Pre romantic metal rocks.
ohmygosh! a celebrity commented on your blog, dan!
if you ever read this, a.wolfie, know that we love you and are happy about your current path to stardom.
Yessss, I love you too!!!!!!! I dig solos that are to long and too loud and too fast that represent a totally uninhibited existence within rock, like that solo in “Highway Star”. I dig goin into guitar shops and playin Stairway to Heaven and Smoke on the Water. You know six months ago I was handing out flyers on George Street for our 4th gig at The Hopetoun. Now here I am hearing next big thing / celebrity (I’ve never experienced this before, except when I was 14 an air hostess on Compass Airlines thought I was Todd from Neighbours, I almost felt like pretending I was to kind of make her day. Life is in a constant state of flux and change which can be good and bad. So I’m just kind of rollin with it at the moment tryin to enjoy the journey. Hope I’m not sounding to hippy.