Recycled Goods With MACKA From BOONDALL BOYS

Interview by Kris Peters
Every city anywhere in the world has bands that are considered
legendary within their geographical area, but might not be so
recognised much further than the next border crossing.
For Brisbane that band is Boondall Boys, a band featuring a
gentleman that goes by the name of Macka who also happens to be in
a universally legendary band, the Cosmic Psychos.
The story of the Boondall Boys initial album pressing - if not a
national legend it should be - is piss funny and punk as fuck
(listen to the interview if you want to know more), which in a
roundabout way brings us full circle to why we are even talking
about Boondall Boys in the first place!
Australian label Bargain Bin Records, created by Aussie band The
Chats, recently re-released that 2007 album Hard Rubbish and to
thank the band as well as celebrate the label's fifth birthday,
Boondall Boys are hitting the road for selected dates with The
Chats for a run of select shows this February.
To find out more about everything, HEAVY tracked Macka down while
he was resting in bed. We start by asking if it feels like he is
cheating on the Cosmic Psychos by getting back into bed with his
mistress.
"No, not at all," he smiled. "The record came about a long, long
time ago and we just re-released it. It goes back to about 2006 I
think when we wrote the songs. Then I joined the Psychos at about
that time, from memory. I think it was recorded… you would go back
15 years sort of thing."
In the full interview Macka gives us a history on Boondall Boys,
recalls making Hard Rubbish and what sound they were going for,
forming the band and what drove him back then, what to expect from
their live shows, what happened with the initial pressing of 100
copies, potential new music and more.