Putting The KA-BOOM Back Into Music With JOSH MORGAN From FIST

Interview by Kris Peters
Sometimes playing nice doesn't get the desired results, especially
in music.
To really get to know yourself, your bandmates, and your audience,
stepping into a studio and cutting some tracks with more polish
than Mr. Sheen is often a band aid fix to a bandage problem. Any
inconsistencies and/or inadequacies can be ironed out with creative
technology and by the time you make it to the stage in a live
environment, you are not only suffering from an inflated ego, but,
more importantly, the sudden knowledge that without studio gadgets
you're actually not very good.
Newcastle noise merchants FIST decided to do the opposite, knocking
out hard yards on the touring circuit and playing more than 70
shows in front of new faces before offering up their first studio
single KA-BOOM (MTHRFCKR). And if this one song is anything to go
by, their bold move has paid off.
KA-BOOM (MTHRFCKR) is being premiered via HEAVY at 5pm AEDT on
Wednesday, January 15 before being officially released through
other channels two days later. The song hits with the subtlety of
Thor's hammer and is a welcome breath of savage air that hopefully
will continue long into the coming year.
Pretty much everything FIST has done so far is the opposite to what
you would read in the modern age "How To Make It In Music" guide.
But also, pretty much everything FIST has done so far has proved
you don't need to follow rules. There are no rules in music. Isn't
that part of the magic of the industry?
HEAVY spoke with FIST pumper Josh Morgan to find out more and start
by thanking the band for a late sonic Christmas present.
"It's a very late Christmas present," he countered. "It should have
been out a year before, but we're finally getting into it. We did a
live album so we could try and get as much out of those songs as we
can before we have to actually pay all the money to record them
(laughs)."
In the full interview we talk about the band's different approach
to establishing a fan base, if it worked, the benefits of road
testing songs for a prolonged period before committing them to
file, why they chose KA-BOOM (MTHRFCKR) as the first song to
record, what to expect musically, upcoming shows, censoring your
own music to an extent so as not to offend people and more.


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