Going For Broke With JOSHUA COTTREAU From FANGZ

Sydney punk reprobates FANGZ are in the thick of things of late.
They just recently finished a massive national run as support to
Cancer Bats, and have been busying themselves with releasing new
music and generally making life a party wherever they go.
True Aussie legends in their own right, FANGZ are a fresh band with
an old-school mentality. They play hard and party harder without
pause for reflection or decision.
That hypothesis will be put to the test this weekend when FANGZ set
out to do the almost impossible.
A 24-hour East Coast tour.
Let that sink in. FANGZ are planning a WHOLE East Coast tour in the
same amount of time it allegedly takes the sun to do a lap of the
Earth. Starting at the Cherry Bar in Melbourne as Friday night
rolls into Saturday morning - so August 31 - the boys then travel
to Sydney for a show at Bootleggers precisely 12 hours later and
finish up at Greaser in Brisbane before the clock strikes midnight,
thus completing an East Coast tour in 24 hours.
It sounds too much of an effort to even think about, let alone
attempt to pull off, so HEAVY tracked down frontman Joshua Cottreau
to see how serious this whole thing is.
"What do you think?" Cottreau fires back at me when I ask if it is
even possible. "It doesn't make sense to NOT try and do that," he
laughed. "You know us by now. I'd put more in if I could. I don't
think it's that unreasonable. The only thing, obviously, is flights
because we're on a tight schedule. As long as everything goes
according to plan, it should be sweet. We're really stoked. I think
it's a pretty insane idea, but I don't really know anyone else
who's done it (laughs). You've gotta go for it, right?"
In the full interview, Joshua talks more about the 24 hour East
Coast tour, the new track Same Old Story and its nostalgic video,
their style of music and why it is so infectious, gives us the
scoop on a new - debut - album, their musical growth over the
course of three EP's, the upcoming Froth & Fury festival and
more.

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