Hold Your Fire are a young fast paced, explosive, high energy 90’s skate punk playing band who will most likely be rocking a gig near you in the near future. The band features Robbie (vocals), Luke (guitar), Kaine (guitar), Jimmy (bass) and Will (drums). I recently caught up their lead singer, Robbie to find out all there is to know about Hold Your Fire.
‘We’ve been playing together for almost a year and a half and doing shows for the 8 months or so’ says Robbie. ‘Luke and I came together through a musicians classified website Melband (now know as Ausband) and the others were friends that we knew in the local scene.’ So where did the unusual name came from? ‘Luke came up with the name. It came from looking at the current state of society as a whole with various conflicts going on, racial tensions, misinformation, and so on. We felt the need for us to say “Hold Your Fire”, put the weapons down and things may actually get better.’
I knew that Hold Your Fire do a large number of gigs so I just had to ask where they had been gigging recently. ‘We’ve had a couple of weeks off to recharge the batteries but have played at the Espy, Oxide Nightclub & Noise Bar in recent times.’
Robbie tells me that one of Hold Your Fire’s aims is to tour interstate with international artists so I ask which band they would most like to share a stage with. ‘That’s easy for me, Pennywise. I have a slight obsession with them having gone overseas to see them & done the last 2 Aussie tours. You may have seen me passing out our demos at the various shows.’
And what can people expect from a Hold Your Fire show? ‘I’d say a hard and fast set where we encourage everyone to get into, whether it be moshing, jumping on stage or helping out with the vocals. Were all there to have a good time!!!’ says Robbie. ‘We’re just guys who love playing this style of music and will play anywhere, anytime, whether it is a venue, backyard party or whatever? Just message us and we’ll be there.’
So can Hold Your Fire fans look forward to an EP soon? ‘We should have an EP titled “Bombs Are Falling” come out in the next couple of months. We plan to have an EP Launch Weekend.’
Hold Your Fire are doing a number of gigs around Victoria in the next couple of months and to check for these dates and for more information on their soon-to-be-released EP check out www.myspace.com/holdyourfireband.