Trying to find these punk rockers from Canberra on the Internet can be nightmare as there are a few bands around with similar names. It’s was just one of the many things I spoke to the Gaffers (the band’s drummer) recently.
“We’ve been playing this kind of music together since we were in high school, which was about 10 years ago now! Nothing really too exciting about the name, we just had a big list of names and we nearly chose ‘No Excuse’, but after saying it a few times we thought it sounded lame – hence ‘Lamexcuse’. We decided to spell it as one word so it would hopefully be unique, but alas there is a ‘Lamexcuse’ from Austria who spell it the same way! But they’re cool with it all.”
So how would you describe your sound? “If we had to explain to someone what we sound like……….we would have to say if the Swellers singer mated with the Hot Water music drummer, and they had a child and that child mated with the Bodyjar guitar section and had another kid, that kid would be us I guess!!!”
What has been Lamexcuse’s career highlight so far? “We just signed a deal in Japan with Radtone Music (The Swellers, A Wilhelm Scream, Lost In Line) which will see our album released over there in December this year. We are all stoked about this, so that would have to be the biggest highlight so far.”
What can people expect from your new album? “It’s our debut album titled ‘Life. Like. Wild.’ and folks can expect to hear 14 tracks of melodic punk rock which explores the genre and tries things a little bit differently!” And how was it putting the album together? “It was quite a long, drawn out process which involved tracking the instruments and mixing in Wollongong (NSW), tracking vocals in Canberra (ACT) and mastering in Colorado, USA. ‘Life. Like. Wild.’ was produced by Murray Adamson and Adam Jordan at Main Street Studios, and was mastered by Jason Livermore at The Blasting Room (NOFX, Descendents, Rise Against).”
You can grab a copy of ‘Life. Like Wild’ from the usual places. Lamexcuse do have a gig coming up in Melbourne really soon so check out www.myspace.com/lamexcuse for further details.