REVOLUTION DAILY

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Explain the idea behind your new music video, “Caroline”. When will it be online for us to see?
“Caroline” is the most laid back, sentimental song on our album “Shark”. The video is all about those moments between two people where nothing else that happens around you matters. It’s a sexy video! The video will be debuting during our live appearance on Studio 1 on the 1st of September on MK. We’ll put it online shortly after that.

Who or what are your influences as a band?
Each of us listen to quite a wide variety of music but we’re open minded enough to appreciate everybody else’s tastes. As a live band, I think we all bring in the energy of our youth, being into punk. But, as time’s gone on, we’re looking further back in time for inspiration in bands like The Beatles, The Kinks, Cream etc. We also appreciate and love a lot of the indie bands out there.

In your opinion, what bands should people be listening to nowadays?
The Black Keys’ “Brothers” album is absolute magic! It’s produced by Danger Mouse, who’s work I always seem to dig. Also, the new Beastie Boys album is great, one of their best in a long time. There’s also this really cool Argentinian band who, like us, were produced by Gordon Raphael, called Calendar. Locally, there seem to be loads of bands making waves like We Set Sail, Peachy Keen and Red Huxley, that are great live acts.

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What are your favorite and least favorite things about South Africa?
The people here are awesome. We’ve got so many different cultures to take in and learn from and that’s what makes us unique. Cape Town specifically seems to have awesome entertainment on every night of the week. You never get bored in a city like this. One thing I don’t enjoy is the fact that good music is so difficult to find. Unfortunately, there aren’t that many commercial platforms to expose people to music other than the top sellers. So sometimes it takes a while for things to catch on over here.

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What’s the most extraordinary thing that’s ever happened at one of your shows?
Well, it wasn’t at one of our shows, but it was at our guitarist Juki’s old band’s gig in Stellies that one of my favourite stories happened. He used to jam the kazoo live in a song and someone in the crowd thought it was a pipe and put weed in it!

If your music was an animal, what would it be, and why?
A polar bear. Seemingly chilled most of the time, but can be fast and aggressive when it needs to be.

What does the future hold for The Plastics?
We’re definitely going to be touring the country a lot more than we have in the past. We’ve always enjoyed a good response up north and on the coast so we want to be heading out of Cape Town way more often. At some stage we’d also like to head overseas as well. But for now we’re busy working on some new music that we’re really excited about.

Photo by Ian Engelbrecht