A Tony Wilson channeling Steve Coogan once said of Factory Record’s post Ian Curtis metamorphosis: “I think it was Scott Fitzgerald who said, ‘American lives don’t have second acts.’ Well, this is Manchester. We do things differently here. This is the second act.” Considering that fact and since Australia is also not America I’ll assume we do things differently here too and are afforded that precious Second Act.
Granted, most bands don’t survive a lineup change. Just ask Axl Rose and the myriad of fractured bands destined for record store discount bins and, a decade from now, money grubbing reunion tours that only stand to illustrate the disparity between past glories and current irrelevancy. Wolfmother however, Modular’s guitar-driven juggernaut and beneficiary of Australian’s latent Rawk N’ Roll love affair look set to buck the trend. In fact if the steely resolve and endearing everyman appeal of frontman Andrew Stockdale’s is anything to go by – they intend to grow their audience even more.
The below video “Transmissions From The Cosmic Egg” takes us to Byron Bay and gives viewers an inside look at Stockdale’s songwriting process, his theories on how the Universe came to be and how to face the monumental weight of expectation thrust upon the band. In it Stockdale promises a “heavy”, “unapologetic” “formidable sound” with “a good bottom end” so purists need not worry he pussied out on us. Check out the video below…
