Neil Young taught me guitar, Bill Ward taught me drumming. Who or what first got you into music?īK: My Aunt Lou played me a tape of a Welsh choir when I was about 6 and I guess it got in there pretty deep, pretty powerful music. You wrote and recorded the demos for the three songs on the Gone 7” yourself on a Tascam 4-track tape before forming the band. Recently I got hooked on the Buffalo Springfield song Burned – prime example of perfect guitar pop, and coincidentally almost the same title as a RABBIT tune from the 7”.

What ties the truffles together for me is sharp, simple songwriting – I’m always a lovesick fool for a pop song but rough it up a bit with overdriven guitars and demo-quality recording and you get me all buttery. There’s so many truffles underfoot hey, The Flamin’ Groovies, The Records, Vibrators, The Soft Boys, The Only Ones, Television Personalities, Buzzcocks, The Motels… plus all the Oz punk stuff like Celibate Rifles and Birdman and Saints. The Nerves wrote Hanging on the Telephone which I only knew as a Blondie song until I started sniffing around its roots like a truffle pig. The first Cyndi Lauper record has a couple Robert Hazard wrote Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, The Brains wrote Money Changes Everything. I stumbled on a lot of these old power-pop songs because they were made popular by other artists.

RABBIT is inspired by forgotten power-pop groups and new wave punks who are some of these inspirations and what is it that you appreciate about them?īOBBY K: There’s a demo by Peter Case’s band The Nerves that I come back to a lot. Songwriter and guitarist, Bobby K, tells us about the band’s formation, recording the EP, and their inspirations. Overdriven guitars, catchy riffs, solid driving rhythms, and melodic vocals singing songs of love and heartbreak. The quartet give us three high energy, power-pop gems. Handmade mixed-media by B.įorming just over a year ago, nipaluna/Hobart-based band RABBIT are releasing their debut 7 inch on Rough Skies Records (home of bands we love: Slag Queens, All The Weather, 208L Containers and The Native Cats) today.

My first jack rabbit demo