Kerrang - March 12, 2016
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ISSUE 1610 MAR <strong>12</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
DON’TWORRY,ANDREWWON’TPUNCHYOU.HE’LL<br />
HAPPILYPLAYINHISUNDERCRACKERS,THOUGH…<br />
ON ROCK’N’ROLL…<br />
HAVE YOU EVER SHED BLOOD<br />
IN THE NAME OF ROCK?<br />
“Before I started the band, I busked<br />
this tunnel in Central Station in Sydney. Everyone<br />
s looking at me, so I was thinking,‘Wow, this is<br />
ng really well!’ I got home and looked in the<br />
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HAVE YOU EVER PUNCHED A BANDMATE?<br />
“No. I think if I ever let myself get to that level it’d<br />
be a real low point. I went to a rough school where<br />
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WHEN DID YOU LAST WAKE UP NOT<br />
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itinerary, so I walked outside and couldn’t see a single<br />
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Ah, the famous 10-Per-Cent-Offs baseball team.<br />
You’d be lost without ’em…<br />
FAILURES<br />
AND F’UPS<br />
IF YOU COULD ERASE<br />
ONE SONG YOU’VE<br />
WRITTEN, WHAT<br />
WOULD IT BE?<br />
“Sometimes I feel<br />
weird about Far<br />
Away, but then<br />
other times<br />
people tell<br />
me it’s<br />
THE ULTIMATE<br />
ROCKSTAR TEST<br />
ANDREW STOCKDALE<br />
WOLFMOTHER<br />
“I GOT BLOOD ALL<br />
OVER MY FACE<br />
FROM BUSKING!”<br />
ANDREW STOCKDALE<br />
their favourite song. If I thought about that too<br />
much, I’d drive myself crazy, though²<br />
HAVE YOU EVER FALLEN OVER ON<br />
YOUR ARSE ONSTAGE?<br />
“Yeah, we were playing the Festival Hall in Melbourne<br />
and we had dry ice, but it wasn’t dry. The stage<br />
was covered in water, and as I was running to the<br />
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back up, but then I fell over again and slammed into<br />
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Crikey. Was the drum riser okay?<br />
LIFESTYLES OF THE<br />
RICH AND FAMOUS…<br />
WHO’S THE MOST FAMOUS PERSON TO<br />
TELL YOU THEY DIG YOUR BAND?<br />
“Lenny Kravitz, Neil Young, Gene Simmons, Lars<br />
Ulrich… It’s so weird when you have people like<br />
that saying nice things about what you do, it’s like<br />
you’re levitating. You get in a great mood, and you<br />
want to hang onto that encouragement and you<br />
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WHAT’S THE MOST EXTRAVAGANT<br />
THING YOU’VE EVER BOUGHT?<br />
“A camera. I used to do photography<br />
before I was in a band, and when<br />
we started Wolfmother I was<br />
so broke that I pawned my<br />
camera. I managed to get<br />
it back, but just<br />
recently I thought, ‘I’ve always wanted a Leica<br />
camera.’ That’s a German make, and I’m not going to<br />
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You know they have cameras on phones now, right?<br />
ON THE HYPOTHETICAL…<br />
YOU WAKE UP ONE MORNING BUT, FOR<br />
SOME REASON, YOU’VE BECOME ALLERGIC<br />
TO TROUSERS AND SHORTS. DO YOU PLAY<br />
IN YOUR PANTS?<br />
“Absolutely! I live next to the beach,<br />
so I’m pretty comfortable when<br />
comes to going ‘au naturel’.That<br />
wouldn’t be a show-stopper, it<br />
wouldn’t bother me at all! I’d just<br />
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IF YOU COULD GO BACK<br />
AND CHANGE ONE DECISION<br />
WOLFMOTHER’S CAREER,WHAT<br />
WOULD IT BE?<br />
“There’s that saying that everything you do leads<br />
you to where you are. I wouldn’t be where I am if<br />
I changed something, and I’m perfectly happy with<br />
where I’m at. Everything happens for a reason, and<br />
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YOU’VE GOT A SONG CALLED COSMIC<br />
EGG. TELL US, WHAT WOULD A REAL<br />
COSMIC EGG OMELETTE TASTE LIKE?<br />
“Actually, there’s a burger place in Sydney with a<br />
Cosmic Egg Burger, which, of course, I have every<br />
time I’m there. I think the omelette would need<br />
possibly some green pesto mixed in, olives with a<br />
bit of paprika and maybe some chorizo. Anything<br />
that might give it a bit of a cosmic twist – some<br />
saffron, that’d be bit cosmic, and maybe some<br />
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Saffron… So, not a black hole, or a sun, or something from<br />
space? No, if you want cosmic, herbs it is…<br />
SPIRITUAL HEADMELTER…<br />
DO FISH DREAM?<br />
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know if they do! If they don’t sleep,<br />
then they probably don’t dream. That<br />
seems kind of a logical conclusion<br />
But if they do slee<br />
they’ll have some dr<br />
know how the uncons<br />
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RIFF LORD? OH YES.<br />
HELL-RAISING ROCK GOD?<br />
ANDREW’S GOT WORK TO DO<br />
THE LEADERBOARD<br />
SCORE<br />
68%<br />
1 ALICE COOPER 99%<br />
2 GENE SIMMONS KISS 93%<br />
3 MORTIIS 90%<br />
4 BERT McCRACKEN THE USED 86%<br />
5 BRENDON URIE PANIC! AT THE DISCO 85%<br />
6 DERYCK WHIBLEY SUM 41 83%<br />
7 ALEX GASKARTH ALL TIME LOW 75%<br />
8 DENIS STOFF ASKING ALEXANDRIA 73%<br />
9 NEIL FALLON CLUTCH 69%<br />
10 ANDREW STOCKDALE WOLFMOTHER 68%<br />
11 BEN BARLOW NECK DEEP 65%<br />
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WORDS: DAN SLESSOR<br />
KERRANG! 63
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