ChitChat - With Teenage Joans
INTERVIEW BY: EMERALD VIOLET
Hi, thank you for giving your time to answer these questions! Over at Rawing In The Pit we love your music and huge congrats on the nomination for the SA Music Awards!
To start off the questions, and I promise it will be the only COVID question in this - How has this crazy outbreak that started at the end of July affected you guys in the way of touring and just overall being a musician?
It’s unfortunately affected us a lot. We haven’t been able to play any festivals this year which usually the winners of Unearthed High get to do as part of their prize. We’ve also lost a lot of shows and have had to reschedule our first ever national headline tour so many times which sucks so much!
What do you think has been a huge highlight of your music career so far?
Definitely winning Unearthed High 2020. It was such a chaotic day but so surreal! Also getting into the 2020 Hottest 100 was amazing. We were so stoked about it that we actually both got the number we came (87) tattooed! Supporting Amy Shark on her arena tour this year was also so incredible, we felt like real life rockstars.
Coming back to touring, what is your favourite thing about it?
Our favourite thing definitely has to be meeting everyone who supports us. It’s so wild that there are people that love what we do enough to come to our shows and sing the words we wrote back to us. We also love getting on the snacks when we’re on the road!
You released your EP “Taste Of Me” back in May of this year, are you happy with the overall response that you’ve received?
We are so over the moon with the response. People love it enough that they scream the words to us at shows and thats all we could have ever asked for! This EP has honestly changed our life and we are so glad that people can relate to it.
Can you tell us a little bit about the EP and where the concept came from and what those songs mean to you?
We wrote this EP in the first year of knowing each other and playing as a band. We played around 60 shows in 2019, we were playing every weekend and those songs are about the experiences we were having growing out of being a teenager and growing into adulthood. The concept kind of naturally formed when most songs accidentally formed from food metaphors, and it was so fun to work with food as a part of the visual side of making this EP.
Favourite song on the EP and why?
Our favourite song on the EP has to be Wine. It’s definitely our “coming of age movie” song, and we just love that it seems to be a crowd favourite too.
If you could play anywhere in the world with a band of your choice, where would it be, what band would you choose, and why?
We would absolutely DIE to play with 5sos. Literally anywhere in the world, we wouldn’t care if we got to play with them! They inspired bot of us musically so much, it would be the biggest honour to share a stage with them.
Who are some of your biggest inspirations when it comes to creating music?
We take heaps of inspiration from bands like 5 Seconds Of Summer, beabadoobee, Camp Cope, Mom Jeans, The 1975, and Blink 182. We both grew up on these artists and started really wanting to write our own music because of them. They also made us really want to be in a band, so it was so cool when we met and realised we have a very similar music taste!
2021 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSIC AWARDS FINALISTS
BEST COVER ART (Presented by Version Design)
Wolf & Cub - Nil (Luke Byrne)
The Mondays – No Sugar Sprite (Arkadia Visuals)
Kaurna Cronin – Aloft In Blue (Julia Thornberg – Thorsoee)
Heaps Good Friends – Up Close and Personal (Ashley Giles)
Holas May – Block Letter (Angus Smith/Angvs)
Teenage Joans – Taste of Me (Samuel Graves & Eve Burner)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO (Presented by Alpha Box & Dice)
Slowmango – Thairaide (Kaspar Schmidt Mumm & Emmaline Zanelli)
Teenage Joans – Something About Being Sixteen (Jack Bielby & Thomas Schaefer)
TOWNS – Swimming (Thomas Schaefer & Jack Bielby)
Neofix – Freedom (Neofix)
Glowing – Poppy (Harry Nathan)
BEST SONG (Presented by APRA AMCOS)
George Alice – Teenager
Motez – Reset
Stellie – 22 Pieces
Teenage Joans – Something About Being Sixteen
Wolf & Cub – Blue State
BEST NEW ARTIST (Presented by WOMADelaide)
Teenage Joans
Mum Friends
Rocky’s Pride & Joy
Tilly Tjala Thomas
Jess Johns
MARLON X RULLA
BEST GROUP (Presented by Derringers Music)
Bermuda Bay
Teenage Joans
The Empty Threats
TOWNS
The Mondays
BEST RELEASE (Presented by themusic.com.au)
MANE – Coping Mechanisms
Motez – Reset
Pinkish Blu – People Just Do Good Things Sometimes
Stellie – Stellie (Self-titled)
Teenage Joans – Taste Of Me
Tom West – I’m Livin’
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS FINALISTS
PUNK (Presented by Three D Radio)
AGAPANTHER
Bitchspawn
LOLA
Teenage Joans
Wing Defence
2021 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSIC AWARDS
Thursday, 18 November 2021
Old Adelaide Gaol (18 Gaol Rd, Adelaide, Kaurna Land)
Entrance from Gaol Road
Tickets are available via Moshtix for $70 + bf.
The SAM Awards is looking ahead to the future in continuing their commitment to celebrating the thriving community of musicians that really makes SA great.
