Ride Into The Sun bassist Adam Vanderwerf is excited, with the Adelaide psych rockers headed north to play Bigsound.
“We've just released our latest mini LP that was recorded and produced by Alex Maas and Brett Orrison from The Black Angels, so we'll be playing a fair bit of that stuff [at Bigsound] and also throwing in a couple of brand new songs that we've written just for this set of shows. But yeah, really looking forward to getting up to Brisbane because this is our first time.”
While Ride Into The Sun are eager for their first visit to Brisbane, the five-piece aren't strangers to the stage. With a couple of festival appearances in their hometown as well as a number of international supports, the band are ready to expand their fanbase.
“We've obviously done a few festivals now, we've done our own headline. We're hitting up Bigsound and then we're heading over to Sydney for the first Sydney Psych Fest. So we'll play that and then we're going to concentrate on recording some demos and getting some stuff out. Back here in Adelaide we've supported Dinosaur Jr, Earthless, played Floor Elevator and Big Day Out, and also we got the number one most played band on our local community radio station.”
It's this kind of work ethic that has started to bring the band to the attention of the rest of the country. But Adam knows that living in Adelaide means his band has to work harder to achieve their goals.
“We're a hard working band, we recorded a full length album in the first six weeks of being together and [we're] constantly writing new ideas and trying to nut them out. I think you make do with what you've got. You try to push yourself and try to get yourself out there as much as possible.
“I mean, I never thought being in a band from Adelaide we'd get invited to play Psych Fest which is what we did. It's really setting goals and pushing yourself towards them and if you make those goals and you get somewhere further then that's even better!”
Ride Into The Sun play Bigsound at Press Club Thursday September 12 at 9.10pm.
