Young Revelry

Tue 10th Aug, 2010 in Features

Young Revelry’s You And I EP is set to be launched over two nights, 13 and 14 August, at the Bird, and is followed up by an extensive 18-date national tour with Calling All Cars and Numbers Radio. Pretty tidy effort for a band on the verge of their first release, but then, Sebastian Astone (whom y’all may know from his other project Harlequin League) doesn’t seem to be one to dick around.

“We haven’t really been playing [live] much at all since we started the band, so this is like the first, sort-of, really busy period that we’ve got, I suppose” Astone explains “So [we’re]just trying to get ready for that and just trying to keep the work rate up as far as new songs and that go at the same time.”

Straight from the studio to the big stages then?

“We’ve done bits and bobs over east. We’ve played in Sydney a helluva lot, but this is our first really extensive tour, I guess. I think we’ve been everywhere at least once, but this is our first extensive tour that we’ve done. We’re playing all the regionals and stuff, which is pretty good fun.”

Aside from the excitement of upcoming launches and tours, the actual process of recording this first EP sounds like a joy. Departing the city for the sanctity of the countryside, the band bunkered down for a couple of weeks with producer Woody Annison—known for his work with Children Collide, among others.

“Yeah, we recorded at a place called the Straw House, which is in Witchcliffe, just outside of Margaret River. So it’s just about five minutes off Redgate Beach, which is out in the middle of the bush. We just went out there for about a week and just bunkered down and slept in every day and ate well and recorded. That was the vibe for the release, which was good, it was nice and relaxed.

“In saying that, we thought we had enough time to get everything done because we thought ‘we’re not gonna be on any watch because we’re in the studio’ and stuff, but towards the end we realised ‘shit, we’re probably a bit too relaxed here’. But it was a good vibe. I don’t know if our next release we’ll do that again, I think maybe we’ll head towards recording in a studio. But it was definitely a good vibe.”

“I suppose we wanted something really raw and honest, really. That’s sort of like what we were referencing when we went into the studio. It’s just really organic and honest sound and there’s not a ridiculous amount of production that’s gone into it. We just try to keep things really tasteful and simple, and that’s the kind of vibe that we went for.”

“[The Straw House is a] seven bedroom house, and the walls are insulated with straw. So it was a pretty cool vibe. I thought the house was really old initially when we went there, but it wasn’t. It was only built about ten years ago or something. But it’s got a good vibe to it, it’s cool.”

Cool indeed, and the band hasn’t rested on their laurels. Astone reveals that they are in the process of demoing their second record, so it’s safe to say we’ll be hearing plenty from Young Revelry in the future!