Having started off as an AC/DC tribute band, it’s easy to understand why the members of Kingswood might feel like they’re living the dream right now. But the consummate professionals were all business when talking to triple j.
The band, who are currently opening for AC/DC around Australia alongside The Hives, have already made plans for after the tour: “Yeah, we go and do our second record,” vocalist Fergus Linacre told Veronica & Lewis.
Kingswood recently unveiled a deluxe edition of their 2014 debut, Microscopic Wars, which features a selection of live recordings and a handful of new tracks that wouldn’t fit on a new album.
“The album needs to be a little family of songs all together, they can’t be years apart… so I think those songs were in the realm of the old [album] – they were in the bridging,” Linacre explained.
“I tell you why, this is what I think – I don’t know if this is going to be the case but I’ve said and people are going to get very shocked. I don’t care if there was not one guitar on the next album,” added guitarist Alex Laska.
“I was just like, so long as the songs are great and it sounds great then that’s all that matters.” If this sounds like one of Australia’s rock and roll vanguards are ditching the six-string, don’t panic.
“There’s going to be a lot of guitars,” Laska clarified. “It’s more the approach; the psychology is what I’m getting at.” But before they haul ass to the studio, the band have a bunch of live dates to get through.
In addition to the tour with AC/DC (hear a special backstage audio diary recorded for triple j below), Kingswood will be appearing at Beyond The Valley festival over the New Year’s period.
