Mixing, Fixing, Recording and Gigging with the Spazzys

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the Spazzy girls but rest assured that’s all about to change! You may recall a little single called 'I want a divorce' that hit radio airwaves back in November 2006. Since then the band has been recording, fixing and mixing its follow up album to the 2004 killer Aloha! Go Bananas as well as hitting the road to tour this lovely brown land. The Dwarf caught up with Kat Lubjicic from the Spazzys to discuss the festival circuit, the work progress and broken bones.

For those of you who have checked out the Spazzys official website recently, you’ll have read the last post from the band which explains how Lubjicic broke her arm in a shark attack. Or did she? When the Dwarf asked Lubjicic how she broke her arm she replied “It’s a long story so I’m just telling people that I was saving a baby from a burning building *laughs*. I make up different stories every time.” Does anyone ever believe Lubjicic’s stories? “Nah. Of course not.”

The Spazzys used the Big Day Out as an outlet to road test the new album, which was a move the band knew the punters might not have approved. “We thought that was going to be a risky move playing that to the Big Day Out audience ‘cause those kids just want to hear the old songs and dance along to something that they know but we went the other way. We did play a few new songs only because we thought they were heaps better but yeah, we love playing them so we just did it…It went down great. They loved us!”

A lot of bands love playing the Big Day Out but some say the pitfall of the tour is the stage is simply too big. Three and four piece bands are often not used to such a sparse and spacious stage and this is something that Lubjicic struggled with too. “It was fun! It was ace! Of course we enjoyed it, but it’s a very big stage and I felt lonely in my little corner there. We are a three piece band and playing the Big Day Out was awesome on the main stage but we haven’t been touring very much lately so we are really missing playing little places to 20 old men.”

The band has been devoting most of its time as of late, to working on the new album. It’s been over two years since the Spazzys released its debut and the girls are thankful that they have had the luxury of time to work on their second album. It doesn’t have a title just yet but Lubjicic said the album is coming along well. “It’s pretty much finished. We’re just waiting on mixing now. I broke my arm so it’s going to take a while. I’ve got to fix little bits and pieces up on guitar and so we’ve had to push it back a bit.”

The album will most likely be released in the middle of the year. “We’ve been working on it for a long time and we’re so proud of all the songs. We’re so excited to put it out…I think it’s sounds more beautiful. It’s still really poppy and fun and by beautiful I mean we’ve just been working on the harmonies and the kind of things we weren’t touching on, on the first record” and are the songs still short and sweet and too the point? “Some are, some aren’t.”

Lubjicic broke her arm during the Big Day Out tour before the festival took place in Adelaide. Davey Lane from The Pictures and You Am I stepped up as the Spazzys guitarist for the remainder of the tour. But the fate of the Spazzy’s performance at the Push Over festival was in doubt. “My cast comes off during that week sometime so I’m just going to see how it goes…my friend is a guitar teacher and he teaches little kids from seven to fifteen (years) so I want him to teach every one of his kids one Spazzys song on guitar and then get them to play one song each and I can sing them…that’d be rad!”

Since this interview, reports on the band’s website have stated a temporary line-up has been finalised for Push Over. The Spazzys will no doubt put on a rockin’ show and the temporary line-up is sure to keep you guessing. So make sure you don’t miss this guys doing their thing in Melbourne later this month.

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