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<\/a><\/p>\nAustralian four-piece\u00a0Nite Fields\u00a0unveil new track \u2018Winter’s Gone\u2019 in anticipation of their forthcoming debut LP\u00a0\u2018Depersonalisation\u2019<\/i>, which is set for release on\u00a0Feb 2nd.<\/p>\n
Home is a difficult place to pinpoint for Nite Fields.\u00a0 While their coming together took place in Melbourne, all four members originally hail from Brisbane. A humid and notoriously conservative city, the band is currently split between that city and Sydney.<\/p>\n
Lead singer and songwriter Danny Venzin is opinionated, passionate, and uncompromising, whether releasing works on his own label Lost Race or maintaining his diligent focus on a unified (though not narrow-minded) Nite Fields aesthetic, regardless of what music is currently in fashion. His band mates Chris Campion, Liza Harvey and Michael Whitney consist of deeply immersed players in a tight-nit local D.I.Y. scene.<\/p>\n
Poetic and personal, you need only to listen to the record’s lyrics and atmosphere to understand where the title\u00a0Depersonalisation<\/i>\u00a0comes from. Recurring themes include disassociation of reality and dissipation of love, with Venzin\u2019s understated and at times unsettling vocal delivery almost as hard to forget as the album\u2019s unique mood.<\/p>\n
Give us an insight into your journey \u2013 how did you guys all get together?<\/b><\/p>\n
We all come from a small conservative city so were destined to meet each other sooner or later buying organically grown marijuana or hydroponic lady finger bananas.<\/p>\n
Is it ever a compromise to collectively agree on anything \u2013 like the direction you want to take a particular track or the sound of your music?<\/b><\/p>\n
Anyone that tells you a band is a democracy is either a liar or plays in a terrible band. A creative project needs an able leader with a distinct vision. That vision is then enriched, or sometimes compromised by others.<\/p>\n
Any in-house fights?<\/b><\/p>\n
None that can be revealed without causing another.<\/p>\n
Are there any other musicians or infamous musical moments that first made you realize that this is what you wanted to do as a career? Who inspires you to write and perform?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
Career? I’ve made -$39,650 in this industry thus far. I’m not inspired. It’s just that I’d make a terrible doctor, conservationist, or (gasp) politician, so ‘musician’ seems like the only thing worthwhile left for me.<\/p>\n
What were you all listening too as you were growing up? What were the foundations behind your interest in music-making? Any guilty pleasures?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
Naughties trance, Pop-punk, late era Grunge, Justin Timberblake’s ‘Senorita’ on repeat – I plead guilty. Google ‘Redlands City’ to see where I grew up. Back then it was ‘Redlands Shire’ so downgrade quality of culture by 56.32%.. Things only got interesting when I realised I was just being a punk by hating my mum’s Icehouse, Goanna and Midnight Oil CDs.<\/p>\n
What are your favourite tracks for when you guys are touring \/ on the road?<\/b><\/p>\n
We have a terrible habit of running out of music half-way back from the 24 hour round trip to Sydney and succumbing to the petrol station CD rack. Billy Idol, Michael Jackson and INXS > Taylor Swift, AC\/DC and Simon and Garfunkel.<\/p>\n