SYDONIA INTERVIEW If you are looking for some fresh Australian musical beefcake then look no further.  SYDONIA is the real deal!  I saw them several times when they were on tour with Stone Sour and they never let me down.  Their music will bring you to tears and make your neck hurt all at the same time.  Thanks STONE SOUR for helping them out!  LL:  Describe your typical fan. SAM:  Describing a typical fan is kind of difficult as our fan base grows ever broader...from 2 year old head bangers (Aiden on Sorry...youTube) to 80 year old grand parents with machine guns...not our family members as such, but definitely now part of the extended family...it's a rather long extension...out of range so to speak...but family none the less.  LL:  What is the difference between touring in the US and Australia? SAM:  The major difference is population of course, but essentially it's the gushing that spins me out...I mean everyone who approachs us after a gig is so stoked. In Oz, fans are a little more laid back in their appreciation. In the USA, we were taking photos together everywhere, we signed everything from shoes, pants, shirts, faces, tities, sticks, tickets, CDs, other bands CDs, that was weird but warranted, it was at a festival...hell, Adam signed a guy's shin that ended up being tattooed the next day...I had one guy almost demand a pair of my sticks after a show because he was so impressed...then again, we were in a back alley, it was dark, we were naked...but I digress.

LL:  How long does it generally take you to write a song?

SAM:  Our song writing process is varied, it usually begins from someone's input of a riff or a beat or a melody and we all chop and change it around until it feels ready to serve up...we prefer to play a song live a few times before anything is set in stone...hell, our song "Incoming" copped a new change on the USA tour purely by chance...it was a single guitar reset that Dana usually plays by himself until we all kick back in and on this particular evening his new noise suppressor cut it out by accident but we all came back in together and so a new part was born...6 or 7 years since its inception.

LL:  What band has influenced you the most?

SAM:   It is very hard to pin down any one influence as all of our tastes vary so much throughout so many genres...I guess that's why our sound is hard to pin down...Jim Root of Stone Sour said we are pretty much forging our own genre...I tend to agree with him.

   
LL:  What is it like touring with Stone Sour?

SAM:   Touring with Stone Sour is by far the most incredible experience Sydonia has had yet as a band. They gave us a window of opportunity like no other and we clawed through it with all our energy in order to make it work...so many wolves through those kind of windows...but I rode one...like a mighty elk...but it was a wolf...and I was a bowl of grits all smeared through its fur...but I rode it none the less

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LL:  What band member gets the most girls?

SAM:  Our crew gets all the girls...it's band policy...as we are virgins, waiting to be sold like Japanese Geishas...but only to the highest bidder because we are honorable...and we are proper ladies.

LL:  What is your favorite part of being a musician?

SAM:  Creating the music that shapes our lives and tells the story of our adventures...such is the life of a pirate on the open seas for he must be able to pass on the tales to his rising kin so as they remain safe to kill another day...where did that go? My favorite part is the sexy part

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LL:  What is everyone’s favorite candy?

SAM:   I don't know what the others like but I dig organic chocolate...it tends to be smoother and more satisfying when you just leave it on your tongue to melt...hungry...me hungry....

LL:  What do your fans have to look forward to in the upcoming months?

SAM:   As we lick our wounds from being destroyed in the States by a dodgy van hire company that stiffed us for thousands of dollars, we have to get to work and save our pretty pennies in hopes of returning to the USA to showcase in front of some industry cats and refresh our memories with all the new fans we made over there. Hopefully, we'll have a DVD of the whole experience up and ready to roll by then too

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LL:  If you could be any animal for a day what would you be?

SAM:  I could be an animal for a day...hell, I'd love to be every animal at once for that day...see how that feels...I'd probably turn on the human race by the evening though...it'd be for the best...except the next day when I'm left alone...no, that'd be OK...I'm cool with that...but who would buy me and change me from a girl to a woman? Who, I ask you? I am confused.

NO WOMAN'S LAND live featuring James Root.
Aug 2007 @ Hampton Beach, NH, USA >>