The Killer Hipsters

IOU video out now!

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The Killer Hipsters have a ‘General Manager’ by the name of ‘Luscious Johnny Leopardskin’. This says a lot even before you hear a sound.

They are borne of the raw, visceral attack that hooks us all from New York to Perth – from The Ramones to Blondie.

“He told me he liked my guitar work but that I was in the wrong band,” Stacey laughs recalling his first meeting with Luscious Johnny at an inner-city sauna.

“The kind of guitar sounds in music that when I hear them they make my hair stand up on end,” Stacey explains. “Les Paul and Marshalls; the sound of Never Mind The Bollocks or Billy Duffy in The Cult.”

“I’m pretty meat-and-potatoes, I walk around with sheets of paper rather than recording equipment.”

With other sprinklings of Antipodean sauce in the form of The Baby Animals et al, the band that has come to thrive as The Killer Hipsters are united by punk rock instincts and a sense of everyone having their say.

“Tommy (Marsh) our drummer is crucial,” Stacey explains. “He turns my guitar riffs into something else, something that we like to refer as “Dinkle Dust”. It’s really quite an easy process. We’re lucky, we all get on and give each other space to play as well.

Having hit Perth stages later in 2014, The Killer Hipsters released their self-titled debut album in mid-2016 followed by a vinyl release of their 2018 EP, Next Big Thing critically acclaimed for its protopunk tightness that tips its hat to a dystopian future.

“It’s a lot more layered,” Stacey notes. “We became a little more savvy with the sounds of those songs, and the playing was a lot tighter as well. Even in guitar bands, it’s really the drums and bass that make things heavy.”

As the sound was being consolidated on the EP however, evolution was on the agenda with the introduction in 2018 of a new vocalist, Christabel Ellis.

“Bel is a Perth rock legend,” blushes Stacey, “and she brings along a leather bag full of discipline.”

The new EP, IOU, is out now on iTunes, Spotify and all other streaming services.