Capeside

When she’s not busy hanging out with Dawson at his creek, Lisa plays keyboards and sings in Melbourne pop punk powerhouse Capeside.

Lisa got rid of Dawson long enough for us to ask her these questions…

Interview w/ Lisa (keyboards/vocals)

of “Capeside”

Name, what you do in Capeside

and your favourite 80’s movie? 

Hi, I’m Lisa. My role in Capeside

is to occasionally bring baked goods, raise the overall standard of

personal hygiene, get way too excited about everything we do and pull

amazing shapes. 

No decade can match the cinematic

brilliance of the 80’s.

In a nutshell - It’s all about

the Coreys in The Lost Boys, Ferris was my hero and anything created

by John Hughes = genius. 

If you were the star of a cheesy

teen drama who would you be – the school’s bitchy queen bee OR the nice girl who emerges victorious in the final episode? 

Have you been reading my diary?

And by that I mean I have never thought about that scenario at all…ever.  

I don’t think I’d be either

of the above - I’ve got ‘wacky sidekick’ written all over me.

The weird kid who pops us every now and then to offer some kind of comic

relief (generally at the expense of themselves) when the story line

is beginning to falter. 

Jokes aside, tell us how Capeside

got together… 

Leigh, Simo and I were all working

together when, feeling a need to further inflate his ego one afternoon,

Simo decided to show leigh that he had more to offer than just rock

hard abs and two tickets to the gun show. Leigh loved what Simo’s

pipes could do and so the Capeside journey began… 

I’d been busting out some tunes

of the acoustic variety with Leigh for a while, so he asked me to join

them and lift their game. About 5 months later, we decided to put an

end to his begging and let Cripps in.  

A particularly well executed pickup

at East Brunswick Club ended with Cripps number closing on Doobes.

The final spot went to the man who survived our harsh initiation process

(comprising of a series of tasks each more humiliating, terrifying and

soul crushing than the last) – that man was Benny Chong. 

Did you think Capeside would

know something special was happening early on in the piece? 

To be completely honest, there

was a time when I thought Capeside wasn’t going to happen at all.

Things moved very slowly in the beginning, however, this all

changed once we acquired a full band - everything just clicked. 

I’m still surprised it’s

actually happening. 

Not a lot of male models are

secret is? 

He has such a versatile look,

he delivers on every single challenge, always has a great attitude and

has no qualms offering sexual favours to those in positions of power…and

that is why he is still in the running to become Australia’s next

top model. 

Thanks to some of your members

“paying your dues”? 

Don’t hate the player, hate

the game.  

No, honestly I am so grateful

for all of this. Trust me, I realise we are very lucky to have gotten

where we’re at this quickly. However, if you do the math (I also recommend

the creation of a pie chart), more than half the band has been rocking

it out for a really long time, so they deserve a little somethin’

somethin’. Myself and Simo on the other hand... 

…did I mention I make cupcakes? 

What’s the writing process

it more of a collective effort? 

Cripps likes to think he comes

up with the hits, but we don’t call him b-track for nothing – you

know what I’m saying?  

Generally we get to practice,

ask if anyone has any sweet riffs to bring to the table, then just jam

on it as a group and hope that what emerges at the end is pure, dance

inducing, gold.  

Was there a sound you guys

turn out this way? 

They just came out this cheesy

I swear! 

What do you think is more important…

good hair or good riffs? 

Hopefully neither is crucial,

or we could be in some trouble. 

You were lucky enough to land

(USA) tour – how did the hip hop fans respond to Capeside? 

I was definitely a little apprehensive

about how we’d fare at the GC shows. Turns out my concerns were unwarranted

as the crowds knew I was straight up gangsta from the word go (possibly

due to the brass knuckles I had hanging from my neck on a chain) so

we got much respect. 

Given that you guys don’t have keytars – how did you go down with the crowd when

you opened for Hellogoodbye? 

I don’t have a keytar yet - the day will come.  

I was so beyond excited for these

shows (the boys can attest that I nearly began hyperventilating when

I found out we got the support). The underage HG show remains my favourite

of all the shows we have played thus far. The response from the crowd

was amazing – I couldn’t believe it! We were asked to sign people’s

pants Cam – THEIR PANTS!!!  

Considering the quality of

knock out an EP or full length? 

We are all really keen to get

something tangible out there, but you know money is always a factor

in how quickly these things can come to fruition. That being said, we’re

hoping to start recording in December – I can’t wait!! 

Apart from your national slot

this year? 

Once I calm down from the reality

of actually getting to play the HiFi (I can’t believe it!!) we’ll

be getting stuck into writing some new tracks with, as I mentioned earlier,

the view to get into the studio in December.  

Horsell are pretty flat out in

November so that will be a fairly quiet time for us, however, we’re

still looking to do a few more shows before the year is out. Also, January

is going to see us hitting the road again – keep an eye out! 

Who gets more fan mail, you

or Cripps? 

Neither. It’s all about Doobes!

He loves the people and the people love him. 

Who are some local bands that

you’re digging at the moment… and please don’t say MDK?! 

Who???...Just kidding, relax Jared. 

* Horsell (obvious, I know)

* Responder

* Rex Banner

* Magentaline

* The Sundance Kids

* MDK…?? 

Buy their CD’s!!!! 

If you could bring any band

on tour with Capeside, who would it be and why? 

Very hard question, though I can

pretty much assure you MDK wouldn’t make the cut. 

Seriously though, touring is all

about good times so I’d pretty much love to hit the road with any

band that is down to earth, fun and knows their way around a good hug. 

…priority would go to bands

that have a member who is worse than me at poker. 

When Capeside sign a million

each? 

You’ve gone wrong in your mind

tank. 

Any parting words Lisa? 

If you are underage and in the

Ballarat area on Saturday 21^st  September head down to 21 Arms for dancing, hugs and a whole lot of

fun. 

After that you can check us out

on tour with Birds of Tokyo in October, good times will be had – dates

up on our space. 

This has been fun! 

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