In Fiction

Heavily touted Adelaide five piece In Fiction are poised for a big year.

With a recently completed debut record under their belts, guitarist Josh answered the following questions for us…

Interview w/ Josh (Guitars) of

In Fiction

By Cameron Chambers 

For the record, your name and

what you do for In Fiction? 

I’m Josh and I play guitar. 

If you had to describe In Fiction

to someone who’d never heard you, what would you say? 

It changes all the time, but generally

it’s something along the lines of fun, energetic rock. How do you

feel about that? 

Can you give us a brief history

of the band? 

Well, we started the band in early

2005 and once we played a whole heap of Adelaide shows, we started getting

out on the road and met Boomtown Records and since then the road has been home… 

Were you guys in any other

bands prior to In Fiction? 

We all played in local Adelaide

bands previously and that is how most of us met each other. 

How long had the band been

around before you started getting interest from labels? 

Boomtown actually displayed

interest to release our first EP before we’d ever left Adelaide as

a band and they hooked us up with our first interstate shows so they

could check us out. 

A lot of bands make a big push

of where it could all go or were you just looking to play some shows? 

When we had finished recording

our first E.P, we didn’t actually think about labels or anything as

none of us had been involved in that sort of stuff beforehand, so when

we were approached it really opened up our eyes and we thought that

we could actually do this for real. 

How did your relationship with

Boomtown come about? 

Yeah, well as I said before, Jaddan at Boomtown approached us after recommendation from Josh in Behind Crimson Eyes and was interested in putting

out our Four Letter Failure EP. 

Why is Boomtown the best fit

for a band like In Fiction? 

Boomtown have a great range

of bands and gave us a huge foot in the door to meet a whole heap of

people and Boomtown have worked so hard to keep the ball rolling

for In Fiction and its been a great ride so far. 

In the short time you guys

personally and as a band? 

Personal highlights would definitely

have to be touring with some great bands around the country. 

The Kisschasy tour that

we did late 2007 was really great for us and opened up a whole world

of opportunity. As a band, we have come so far learning about each other

and working together, and are about to release our debut album this

year. We have gotten through some real rough periods and to come through

them, we have really grown as people and as a band and I think it’s

really exciting. 

In Fiction are

biggest differences between doing a full record and an EP? 

We approached the album just like

we would with any other recording, we made sure we were prepared for

anything it through at us. We had to write 20 – 25 songs and chose

what 12 we thought would fit best together on the album. 

The amount of work that goes into

an album compared to an EP is astounding. 

Did you

that you were looking to achieve? 

Not really, we just wrote the

songs we wanted to write, we didn’t set out to right a pop song, or

a heavy song. We wrote what we felt and I think that’s exactly how

it should be. We all worked hard to grow as musicians and I think we

did great in achieving that. 

How would you compare the overall

or is it a natural progression from your past work? 

I think each release has been

an awesome growth process for us. We never want to just write the same

song over and over, and I think the album has got some really great

diversity on it.  

Some sounds on the album reflect

previous EP songs but overall, I personally think our song writing is

still continuing to grow nicely and hopefully keeps on going. 

Are we going to be seeing another

video clip from you guys? 

Hell yeah, doing our last clip

was so much fun putting it together. We are so amped to do more clips

for the singles on the album. We have some awesome ideas floating around

for video concepts. 

What tour plans have you got

to promote the record’s release? 

We will be hitting up all around

Australia on headline tours to promote the record and we are in the

process of organising some more international supports etc… so everyone

can expect us to come to a city near them in 2008. 

Any truth to the rumour that

In Fiction have a “no drinking on tour” rule? 

Hahaha I think that statement

got a bit out of control. Our first couple of tours were very hard and

in order to keep our band above water, we decided to come together and

put the bands interests first and foremost. Whether we drink or not,

I don’t see it being a huge deal. Haha  

Who are some Australian bands

that you’d like people to check out? 

Nazarite Vow from our hometown

Adelaide, awesome up and coming heavy band, and also The Mission

In Motion from Sydney are on a roll! 

Do you think beards are an

integral part of rock n roll? 

Definitely, every band must have

at least one beard. 

Any last words? 

We are hitting the road all through

out the year kicking off in April, so check out our myspace for all

tour dates etc.