They count Liam Gallagher as a big fan, so how did DMA'S go from their Newtown apartment to standing with giants?
On March 6 this year, Sydney trio DMA’S played a sold-out show at London’s legendary Brixton Academy. It wasn’t lost on the trio that the gigs they played on their first tour of England several years ago were routinely attended by about 10 people, a bouncer and the bar staff.
Ask Took about his emotions as he walked to the stage for the band’s biggest London headlining show to date, and he’s matter of fact. “I was laughing, making jokes, just chilling. If you put the show on too much of a pedestal you’re not going to perform well. I know the songs, I know how to f---ing play them, I’m not going to play any better by thinking real hard. It’s not an exam. I just play music.Only it wasn’t meant to be the finish.
“We’ve always had a love for dance music and groove-based stuff,” says O’Dell from his Sydney home. “Some of our oldest demos were just a drum machine and vocals and guitar. When you’ve done two albums that are kind of rocky, it’s just wanting to push yourself a little bit more and take the band’s sound to different areas.”
“But we didn’t want to just be that kind of jangly pop guitar band that tried to incorporate these ravier pop tunes into the set and it’s just a flop,” he says. “We wanted it to be legit.” DMA'S, pictured on stage at the Isle of Wight Festival in 2019, count Liam Gallagher among their fans.Concerned that his charges not be overwhelmed by their surroundings, Price remodelled the studio so that it resembled what O’Dell calls “our bedroom set-up. He got a couch and a coffee table and set up his computer so we would just do takes all around each other like we did in our shitty apartment. Just with really expensive equipment.
“Your surroundings are really important as a songwriter,” says Took. “So if you’re stagnant and you’re having the same conversations in the same pubs doing the same drugs with the same people, it’s not going to get very exciting. So you’ve got to keep on your toes.”
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