“It didn’t really matter if you were crap or silly or unbearably and a lot of bands being recognised on a much wider basis.”
offensive, you wouldn’t get much further doing something difClinton Oliver, vocalist and guitarist with garage rock group
ferent anyway,” adds Allbrook. “This helps to preserve a magical Gunns – another band on the rise thanks to in part forto the interpurity because it’s executed with love – with necessity. And est in all things Perth – agrees: “It gave everyone huge confidence
what’s more, when these artists keep going and practising and seeing bands like Tame and Pond succeed,” he says. “They
advancing – which they must – somehow their crassness coagu- really put this city on the map. I feel like people are paying a lot
lates into something brilliantly individual and accomplished.”
more attention to bands in Perth now. So yeah it does make you
It could be argued that because Tame Impala, Pond and, to wonder if your chance is coming.”
a lesser degree, the spin-off projects from those bands’ interWhatever the impact these Perth bands have had internachangeable personnel have successfully taken that ‘coagulated tionally, back home the laidback attitude that provided them
crassness’ onto the international stage, those artists now devel- with the environment in which to thrive remains mostly intact,
oping in their wake back in Perth will be denied the freedom – which gives hope to all those still searching for their own voice
that the Troy Terrace set enjoyed. However, Peter Bibby, a in this creative melting pot at the end of the earth.
“Back in Perth, people don’t treat me differently, I’m still just
contemporary of Parker, Allbrook et al, who is among the
leading acts from the next wave of Perth bands, believes that Kevin and no-one attaches any of this bizarre, constructed rock
while the inevitable wave of Tame Impala copyists that swelled star status to me or any of the other guys,” Parker concludes.
after Innerspeaker’s breakthrough initially diluted the creative “That’s why Perth is a sanctuary. I can go home and be with my
well, Perth is now benefitting f ɽ