The Honey Pies - Triple J 2012 Big Day Out winners - Adelaide

Having been around for just four years now, Adelaide band The Honey Pies are making the most of their various successes. With two albums under their belt and a Unearthed Winning slot on the Adelaide Big Day Out 2012, The Honey Pies, who describe themselves as the “The Shitty Beatles” – a fictitious band made famous from the Wayne’s World movies - are looking to the year ahead, taking one day at a time, trying to not make themselves crazy by attempting to “predict the future”.
Caught in the Mosh spoke with The Honey Pies in the lead up to their slot on the 2012 Adelaide leg of the Big Day Out, here’s what they had to say;
How do you see winning the opportunity to play at the BDO through the Triple J Unearthed Competition affecting your band in the future?
You can make yourself crazy trying to predict the future so I try not to. I’ve opened for the Presets and five people came out to watch them. 6 months later they sold out one of Adelaide’s biggest venues. Who knows what’s going to happen. I think we’re all really just concentrating on the Big Day itself and we’re just happy as pigs in shit that we’ve been included. The only long term prediction I’d want to make about it is that it’s going to probably be something we will remember for a long time.
Who are you most looking forward to seeing at the Big Day Out 2012?
Best Coast for me. I read that Jon Brion produced her upcoming record and I’m really curious to hear some of the new material. I think Tom from the band would say Battles. The other two boys I’m not sure. If the wind changed and Kanye West was coming down Adelaide-way, I’d be there front-centre. I think he’s going to put on a great show.
Caught in the Mosh spoke with The Honey Pies in the lead up to their slot on the 2012 Adelaide leg of the Big Day Out, here’s what they had to say;
How do you see winning the opportunity to play at the BDO through the Triple J Unearthed Competition affecting your band in the future?
You can make yourself crazy trying to predict the future so I try not to. I’ve opened for the Presets and five people came out to watch them. 6 months later they sold out one of Adelaide’s biggest venues. Who knows what’s going to happen. I think we’re all really just concentrating on the Big Day itself and we’re just happy as pigs in shit that we’ve been included. The only long term prediction I’d want to make about it is that it’s going to probably be something we will remember for a long time.
Who are you most looking forward to seeing at the Big Day Out 2012?
Best Coast for me. I read that Jon Brion produced her upcoming record and I’m really curious to hear some of the new material. I think Tom from the band would say Battles. The other two boys I’m not sure. If the wind changed and Kanye West was coming down Adelaide-way, I’d be there front-centre. I think he’s going to put on a great show.

What can punters expect from your show at the Big Day Out?
To anyone uninitiated with our band, but familiar with Wayne’s World- there’s a band in that movie called The Shitty Beatles. You never get to hear any of their music, but I’d say that’s us, The Shitty Beatles.
Have you found it difficult to gain exposure as an up and coming band?
Magazines want to write about, and radio stations want to play, bands that their audience already knows about. And that's fair enough. It’s only natural. It’s hard to become a band that people know about without being in the magazines or being on the radio, but luckily AC/DC once wrote a very informative song about the distance one must travel if they wish to rock and roll, so we don’t take it too much to heart.
To anyone uninitiated with our band, but familiar with Wayne’s World- there’s a band in that movie called The Shitty Beatles. You never get to hear any of their music, but I’d say that’s us, The Shitty Beatles.
Have you found it difficult to gain exposure as an up and coming band?
Magazines want to write about, and radio stations want to play, bands that their audience already knows about. And that's fair enough. It’s only natural. It’s hard to become a band that people know about without being in the magazines or being on the radio, but luckily AC/DC once wrote a very informative song about the distance one must travel if they wish to rock and roll, so we don’t take it too much to heart.

You’ve had some impressive names working on your new album (Dave Crowe, Jack Farley, & Steve Rooke); how has it been having these people to collaborate with?
We were really happy with Dave and Jack’s work. Also, we always try and work with people who not only have a track record but who are a pleasure to be around and they were that in spades. Steve Rooke, who mastered the record, we never actually met… which I think is actually kind of an amazing thing. It’d have been lovely to have met him; people like that always have stories to tell. But I love that in this day and age you can so easily access anyone and digitally transfer to and fro and communicate with them, it just opens up the whole world to you even you’re just some pissant band from the arse-end of the world, you can still work with someone whose work you love.
What inspires you as a musician?
It sounds like a cop-out answer or a bit hard to understand… But just music itself and the fact that music even exists is I think pretty inspiring. If you stop to think about it, it’s amazing the way a few different sounds played in the right order can have such a weird effect on you. I’m always inspired to keep coming back to music because I just feel like no matter how much music you make there’s always more music waiting to be summoned into the world.
We were really happy with Dave and Jack’s work. Also, we always try and work with people who not only have a track record but who are a pleasure to be around and they were that in spades. Steve Rooke, who mastered the record, we never actually met… which I think is actually kind of an amazing thing. It’d have been lovely to have met him; people like that always have stories to tell. But I love that in this day and age you can so easily access anyone and digitally transfer to and fro and communicate with them, it just opens up the whole world to you even you’re just some pissant band from the arse-end of the world, you can still work with someone whose work you love.
What inspires you as a musician?
It sounds like a cop-out answer or a bit hard to understand… But just music itself and the fact that music even exists is I think pretty inspiring. If you stop to think about it, it’s amazing the way a few different sounds played in the right order can have such a weird effect on you. I’m always inspired to keep coming back to music because I just feel like no matter how much music you make there’s always more music waiting to be summoned into the world.

What are your thoughts on file sharing and the digital methods in which music is distributed these days? How does this affect you now, and how do you think it will affect you in the future?
I have mixed feelings about digital distribution. I love the ease with which music can now be accessed, but it’s bittersweet for me because I lost a lot of money investing in a suppository-based music system which I believed at the time would be the next big-thing. Actually, if they’d been smaller that might have helped. Oh well.
If the opportunity ever presented it’s self and you were given the chance to program RAGE, what would be your top five videos and why?
The Smashing Pumpkins, 1979. Flying Lotus, Parisian Goldfish. The Beatles, Hey Jude. Chemical Brothers, Let Forever Be. Weezer, Buddy Holly. Because the opportunity presented itself.
Catch The Honey Pies at the Adelaide 2012 Big Day Out and keep up-to-date with the band at their official site, Facebook and Youtube.
BAND NAME : The Honey Pies
BAND MEMBERS : Jon Marco (rhythm guitar), Tony Marshall (lead guitar), Tom McCarthy-Jones (bass), Marcus Warnecke (drums)
LATEST ALBUM / EP : Carpe Carp
KEY TRACKS : Girl, My O My O Me O My, Vespa
TIckets for the Adelaide Big Day Out can be bought here
Tickets for other cities can be bought here
I have mixed feelings about digital distribution. I love the ease with which music can now be accessed, but it’s bittersweet for me because I lost a lot of money investing in a suppository-based music system which I believed at the time would be the next big-thing. Actually, if they’d been smaller that might have helped. Oh well.
If the opportunity ever presented it’s self and you were given the chance to program RAGE, what would be your top five videos and why?
The Smashing Pumpkins, 1979. Flying Lotus, Parisian Goldfish. The Beatles, Hey Jude. Chemical Brothers, Let Forever Be. Weezer, Buddy Holly. Because the opportunity presented itself.
Catch The Honey Pies at the Adelaide 2012 Big Day Out and keep up-to-date with the band at their official site, Facebook and Youtube.
BAND NAME : The Honey Pies
BAND MEMBERS : Jon Marco (rhythm guitar), Tony Marshall (lead guitar), Tom McCarthy-Jones (bass), Marcus Warnecke (drums)
LATEST ALBUM / EP : Carpe Carp
KEY TRACKS : Girl, My O My O Me O My, Vespa
TIckets for the Adelaide Big Day Out can be bought here
Tickets for other cities can be bought here