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Midsumma, JOY interview and Loz's Broken Bum

2007-01-21 - 8:43 p.m.

2007 has started in a big way for us Suade lads with an appearance on the big stage at Federation Square as part of the opening ceremony for the Midsumma festival on January 19th. We'll also be doing the next three Thursday nights at Zinc bar as part of the festival.

The Midsumma festival is Melbourne's Mardi Gras, a huge and very popular gay and lesbian celebration bringing together all sorts of acts under a banner of pride and tolerance.

Chris and Loz did an interview for Jenny at Melbourne's JOY FM and Suade were the feature artist of the week on JOY in the lead-up to the Midsumma appearances.

Here's a few clips from the hour-long interview (in Mp3 format):
On salad, the "suade" name, the Blain family, and the other Suade boys
On X Factor, Kaya, the Aussie a cappella community, and touring
On promotion, myspace, live shows, inspiration and Take 6
On recording, the underpants song, and Az Yet
On Bohemian Rhapsody, arrangements, Midsumma festival and the Real Group
On cuddles for Christmas and the Blain family's Christmas Spanners
On Johnny "Farnsy" Farnham

Hope you enjoy those!

On a final note, the latest shot has been fired in the Blain brothers' battle to see who can perform under the most medically challenging circumstances. You may remember part one where Chris sang a mayfields gig while coughing up blood, and drove himself to hospital afterwards.

Then there was part two last year when Loz had testicular cancer, and turned up to a show immediately after his chemotherapy treatment.

Loz has struck again for part three, by spectacularly crashing his motorcycle and breaking his sacrum, or the arse-bone just above the coxxyx. This is excruciatingly painful and is expected to take months to heal properly. His performance at Fed Square for Midsumma was thus heavily sponsored by Panadeine Forte, and the observant may have noted him limping straight offstage into a waiting getaway car to get back to his sick bed.

Troopers, these Suade boys, troopers I say.

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