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date: 2003
Drumscene Magazine
writer: Sarah Ortenzio
Cog simply dont play music, they create cascading landscapes of intense sound and emotion. Lucius Borich, Luke Gower and Flynn Gower are responsible for what may just be the progression of Australian music into the next echelon. If you have not yet tuned into Cog, then you best get a head start. These guys certainly have more than adequate talent to not just follow in the footsteps of other successful bands, but to create their own path along the way.
How's the current tour going? How long have you been playing together as Cog? What's your main priority? Do you think this struggle is magnified for Australian bands? But isn't it frustrating to think that if you were in the US you'd be huge by now?
Really good! We just came back from QLD the other week and did some shows with The Mark of Cain up there-we played last night in Newcastle with them as well. It was really good to play with them, they're a great bunch of guys and both bands seemed to compliment each other well.
Do you learn alot from Bands you tour with?
Yeah I do actually. Sometimes you think you've got your machine running pretty well with your own thing, but then you can pick up bits and pieces and go "that's not a bad idea!"
We've been playing together live for about 16-17 months and we just released the EP "Just Visiting Part 1" about three months ago. It's the first of a two part series we're doing, with part two being released closer to the end of the year.
We want to keep on touring consistently. We concentrate on writing music as much as we possibly can while touring. But we all have day jobs as well, so it takes alot out of us-coming back from a long tour and getting back to the labouring site, or cafe or whatever, (laughs) it's a bt of a predicament tired wise, trying to keep yourself pumped up. The passion is definately there though, that's what keeps us here. I mean it would be great to write, play and record music at a level where we can sustain an income. That way we could just sit down and really concentrate on writing material and songs. But at this early stage, any band has to start like that-so it is just a matter of continuing to push on.
I think Australia is one of the toughest testing grounds to test your outfit, just because the roads are so long. In between cities is so far, yet the demographic of people is so small. You can only go to a certain amount of places before you find yourself back here again. It's hard sometimes, Imean you have a lot of people that love Australian music and really get into to it and strive to support it, but there are so many people that believe unless bands are from the States or Europe, they aren't any good. The psycology can be dangerous and it is quite detrimental to your outfit.
I think Australia has bands that equal any band in the world, ad it's awesome that we have our own thing, but we just get bombarded with stuff from overseas. But that's OK, it's how it is-we have to fight against that. And I mean a lot of bands have been doing so for years-it's been an ancient old struggle.
Up here they have a Tripple M unsigned find and the guy said the same thing. "If this was a song produced by an American band and came from America it'd be huge by now." That was really weird hearing that-sitting down in Australia listenning to that in your own country. It almost made me feel like 'What am I doing here?' or ' Why bother playing music if that's the way everyone's looking at it? ' It's quite a scary situation-it made me think for a couple of weeks that's for sure. Not about quitting or anything, but more about what is going on in this country. Then you've got the demgraphic of the radio-they play far more overseas music than Australian, so that just says it right there. But every Australian band has to deal with it so we'll need to keep pushing on trying to fight it. Flying the Australian music flag.