Lucid are a 4 piece original rock band located in Perth. We caught up with Lucid whilst they were performing at the Norfolk Hotel in Fremantle.

Lucid - what a great name for this band, they really live up to it. David Saunders (lead guitar) is equally at home with his electric or acoustic guitar, we believe given more space on the stage David would really go off, as he shows a lot of enthusiasm for his craft. Full credit to David for providing a clear forceful singing dynamo - where does the energy come from!

We were not only inspired by the music but by the lyrics which were clear and understandable, hard to find that with a live performance. The energy that oozes out of from Lucid draws the attention from the crowd's ears; you could almost say that they are serene in a sea of chaos.

Mixed up with the guys on stage is Beth (base guitar), the latest addition to Lucid. Here is a lady who knows her instrument and is obviously passionate about it, we were very impressed with her performance and we see her as an asset to the band.

To allow room for growth Ben the brother of David stepped aside from base guitar to join David in the electric guitar and you can hear that it runs in the family. Now let's not forget Ollie on sticks, pounding away on the drums tucked away in the backdrop of Lucid his beat is to be commended for talent also.

If you want to see a superb performance from yet another incredible Perth original band, don't miss out on catching Lucid play. Check our guides for their current gigs.

(Darryl Westrup)

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Tell us about the band Lucid.

We are a 4 piece rock band Australian rock aiming towards a commercial market, we've been together for 3 years, but in the last 2 weeks we've had a fresh line up, my brother Ben used to play base but now he's on guitar, our newest member Ruth is playing base for us now and Ollie's our drummer.

Where do you think the rock industry in Perth is heading?

It's been hard to find rock in Perth for over ten years really, it's mainly indi rock, and it's pretty hard when you love rock and you want to play rock and there's not much about. There's not much opportunity, I believe for a rock outfit in Perth, everything's very indi pop sort of. Every band we've seen we haven't seen anything with the same genre as us, that might be a good thing or bad thing. I reckon it's a good thing.

Do Lucid have any albums out?

We have a live style CD that was released September of last year. We had a CD launch that was pretty big we probably sold 300 to 400 CDs, and given away close to a couple of hundred.

When can we expect the next one?

We're recording at the moment, and hope to release an EP sometime this year, we're doing it with Eddie Percy (ex Baby Animals base player) and hopefully it'll make us sound good, not that we don't sound good already.

Where do you see Lucid in the next couple of years?

Drinking on the beach…nah, since we started 3 years ago we've always been on an uphill slant, so we just want to keep climbing and hopefully we can get support for the EP we are going to release from Triple J or Nova or something like that, we something like that with good quality recording, the live thing was a one off thing that we did and it sounded good so we decided to flog it off as a CD. We are trying to get this CD out spend some more money on it and see what happens from there, hopefully get some distribution and some air play.

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