October 12, 2008

HQ had reached its capacity of the amount of people it could hold plus more coming to have a bit of a taste of the boys EP launch.  With noise like this, it could kick the planet off its axis. Hot, heavy, exciting and definitely deafening and it’s what the crowd paid to come and see. Arturo Chaos is brilliant.

The self managed hard rock screamo band was not one to miss. The audience became one big heaving mass at any sign of movement from the stage. Not only were the boys going crazy on stage but the drumming was solid and outstanding and the solos that were pumped out were intense. Both guitarist were amazing and defiantly know their instrument from back to front.

Standing over the air punches was the vocalist screaming out to everyone with everything he had and more in a severely kinetic voice. Arturo Chaos was absolutely stoked with the fans for knowing every single word to their tunes making it a surefire crowd-pleaser and the big mosh in the middle of the floor was out of control kicking everywhere like crazy.

Playing a sold-out show to a rapturous crowd could not get any better!

(Heather)

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Tell us about Arturo Chaos.

Arturo's isn't more of a band than it is a group of mates, just like any artist in the music scene exclaim they would be. The context with us however is we've grown up together, went to the same school together and it's created us to draw our musical influences not just from our idols but from ourselves. We don't champion any beliefs in our music, but instead draw out specific issues whether it would be events in our everyday lives, a simple fictional short story or proclamation of future events etc. - basically we write music about anything we can that has some kind of interesting appeal to us. Through this it had become to maintain a level of respect in the band and it means we converse maturely when we write, we don't get involved in epic verbal arguments like you would see in Home & Away.

Where does Arturo Chaos originate?

Like many other stories you might hear from prominent bands these days, we started out in school - few of us were in boarding school and listened to less mainstream than most of our peers there. It never wholly or officially formed, we just built up relationships and through these mutual relationships we built up members.

Over time we just started jamming more and more and it got to the point where we decided to finally start wanting to play shows - and so far its paying off: we've won comps and shared the stage with very popular local artists and now we're even organising our own EP launch and getting into the marketing side of things.

The band name itself doesn't have a strong meaning, it’s just what we wanted to do to set ourselves from sending a single specific message.

Do you have a main source of inspiration for your work?

We look up to our idols but we draw our influences mainly from the other members in our band. The other bands in our scene also do have a part in fueling our inspiration, it makes us feel more part of something. I'm sure they would say the same thing, we feed off each other - in a good way of course.

What do you love most about performing?

To us it's about exposing our music through energy and the adrenaline rush we get from it. There's no better feeling than performing to your mates or to random spectators. I would say to fans too but honestly speaking i'm not quite sure we've built up enough credibility just yet for people to really get involved with us.

What do you think about WA's live music scene and how do you think it could be improved?

It's just a personal opinion so I really hope no one shoots me in the kneecap for this, but like I was saying earlier I wish people here would really get more involved, support the local bands instead of the trash talking. There's a lot of people who say Perth has amazing music but in a city with such a small population it's hard to make it anywhere without positive support or confidence from a fanbase or promotion companies.

What inspired the concept and creation of the EP "An ode to Silence"?

We didn't intentionally intend to create a theme for 'An Ode to Silence', but lyrically much of it revolves around the pointlessness of hate, or hating someone as paradoxical as that seems. But to keep it nice and simple, there's no initial theme - so that leaves the listener to create something out of it themselves.

Nick McLernon
Guitarist

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