-tered, artwork is being finalised - we should
be sending it off to press any day now. That’s
gonna be out via our friends at Broken Hive
Records some time in the future. Just played a
weekend of shows with an amazing band from
Melbourne called Have/Hold, those guys are
the fucking best. Now we’ve got a couple weeks
of practice before we head out for 6 shows on
the Daylight/Endless Heights tour, which is
obviously a big deal for us. It’s cool to be kinda
ramping things back up again.
ing in Harbourer?
In Harbourer I play bass, sing a bunch and am
pretty heavily involved in the writing process,
musically and with lyrics. It’s the kind of band
I’ve always wanted to do and I get pretty obsessive about it haha. In MJK, traditionally
our guitarist Matt has written the lions share
of the music and I’ve thrown in an idea or two,
but mostly i’m just writing my parts and supporting his writing. Justin (vocals) writes all
the lyrics and does all the singing, so it’s way
How did you find reception for your first re- more of a chance for me to concentrate on my
lease was?
instrument and enjoy being involved in something that satisfies my love for heavy music, at
It was great, considering we didn’t really push least a lot heavier than Harbs.
it too hard. I think people were surprised to
hear something like that from a band that was You guys have been recording an album if I’m
at the time completely unknown. That was correct? How’s that coming along? Where are
sort of deliberate, as we started recording the you guys recording?
3 track EP/demo/whatever it is before playing
any shows, and had it available pretty soon af- We WERE due to record an album around this
ter. We were super lucky to be able to play our time of the year, but we decided to kind of let
first few shows with some ridiculous lineups, our writing process take it’s course and not
including a bunch of international touring force it, which meant taking some more time
bands, so I suppose we were pretty exposed to write the best record we can. So, as a comfrom the beginning through that. I still really promise we essentially took some of what we’d
love the songs on that release, I hope maybe written so far and decided that it made more
we can bring a few of them back into the set at sense to record and release that, which has
some point.
taken the form of our upcoming 7” - recorded at The Brain Recording Studios in Sydney
Who’s been your favourite band/s to play with our pal/producer Clayton Segelov. A full
with over your time with Harbourer?
length album is still the plan, it’s just looking
more like a plan for the first