Switchkicker

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Switchkicker – ‘Ever Wonder’

A couple of months ago – 4 months to be exact – I wrote up a post entitled Retrospective #1: Where The Bloody Hell Are They?; a post which basically highlighted some lesser-known acts that aren’t around anymore and if they were around, we would have blogged about them.  And I promise I’ll write up #2 soon!

But then one band went and screwed everything up by coming out of a self-imposed exile.  Switchkicker was presumed dead (not literally) following their last show at the Annandale Hotel in May 2006, but lo and behold Dan Sutherland, the brainchild behind Switchkicker, has resurrected the music and reinvigorated it by taking on an acoustic/electronica lifeform.  This means new songs, but a farewell to possibly a lot of the older material that was written in the vein of Nine Inch Nails electronica.  No doubt radio favourites such as ‘We’re Not Apart’ and ‘Drown’ will still remain though; songs which sound just as good acoustic as electric.

Not much is known about the new form of Switchkicker except that it will contain Dan and drummer Ben Ellingsworth, both of whom play in Many Machines On Nine, and from what I can assume they’ll run a backing track as well.  I think the acoustic format will definitely help differentiate Switchkicker from the more metal/industrial sounds of MM9.  It seems a natural progression for Switchkicker too as the most recent record Method 2 contained a fair dose of melody and acoustic guitar, as compared to the more Nine Inch Nails-influenced debut 17102.

But although it’s completely ruined my previous post, it’s great to have Switchkicker back live.  Those living in Sydney can catch him tonight at The Basement in Circular Quay.

http://www.switchkicker.com
http://www.myspace.com/switchkicker