DAMNDOGS INTERVIEW - CHRIS CESTER

Chris Cester and Mark Wilson already made name & fame as core members of the Australian rock outfit Jet, but have taken a different direction as DAMNDOGS. Completed by longtime friends Mitch McIvor and Louis Macklin, the band doesn't produce rock music à la Jet, but a unique style of their own.

Currently DAMNDOGS are running a remix contest here with us at Laptoprockers, offering a perfect opportunity to have a chat with Chris about what's driving him.

With Jet you guys more or less enjoyed the status of rock stars. The direction you took with DAMDOGS tends more to have an underground scope. How does that feel?

"With DAMNDOGS, people are more interested in the sound we are making than how quickly we 'made it', or how much money we earned or what we are trying to sound like, or any of that crap. It's clearly not in a Jet sort of 'realm', sonically speaking."

Is that why did you started DAMDOGS in the first place - or did you become sort of Jet tired?

"None of those reasons. DAMNDOGS has nothing to do with Jet at all. It started because my cousin Mitch and I had always wanted to make music together and Jet had some time off...so off we went."

Do you think DAMDOGS will get you back into the charts?

"If it did, that would be an incredible coup, given that at the moment the charts are full of formulaic nonsense

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