“I’m getting a haircut,” says guitarist Melroy D’mello on their session play at Bootleggers on Thursday. Seven years on, Split still roll on the gig lists. After a round of what they call “the usual rock n roll roulette” of line-up changes, broken strings and “sociopath-percussionists”, the band are still sticking around with their “old-timers” like Stone Temple Pilots, Audioslave, Pearl Jam, System Of a Down and U2. Of course the round of completion on that list doesn’t happen without the originals for any band.
“Our sound is pretty much the same. We did attempt to get a little more experimental, playing a note differently here and there but we’ve retained what we play,” says D’mello.
With Garreth D’Mello on the vocals, Aviv Pereira , Melroy D’Mello and Shekhar Mohite on the guitars and Nigel Collasco on the Drums, the band could just be on the same high as the first time they took the stage. Or maybe not. “Anything can happen at live gigs. It’s always a different feeling when you have the crowd so close listening to you. It’s always personal,” says a somewhat weary D’mello.
The band has been working on their debut album P is for Pig for a while now. While they aren’t trying to teach anyone how to spell, they’ve signed themselves on with Counter Culture Records. “ While the live gigs scene is thriving again, we’ve stopped looking for opportunities. We’re not a band that’s into marketing ourselves that much. If it happens, it happens,” he says.
Expect the unexpected? Mostly the bands “mosh-friendly” and “heavier-that-pockets” sounds of My House, Fat oaf and Pig Society.
Their song Holy Ghost Machine Gun off the album takes a shot at godmen and their strangely conflicting faith in violence while Build (Higher), according to them, seem like the portrait of today’s youth — “battered by self doubt and anger-fueled by policemen who rape and politicians who kill”. D’mello says that while their earlier works might have been politically-charged, right now their songs are primarily just “charged”. “It’s just another aspect of what we do with our music,” he adds.
“We’re at a place where we’ve finally settled down. It’s like a structure — from setting up the foundation to finally becoming the visage of what it ought to look like. There has been a lot of improvement over the years. We could be doing four gigs in two months of nothing at all in six. Of course we’d like to sell a million records but it’s all about priority. People change, priorities change, even music changes,” says D’mello. Pretentious they’re not. And to hell with being politically correct. Bring on the music.
“Our sound is pretty much the same. We did attempt to get a little more experimental, playing a note differently here and there but we’ve retained what we play,” says D’mello.
With Garreth D’Mello on the vocals, Aviv Pereira , Melroy D’Mello and Shekhar Mohite on the guitars and Nigel Collasco on the Drums, the band could just be on the same high as the first time they took the stage. Or maybe not. “Anything can happen at live gigs. It’s always a different feeling when you have the crowd so close listening to you. It’s always personal,” says a somewhat weary D’mello.
The band has been working on their debut album P is for Pig for a while now. While they aren’t trying to teach anyone how to spell, they’ve signed themselves on with Counter Culture Records. “ While the live gigs scene is thriving again, we’ve stopped looking for opportunities. We’re not a band that’s into marketing ourselves that much. If it happens, it happens,” he says.
Expect the unexpected? Mostly the bands “mosh-friendly” and “heavier-that-pockets” sounds of My House, Fat oaf and Pig Society.
Their song Holy Ghost Machine Gun off the album takes a shot at godmen and their strangely conflicting faith in violence while Build (Higher), according to them, seem like the portrait of today’s youth — “battered by self doubt and anger-fueled by policemen who rape and politicians who kill”. D’mello says that while their earlier works might have been politically-charged, right now their songs are primarily just “charged”. “It’s just another aspect of what we do with our music,” he adds.
“We’re at a place where we’ve finally settled down. It’s like a structure — from setting up the foundation to finally becoming the visage of what it ought to look like. There has been a lot of improvement over the years. We could be doing four gigs in two months of nothing at all in six. Of course we’d like to sell a million records but it’s all about priority. People change, priorities change, even music changes,” says D’mello. Pretentious they’re not. And to hell with being politically correct. Bring on the music.
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