Australian garage rockers Skegss just wrapped up their North American tour in support of 2018's My Own Mess. Lead singer and guitarist Ben Reed and drummer Johnny Lani stopped by our Setlist.fm studio to talk about show highlights, performing new songs like and their most memorable show moments. Watch our exclusive Tour Updated interview with Skegss below:
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
"We're playing a gig in Sacramento the night before last, it was to like 30 people or something and it was heaps of fun. The crowd was really involved and just hanging out. Every time someone would take a sip of their beer the whole crowd would cheers, like get involved in a big cheers each time."
PLAYING A NEW SONG
"I don't know, you're excited because it's a new song on the setlist. It's fun to kind of mix the setlist up. The new energy of it and the discovery of whether people like it or not and if they get real stoked."
"You get nervous too because you don't play it as much so you're just hoping you get through it."
MOST MEMORABLE SHOW MOMENT
"One memory that comes to mind is when we were supporting our fiends The June Rats. We were about to go on and someone had lit a cigarette in the staircase, the fire escape, and the fire alarm went off. It was a pretty big show, a 2-3,000 cap venue and they all had to evacuate. And we're like oh no like we screwed this up, cause they were out like rioting in the street, causing havoc out there and then they had to get them back in the venue because it was going to be a worth outcome, and then the show just continued. They come back even crazier because of what happened. That was pretty funny."
"We gotta try that again."
To keep up with all things Skegss and catch them on tour in the future, visit their official website here.
