Last Saturday I had the pleasure of meeting up with Thad and Andrew to talk about their band; Little

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of meeting up with Thad and Andrew to talk about their band; Little Shock, their record label, Disney princesses and ‘the new pump up the jam’. Article by Guinevere Spiesberger, Art by Mya Heavener Introduce yourselves, tell us your role in the band. Thad: I’m Thad Paparello, lead singer and rhythm guitar.Andrew: I’m Andrew Markwell and I play lead guitar and I do some singing. When did the band start, and when did the label start?Thad: Little shock started a year and a half ago. It was just me and a friend and a guy I found on gumtree. We were playing shitty covers and after a little while I wanted to start doing more original stuff because I was writing at that stage. I got rid of my lead guitarist and got a bass player and Andrew, who I met at uni. And we started writing an EP, which comes out 30th of September.Andrew: the label, Sunshine Laundromat Recordings, started concurrently. We realized that there were record labels like Milk Records who without being explicitly tailored to queer people are implicitly that. And we wanted to make a space in the world for explicitly queer music, because too often people are ashamed to have that be their identity. We feel like people shouldn’t be ashamed and we’re definitely not ashamed to put our feet forward and say that the music we make is a reality of the situations we’re in and the people we are. Describe your music with one word. Ummm, I’d almost say chorusAndrew: Chorus makes it sound like we write big chorusesThad:  They’re catchy. Leah said she was singing our lyrics the other night when she was playing at a restaurantAndrew: I don’t even know our lyrics, and I sing them.Guinevere: Anyway, apparently chorus is the answer to that question. What are the best and worst things about being in a band?Thad: the best thing about being in a band is being able to make music sound good, because you’ve got other really talented musicians around you. The worst thing about being in a band is not getting any sleep.            Andrew: my ears haven’t stopped ringing for so long because we’ll finish playing a gig, I’ll get home and have to mix the record we’re working on and then practice the next day. I’m a mess. We are straight up freaks and messes. What’s the best show you’ve ever played?Thad: We played Old Bar. That was really fun. Old Bar doesn’t need to get too full to be fun but we had like 100 people by the end of it and they really got into it and we got really into it.Andrew: But, hopefully our best show is yet to comeIf you weren’t in band, what would you be doing?Thad: Making coffee.Andrew: I would probably run a 7/11.Thad: I can see that happeningWhere do you see yourselves as a band in five or ten years?           Thad: Touring.Andrew: Our goal is to put out a lot of content and then tour it.Thad: We’re completely devoted to music, that’s why we’re such messesAndrew: When you find kindred souls and people who get you, you kind of realize that you don’t really want to do much else. I think when you realize the stuff that’s important and the stuff that’s keeping you sane, you want as much of it as possible. So we want to put out a lot of stuff and then play it to people. In their faces.If you could be any Disney princess, which would you be?Andrew: Are you telling me I’m not already one?Thad: Sleeping Beauty. It just sounds like a dream.Andrew: I’d be one of the new fangled but kind of shitty ones.What’s the funniest thing you’ve ever done while drunk?Thad: A friend of ours, who is our manager, went to a Riot Grrrl show and took a whole bunch MDMA and was texting us the whole night “They’re playing ‘Pump Up the Jam’, it’s my favourite song, I love pump up the jam. I’m gonna write the new pump up the jam”… So she texts me and she’s like 'I’m home, I ’m gonna get on Ableton, I’m gonna make the new Pump Up The Jam now’. And I’m like 'alright dude enjoy, good luck with that’. Anyway, she wakes up the next morning, goes to her computer and sees that she has a new Ableton file called 'the new pump up the jam’. She plays it and it’s just straight up ‘Never Going to Give You Up’ by Rick Astley. She just dropped the MP3 in. Why should people listen to your music?Thad: I don’t know. That’s a good question. Andrew: These are good questions. They’re questions we need to think about.Thad: Man, I don’t know. People should listen to little shock because…no, they shouldn’t.Andrew: You’re doing really well.Thad: Yea I know. This has fucked up my day. Andrew: Should they listen to Little Shock?Thad: That’s an even bigger question. Listen to their music at: https://www.triplejunearthed.com/artist/little-shockand see their record label here; https://sunshinelaundromatrecordings.bandcamp.com/ -- source link

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