12 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Sticky Fingers
They’re almost a Kiwi band.
Sydney band Sticky Fingers have a reputation for getting into scraps, drinking too much and being very opinionated about the NSW government's lockout laws. But according to Paddy Cornwell and Seamus Coyle, the band is misunderstood.
When Cornwall, the band's bass player and Seamus Coyle, lead guitar, dropped by the BuzzFeed Oz tent at Splendour in the Grass they were on a PR blitz and keen to convince us that their bad boy days were behind them. It probably helped that they'd come minus their frontman Dylan Frost, who, claimed Paddy, had almost got kicked out of the the Gold Bar the night before. Almost. That's an improvement.
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And, just like pavlova and Russell Crowe, New Zealand is trying to claim the band as its own.
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Dylan Frost is a Kiwi and Seamus' mum is from Auckland, which explains some of New Zealand's devotion. But the connection to NZ also accounts for the band's dub and reggae sound according to Seamus.
The band describe themselves as a melting pot of psych, rock, reggae, and bourbon. Their 2014 album Land of Pleasure was heavily produced, but Paddy says the new album is "much more like five lads in a room who at least know how to play it this time."
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