Stella : We like to involve our friends to do the artwork for us. So I think all of it is, the whole package is important to us. Lee : The whole band, not even just the music is kind of like an art project. Having lots of different art? That’s a cool way for us. We just wanted to do what we wanted to do, and visuals always been really important and that’s what excites us about bands.Ĭhris : And that it’s another chance for, like, you write the music and that’s a creative kind of outlet. And we played in punk bands for so long where it wasn’t cool to have an image. When you’re a kid and you see an Iron Maiden album cover – it changed my life. So the visuals and art have always been really important to us and especially we’re big fans of 70’s and 80’s, you know, heavy metal one. Lee : We all come from creative backgrounds, like Stella is an artist and an illustrator and I’m a designer and Chris is in film. Did you think that artwork could carry the band’s identity or even shape it?Ĭhris : There’s so many bands that sell album cover and I think that probably sounds cool because the album cover is cool.
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We all know that, song isn’t the only thing that we could expect coming from Potion, you often come up with an artwork that represents you as group. I guess lyrically it’s just more of the same kind of like fantasy stuff that interest us. That was like kind of the main point and then we just wanted to kind of develop our own sound instead of just kind of copying our favorite beats from our favorite bands. So with the “Women of the Wand” we wanted to release something to keep people excited about us while we writing an album. So the first release before “Women of the Wand” is just more of us learning. Lee : When we have our first release, we were just trying to get comfortable playing this kind of music. Can you tell me the inspiration behind the single? It is fair to say that one of Potion’s new single called “Women of the Wand” is the new favorite for every heavy music lovers and also the media. Um, we both (Lee and Chris) started playing in bands when we were, you know, like 17, he (Chris) was 13.Ĭhris : He used to come and watch me (laugh). Yeah, I think the scene is always more, it’s always kind of more energetic and more excited when it’s younger bands.
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We’re seeing a lot more of a scene developed around metal and it’s nice to be a part of it, I think.
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Metal is kind of, there’s always been a lot of really big important metal bands from Australia, but there’s never been a big community for it, and I think that’s changing. There’s a lot of different little scenes like, you know, like hardcore, punk and metal. Lee : Yeah, I think the heavy music scene is really good. It seems like they just all play together, which I would prefer. It’s pretty splintered in the city, so like the genres kind of stick to themselves rather than here. Like there’s a lot of different genres in Sydney, like different scenes for each. As one of the band that plays heavy music, we are pretty curious about how is heavy music scene in Sydney?Ĭhris : That’s good.