Aus Hip Hop Band Say US Appreciates Them More

Aussie hip hop and soul band Lowrider have claimed that American audiences care more to pay attention to live music than crowds in their homeland.

Lead singer Joe Braithwaite said the band experienced quite the culture shock when they extensively toured the states for SXSW in 2012.

“It was very different. I think the appreciation for music over there is very different to here as well. I'm not sure why it is, but people are really intent on paying attention to music over there. We'd be in some dingy pub and people would intently listen and want to be a part of the music. Whereas over here, as I'm sure many people have experienced, you can walk into a pub and there's a band playing but no one's really even listening. That's not something that we experienced over there at all, which was one of the things that blew our minds the most, really.”

That being said, the band are excited to be touring Oz this March and April on the back of their latest album release Black Stones.

“Getting out and playing is mostly what I'm looking forward to. We didn't really play a whole lot last year in Australia and we've got this one tour set out [for now], but I would love to do another ten. I just really want to get out there and play this music. It was kind of built for live performance and it will be good to just play as much as we can this year.”

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