Generations Deep And Still Loud: SKUNKHOUR Hit The Road

Interview by Ali Williams
Long before Australian playlists started happily throwing funk, rock, hip hop, soul and heavy groove into the same digital bucket, SKUNKHOUR were already doing the hard, sweaty version of it onstage. No algorithm. No tidy marketing lane. Just real instruments, an MC, big rhythm, bigger nerve, and a refusal to flatten themselves into something easier to explain.  Now the band are taking that history back out on the road with the Back to Basics Tour, a title pulled from one of their earliest songs and a pretty cheeky understatement for a band with this much behind them. Speaking with HEAVY's Ali Williams, Aya Larkin says the tour is about “getting to some places that we haven’t been for a long time.”
For northern New South Wales and southeast Queensland, that sentence has some proper bite. SKUNKHOUR play Cooly Hotel on Thursday October 15, Norton Music Factory in Caloundra on Friday October 16, CrowBar in Brisbane on Saturday October 17, and Arts Factory in Byron Bay on Sunday October 18, before heading through Sydney, Melbourne, Coffs Harbour and Pacific Palms.  That Byron Bay date carries extra local flavour. SKUNKHOUR have often played The Great Northern, but the return to Arts Factory reaches further back. “We haven’t played since the nineties,” he says.
Full write up and interview heavymag.com.au

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