Normally, we think you wouldn’t be too interested in this kind of band, assuming, from their name, that they’d be more at home at the York Music Festival with akubras, utes and blue heelers. Not wanting to judge a band by its stupid name though, we think maybe the Slim Pickins might just be more than meets the eye. The local scene being incestuous as it is, everyone is somehow related to a band who had Slim Pickins play as their support act. If they weren’t good value, they would have jangled their spurs into obscurity by now. As it stands, the door bitches say ‘you just missed an awesome act’ if you show up after their set, and they repeatedly secure support slots for every genre of music to emerge from the swamps of Perth.
Clearly, these ‘chaps’ are robots in disguise.
Amps plays host to the tail end of their Scotch of Saint James tour, this time with the Pickins gentlemen headlining, and support from Streetlight, The Reserves and Ghost Hotel. Apparently a “rock’n’roll machine – strong classic backbone, hard driving stoner riffs, shredding blues inspired solos and moments of psychedelic bliss, all mingled with a slightly drunken country swagger smattered throughout a wall of raw and raucous guitars”
Whatever. Our favourite bands love them, and they have a genuine reputation as one of Perth’s best live acts, and on Saturday 21st June, they bring their irreverent lampooning home. Prepare yourself for their penchant for raising hell and their misplaced sense of moderation, because they are only truly serious about their rock’n’roll, the family and honour above all.
