The children are our future, and that is why it’s great that bands like DZ Deathrays don’t ignore those not yet old enough to vote. Shane Parsons and Simon Ridley have been pretty busy touring the badlands of late, but their all-ages gig at The Karova, Ballarat on April 19 is going to be the best show of all time. Kanye West almost agrees. The show casts an eye on their 2014 release, Black Rat. The album, the follow-up to the ARIA-winning Bloodstreams, took shape over a two-year period of touring (and drinking), during which time they performed at festivals including Reading and Leeds. Speaking to triple j about the album last year, the band said: “We actually wrote the majority of the album out at Yass and we recorded it in Gosford at a studio up there. The time in Yass was us sort of trapped in this haunted house for two weeks, just the two of us and it was a ten bedroom homestead. The owner kind of told us… ‘We’re going away for a few days; if you hear any ghosts just give us a call’. We had no car and there was no way of leaving, it was just us, just writing.”
