It’s been far too long since we’ve heard the jangly indie pop and sometimes garage rock tones of Brisbane’s Major Leagues . Vlada, the bass player and vocalist for Major Leagues, answered the phone from her comic book store, Junkie Comics to have a chat.
Vlada likes to call how the band met the ‘right place at the right time kind of thing’. Anna and Vlada met at uni during their university degree, where they completed a Bachelor of Music, then met Jamie through mutual connections.
Desperately needing a drummer, they put out a few calls, and it wasn’t long before they stumbled across Jacob through a friend.
“He literally came into one practice, we practised and then we went on tour the next day. From then on our band just depleted and Major Leagues started,” she says.
Meeting only by luck and being together just over a year, the band took the airwaves by storm, and featured prominently in many end-of-year best of lists around the country. The attention saw them collect support slots for the likes of Wild Nothing, Beach Fossils and Violent Soho.
Their debut EP Weird Season won the band plenty of praise and adoration from new fans and critics alike. Since then the band have been busy touring their asses off, featured on Rice is Nice’s chicks only mixtape and just put on two incredible shows at this year’s BIGSOUND conference.
“It was really really fun to play at BIGSOUND, it’s so big and you wake up at the end of week like what happened? Who am I? and your also really really hung over as well,” she says.
Major Leagues have just released their latest track ‘Someone Sometime’ just in time with the band’s signing to Popfrenzy Records, who have done some great things supporting quality Aussie acts like Alyx Dennison and Jonathan Boulet. If you were frothing over the laid back guitars and jarring vocals of ‘Weird Season’ then ‘Someone Sometime’ won’t leave you disappointed.
Still coming down from their BIGSOUND high, the band is off on yet another adventure, opening for San Cisco on their regional tour.
“We got on the tour by dumb luck, we heard about it through our booking agent and they put us forward for it. This is going to be the biggest tour we have ever done; 17 dates, regional, and places I didn’t even know existed,” she says.
Always a fan of their music, Vlada says the band is ridiculously excited to go on this tour.
“San Cisco are super wonderful guys doing really cool stuff and hopefully we’ll all become good mates as well,” Vlada says.
“I‘m looking forward to just hanging out with everyone. Anna lives in Melbourne so we only get to see each other when we play shows. So all being together and playing shows, it’s super special because we never really get to do it that often, it will just be really nice to all be in a car together. No doubt by the end we’ll fuckin’ hate that car.”
Not only are they excited to kick things off, but they are specifically designing one-off merch for their fans, intending to slave away on the road while they make their journey.
“We’re going to spend so much time in the tour van so we’ve decided we’re going to make a bunch of one off merch. Last time we toured we made all these dodgy, but awesome, Major Leagues bracelets; so we’re going to do something like that.”
Vlada’s last words to fans, “Come buy our crappy merch”.
Written by Jariah Travan
When & Where: Whalers Hotel, Warrnambool – October 23 & Wool Exchange Entertainment Complex, Geelong – October 24