Thankyou City Interview

Having made a name for themselves on the Melbourne underground scene, Thankyou City will be pumping the bass and beats at Subsonic this year. We caught up with Brent and Scott Mirams to find out what they’ve been up to and find out a little bit more about these musical brothers.

When did the two of you form Thankyou City and what inspired you to start the project?

Scotty and I have always been into making music since we were young and then just started sharing ideas together and it kinda just fell into place to from there. We were having fun so we kept doing it. We were originally named Continuum for a few years until another band in Brisbane had the same name and tried to take us to court…it got kinda ugly so we changed our name to Thankyou City about 18 months ago.

You’ve already enjoyed releases on Chameleon Recordings, Subsonic Music, Pinksilver and Iboga Records in 2011, are there any releases planned for 2012?

There are a few in the pipeline for 2012, another release with those lovely lads at Subsonic and one with Open Records at this point.

The Subsonic Music Festival at which you performed in 2010 inspired your debut track on Subsonic Music, titled Barrington Tops. You’re playing again at this year’s festival, any chance a new song might come out of this experience?

Maybe, Subsonic is defiantly one of the best festivals we have ever been a part of so I’m sure if we have a good time some inspired ideas will come through.

Who are you excited to see at this year’s festival?

Really excited to see Channel X, Egbert and the Solead Boys.

What other gigs do you have lined up in the coming months?

Got a few, we are doing Shine On Festival and Strawberry Field’s which were awesome last year and the For the Love party in December, which donates all their proceeds to charity.

What does Thankyou City mean to you?

It’s an outlet for us to express ourselves and have a great time…that’s it. We don’t want to take it too seriously and ruin the fun, if people like it then, great…that’s awesome.

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By Casey van Reyk Subsonic Music