An album two years in the making, it marked Gangs of Youth out as a band on the rise and catapulted them to the fore of the music industry in Australia.įollowing the release of The Positions, the band relocated to London, following issues with keyboard player Jung Kim’s Australian Visa. The album was released in 2015, and its success saw the band bring their frantic riffs and gut-wrenching vocals across the world. It was around this time that work began on their debut album The Positions, an album which found Le'aupepe grappling with his demons as he navigated the breakdown of his relationship with his former wife, her cancer diagnosis and treatment and his own attempts to take his own life. After a year of practising, recording demos and playing support slots across some of Sydney's smaller venues, the band released their debut single ‘Evangelist’ in 2013. In 2012, the band performed their first gig as a support band for local outfit Tigertown, who’s drummer was so impressed he became their manager. “Donnie is the best drummer I’ve ever seen” Dunn adds, “he has a way of pulling things together and it pushed us in a whole new level”. “We all played together and it just made sense” Dunn recalls of the early days, “then Donnie joined and we got even better”. Upon hearing Dunn was a musician, Le'aupepe invited him to join a band he was forming with friends from church. When Dunn was 17, he moved to Australia and met Le'aupepe in highschool. Le'aupepe and Chung are childhood friends, first meeting when they were introduced attending Hillsong, an evangelical church in Northern Sydney. The band consists of founding members Dunn (bass guitar), David Le'aupepe (lead vocals, guitar), Jung Kim (lead guitar, keyboards), and newer additions Donnie Borzestowski (drums), and Tom Hobden (violin, keyboards, guitar). Gang of Youths were originally founded in Sydney in 2011. ![]() “ When you’re making music, it’s about making stuff as a group of guys that you think is amazing and fits the vision ” he adds, “ and then you’ve got to let go of it a little bit ”. “ You pretend it’s not but then the day before you’re worrying and just hoping people like it ”. “ It’s nerve-wracking, ” he admits of his feelings towards the album's impending release. “ We’ve been unusually busy as a band, ” Dunn admits of their hectic schedule, “ We’re normally bad rehearsers, we just love making new shit and we’re bad at doing the stuff we’re meant to, but I think it’s because we know that this new stuff is so complicated that we’d look like absolute tits if we weren’t super across it ”. He’s got the day off from rehearsals, as the band gears up for a mega EU/US tour which will take them from March to November with little reprieve in between. , their most personal and experimental album to date. Max is chatting from his London home ahead of the release of his band's highly-anticipated third album angel in realtime. But through it all, they have each other, just as they always have done.Īlbum Review: Gang of Youths - angel in realtime They are one of us: they feel, they hurt, they get angry and they get sad. No band can save the world, but one that is as open about its uncertainties, life's difficulties and fear of what’s to come makes the world even a little easier to take in. It’s that honesty, however-and the band’s willingness to admit to their own fallibility and foibles-that makes them so relatable. “It’s perspective isn’t it we’re not out here saving lives, we’re not doctors, we’re just a band”. “It feels weird to care about the release of a piece of music when the people in Ukraine and broader Eastern Europe are struggling so much,” says Max Dunn, drummer with Australian alt-rock band Gang of Youths. It’s a difficult moment for the world to take, but when the phone does ring, it’s nice to know that others feel the same way. Mere minutes before this writer's phone rings, Putin has threatened any nation that stands in its way with consequences that “you have never seen in your entire history”. ![]() Ukrainians have begun fleeing their homes, making their way towards the Polish border, in the hopes of safety amid the uncertainty of what’s to come. For the past 48 hours, radio waves have been full of news that Russian president Vladimir Putin looks set to attempt to invade Ukraine and take the European capital of Kyiv by force.
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