self-described to anyone with eyes and ears. Salvation is most declare an act "like a cross between" several others, as if music table of elements. Such comparisons benefit journalists but nobody much else.
journalist struggling for something to say. The archetypal to Modular in 2004 - their influences worn like Halloween costumes, Wolfmother were easy to instantly like. Most critics did: their September 2004 EP was met with universal praise.
last year, it was time for the pendulum to swing back the other way, and journalists not too keen to appear so easily entertained are putting the boot in, their indignation on behalf of Led flogging from Delta Blues legend Robert Johnson, who in his own time was accused of pinching from blues pioneer Lonnie Johnson.
to be original enough," says frontman Andrew Stockdale.
us to make music in the first place.
But I just do what feels good without thinking too much about why, and I can't help how that comes out sometimes. You know the Mona Lisa is basically just a it."
Stockdale has an interesting way of expressing himself, making declarations that appear at first to be headed somewhere grand but, more often than not, remain incomplete or are hijacked by new pronouncements entirely.
It would be convenient to assume this is just more "stoner" theatrics, a theory for which one would find trip-rock sound of Wolfmother.
inspire in their critics.
"I don't even see much point in talking about the music, let alone defending it," he says.
"It's not as if we're trying to pull off some kind of fraud. It's all just music, you know, out in the open."
he bought albums by Notorious BIG and Snoop Dogg, adding he has academic his critics say he is.
A review in stylusmagazine.com much about it."
If Wolfmother are as theatrical as all that, we could surely in the future pipeline - but Stockdale thinks it's not likely.
"It can be a bit self-important to think about music like that," he says. "Sometimes I think it's just best to find the thing that moves you, the thing that you're good at and that obviously works, and stick to it. You see a lot of artists who become successful at a particular thing suddenly thinking, 'I'm so great I can do anything!
'
to do that. But it would be a bit egotistical for us to think we us."
Much has been made of Stockdale's affable, unaffected nature, and one gets the impression of a slightly shy, genuine character.
Like a young Nick Cave without the siege mentality, Stockdale seems most to him.
He claims not to have done so, but I suspect it might well have been he who authored, or at least approved, his own personal entry on Wikipedia, 100 words primarily concerned with which guitars he Stratocaster - anything but news about the man himself.
a rider on the rock'n'roll wave, but simply part of a vast ocean.
"Do I feel successful?" he says. "That's a very good question.
You think about people who are rich and successful, and on the surface you just assume they feel that they are. But when you get have a giant mortgage.
"It's the same thing with us.
When you look at how things have turned out, yes, you could call Wolfmother successful. But I still can't listen to my own records comfortably, without wanting to go back and change some things. So I don't ever feel like we've reached some point of 'success' and probably never will.
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Wolfmother, Silverchair, the Veronicas, Bernard Fanning, Eskimo Joe, Hilltop Hoods, Pete Murray and Youth Group will perform. It will be broadcast on Channel 10 at 7.30pm.
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