Erk FM: Australia 484 – Reflecting Self Centredly

Welcome to Erk FM: Australia episode 484. This is a re-presentation of Erk FM episode 174 originally released in June 2011. This episode is an interview with Symon (guitar) and Allan (drums) from western Sydney progressive metal band Centred Self. Music supplied directly by the band. During the interview, we find out how Centred Self got its name, how the band got together, recording and rehearsing, drumming, the live music scene in Sydney & a lot more. On the day of this interview, Symon & Allan were pre-producing drum tracks at Party Pig Studios in the early stages of producing the forthcoming Centred Self debut album. This album was planned for late 2010 but never saw the light of day, sadly. Among other things, Allan is now drumming successfully for metal band Dawn Heist while Symon ran away and joined the circus ... um, not really. It makes for an interesting headline, though!

 

A lot has happened after this interview occurred. Soon after the interview, Erk travelled across Europe and formulated the idea for Erk FM: International & Erk FM: Australia and how they would work while he was overseas. The idea for Erk FM: Metal Monday was only very young at this stage. As Erk is wrapping up Erk FM's non metal shows in early 2015, this is a perfect time to look back at this interview & reflect. 

 

Keep listening at the end of the interview for Erk's very first attempt at playing drums as well as some entertaining out-takes & bloopers!

 

Centred Self Song list:

Neverland
Waveform
Measure of Madness

 

Dawn Heist Song list:

Timewave Zero
Nine Worlds
Scarecrow


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Erk FM 174 – Centred Self interview
Erk FM: Metal Monday Preview 09 – Centred Self interview
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