Tinderbox | Musician/band
Tinderbox
Phone: +61 490 011 077
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25.01.2022 A DEF Jam from the basement. "DEF System" by G-Tinderbox https://open.spotify.com/track/69oa0x7ZrylwWbKyZIncLY tbxmusic.com
24.01.2022 On the road to Bingil Bay..playing tonightaah at The Bingil Bay Cafe
22.01.2022 We're showcasing today a songwtiter who pushes hard against musical boundaries and norms, Gumpy Savidas. Gumpy's trademark refusal to comply with music genre ...stereotypes has marked him out as a true creative maverick. His projects include Savidas with Uma Vernau and Tinderbox with Uma & Isaac Scott. His material is very quirky whilst simultaneously being utterly addictive. We asked him a few questions about where he's at and here's what he came back with... 1. When did you write your first song and what was it called? The first song that I wrote was in grade/year 6 me and a few other guys in my class considered ourselves hotshot musicians. They asked me if I could play bass and I lied and said yes and failed to mention that the extent of my musical training was learning the 2 chord anthem Rock my soul in the Bosom of Abraham on acoustic guitar. I borrowed a bass off someone and immediately went home and started learning notes within my crash course of bass study, I came up with a riff based around E,G, A I started jotting down words and soon had penned a simple but what I thought was an epic hit called Chicken Shit Man Met up with the guys and they were impressed and we filled out a set with a few Stones and Beatles tracks. We got asked to play at the year 12 reviews as they thought it was cute that we had this band going. Our cuteness quickly turn to shock shame and awe. When we busted out Chicken Shit Man. The use of the word shit by youngen’s such as us was highly controversial. We finished the show to resounding applause, but were never allowed to play at the school again. In fact I got expelled from the school a couple of years later. I still believe it was cause they couldn’t handle the edges lyrics of Chicken Shit Man. 2. What technology do you use to make life easier as a songwriter? My most vital tool is not surprisingly my laptop. I travel a lot and it allows putting grooves and songs together anywhere, which I love. So many times I’ve got ideas and thought. Oh I’ll record that when I get home and then get home and it has evaporated. I use the DAW Reason. It’s a lot quicker and uses less CPU than programs like Pro Tools and Logic. which used to be my staple, but Reason has all the old school analog sounds on board and is super quick to strap up a track in minutes. I also get a lot of milage out of my phone using a lot of music programs such as Figure which is like the little brother of Reason and mumbling ideas into it all day. I actually have a song called Music is My Mobile Phone off the last album which people misunderstand as my mobile phone being the generator of my music when in fact music has taken over my phone as my main form of communication unless I get an iPhone sponsorship in which case I will totally flip the story. 3. What genres do you compose in? I don’t really have a genre in mind when I start a song. I work from grooves and tend to follow the groove where it leads me and also to what inspiration it brings up. The first band I was signed with to Virgin Records was Mighty Big Crime, which was a Hip Hop / house act. Though I love Hip Hop and house music. I found that I started to get frustrated with having to angle everything to specific genres and after that ended really delved into a myriad of genres. One of those genres was with the band Blind Munkee which was a new metal sort of sound. I loved the melding of the heavy riffs, rap style vocals and spewing my anger to the world out on stage. We still work on Blind Munkee, but haven’t done shows for a while. This is one of the last shows we did at the music awards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn6lHZAW3hg Now with Tinderbox, I kind of start with a drum and bass or jungle kind of tempo and rhythm and just let nature take its course. The songs rarely end up sounding specifically drum and bass, but I love working in those tempos and it sort of ends up with the tracks sounding like a kind of beach, punk, rap cacophony. 4.Which artists past or present would be your dream collaborations? As a fantasy collaboration, I couldn’t go past David Bowie, ( Though there are obvious reasons that this will never happen).. Or on a more experimental day, Brian Eno, but really I’ve learned over the last year just what a collaborating whore I really am and there are so many people that I love collaborating with of all different styles and experience levels. I find there is no one that I have ever worked with and not grown from the experience. 5. Writing, production or performance ...what do you enjoy most and why? I think the thing I prefer the most is performing, but really because it is a culmination of the process of all three process’s. Performing without writing and production would kind of feel a bit empty to me. I guess that’s why I never really got into the performing covers thing. Not that there is anything wrong with that at all. There are some absolutely amazing cover bands out there, but for me the whole buzz is coming up with something you want to say putting it in a form that gets your message across and then finding a groove that carry’s the sentiment and vibe and then boom dropping it on an audience. And hey sometimes (depending on the audience and/or venue) it can go over like a bag of shit, but even then I feel satisfied, cause I think Well that’s my truth, if you don’t get it, what evz. And quietly leave, while dodging beer bottles and chants of Play Ke Sanh Ya C@&NT! 6. What methods/ services have you found to actually work when trying to promote your original material ? Well Thats a hard question due to the fact that the more platforms that start up. The less they seem to benefit musicians. I don’t think there has been a platform that is really designed that functionally helps musicians since My Space Yeah remember that. I think Justin Timberlake still owns it. I should give him a call and see where it’s at. But yeah Spotify if the go to for music distribution at this point and though it may be functional for listeners it is not helping musicians out in any way and profits are almost negligible unless you are Radio Head or what ever. And Facebook is good for promotion I guess, but I actually seem to find that you get more traction from actual posters, flyers and word of mouth etc. Facebook algorithms are quite heavily controlled so if you maybe mention something something that goes against a narrative that Facebook/ twitter /Youtube or Instagram don’t subscribe to then you risk getting shadow banned etc. And I’m really not good at not offending algorithms, so I’m never quite sure what the reach of those mediums are. I try to get peeps to the Tinderbox website, to listen buy, subscribe and interact, but it can be a bit of a up virtual hill battle. 7. Tell us about your most recent song /single / album. If possible please provide links. I have just released a Tinderbox Album called From the Storm to a New Dawn. Which is a bit of a 2020 diary and commentary on my experience of the time of Rona, but more peoples reactions to it and the various narratives and peoples reactions to the whole thing.The album is only available on the website for the reasons I covered in question 6, but I will be releasing the tracks of the remainder of this year and the beginning of next year on all the social sites, but one at a time as not to confuse the algorithm robots, but if you’re not a robot check the two albums out on tbxmusic.com and drop me a line of what you thought of it. 8. What are your plans as a songwriter/artist in the near future? ( Gigs/ releases) There is a Tinderbox gig at River Sessions at Watsonville on Fri 20 November 2020 then a gig at Underground -Elixir Bar and then We have a Tinderbox single launch coming up at Elixir Music Bar on 19 December 2020, performing the single Freedom, featuring Hildebrand and a whole heap of special guests. Then was gonna retreat for a couple of weeks and write some new tunes and then bust out at the start of next year with a bunch of new jams.
22.01.2022 FREEDOM.. You need some?
21.01.2022 Savidas, rehearsing the track Bumble Bee, in readiness for the River Sessions festival Fri 7 Aug. Gonna be a blast
19.01.2022 Excited to be playing at this beautiful spot!
15.01.2022 G-Tinderbox Play the classic Wish You Were Here at Nan & Tommy's magical garden. Deep within the underbelly of Caboolture, Queensland.
14.01.2022 Here’s a sneak peek of yesterday’s shoot with the very talented Cristina from THE PHOTO CORNER. Stay tuned for more to come folks! THE PHOTO CORNER
12.01.2022 After an extended hiatis, Savidas are back with their infectios sound and are set to play The River Sessions in Watsonville. Gonna be awesome to make a little mayhem with some quility stage time. Here's a sample of SaviLove from the rehearsal that we will be unleashing upon the crowd
12.01.2022 Always so much fun shooting with this spunk @g_tinderbox A sneaky preview of our super weird photoshoot with the one and only...GUMPY
11.01.2022 Happy Aus Music T-Shirt Day! You can support homegrown Australian music and purchase your very own Tinderbox t-shirt at tbxmusic.com #ausmusictshirtday
09.01.2022 Tinderbox Play the song Freedom Featuring Hildebrand at the CD Launch at Elixir, Cairns tbxmusic.com
06.01.2022 Doing an interview today at 5:PM on FNQ Originals on Cairns FM 89.1, revealing the secrets of life, love and the infinite... Also discussing what I may or may not have had for breakfast.. Oh and music, really cool music! -G Doing an interview today at 5:PM on FNQ Originals on Cairns FM 89.1, revealing the secrets of life, love and the infinite... Also discussing what I may or may not have had for breakfast.. Oh and music, really cool music! -G
