Music from the garage

It���s raw, it���s rock and it rolls... garage rock is all set to hit the floors! Premonition, one of the city's select few self-professed garage rock bands (consisting Vishvak and Radha- guitars and vocals, Biggu - vocals, Sudarshan - bass and Shashank - drums), is out to prove their mettle.
They open up to CT on their kind of music...
During the 60s and 70s, America in particular saw a surge in the number of homemade amateur bands, with all the raw energy of youth.���The music was manufactured (literally) in garages, and the product could not be slotted into any one genre, except for maybe punk,��� starts off, the band���s guitarist/vocalist Vishvak, ���It was only in the early 70s that the music got its own brand name ��� garage rock!��� But for a band that���s based in Chennai (a city where spacious and completely enclosed garages are very few in number), how did this band decide on garage rock as their genre of music? ���The beauty of garage rock is that it has no defined boundaries,��� explains Vishvak, ���After one year of struggling to slot our music, we realised that our music had no boundaries. There is no specific definition to our music; we just jam and get into the feel; our music thus results. We play everything right from heavy metal to punk. No two compositions of ours sound the same; there���s acoustics, funk and alternative.��� And, who are their inspirations? ���Floyd, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Skrat!��� he pipes, ���We prefer new-age garage rock like that of the White Stripes.���
For a band that claims to play garage rock, do they even practise in a garage? ���Nope,��� they smile sheepishly, ���It���s usually in a friend���s very messy room!���
So, what���s on the anvil for this lively band? Vishvak quips with pride, ���We have started recording. It is due for release on the Internet shortly.���
Finally, what is the band���s take on garage rock in Chennai? ���There are quite a few bands out there that play garage rock, but they are very eager to get their music slotted. Not many in Chennai even know this form exists!��� they complain, but add, ���With awareness on music spreading, things are definitely looking up.��� Could this be a Premonition of better things to come?
The band, along with Tom Violence (Rock), Osher Moosica (Jazz standards/Arabic) and Frank Learns to Funk, will perform tomorrow at the Unwind Centre to ring in the Live 101 series. So get your head-banging gear in place, get into the mood and go rock out!