up & comer: safro lionza
Hailing from the NSW Central Coast, Safro Lionza (made up of Joshua Engstrom, Tom Munro, Brad Everingham, Liam Johnson, and Tom Lane) are our Up & Comers of the week! Tom Lane tells you a bit more about the band:
Who are you, and how did you form a band?
We’re Safro Lionza and we have been a band for about 6 months. We are a five-piece band from the Central Coast of NSW. We formed after the crushing disappointment of all not getting Radiohead tickets and the dissolving of all of our previous bands. Josh sings and plays synth, Brad drums, Tom plays guitar as does Liam, and I am also Tom and I play bass! We like to meld lots of styles together and inject as much fun and emotion into our music as we can.
Tell us a bit about your journey as a band so far.
The journey so far as a band has been great! We all get along really well and it’s super fun being in a band with a bunch of people you really get along with.
Describe your music for a new listener.
Our influences come from a very wide spectrum but centre around bands like: Radiohead, Tame Impala, Grizzly Bear, The Sound of Animals Fighting, etc etc. In terms of sounds we vary a lot too and go from quiet classical guitar style interludes to massive choruses with crushing fuzz. Josh ties the band together with his vocals and along with Liam composes a lot of the primary ideas, but we all collaborate really well to get it sounding like all of us.
Where would you like to see yourselves (as a band) in two years time?
In two years, we would love to still be together, Liam will still be in school but we will worry about that when we get to that. Ideally we would be touring and releasing music and just having fun.
What’s the best gig you’ve been to recently?
The best gig I’ve been to was sleepmakeswaves (Australia’s best post rock band) (seriously look them up) at a tiny little place called ‘Black Wire Records’ in Sydney. They were phenomenal and it was a really intimate setting for some massive sounds. Got to meet the band after as well and they were very kind.
You can check the band out on Facebook, they even have some tracks up for download!
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