Why Replicating Their Sound Live Is Important To Blow

Australia's golden era of rock'n'roll seemed to smash out a final hoorah before many of the next generation of musicians were even pencilled in by their parents. Rising out of this era of pure, unadulterated Aussie rock is Blow, who have been smashing out big riffs and vintage covers since 2005.

Beginning as a covers band, it took the five-piece until 2012 to release their debut record Endless Night, and now they're following it up with their latest instalment, When I'm Gone. "The band is generally blessed with an abundance of songs," enthuses guitarist and vocalist Claude Poffandi. "Some of the more recent compositions and sound brought a bit of a heavy country flavour mixed in with the traditional rock. This was the general thread that stitched the album, [though] a couple of tracks are more straight rock."

Recorded at Damien Gerard Studios and produced at Sharp Studios by 2000's ARIA Producer Of The Year Steve James, Blow tested the waters with the album's tracks before laying them down. "A few of the tracks were played at gigs and got great reaction, as had previous offerings of original material," explains Poffandi. "The band is conscious of its need to reproduce the sound in a live situation and that is never a problem as the songs are generally performed live before recording."