Dollar Bar: Slip Out.

Dollar Bar launch Queen Slipper at The Healer on Friday.

What started out as a solo project has rapidly grown into a full-blown effort for Dollar Bar. The Queen Slipper EP, the follow up to 2000s Pet Indifference highlights the band in fine form. Quick fire melodies grab your attention for a fleeting moment, and before you have time to get used to what you’re hearing, it’s over.

“I was just saying to the other guys that this was supposed to be a fill in band until we got into real bands, and now we’re at this level,” muses front man Dale Peachey. “We’re just trying to write songs we’re happy with, and hopefully people like the songs. I can’t sit down and write lyrics. I have to collect lines over a period of time and go back through notebooks and make a jigsaw. The lyrics are the last things we do. It’s better to stay away from the baby-crazy kind of rhyming scheme.

Is it hard to try and avoid cliché’s when you’re writing?

“It’s actually easy not to. Rather than knowing what we want to do we know what we don’t want to do, and as soon as you find yourself doing it you can just say stop, and do something else. It’s easy knowing what has been done too much before and what everyone else is listening too. Writing music you yourself would buy is the most important thing, I think. Something you would want to go and see.”

“A lot of bands just become some watered down product of another watered down band who are just copying Radiohead or something. You get a few of those in Brisbane, actually. T’s just gets watered down to a point where it’s not music anymore.”

The six tracks on Queen Slipper have been around in various forms for a year or so now.

“We’ve never really like the idea of things sitting around for a long time. We used the original tapes and took off some things we didn’t like and just made it bare again. A couple of tracks were done live. The songs are very different, we’re trying to show we can jump all over the place with styles and ideas. We’re all into different stuff, so it’s not going to sound like some duplicate thing.”