Kaleidoscope play the Miami Tavern on Friday and the Waterloo Hotel on Saturday.
It’s been a couple of years now since Kaleidoscope released their Slot Car Slut single. But the track is still gaining attention for the band, both at home an abroad. Over in the states, the track has been adopted by a slot car racing organization as the theme song of one of their national events.
“It’s true,” vocalist and bassist Kylie laughs. “I’ve got visions of all these little rednecked flannelette shirt slot car dudes. I’ve got visions. It was the theme song for a slot car meet around a month back. I don’t know if they understand the concept of ‘20 cents is a small price to pay’. They don’t have twenty cent coins, it’s quarters.”
“I hear they’re very fanatical about it. At least in the flannelette wearing circle… The people who make our video clips are into cars, and they went along to a car meet to do some filming, and there was a slot car drag strip. It was just a cack. It was really funny to watch all these people, little kids to older gentlemen with these huge grins on their faces. It’s been an amazing song for us. It’s taken a life of it’s own, and it’s still current somehow.”
The Adelaide based trio released their Deli Girl album earlier this year.
"Deli Girl was a title before it was a song,” Kylie continues. “I feel really comfortable having a subject to write about. It think they’re our most accessible songs.”
Sounds like you’d be a likely competitor in the Tripod song in an hour challenge on Triple J.
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“I think so,” she muses. “I do a lot of song writing sessions with students here in Adelaide, and I’ve developed that theory that works really well. You can just do word associations. Often with lyrics there are topics that people are trying to avoid. Things like love or relationships gone wrong. You have to get out of your psyche and write about something that’s not about you. Not every song need to be autobiographical.”
Is it a challenge to come up with something no body has done before?
“It’s getting harder and harder, but a cliché can be good too,” she laughs. “We’ve been playing with the idea of doing a song full of clichés. It would star with ‘at the end of the day, it’s all good’, and just string em all together. Have you got any for me? I think the chorus will just go ‘wicked’.”
