No More Cheese

“We recorded in this warehouse basically behind this bicycle store; this Bayswater warehouse,” he says. “There was nothing around except a petrol station and a Maccas, [so] we’d inevitably end up doing all-nighters and suddenly it’d be like 6am and everyone would be drunk… it was just burning the candle from both ends.”

Recorded in roughly a month with the assistance of Josh Amphlett (Mt. Mountain, Hideous Sun Demon), the process was a little different to what the boys were used to. “We [used to] record tracks in a beach house in Lancelin by ourselves and it was terrible sound quality, whereas when we recorded with Josh we got such a crisp sound,” McGlue says. “We’d never had that opportunity before where you record a really good [sound] from the outset and then the production you do on it has so much more atmosphere.”

Silver Hills will be launching Plasticine Daydream over two upcoming show dates and they’ve picked some of their favourite bands to play alongside. “We kind of cherry-picked from all the bands that we love to go see, and I guess we’re fortunate enough to know all these beautiful people and awesome bands,” he continues. “Some of them we’re only recently coming into knowing like Childsaint – we saw them at the Astor and we all loved them. All the other guys like Flower Drums we’ve loved for ages, especially Seb the synth player, me and him just froth out big time.

“The common theme that ties us together is music which is very atmospheric and ethereal and it could be the dreamy sort of thing. I wanted to create something where you could go and have some of those transcendental moments in the middle of the crowd, where you just forget about your body and are just in a sea of noise.”

As for surprises on the nights, there won’t be any pre-planned shenanigans. “No surprise guests, but I always like to encourage anyone from the crowd to jump up and start singing harmonies and start dancing,” he says. “I love it when that happens. I’m sure we’ll instigate something like that. We’ve got a secret cover we’re going to play; it’s an Australiana classic.”

Well it’ll be that or perhaps it’ll be a psychedelic rendition of McGlue’s first music purchase – The Hampsterdance Song. And no, he’s not embarrassed about it. “People always [get asked] what [their] first purchase was and they say, ‘It was The Dandy Warhols or Bob Dylan’, and I happen to love Bob Dylan so much, but [The Hampsterdance] was me when I was 14, not now. A splash of honesty is always good.”