Spiderbait headline Bananageddon Marketday at Davies Park, West End on Saturday.

Spiderbait’s affable drummer and vocalist Kram is out walking his dog. And is more than willing to provide more information that required.

“They’re going a bit crazy, so I’m picking up poos. It never gets any easier, but they make those bit thick black plastic bags these days. But if you run out of those you have to use the excess shopping bags, and the plastic’s just a bit thin,” he laughs. “Ohhh baby…”

“They’re good boys. Pablo’s an Australian Terrier, and he’s actually the terror. We got him from the pound years ago, and I think he was traumatised when he was younger, and he’s good an affliction that makes him attack large men with black trousers. He’s the cute one. People come up and he mauls them. He’s like Joe Pesci, basically. Bernie’s a cattle dog. He’s a bit more ominous looking, but he’s the gentle one.”

Perhaps this juncture would be a nice place to draw an analogy between the different personalities of the two dogs, and the musical dichotomy Spiderbait pose. Spiderbait can surprise you with the bombast of the all out rock side of their personalities as much as draw you in to the delicate saccharine drenched effervescence of their lighter half. But don’t let the niceties fool you. They may appear cute, but Spiderbait can, and will, bite when approached from the wrong direction.

The band are currently working on the follow up to their last album The Flight Of Wally Funk, and take time out to head to sunny Vegas for Marketday. A far more important event in Kram’s schedule than last week’s ARIA’s ceremony.

“I was actually playing video games at the time,” he laughs. “I got to this level that I had to get through, and by the time I had it was all over. It a FIFA Soccer game I got in Japan, and I’m really addicted to it at the moment. Any ARIA people out there, I’m sorry, and I hear it was a great night, but you’ve got to get your priorities right in this business, and FIFA Soccer was thumbs up on the night.”

“It’s usually a fun night, and I’ll get off my arse and go next year. We get tickets every year, but if you’re not up for anything it like, ahhh… But it is a good chance to catch up with people. It’s just a big party. It can be pretty cool, but this year I was in a totally different frame of mind. We’re in the middle of recording, and I was stuck playing Germany, and I was 3-2 down and I had to come back.”

What team do you play for yourself?

“I actually always play as Australia. I’m very patriotic. When I play the club matches I put together some crazy teams of all these people that don’t play anymore. I heard you can get a soccer game now where you can change all the characters to dolphins or lions. All these animals. Aliens. It’s fantastic. When my brother had the first Tekken he discovered this thing where all the fighters become babies, but they can all still do all these great moves. Rip the skulls out of another babies head. It’s great.”

It’s nice to note that Kram’s prowess on the Playstation transfers across to the actual playing field.

“I’ve just started a club this year with some mates here in Yarra. I played for the last few years in South Melbourne with an Albanian club. It was really cool, but they we’re pretty hardcore. They’d always bring a bottle of scotch out after training. ‘You want drink? You must drink! You play good’. I’m a striker, and I always try to shoot from the wrong angles.”

“This year it’s all young blokes. With soccer clubs there’s always some old guy telling you how to play. It’s been really cool. We won a few games, but we had a pretty pitiful seasons. To illustrate how bad it’s been, our star striker, who won the goal kicking award, won it with two goals,” he laughs. “Taking nothing away from Ivan, he really deserved it and played well, but two goals does not a season make.”

If you had to put a band together from sporting stars, who’s going to be in the line up?

“You’d have to get Tiger Woods to be your manager, because he’s really efficient. He’s the best at what he does, he doesn’t take shit and he’s well dressed. To be a success you have to portray an image of success. The rest of the guys could be fucked up and cool, so I’d get John Bailey on the drums. He’s a drinker. He’s like the John Bonham of golf. You’d have to get Lleyton Hewitt in there somewhere. He could be the fourteen-year-old guitar player that’s been at it in his room all his life, al la Randy Rhodes. Or you could shave his head, and he’d be a like a four foot Rollins. Billy Jean King on the bass, very cool, very chilled. Byron Pickett, the North Melbourne footy player on Keyboards and who would be lead singer? Gustavo Kuerten. He’d be cool, cause he could be a DJ as well.”