The Butterfly Effect play the Nambour RSL on Thursday, The Waterloo Hotel on Friday and the Troccadero, Surfers Paradise on Saturday.

Local rockers The Butterfly Effect have had themselves a busy couple of months, and there has been a few changes in the ranks. The band edged their way into the limelight with The Cell from the debut release. Now, not only have the band gone and gotten themselves a serious distribution deal for the disc, put together a video for the track Take It Away and scored themselves a national support slot with Pacifier (ex Shihad), but they’ve also had a line up shuffle with new bassist Glenn Esmond making his stage debut at the Rapid Festival a couple of weeks back.

“He’s bloody unreal,” enthuses guitarist Kurt Goedart. “It’s going to benefit us, for sure. We’ve been playing a bit during the week. We started to put the word out that we were looking for someone. We kind of put together a list of people we knew straight away. Glenn was one of the names that came up. It was a bit of a hassle, because he was living in Melbourne, but he was willing to come up and do it. He’s still got to go back and pick up some of his gear, but he’s moved up here. I don’t know if he’s crazy or what.”

What was his connection with the band?

“He and Clint (vocals) used to bang around together back in their early musical days. They were in a band together back then, so we knew he was a good guy, because we’d all met him as a friend of Clint’s. Everything just kind of clicked. It’s almost like a little bit of a revival in the band. Writing is just so fun again.”

Just in time for the band to head out on the road once again with Kiwi rock monsters Pacifier; a series of gigs The Butterfly Effect are more than enthused about.

“How filth is that?” he exclaims. “I think it’s almost the gig that I’m most excited about. Out of all the bands we’ve toured with this would be the one I’m most looking forward to. It’s excellent. They’re known as such a live band, and we’re getting a reputation as being a live band, so I think it’s brilliant. It’s going to be a lot of fun. I still call them Shihad… They get a lot of sledging for the name change, and I don’t really understand that. It’s their decision, just accept it. It’s the same music, for fucks sake.”

The distribution deal the band have recently inked finds them being supported by Roadshow, also the home of Killing Heidi and, until recently, fellow Brisbane exports Savage Garden. How did the distribution deal come about?

“It was pretty much narrowing down our options. We didn’t want to sign a deal and then be told how to do stuff. We only wanted to do it with someone that was pretty much going to assist what we were already doing. Roadshow offered that deal. It’s only a licensing deal at the moment, and we’ll take it from there. We’re not tied in for the rest of our lives,” he laughs.

“I’m hoping all the time we spent on the road this year had something to do with it. We met one of the guys at a small dingy Sydney gig. He was there to see someone else, but he saw us. It was one of those chance things.”