The Butterfly Effect play the Great Northern in Byron Bay on Wednesday, the Troccadero at Surfers Paradise on Thursday, the Waterloo Hotel on Friday and the Sands Tavern in Maroochydore on Saturday.

It wasn’t until after my interview with Clint and Kurt of The Butterfly Effect that the truth about life on the road really started to emerge. After spending time discussing the merits of hot versus warm coffee, meat pies, Brisbane’s international rock history and why Angel Dust is the king of Faith No More albums, we eventually get to the heart of the matter.

“That stuff about groupies, it’s all just bullshit.”

They should know, they’ve spent more than enough time on the road this year to get the score. Since the release of their self titled debut EP, the band have been heading for big things. And deservedly so. It’s not some rags to riches overnight kind of score. The band has been hard at it, and with a massive sounding disc under their belts things are beginning to pay off.

“It’s been great,” Clint explains. “We just got back from the Killing Heidi tour (through Northern Queensland). It was the most days off on tour we’ve ever had between gigs. Usually we do shows in like four or five at a time. So we’re sitting around going ‘what do we do?’ Sightseeing… there’s a novelty, so we got to see some of the countryside up north, which was lovely.”

“We’ve got family and friends up there, so it was a good way to catch up. I think we partied too hard on the first couple of nights that we played, so towards the end a couple of us were a bit shaky.”

This weekend finds the band in non-stop gigging mode, this time with Melbourne Nu-Metal lads Superheist.

“We’re getting these wicked opportunities to play with these great bands and learn about how to keep your cred,” Kurt relates. “It’s a tricky situation being in a band and trying to do everything, like trying to get played on the radio, but keeping your cred with the crowd. We don’t have anything to do with it (radio play). We want as many people to hear the music as possible, and we’re not going to bar the radio from playing us... Has any band ever done that?”

With the upgraded profile the band have earned in the last five months, there’s been some interest from the recording sector of the music industry in getting the bands John Henry on the dotted line.

“We’ve kept them at arms length up til now, and I guess we should start looking for a deal of some sort,” Clint continues. “It’s strange going from being a band that plays at the local once a month, to touring around the country, to having record companies saying, hey man, we like your stuff. It’s bizarre. You just go, wow.”

“I have to keep pinching myself, did I just dream this. The Big Day Out shows feel like years ago, just because we’ve done so much else in that time. I think it was the most amazing, exhilarating thing in my life thus far. It was like slow motion. We walked out and saw the crowd, and it was like wow, that’s something else. I’ve been totally wrong about everything. I though we’d see a couple of hundred CDs, like 500 would be a nice total to sell.”

Kurt continues. “The best thing is not how many it’s sold, but that you can get it all over Australia. You can pick it up in Perth, even though we’ve never been there. It’s amazing stuff. We went to Adelaide and had a crowd. You walk into a town where you don’t know a single person, and you say ‘who’s got the CD’ and a sea of hands go up. It’s just crazy.”