The Icarus Line: Vaughan Again.

The Icarus Line play the Gabba Hotel on Tuesday.

I started this interview by informing US band Icarus Line's singer Joe that I've heard many a thing about them.

“Oh really, what have you heard,” he replies.

I've heard that you guys have many a great road trip stories to tell.

“I have interesting road trip stories and at home stories too.”

I haven't heard any at home ones so I ask him to elaborate.

“Let me think of one for you. Well, my friend Keith just went insane and my ex-girlfriend came over to my house at four in the morning and busted me in the face a couple of times. That's a good at home story. I don't know which road trip one do you want to here?”

How about the one where prostitutes supposedly stole money from you guys?

'The prostitutes didn't steal the money. Our tour manager invited them up and he didn't have any money. So really he stole the money from us to give to the prostitutes.”

What about the incident at the Mexican Border where one of you put an ounce of weed in your shoe to keep from getting arrested?

“That's true. He had decently sized feet and good arches so he just put the weed in his loafer. It was dirt weed so it was really flat, it was like fluffy chronic or anything. So it was really flat, it was really compact even though it was an ounce. It didn't take up as much surface area as fresh chronic, so he could fit it in his shoe.”

How about your travels in a U-haul van?

“Yeah, we've done that several times. We've had so many failed tours it's ridiculous. We did it once from Portland and we also did one from Texas. There's also another one that I'm blocking out of my memory, I just don't even want to really remember it 'cause it was too hot and I don't really remember the details too well anyway.”

What about the Hard Rock Café Stevie Ray Vaughan guitar incident?

“What'd you hear?”

I heard that one of you guys smashed the case that had the guitar in it at the Hard Rock Café, then grabbed the guitar and started to play it until security started to close in and then did a runner...

“That is exactly what happened, it was our guitar player Aaron. That's exactly what happened. That story made it down here okay.”

I've heard that you have a lot of nasty accusations and rumours tossed in your direction. What's the stupidest one you've heard about you?

“The latest or the stupidest rumour... what's the stupidest? Ummm, I've had fake quotes posted that I haven't said. There was one that a girl quoted me as saying, 'Can you feel, feel it my penis' and I never said that you know but that one got slung around for a while.”

How do you feel living in the public eye constantly? Do you feel your privacy is invaded at all?

“I don't feel like my privacy is invaded a lot I just feel like I'm going to get caught if I cheat on my girlfriend.”

The Icarus line are said to have a pretty intense live show, what can the folks in Australia expect?

“Maybe we'll break some guitars, maybe one of us will overdose on drugs and have to be taken to the hospital in front of everybody. You never know. It's going to be a circus.”