US Bombs: Come Fly With Me.

US Bombs play the Gabba Hotel on Friday and the Troccadero, Surfers Paradise on Saturday.

“You're either a punk rocker for life or...” Duane Peters, front man for US punk rock legends US Bombs, pauses for a moment before continuing. “...see I was in it for the long haul from the gate. I always said I never wanted to be like my dad, I never wanted to be part of the fucking system, I don't want to be miserable with a bunch of credit cards and be in some rut that everyone else seems to be miserable in when they get older. I've found my own bits of misery but it was all part of growing up, which when you grow up your done. So up is endless. Punk rock is an attitude, it's being an individual and not seeking safety doing what everyone else is doing.”

Probing Duane deeper on the subject…

“I don't give a fuck, realistically what it (punk) means to you doesn't mean two fucks to me as well as what it means to some other guy 'cause I'll just walk on through. I'm not living for you I'm living for me. It's like when you play a show and the people just stand there or if they're not right up front, I'm not one of those bands that go 'come on up front'. I don't give two fucks. I'm there for a reason. I'm going to play and get my aggression out. If you want to be part of it, it makes it great 'cause you can feed off the people; there's like a sense of where you're just feeding off each other and you're not the band you're all one. They're just not the audience you help each other, but then you're not the guy that just rolled out of bed either. You're there to entertain to and you got something to say. If they all suck and stand around you just get done and you fuckin' walk out, done deal it's another day down.”

To coincide with their Australian tour they've just released a new CD Bomb Everything through Trial & Error that compiles most of their 10-year history.

“We wanted to try and introduce it... the majority of people don't know who the hell we are from what we know.”

Anyone who knows anything about US Bombs know that for sometime they didn't really get along with each other.

“It has its moments. Any band who gets along all the time is probably just fucking gay in my book. You’ve got to get along. We've been together for ten years and we've all gone through our shit. I quit drinking two years ago but the whole time before that I was on the road drunker than shit. I had a comradeship with Chuck Briggs, who died two years ago, but that's life. We've been going through changes and we've been stuck in a van seven to ten months a year. Last year I was on the road eleven months. If everyone just goes and sits in a van and you've been on the road all fucking year and it doesn't have any aggression or pent up shit than you're not human. If you're a gimmick than you probably know how to hide your fights better. I don't really think about hiding anything, like the rest of my country does.”

Having such an in-your-face name, in some countries the US Bombs have found touring somewhat a little strange.

“We've had our moments. We played Croatia the day before America bombed Yugoslavia, which was kind of gnarly. We had army bags with US Bombs on it. I have to remind airports all the time it's US Bombs not Iranian bombs or whatever country we are at war with now. There's just paranoia everywhere. Cory Parks (Nashville Pussy) is in The Hunns (Duane's other band) now, and she's my girlfriend. We're totally in love it's been the first couple of months and we've been hanging out all the time and me and her walking through airports has been fucking fun 'cause we stand out like sore thumbs but at the same point we're randomly searched every five fucking minutes.”

“It kind of sad 'cause you have to fly to travel it just shows how paranoid and fucking lame our country is. I bring a lighter on every plane, I don't get it. I get searched but I can bring a lighter on the plane supposedly they're paranoid about these shoe bomber guys who if he had a lighter would of blown the plane up but he was trying to strike matches. So I don't get a lot of our shit. I think a lot of it is just propaganda to get more and more Nazi; our country's fucked up and getting more and more Nazi all the time. I don't know about the big plan. Your country is founded by criminals, and so is ours. But we try to hide it. You guys are kind of proud about it. That's one thing I love about Australia.”