Madness. Sheer madness. That’s the best way to describe The Yacht Club DJs. These musical mash up artists are heading to Perth for Groovin’ The Moo and they are sure to blow apart the stage with their antics. One half of the YCDJs, Guy, chatted to OUTinPerth about festival insanity.
How would you describe your sound?
Basically it’s mash-up. We just play really fast segments of things, we try to pull apart songs into their basic structures like choruses and things like that and put them back together into new songs. It creates a really good party vibe.
What are three things fans should bring when they come to see you guys play?
A towel, because our sets just tend to get incredibly sweaty and drinks get spilled and you always have one of us covered in sweat flying around all over the top of the crowd. Another thing would be a spare shirt, from what I’ve seen a lot of people get their shirts ripped off. I was talking to one reviewer who famously had to walk three suburbs without a shirt on because no taxis would pick him up after our show. And I don’t know, the third one is kinda hard. Maybe the third one might be something to leave at home. Really, you’ve got to have no inhibitions at our shows because they will get stripped from you when you come – especially in our Melbourne shows; it might be a bit different in Perth because we’re a bit new – but our shows go so wild that people sort of just forget who they are and what they’re doing and weird shit goes down.
What are you’re doing that’s so unique it’s putting you at the forefront of what you’re doing?
It’s all been done before, essentially; it’s the same old pop music story. We’re just crazy, that’s the best way I can answer that question. The thing that’s unique we really owe to our agency and our management, it’s like… channeling us as DJs the way they have has been really important in bringing us to the forefront. Like, we’re touring like a band and playing like band venues rather than clubs which DJs don’t really do. Yeah, I think we really owe the majority of our success to the way we’ve been handled. Everything we do is different, like the music we play is different, the way we play it’s different, the way we act onstage is different, the way we’re managed is different. We’re basically just making a living being as different as we can.
The Yacht Club DJs appear at Groovin’ The Moo on Saturday May 15. www.gtm.net.au
Scott-Patrick Mitchell
