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Volcanics crank up album heat

Volcanics crank up album heat

True mainstays of Perth's rock'n'roll scene, the Volcanics have waited six years to release the follow-up to their 2007 debut and the result is the fiery and rather ironically titled Get a Move On.

Having supported and often upstaged legends such as the New York Dolls, the Saints and Radio Birdman, frontman Johnny Phatouros took the opportunity to ask one of his heroes if he would lend a hand on the album.

"We played with Birdman a couple of times and one night after a Capitol gig I asked (singer) Rob Younger if he would be interested in helping us in the studio with our next album and he said he would," Phatouros recalls.

Although the Volcanics waited half a decade to formally ask Younger, the Radio Birdman vocalist stayed true to his word.

"When I got in touch with him I didn't think he would remember who the f… we were, and I certainly didn't think that he would remember that I asked him, but he remembered everything," Phatouros says.

The local band and the Aussie punk pioneer holed up in YoYo Studio in Osborne Park for a month before the album was mixed at Alberts Studio in Sydney by multiple ARIA Award- winner Wayne Connolly, who has worked with everyone from You Am I to Boy & Bear.

With an aim to play at South by Southwest in Texas and embark on a European tour next year, Phatouros is confident Get a Move On will get people moving. "The songs on this album compared to the last one have more variety. The playing is better, the sounds are better, the songs are better. Everything's better."