Junkies feeling the love

After years of playing in Bunbury, Mitch McDonald is finally starting to feel the love.

McDonald, singer and guitarist for Perth band The Love Junkies, said the city was coming around to their sound.

“The last time we played was one of the first times there was a decent crowd there, so we’ve finally started to win Bunbury over a little bit, ” he said.

McDonald, along with bassist Robbie Rumble and drummer Lewis Walsh, will bring the band’s self-produced album, Blowing on the Devil’s Strumpet, to Bunbury next month.

McDonald said the success of the self-produced Flight Test EP earlier in the year cleared the way for the new album.

“Some people have all these great ideas but need somebody to help articulate them onto a record, but I tend to already think about that process quite a lot, ” he said.

“It was more about whether or not I was able to actually record it and it sounds good enough to be on the radio, which I think Flight Test proved perhaps.”

However, McDonald said he had some doubts along the way.

“By the time you’ve finished recording it, editing it, I had no idea if it sounded good anymore,” he said.

“It went from being ‘Yeah this is the best thing I’ve ever done’… to having to get Robbie and Lewis in to give me a cuddle and tell me everything’s going to be OK.”

McDonald said the second album marked a departure from past releases.

“It sounds a lot different from the first album, or everything that people are basing us off so far,” he said.

“It’s still quite produced, but it’s a lot more natural, it feels quite raw, weightier and less polished.”

The Blowing on the Devil’s Strumpet album tour hits the Prince of Wales Hotel on October 2.

“Some people have all these great ideas but need somebody to help articulate them onto a record, but I tend to already think about that process quite a lot” — Mitch McDonald

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