news and photos GIGS Firday December 8 at 8:30 - Barleycorn Hotel Johnston Street Collingwood Monday January 22 at 7:30 - Hard Rock Cafe Bourke Street Melbourne Thursday February 15 at 10:00 - 97.9FM Live to Air "Show Us Your Indies" Monday March 19 at 7:30 - Hard Rock Cafe Bourke Street Melbourne LIVE AT THE BARLEYCORN 8 DECEMBER 2006 MOISTURE FUEL: ON OCTANE – Simon Smithson - Buzz Magazine September 2005 Moisture Fuel had collectively been around for a while before getting together. The story is simple – musicians who’ve known each other for over twenty years writing the kind of songs that they listened to when they were young. Catching up with Ric Loriot, one third of Moisture Fuel, was a blast from the past. Musically speaking. How would you describe your music to someone who hadn’t heard you before? “We see it as getting back to our roots. Anything form early Aerosmith and Zeppelin, that era where I guess it’s guitar rock but probably without the metallic edge that the newer bands have got. It’s more that typical verse chorus verse thing”. How did Moisture Fuel come about? “Dave Holloway (vocals/guitar) just called me out of the blue and said “How are you going?”, and I said “I’ve kinda gone back to the start, writing a bunch of songs, going back to the stuff that inspired me back in the old days.” He said “I dig what you’re doing, why don’t we get together?” We recorded and and we sort of realized that some of the tracks on the CD were probably exactly where we wanted to be, so we’ve honed in on that”. Speaking of the seventies tone, I was amazed to hear some guitar solos on Moisture Fuel’s Blood Everywhere. It seems that no-one does guitar solos anymore, and it’s very in keeping with Moisture Fuel’s overall aesthetic. “That’s a seventies thing. They go really self indulgent after a while, but we don’t want to get into that whole prog rock thing that happened in the mid-seventies. It was fairly riffy sort of stuff, there was some fairly simple guitar, with a guitar solo, which was generally fairly melodic, and that classic seventies arrangement, we’re trying to stick to that.” Given the material, do you get an older or a younger crowd at the gigs? “It's a real mix; the 40 somethings that love classic rock likes us but so do the young kids which was a bit of a shock. We really didn't know what to expect.”