The Screaming Jets are getting ready to rock the hills.
By Tania Martin
ROCKERS the Screaming Jets will return to the hills later this month as part of their Australian ‘Do Ya’ album tour.
Front man Dave Gleeson last week told the Mail the band was thrilled to be back in the country playing live shows.
He said the new album had been a long time in the making.
The Screaming Jets first started recording Do Ya in 2005, but a number of problems had led to the delay.
“We divorced our guitarist and dropped our manager at the time and had to look for a new recording company,” Gleeson said.
The new album was produced by the Screaming Jets and Scotty Kingman and mixed in the United States by multi-award winning producer Stevie Salas.
Gleeson said the album would put the Jets back on the Aussie Rock map.
“We can’t wait to get out there and rock,” he said.
Gleeson said Do Ya was a great hard rock album, not like some of the softer covers on the market.
But the new album not only puts the Screaming Jets back on the map but looks at some of the issues that are central to today’s society, such as homelessness and global warming.
Gleeson said the band had always written lyrics about what was going on in the world.
“We’re not the most deep but we are always writing about the human condition and what’s happening in society,” he said.
“We all have kids and now we are paying a bit more notice to the world.”
Gleeson said the band felt that this album was a way to tackle the issues that would face their kids in the future.
But Gleeson said the Screaming Jets’ first love was being on stage and rocking the crowd.
“We are the consummate touring band…our inspiration is to just get out there and play live,” he said.
Gleeson hopes hill rockers will love the Jets’ new sound.
“We hope to just get out there and turn people on to it … we hope it delivers and people think wow, the Jets have still got it,” he said.
The Screaming Jets will take centre stage at the Hallam Hotel, 241-245 Princes Highway, on Wednesday 8 July, and Ferntree Gully Hotel, 1130 Burwood Highway, on Thursday 9 July.
For bookings call the Ferntee Gully Hotel on 9758 6544 or Hallam Hotel on 8786 0200.
