Forget footage of the “Mall’s Ball’” and couples walking through wineries, the city of Adelaide needs to start using the video for Wireheads “Five Grand” as part of it’s tourism campaign.Featuring the band and friends hanging out in a run-down share house, drinking beers, smoking cigs, and barbecuing on the porch—Adelaide hasn’t looked this fun since Cold Chisel was around.Combine this with footage of the band wandering through Adelaide’s colorful Central Market and a guy dancing on a bar and you end up with a video that could have more under-thirties from Melbourne and Sydney heading to the City of Churches than MONA.Edited by Joel Parsons and Christopher Arblaster the video is for a track off their debut LP The Late Great Wireheads, the first physical release by hometown DIY collective Format.With buzzy garage punk, “backyard rock” and added strings at times they sound like an angrier Camper Van Beethoven studying second year arts at Flinders University.We spoke to Dom Trimboli about Adelaide’s charm and the best place to buy fruit.Noisey: Central Market is one of the gems of Adelaide. You name a song about and it features in the vid. What is the best stall?
Dom Trimboli: Sure is mate. House of Organics is where it's at if you're looking for good produce. Liam from Wireheads works there, so do Ellen and Hamish from Fair Maiden.It’s pretty rock and roll.Who is that guy dancing on the Metro bar? How important has the Metro been to the Adelaide scene?
That's DK, he's the publican and an absolute main man. It'd be pretty hard for me to emphasis how important The Metro is to the Adelaide scene without sounding like I've got shares in the place to be honest.The video reminds me of Old Mate’s “I Got Fired” Friends drinking, hanging out, and having fun. The scene seems pretty tight in Adelaide.
Yeah absolutely, I guess it's a pretty honest documentation of what we do with a lot of our spare time. I think we look after each other really well in Adelaide and I'd like to think we look after interstate bands when they come to town too. You can borrow our gear and sleep on our couches no dramas.You can learn a lot about a band by what t-shirts feature in their videos. I spotted No Trend, Flipper and Midnight Oil.
Haha. Yeah, I'll take that any day. What a combination.Smash some Coopers Green when the Wireheads launch ‘The Late Great Wireheads’ this month:16 May in Adelaide at Hotel Metro23 May in Melbourne at Boney
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Dom Trimboli: Sure is mate. House of Organics is where it's at if you're looking for good produce. Liam from Wireheads works there, so do Ellen and Hamish from Fair Maiden.It’s pretty rock and roll.Who is that guy dancing on the Metro bar? How important has the Metro been to the Adelaide scene?
That's DK, he's the publican and an absolute main man. It'd be pretty hard for me to emphasis how important The Metro is to the Adelaide scene without sounding like I've got shares in the place to be honest.The video reminds me of Old Mate’s “I Got Fired” Friends drinking, hanging out, and having fun. The scene seems pretty tight in Adelaide.
Yeah absolutely, I guess it's a pretty honest documentation of what we do with a lot of our spare time. I think we look after each other really well in Adelaide and I'd like to think we look after interstate bands when they come to town too. You can borrow our gear and sleep on our couches no dramas.You can learn a lot about a band by what t-shirts feature in their videos. I spotted No Trend, Flipper and Midnight Oil.
Haha. Yeah, I'll take that any day. What a combination.Smash some Coopers Green when the Wireheads launch ‘The Late Great Wireheads’ this month:16 May in Adelaide at Hotel Metro23 May in Melbourne at Boney