Northeast Party House On The Time They Caught People Fucking On Their Guitar Pedals
"The scene that was revealed to me was a couple gripped in the throes of love, bumping up against my pedal board."
Being a touring band is tough — long nights, shitty hotel rooms, cramped tour vans, and very occasionally you’ll have to deal with overzealous fans fucking on your pedal board.
Or maybe that’s just Northeast Party House.
Prior to the release of their excellent new album Shelf Life, the Melbourne guys dropped into the Music Junkee studio for their run at Artist Alphabet, our video series where artists reveal some of their most embarrassing and hilarious stories. And they definitely stepped up to the challenged.
“We were playing a show in Adelaide. Adelaide has always been very good to us, it’s always a rowdy show and we love going back there,” guitarist Jack Shoe explained.
“We were playing this small nightclub…early days, still in the first few years of the band. We were on stage any my guitar tone kept changing, the distortion would cut out, then it would come back on, and the reverb would come on. I was looking at my pedals and I couldn’t work out what was going on…and after twenty seconds or so I saw a hand just leaning on my pedals.”
The realisation slowly dawned for Jack: people were straight up fucking on his pedals.
“And because it was dark and there were strobes on my face I couldn’t see what the hand was connected to,” he continued. “But when I knelt down…the scene that was revealed to me was a couple gripped in the throes of love, bumping up against my pedal board.”
Which is not really what you wanna see when you’re just trying to get through a show. Listen to the full story below: