Interview with Rob Clifford of Salad Days

Salad Days is a indie/garage rock band from Melbourne, Australia. I met Rob this summer and went to a music festival with him in Portugal, we have a very similar taste in music. Rob is a very talented drummer and ukulele player (who as I type this is playing solo at an engagement party). Salad Days is an up and coming band in Melbourne and have been winning an on-going battle of the bands contest.

Me: "Tell me about yourself."

Rob: "I'm Robert Clifford, 21 year old student living in Melbourne, Australia"

Me: "What is the name of your band?"

Rob: "Salad Days, its made up of four guys."

Me: "How did you meet your band members?"

Rob: "We went to school together. We weren't really friends with each other, but something happened a year after we graduated, we saw each other at a party and we were talking about making music. We talked about having a rehearsal, and what was supposed to be just a rehearsal we ended up writing 3 songs."

Me: "how did you decide on what kind of music to make?

Rob: "We still cant decide what kind of music we want to make... our singer is a jazz singer and our guitarist is self taught, h wants to play more hard rock and our singer a different type of rock. You get this kind of weird mix of rock with different vocals, a mix of influences."

Me: "Whats your favorite part about performing?"

Rob: "The free beer you get when you play a gig.... no. Actually a few gigs ago there were people there (that we didn't know) that knew the words to one of our songs which was kind of cool. Seeing people enjoy music that you've written yourself is by far the best part. That was a huge milestone"

Me: "Where do you guys play mostly?"

Rob: "Wherever will have us. Mostly pubs and bars. Night clubs have started to do live music  to get people to come out earlier, so we've been doing that lately and it's pretty fun. Festivals, charity events, outdoor events, and battle of the bands"

Me: "Going to any festivals anytime soon?"

Rob: "I am, there's a festival on new years eve, called Snowglobe and one of my favorite artists just got announced as another headliner. And I'm going with this really cool chick."

 Me: "Wow sounds awesome. What is your favorite food?"

Rob: "Banana with peanut butter."

Me: "I hate bananas"

Rob:"Bananas with peanut butter on it."

Me: "Is that really your favorite food?"

Rob: "No? Not really. I don't know why I said that. It's just the first thing that came to mind. It's nice, it's really nice"

Me: "Is that really your favorite food? I'm thoroughly disappointed if it is."

Rob: "Haha, my favorite food is probably in-n-out."

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triplejunearthed.com/SaladDays

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