New Airbourne Interview Video From Glam-Metal.com

One of the best things to come out of Oz in the past year has been Airbourne, the hard rock country boys who are reincarnating AC/DC and taking the world by storm

David "Gus" Griesinger of Glam-Metal.com conducted an interview with recently at the final stop of the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival tour at the Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, Darien Center, New York.

Watch the chat here


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Airbourne Aussie Rockers Taking the UK by Storm: Interview on Rock of Ages Link

Well it seems the claim of aussie rockers Airbourne that they can better Jet is coming true, they are taking the UK by storm at the moment, check out rockofages.wordpress.com for a 20 minute interview with the 2 O'Keefe brothers

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Airbourne Set For Biggest Metal Event of the Year: Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour 2008

Aussie rock band Airbourne will join a host of very serious metal bands on the United States Mayhem Metal Tour in July and August this year. This will be the biggest metal event of 2008 in the USA, given the scaled down Ozzfest announced by Sharon Osbourne.

This a step up for Airbourne who, while hard rocking, can still be seen as a ACDC copycat band, NOT that there is anything wrong with that !

These country boys from Warnambool are going to be in pretty scary company: Cookie-monster lunatics Slipnot (rubbish) and the Disturbed don't excactly fit with the tongue in cheek style of Airbourne. I think we can be pretty confident that both of these bands don't get Irony.

One of the bands that probably does is Dragonforce, Kansas on Speed, what the video game of the Immigrant Song would sound like, pretty funny, but great melodies nevertheless.

Another is the brilliant Mastodon (best band name in metal, although translated into Greek it means Nipple Tooth, another great name for a band ?). They will probably the smartest band in the room, making prog metal with all the sophistication and jazz drumming that goes along with it.

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New Aussie Act Airbourne Says Wolfmother and Jet Are Fakes

Chart Attack (Canada) recently interviewed Joel O'Keefe, Lead Singer of the new aussie export Airbourne who told them Wolfmother and Jet are a bad example of rock that comes out of Australia.

"They’re just carbon copies of something they want … they’re wannabes. They’re like American Idol or something like that. They’re not legit.”

This is quite something from Airbourne, who, while being an excellent example of reborn classic rock, are sometimes pretty hard to distinguish from ACDC. Yes, we all know Wolfmother sound like Uriah Heep, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, and that Jet have become so overplayed as to become irrelevent, but one can only hope that this interview was a publicitiy stunt.

“We intend to move here [North America] for good. Australia will become a tourist destination for us. We’re all going to live in a house together. We’re here to get drunk and get wasted and have a party with everyone.”

This is definitely not a good idea if you want to increase your popularity in Australia, the land of tall poppies. OzMusicScene.com have responded with a swift Good Riddance, Airbourne !

Joel O' Keefe is probably having a good laugh that we all took it so seriously.

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