Adelaide band The Babes back home after huge American tour
WHEN you need to entertain half a million bikers, who do you call? Adelaide band The Babes, of course.
WHEN you need to entertain half a million bikers, who do you call? Adelaide band The Babes, of course.
The local act — made up of drummer Moni Lashes, sister Donna D on guitar, brotherCorey Stone on bass, and “brother from another mother” JD on vocals — has just got back from the Sturgis motorcycle rally, in South Dakota, and they can’t believe how well-received they were.
“I’ve tried to describe Sturgis to people who haven’t been there and it’s impossible,” Moni says.
“There’s just nothing else like it. If you could imagine the whole length of Rundle St packed full of motorcycles and with biker bars lining both sides of the road then you can get some idea of the size.”
As well as rocking the world’s biggest biker bar in Sturgis’s Full Throttle Saloon (“our dream gig”),
The Babes also managed to get themselves on TV in Las Vegas, and played two sold-out shows at Hollwood’s legendary Whisky a Go Go with legendary rock act LA Guns.
Moni says being backstage at the club that helped launch Iggy and the Stooges, The Doors, and Guns ‘n’ Roses was a surreal experience.
“We’re not a particularly sentimental band,” she says, “but we actually had a moment where we went, ‘Whoa, this is just so intense’. We had to snap ourselves out of it.”
Moni says the music — which she describes as “straight-up, working-class underdog rock” — went down so well that they’re all now itching to get back Stateside.
■ Check out The Babes’ music at www.thebabesrock.com