Cahill Grill: My Disco’s Ben Andrews talks tennis, Bieber, Arizona power violence in the gym

My Disco’s Ben Andrews goes under the Cahill Grill and gets out of his comfortable zone, sorry, environment

MY Disco play by their own rules. Take their name, for instance, it’s a red herring, this ain’t Chic meets Lat Nite Tuff guy. This is late nite buff cry. Their fifth album, Environment, is released this week and it’s another dark night of the soul. Tim to put bassist Ben Andrews under the Cahill Grill.

Real name?

Benjamin Wayne Andrews

Guilty pleasure?

Justin Bieber

Where is home?

Abbotsford // London // Jakarta

Career Plan B?

There is no plan B

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Biggest annoyance?

Decibel restrictions

Earliest Memory?

Swimming in the rain in Singapore

Your Best Quality?

Being left handed

And your Worst?

Being left handed

5 Dream dinner party guests?

Rafael Nadal, Toni Nadal, Sebastian Nadal, Carlos Moya and a Spanish translator

5 Desert Island discs?

Does the desert island have a CD player?

Advice to teenage self?

Don’t give up playing tennis

What did you have for breakfast today?

Black coffee so far

Top of your bucket list?

Move back to Indonesia // open another bar // get more tattoos // get married //

party

Biggest inspiration?

Rafael Nadal

Secret crush?

My gf

Secret skill?

Obsessive compulsive disorder

What do you see when you look in the mirror?

Grey hairs

Starstruck moment?

Meeting Sebastian Nadal at this year’s Australian Open

Career highlight?

The time that Steve Albini called me his friend

Favourite tipple?

Guinness

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FUN SONGS BIT AND A REWARD FOR ANSWERING THOSE QUESTIONS

Song that always makes you shake your rump and nearly split your pants and

why?

What Do You Mean? - Justin Bieber. Why? Because it rules.

Song that is a hidden gem that not many people know about but everyone should

know about and love…and how you discovered it?

Babel - Lustmord. One time we played a festival in The Netherlands and we

rushed to see Lustmord perform. When we got to his stage there was a room

covered in smoke and a bunch of metal heads leaving the venue. We had missed

his set but we knew then that his music was something special.

Song that you would gladly listen to 5 times in a row if you were stuck in an

elevator for half an hour and you had to think calm thoughts?

I have a fear of elevators and I am highly claustrophobic so no song in the world

would stop me from freaking out in that scenario.

Song to prepare you for battle, fire you the f**k up and make you feel like you were

armed to teeth and why?

Sex Prisoner - Judgement. Arizona power violence. It’s heavy and a quintessential

gym listen.

Song to get someone you rather fancy in the mood for luuuuuuurve?

Drake - Marvin’s Room. It’s sick.

How did you develop your creative vision?

Practice makes perfect.

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