Flowertruck lead singer Charles Rushforth goes under the Cahill Grill

CHARLES Rushforth has a monster in his bathroom and doesn’t think Flume would survive a South Park parody. The Flowertruck lead singer goes under the Cahill Grill, revealing everything from his secret crush to his biggest inspiration.

ENDEARING Sydney jangle-pop outfit Flowertruck is your new favourite band. This is non-negotiable.

Otherwise Charles Rushforth will rush forth to your place of residence and toot in 32 different tones.

The lead singer goes under the Cahill Grill, revealing everything from his secret crush to his biggest inspiration.

Real name?

Charles Rushforth

Guilty pleasure?

Brisbane

Where is home?

Petersham, Sydney.

Career Plan B?

Stay-at-home dad

Biggest Bug Bear?

Affluent English accents

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Earliest Memory?

The intro to a show called Mumphy. My parents got the whole series on VHS at an op shop and I watched over 100 hours of it before I hit two. The memory fills me with dread and warmth simultaneously

Your Best Quality?

I can fart up to four octaves

And your Worst?

I Wikipedia endings to movies I haven’t seen.

Advice to teenage self?

IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO BUY BITCOIN

What did you have for breakfast today?

Aero pressed coffee and my housemate’s banana

Top of your bucket list?

Escape the hunger games

Biggest inspiration?

Career-wise: Ed Kuepper Diet-wise: Johnathan Richman

Secret crush?

Bubble Ice teas

Sydney jangle pop band Flowertruck.

Secret skill?

Downloading and cracking PC games

What do you see when you look in the mirror?

The only light available in my bathroom is the scary white-hot vanity bulb, so I guess I see a David Cronenburg monster.

Starstruck moment?

Watching Courtney Barnett laugh at me when I tripped over carrying a guitar, pedal case and three open beers at Boogie Festival 2017

Career highlight?

See above

Favourite tipple?

Blood from the Blood God

Stella Donnelly or Alex the Astronaut?

Stella, until Alex can perform an orbital re-entry while retaining her thrusters. I hear Space X have that down pat

The Tivoli or Ric’s Bar?

You can’t eat a $5 breakfast at the Tivoli

BIGSOUND or Face The Music?

You have no idea how much it pains me to discover that there’s an alternative to bigsound three BIGSOUNDS in

The Go-Betweens or Hoodoo Gurus?

The Go-Betweens but I also accept techno mash ups of both

Flume or Lorde?

I don’t think Flume would survive a South Park parody

Earplugs or buttplugs?

This is the height of silliness in the silly question genre. Shame on you

Email interviews or phoners?

Phoner’s get my ingreduilousspontaneity while emailers get my dangerous indifference

Dancing in the street or loungeroom?

Nobody ever wrote a hit song called “Dancing in the loungeroom”.

Muggy and overcast or bright and crisp?

The globe is just getting hotter so no point being nostalgic about the past

How did you develop your creative vision?

I fasted for nine days by the Bodhi tree

REVIEW

FLOWERTRUCK

Mostly Sunny (Spunk)

4.5 stars

Flowertruck’s Mostly Sunny album.

Where has this band been all your life? Sydney. There’s a nuggety, admirable desperation to their daggy jangle-pop, like Men In Hats and Devo dressing up as The Cure. Enough For Now is a soft synth launch, Falling Asleep is a lost ’80s fast-pop gem from a John Hughes film, All My Girlfriends Are Zeppelins shows off Charles Rushforth’s voice, “Nothing new to my name, melancholy’s to blame.” It’s one to imitate in the shower. Buy two copies to be safe. /MIKEY CAHILL

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