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24 YEARS AFTER FORMING, THE MAIN PLOT RELEASE DEBUT SINGLE OPEN THE HATS MORE “Good things take time” said the band’s lead singer, Banksia. The story of the band is far from typical. Explains the band’s drummer, Phatty Boomstix : “In the 90’s we were all in a 4 piece band doing the traps of the Sydney music scene that you’ve probably never heard of called Red Herring. On a cold winter’s night in a Hornsby milk shake syrup factory we began our regular rehearsal with the usual zeal of a young band trying to make it. However our drummer who worked at Taronga Zoo at that time, had earlier that day had been bitten on the finger by a water dragon, rendering his finger painful and useless in holding a drum stick. Justin had to go home to tend to his wound, and instead of cancelling practice, the 3 of us remaining swapped instruments and started playing some heavy shit. The guys turned the amps to 11 and we wrote our first song, “Riding The Wild Horse Called Wedlock”. The band went on to