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The Way Out are a band out of Brisbane. We are primarily influenced by garage rock. The New York Dolls, The Stooges, The Velvet underground etc. What appeals to us about those bands is their simple, basic music. Mostly using blues scales, relying on riffs rather than complex chord progressions and musically having energy and impact. As well as being influenced by more experimental bands that still made heavy music like Black Sabbath and Jane's addiction, but also influenced by bands that understood the place of harmony and lyrics, such as the Hoodoo Gurus, Big Star, Love, and The Beatles Lyrically, as well as garage rock the way out are influenced by the lyrics of shane McGowan from the Pogues. As well as the latin poets of ancient rome. Catullus, Martial, Ovid, Juvenal etc. Both McGowan and the latin Poets avoided metaphorical or symbolic language and wrote in simple verse, describing things in direct language. The latin Poets were extremely critical of the corruption and