“When you call and I don’t even answer, because I know that this feeling won’t last forever, bring it on, through my head, it echoes...” Shaan Singh sings on Drax Project's new song 'Real'.
Photo: Nick Gee
To choose a name, the Wellington band amalgamated their two original instruments, drums and sax, and got ‘Drax’.
After covering Macklemore’s ‘Thrift Shop’ and setting up on Courtenay Place and Manner’s Mall — as well as playing events like the Wellington Sevens, punters began asking who they were.
At the time the band only had Shaan Singh on sax and Matt Beachen on drums. Later Ben O’Leary with guitar and Sam Thomson on bass made up the full band.
Now performing on stages like Bodega, and recording in proper studios, the band still cherish what they learned about crowd control and curating a set list from the street:
“There’s no place that you can be as like an individual or a band where you’re too good for something. It’s nice to have a sort of a grounding just going out and busking to sort of just keep everything down to earth or whatever you wanna call it,” says drummer Matt Beachen.
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The Drax Project EP came out last Sunday and the band will play with the No Problemos in Kapiti on Saturday August 9th.
