Gabriel Laidler-Burns
“We gave it everything last night, we were cooked after the show, just drenched in sweat,” said guitarist and leader singer of 19 Twenty Kane Dennelly after their blowout show at the Gympie Music Muster on Saturday 24 August.
The high-energy blues and roots band made up of Kane Dennelly (vocals/guitar), Jeremy Berg (Drums), and John Gwilliam (Double bass) whose show had the crowds spilling out of the Boss Hire Blues and Roots Tent out into the festival walkways.
“It felt good to come back, because for the first year, as I said on the mic last night, it’s country music right, I love that kind of stuff, but we’re not that, so we were like how’s this gonna go?” said Mr Dennelly.
“It flowed really well and the crowd were into it, there was the wooden dance floor there and they were just stomping in time, it was sick.
“I think Gympie music peeps are music fans, there’s bigger festivals we’ve done where people are there to be seen and its for the Instagram but here they dig music, they dig having a good time.
“I think that’s what makes Gympie unique, the crowds are totally into it.”
Their bassist John Gwilliam further agreed that the energy and excitement at the festival was a highlight for the band.
“I would go so far to say that was probably the most fun gig that I’ve had on a festival stage easily for the last 6-12 months,” said Mr Gwilliam.
During their set they also debuted new music such as their songs Driving with no brakes and high class girl and the band said that the Gympie Music Muster was a great spot to trial them.
“It’s good to trial these things, all the way from small stages right up to big festivals because it gives you a really good idea of who’s engaging and what they want from your music,” said Mr Dennelly.
“We’re here for a good time not a long time, we want people to leave feeling better than they did when they arrive
“We do it for our fans, alot of musicians do it for the music or for their own ego, but we literally do it for our fans and do it for people that are there watching.”
But for 19 Twenty, it wasn’t all fun and games during their performance when their Drummer Jeremys’ kick pedal broke not once, but twice on the same day.
“In more than ten years of playing I’ve never broken a kick pedal and I did two in one day,” said Mr Berg.
“In the middle of a song last night, the spring tension broke on it so the beater wasn’t hitting the skin.
“So the lovely sound guys and techs were all running around in a panic to try and fix it.”
The group are planning to release a new album towards the end of the year called Call it what you want which they named after not being able to come up with a name.
“It’s just a representation of who we are, just three guys who love to make noise,” said Mr Dennelly.
