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MUSIC FEATURE visit stack.com.au INTERVIEW ROY KELLAWAY KING STINGRAY King Stingray L - R: Lewis Stiles, Campbell Messer, YirrÅa YunupiÅu, Roy Kellaway, Dimathaya Burarrwanga You can tell thereâs something special about King Stingray long before you learn of their bloodline â two band members descend from cofounders of Yothu Yindi â and the unabashed joy in their âyolÅu surf-rockâ is as apparent as summerâs first slap of salt water against your shins. We spoke to guitarist Roy Kellaway about the North-East Arnhem Land actâs irrepressible debut, Camp Dog. Words Zoë Radas T here are almost as many opportunities to lose yourself in Australiaâs metropolises as there are in the countryâs arid outback â and over the course of the 60 shows King Stingray have hurled themselves into over the last 18 months, the thriving five-piece are veterans of both kinds. In the city camp we have Get Me Out, on which lead singer YirrÅa YunupiÅuâs bright harmonies â layered and matched with sublime precision â cry: âNow Iâm lost in the city/ The colours are changing, djÀpana/ I know my home is never far away.â In the country camp is buoyant earworm Letâs Go, on which YirrÅa sing-songs:âPacking up, driving off, breaking down, getting lost,â accompanied by a video embodying all the dustchurning bliss of an adventure across the red earth. âOh, yeah â getting bogged, flat tyres â thatâs just part of living in such a rugged area,â laughs guitarist Roy Kellaway. âWeâre getting lost all the time. But even moreso harmonies get dissonant with a traditional element that he adds: YirrÅa uses songlines, called âmanikayâ,â explains Roy. Remember YolÅu artist Baker Boyâs line from Marryuna, âIâm using my manikayâ? âSo, for instance, in Hey Wanhaka, the manikay he sings there is the traditional songline about the white cockatoos. So youâve got this awesome mix of when weâre in the city. something thatâs really ancient, Sydney and Melbourne, the and then something thatâs trams? Itâs crazy!â really fresh. Get Me Out was just one âWe joke about how weâre of the bandâs debut album playing the hits from the â50s tracks written and recorded and 60 thousand years ago.â at Royâs home. Alongside Roy and YirrÅaâs musical bandmate Dimathaya journeys have unfolded in tandem Bururrwangaâs yidaki (who from childhood, alongside a deep Camp Dog by King Stingray is out makes the instrument friendship. As they grew up together Aug 5, including on sound almost like in the Yirrkala community of NT, Royâs JB-exclusive opaque textured recordfather Stuart and YirrÅaâs uncle Dr. yellow vinyl, via scratching) comes M YunupiÅu began to make waves Cooking Vinyl. YirrÅaâs vocals. in pop-rock behemoth Yothu Yindi â âYirrÅa something Roy attests he didnât quite is such an comprehend as a kid. amazing singer â and he âGrowing up, we always had a balance of loves doing harmonies,â things,â he says. âMusic was a big part, but says Roy. âHis voice is his [my family] made sure it wasnât all music. instrument, so heâs basically Weâd go out bush, go fishing, go hunting, go riffing. He wanted to do enjoy life. one more, then one more... I âThe [Yothu Yindi band members] are such ended up having so many vocal humble, softly-spoken people. It wasnât until I tracks. My computer is so old now, got older that I realised how monumental that I reckon if I opened up that session it band was, the conversations it sparked, and would probably blow it up.â Dr. Mâs ideologies...â YirrÅaâs knack for improvisation is woven Continue reading the full interview through with melodies which are not just in online at stack.com.au his head, theyâre in his DNA. âSome of his We joke about how weâre playing hits from the â50s and 60 thousand years ago 4 AUGUST 2022 st214_097_MR1_KingStingray-PROOFED-AF.indd 1 jbhifi.com.au 25/7/2022 5:19 pm
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