The Demon Drink story...
The driving, diamond rough, corner of the bar music of The Demon Drink swills round the bottom of your glass, tipping the barman handsomely before slapping you on the back and giving your girl/boyfriend the dance of her/his life.
Forming in late 2012, The Demon Drink is a band that comes with plenty of pedigree. These gentlemen have been climbing onto Brisbane stages in bands like The Big Brass Bed, Saga Barbies, Mexico City and Pale for well over a decade and tote a songbag full of favourites and curiosities to prove it. The original incarnation saw brothers, Kieran and Adrian Waters (AKA Baron Field) belt call and response vocals over plunkin' banjo, Mick Destiny’s snaking slide guitar, Sean O’Shea’s pulsing bass, a thumping kick drum and a bluesful of mouth harp. Adding congenial threshing machine - Leigh (The Lord) Nelson - on drums in mid-2016, The DD spent the rest of the year tearing the rooves off licensed establishments right across South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales. Renowned for their slapdash swagger and singalong soliloquies, a night with The Demon Drink is, guaranteed, a night of soaring spirits and sore feet!
Road-hardened and ready to rip, The Demon Drink release debut long player ‘Highway Robbery’ in July 2017. Emigrating from North Queensland sometime back in the 90s, the Waters boys set about filling their song bag with the swag of savoury/sweet original tunes that pepper the album today. From bar-worn, hellraisers (Pray for Rain) to hick-pop gems (Saturn’s Rings) and punch-drunk love songs (Loose On Me), there ain’t a path into hearts and minds known that these boys haven’t travelled.
Holding east coast audiences captive from Gympie in the north to Sydney in the south over the past few years (including a now legendary set at Woodford's Pineapple Lounge), with the release of Highway Robbery, 2017 is bound to be the year The Demon Drink steal the heart of the nation.
