Medusa Bar is set to rock next weekend when brand new Melbourne foursome DOSE bring their brand of down and dirty rock to town.
DOSE consists of seasoned rock ‘n’ roll warriors Max Shepherd (The Dead Amigos), Mark Entwhistle (The Mercy Kills), Paul ‘Spyda’ Marrett (Electric Mary) and Jake Schembri (Dracorex) at the beginning of a new musical journey.
Entwhistle said the seed of the band had been planted when he and Shepherd met at a gig they had both been booked to play solo shows at nearly a decade ago.
“He invited me on stage and we just ended up jamming; we played the whole night together, and from that moment on we just really gelled,” he said.
“A gig would come up and he’d say, my band can’t do it, do you want to throw something together? So we’d get a drummer or a bass player and do these guerilla-style, spontaneous gigs.
“Each time was a different band name, no rehearsals, we’d just jam and play some blues and dirty rock. We even ended up writing songs literally on stage.
“It’s a rare connection when you meet someone and it’s so effortless. We read each other really well and we just know if the two of us are on stage, it just works.”
The Geelong show will be the band’s fourth gig, and their last before they go on a short hiatus to hit the studio to record.
“We are going to kick out a good, hard rockin’ set,” Entwhistle said.
“We want to really get in their faces, we hope they get in ours too.”
DOSE are at Medusa Bar on Friday, September 5, supported by The Hidden Charms and Laurel and the Painkillers.
