Jake knows when his number is up

Jane Emerick
SOMETHING With Numbers frontman Jake Grigg knows what it’s like to be on the verge of kissing his career goodbye.
“Last year I was partying too much so much I didn’t realise it but I was drifting away from the band,” Grigg recalls.
Faced with the thought of not making music any more, Grigg adjusted his habits and wrote Goodbye Mickey Finn to remind him of the lifestyle he left behind.
“I wrote that song to say that when you find yourself in a place and you don’t think you can get out, you can still get out,” he says.
“It still gives me goosebumps when I hear the song. I can’t tell if it’s really good song or not because I’m too close to it.”
Back on track, Something With Numbers played Sydney’s Big Day Out, Homebake, Pyramid Rock and Soundwave festivals this year.
The fivepiece band will start a threemonth tour from Geelong for the release of Goodbye Mickey Finn as a single from Something With Numbers’ second album, Perfect Distraction.
Something With Numbers plays at Barwon Club on Thursday.