By CHERIE DONNELLAN
A BOOK title inspired Sydney hip hop duo Spit Syndicate to name their latest album Sunday Gentlemen.
One half of the rhyming pair emcee Jimmy Nice told the Independent the Irving Wallace novel depicted a man who spent Monday to Saturday writing stories to suit his clients’ wants, but on Sundays he was able to write for himself.
Irving’s personal writing later gave him success.
The “juggling act” of personas “struck a chord” with Nice and partner Nick Lupi who, by day, work in childcare and the tourism industry.
Nice believed songs on Sunday Gentlemen also reflected the sentiment which illustrated the “chaos” of his and Lupi’s lives as burgeoning Australian artists.
The ARIA-nominated artists will showcase their Sunday personas on the Barwon Club stage on 20 September.
Nice hoped Geelong audiences would “chill” and respond to the music he and Lupi created over almost three years (“not solidly”) of writing and recording.
Though scenes of Sydney featured heavily in Spit Syndicate’s film clips, particularly in the track Beauty in the Bricks, it was the “memories and stories” of their hometown that was important.
“We’ve had the luxury of going to plenty of different spots in and out [Australia] but you always hold your hometown dear,” Nice enthused.
He believed a sense of home conjured images of friendship and identity to which many listeners could relate.
Nice confessed being a Top-40 listener until friends introduced him to West Coast rap and artists like Dr Dre.
Grafitti pulled him further into the hip hop lifestyle which now sees him “working hard at music” and then having “a f…ing good time”.
