07 Dancing Girl by 78 From Home

The media release from 78 From Home read, in part: "When a band has three guitarists … you know they don't do things by halves. This is a band who embrace the whole rock n roll lifestyle: the attitude, the chicks, the rider, and the pants that would be inappropriate in any other occupation…" Eyebrows raised, The Dwarf put its grubby, stubby little fingers to the keyboard and fired off some words and left 78 From Home to fill in the blanks… 78 From Home means… That's a funny story. We get asked this a lot. The name came about when we were recording the album and didn't have a band name. We had a blackboard at the studio and every morning we would put down an idea and see how it sat. We had agreed on the name Plasticine for the band and the album was going to be called "78 From Home" - this was the distance from home to the studio where we recorded the album. We then realised that Plasticine had been used by a past Aussie Band so we scrapped it and decided to go with "78 From Home" for the band and the album. We all liked it, thought that it was cool, it sat well and it had a good history behind it. 78 From Home consists of… Tone (Lead Vox, Guitars) Rick Pisano (Keys and Backing Vocals) Andrew Riggo (Guitar and Backing Vocals) Brett Spicer (Drums) and Adam English (Bass Guitar) 78 From Home came to fruition by way of… My having a number of tracks lying around the house and getting together with Rick one night after a few drinks. We discussed what it would take to make an album and get a full band together. Having worked with Mike Stangel over the last few years I told him what we wanted to do and he was 100% supportive. The rest is history. 78 From Home has been together for… Rick and I have been together for about 4 years but the band as you know it now has only been together for about 5 months. 78 From Home would describe their sound as… A bit of old school meets new school rock. We all grew up listening to Led Zeppelin, Motley Crue, Cheap Trick and White Snake but we also love today's bands such as Matchbox Twenty and Cold Play, etc. 78 From Home have released… 78 From Home Self-titled album in August through JellyFish Music and MGM. 78 From Home have achieved… In the short time the album has been released we have achieved a Number 1 Record on ITUNES Rock Charts and a Number 2 Record on the ITUNES Overall Charts. We have been added to Nova 100's Play list with our first single Yesterday and have some very big interest from the United States. 78 From Home hope to achieve… We hope to release our album in the States next year and tour there. We just want the whole world to get behind 78FM and enjoy what we do. Oh and did I forget, "we never want to work again, ha ha". 78 From Home's most memorable gig was… The release of our self-titled album at the Depot Hotel in Richmond on the 5th August 2006. Not knowing the amount of tickets we sold it was very exciting to see that there was no standing room at the venue, it was absolutely full. The support we got from our fans leads us to feel that what we are doing is right. 78 From Home's most embarrassing moment… This was at the Emerald Lounge in Clifton Hill. It started with my breaking a guitar string in our first song - The Real World and pulling the guitar lead out at least twice during the show. I learnt from that mistake and I haven't pulled a lead out since (knock on wood).

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