It’s 10am in Australia, but that doesn’t stop Ben Reed and Jonny Lani from each cracking open a bottle of beer. Needless to say, the vocalist/guitarist and drummer, respectively, of Byron Bay’s Skegss are in fine spirits. And for good reason – everything is going incredibly well for the band that the childhood friends formed back in 2014. Their debut album, 2018’s My Own Mess, hit the Number Two spot on the Australian charts, and the trio – completed by bassist Toby Cregan – have toured all over Europe and America. They’ve now followed up that first full-length with Rehearsal, a set of songs that should see their reputation continue to spread even further from their rather isolated corner of the world. It’s so isolated, in fact, that the band – who even played a (half-capacity) g...
