Who was your best friend when you were four years old? Okay, when was the last time you hung out with them? For Cleopatrick singer/guitarist Luke Gruntz and drummer Ian Fraser, that’s an easy question. “We met on the first day of school. We were four years old,” says Luke. “Ian was my first friend.” The duo came up through school together, discovering bands together, before cementing their friendship as Cleopatrick – a fuzzy and face-melting noise straight out of Cobourg, Canada that brings to mind Royal Blood or QOTSA at their most fired up. As far as musical education went, aged six, the pair would head into Luke’s basement and listen to music given to them by their dads. “We were obsessed with the intro to Back In Black by AC/DC – we didn’t care about the rest of the song,” Lu...
