Don’t call The Chats punk rock. They might play short, sharp blasts of pulsating noise, filled with raw youthful energy and ragged, holler-along hooks, but that, they say, does not make them a punk band.“Punk rock’s not a genre of music, it’s more of an attitude,” shrugs guitarist Josh Price. “We do have that rebellious attitude I guess, but we’re influenced by AC/DC and a lot of other Aussie rock bands like The Saints, The Angels and Radio Birdman. If you had to pick a genre for us to sit in, it’s just rock’n’roll. Either that or shed rock.”Ah yes, shed rock – their label of choice based on the structure in which they spent their formative days in their native Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.“It was our mate’s bong shed and he used to have a couple of pet snakes in there...
