FUTUREMAG MUSIC: Can fans expect any kind of crossover between the two bands during the tour?<\/p>\n
BEAU BOKAN: Oh, that\u2019s something we have to talk about. I would love for Matty to come up and do a part on one of our songs. It would be fun. There\u2019s definitely a possibility. <\/p>\n
FUTUREMAG MUSIC: Any particular song you reckon he\u2019d be great at?<\/p>\n
BEAU BOKAN: His voice is incredible, so he could sing or scream pretty much anything, so it\u2019d be nice to have him out for\u2026 even if we played a really old song or something that was like heavy screaming, it\u2019d be so sick to see him and Jared get in there and do those parts together. <\/p>\n
FUTUREMAG MUSIC: Your shows are often described as raw and emotionally intense. What\u2019s the key to creating that kind of connection with your fans? <\/p>\n
BEAU BOKAN: I think just being authentic and being yourself. I still struggle with the stage voice, like, some people get up there and there\u2019s some bands that can really pull it off. I saw Parkway Drive recently, and I used to listen to Parkway way back in the day when they sounded like a garage metal core band. And we watched them at this festival, and there\u2019s fire and there\u2019s freaking\u2026 it\u2019s just the craziest set. And he just has this, like, commanding crazy and I know Winston\u2019s such a chill dude, and it\u2019s like, man, that\u2019s something that I need to work on because I think I\u2019m just more down to Earth. Like, try to connect with the fans and let them know they could be doing what I\u2019m doing. It\u2019s nothing crazy if they just put their minds to it. So, I feel I connect in that way. But I think they enjoy doing that and you could see that it brings that out in them. You know, it lets the guard down a bit. They don\u2019t have to act too cool or something in the crowd. It\u2019s like, we\u2019re all here to have fun. Let\u2019s just not pretent we\u2019re too cool.<\/p>\n
FUTUREMAG MUSIC: Absolutely! Do you approach live shows differently now compared to how you did in your earlier days?<\/p>\n
BEAU BOKAN: In a way, yeah, I think just trying to sound better live. I think that kind of was secondary back in the day. It was more like; how do we just do the craziest possible\u2026 Like, I remember doing a front flip off the speakers at Roadhouse in Sydney and was surprised I didn\u2019t break my neck. Like, I literally thought I was\u2026 I was like mid-air, like, I\u2019m gonna break my neck. Why did I just do this and ended up being okay? So, I think like, obviously putting on a good show and having the energy, but focusing on just sounding good. We take a lot of pride in how we sound and how we come across. We don\u2019t want to put on a shitty show. I think especially now that everything goes on the internet. It\u2019s like you have a bad night or you sound like trash, like you\u2019re gonna get roasted. So, I think just trying to sound as good as possible but keeping the energy. I think that\u2019s the balance. You know what I mean? I think some people sacrifice sounding good for losing some of that energy, and I just love to see a band go off on stage. That\u2019s my taste. <\/p>\n
FUTUREMAG MUSIC: You\u2019re coming back with a brand-new album \u2014 how does that differ from what fans heard before?<\/p>\n
BEAU BOKAN: I think again, it\u2019s just growing and maturing. And I know that\u2019s a story for a lot of us bands that have been around for a minute is just trying to grow but grow with our fans and not lose that identity that we have and not lose whatever that thing is our fans have connected with in the first place. You don\u2019t want to throw that all away, and at the same time, you want to show growth and maturity in a way. I think that comes with the songwriting. I think it comes with performing and all that stuff. So that\u2019s, yeah, that\u2019s pretty much it. I think we\u2019re doing a more updated version of ourselves. And we saw some of those\u2026 it\u2019s interesting, like some of the comments and people will be like, I don\u2019t know how they did it. It sounds like nostalgic, but it sounds modern. So, I think that was the best compliment because we were like, how are we gonna update our sound without bailing on who we are as a band and what got us to this point? And, you know, it\u2019s fun to write those poppy and radio-ish songs sometimes, but it\u2019s not who we are. We won\u2019t ever put out a whole album of that, and that\u2019s just us. There\u2019s no offence to anyone who\u2019s done that, and awesome bands that are very successful with that formula. But, we only do what we enjoy and what we think our fans would enjoy. <\/p>\n
FUTUREMAG MUSIC: I actually think it\u2019s a good mix because there\u2019s something in there for the older fans, but something for any new fans discovering you for the first time through this tour.<\/p>\n
BEAU BOKAN: Yeah, I agree.<\/p>\n
FUTUREMAG MUSIC: What\u2019s the main thing you hope Aussie fans take away from you\u2019re shows while you\u2019re here?<\/p>\n
BEAU BOKAN: That we love doing what we do. I hope people leave the show going like, damn, that band loves to play shows, because it is awesome. We are very lucky that we can still do this, this far into our careers. We don\u2019t take it for granted. I just hope people can leave, just feeling inspired and knowing it\u2019s never too late to start doing something and chasing a passion or dream.<\/p>\n
FUTUREMAG MUSIC: Anything else on the horizon?<\/p>\n
BEAU BOKAN: We do have a music video coming out. We have a song called Venom, and we\u2019re gonna put that out before we come out there. We filmed it a while back, but it\u2019s finally coming out. We had to wait for the right time. We\u2019re like, well, we better drop it before this tour, because we\u2019re going to be playing that one on the tour. <\/p>\n
MEMPHIS MAY FIRE and BLESSTHEFALL April 2026 Australian Tour Dates<\/p>\n
Friday 24th\u00a0April MELBOURNE, Northcote Theatre<\/p>\n
Saturday 25th\u00a0April SYDNEY, Manning Bar<\/p>\n
Sunday 26th\u00a0April BRISBANE, Princess Theatre<\/p>\n
Tuesday 28th\u00a0April ADELAIDE, Lion Arts Factory<\/p>\n
Wednesday 29th\u00a0April PERTH, Magnet House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FUTUREMAG MUSIC: Can fans expect any kind of crossover between the two bands during the tour? BEAU BOKAN:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-610652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}