Ready to stampede

by LES EVERETT

WHEN a band is made up of a drummer, a Rhodes piano player and someone who sings and plays a baritone guitar there's a tendency to presume it's been pretty carefully constructed.

However that's not the case with local band One Horse Town.

One Horse Town.

"It was kind of an accident the way our instrumentation ended up," singer and (baritone) guitarist Sascha Ion said. "When we first formed we didn't have a bass player so I got a baritone guitar as a kind of in-between thing to fill that space."

Piano player Ronan Charles from the highly regarded Fremantle soul band Seahorse Radio filled in when Ions and drummer Stuart Leach were a duo and the unusual mixture was born.

Over the past 12 months One Horse Town has been quieter on the live scene while the band members spent time in the studio working on their new CD Six Feet of Snow.

However things are about to change dramatically beginning with the launch of the CD at the Fly by Night Club in Fremantle on August 12.

In September One Horse Town will hit the road as the support act on Little Birdy's national tour that will include shows in Sydney, Newcastle, Brisbane, Byron Bay, Mornington, Melbourne, Bunbury and Perth. "It will be great exposure for us and we'll really excited about having the opportunity to play for people we wouldn't normally get to," Ion said.

Siting her major influences as Black Keys, Blues Explosion and PJ Harvey, Ions, who once fronted the successful WA band Spank, said her move to the baritone guitar had made her more interested in guitar-based music.

Ions described One Horse Town's live shows as energetic and possessing a "sense of the unpredictable".

From the Fremantle Herald.

11 August 2006

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