For now, no end in sight for DMA's


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Talk about a rough night out. DMA’s were in Torino, Italy, towards the end of the touring cycle for their debut album, 2016’s Hills End. An album recorded in the apartment of guitarist Johnny Took, its blend of pop hooks, indie rock and Oasis-style attitude had extended the band’s profile beyond their inner-western Sydney home, leading to performances at festivals such as Glastonbury in Britain, Japan’s Fuji Rock and Coachella in the US, and on late night TV in America. It also lodged them in the upper reaches of the ARIA charts, where the album debuted inside the top 10.


Such success does not, however, bring with it luxury, and so it was on this particular evening that the trio (they swell to a sextet on stage) found themselves playing a show in one of Torino’s less salubrious neighbourhoods. At one point, Took and touring drummer Liam Hoskins were held up at knifepoint, while in a separate incident, touring guitarist Joel Flyger also “got rolled”.


DMA's are set to embark on a world tour, with Australian dates scheduled for June.

DMA’s are set to embark on a world tour, with Australian dates scheduled for June.


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Today guitarist Matt Mason is considering these events from the comfort of the band’s Sydney record label HQ, his trademark white cap perched atop his head, his arms peppered with a haphazard array of tattoos. “Our promoter was like, ‘Don’t go out, go straight [back to your hotel] after this gig’,” he recalls. “But we didn’t. We stuck around and tried to buy drugs on the street and got robbed.


“A lot happened on that tour,” he adds, pointing to the time in Hamburg when Took rolled his ankle and lost his wallet, and the moment in Cologne when Mason’s phone was stolen and he was beaten up “by a bunch of guys”. “Europe’s pretty f—in’ dangerous these days, dude, it’s pretty crazy. It’s not all f—ing bicycles and cheese and shit.”


Perhaps not surprisingly, when the band returned to Sydney, Took’s mental state was “frazzled”. So much so that it inspired a melancholy song on the group’s new album, For Now, called The End.


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