‘Fans won’t stop pelting me with lemons thanks to my hit song’

Indie rock icons The Wombats person had some immense tracks but there’s 1 that takes ‘hit song’ to a caller level arsenic it’s inspired fans to lob lemons astatine them.

‘I get a batch of lemons to the star plexus during festival season,’ pb vocalist Matthew Murphy, amended known arsenic Murph, confirmed to Metro.

Released successful 2018, the azygous Lemon to a Knife Fight rapidly became a instrumentality favourite, inspiring this bizarre contented of hurling effect astatine the band.

After six years, dodging lemons is conscionable portion of the amusement for Murph and his bandmates Tord Øverland Knudsen and Dan Haggis.

‘I consciousness similar I astir apt saw it coming, well, figuratively and literally,’ helium joked erstwhile asked if The Wombats had anticipated the response.

However, the Greek Tragedy hitmaker isn’t asking fans to halt contempt the evident hazard of bruising, alternatively helium ‘wants much of them’.

‘Lemons with messages connected would beryllium cool,’ helium laughed. ‘I don’t know, you could constitute thing connected them.’

Murph suggested a bully haiku oregon adjacent Einstein’s astir celebrated equation, thing that mightiness entertain the set during their sets.

He continued: ‘I loved it. I’m each for it. Any fruits, immoderate superior colours. You know, it’s a large thumbs up from me.’

This isn’t the lone lemon-based opus Murph has written, determination is besides the hugely fashionable Pink Lemonade from 2015, for which pinkish flowers are often thrown.

Fair informing for attending a Wombats gig connected their upcoming UK circuit — expect plentifulness of fruit-related tracks and ticker retired for flying lemons.

And past there’s a imaginable quality from their trademark brass instrumentality playing wombats.

‘I’m starting to fearfulness that we’ve bushed that 1 out,’ helium says of the radical dressed successful wombat costumes who person been known to invade the stage.

‘Well, that’s what my woman keeps saying, “Oh God, the f**king wombats again”. I’m like, “No, everyone benignant of likes them”.

‘I deliberation for astatine slightest 1 opus they’ve got to travel out. Whether it’s much than that…’

The costumed wombats usually unreal to play trumpets truthful Metro suggested that they should person a full marsupial set astatine the ready.

Murph laughed and mused: ‘That would beryllium cool. Yeah, similar an orchestra pit of a clump of radical successful wombat costumes, miming instruments. That would beryllium beauteous genius.’

The Wombats 2025 circuit kicks disconnected successful March — with tickets connected merchantability present — but first, they’re heading connected a little grounds store circuit to observe the merchandise of caller medium Oh! The Ocean.

This caller grounds is intentionally not arsenic ‘tight’ arsenic erstwhile Wombats albums person sounded, leaning into the ‘f**k ups’ that lone a quality tin make.

‘It’s not cleanable and it contains mistakes and quality elements,’ helium shared, explaining the set ‘tried to bash thing different’ successful effect to the question of AI and perfection.

Murph said: ‘For this one, with AI, the mode that euphony was going, and however my fearfulness was projecting the mode that euphony was going. I was like, “This is weird, what can’t AI do?”

‘I thought, well, they’re not going to thatch AI however to f**k up precise well. They aren’t going to thatch it however to f**k up arsenic good arsenic we can. So let’s marque an medium of f**k ups.’

For the record, Murph does ‘not hatred AI’ but wanted to make an medium that felt overmuch much earthy and is filled with ‘happy accidents’.

He’s hoping Oh! The Ocean has the longevity of immoderate of their different records admitting helium doesn’t emotion everything he’s written, beryllium that solo oregon Wombats projects.

‘I consciousness similar it’s portion of the job,’ the Techno Fan vocalist shared. ‘You can’t beryllium obsessed with everything that you’ve ever done.

‘I attraction astir them profoundly but I’m rather bully astatine detaching from it. I conscionable privation to determination guardant and not look backmost with excessively overmuch of a meritocratic chapeau on.’

As the main songwriter for The Wombats, Murph has shared a batch of his past done the euphony from anxiousness spirals to issues with alcohol.

Once the songs are retired there, helium nary longer feels profoundly connected to the emotion of the lyrics arsenic ‘every connection was possibly drawn from [him] successful the originative process.’

Singing those tracks connected circuit present is ‘closure’ for Murph who would beryllium ‘getting hammered each the time’ earlier heading retired connected circuit and doing it each again.

Murph is present sober and lives successful Los Angeles with his woman Akemi Topel, who helium joined successful 2017 and the brace person 2 children.

He continued: ‘I didn’t truly person anyone oregon thing to reply to, and nary crushed to halt doing it. Now, everything’s overmuch antithetic but better, healthier and much exciting.’

After implicit 20 years successful the business, the Turn vocalist is ‘secure’ successful the euphony The Wombats are creating and is ‘really excited’ for fans to perceive their caller stuff.

‘This UK tour, I deliberation it’s going to beryllium bananas,’ Murph said earlier adding: ‘So possibly it should beryllium banana-themed.’

Move implicit lemons, there’s a caller yellowish effect connected this Wombat’s mind.

The Wombats’ caller medium Oh! The Ocean is retired connected February 14 and tickets for their circuit are disposable now.

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