Growning up in a Military, Latter Day Saint family in Waiouru there wasn't a whole lot to get up to except listen to music. Our Dad raised us on a balanced diet of AC/DC and Led Zeppelin so I never strayed far from heavy music. I'd been in bands previously (Metallica cover bands in high school) but when it came to starting my own band (In Dread Response) I drew from my influences of Iron Maiden, Megadeth and the likes of Darkest Hour.

At the time I'd also really been getting into a japanese band called Envy which is where I took my more melodic influence from. When all the music was written it came time to find a vocalist. I'd previously worked with Irish madman Sean O'Kane-Connolly in the band Cold By Winter and quickly jumped at the chance to put his lyrical genius to good use. We were set. We quickly recorded a 6 track EP and printed & pressed them ourselves which went down well. After a very short tour of NZ and Australia we headed back into the studio to record our full length album From the Oceanic Graves.

Lets be honest, I'm not that big on salad. Sure I'll eat it if its there, but I don't spend my days actively seeking out salad to get involved with. However, salad is good for describing my musical interests, as salad tends to involve a fair few different varieties of vegetable/fruit/whathaveyou. So lets get on with it.

I read somewhere that when hearing music some people listen to the melody and some people focus on the words. I’m a words girl. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll tap my foot to a good melody, but if the words don’t make sense or I can’t understand them a song can lose its appeal. Step on up Mr. Jason Mraz whose "I'm Yours" is surely a candidate for a wedding song classic. It’s about love, taking that leap, being in the moment and looking at your tongue in the mirror. In fact, not even a look, Jason tells us he’s "bending over backwards just trying to see it clearer." Dude, where were you going with that? What does it mean?

Course there’s always the good old misheard song lyric where you think a song makes no sense as you have misheard it. Case in point I thought J-Lo was being contrary by saying "Think you got to keep me? Yes you don’t." In her hit "My Love Don’t Cost a Thing." Course she was saying "Think you got to keep me iced? You don’t Iced?" I lived on the Shore, what did I know about ice?