Local lads Good Doogs continue to make waves in Australian music scene

The indie/punk trio consisting of drummer Michael Grainger, gutiarist/vocalist Asher Iriks and bassist Dylan Brown has spent the past few months skipping from city to city on their sold out tour, and have ridden that wave of success through to Big Sound, one of the nation’s premier new music festivals.

In that time they’ve also dropped their new single “Want That”, which has received an overwhelmingly positive response from the music industry including climbing as high as 10^th in national radio station Triple J’s most-played list earlier this month.

Currently, some weeks on, it still sits in the top 30 of the station’s song rotation coming in at number 27 (as of Friday, September 21) behind The Delta Rigs’ “Fake That” and ahead of big-time acts like DZ Deathrays, The Presets and Odette.

The song’s success is even more impressive considering the group had little over two days to piece it together.

“We actually had a few other ideas in mind about what single we wanted to release, but then Asher played us this sick little thing he’d been working on,” Grainger said.

“As soon as I heard it I was like ‘Man, this is the one, we need to make this’.

“Then we just worked on it over the next couple days and released it, and since then everything’s been killer.”

It’s a hell of an ascent for a few mates that have only been working on music since last April, with Grainger pointing to the national tour’s success as one of the driving factors.

“It’s still super surreal,” he said of the tour.

“The show we played at the Indi Bar in Perth was crazy, people were hanging off the ceiling and even though it’s pretty psycho when you see that happening you kind of sit back and appreciate it.”

The national tour culminated in two appearances at Big Sound, where the Doogs mixed it up with the likes of G-Flip and Slowly Slowly.

“Playing Big Sound was nuts,” Grainger said.

“We played before G-Flip and she rolled in with all this gear and this little entourage and then there’s just the three of us hanging out.

“It’s pretty awesome to be rubbing shoulders with that calibre of artist.”

While a debut album is yet to be confirmed by the local lads, it could be on the horizon after their recent success attracted a handful of record labels.

“We’re currently working through a few offers while writing some new music so hopefully we can pen one down and get onto an album at some point,” Grainger said.

“That would be f***ing awesome.”