World’s End Press is a name you may not have heard, but this young Melbourne band are making waves on the local music scene with their crazy, energetic, DJ meets synthesiser dance tunes. Think Talking Heads meets Dead or Alive with the raw energy of DFA1979. Their raucous live shows are a non-stop uber rocking disco party complete with costumes and a ripper cover of Pet Shop Boys ‘West End Girls’.

World’s End Press are a must see live act who know how to work the crowd into a sweat dripping frenzy with their infectious mix of 80’s inspired house pop that‘ll have you believing you are the coolest cat on the dance floor as you jump around like a monkey hopped up on happy pills.

Having released two singles Only the Brave and Golden Child earlier in the year, and garnering masses of support from RRR, PBS and Triple J, the boys are preparing for the release of their debut album this winter. The aureview had a chat to World’s End Press about their past, present, future and a dancing neon robot.

Tell me about the origins of World’s End Press. When did you guys meet and start playing together?

John and I started the group in high school, and our first show was at our school assembly, It had all the anticipation and nervous energy of a Zit Remedy performance. History wasn’t exactly written that day; we were upstaged by the teen-dream singer-songwriter who played after us. It has taken some time to assemble the right group of people, but it’s done.  World’s End Press is John, Rhys, Sashi and Tom and we have been playing together about a year. 

Who are your biggest influences?

As much as we are becoming more and more ingested by the new disco and house-music revival, our biggest influences are probably things that inspired us as teenagers; pop groups that have similarly explored dance music. Groups like Underworld, Happy Mondays, New Order and Primal Scream to name a tiny slice. 

How would you describe your sound?

This question never gets any easier: Big beats, warm and bright melodies, chic basslines, an abundance of house-piano riffs: four-to-the-floor.

You boys put on a fantastically energetic live show, complete with costumes and a dancing robot at the Only The Brave single launch.  How do you prepare for a gig and what’s your favourite thing about playing live? 

Things like costumes and dancing robots just seem to fall into place, In most instances we are more concerned with the music and throw something together very quickly. The neon robot was a friend Eleanor Jean Riley who had told me about her suit*. We hadn’t really seen it until the lights went out on the night! Funnily enough, we hadn’t really rehearsed playing in the dark before either.