Infusion Interview: Hoping for a better world

It's an exciting time for both Infusion and their fans. Manuel Sharrad, Frank Xavier and Jamie Stevens are about to release their second album titled, 'Six Feet Above Yesterday' and they have just announced their very own Australian tour, which covers most major towns around the country.

At the moment they're nearing the end of a world tour, which saw them play the European festival circuit and gigs in both North and South America. This weekend they're making a quick detour over to Liverpool to play at the massive Creamfields UK event. They're performing live in the Cream MTV Dance Arena right after DJ Sasha! You can't help but feel proud.

Infusion is then heading over to Canada and Mexico and then they're finally coming home. When asked about the Australian tour Manuel said, "We'll have a couple of days rest when we get home and then we hit the road again. It will be good to play around Australia as we get to see all our friends."

TranZFusion's racheld83 had a good chat to Manuel just after the boy's had arrived in Boston. Here's what he had to say about the new album and second half of the tour:


So how's it all going Manuel-

Yeah good. Busy, but good. We're rocking around the America's. We're in Boston at the moment, sitting in a hotel overlooking the baseball stadium. We've just finished doing a few gigs in Argentina and Chile and a couple in San Juan and Santo Domingo and they've all been cool so far; really good parties with enthusiastic people and packed clubs.

What's the size of the crowds been like-

It varies depending on the venue. In San Juan it was a pretty small club so there were only about 300-400 people. They really loved it. We just did a gig in Santiago, Chile in an old theatre which held about 2000 people, so that was pretty chockers. It all depends on where you're at but everywhere we've played so far has been crammed, so we've been lucky, especially in places we've never played before. Yeah we've been having a really good time.

I hear the albums already been released in Chile-

It has yeah! We didn't really know it was going to be released that soon but funnily enough, the first places it got released in the world were Argentina and Chile. And Canada has just released it as well... [laughs]

You don't how sales are going yet-

No not yet - it's a bit too early to tell. But we're going to Canada in about a week to do two festivals, so I guess we'll find out how it's all going then. It's kind of strange because these are the countries we never really expected to jump on board straight away. We were really trying to aim for the big ones - UK, Japan and the States but in the meantime....cool.

I've got a cliche question for you, 'Six Feet Above Yesterday' what does it mean-

Ahhh well that's the question isn't it [laughs]. It kind of alludes to leaving the past behind and just sort of getting on with things, leaving all the rubbish behind and moving on. I think it's a fairly hopeful title in regards to seeing what's out there in the future and hopefully making things a bit better than what they have been.

Are you referring to the struggles to get to the point you're currently at-

Well I guess so. Not just from the point of view of the band or whatever, but in a more holistic sense... I mean, you know how it's been in the past few year's, we've been travelling around the world watching way too much American news and going oh gawd. There's a lot of pretty fucked up things in the world and things could be a lot better.

Is that why you do what you do- Is this your way of communicating these things, through your music-

Yeah...in some respects I think it is. I think it's just how things have worked out for us. The albums taken quite awhile to develop; it's been three years on the boil. And it's been a bit of a hard slog for all of us. It gets easier every year but there have certainly been times when we've all thrown a wobbly or< Tags

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