Having been announced for the Groovin’ The Moo festival and making triple j’s Hottest 100 with their much-loved single ‘Love Me Less’, One Day are about to kick off a run of capital city dates this today.
The hip hop collective comprising Horrorshow, Spit Syndicate, Jackie Onassis and Joyride only released their debut album Mainline last August. They have since enjoyed back-to-back singles added at radio (‘Love Me Less’, ‘Leave Your Windows Open’ and ‘SDRO’) and packed out gigs from Enmore Theatre through to Field Day and Beyond The Valley.
Their rapid rise has only be reinforced by their ever-expanding monthly block party, One Day Sundays. The event is regularly attracting 1500+ partygoers and has seen them take the events interstate. Just this month they were forced to move to a bigger capacity venue in Sydney (The Factory Theatre) to accommodate the increasing demand.
In celebration of their success, national tour and Groovin’ The Moo addition we chatted to the guys about some of the records that changed their lives, check them out below, and be sure to catch the guys as they roll into your town tickets and info at onedayers.net.
Jeremih – Late Nights with Jeremih
2012, Mixtape
“Despite actually being a mixtape, not an album, Jeremih’s 2012 Late Nights remains one of the strongest RnB releases of the past decade; it certainly had a profound impact on my life, and, I daresay, fertility rates globally.
The content is sexually-charged yet classy, the production islush and epic, and Jeremih outshines most of his contemporaries in terms of songwriting, vocal melodies and the total command he has over the different parts of his voice.” – NIck Lupi (Spit Syndicate)
Royce da 5’9″ – Death is Certain
2004, E1 Music
“This may seem like an odd choice to some, due to how menacing the content is but death is certain opened up new lanes for me in terms of bar structure, delivery, and rhyming patterns.
Being in the darkest point of his life/ musical career his attack on tracks like ‘Regardless’ spoke directly to my young and rebellious nature, maybe he just scared me into wanting to rap like him. He is definitely one of the greatest of all time at his craft and is able to have his feet firmly planted in the underground and the mainstream with very few missteps to his name.” – JimmyNice (Spit Syndicate)
Cody ChesnuTT –The Headphone Masterpiece
2002, Ready Set Go!
“36 of the most raw af (as fuck) songs, driven by passion and soul more than production tricks and clarity of sound.
Copped this in 2002 when I first started properly writing my own music and have used it as a blueprint ever since. Also took my artist name from the track 5 ‘On A Joyride’.” – Joyride
Jay Z – The Black Album
2003, Roc-A-Fella, Def Jam
“I was pretty late to the game when it came to Jay Z – what was supposed to be his ‘last ever album’ was the first of his that I properly appreciated.
I was a teenager living in France with few friends. instead of going to school on certain days I’d head to the local CD store, chuck on the oversized rectangular headphones that allowed you to listen to whatever the demo CDs they had on those “try before you buy” machines. The Black Album was one of them. It basically meant that, being too broke to buy it, I would go in as often as I could to stand there and play it start to finish. It was the beginning of a torrid love affair with Jigga that has known no bounds.” – Raph (Jackie Onassis)
Atmosphere – God Loves Ugly
2002, Rhymesayers/Fat Beats
“God loves ugly was the first record I’d ever listened to which painted pictures about the kinds of every day experiences that I’d been through. Up until that time rap had always been something that I loved but it was always someone else’s story, outside of being generally aspirational.
Slug’s raps on God Loves Ugly showed me that it really was possible to talk about the day to day things you go through growing up how I grew up, and it could still be as gripping as any top 40 record. That completely changed how I looked at music, and made me realise I might be able to do it too.” – Kai (Jackie Onassis)
Dead Prez – Let’s Get Free
2000, Loud, Columbia, Relativity
“Let’s Get Free is intensely raw and passionate. It plays out like a manifesto for young disenfranchised black men growing up in America.
I was obviously different, I grew up a middle class migrant kid in a fairly cushy part of Sydney. But when I first heard this album at 14, it transported me to a world that I didn’t really know anything about. I knew that I liked rap (at least superficially), but hadn’t really connected to its potency and cultural significance in any meaningful way until I heard Dead Prez.
Let’s Get Free is an album that helped shape my worldview at a young age, and inspired me to make the music I do to this day.” – Adit (Horrorshow)
Hilltop Hoods – The Calling
2003, Obese Records
“Perhaps this is an obvious choice but there’s no denying that this record changed the lives of myself and countless other rap fans in this country.
The Calling arrived as an instant underground classic but before too long it would go on to kick down the door for homegrown hip hop in the biggest of ways. I can still remember buying the CD from Next Level Records in Sydney and walking through the city with it spinning it in my discman, hanging off the contrasting back and forth of Suffa and Pressure and nodding my head to the smooth but still raw production of songs like ‘Dumb Enough’ and ‘Tomorrow Will Do’.
Over ten years down the track, the album is a great showcase of the undeniable talent and charm at the foundation of The Hoods career – which in turn paved the way and set the benchmark for many an aspiring Australian hip hop artist since.” – Solo (Horrorshow)
Tour Dates
FRIDAY 17 APRIL Woolly Mammoth – BRISBANE – Tickets
SATURDAY 18 APRIL Metro Theatre – SYDNEY – Tickets
SUNDAY 26 APRIL The Astor Theatre – PERTH – Tickets
FRIDAY 1 MAY The Prince Bandroom – MELBOURNE – Tickets
GROOVIN’ THE MOO
SATURDAY 25 APRIL OAKBANK SA – Tickets
SUNDAY 26 APRIL BUNBURY WA – Tickets
SATURDAY 2 MAY BENDIGO VIC – Tickets
SUNDAY 3 MAY CANBERRA ACT – Tickets
SATURDAY 9 MAY MAITLAND NSW – Tickets
SUNDAY 10 MAY TOWNSVILLE QLD – Tickets
