When other toddlers are listening to The Wiggles and watching In The Night Garden, Freya Soho Barnard is rocking out to Violent Soho and hitting up music video shoots for Mansfield’s favourite sons.
As the Courier Mail reports, Barnard, who was partly named after the group and turns two next month, might be Violent Soho’s youngest fan. Naturally, her parents had a hand in developing her superb music taste.
“The band are always encouraging fans to bring kids along and the family — they are just good blokes, and family people making great music,” Barnard’s mother, Peta-Lea Bond, told the Courier Mail.
“I feel really proud we were able to bring her and it wasn’t about specifics, it was just about coming down and enjoying yourself.” Barnard and her parents attended Violent Soho’s recent music video shoot for their single ‘No Shades’.
Barnard will also get to see the band live when they play Brisbane alongside The Bronx in October. “The fact we can have Freya start young and be a part of band music and live music is just awesome to us,” said Bond.
“We had no expectations that our band would have got that level of followers and fans so every time we hear stories like that it blows my mind,” Violent Soho frontman Luke Boerdam told the Courier Mail after hearing of Barnard’s adoration of the group.
Speaking recently to the Brisbane Times, Boerdam revealed that not all of Violent Soho’s music video shoots have been as pleasant and breezy as the ‘No Shades’ clip, recounting a violent incident during their ‘Like Soda’ shoot.
“We had this guy show up who’s like a member and he lost his s**t,” Boerdam recounted. “I’m talking screaming, throwing his bowls bag, yelling ‘Get out. Get out!’ The producer’s gone, ‘Calm down, Calm down.’”
“The guy that owns the place was loving it because he’s thinking, ‘It’s so good for our bowls club to have some attention.’” The band garnered plenty of attention when they appeared on the NRL Footy Show earlier this month – check out their performance here.
