Jet Fly In Their Own Scene

The music press wants you to know that Jet are the next big thing.

At the moment these rock 'n' roll Aussies are getting lumped into the nu-garage movement with countrymen The Vines and a few others. But according to members Chris Cester (drums/vocals) and Cameron Muncy (guitar/vocals), it's an unfair comparison.

"I don't mind if journalists are lazy," says Cester. "It's OK, it's fine by me.

"They can be as lazy as they want, it just means they're not good at their job."

However, the journalists have been rather kind to Jet. Less kind perhaps are the collectors who'd have to get cutthroat to some of their material. Only 1,000 copies of their debut EP Dirtysweet were released and are now a rarity. Their debut album Get Born is an eclectic rock mix of dirty hard rock and soft endearing ballads. In fact, Jet's sound doesn't really mesh together with bands like The Strokes. It's raw and dirty and shows love for bands like AC/DC and The Rolling Stones, who Jet got to open up for in Australia.

"My dad's favourite band was the Stones," says Muncy. "That's all I was thinking about when I was up there. They're just fucking amazing."

"It's the example to every musician that they don't have to stop because everyone else wants them to," adds Cester. "They can go against everyone going, 'Oh. they're too old, they're too plastered' and they just go on."

Along with Cester and Muncy, the band are completed by Mark Wilson (bass) and Chris' brother Nick (guitar/vocals). That brotherly connection leads the fellas to think of a band of siblings they don't mind being compared to: Oasis.

"There's a tiny little bit of legitimacy to it," says Cester. "Something that Oasis do and what we do is concentrate on writing good melodies and good tunes.

"It's a bit of a shame that we've been grouped in this garage rock scene, or whatever, 'cause I don't think that's our scene at all."

Jet want to be seen as unique, not lumped into a specific genre. They feel their very make-up will help them with that goal.

"There's three songwriters so that's why it sounds sometimes a bit schizophrenic," says Cester. "It's predominantly probably a rock record, but I mean shit, all my favourite bands and all the best bands had more than one tone."