When he’s not stuck behind a door or watching footy reruns naked, Fijian-born Joji Malani is playing bass guitar for Sydney’s self-proclaimed “basically-dad-rock” band, Gang Of Youths.
. And anyone who’s actually seen them play will notice the fallacy in that previous statement; because he doesn’t play bass guitar, goddamn it. Let it be known; Joji Malani does not play bass guitar.
“True story, every time I meet people that claim to be our biggest fans, they always think I play bass and I’m like ‘I don’t play bass.’ Actually, my parents still think I play bass; they think I play a six-string bass guitar,”
While he may have disheartened his loving parents when he chose a rock n’ roll career over medicine or astronautics, Joji, has no regrets about ending up in a band with his four best friends;
“I never wanted to work in music, there’s a lot of good people in the music industry but I just wasn’t drawn to the scene. I like all sounds and I like music but I didn’t like what people were writing about. To us, GOY is about more than just music.
It’s a guitar-laden record that’s consummate for screaming your lungs right out of your damn chest or cleaning up your room because mum won’t stop nagging. There’s no doubt it’s a work of pure lyrical and sonic genius, but the paramount thing about
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