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4 days ago
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Nostalgia Alert: Short Stack Brings Back The 2000s
It was MySpace that helped Short Stack explode onto the music scene, with the three Budgewoi boys — Shaun, Bradie, and Andy — gaining a solid following on the social media site and capturing the hearts of many Aussie teens with their pop-punk aesthetic, good looks, and catch tunes. We walked down memory lane with Bradie Webb, Short Stack's drummer — who had a chat with BuzzFeed the day before the tour officially kicked off. 'I'm so old now,' Bradie laughed, when talking about revisiting playing the songs from 2009's Stack Is The New Black. 'We wrote these songs, I want to say 18 or 19 years ago, maybe even more. So there's a real nostalgia. It's part of our DNA from when we were kids, so I guess it's a little emotional to play these songs.' Reflecting on Short Stack's meteoric rise of fame in Australia, Bradie said looking back it was wild to think of how young they were when they achieved mainstream success. 'I say this to my wife all the time, that I was a bit like a child star,' he said. 'I think we all did become who we are because of that experience at such a young age. And I didn't realise it at the time, but we were so young to go through something so weird, but I think the one thing I've observed is that the three of us are pretty unique. After the band first broke up in 2012, Bradie said the hardest thing was actually just finding a normal job. Now the three Short Stack lads are all dads, with normal jobs, but have reunited numerous times over the years to get back on stage. But if it's one thing that keeps them humble as they play sold out shows across Australia again, it's their kids. 'I think our kids were just a bit confused, but my son now asks questions. He's nearly seven, and he can't understand if we're at Metallica level or just a few people in our city know who we are,' Bradie laughed. 'He's like, 'So how many millions of people are coming down? Like, no, not millions! They're starting to get it that we obviously have been successful, but they also don't care. It doesn't matter, your kids never care about how cool you might be to someone else!"
News.com.au
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Noughties hit rockers Short Stack back on the road for 15th anniversary of debut album
When he's not staging the latest comeback of noughties pop punk band Short Stack, frontman Shaun Diviney is one of the NSW Central Coast's top real estate agents. 'I'm a real estate agent, which is super punk rock, hey?' he said. 'I feel we always stop and start the band because music is so different now and life changes; we've all got kids and families and it's hard to be a touring musician with kids. 'But it's the coolest thing to bring the kids to shows with us now.' Diviney swaps the business shirt for his rock uniform as he and bandmates Andy Clemmensen and Bradie Webb return to their night job this weekend, in celebration of the 15th anniversary tour of their 2009 debut album Stack Is The New Black. The shows sold out quickly with some venues upgraded to meet demand to see the poster boys for the noughties' scene of black skinny jeans, eyeliner and voluminous side fringes. While their look has shifted, late 2000s hits including 'Shimmy A Go Go', 'Sway, Sway Baby!' and 'Sweet December' influenced by their love of Blink 182, Green Day and Fall Out Boy, remain in vogue with rusted-on fans. 'I think our fans connected with us starting in high school and the fun element to what we did and people liked being a part of that,' he said. 'And there were a lot of bands that were sort of put together or manufactured at the same time that we came along where we were a little bit more authentic. 'I suppose we were probably too ugly to be a boy band. So we kind have that going for us.' In the wake of Short Stack releasing their fourth album Maybe There's No Heaven in 2022 on independent powerhouse UNFD, the band's team was negotiating to buy back the masters of their early recordings, a la Taylor Swift. The masters became government assets after their previous label dissolved. 'We own them now, which is wild. Our managers did a great job of getting them back because we'd thought, whatever, it's never going to happen,' Diviney said. Regaining the rights to their music matters as Short Stack head back out on a tour to play their debut album in full to an audience that not only includes their OG fans, but whose ranks have swelled by newcomers who have discovered them on social media. Diviney was shocked recently when his seven-year-old son asked his dad why his teacher knew all the Short Stack songs and was intrigued teens in the front row at their sets at Good Things festival in 2023 and again during their regional tour. The frontman also points to the band's determination to keep tickets affordable as cost of living pressures decimate young people's entertainment budgets as one of the reasons behind the tour's success. 'We noticed a lot of kids, 18 and 19, during the regional tour; I guess they have older siblings who grew up with us, who know our gigs are this fun night out where no one is taking themselves too seriously,' he said. 'Cost of living is insane now and out tickets are under $80 but that's a lot of money to people, you know so we want to make sure they have a good time for their money.'
