6 days ago
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!"
