With their alt-country rock, The Fearless Vampire Killers’ performances are strengthened by the feverish Bonham-esque drumming of Dylan Lieberman. It hasn’t been heard this good in a while. A six-minute song featuring all the fervour and potency they delivered in their first chords is fed mid-way through their set to a crowd of infatuated fans.

Al’s two broken guitar strings, mic stands knocked over and their audience’s plea for an encore attest to the dynamism of the band as a live outfit. Their set ends with a drawn-out interpretation of I Want Candy. By the close of the song, front-man Sean Ainsworth lays on his back with one of the ten-or-so random punters on stage at this time straddling him whilst playing his guitar that had previously fallen off the singer (attributed to his vigorous demeanour whilst performing).

Value for money is heading down to Revolver on a Friday evening and paying $8 to watch The Fearless Vampire Killers. Heed this – demand theory in economics tells us that when demand increases, prices will rise. The former is certainly growing.

I had the pleasure of sitting down after the Revolver show with the charming and immeasurably talented bass player that is Lachlan Ewbanks to ascertain how The Fearless Vampire Killers are enjoying their current state of affairs.

Since their inception in early 2005, the four young lads have been nourishing punters hungry for some fresh rock and roll. With side projects aplenty (Dweezil’s Moon Unit, The Sundaes, the beautifully dark, theatrical Dam Terran as well as solo side-projects), time is of the essence and “finding time to get ideas out and rehearse” are the most demanding tasks. Despite this, the process of securing the much sought-after scarce gigs that bands would do almost anything for is not as hectic.

“We don’t really get stressed out about booking gigs. We just contact venues ourselves or are approached by others.”

Unfortunately, crowd-attracting bands like The Vampire Killers can be prey for the unscrupulous bookers that do still abound. Lachlan concurs. “One thing that pisses me off is venues taking advantage of bands and ripping us [sic] off.”

So how does a promising young band that is thrown into such an industry establish their survival skills? “We've learnt a lot of ‘do's’ and ‘don’ts’ from experience and also some music classes. The real stuff you need to know is in books... and we clearly don’t have time to read books.

“We do get told a lot by people who have been in bands which helps’ us out heaps.”

Lachlan is acutely aware of the relevance of a bands reputation. “It’s important to have a good reputation in the industry. Whatever happens (poor sound guy, poor venue) you just accept it and don’t bitch about things, because then you'll be known as a bitchy band - and no one wants to book a bitchy band.”

As imperative as one’s name is the connections attached to it. The importance of networking and maintaining relationships is apparent to them. “We have made a lot of contacts in the industry - managers, bookers, people with recording equipment – that we used last week.”

The band is currently recording their first EP to be released in the latter part of the year.

Never fear, live music fans, what has worked so far for them will continue – “gig, build up a fan base and write some songs that people will hopefully enjoy”.

The darlings of Click Click and 161 can be taken in at both of these venues in the near future as well as The Tote and the Colonial Hotel.