That Adelaide Band

  Hayli, she's quite the engima. Sings, plays VIOLIN, plays keys, guitar and piano like a boss! Always smiling, always happy and one of the nicest artists I've met. She can also bang out a solid tune and has songwriting prowess that'll see her around for years to come, maybe longer! I caught up with Hayli the other day and asked her 'where she at' currently in music, life and general.  Hayli, I’m so impressed with what you bring to the table as far as interesting songs go, tell me about your process – I notice first that your chorus’ are massive – Is that an intention for you to highlight this as part of the song-writing process? Well, Thanks! For me, song writing is therapy. I think that’s applies to ALL musicians. Some of us have so many words to say, that we just say it. Others have so much to say that they need to disguise the message- which we pretend is just intense creativity to  “protect” our audience. Others? They have so much to say that they can’t say it,...

I first heard the Mark of Cain when their song 'Tell Me' appeared on 'Eleven, A Triple J Very Loud Compilation that was released in 1994. Honestly, it scared the shit out of me but I became a fan. Recently I caught up with Kim Scott from the band to talk all things The Mark of Cain.  How did the The Mark of Cain first form and tell us a bit about what the Adelaide Music Scene was like at that time + the venues you performed in. TMOC formed in 1984 after my brother John decided he wanted to form a band playing the type of music he listened to and he would want to see live. He previously formed a band called Spiral Collapse with three other guys, and when this band ended, he asked me to play bass. I hadn’t played bass before, so just picked it up along the way without lessons. I think the drummer from Spiral Collapse was our first TMOC drummer. John always believed that bands with siblings would last longer than other bands, given blood is thicker than water. After 40 years o...