JOEL O’KEEFFE
AIRBOURNE WENT BACK to basics for new album Boneshaker, flying to Nashville to record a stripped-back, rough and ready new album with famed country producer Dave Cobb. It was the latest learning curve in a career packed full of them, so naturally, we got frontman Joel O’ Keeffe to let us in on a few of his most sacred tidbits.
GROWING UP IN AUSTRALIA WAS FANTASTIC
“My brother Ryan [Airbourne drummer] and I were raised in a very small town called Warrnambool. Right over the back fence were cliffs and the ocean. There was no internet back then but we had all these VHS tapes of Iron Maiden and AC/DC playing at Donington and we ate them up. We used to stand at the top of those cliffs and say: Someday we will become rock musicians… and it came true!”
