Plastic Face

Launching a band wearing masks is perhaps the most 2020 thing ever. For Sydney group Plastic Face they have done just that after gaining inspiration from the “bananas” year and experiences that we have all endured over the last 10-12 months.

Consisting of Pete Stals & Will Coleman, Plastic Face is far from the first time these two have worked together but with everything that has happened this year Pete explained to City Hub that now felt like the perfect time to unleash this “new baby” onto the world.

“We’ve been comrades for about 15 years. In that time we’ve played in so many different bands across so many different genres, played tons of shows both here at home and abroad, and ingested copious amounts of good times,” said Stals. “I’d say we’ve written about 500 songs together but the crazy year that was 2020 gave us a few months to simply write and polish off some little gems of pop music for this new venture.”

When Stals speaks about being given time to focus on Plastic Face he is somewhat burying the lead. As the pandemic arrived on Australian shores and borders began closing he was in New Zealand, living in an ashram in Golden Bay. So he had to quickly flee back home, subsequently seeing himself placed into a mandatory two week quarantine with nothing but music to occupy his time.

From that period of isolation came Plastic Face’s latest single, HiiViSiON.

“While in quarantine Will sent me this ‘COVID beat’ and I had a ‘COVID chord progression’ that I’d been playing over and over again. So the song was born from those, it  isn’t necessarily about something or someone it’s more of a state of mind.”

Without Plastic Face Stals doesn’t know how he would have persevered through 2020.

“This project was the reason why we stayed sane!”

Throughout the year we’ve all been wearing masks as we go about our day-to-day lives. So we had to ask, was this the inspiration behind Plastic Face donning masks?

“We’re two incredibly good looking guys and people would be stopped in their tracks by the brightness of our good looks. So we decided to put the masks on and simply get on with it and let people focus on the music instead,” Stals answered very tongue in cheek before revealing the true reasoning. “We’re constantly reinventing ourselves and evolving. So the masks allow us to not be pinned down to one look, which is the same as the music because we don’t like to be pigeon holed into one genre. I think wearing masks gives us that freedom to express ourselves.”

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