Are Butterfingers a bunch of hip-hopping Oedipal complexes with guitars?
Butterfingers Where: The Marquee, 128 Pyrmont Bridge Road, Camperdown When: Tonight at 9 How much: $12 More information: 9557 0314 When it comes to a quality insult, aiming it at your intended victim’s mother will always produce the desired result. It’s hard to imagine “mama” jokes ever going out of fashion. Brisbane four-piece Butterfingers knew what they were doing when they dedicated an entire track off their debut album to the timeless jibe. Entitled, funnily enough, Yo Mama, the track has already endeared itself to Triple J audiences. Who or what inspired it? “Inspiration?” says bassplayer Dave Crane. “I don’t know, man, you’ve got to wonder where the inspiration behind that sort of thing comes from. “[Frontman] Eddie and I were going through a little things-to-do list. Somewhere on there was ‘yo mama’. I thought it was pretty funny and I told him, ‘Yo mama is on the top of my things-to-do list.’ Then I said, ‘There’s a song, go and write it.’ “Two weeks later, his evil mind went
