Radio Australia Today Editorial

Faker. These guys are no Fakers

26 May 2008

Faker is certainly a brave name. Knowing the propensity of schoolchildren to play naughties with names, Faker is akin to calling your son Bart.

But name aside, the guys in Faker have presented a few problems for we radio jocks, because it always seems that whenever we do an interview about cholesterol or coronary problems, the song that inevitably comes up next on the playlist if Faker’s last big hit, This Heart Attack.

I can’t explain to you the embarrassment that results from this unfortunate coincidence. There we are trying to be serious.. and then in comes the guitars and the voice singing the virtues of chest pains.

Oh well.

But the guys themselves are charming. Their new found pop stardom here in the Land of Oz hasn’t affected them at all. They were fun, a little shy and apparently a little bemused by all the fuss. Except when Kim asked them to signed their autographs for her kids. Nathan, the lead singer, suggested giving Kim a separate autograph for each of her kids, instead of signing for both kids on the one sheet of paper. “Kids like individual signatures”, Nathan said. Which reveals the extent of their fame among the  youngies here. Faker are well loved, but like Eskimo Joe and countless other rockers who have trod through the Breakfast Club doors over the years, they have not let a bit of it go to their heads.

Good looking guys too.

Bet they were prefects at school and won the maths prizes too.

Will someone please find something to criticise there guys about!

                    - Phil