SCREAMFEEDER: Still Keeping At It After A Million Years

SCREAMFEEDER: Still Keeping At It After A Million Years

From HEAVY Music Interviews by HEAVY Magazine

July 10, 2026 · 13 min

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Tim Steward of Screamfeeder discussing the band's long history and influence in the Australian music scene.

Interview by Ali Williams SCREAMFEEDER, the beloved Brisbane Indie Rock Trio, formed back in 1991, and in 2026 have proven to be one of this country's influential groups in the industry. They’re best known for turning down major-label offers throughout the 90’s as a way of maintaining their independence and ultimately having control over where and how their music was created and displayed. Their decision to do this inspired an entire generation of Australian alternative musicians by showing them that they had options and to seriously consider exercising them. Tim Steward has been doing this long enough to know when a band is repeating itself, when a room feels right, and when a stranger in her twenties accidentally delivers the funniest career review imaginable. Speaking with HEAVY’s Ali Williams ahead of Screamfeeder’s run of July shows, Steward was relaxed, generous and wonderfully unfazed by the fact that his band has now lived through more musical eras than most streaming services have patience for. Screamfeeder are not a band having a comeback, exactly. Comebacks are for acts that disappeared properly. Screamfeeder never really did. They just wandered through the strange…

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Host: Ali Williams

Guest: Tim Steward

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Organizations: Screamfeeder

Places: Brisbane

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