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It was midnight on a Tuesday in Melbourne. A violin and drums duo called The Twoks were playing their final notes on stage at The Espy Front Bar. It’s a rowdy, St Kilda pub, yet the crowd were listening intently, waiting until the last note was played. It was on this Tuesday night, that Xani Kolac (electric violin/vocals) and her drummer, Mark Leahy knew for sure that they had something pretty spectacular - especially if a late night, beer-drinking crowd at The Espy had stopped to listen.
The Twoks’ ability to win over a crowd developed while performing a season of shows in 2011 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. “We had to get up on open mic stages in front of hundreds of people who had never heard of us before and in five minutes, capture their full attention and win them over so that they’d buy tickets to see our show. It was like we had entered this massive competition where we had to win over and above the thousands of other shows going on at that festival,” Xani remembers.
It is an unconventional line-up, violin and drums, but the sound is full and unexpected - especially from a two-piece. “Being a duo with violin/vocals and drums, people are often a bit unsure about what it’s going to sound like. I get people coming up to me all the time after we’ve played saying they were pretty skeptical at first. Then we start playing and their perceptions change completely so that it’s all about the music again.”