The lead singer of the popular Tasmanian rock band Luca Brasi has hinted at a potential collaboration with the new Tasmania Devils AFL team.
Speaking to ABC Radio, Luca Brasi frontman Tyler Richardson said he’s ‘working on some ideas’ and would be open to helping the team out with their song.
Luca Brasi famously created the theme song ‘Jackies Are On The March’ for the JackJumpers in 2021 when Tasmania entered the NBL.
“As soon as we heard there was gonna be a [NBL] team coming, we (the band) got together … and I said … we’ve got to do this,” Richardson said.
“No one asked us to do it. We sat down and said let’s write a bloody theme song because we want to be part of such a huge moment for Tassie.”
The band then rocked up on the doorstep of the JackJumpers office and played their staff the theme song, which quickly became the team’s chant.
Since Monday’s Football Club launch, Richardson said the band has been inundated with inquiries about whether they’ll be writing a song for the state’s AFL team.
“I’ll never say never. If they are silly enough to get us to write something for them, or maybe they don’t ask us and we rock up in their office with the theme song again and tell them here it is,” he said.
Richardson encouraged all Tasmanian musicians to support the team, but have a stern warning to team officials.
“It has to be someone from Tasmania, that’s all I care about. It’s gotta mean something to the person who writes it,” he said.
“If that’s us, then awesome. If that’s anyone else, go for it, we’ll be so happy.”
“There might be a few little things in my phone that I’m not willing to share with the general public just yet. There’s some ideas there.”
While creating the JackJumpers song, Tyler said he made reference to the Jack Jumper ant’s sting in its tail and is looking at what parts of the Tasmanian Devil could be integrated into a song for its namesake football team.
The Tasmania Devils will play their first game in 2028, conditional on a new multipurpose stadium being built at Macquarie Point in Hobart.
Within 24 hours of launching earlier this week, the team sold over 100,000 Foundation Memberships.
