As recent ARIA Awards nominees - for ‘Best Independent Release’ - Dappled Cities will be flying the Australian indie flag high and proud at the One Movement Showcase Music Festival. After patiently winning over fans with frequent national tours and pop gems like ‘Fire Fire Fire‘ and ‘Holy Chord‘, the five-piece released their third album Zounds in 2009, to widespread critical acclaim. Bassist Alex Moore answered four questions for One Movement Word ahead of their showcase set.

Alex, what’s your favourite song this week?

‘The Broken Vow’ by Converge [live video from 2004 embedded below]

What do you hope to gain from the One Movement festival and conference?

We are pretty focused on releasing our record and touring in any market that will really take us. At the moment we are sorted for here and the US so I guess the next step is to topple Japan, Europe and Melanesia.

Which artists’ showcase sets are you most looking forward to watching?

Sarah Blasko has an excellent show at the moment, so I’m looking forward to watching that and singing out of tune really loudly so that she looks at me angrily during at least one song.

One Movement’s tagline is “Artist, Industry, Fan United.” What do you think needs to change in order to unite the music industry with its artists and fans?

I think the industry is becoming more united with its fans as we speak because even the top level of labels and managers have to use simple social networking websites to truly connect with a fan base.

Also, I guess more tea parties at fancy industry people’s country estates could help. I think if every week they invited three fans and three bands out to play tennis and sip on iced lemonade we could form a real understanding of how the industry truly works.

Dappled Cities play the Snowball Stage at 5.55pm on Sunday, 18th October 2009 (full timetable here). Follow the band on Facebook and Twitter, and watch the electrifying video for their track ‘The Price’ below.