Winston McCall Biography, Age, Wife, Net worth, Tattoo, Parkway Drive and Songs

Winston McCall Biography

Winston McCall (Winston Thomas McCall) is an Australian singer-songwriter and the lead vocalist of the metalcore band Parkway Drive and the hardcore punk band Rain Dogs. He grew up as a surfer and bodyboarder and has featured on the cover of Riptide bodyboarding magazine.

Winston McCall Age

McCall was born on 6th September 1982 in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia. He is 36 years old as of 2018.

Winston McCall Brother

He has a younger brother named Oscar McCall who is the lead singer of the metal core group 50 Lions.

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Winston McCall Wife

McCall married his high school sweetheart in the beautiful Byron Bay on 11th May 2014. The bride, Jessica, said that the inspiration for their wedding was the ocean and it’s mystique. She continues to say, “We are both surfers who are obsessed with it. However as hardcore kids and lovers of all things black, we are not the stereotypical ‘beachy’ types. So in order to appropriately reflect our identities, we decided to incorporate these dual aspects of our personalities into our wedding décor. We wanted to achieve a casual vibe that was infused with decadent elements.”

The wedding theme was Maritime Goth according to Jessica who wore an Alexander McQueen gown with Jimmy Choo shoes.

Winston McCall Parkway Drive

Parkway Drive is a heavy metal band from Byron Bay, Australia that was formed in 2003. The band has six full-length albums as of 2018, one EP, two DVDs, a split album and one book, titled Ten Years of Parkway Drive. Four of the band’s latest albums have reached the top 10 of the Australian ARIA Charts, with Ire reaching number 1 in October 2015.

It’s members line-up has been consistent with Brett Versteeg having left in 2004 and Shaun Cash in 2006 and the addition of bassist Jia O’Connor in 2006.

Current members

  • Winston McCall – lead vocals (2003–present)
  • Jeff Ling – lead guitar (2003–present)
  • Luke “Pig” Kilpatrick – rhythm guitar (2003–present)
  • Ben “Gaz” Gordon – drums (2003–present)
  • Jia “Pie” O’Connor – bass guitar (2006–present)

Former memebers

  • Brett “Lagg” Versteeg – bass guitar, vocals (2003–2004)
  • Shaun “Cashy” Cash – bass guitar (2004–2006)

McCall is the lead vocalist of Parkway Drive an Australian metalcore band formed in 2003. The band took their name from the street where their home rehearsal space and live venue, ‘The Parkway House’, was located. The 2009 documentary ‘Parkway Drive: The DVD’ explains that there was a lack of venues for punk rock and hardcore punk bands to practice and perform and that ‘Parkway House’ was like ‘a little oasis for us and all our friends’.

Parkway Drive Albums

  • Killing with a Smile – released in September 2005
  • Horizons – released in October 2007
  • Deep Blue – released in June 2010
  • Atlas – released in October 2012
  • Ire – released in September 2015
  • Reverence – released in May 2018

Parkway Drive Songs

  • Prey
  • Wishing Wells
  • Vice Grip
  • The Void
  • Bottom Feeder
  • Crushed
  • Wild Eyes
  • I Hope You Rot
  • Chronos
  • Dark Days
  • Shadow Boxing
  • A Deathless Song
  • Absolute Power
  • Romance Is Dead
  • Cemetery Bloom
  • In Blood
  • Carrion
  • The Colour Of Leaving
  • Devil’s Calling
  • Home Is for the Heartless
  • Karma
  • Boneyards
  • Sleepwalker
  • Idols and Anchors
  • Dedicated
  • Deliver Me
  • Blue and the Grey
  • Destroyer
  • Anasasis
  • Writings on the Wall
  • The River
  • Dying to Believe

Winston McCall Religion

McCall is not part of any religion. He says, “I’m not a part of organised religion. In Australia at the moment there is a huge rogue mission into the Catholic Church and the abuse of the children in their care, and it’s absolutely fucked. This tax haven, under the guise of religion, has protected people responsible for all manner of awful things done to children, and it is disgusting. The way that this religious group has reacted to it is horrifying, and has been a real eye-opener for a lot of Australians. I have a real problem with anyone that can say ‘My belief system is tied into that and that’s where I’m going to base my moral compass.’ I’m very open-minded to things, I think if there is someone that says definitively that there is no god; they’re pretty stupid as well. I think you have to hold your hand up and say ‘I will never know.’ But to put my faith behind what I see in organised religion? You had better have a damned spotless record.”

Winston McCall Height

He is 1.79 m (5 ft 9 inches) tall.

Winston McCall Net North

He has an estimated net worth of $1 Million.

Winston McCall Tattoos

The vocalist has various tattoos on his body, including “BBHC” on his left arm, representing the Byron Bay Hardcore Cast he was a part of growing up with bands and Parkway Drive. He has tattoos by notable artists such as Dan Smith and Raichi Brains.

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Winston McCall Interview

INTERVIEW: Winston McCall – Parkway Drive

Published: 20th September 2018
Adopted: distortedsoundmag.com

In the interview, the frontman talks about the band’s explosive growth and evolution of their sound, the reception to their latest record and how the band are ready to take to the biggest of stages.

So, you are headlining the Zippo Encore Stage tonight, what can we expect?

Winston: Everything! [laughs] Everything and then, more! We’ve been constantly wanting to expand what we do visually to match what we do sonically and we’ve been able to with the new album. Create some more moments which we thought would amplify what we already have and then on stage, we just keep wanting to push it forward. We want to keep making an experience that people can sit back and remember it.

PARKWAY DRIVE have always been known for memorable and high-octane shows, so is it always a challenge to see how you can take it forward?

Winston: Yeah it is. But it is a really good one! It would be more of a challenge I think if it is was something we weren’t interested in, it’s a really fun concept to be able to see how you make your sonics translate in an environment which also has visuals. It’s a very different way of listening to an album on headphones than it is standing in front of a stage so now, we are at this point where we are able to headline the second stage at Download, play in arenas, and do all these things on stage. It’s like, here’s your canvas, what are you going to paint? You can make one song appear several different ways with different ways you use these effects.

We’re obviously talking about the big stages, but PARKWAY DRIVE recently did the very small and intimate shows. What was it like going back to your roots?

Winston: Awesome! Absolutely awesome! I love being in a band anyway, but it is so awesome to be able to have the base core of all this which is we just like playing what we play. Strip away all of this stuff that you can see and just have us playing, we’re still going to love it. So playing those gigs, being all sweaty and seeing all these people falling over themselves, climbing off the roof and stuff like that, it’s so awesome.

They weren’t really promoted, it was like a sudden announcement…

Winston: Yeah! It’s like “we’re gigging, grab a ticket!”

…To see those shows sell-out so quick, that must be a real touching moment for you?

Winston: It was. The reaction at those shows was crazy. We said intimate shows but it felt intimate in the sense like it was connected. We were all connected, it was so fucking great, it felt very organic. All of the reactions, all of the sets, everywhere we went it just felt real and natural and yeah, it was great.

Your appearance at Download is on the back of your brand new album Reverence. Now that it has been out for about a month, what’s the reception been?

Winston: It’s been great! The thing is, I’ve got no idea what to make of the reception other than when you play a song live. At the end of the day, you can read a review or you can read a comment, but at the end of the day that’s one person saying I like it but when you play a song and wonder how does this go live, how does it work and stuff like that. It shocked me how massive these songs have been live. Like, seriously, it’s been crazy! [laughs] It’s been everything I hoped it would be, when you make a song, and especially with us, we aim to make a vibe and to have it translate to that many people is phenomenal. It’s such an awesome feeling.

It was three years between Reverence and Ire, most bands usually fall to a two-year cycle, but by taking an extra year did you really notice your growth and development as a musician?

Winston: Yes, in the sense of I think it was an easier album to write sonically than Ire because of the confidence that we’ve gained over the years. Finally, it felt like okay, we’ve got this, we’re not completely inept. We’ve always been a band that’s been quick to talk ourselves down, we’ve always been like man, we’re so lucky to be here, and yeah we are, but we do put a damn lot of time into doing this. After 15 years of being in a band and thousands of gigs, we’ve kind of learnt how to get our shit together! This was finally the time where we were like “yeah, we can write songs, let’s just write some songs” and if we think that works for this part and that’s something we’ve never done before, I trust you, do it!

Well Winston, it’s been a real pleasure. Good luck for your set tonight.

Winston: Thanks a lot man!

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