Still Rockin' It - Cheryl Lee
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Still Rockin' It - Cheryl Lee
What have Sisters Doll been up to lately? OR Four Brothers, One Band, Big Hair and Bigger Hooks
Join Cheryl Lee - That Radio Chick on STILL ROCKIN' IT for news, reviews, music and interviews with some of our favourite Australian musicians
A rock band that actually earned the word “juggernaut” isn’t built overnight. We sit with Sisters Doll—now a fully-fledged four-brother unit—to unpack how a noisy childhood in Collie turned into a decade of theatrical rock, national tours, and a chorus that won’t quit. From posters on the wall to festival cruise stages, the path is messy, loud, and deeply human.
We trace the move from Western Australia to Melbourne, the decision to keep the band in the family, and the balance between sibling honesty and onstage chemistry. The guys get candid about Australia’s Got Talent: the surreal speed of TV, the reality behind the scenes, and why they treated airtime as a launchpad rather than a shortcut. They share what it felt like to be voted onto the KISS Cruise, swap stories about also sharing stages with Extreme, The Angels, and Rose Tattoo, and explain how those high-pressure sets sharpened their live show into something explosive.
At the center is Good Day To Be Alive, a set-closer that grew from reliable crowd-pleaser into a statement piece. The band breaks down why they re-recorded it with the full lineup, how inviting fans to add gang vocals changed the vibe, and what it means to refresh a song without losing the spark that made it connect.
We round things out with tour news, near sell-outs in Adelaide, and the simple truth that great rock still thrives where the chorus meets a room full of voices.
If you love big hooks, sweat-soaked choruses, and bands that treat fans like family, this one’s for you.
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Australia's own theatrical rock juggernaut Sisters Doll are free to announce a highly anticipated good day to be a live Australian tour hitting cities nationwide. Renowned for their electrifying live shows and explosive energy, Sisters Doll is set to deliver a tour pack with fan favorites, brand new anthems, and the larger than life performance that has defined their decade-long career. We were lucky enough to catch up with three of the four Milletto brothers. Let's find out all the latest gossip. I'd like to welcome you into the Zoom room today. You're with Cheryl Lee, that radio chick, and I'm very pleased to introduce you to three quarters of Sisters Doll. Hi, Brennan, Bryce, and Austin. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3:Thanks for having us.
Cheryl Lee:Oh, it's a pleasure. I first heard about you guys. I had serious FOMO. A lot of my friends were on the last rock the boat. Cool. I've been on a few, but I wasn't on last year. And everybody kept texting, messaging me, and saying, you've got to see this band, you've got to see this band, Sister's doll. So it didn't happen overnight, but it did happen, and here we are.
Speaker 5:That's cool.
Cheryl Lee:You've got a tour happening, and we'll talk about those dates in a little while because you're coming to our beautiful town, and we're going to actually interview you for the telly. Let's find out a little bit about you guys first. You're originally from WA?
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're originally from Western Australia. We um were born and raised in a town called Collie, which was about two hours south of Perth. Yeah, we grew up there and it was sort of like you either worked in the mines, played football, or moved to Perth to go to university or something, but we were like, nah, we want to do music. So that's sort of what we pursued, and then um, yeah, which led us to move over to the eastern states. So you chose Melbourne because it seemed like it was the music hub at the time. And um, yeah, and we've sort of done some great things over the over our years. We started off as the three of us, just the three of us, but recently our youngest brother finally joined, so it completes the uh four brother package, which is good.
Cheryl Lee:How long have you lived in Melbourne?
Speaker 3:I think it's been like 12 years now or something like that. Yeah, we moved them. Yeah, 2014, so yeah, that is yeah, 12 years. Yeah, as a guest team.
Cheryl Lee:The little brother has just joined you guys. Sage, I'm a mum of five kids. How do four siblings get along together in the same band?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's it's it's weird. I I think we've always been a close family like growing up. And I think the band, you know, even though sometimes it's a curse, kinda's kept us together as well. Like we probably would often be doing our own separate things and not see each other as much as we'd like to if we were doing different projects or doing our had our own things going on. But the band's kind of is what's kept us all close. And I think striving for that same sort of dream and you know, having the passion to sort of make music a career is always been big on all three of our bucket lists. And then obviously, as Sage got up, even though he's just joined the band, he's always been there in the background. Like he's had to go through every heartache we've gone through, he's had to like move states as well. Like, so he's just a part of it as as we have been, and yeah, to have him as you know in the band now, it sort of completes us. And it's yeah, we have moments, don't get me wrong, like we all have our moments where we get annoyed at each other, but I think we all know each other's limits when you know, when to don't cross that line because he's gonna blow up in a second, you know. So we kind of can tread softly. And I guess the beauty of being brothers is you can kind of tell each other how it is, and you know, then the next day you're back to you know normal, or the next half hour you're back to normal, as opposed to mate, you know, it makes it a little tricky, a bit awkward the next day you see them or whatever. So yeah.
Cheryl Lee:I think that's pretty standard for any band to have its moments, let alone a band of brothers. So you're doing well. I usually ask, is music in your DNA? When did you first realize that music was your passion? But I read that you you inherited love of music from your dad.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was mainly from dad, really. Like we grew up with kids posters all on our walls, all around the house. We had all the kids' memorabilia, and dad was always blasting music in the house, you know, from from Kiss to Van Halen. Black Sabbath, and uh who else? Even some Shania Twain was in there too. Like we just grew up on a loud household of music, and dad was a drummer himself. I mean, he could play guitar and things like that too, using cover bands and there was always a drum kit set up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, lucky dad, because he was in bands like cover bands going up, like you used to go do wedding gigs and pub gigs and stuff with his band at the time. And uh so there was a designated band room that we got to use, which was great. And I think from a young age, seeing dad in a band playing like music that you know, like obviously you can put a CD on and hear it as like, oh, that's cool. But when you see someone actually playing it at a young age, you're like, oh, it's possible, that's that's kind of cool. So yeah, I think that sort of was that introduction to being like, oh, this was fun, and then uh yeah, we sort of jammed ourselves and come to life.
Cheryl Lee:Quick three speak by questions each. Brennan first, favourite artist, Kiss. Thought that might be in there. Most influential artist on your career.
Speaker 3:On a career, ooh, that's a tough one.
Cheryl Lee:Kiss.
Speaker 3:Yeah, probably Kiss, but Aerosmith as well is another big one up there for us. Yeah, yep.
Cheryl Lee:Dead or alive, who would you most like to collaborate with?
Speaker 3:Good question.
Cheryl Lee:The other boys have got thinking time, so you're in the hot seat straight away.
Speaker 3:Oh god, Steven Tyler, actually. That would be really cool to work with him, actually. That would be that would be amazing.
Cheryl Lee:Or it would, wouldn't it? Right, same to you, favorite artist.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna go with machine gun killer.
Cheryl Lee:You can say the same as your brother. Most influential artist on your career.
Speaker 2:My career? Peter Chris?
Cheryl Lee:Oh, yeah, from Kiss. Awesome. And Dead or Alive, who'd you like to collaborate with?
Speaker 2:I'm going with Freddie Mercury.
Cheryl Lee:That's a good one. Austin, your turn. Favourite artist.
Speaker 4:Favorite artist extreme.
Cheryl Lee:Most influential artist on your career.
Speaker 4:I would say Ozzy Osborne.
Cheryl Lee:Good answers, boys. Dead or Alive, Austin, who'd you like to collaborate with?
Speaker 4:Let's go Ozzy Osborne.
Cheryl Lee:Yeah, that is a good one. You guys have three acclaimed studio albums. The latest release of Scars, congratulations. Top 10 in the Aria charts, followed by a UK tour. So we're so glad that you're coming around Australia now. I have to ask about your experiences because some are good and some are bad, but you guys were in the grand final of Australia's Got Talent back in 2016. How was your whole experience of that?
Speaker 4:It was good. We got to live like royalty for a few weeks, you know, they do everything for you, everything's paid for, free hotels.
Speaker 2:Closest we've ever been to $250,000. Well, this closed like up to the top five, which was awesome. TV world is just a whole different um it's powerful.
Speaker 4:It's a powerful thing. There's sort of appearances we had, you know, we had like hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of promotion just from being on the show.
Speaker 3:You know, a lot of people think, oh, why just do that? You know, it was kind of like a bucket list thing, and I I knew a producer who sort of pitched us to the show that year because Kelly Osborne was one of the judges, and she was like, Oh, this is a year you should you should try out, you know. So she sort of gave us an in, you know, and we thought, oh, what can we lose? You know, it's free promo, free PR. And yeah, we didn't think we'd ever get through the first audition, let alone get to the end. But we kind of just wrote it as like, like Austin said, it was kind of just promotion you couldn't really, you know, whether it was good promotion or bad promotion, it was still PR and it got your name out there to the worlds. Yeah, it was like we knew we were never gonna be an overnight success from that. You know, we'd done a lot of groundwork up until that point, but you know, we knew like there was still a lot of hard work to follow in that. It was just another stepping stone for us, really. It was a fun experience.
Speaker 4:Like, yeah, just really saw how powerful like the television world is. It's just yeah, it's unbelievable.
Cheryl Lee:Yeah, the learning curve would have been pretty.
Speaker 3:Definitely, yeah. Like Austin said and Bryce said, there's a whole like different beast TV. Like people think, oh yeah, just get up and but it's it's such a difference like for what people see on TV to what is actually happening behind closed doors. So it was great, like I said, it was a bucket list sort of thing. It was cool to see that build. We met a lot of great people on there, you know. Like at the end of the day, the industry's quite small, so the more you can build bigger contacts, and that led to us going on to another show, which was like another paid version, like we got paid to go on this other show that was on channel seven where we were judges, which was cool. So it sort of led to other things, which was nice. It wasn't like a complete waste, which was which was good.
Cheryl Lee:Like you say, it's that sort of exposure that money can't buy. So, do you think that exposure sort of helped you along your trajectory?
Speaker 4:It did, yeah. It pushed us a little. I mean, I think even as a band, we hadn't really found ourselves yet, I don't think. Yeah, like we're kind of a different band now, all together now with our youngest brother in the band, too. So I think it was good for us time. We enjoyed it, it was a good experience, and that's kind of that's all it was, and it gave us a bit of a boost, which was better than it's.
Cheryl Lee:It's all led you to where you are.
Speaker 4:Yeah, exactly. And um, we got fans that still follow us now from that show, and it's good. We're very thankful for that.
Cheryl Lee:Are you guys doing Rock the Boat this year, 2026 as well?
Speaker 3:We are, yeah. Yeah, so we're excited to be back on there because it's a bigger boat this time, I think. So it's gonna be fun. And some great artists on there, which is awesome, like locals as well as international. So it's gonna be fun.
Cheryl Lee:Yeah, hopefully, hubby and I will be joining you again this year. Well, some pretty heavy hitters have been lucky enough to share the stage with you guys, like Kiss and Extreme and the Jets, the Angels, Rose Tattoo. Which was your favourite?
Speaker 2:I think Kiss was number one, like growing up with KISS, and then we got to we got voted on to do to play on the Kiss Cruise a few times, and that was like a just a life-pinching moment because um I think we're one of the first Australian bands to ever do the Kiss Cruise. The Kiss Cruise. Yeah, that was just crazy, like to have done that. That was yeah, top ten.
Cheryl Lee:Big Adelaide, congratulations. So you did the Monsters of Rock cruise, and you were the first independent Australian band and the Chris Cruise in the US. Any plans to do more of those?
Speaker 3:If they'll have us, yeah. Yeah, definitely. Um I think the Kiss Cruises called it a day because obviously KISS have, but Monsters of Rock's so much, you know, out there, and they always like because of the response we got on 2025, like last year, they said um, oh, we definitely want to have you back. But they sort of don't like to do the same bands each year, they sort of like to rotate them a bit. So yeah, hoping maybe 2027 we'll get back on there, which will yeah, which will be awesome. So yeah.
Cheryl Lee:What a good day to be alive, a new chapter for the fan. So it celebrates your achievements while charging forward with fresh material, but it's also about celebrating where you came from as well. Tell us a little bit about the creative process.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so good day to be alive for like the newer fans that have come along. It wasn't it is an older song like that we um released on it was on our second album, actually. And uh it's just always been a feel-good song. We've always closed the set when we as soon as we read it, we knew it was kind of wrote the song, we kind of knew it was something special for like the sh live shows, and so it kind of became the last song in the the set sort of thing. And I don't know, it's just always resonated with people live, I guess. Even when we went to the UK just recently, we played it, and we after the first song, like we taught them the chorus as the song sort of starts. People by the end of the song were singing it back to us, like it just sort of got that hook, and our UK management team over there were like, you have to do something with that song, because they go, We've never seen a band get this response for like the first time seeing them, sort of thing, and we're like, Oh, well, that's kind of cool. And then obviously, people in Australia have said, Yeah, that song, that's there's something about that song. So we thought, well, why don't we go in and re-record it, sort of refresh it up with obviously Sage on bass? Another thing we did was we got some um we got some diehard fans, like we put it out to our email database to see who wanted to jump in the stream, and we limited it to 20 people so they could actually come in and do gang vocals on the track. So it sort of made it more like a celebration as opposed to, you know, like here's a brand new song. We kind of thought, well, let's rehash this song and make it, you know, a bit more modern, had a newer twist on it, and yeah, re-push it because we kind of felt like when we did it back when we did like Austin, so we're still sort of trying to find ourselves like when we did release that song. Now we kind of feel like you know, we've got a bit more of a a name, people sort of know who we are. It's kind of like, well, let's see what this song can maybe do if we re-release it. So fingers crossed, people like the new version.
Cheryl Lee:Awesome. You start at the end of the month off to Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, and back to Perth. But Adelaideans Friday, the 20th of February, get onto the Google on to get your tickets. You're playing at the woodshed. Now, you guys really, really were the darlings of Rock the Boat last year. You've got lots and lots of fans waiting for you to come to Adelaide. We're very excited to host you February the 20th. What's the website that they can find out all about you and listen to some songs if they may not have heard Sisters Doll before?
Speaker 3:Yeah, the best website's got everything. Is our website, which is sistersdollband.com, um, which has got all our social links. So Facebook and Instagram are probably the most popular ones these days that people check out for that sort of stuff. So all the event pages are on there. I think there's only like 30 tickets left for Adelaide, so um, it's gonna be fun. It's really nearly sold out, which is exciting because we haven't done an Adelaide headline gig for three years, I think. So we're excited to come back and um it'll be a nice intimate night. It's gonna be fun.
Cheryl Lee:Sometimes we're a bit slow in getting our tickets, but it sounds like you might miss out if you don't pull your finger out. If you haven't heard of Sisters Doll before, get onto the Googleometer, sistersdolland.com, and check them out, and uh I shall see you there down the front.
Speaker 3:Awesome, awesome. We can't wait. Thanks so much for doing this tonight. Appreciate it.
Cheryl Lee:Oh, it's a pleasure. Thank you, gentlemen, for getting together on the Zoom with me, and I'll look forward to seeing you at the 20th. Have a great tour up until I see you then.
Speaker 4:We'll see you soon. Thank you very much. Thanks, Cheryl.
Cheryl Lee:Bye for now.
Speaker 5:You are listening to Still Rocking It, the podcast with Cheryl Lee.
Cheryl Lee:Well, here it is, the original version. Good day to be alive by Sisters Doll from the All Dolled Up album 2017. If you want to be one of the first to hear the new version, you can pre-order that now as well.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much for joining me on the Still Rocking Up podcast. Hope to catch you again next time. Get out when you can, support Aussie music, and I'll see you down the front.