1. Thank you very much for your time! Before we introduce your new release to our readers – what kind of drink would you recommend to zip on while they listen to your new music?
I’d recommend an espresso martini, it raises your focus and lowers your inhibitions. Perfect combination if you ask me!
2. Please give us an update about – new single, new album, tour dates, new videos?!
New single! ‘Days, Weeks, Months & Years’ dropped October 7, and I’m halfway through the tour as I write this. I just wrapped up three shows in south-east Queensland. Next stop is Melbourne! A music video will be joining this song very shortly as well. It’s all happening!
3. We live in times of many conspiracy theories. Which, harmless, theory would you wish were true? (For example Dinos living inside Earth or E.T. living in a home in California)
I remember watching a show on this guy that firmly believes that the Holocaust never happened. That the concentration camps weren’t built for the purpose that most have been led to believe. There was one point where, on a map, there was meant to be an exhaust pipe for what was most likely to allow the gas to escape, but he spent 15 minutes ranting about how because the pipe wasn’t there, the entire genocide was a farce.
Seriously, if I don’t laugh, I’ll cry.
I’m hazy on most of the episode’s details past that but it was far more entertaining than Keeping Up With The Kardashians and I didn’t feel like I was getting stupider by the minute at the same rate as most reality tv shows.
This show was freedom of speech in full swing people.
4. What fashion style or brand would best describe your music?
Connies, jeans and a flanno – even though I don’t own a flanno I reckon it suits that vibe.
5. Tell us more about your songs! Topics! Message!?
I really enjoy getting into the deep & personal side of things. I guess I just want to make people feel how I feel when I listen to songs that bore down into my soul.
My latest release Days, Weeks, Months & Years is about living out of balance with yourself. Watching the world go by feeling like you might be losing touch with far more important things in life than what you’re focusing on right now.
6. Beside music, do you have any special talents?
Haha! I love poetry and dabble in that form of creative writing. I have a Braindump series that I’m planning to turn into a book soon, if that’s your style, please keep your eyes peeled for updates on my website or social media.
7. Name 5 things we all should know about you as an artist?!
- People say I have a nice voice… I’ll take it.
- I grew up playing piano from the age of 5, picked up the bass at 8 and started teaching myself guitar at 24.
- I’ve played to over 2000 audiences so far in my lifetime, I wish I had an exact number alas, the specifics have been lost over time.
- My career feels like Groundhog Day in regards to starting new chapters in new bands or forging myself out as a solo artist, I’m constantly restarting but with the knowledge of all my previous work to help me do even more and even better this time around.
- I’ll do anything for $5
8. How did you learn to sing/ to write/ to play??
I actually got recommended a voice coach by a good friend Ronnie Simmons, who plays for Richie Ramone and Faster Pussycat these days. Myself and the vocal coach, Stephen Baker, hit it off and I owe so much to this man. I can safely say he changed my life.
I taught myself how to write and at the start, it’s like pulling teeth. You’re constantly learning by doing. You have to just keep writing and then looking back on your previous work to learn what not to do next time.
I had lessons through school for piano and bass but got to a point where I just stopped being interested in learning the curriculum put in front of me. I wanted to play in a band!
9. A question you’d like to answer, but never been asked in an interview before?! + Answer pls
“Why the hat all the time?”
I started losing my hair at the age of 21/22 and I took a LONG time to come to terms with it. I was never too inspired to try and slow the process just because of all the potential side effects of the treatments out there. Cancer, ED, lower sex drive etc. I just let it happen and now I wear a hat because it looks way more interesting than just being a bald guy – Nothing wrong with baldness! If you’re 23 and have no issue walking around with a baldness aesthetic mostly associated with a 70 year old, you’re a braver man than me – I just prefer how I look with a hat on.
Plus, I won’t look like Joe Satriani everytime I put on sunglasses too, so there’s that…
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Photo Credit: Dario Hardaker