You’re launching your new EP A Soldier’s Wife this Wednesday. Convince us to rock up.
It kicks off with support from Karl Broadie, Danny Walsh and Jeff Tynan singing their songs in a songwriter in the round style. Then Delsinki Records play with a six-piece band. The guys I have playing have performed with the likes of Nuno Bettencourt, Ross Wilson and Suzi Demarchi, so they’re all really great musos to watch.
This is your third EP over the last couple of years. Is that the format you prefer? Or are you working towards an album?
We basically treat each tune as its own piece, so I find the EP format is good to be able to stay out there each year. It allows us to do videos for each song on the release. I find videos are one of the best tools for getting people to listen to your work.
Delsinki Records is officially you (Craig Johnston) & Cameron McKenzie. Who else are you playing with at the moment?
The full band live is Jeff Consi on drums, Gaz Thackrah and Dion Hirini on guitar, Ben Cripps on bass, and John Kendall on fiddle.
Are the creative duties split between you and Cameron, or is there a definite leader?
I’ll write a song and Cam will adjust, then we decide on what could be good for it and get in the musos. Cam does a lot of arranging and comes up with melodic parts for some of the instruments and sometimes he just lets the player go for it.
DELSINKI RECORDS’ A Soldier’s Wife is out now.
