When did you first start making music and how did you get here?I’ve spent the last twenty years of my life playing drums. It all culminated over the last three years where I was touring in a two-piece blues band, playing 120+ shows a year. I left that project behind in 2017 and learned to play guitar and sing. Six months later and I’ve got my debut EP We Were Wild complete and I’m playing a fifteen date national tour to support it.
Tell us about your EP We Were Wild. What inspired it? We Were Wild came out of a love 1960s folk music. I fell in love with the early 2000s wave of ‘new folk artists’ like Laura Marling, and following back to their roots I discovered Nick Drake. This led me to Leonard Cohen, Simon and Garfunkel, Jackson C. Frank etc, and then I started creating my own music, borrowing ideas and textures from the music I love as a kick-off point.
We Were Wild is a lyrical record, written around break-down of a couple friendships. Texturally there’s a lot of guitar, some pretty dense cello and mandolin arrangements, a couple of three-part harmonies and, surprisingly enough, no drums.
What can we expect from the live show? I’ve been mainly playing solo over the last couple of months, so for this show I jumped at the chance to get double bass, violin, mandolin and a stomp-box/tambourine set up in a room and shed through my tunes. It’s a big sound.
