Define your genre in five words or less:
Stripped back rock’n’roll.
What do you hate about the music industry?
The fact that not enough people in a position to care or help performers actually do. The industry is being run by lawyers and pigs in bow ties from General Electric who not only don’t understand music, but don’t care. It’s all about dollars and cents. I also think it’s sad people don’t go to gigs as much – not helped by all the bullshit licensing laws and with downloading so viral that no-one buys records anymore. I like the buzz of waiting for a record to come out, making the journey to get it and actually holding it in my hands and looking at the art work. We have lost a lot of that.
What’ve you got to sell CD-wise?
My first EP (self-titled). Available at gigs and online.
When’s the gig and with who?
My EP launch is at The Wesley Anne on Friday September 14, and I will be joined again by my musical better half Ben O’Brien, with support in the shape of my good friends The Tattered Sails.
What inspires or has influenced your music the most?
It’s a little clichéd, but mainly women. They always seem to work their way into your world, sometimes for the good sometimes bad, but either way it tends to come out in my tunes.
What’s your favourite song, and why?
In My Life by The Beatles. It just blows my mind every time I hear it. It has one of the greatest intros ever and such a beautiful vocal delivery from Lennon, and lyrically it just says what I want to hear in a song. Brilliant.
