“We got together because we wanted to have a space where we could do whatever we wanted,” she says. “It was fun. From the beginning it was a case of not trying to find a niche, unlike with Go Violets and Major Leagues where it wasn’t so much that the sound was figured out, but more that there was a lot of expectation of what to write in terms of audience and management. It gets a bit constraining creatively. I think with Tempura Nights we never really had that – obviously we still don’t have that management, and every time I weigh up getting management I think that I want to maintain the creative freedom we have, but it might disappear. It depends on what kind of management you get.
“The guys and I are very interested in experimenting while we’re in the studio, just jamming weird stuff while we’re in the open. It’s been pretty experimental for me. A lot of the songs that don’t become the hits or the songs that we use to fish people in – a lot of those songs that aren’t in the limelight – those songs are my favourite songs.”
While Tempura Nights has allowed Rezende more breathing space and to enjoy creating music, this isn’t necessarily going to last. As time progresses and Tempura Nights’ popularity continues to grow, she’s increasingly tempted to bring in a manager.
“As much as it’s a constraint, there’s so much stuff that we currently do that I know other people can do better,” she says. “You’ve got to delegate these things or it just becomes too much and you get to a stage where you’re not even writing music anymore. I don’t want it to come to that. I’ve tried before to do everything – I’ve been told that I try to do too much.”
Go Violets are still officially broken up, but they’ve recently taken to Facebook to lend support to an interesting concept: Australia’s first all-girls rock camp. It goes by the name Girls Rock! Australia, and it’s scheduled to commence in January. Rezende has been keeping a keen eye on the development of the project and hopes to work with the camp in the future.
“With the girl camp thing, I’ve always been curious because America does it so much – the whole music camp and things like that – and I’ve been researching into it more and more. I was actually just curious to see if there’s anything like that in Australia, and I found the website where they’re doing it. It’s going to be set up in Canberra. It’s an initiative started by this volunteer who started at an American camp and loved it. So basically she proposed it to the government. It’s something that’s really exciting. She said, ‘If you want to get involved with the Melbourne project, Skype me and we’ll talk about it’. It’s definitely something that I want to do. I haven’t Skyped her yet, but I really want to get involved with giving girls a space to work on music. I think that’s a huge thing we should do.”
BY THOMAS BRAND
