How are you Wons?
How’s everything going for you?
Pretty well, I’ve been good, just getting everything ready. Got some photos sorted out the other
week.
You’ve got so much
stuff going on at the moment and obviously you’ve got the new EP Tonight. Can you talk a little
bit about that and how the process of putting the EP together compared to The
Rules of Nature?
Yeah, a couple of years back when I finished the other one I started
writing as usual and I guess I started writing what I thought was going to be
an album with all these songs that had this sort of worldly theme to them. Then I started thinking that I hadn’t
really travelled that much overseas and I guess that was why I was writing all these
worldly themes. The words “the
world” came up a lot in the songs, and I had travelled overseas a bit but not
as much as I wanted to, so I guess that was one of the reasons why I thought I
might want to be a musician – it seems like travel is a part of the job.
Yeah, it’s not too
bad, is it!
Yeah, hopefully I start feeling the criteria a bit more soon, cause I
went overseas and I wasn’t really thinking about playing that much. I met all these people, some of them
through music, through the internet, and some of them were musicians or writers
or producers. So I just sort of travelled around and also had a good time, you
know, just did a bit of living, did some crazy things in the Greek Islands,
hung out with people in Spain, and other than that I just went to England and
hung out with some friends in Manchester and started writing again.
For a while I thought I was going to try a whole new spin-off band with
different people but then I put that on hold and took these ideas from
different things I’d been working on and slowly started piecing together songs
and cutting down all the lyrics I was writing. Sometimes I just write pages and pages, but I’ve sort of
become more interested in melodies as well. A lot of songs I used to write with just ideas and lyrics,
so yeah, I just started cutting that back down and making sure it fits with the
melody in my head as well, and then I sent these rough songs to these people and
ended up going to Ivy League and making a final release.
It sounds like the
reaction has been quite positive, and that must be quite heartening for you.
Yeah, definitely.
I mean, I’m more
familiar with your live show than your recordings and I feel it translates
quite well.
Yeah, and the live thing has been coming on quite well. I used to play a lot by myself on stage
and I’d have one or two other musicians jump in for a song or two, I was just
using pedals and a few things. With
these new songs I’ve got more music and more lines with different instruments
so it’s going to be much more of a band with a full sound, I think.
You’re going to be
testing that quite predominantly on the Vasco Era tour through November and
December. Are you looking forward
to getting out on the road with those guys?
Yeah, definitely. It’ll be
interesting, it’ll be great. Vasco
Era are a great band, I’m sure I can pick up a few things from them. I’m doing a three-piece as well.
I watched the video
for the first time today for The World Has A Bank Account. Talk a little about that clip.
I don’t know what to say; it was just kind a bit of fun really. I sort of wonder whether they actually
help like a song more, whether they add a positive spin on the clips listening
experience or whether they make people think of a song differently as if they’d
just heard the song, but yeah, I think that clips just kind of a bit of
fun. It was just a few people
throwing ideas around, mixing it up, and then it came out the way it did.
It looked like you
were having fun with that megaphone.
I think people are going to expect me to have a megaphone when I play
live now, but I don’t know if that’s going to happen.
Why not!? It’s like the cow-bell – it’s an
essential part of any live experience. But on a similar note, what’s next with you? You’ve got the EP out, so what’s 2011 going to bring for
you?
So the EP will come out early Nov and then just touring and start making
an album. I might go overseas for
a little bit early on, back to England or Germany. I played in Germany last year and I got some good
connections. So go there, make an
album and do the same thing.
Well that sounds like
fun and it sounds like it’s going to be a good year for you so I wish you all
the luck with that one.
Thanks man.
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Be sure to grab a copy of Wons Phreely’s new EP, Tonight, available from November 18.
