Issue 16 of Stencil Mag

Page 135

You do alot of busking in London, how successful is it for you and what parts of London do you prefer playing? It varies, some days are good, some are bad, but that's the same with any job really, you just gotta make the best with what you can, but I do enjoy it. There's no one place in particular, I like playing all over the city. That's the beauty of London, the people make it the place to hear music.

As a solo musician, in the future would you like to form/join a band and play gigs as a group? If the right opportunity arose then I may consider getting a band together once again. I've been down that road in the past and found it to be quite the learning curve. When it's your own band, your music, as a solo artist you find yourself doing most, if not, all the work and as an unsigned artist trying to take your music to as many venues across town as possible on little to no budget, it's difficult and puts a strain on your faith in music that you're creating and wanting to get out to as many people as possible. The music industry isn't the same as it once was. Bands and Artists don't get the same standard of opportunities like they did a few years ago, which is a shame, but I would consider joining up with a band or other artists/musicians if I liked and appreciated the music. I've collaborated with a few singers in the past and would like to do that again for sure. The right voice can always make cool music awesome.

You have made television appearances worldwide, most notably the Google Chrome: Lady Gaga TV commercial showing a clip of you doing a Lady Gaga cover, how did it feel to appear in that? It was pretty cool. I made my original guitar cover video as soon as I heard her latest song and within a month or so of it's uploading I got contacted by the House of Gaga and was asked if I'd like to be featured in the video, as Lady Gaga herself had seen and approved my video for part of it's collective ensemble, I was like "Fuck yeah, I'd love to be featured!", I just made that video to put on YouTube, I didn't expect it to end up on Worldwide TV with over 9 million YouTube views. When it first aired during Saturday Night Live, my wife nearly fell out of bed with excitement and rang me and was like "YOU'RE ON TV!!!". My reaction was simply "No, Fucking, Way!". I didn't see it on TV for WEEKS, yet everyone else I knew had, so when I finally saw it on a TV in the ad break of a Family Guy episode, I recorded that thing straight away.


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