Would you care to
introduce yourself?
Hello I'm Joe from the
pop group Colin's Godson
How would you
describe the music you make?
We make guitar based
pop with slightly offbeat lyrical sensibilities, that's the short
version anyway.
How did you start
out making music?
The band has it's
origins in my student days in Manchester in 2007. Influenced by the
likes of Half Man Half Biscuit. and too many Frank Sidebottom live
shows we started a 3 piece punk pastiche act and wrote shouty songs
about Paul Weller in a Tardis and how great Marmite, is, playing
regularly in the back room our local pub to bemused but entertained
audiences.
When I moved back to
Glasgow I mainly played in other peoples bands such as The Hector
Collectors,The Plimptons, The Martial Arts, The Hussy's, etc but I
always liked the anarchic spirit of Colin's Godson so I when I got
the chance I assembled an A-team of amazing musicians that I'd
encountered in my adventures to play in the band.. I'm the only
remaining member from our original incarnation.
I quickly realised that
with the calibre of musicians in the band it would be a lot more fun
to turn the band into an out and out pop behemoth rather than just
doing the 3 chord punk thing and here we are!
What process goes
into the way you write songs?
It can differ,
sometimes a song will appear fully formed in my brain and I just go
into a room with a multi track recorder and try and recreate what I
can hear in my head. Other times I'll go into the home studio and
just pull a song out of the air in a couple of hours. I'm not really
the type of person that spends ages working on songs.
What can people
expect from your live shows?
Up till now this
version of the band ,CGMKII, has mainly been a studio thing so we're
quite new to the live circuit. I'd like to think that people who go
to our shows will appreciate the tunes and and hopefully find some of
words amusing! Most of songs clock in at under 2 mins so if someone
doesn't like a particular song they don't have long to wait till it's
over.
What are you all
listening to at the moment?
I'm on a complete power
pop kick at the moment which is definitely going to influence our
next record.. We love stuff like Jellyfish and the Posies as well as
Bowie, Queen the Beatles, the Kinks,etc which are our main reference
points musically I suppose. lyrically stuff like HMHB, Sultans of
Ping and I, Ludicrous are quite a big influences.
What can we expect
to see/hear from you in the future?
I'd like to hope we get
asked to play more gigs so we're more of a live prospect. I've mostly
written our next album which is going to be called Colin's Godson 3D
and mixed in 5:1 surround sound with full 3D artwork.
As we're a DIY band it
might take a while to realise that ambition from a financial point of
view but we'll get there. I'm hoping it will turn out well though.
After that, who knows?
Colin's Godson's Greatest Hits is available as a pay what you like download on Bandcamp.
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