1.Growing Up
My first memory of music that I really loved was the opening song of the BBC Narnia series from the ’80s. I love that song, it’s intense and beautiful.
2.Inspirations
I take influences from many different sources. Lately I’ve been loving the English Romantic painter John Martin. Just Google image searching that shit and giving it a good stare. I also love Dante’s Inferno, but I mean it’s a bit much with all that ye olde English. I did find an excellent pulp version of Infernowritten by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, which has our hero being led through hell with more recent cool guys like Jessie James and Mussolini, et cetera.
3.Your Band
I work best alone but I do love collaborating with people. Recently Alex Akers of Forces produced one of the tracks on Romeo Must Cry and Lachlan Thomas of TV Colours and Danger Beach produced and co-wrote another.
4.The Music You Make
When I make music I just try and make it good because there is enough shit music already. In the future I may decide to make shit music but for now I’ll keep making the good stuff.
5.Music, Right Here, Right Now
It’s an odd coincidence that the best music being made right now isJonnyTelafone. Objectively speaking, my output has been flawless so far. When I come to Sydney the best place for music is the Golden Age Bar and Cinema on the 23rd of April at 9:30pm, when I’m launching my new album Romeo Must Cry.
Catch Jonny Telafone at the Golden Age Cinema onThursday April 23, andRomeo Must Cry out now through Chapter Music.
