Part two of the monthly Interviews. Regal Safari follow from Peace and talk Michael Rother, Walls and their coffee drinking ritual.

What are the Top 5 tracks you have on repeat right now?

Gold Zebra – Love, French, Better
Walls – Heat Haze
Patten – Fire Dream
Robert Schroeder – Utopia
Martial Canterel – Don’t Let Me Go

If you could have a day in the studio with any musician past or present who would it be?

Michael Rother. The fluidity of his work is unequaled.

What was the last album you were all really blown away by?

Coracle by Walls is the most beautiful album we’ve heard in a while. Their production is really enjoyable too.

How is the writing process for your productions? Do you all get together and start throwing ideas about or will one person lead proceedings?

You can’t take creativity for granted so there’s no orthodox method for us for writing. Many times we’ll record one of us playing on a synthesizer for half an hour whilst the other produces the parts that they like and quite quickly we have a huge amount of material for a song. Sometimes one person will make something preliminary alone that will push us towards finishing a song; we always, however, write and produce our songs together – our sound is constantly being influenced by each other’s ideas. We also produce alone just for self-enjoyment so naturally material can originate from that.

When you’re not on stage / rehearsing / writing – where will we find you?

As a ritual, drinking coffee.

Ambitions – Where would you like to be in ten years?

Writing a concept album for the debut release of our band that we’ll have just started by then called Illegal Calamari.

Regal Safari play alongside Peace and Discopolis this Thursday at The Old Blue Last. Free Entry.

This weekend The Old Blue Last will play host to over 40 different artists. 40 different artists for ‘eck sake, that’s enough live music to keep you occupied for many a month and enough to keep your ears ringing for a lifetime.

It’s going to be a really great spectacle with so much emerging talent and the place to be this weekend. We’re really excited to see a whole bunch of the artists involved, Active Child, Carousels, Regal Safari, Acid Glasses and a whole load more.

Don’t miss out on advance tickets.

Zombie Nation + Tiga return. Partys Over Los Angeles.
Released October 25 on Turbo Recordings
From the album PARTYS OVER EARTH, out November 7th

ZZT Facebook.

The second installment of our monthly interviews, new comer Tom The Lion talks of his musical journey thus far!

There appears to be only little snippets of info on Tom The Lion floating about the internet right now, so tell us a little bit about your musical journey so far? How long have you been a band? What does the foreseeable future hold for you guys?

Well, I’ve been fiddling around with writing and recording for a while now. After a few years of experimenting I ended up with a group of songs to be released as an EP; The adventures of tom the lion chapters 1 & 2, although I wasn’t aware it was chapters 1 & 2 until I came up with chapters 3 & 4 later on, earlier this year. Thats all now fully compiled to be released properly in November. And I’ve just started playing some gigs, having lots of fun working out how to recreate my lonely tinkering into a fully fledged racket, with the help of some of my friends.

What are the Top 5 tracks you have on repeat right now?

Villagers always makes me a little green with envy, his record is amazing. Wilco’s new album is very cool, I have to admit though, they’ve been on my to do list for a while but I’m getting into them in reverse, I’m parallel parking into the Wilco parking bay. The song ‘two weeks’ by grizzly bear is an instant classic, I could always have that on repeat…

Fantasy talk – If you could have a day in the studio with any musician past or present who would it be?

I think Buddy Holly would have been a nice guy to hang out with. Maybe a little writing collaboration… I’d be happy to be the guy at the back on handclaps to be honest.

What was the last album you were really blown away by?

I’m just about to tuck into feist’s new album, and I’m sure it’ll blow me away…

The one song as a musician you wish you could have wrote?

I guess Eleanor Rigby. Its just one of those songs that feels like it was dropped from the sky, its a bit ridiculous that it was written by an actual human being. Not to mention the production and orchestration.

How is the writing process for you productions? Do you have writing partner or do you work alone?

I work alone at the moment, and take the description of my studio flat very literally. To start with it was more of a fumbling through, without any particular aim or direction, but as I’ve grown more confident and able, the process has become more concise. I started out playing drums, so i think i’ve got quite a rhythmic approach to writing.

When you’re not on stage / rehearsing / writing – where will we find you?

I’ll be busy living a very very very wild lifestyle, just like Tinie Tempah.

Finally, besides your standard refreshments, do you request promoters to provide anything novel on your rider?

I haven’t even reached standard refreshment level yet, I still have to buy my own water. I’ll even buy a banana if its a particularly well equipped shop.