WEDLOCK Q&A

WEDLOCK Q&A / INTERVIEW

VI:If you weren’t playing music, what would you be doing?
W: If Wedlock were not around, I’d still be writing.I have a novel out from last year called “An Inextricable Tale,” which is also being developed into a play.I can’t speak for Jeff, but he’d probably continue with his painting.Some of his work is hanging in the gallery as we speak.

VI:What are your goals with Wedlock?
W: Well, just short of world domination, I personally would like to see us sell a few records and be relevant to people for years to come.If Wedlock is mentioned amongst artists like PetShop Boys, Soft Cell, and Erasure as a brilliant synth-pop duo, then most of my personal ambitions and desires will have been met.

VI:What is in your CD player now?
W: To be perfectly honest, a meditation Cd at the moment.

VI:What is your greatest joy in playing music? Greatest fear? Greatest joy?
W:That would have to be the idea of reaching people, and making people feel uncomfortable at the same time because of wanting them to think,or at least really listen to us.Greatest fear?Hmmmm, if people were to dismiss Wedlock altogether.At the moment I am so focused on the joy of making music that fear doesn’t really exist in my psyche.

VI:Describe your writing process.
W: Jeff and I would get together on an evening, and most of the time I’d have a melody down for him to build chords around.Then there would be times when Jeff would just doodle on the keys, come up with an idea for a track, and I’d go home, have a think on it, and the next thing have a completed song.I think the great thing about Jeff and I is that we’re patient about the whole songwriting process.

VI:Has the south been receptive to your brand of music?
W: This is a really funny area because certain pockets like Wilmington, Charlotte, Ashville, are really feeling us, where as Raleigh, Richmond, etc, haven’t been as enthusiastic.Some of it may just be that we haven’t been as heavily exposed to those markets yet.In the end, we feel that we make good music, and that’s bound to be successful anywhere, though.

VI:Name three other influences that haven’t been mentioned?
W: For me, there’s David Bowie, Eurythmics,Peter Gabriel, and plus a whole slew of 80’s dance acts like NewCleus, and B.V.S.M.P. With Jeff I have got to believe it’s more German synthpop, and he even turned me on to Psychic TV. I feel like you’d grow tired of hearing about so many influences.

VI:Where is the strangest place that you have found inspiration?
W:How about I give you the second most?LOL.That would have to be at a friend’s funeral.

VI:What do you want people to get from your music?
W:That a person can write and perform thoughtful and intelligent music without being arrogant and falsely self –important; and that applies to anything you do in life.Being successful shouldn’t have to equate to being an asshole.I want people to feel like Wedlock was a band that wrote, recorded, performed, and repeated, until it was time to stop and move onto something else.That while the music was here, it really was about the music and nothing else.

Publication:

Village Idiot, Issue#32

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