Everybody just brings in
roots driven, but at the same time has, like, a party feel.
something very organic, really
different and I think the sound that ends up is
something
we like to take it away from the way it is as the original artist did it and make it sound different. But if there’s a song that any of us wants to cover he just brings it in and if everybody’s in, we just do it, you understand? It’s not that it’s a big elaborate process; we just make things. If we think it’s cool, we just do it. It’s almost a natural process.
Your latest album, R.E.V.O – from 2013 – features your cover of ‘Somebody Tat I Used to Know’ as well as a lot of self-written songs. Does this mean you’re done with making covers? Oh no, we’re not done with it. We love making covers. Tat’s something we’ll never get away from. It’s just a different way to give the fans something to listen to. It’s fun for us to do cover songs on YouTube. We put out a two of albums out back in 2012, called ‘Volume I’ and ‘Volume II’, with a lot of covers as well as some original music, which we really love to make as well. We tend to give the fans something that’s made by Walk Off Te Earth besides covers alone.
Apparently R.E.V.O stands for the band’s motto, ‘Realise Every Victory Outright’. How does the band try to live up to that motto? It’s not something that we try to preach or practice every day. It’s just kind of the feeling and the way that things work in the band. We strongly believe that if you work your butt off for something and you thrive to get there, then good things are going to
happen. If you’re negative and you think it’s not going to happen, it’s probably not going to.
I picked up some influence of the Coen Brothers’ movie ‘Oh Brother Where Art Tou’ in the clip of your number ‘Gang of Rhythm’ – was I right? Yes, it was an idea that wasn’t really based around the movie. When we started shooting – a good friend of ours, Chris Stacy, was the director - we said like “okay, this kind of has that feel of the movie. Maybe we should help it grow to that direction”. It wasn’t something that was done on purpose initially. It wasn’t thought out beforehand. It just took form in the process of filming the video. We liked the idea so we kept going at it.
Are the creative concepts of the music videos down to the band? Or are there other people involved as well? We have a couple of directors that we work with. Te one-shot videos, mostly the cover videos that are to be found on YouTube, are what we do entirely ourselves. Ten there are also the full productions for which we worked with a couple of different directors. It’s fun working with them because you get ideas that sometimes come from outside the band, but we are always very involved in the
projects, yes.
You’ll be playing at Norwich on April 4th. What can the audience expect of your gig? We try to bring the YouTube feeling to the stage. It’s not that we come on stage just to play our instruments. We really try to entertain our fans. Tis will be our third run now through Europe and we’ve had great responses so far. Every fan that’s been to our shows has always said like ‘wow, I didn’t expect you to be so energised’. We really get the fans involved with the show and we’ve put a lot of work into the new set. We have a new look and there’s a lot of really fun lights. I don’t want to give everything away but there’s a lot of action. Tere’s constantly a lot going on, on stage. Te fans are really going to have a great time.
Your current tour will be finished in May. What’s after that? What will be the next step? We’re deep into our next album now. We have a bunch of songs written and as soon as we’re done in Europe we’ll be starting production and we’re hoping to get it out in the late fall of this year.
Yarreth Plysier MORE INFORMATION
WALK OFF THE EARTH WILL BE PLAYING AT THE UEA LCR ON APRIL 4TH FOR TICKETS AND MORE INFO, VISIT
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Photography by Shawn Van Daele
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