he’s been a mainstay on the canadian
indie rock scene for years hi I’m
Rebecca Braden and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with singer-songwriter Joel Plaskett
tell me about when you first decided the
music was for you when you first picked
up an instrument I tried playing the
drums when I was about ten my parents
got me a drum set I took lessons for a
couple of months and then I tried
saxophone and didn’t take to that and
then when I picked up the guitar at age
13 my father was a guitar player my
whole life I just moved from Luna
breaking Halifax made a couple of
friends who were getting really into
music and one of them started playing
this tremendous otwell if I learned eat
are then polish them to do with these
guys so I think the desire to play music
actually came more from a social place
initially than it did kind of a creative
one
haha
do you find yourself influenced by the
halifax music scene gosh I mean that’s
probably been the biggest influence
growing up around Sloane where they were
a huge band for me as a teenager they
were great to me and my previous band
thrush hermit took us on tour and put
our records out of murder I the one
there’s one sort of aspect of Halifax
writing Maritimes I don’t feel like
lyrics are always an important part of
it and also people like humor and they
like but they also like meaning in
language and stuff so I always feel like
there’s just kind of nice detail to the
writing out east it kind of can be both
sort of funny and sad at the same time
it can make and roll a couple of
emotions into a tune and that’s
something that’s a tradition that I’ve
always tried to kind of continue because
I really like that I like stuff that
they can kind of push a few buttons now
you two are both alone and with your
band the emergency can you compare these
two kind of experiences I like both and
I like being able to go back and forth
between both solo shows can be really
great from a storytelling and I taking
your time with the songs
gather in the older I get the more I
like to sing and I feel like sometimes
the acoustic guitar is a really great
instrument in your hands when you want
to sing and get more into words and
vocals it’s not to say that I don’t want
to continue to play rock and roll I do
but I feel like I’m writing a lot of the
acoustic guitar and that’s kind of
becoming more and more a feature in what
I do and so on some of the songs get
bail or as a result won’t you gave me
let’s talk more about three you want to
tell spent more about the concept do you
have a special affinity for the number
three I did when I was making that
record i made a triple record and I aim
to put 33 songs on it I wrote started
the recording a 33 and I finished 30 and
mixed them all and then put 27 9 on each
record and kind of made a conceptual
sort of about going away and being alone
returning home imagine
and then it’s time to roll again
it’s a long record because I wanted to
feel like a journey that’s what touring
can feel like to me I sort of think
about when I went to Australia for six
weeks and I was I think on the other
side of the world and she’s gone for so
long and you just feel so far away from
what your life is you know but then you
realize oh wait my life is also here
like I’m a musician this is what I do
here I am it’s a really exciting thing
to do and it’s rewarding but it’s also a
little bit selfish maybe in some ways
and so it’s just kind of there’s just
balancing act so I kind of was writing
about those those ideas a little bit did
you plant any more concept album covers
record I’m gonna do some point called by
all the girls i’ve loved before these
songs by women’s i like themes if not
concepts certainly themes I don’t know
what I’ll do next I’m still writing
writing songs on them I got probably
another 10 or 12 kind of cooking but
they’re half baked right now thank you
very much my pleasure thank you very
much
me
indie rock scene for years hi I’m
Rebecca Braden and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with singer-songwriter Joel Plaskett
tell me about when you first decided the
music was for you when you first picked
up an instrument I tried playing the
drums when I was about ten my parents
got me a drum set I took lessons for a
couple of months and then I tried
saxophone and didn’t take to that and
then when I picked up the guitar at age
13 my father was a guitar player my
whole life I just moved from Luna
breaking Halifax made a couple of
friends who were getting really into
music and one of them started playing
this tremendous otwell if I learned eat
are then polish them to do with these
guys so I think the desire to play music
actually came more from a social place
initially than it did kind of a creative
one
haha
do you find yourself influenced by the
halifax music scene gosh I mean that’s
probably been the biggest influence
growing up around Sloane where they were
a huge band for me as a teenager they
were great to me and my previous band
thrush hermit took us on tour and put
our records out of murder I the one
there’s one sort of aspect of Halifax
writing Maritimes I don’t feel like
lyrics are always an important part of
it and also people like humor and they
like but they also like meaning in
language and stuff so I always feel like
there’s just kind of nice detail to the
writing out east it kind of can be both
sort of funny and sad at the same time
it can make and roll a couple of
emotions into a tune and that’s
something that’s a tradition that I’ve
always tried to kind of continue because
I really like that I like stuff that
they can kind of push a few buttons now
you two are both alone and with your
band the emergency can you compare these
two kind of experiences I like both and
I like being able to go back and forth
between both solo shows can be really
great from a storytelling and I taking
your time with the songs
gather in the older I get the more I
like to sing and I feel like sometimes
the acoustic guitar is a really great
instrument in your hands when you want
to sing and get more into words and
vocals it’s not to say that I don’t want
to continue to play rock and roll I do
but I feel like I’m writing a lot of the
acoustic guitar and that’s kind of
becoming more and more a feature in what
I do and so on some of the songs get
bail or as a result won’t you gave me
let’s talk more about three you want to
tell spent more about the concept do you
have a special affinity for the number
three I did when I was making that
record i made a triple record and I aim
to put 33 songs on it I wrote started
the recording a 33 and I finished 30 and
mixed them all and then put 27 9 on each
record and kind of made a conceptual
sort of about going away and being alone
returning home imagine
and then it’s time to roll again
it’s a long record because I wanted to
feel like a journey that’s what touring
can feel like to me I sort of think
about when I went to Australia for six
weeks and I was I think on the other
side of the world and she’s gone for so
long and you just feel so far away from
what your life is you know but then you
realize oh wait my life is also here
like I’m a musician this is what I do
here I am it’s a really exciting thing
to do and it’s rewarding but it’s also a
little bit selfish maybe in some ways
and so it’s just kind of there’s just
balancing act so I kind of was writing
about those those ideas a little bit did
you plant any more concept album covers
record I’m gonna do some point called by
all the girls i’ve loved before these
songs by women’s i like themes if not
concepts certainly themes I don’t know
what I’ll do next I’m still writing
writing songs on them I got probably
another 10 or 12 kind of cooking but
they’re half baked right now thank you
very much my pleasure thank you very
much
me
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