Interview with Bobby Kill from TV Colours
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TV Colours started as a solo project of Bobby Kill from the Australian punk scene around Dream Damage Records and we have written about this awesome scene many times before, so we asked Bobby some simple questions and he kindly took the time to answer them while already being on tour in Europe.
Come and see him with his band this Saturday in Trafik Klub!
You can also follow their tour blog on their tumblr site
So, without further ado, here is the full-length, uncut interview with Bobby Kill!
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All of our friends who heard your new LP, Purple Skies, Toxic River, say this is of the best rock record of the year. Are you satisfied with the album?
Yeah definitely, It took so long I am just happy that it’s finished and finally out. There Are a few things that I wish I had done but I am sure everybody feels that way about everything they finish.
Back in 2007 I came up with the idea for the artwork and the concept, but besides that I had only a vague idea of what I wanted it to sound like, it was something that only became clear in the last two years. It took a long time for many reasons, it’s kind of hard to decipher exactly why though, I think things like albums just take as long as they take, it was allot of hard work.
Ah, it’s varies, but I think fundamentally I need to be able to listen to It as a whole product as opposed to just liking the singles.
My first favourite record was Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins, I was obsessed with it when I was about 11 years old. I’ve only just started listening to it again recently and I have only just realised how much of an impact it had on me
Ahh, yeah, on a basic level it is the story of someone leaving for the city for discover the world outside there home.
Yeah definitely Zen Arcade by Husker Du, it was a huge influence on me writing the album, I sort of wrote Purple Skies, Toxic River as my own personal version of Zen Arcade.
We started playing together about 8 months ago it has all come together very quickly. But yeah I would like to start writing and recording together, anything to stop me taking another 6 years to a finish something
Canberra is a very small place and has a very small music community, it’s place where it is very hard to keep anything going because everybody moves away. I know it sounds like a cliche, but I feel like music like punk has always been very prominent in all our music because it thrives and smaller places where you don’t have much to do.
Ah, well, it was awesome, it was boring though, it is one of those places where you just spend all your time just hanging out and getting up to no good. Lots of skating and hanging out at shopping malls.
Where is the name, TV Colours taken from?
Ahh, before I was Tv Colours I had had about 10 different names, I would change it every 2 months and could never decide on one, when I finally changed it to Tv Colours there was no thought involved, I just thought it sounded cool. I still wish I could change it
No I haven’t been here before, i have been here for 12 days now and am having the best time ever, such great place and we’ve meet A tonne of awesome people.