I was also looking for another musical vehicle to vent my intrigue for psychedelic music, so we thought we’d call on the services of Mr Rick Cranson and have a jam – to see what may come. I’m always jotting down seeds of ideas so we got together and started recording a few demos. After a while we realised that we needed a REAL guitarist (I’m more a 3 chord rhythm player) so half way through recording a demo EP we enlisted Toms’ brother Joe and Bushys was born.
Describe the Little Bushman sound
The Bushys’ sound is a culmination of the plathora of musical sounds that are interesting to us band folk. We whakapapa to blues and psychedelic rock, but there are so many musical influences in there. I guess, like Trinity, our main objective is to provide something sincere to our audience, that doesn’t insult them in any way and to take them on a musical journey. Lyrically I like to write in a more poetic style, lots of metaphors and lateral perspective.
What are you working on this year?
As we have just finished recording our 3rd studio album, I think its time we try and get out into the world. We are looking at touring Australia extensively – we reckon there is a potential ‘Bushy’ crowd over there. Our music is a bit too left-of-centre to sustain a living in NZ so we need to look further afield, but that all takes time and money – neither of which we have, but we’ll get there. So lots of touring this year. We have a new Bass player, Caleb Robinson, and he has added a great dynamic to the group (Tommy joined Phoenix Foundation so couldn’t sustain both bands – completely amicable and still lots of love there).
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