Wally De Backer (Gotye)

Okay.

I'd tried it before on the back of Boardface, my first album.

It proved remarkably difficult because I guess there wasn't nearly as much interest in my music and so it wasn't maybe as sure a bit that I might be able to, say, you know, do well at certain size venues and hence sort of, you know, be able to project that I can pay my band this much and I can afford to pay them for rehearsals and I can... This will be worthwhile.

That kind of feeling certainly wasn't there and so it was in...

an intense time just trying to organise nine other people's time.

We managed about two shows and, you know, there were good things about them, there were bad things about them and I just found the experience so debilitatingly difficult to organise and stressful that I just went, I'm not going to make any of this music, like, happen live.

It's just too hard.

I would prefer to try and make good records and it's not worth doing.

And that was pretty much the place I was at when I put this new record out.

And I would have to credit Joe Segreto, who organises the Homebake Festival, for convincing me to consider doing it live because he badgered me for months and finally convinced me to do this festival.

And so that pretty much has directed a lot of my time for the last seven to eight months.

Well, I guess sometimes I don't think of that many to list.

I kind of like to think I'm a little bit more unique being a singing drummer.

That's it.

I can't say anything more.

No, I think, yeah, I don't know.

Probably Phil Collins out of those is the one that maybe to me stands head and shoulders above the rest.

Purely, I mean, regardless of whether you like his music or not, just because having watched a fair amount of concert footage from him over the years, he is pretty insanely remarkable in his ability to play complex drum parts while singing like a mofo.

Yeah, and so I don't love all his music, but I do sort of constantly remark at his talent to combine those abilities.

That has been interesting.