Wally De Backer (Gotye)

The singing, drumming thing is something I've been doing for a while.

I mean, playing in my other band, The Basics, I do it every show and we play a lot.

We have played a lot over the last four or five years.

But it usually tends to come down to a specific song, a certain groove and a certain vocal and how they go together.

So some songs can be deceptively simple and others might sound pretty straightforward or similar to others, but I find incredibly difficult just because of...

you know, some of the independence of different limbs and the rhythms I'm having to try to play while doing a different vocal.

So, yeah, it totally depends on the song.

Faux pas is a friend of mine, so this is just a cheap plug for a friend of mine who's a musician.

Nepotism at its finest.

That's right.

No, it is relevant to this, you know, moments in the last year because I've always respected what Tim's done musically and he's put out a couple of great releases, an EP and an album.

The track we're going to hear is off a record he put out totally independently, I guess, as I did, but even a step more so in that he only distributed it through his website and so I couldn't find a distributor for it, which I was really disappointed about because I think it deserves to be in stores and available to people.

But it just inspired me when he put out the album because I thought, A, musically it was amazing, and B, he was doing pretty well just selling it directly, just being totally the one-man music-making, art-designing, manufacturing, stock-organising, order-taking guy.

And, yeah, I think this track deserves a lot more play than it's gotten.

Hint, hint.

You have, actually.

You have, yeah.

Actually, I was listening to that song a lot and Emily's album more broadly, wandering around, having just bought an iPod for the first time.

And I spent a month and a half in Sydney, right in the centre of town in an apartment block, put up by a production company who offered me a spot in this great theatre show where I incorporated my Gautier music into a small ensemble of six people.

I was the only musician and that was performed at the Opera House in November last year.