Latest / HEAVY Music Interviews / Sonic Dreams and Metal Queens: BLVD OF EYES' CHLOE TRUJILLO Breaks Down The Vision
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hey, this is Ploetry from Boulevard of Eyes. I'm here
- 0:05Speaker 1: directly from what is it Accor Stadium in Sydney and
- 0:11Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing you all on our tour
- 0:14Speaker 1: Boulevard of Eyes. Thank you for heavy to have us
- 0:19Speaker 1: and I'll see you all soon.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Thank you awesome, thank you so much.
- 0:27Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm good, Just a little tired today, Yeah, a lot,
- 0:32Speaker 1: but yeah, all good.
- 0:34Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy roster for everyone at the moment. Yea,
- 0:39Speaker 2: let's tour. Let's definitely And so has it been you
- 0:46Speaker 2: been following you out? Have you on his tour? Just
- 0:48Speaker 2: moment to you guys? Kickoff?
- 0:50Speaker 1: Yeah, well I I arrived here, an I arrived here
- 0:55Speaker 1: in Melbourne. When did I get here? See I I
- 1:02Speaker 1: last I right? Well I left the November fourth from
- 1:06Speaker 1: LA and I arrived on the sixth of November in Melbourne.
- 1:08Speaker 2: Oh wow.
- 1:09Speaker 1: And so yeah it's been it's been a long run.
- 1:12Speaker 1: And then we start on the twenty first in Melbourne. Actually,
- 1:17Speaker 1: so it's going.
- 1:18Speaker 3: In Brisbane on Thursday. Yeah yeah, yeah, because I'm a
- 1:21Speaker 3: basic Gold Coast.
- 1:23Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, you're coming to coming to grace us with
- 1:27Speaker 4: your band and awesomeness on the twenty seventh, that mode,
- 1:30Speaker 4: which I'm very much looking forward to.
- 1:32Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I can't wait.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:36Speaker 3: So the twenty first, she kicked off in Melbourne at
- 1:38Speaker 3: Ye Cherry Bar and that's We Are Human.
- 1:41Speaker 2: Is that the correct thing? Yes, Yes, you're single.
- 1:44Speaker 1: Yeah, and then we're going to release that day of
- 1:47Speaker 1: the full epy so it's going to be cool.
- 1:50Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exciting. So new traps, new music. And have
- 1:55Speaker 3: you got your daughter on drums on tour with you?
- 1:57Speaker 1: She's not on tour with us. We have Actually I
- 2:01Speaker 1: met our drummer. Uh uh? Where did I meet him?
- 2:07Speaker 1: In Brisbane? In Brisbane, he came to the show. He
- 2:10Speaker 1: came to the show, so he he knows Mark and
- 2:15Speaker 1: he actually played drums on our first EP together, so
- 2:21Speaker 1: he kind of knows, you know, he knows some of
- 2:23Speaker 1: the songs already, and and he's going to do the
- 2:27Speaker 1: tour with us.
- 2:29Speaker 2: Yeah. It's having someone familiar might speak to firens.
- 2:34Speaker 1: Yeah, and I just met him for the first time
- 2:38Speaker 1: in Brisbane. Like these lights, those lights, I'm like, oh
- 2:44Speaker 1: my god, I can't find there's like you know, I'm like,
- 2:46Speaker 1: there's so many chairs. I found myself a room. That's
- 2:49Speaker 1: it's the meet and greet room. But it's like, okay,
- 2:53Speaker 1: maybe here, let's say yeah, there you go. It's sounds
- 2:56Speaker 1: like it was like just face.
- 2:59Speaker 2: That's a little bit, but I looked more comfortable in
- 3:01Speaker 2: your face.
- 3:02Speaker 3: I had to turn my lights on you because thunderstorms
- 3:05Speaker 3: and raining happening.
- 3:06Speaker 2: It's still quite humide, but it's nice.
- 3:08Speaker 3: So it's saving to having to wash the car. Do so,
- 3:14Speaker 3: tell me about Boulevard of Eyes. How did you guys start?
- 3:17Speaker 3: What was you're coming together as a uh formation between
- 3:21Speaker 3: your market Yeah.
- 3:23Speaker 2: It was.
- 3:24Speaker 1: It was kind of crazy. So I was, you know,
- 3:26Speaker 1: I have my solo music project too. And during COVID,
- 3:33Speaker 1: I was asked to perform for Global Green, this environmental charity,
- 3:38Speaker 1: and it was a virtual show at the Troubadour in
- 3:42Speaker 1: LA because it was virtual so basically you perform in
- 3:47Speaker 1: front of a camera, there's no audience, and every the
- 3:50Speaker 1: audience was online. And then Mark performed that show as
- 3:57Speaker 1: well with another band, and so you know, all the
- 4:03Speaker 1: performers got tickets online. You know, it's online to watch
- 4:07Speaker 1: the full show online. And and it was like an
- 4:12Speaker 1: eclectic different styles of music and I was like, oh,
- 4:15Speaker 1: there's one one one metal band and that's the band
- 4:20Speaker 1: that Mark played in. And after that he reached out
- 4:24Speaker 1: to me and asked if if I would be down
- 4:29Speaker 1: to collaborate on a song with him, and I'm like sure,
- 4:32Speaker 1: So then he sends me like five riff ideas that
- 4:35Speaker 1: picked one of them, and then I started and and
- 4:39Speaker 1: and then back and forth, like I started writing melodies
- 4:43Speaker 1: and lyrics to it, and I emailed him and then
- 4:46Speaker 1: emailed me back, uh, you know, more stuff, and so
- 4:50Speaker 1: back and forth through emails. We were just we wrote
- 4:54Speaker 1: that first song that's called Lightning Strikes twice, and from
- 4:59Speaker 1: that we you know, we got uh to to an
- 5:06Speaker 1: offer from a label, and then we released UH two
- 5:09Speaker 1: epis after that, and and the the weird thing, it
- 5:13Speaker 1: was all happening during COVID, so we don't play any
- 5:16Speaker 1: like I know, it's I mean with technology nowadays, you know,
- 5:22Speaker 1: like I have I have my music software, yes his
- 5:25Speaker 1: and yeah, record in his house. I can record in.
- 5:29Speaker 3: Mind and myself, so I know, it's like you can
- 5:33Speaker 3: have band like in differentouts of the country and it.
- 5:36Speaker 1: Works and and and then it's not until we shot
- 5:40Speaker 1: a music video together that I met him in person.
- 5:44Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, so so but then when things started
- 5:51Speaker 1: to reopen, we get some show offers and and we're like, oh, well,
- 5:57Speaker 1: now we need a band, you know, and we can't.
- 6:00Speaker 1: You know, we used to call ourselves Klodchrhill Rev Medic,
- 6:05Speaker 1: you know, just because it was just the two of us.
- 6:08Speaker 1: And and then I brought in my daughter who's a
- 6:11Speaker 1: kick ass drummer and New Zealand. He's New Zealand, but
- 6:18Speaker 1: he's you know, he lives in California now, and and
- 6:22Speaker 1: Kevin and and Mark brought in Kevin the guitar player.
- 6:26Speaker 1: So we brought them in. We invited them to jam
- 6:30Speaker 1: on the same day. Uh, we get a rehearsal studio
- 6:33Speaker 1: and it just clicked, and which is really cool that Yeah,
- 6:38Speaker 1: so that was the band. And then we played a
- 6:41Speaker 1: couple of shows like that as a band, still called
- 6:44Speaker 1: Cloud Rev Medic, and we're like, we gotta find a name.
- 6:47Speaker 1: We gotta And then so Boulevard of Ice came because uh, yeah,
- 6:52Speaker 1: it's a we have a song called Boulevard of Ice.
- 6:54Speaker 1: But it's also like it was the perfect mix between
- 6:59Speaker 1: you know, the the meaning of like the lyrics and
- 7:04Speaker 1: and kind of the inner like the more spiritual inner searching,
- 7:12Speaker 1: like you know, the Boulevard of Eyes. I don't know
- 7:14Speaker 1: how it had like a good and then we.
- 7:17Speaker 2: Even I guess in the sense of how you guys
- 7:18Speaker 2: come together.
- 7:19Speaker 3: On your online like you like a bull of oard
- 7:21Speaker 3: of desires watching in it, you know it.
- 7:23Speaker 2: Just yeah, transp that too, so it's very cool.
- 7:27Speaker 1: So yeah, and then we we researched it online and
- 7:30Speaker 1: we couldn't find any band that name.
- 7:34Speaker 2: The thing anywhere taking it.
- 7:36Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, and so that's that. That's how we yeah,
- 7:39Speaker 1: and then and then that's how we were born. And
- 7:42Speaker 1: then we started playing shows more and more and and
- 7:45Speaker 1: here we are in Australia now.
- 7:46Speaker 2: So that's incredible. That's a great trajectory.
- 7:48Speaker 3: So like, so nineteen twenty twenty, really you guys started
- 7:52Speaker 3: out and have just been kicking goals ever since.
- 7:55Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and how wout.
- 7:57Speaker 2: Your daughter now? I would she now?
- 8:00Speaker 1: She's nineteen now?
- 8:02Speaker 3: Oh still baby, My baby's nineteen as well. Yeah, the
- 8:05Speaker 3: oldest is twenty five, but yeah, they're still they're still young.
- 8:08Speaker 3: So yeah, but fourteen fifteen when she started out with
- 8:11Speaker 3: you guys.
- 8:12Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, I don't I can't count, Yeah, I don't,
- 8:18Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I mean it's crazy, time flies.
- 8:24Speaker 1: I can't even count that. Yeah, yeah, this age makes
- 8:26Speaker 1: a big difference, you know, between fourteen and nineteen. Massive,
- 8:30Speaker 1: It's like, yeah.
- 8:32Speaker 2: Yeah, yes it is.
- 8:33Speaker 3: It's you know, they're little people, such a small amount
- 8:37Speaker 3: of time, and so much happens in you know, five
- 8:39Speaker 3: years to us is not a lot, but.
- 8:42Speaker 2: It's a lot.
- 8:42Speaker 3: So totally it's nice that she's had that direction, I
- 8:46Speaker 3: guess for a mom. And she obviously likes to have
- 8:48Speaker 3: been the band and do a thing and yeah, you
- 8:50Speaker 3: think her own stuff that Oh she's just happy doing
- 8:52Speaker 3: this for now with you guys yourself.
- 8:54Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, I mean she loves she's so passionate
- 8:59Speaker 1: about drum. She's also part of two other bands. She
- 9:03Speaker 1: drums every day for hours. She she just loves it.
- 9:06Speaker 1: So it's it's it's amazing to see, you know, both
- 9:10Speaker 1: of my kids they're so passionate about what they do
- 9:13Speaker 1: that it's it's just amazing to see.
- 9:15Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, isn't it when some of they're locked
- 9:18Speaker 3: in and you don't have to push it's just the
- 9:20Speaker 3: passion that you support it. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, And it's
- 9:24Speaker 3: it's cool that they take off the mom and dad.
- 9:26Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it makes it happy.
- 9:28Speaker 2: Yeah, influences there absolutely. So how have you been liking
- 9:33Speaker 2: Australia so far?
- 9:34Speaker 3: You've just been getting tow around with Robin seeing parts
- 9:38Speaker 3: of the country and yeah.
- 9:39Speaker 1: You've been. I've been really Like that's why I'm tired
- 9:43Speaker 1: today because yesterday it was my first day ever in Sydney,
- 9:46Speaker 1: so I walked around everywhere. You know, you get steps
- 9:49Speaker 1: ups and down in different different areas, and so today
- 9:54Speaker 1: I think I overdid it yesterday and like I can't
- 9:57Speaker 1: set my legs. I got to take it easy.
- 9:59Speaker 2: But it's a lot when you're walking around.
- 10:02Speaker 3: But it's but the city is like that, you can't
- 10:04Speaker 3: really it's easier to walk than it is to jump
- 10:07Speaker 3: on public transport or drive.
- 10:08Speaker 1: I like to walk because that's how I feel like,
- 10:10Speaker 1: that's how I see things. Yeah, Like I don't want
- 10:13Speaker 1: to be in the car or in the you know,
- 10:16Speaker 1: in any transportation. I just want to I love to walk.
- 10:19Speaker 1: I'm from, especially.
- 10:21Speaker 3: The city like or Daling Harbor in that area. It's
- 10:23Speaker 3: very much designed for walking around central Yeah.
- 10:25Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 10:28Speaker 2: Exactly feel it after a little while.
- 10:31Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been, Yeah, because I did the same thing
- 10:33Speaker 1: in Melbourne and I was like okay.
- 10:35Speaker 3: Yeah, So where are you off to next? What's your
- 10:38Speaker 3: before you come you come back to Melbourne. You're spending Yeah,
- 10:42Speaker 3: I'm going.
- 10:43Speaker 1: I'm going to New Zealand just for two days and
- 10:47Speaker 1: then I fly to Melbourne and then we have one
- 10:51Speaker 1: one rehearsal with the drummer and then we kick off
- 10:57Speaker 1: the tour the next day. So it's gonna be this
- 11:02Speaker 1: is gonna be full on, yeah.
- 11:04Speaker 2: Yeah, because you're two weeks three weeks.
- 11:08Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been two weeks with I can't even I
- 11:13Speaker 1: can't even count anymore, like so yeah, no, it's been
- 11:16Speaker 1: it's been a while.
- 11:18Speaker 3: And usually the way I rested them, but it's never
- 11:21Speaker 3: in like you know, logical order, like you fly one year.
- 11:26Speaker 1: Yeaheah, exactly, crazy exactly.
- 11:29Speaker 3: So you're gonna be hard for Christmas and looking forward
- 11:32Speaker 3: to big rest.
- 11:34Speaker 1: Yeah, especially because after that tour, I have three events
- 11:38Speaker 1: different part of the US because I do art and
- 11:42Speaker 1: fashion as well like my own life, so I have
- 11:46Speaker 1: I have a Yeah, I fly home for two days
- 11:49Speaker 1: and then I fly to Miami, and then I fly
- 11:52Speaker 1: to New York and Chicago and then I'm home. So
- 11:55Speaker 1: then I'm really home. On the mid December so then
- 11:59Speaker 1: I'll be home for the holidays and all this. But
- 12:01Speaker 1: it's all great. I'm not complaining because because.
- 12:04Speaker 3: It's all yeah, especially creating and doing all your exactly.
- 12:10Speaker 2: Your art, the people and the joy it. Yeah, it's awesome.
- 12:15Speaker 3: Just in time for your Thanksgiving. I think you guys
- 12:16Speaker 3: have just before Christmas start here.
- 12:19Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, I mean Thanksgiving. We're gonna be here. Oh,
- 12:24Speaker 1: we're gonna I think we playing your show? Is it?
- 12:30Speaker 1: I forgot which one? It is? Like Brisbane is on
- 12:33Speaker 1: the twenty nine. I think that's a Friday.
- 12:35Speaker 2: Right, so I think that seven?
- 12:37Speaker 1: Yeah, so Saturday, Yeah, Saturday. Okay, I'm so lost when
- 12:43Speaker 1: I'm talking when I'm traveling. I don't know, but I
- 12:47Speaker 1: think we're playing. We're playing a show that day, so
- 12:49Speaker 1: I don't know where.
- 12:51Speaker 2: That's why things.
- 12:51Speaker 3: I was thinking for some reason Thanksgiving was more towards December.
- 12:55Speaker 2: Times. I've got no idea. We don't do it over here.
- 12:57Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I know it's the end of November on
- 13:00Speaker 1: a Thursday. I'm also I'm French.
- 13:04Speaker 2: You're originally from Paris, aren't you? Yes?
- 13:07Speaker 3: Yeah, so how long did you was it that you've
- 13:10Speaker 3: been in state?
- 13:11Speaker 2: So you've left your.
- 13:12Speaker 1: Oh, I moved here in two thousand and I lived
- 13:17Speaker 1: and I lived two years in New York when I
- 13:20Speaker 1: was doing musical theater there. Yeah, so still performing and
- 13:25Speaker 1: then and then I moved to LA shortly after that.
- 13:28Speaker 2: So two years later.
- 13:29Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 13:30Speaker 2: Wow, So it's.
- 13:30Speaker 1: Been a while that I'm in the US.
- 13:33Speaker 2: But yeah, and you guys are based whereabouts in the USA? Based?
- 13:36Speaker 1: We're in Los Angeles.
- 13:38Speaker 4: Oh okay, So that's the California. Yeah, that's the that's
- 13:41Speaker 4: your West coast, isn't it West Coast?
- 13:43Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, on the east here.
- 13:46Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 13:47Speaker 2: Nice. Nice.
- 13:48Speaker 3: It's a good part to be a lot of a
- 13:50Speaker 3: lot of artist, a lot of talent, a lot of
- 13:52Speaker 3: the melching port of all the goodness in LA and
- 13:54Speaker 3: around California coast.
- 13:56Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great.
- 13:57Speaker 2: Yeah, awesome.
- 13:58Speaker 3: Well, welcome to us, right, and I'm very much looking
- 14:00Speaker 3: forward to seeing you on the twenty seventh, get it right.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Yeah, I was.
- 14:04Speaker 3: Thinking it was the twenty ninth, But so coming to Morrows,
- 14:06Speaker 3: which is a it's a cute little arm venue. It's nice,
- 14:09Speaker 3: It's would be very welcoming. It will be a good
- 14:11Speaker 3: turnout home, no doubt.
- 14:13Speaker 1: Okay, I hope. So I'm like looking for because I
- 14:16Speaker 1: have no clue what to expect.
- 14:18Speaker 3: You know, it's very industrial like it's literally an industrial state.
- 14:21Speaker 2: But it's a great like great vibe.
- 14:22Speaker 3: This staff and the owners are great, patrons are really
- 14:25Speaker 3: they're passionate.
- 14:26Speaker 2: It's it's a nice place to be. I love this
- 14:29Speaker 2: lace to do.
- 14:29Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it.
- 14:32Speaker 2: Yeah, and gives two more chicks in metal myself, I think.
- 14:36Speaker 4: So it's like yes, yeah, absolutely doing it for the
- 14:39Speaker 4: girls for sure, totally.
- 14:41Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a.
- 14:42Speaker 2: Night, it's a good one. So you're off to enjoy
- 14:44Speaker 2: a concert tonight or yeah, yeah.
- 14:47Speaker 1: I'm actually here at the gig, so I'm going.
- 14:50Speaker 2: To keep off or they keep off a bit later,
- 14:52Speaker 2: don't they.
- 14:53Speaker 1: They they're going to go on in about probably twenty minutes.
- 14:58Speaker 3: Oh nice, All right, well I'll let you go so
- 15:00Speaker 3: you can go and get your spot in the snake.
- 15:03Speaker 2: Is like all it.
- 15:04Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just so.
- 15:06Speaker 2: Was going to do.
- 15:07Speaker 3: Then he was in the Snake fit on Wednesday night
- 15:09Speaker 3: and nothing yeah next to him and he was.
- 15:12Speaker 1: Like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 15:14Speaker 2: He's a good aggress's good.
- 15:16Speaker 1: He's so awesome. That was my first I'm meeting him
- 15:18Speaker 1: in person too.
- 15:19Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 15:19Speaker 3: Well, I think It's'm pretty sure it's gonna be there
- 15:21Speaker 3: on Thursday as well, So okay, so that'll be nice. Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah,
- 15:25Speaker 3: you get the heavy tame or part of the heavy tam.
- 15:27Speaker 1: Yes, please, yea at all. But your friends ready, Like
- 15:34Speaker 1: the people are so nice here. I have to say,
- 15:36Speaker 1: Australians are really giving people, very nice. Just just I love.
- 15:42Speaker 2: It, you know, it's true, very like back, but you know.
- 15:46Speaker 1: But it's such a great vibe here, so I'm really
- 15:49Speaker 1: loving it.
- 15:50Speaker 3: That's awesome. It's we we love you, we love the
- 15:56Speaker 3: Americans some of our favorites.
- 15:59Speaker 1: Yeah. I I don't know why it's been so long
- 16:01Speaker 1: since Metallica played here. I was gonna come. You know.
- 16:06Speaker 1: I did a few collabs with the Australian companies, like
- 16:09Speaker 1: the Guitar Strap Company. Oh yeah, I designed guitar straps
- 16:13Speaker 1: and then I did in lays, surfboards and all of that,
- 16:18Speaker 1: and and never been to Australia, so I'm so stoked
- 16:22Speaker 1: to be here.
- 16:23Speaker 2: Well, what's your what's your guitar strap brand name?
- 16:27Speaker 1: It's not, it's not. I did some designed for it's
- 16:31Speaker 1: called the Guitar Strap Company, and they basically feeling.
- 16:34Speaker 3: How to find a wide decent pink. It's the one
- 16:38Speaker 3: that doesn't come off. Yeah, it's going to be pink,
- 16:41Speaker 3: you know, like I've got.
- 16:42Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't know what you're talking about.
- 16:44Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, it's but I think I'm feeling about.
- 16:48Speaker 3: I've spent a lot of time researching and finding and
- 16:51Speaker 3: I'm like, I design this myself, So maybe I do.
- 16:53Speaker 2: It's maybe it could be a side project down the track.
- 16:58Speaker 3: Yeah, especially ones, because I hard to find the wide
- 17:01Speaker 3: ones that you know, support and.
- 17:03Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know. So yeah, I was working
- 17:06Speaker 1: with them and I did a few designs, but I
- 17:08Speaker 1: gotta get it back because people keep asking me just
- 17:11Speaker 1: like you did, like just like finding like a cool
- 17:15Speaker 1: like yeah yeah.
- 17:16Speaker 3: Because I mean there's a lot out there that to
- 17:18Speaker 3: focus on the gods, which is fair enough.
- 17:19Speaker 1: But to but yeah there's some women out there. Check
- 17:23Speaker 1: that one exactly. I agree.
- 17:26Speaker 2: So yeah, maybe it's a future project. Yeah sure, some
- 17:29Speaker 2: Well thank you so much for it.
- 17:30Speaker 3: I'll let you go and enjoy your enjoy the night
- 17:32Speaker 3: and say how to rob for us all and we
- 17:35Speaker 3: will see you on I was saying in my twenty seven,
- 17:37Speaker 3: but you kick off from the twenty first.
- 17:39Speaker 2: Yes, enjoy.
- 17:41Speaker 1: Thank you, okay, thanks elling bye bye bye