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Clearing The Waters With SEB From DARK WATER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  So my name said, I'm part of Darkwater. It's me and Jack Syren.
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  We are announcing that we're supporting Reilly Bolow on his tour in Australia in
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  about two weeks time, which is very exciting. It is indeed, mate,
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  thanks for joining us today. That's all right, thank you. Now,
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  as you just said, my Darkwater has just been announced to support Billy
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  Varlow on his upcoming tour, kicks off in Auckland on March twenty third,
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  before hitting in Melbourne and Sydney and finishing in Brisbane on March is sevent eighth.
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  I know it's just been announced to the world, but you've probably known
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  for a little bit longer. But is it actually something? Yeah, like,
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  is it real or are you still sort of going like what that?
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  I? Yeah, look, it definitely does not feel real. I feel
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  like it probably won't feel real until we've left Melbourne because I never actually played
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  outside of Melbourne. That's also just like a huge it's it's just a really
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  a massive deal. Yeah. No, we're stoked. It's it feels like
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  they just kind of come out of the blue and very happy about it.
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  Great. Well, and are you actually bona fide fans of his musical.
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  It's just cooled. I have good support. I was a fan of him,
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  and I did not know that he started a solo project, so that
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  was like, that was the first news to me, and that was bloody
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  sick. So that was a exciting piece of information to get. And then
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  yeah, so I'm keen. You're just you're just not sure whether you should
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  just let it all out there and get excited all or try instead of keep
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  it in it's great. Yeah, no, look, interviews not the strong
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  suit. Jack's. Jack doesn't even come to the interview because he he was
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  just like, you know, one time I said music is my life on
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  an interview and I can never do another one again. So it's just me.
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  Yeah. Well, the people listen can't see your face made, but
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  I can attest it in fact that you're happy as shit now. Dark Order
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  is still a relatively new outfit. Mate, So what does someone like this
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  actually mean to you as a band. You know, I think it's the
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  biggest thing I could think of is that we formed in twenty eighteen and we
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  did get quite a bit of momentum behind us, and we you know,
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  we played Melbourne Music Week, with daff in the end of twenty nineteen,
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  and just as we were doing that, we'd kind of we had some offers
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  of going on tour to the UK and to Europe, and it was like
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  kind of building up really big, and then of course pandemic hit and our
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  whole thing just crashed. All the momentum crash. So this is just like
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  really exciting. I think both of us, both Jack and I kind of
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  are like, oh, you know, maybe it's gonna end. We're kind
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  of like missed the boat a bit, just not the right time and uh,
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  but yeah, it's like it's it's a huge deal to be supporting such
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  a massive act. It's gonna, I guess, just like have a really
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  big impact on how much we can get our music out there. And we
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  have a new album coming out as well, so it's like very good timing.
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  Yeah, and what I Gallaman really personally selected you for the support as
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  well, Like, that's got a that's got a I don't even know what
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  it's got to be. That's how good is it? Man? It's kind
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  of yeah, that's a little bit unbelievable. I didn't know that piece of
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  information. So that's yeah, I read the press. Yeah that's pretty good.
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  I haven't read that yet. Damn no, I yeah, that's a
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  huge compliment. Yeah, there's so many amazing musicians here as well. So
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  I'm wondering if someone likes send your music to him and said, check these
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  guys out, or if you just stumbled across you, or how I could
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  be interested to know how it happened. Yeah, I would also if you
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  find out let me know, But you'll be sharing a stage. Didn't just
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  ask you? That's true. He's a lovely guy too. I've interviewed him
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  a few times, mate, like he's an absolute gentleman. You've got to
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  be fine. Yeah, no, sweet, Yeah, yeah, I'll definitely
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  ask him. So there's going to be people out there that don't know much
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  about dark Water yet, so not just a bit about the band. So
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  what do you want to know? Let me try and think of hout that
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  I was starting in twenty eighties. So what sort of what music do you
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  play? What are you? What are your influences? What are you?
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  What are your goals? Well, so yeah it started me and Jack Will
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  living together and both having a really shit time in twenty eighteen. So he's
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  been playing music for about twenty years. He's an amazing musician and then had
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  started producing on Ableton. So I guess like initially the influencers were probably not
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  the kind of thing that you'd expect for where we ended up, but you
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  know, Patti Smith and Peter Harvey and like that, and then like some
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  like seventies rock and eighties obviously we love the eighties goth sort of cynthie delightful
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  music there. So that's like the big influencers, but it's a tricky it's
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  a tricky question to answer for us. So yeah, so it's me and
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  Jack, who is the singer, does the production and plays guitar. He's
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  actually kind of like the genius. And basically it was like I want to
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  start a band because his old band had wrapped up, and I learnt bass
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  to join the band, and here we are. Nice. We had our
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  friend be play as the drummer for a few years, but Bees moved overseas
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  now, so so back to the two of us, which is how he
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  initially started, which is you know, if you both do what you're supposed
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  to do, that's all you need. Yeah, drummers. Drummers are just
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  surplus package anyway, they're painting excellent. Technically, we're synth wave dark wave.
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  That's what I say to the taxi drivers will be helping the car and
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  the overall like your music mixes like mournful synthetic pop with cothic undertones, So
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  I'm guessing atmosphere also plays a big part in your sound. Mm hmmm,
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  yeah, No, that's a huge That's something that I think. It's the
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  combination of the synth and the backing and then with Jack's vocals because he's just
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  got the most beautiful kind of voice. It just I don't know like where
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  it sits in the mix. It just makes this great eight dynamic atmosphere and
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  yeah, yeah that How does that carry over into your live show? Like
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  in this studio, I can imagine to be easy to get those atmospheres and
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  those sounds, but when you take it live, is it is it difficult
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  to represent? No? Actually, like to be honest, we've already done.
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  So. We've recorded this latest album and we didn't eat either. It
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  recorded in like a shed, but we've mostly played live and that's where most
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  of our lack, you know, momentum has come from. Live. We
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  play with a backing of a lot of the synth production that Jack has done,
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  so it's not live synth that would be I mean, really impressive and
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  maybe one day we'll do that, but you know, not right now,
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  not right now. So the live parts of the bass and guitar and vocals,
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  O little keyboard in there, but but yeah, we play with the
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  backing of sense production. I'm gonna have to be careful. I answered this
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  one, mate, because I could be setting me up because it's it's a
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  loaded question, so great, what's your mindset going to be when you hit
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  the stage, Like are you gonna be doing your best to try an upstage
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  really? Or are you going out there to warm up the crowd for him?
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  Not the question I was expecting. Look, I don't think we're going
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  to upstage anyone, I so, so I don't think it's that to worry
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  about. I reckon. You know, sometimes people don't get to the gig
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  early to check out the support. So I'm hoping that people do come and
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  then the people who've come to that, you know, just get like I
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  guess put in the mood for like really just powerful emotion kind of music that's
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  like very dynamic and very complex and like create the atmosphere that it creates performance,
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  So I guess like engaging and I mean, you know, halfway through
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  I usually, like the first song, I'm always like so nervous still because
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  I'm not you know, you can tell by my interviewing skills, so like
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  and I'm not necessarily next to it. But I by the time that we're
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  into like the second or third song, I'm kind of like lost in the
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  atmosphere of a like so, which is great, Like I kind of lucked
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  out being able to be in dark water, I think. So it sounds
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  like it's seats you down the ground man. Yeah, right, that's good.
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  Now. I did a bit of Google search and I only found three
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  songs. There's Boys and Shane of Hearts and sorrow Song. Is that all
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  you've got at the moment. No, We're on so Spotify. We have
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  our EP that we released in tween nineteen that was like a self titled It's
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  got five tracks on there, and then on YouTube there was a couple of
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  live record of our newest stuff. But we have a So in tween nineteen
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  we got commissioned by City of Melbourne to write an album on the Grand Organ
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  the town Hall. So we Covid kind of messed with that a bit.
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  We were performed it in a November between nineteen. But that is in its
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  final stages of mixing and it's going to be released this year. It's in
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  its final mastering actually, so it's going to be released soon through Heavy Machinery
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  in Melbourne, which would be great, and then that will be our first
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  full length album that's out. I just say someone's gone along to see Billy
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  Vaalow and they find out that you're playing, and they know nothing about you
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  at all, and they want to listen. Give us three of your songs
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  that they can listen to before they come to the show, so they get
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  a good, good idea of what to expect. Yeap, all right,
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  I'd say Poison if you go look that up on Spotify or YouTube, Poison
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  and Siren Song I think is a good one for that. And then maybe
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  maybe if they're on YouTube they can go find dark Web, which I think
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  would be a good one. Otherwise, if throre on Spotify, I reckon
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  the three you said, like Siren Song, Chain of Hearts and Poison of
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  Three, or maybe they could also listen to Wasteland which is also the Boys
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  and I think is always like the number one crowd pleaser that one. Actually
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  I didn't even know we were on Triple Down Earth, but I just found
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  out pretty recently. And I think it happened because Stelma Plum had played us
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  in our top ten songs between nineteen and put Poison on there and that was
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  a real hit for us when we got on the radio. Indeed. Yeah,
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  all right, several thanks to you, Tom, and thanks again through
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  that with me. The tour with Reilly Valo it's off Where's My Note kicks
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  off March at thirty and you going to New Zealand as well. No,
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  we're doing Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane. I'll be at the Brisbane show,
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  so I'll make sure I come in early and say hello and find get rid
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  of those nerves for you. Yes,