{"id":50,"date":"2013-02-21T12:10:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T01:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezramag.wordpress.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2013-02-21T12:10:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T01:40:34","slug":"lead-singer-of-the-band-stock-exchange-talks-to-us-about-the-band-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezramagazine.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW – Richard Sallis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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STOCK EXCHANGE – Band members Oscar Hose, Aaron Williams, Richard Sallis and Mitchell Skinner<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With songs such as \u2018The City\u2019 and \u2018You\u2019re \u00a0A Casino\u2019, their inspirations have helped them achieve local success, playing live gigs at venues such as The Governor Hindmarsh and The Wheatsheaf hotel.\u00a0<\/span>Their eclectic sound brings forward raw emotion in their music, something that is hard to come across in most music pieces in the current world. Being a part of Triple J Unearthed, they have played at venues to sell out crowds at The Exeter Hotel in East Rundle and The Gov.\u00a0<\/span>Front man and lead singer; Richard Sallis talks about the origins of Stock Exchange and what the band sees for 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where did the name \u2018Stock Exchange\u2019 come from?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Initially a lot of people thought it was a reference to the Occupy Wall Street movement that was going on at the time, but honestly we\u2019re not that clever. Truth is one of us just got it off the spine of a book lying around my Dad\u2019s place. At least, I think that\u2019s what happened. We decided to just pick Stock Exchange and be done with it. I remember liking it because it sounded grown-up. Something we\u2019re most definitely not (laughs).<\/span><\/p>\n

How long have you been together? <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Well, Aaron has been in the band for almost six weeks now. That\u2019s a band in-joke. Stock Exchange wasn\u2019t officially christened until late twenty-ten, and we didn\u2019t settle on this current line-up until early twenty-eleven. We\u2019ve all been playing together in different groups and incarnations for years now. Oscar (the bassist) and I have a musical partnership that goes back almost ten years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where does the inspiration for your songs come from?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It is the combination of my current life situation, the people and places I\u2019m surrounded by and the type of music I\u2019m listening to or discovering. It\u2019s good to write when you\u2019re feeling emotional, be it fuelled by positive emotions or negative ones. It can be therapeutic, and is slightly less annoying than just bragging or moping at your friends all the time. What I aim to do above everything else is to write songs people can relate to. If just one person discovers our song and applies it to their own life, then I\u2019m happy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where do you see Stock Exchange heading in the future? <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

To be honest, we have ludicrously high ambitions. My philosophy is that you always fall just short of your targets, so if you set them ridiculously high it\u2019s still damn impressive if you fall short. I am completely amazed of what we have accomplished already. If we can keep that momentum going, who knows where we\u2019ll end up?<\/span><\/p>\n

What do you like about living and working in Adelaide? <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Adelaide is a place vital to my song writing and our eclectic sound. Adelaide is a small town comparatively, cut off from the rest of the world in a sense. Everybody knows everybody, and after a while there isn\u2019t much to do – yet you keep on discovering. It\u2019s an incredible source for inspiration. I was initially planning on having every single song of ours link to a different place in Adelaide.\u00a0We have a song called \u201cTable 41\u201d about the Stanford Grand Hotel on the beach, a song called \u201cYesteryear\u201d about Thorndon Park, \u201cThe Castle\u201d is what I called the Adelaide Uni campus, etc. Admittedly it was a concept I didn\u2019t really stick to. Yet people like to say that we don\u2019t sound like an Australian band, we sound like a British band or whatever. But in my mind, we\u2019re uniquely Adelaidian. Had we been living in Sydney, New York, London or whatever, we would be completely different.<\/span><\/p>\n

When did you start to play music?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t speak for the others unfortunately, but I\u2019ve been musical pretty much since I left the womb. I started properly learning guitar when I was 6, but had been bashing it out on tennis rackets and toy keyboards for years before that. I remember I had a band in preschool named Rock\u2019n\u2019Roll 2000. We were as good as the name suggested.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where do you play most of your gigs? <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

At the moment we\u2019re just trying to get inside every suitable room possible. Get the name out there, you know? But we are planning an Australian tour for early next year. I know we\u2019re definitely hitting Melbourne and possibly some rural towns. I don\u2019t know all the details just yet. It\u2019s quite exciting; this will be a new experience for me.<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s recording with the boys like? <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We’ve had a bit of a weird approach to recording. The trick is to try and write slightly normal-ish pop songs, but play them in an unconventional way. We\u2019ve just gone completely nuts – saxophones, trumpets, mandolins, guitar played with a bow, bass played with a drumstick, 100 year old pianos, tribal double drumming, violas and cellos, weird time signatures etc. I\u2019m actually learning how to play violin at the moment. We\u2019re slowly working on trying to incorporate these things into future live sets too. A lot of that is actually present in our upcoming debut single \u2018Feels\u2019, which some have described as a modern version of \u2018Take Five\u2019. It\u2019s like a dark jazzy folky indie rock sandwich.<\/span><\/p>\n

What can we expect from you in the future?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re working on an EP named \u201cMr. Hollywood\u201d which will be released this year. The songs are being professionally recorded, mixed and mastered. It\u2019s been really exciting hearing it develop so far, the songs have taken on a completely new life. We\u2019ve also been recording and rehearsing a bunch of new songs. I\u2019ve counted twenty-six tracks all up so far, so hopefully everyone will get to hear most of those eventually; live or recorded. Also, we\u2019ll soon be losing our music video virginity too so it\u2019ll be interesting to see how that turns out.<\/span><\/p>\n

To keep updated about their news, live gigs and their future tour, you can find them on<\/span>
\n Facebook at\u00a0http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stockexchangemusic<\/span><\/a><\/span>
\n www.triplejunearthed.com\/StockExchange<\/span><\/a><\/span>
\n or contact Richard at stockexchange@hotmail.com<\/span><\/p>\n

Written by Tanysha Bolger<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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