Tunng
We love Tunng’s music. It’s a mix of this (acoustic), a mix of that (electronica), and a handful of everthing in between. We interviewed him recently: Your Wiki page describes your sound as folktronica. What happened to the good old days when The Beatles were pop, Zeppelin was rock, and there were no shades of grey in between? ‘It’s all good. Music keeps changing and developing and people will always try to come up with names that describe those changes. I like Steve Earle’s take on it – there are two type of music: good and bad’. You played New York recently. Where’s your favorite place to hang out at in the city? ‘I found a great middle eastern breakfast place in the East Village and have been having hot sauce with breakfast ever since. There and the Lower East Side really appeal to me. There’s another breakfast place called the Pink Pony and just over the road there’s a wholefood store that does the most amazing food and drinks. It’s where I go to recharge when the touring diet starts to make me feel like rubbish’. Your music is melancholic lyrically, yet uplifting musically. Does that capture the split ends of your personality? ‘I like that contrast a lot but I think it exists within the lyrics too — sometimes a dark idea can really illuminate an idea about the joy of life and how precious it is while we have it’. Do you write incessantly or do songs trickle out as they please? ‘They sort of pop out unedited from a special song box in the back of my head. Unfortunately it’s not at will, but it has been fairly frequent this year. It’s a lot easier if I write with Mike or one of the others as collaboration always inspires me and gives me ideas that feel like they come for free. It’s exciting’. Can you tell us about a singer—songwriter that no-one has heard of yet they should? ‘Serafina Steer. Amazing, amazing songs, shows, words, presence and grace. Her album — Cheap Demo Bad Science — is out now on Static Caravan’. Tunng’s own album, Good Arrows, is out now on Pod through Inertia. He’s playing in Sydney between 13 and 15 January at the Sydney Festival and in Melbourne on 16 January at Northcote Social Club.
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