Q: Hey, can you tell us a bit about where you come from, and what made you want to start a career in music?
A: I’m not very good at answering questions but as you can see im giving it a go anyway. I can only speak for myself, as the shadow that stands front middle of the stage. We come from Derbyshire, Centre England. In fact we are no more than a couple miles from the furthest point from the see, In Derbyshire where I am from you feel very connected to the spirit of the land we call England, with the Peak District a favourite place to explore and be spoiled by its beauty. As well as the natural beauty of the land, we are connected to the human life force that are its inhabitants.
Here we have a balance between whats good and whats right and relative safety, something we should try to spread to the rest of the world from here, or let the rest of the world in. Having these two things in my life, upon the untimely death of David Bowie
My mind was ripe to be captivated and inspired. Id found it, the thing in my life I can do to inflict the most good on myself and others. Rock and Roll, a wounded abused, and neglected wonderful beast is how I perceived it. for me it started with space oddity, and my journey will end with me dead.
Q: Did you have any formal training, or are you self-taught?
A: I didn’t have any formal training aside from a handle full of lessons I didn’t find particularly useless, altho im sure they were. And I am self taught yes in the entire sense of the
Q: Who were your first and strongest musical influences, and why the name ‘Shadows of a Silhouette’?
A: My first strongest musical influences were, David Bowie, The white stripes, Nirvana, Arctic monkeys, Pixies, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Led zeppelin, Radiohead and Creedance. The Name shadows of a silhouette, is the proclamation that we are merely standing in the shadow cast by the version of ourselves that stands in the light. We shower in its darkness until such time as we are ready to take its place in the light. And see that which our past cannot, what the silhouette see’s.
Q: You have just released your new single, ‘Modern Age Blues’. Is there a story behind it?
A: Modern age blues definitely does have a meaning behind it. It really just aims to bring people together and rock in the face of our modern depression.
Q: Can we expect a new EP or even an album from you in the near future?
A: A future Ep for Next years is currently a plan of ours aswell as releasing more independent tracks as singles in and between all of our larger projects. And album is something we are ever so tempted to. Do at all times, but I don’t think we feel like its time yet.
Q: What do you feel are the key elements in your music that should resonate with listeners, and how would you personally describe your sound?
A: The key elements in our music are the accompaniment of the rhythm and lead guitars + the vocal presentation and lyrics. Id say the best part of our sound is definitely how it translates into and wild and unpredictably high octane live performance.
Q: Do you feel that your music is giving you back just as much fulfillment as the amount of work you are putting into it, or are you expecting something more?
A: Music unfortunately has rarely matched the enthusiasm I have putting when its giving back, which is rare anyway, its kind of a periless and mental difficult to overcome the struggle of a creative musician, hell bent of creative the uncreated. I love music, it just feels like music doesn’t love me at times. But im not ashamed to stand by musics side through it all. We are expecting whatever comes, but I feel we are authentic the way we are doing this right now, and I feel thats the most important thing, to stay true and stay underground and stay that way or it elevates from that position on its own.
Q: Could you describe your creative processes? How do usually start, and go about shaping ideas into a completed song?
A: My creative process is extremely inconsistent. Because it can start from a line of lyrics, a starting riff, or ending riff, a drum beat, an old idea or a new one. There really is not end to my surprise about where these songs keep coming from.
Q: What has been the most difficult thing you’ve had to endure in your life or music career so far?
A: The most difficult thing I’ve had to deal with in my life, is the stigma and constant medication and treatment coupled with drug abuse and depression. My most difficulty in my life comes from avoiding being caught out in the open, so I don’t have a chance to shoot myself down.
Q: On the contrary, what would you consider a successful, proud or significant point in your life or music career so far?
A: In my career it was definitely the pandemic and what came after, like when things started to catch up on us and reece ended up sectioned and in a seriously dangerous and fragile mental state. But he handles all that as an incredible example but the uncertainty around the future of shadows at that time was unbearable. we had nothing to do but compensate with even more hard work and yeah just work hard simply.
Proudest moet would definitely be our performance at not festival this year. That was our fist time playing a stage like that with a crowd of thousands that came to see us and just how we handled and and performed in the face of it all. We proved that our music is supposed to be performed at that level to crowds like that. The reviews were impeccable
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