The Magic Theatre

9th Annual Acoustic Song Nominee
9th Annual Love Song Nominee

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HOMEBASE/COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Liverpool, UK

WHICH GENRES BEST DESCRIBE YOUR MUSIC? 1960s/Victorian Brit-Folk West-Coast Pop

ALBUM NOMINATED SONG IS ON: London Town

ARTISTS ON THIS ALBUM: Sophia Churney (vocals), Dan Popplewell (music)

WHERE WAS THE ALBUM RECORDED? Estonia, Slovakia and Liverpool.

WHERE IS YOUR MUSIC AVAILABLE? A first single will be/was released on iTunes on 28th December. The album will be available on iTunes and via the shop on www.themagictheatre.net from March 1st.

WHAT INSPIRED THE SONG “OUT THERE”? IS IT BIOGRAPHICAL? The album is a time-travel love story, so this song is at the point that a 60s guy is in Victorian London and they’re deeply in love with a (temporally) local girl. It was partly inspired by the rowing boat scene in the film The Notebook, and partly by my own summers of lakebound love.

IS IT EASIER TO WRITE ABOUT LOVE LOST OR LOVE GAINED? Well, it’s about as hard or easy. A case of immersing yourself in your memories of the time you went through, gaining or losing, and trying to express it how it actually feels.

NAME YOUR FAVE LOVE SONGS & WHY THEY RESONATE: I like “Clouds Across the Moon” by The Rah Band (1980s UK hit). That resonated because it was a time when I’d first experienced love and I was separated from the girl of my dreams. And I was a 13 year old romantic sci-fi geek. It being a song about love, separation and future space wars, it was perfect. Now I think about it, I felt the same about “Together In Electric Dreams” – yet another love separation / geek combined theme. And now, here I am writing about love and time travel, predictably living out my obsessions.

DID FANS HELP FUND THIS PROJECT? Nope, we never asked.

WHO IS SITTING IN YOUR AUDIENCE? The *actual* audience will consist generally of old Ooberman fans (we were in a successful UK band by that name), who were students in 2000 and now in their late 20s. That’s just chance, though. The music is timeless, imaginative and melodic, so really anyone apart from hardened Death Metal / Hardcore Electro nuts would love it. Kids like it, and old people like it. What’s not to like? It’s riddled with classic tunes while sounding like nothing else.

WHAT MAKES YOUR FANS UNIQUE? Well, they’re more intelligent than your average crowd, but we don’t want to exclude dimwits.

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE PLACES TO PLAY? Festivals are good.

WHAT HAS BEEN THE BAND’S MOST MEMORABLE ACHIEVEMENT TO DATE? This is a new project, so the biggest achievements are yet to gush forth. Two IMA nominations is a good start. We’ve had some recent radio play on BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music in the UK, which is nice.

There’s been plenty of moments of achievement in the making of it though – getting it made, managing to find a way to get orchestra and choir on there without having any money (tricky), seeing the orchestra perform the music, hearing the first rough draft of the album-in-progress after three years’ work on it, getting the beautiful artwork and videos made.

WHAT’S IN THE WORKS FOR 2010? We’ll go and perform some acoustic versions on UK radio, and hope we can sell enough copies to pay back the worrying costs.

FINISH THIS SENTENCE: THE MUSIC INDUSTRY IS….. A spicy brew. It’s half authenticity and half bullshit, half meritocracy and half fashion parade, fuelled by money, the fear of losing money, what’s cool, uncool, hopes and dreams, idealism, cynicism, good looks, musicianship, songwriting, vanity, talent, success, status and glamour, and a fear of failure.

But that’s just being human isn’t it? We’re baboons on a precarious rock.

WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION OF SUCCESS? Selling enough copies to break even (about 2,000!).

WHAT’S ON YOUR IPOD THAT WOULD SURPRISE YOUR FANS? Sepultura’s greatest hits.

NAME SOME ARTISTS YOU ARE CHAMPIONING: Chris Haigh and Kavin Hoo – two brilliant composers writing for my recently started publishing label – I sifted them out of hundreds of submissions. Richard Harvey (composer) – he just premiered a recorder concerto in Hong Kong.