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Band Name:
The Colourflies
Members:
Matt Legard
Mayde Smith
Devin Koshney
Genre, if any?: Alternative /Whatever
What first got you into music?
Matt: Mostly I have loved music ever since I was a child. My mother would sing and teach me scales while she was giving me a bath. From a very early age, I would memorize songs off the radio and sing them later.
Mayde: I'm really lucky, I have family members who are musicians and my mom felt it was important that I was exposed to it early on so I learned piano and classical guitar
Who inspired you to make music?
Matt: When I first decided I wanted to form a band, I pulled from all of my favorites to make a blend of everything I was into. Early on it was Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Dinosaur Jr, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, ABBA. There was also a band in my high school that was so damn bad that it made me feel confident enough to step on that stage and play.
Mayde: I was already listening to primus and Tori Amos and faith no more and perceived music to just be really, incredibly fun and expressive. I'd attempted to make a band with my cousin and sister in middle school but didn't have much skill at writing at the time. So when Matt initially asked me to be in a band, I hadn't considered myself a musician, just someone who played instruments, if that makes sense.
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How would you describe the music that you typically create?
Matt: The music that we typically create goes from
Zero to 40. We play very soft delicate songs and very loud heavy screaming songs. Which we’ve been doing in the band for about ten years, but as of late, with the new album, we have really mellowed and even have strings on a song. So ultimately I would say the music we create is very dynamic, also our songs typically have a strong sense of melody, but I can’t help that. I chew bubblegum in my soul as they say.
What is your creative process like?
Matt: Our creative process is typically laboring for hours and days on arrangement and songwriting as well as time spent working on the specific tones that we want to use to record the songs, that goes for drums, bass, and guitar. We are very picky and specific. We also all agree on a song before continuing forward and recording it. If someone doesn’t like it, we drop it and write something better that we all like.
Mayde: my creative process is mostly to follow matt's lead, I spend a lot of time listening to jazz and practicing alongside that, and then in group rehearsal coming up with melodies that provide a good counterpoint or harmony to everything else going on. I'm really crummy at actually reading sheet music and I think my playstyle reflects that a bit because I'll play the same parts slightly differently between performances without intending to.
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Who would you most like to collaborate with?
Matt: Well someone from the Wallflowers would be amazing, wink wink. But we have had some amazing opportunities to collaborate with our heroes. Ken from the Posies plays piano and sings on our record, Will Schwartz from Imperial Teen is going to do a duet with me on a song which may or may not be on the record. We would love to work with someone for the B52’s or Chris and Tina from the Talking Heads, whom I’ve had a conversation with.
Mayde: If I could choose someone to collab with, as a personal pipe dream, it would be the keyboardist/composer alfa mist and/or the saxophone player Kamasi Washington. but that's jazz stuff, I think the artist temporex would be the coolest show. that's a hard question since I'm inclined to answer with what I'd personally want to see live :)
What is one message you would give to your fans?
Matt: One message I would give to fans is thank you. And also if you love a band, you have to show your support. We are lucky because we have amazing support from our fans, but a lot of smaller bands don’t and it’s a shame. If you love a band, scream it from the rooftops and everyone will scream along with you.
Mayde: Don’t waste your time on musical elitism or keep elitists in your life; it's fine for others to have opinions on music that disagree with yours but if they demean you for differing tastes, don't take them seriously in a way that makes you ashamed to like what you like or feel like you have to hide a favorite band, genre, song, artist, anything. Especially if you're a musician yourself. Don't be that person to other people, because music carries a different meaning for every person. Don't let yourself be one of those "every genre but country" people that I was for years. It's okay to enjoy things that your peers think are lame and you'll learn a lot about yourself by experiencing every unfamiliar song with open arms.
Where have you performed? What are your favorite venues?
Matt: We have performed all over, but some of our favorite places are the Eagles Ballroom in Kalispell Montana. Portland is always great. We like the Big Dipper and Neato Burrito in our home city of Spokane as well. Mayde really likes Wally’s house of Booze in Wenatchee Washington.
What is your favorite song to perform?
Matt: My favorite song to perform is probably Crank. It’s like an 8-minute Psychedelic Maelstrom. I think it’s all of our favorites, I know it’s Mayde’s. Also probably Jupiter as well from the new album. I also am particular to Supersucker from the last album and Built to Spill and Pucket from our first album.
Mayde: Favorite song to play from our more recent material is definitely crank, it has a lot of dynamic and buildup that makes it fun to play both live and at practices. from our older material, it would have to be the song built to spill. it's really fun to play live and captures a lot of our spirit from that era.
What’s next for you?
Matt: What’s next for us is a new album! Finally! And our first vinyl release and hopefully our second charting single, Jurassic Park was our first, but I don’t really count that. We will also be back on a flight to Virginia to sequence the album and master it, also there will be new music videos and such. We’re already spinning ideas around.
Mayde: I really don't know what's next. The logical next step would be touring and performing for the album but world events have made that kinda hard to plan on. whatever happens, though I trust my bandmates and I'm really excited to see what our future is like.
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