“Since their musical conception in 2012, ‘Heart
of Mind’ has been rocking NSW to its core. With gigs throughout Sydney and
spanning up the east coast, ‘Heart of Mind’ uses their instruments of war to
deliver a variety of rock-genres that every music fan can enjoy (unless you are
into EDM...then sorry). Featuring guitars, bass, saxophone, keys and a newly
acquired Keytar, they have formed their own style of 'color' rock which
encompasses the influences of Greenday, Muse, Birds of Tokyo, Zeppelin, AC/DC,
Ball Park Music, The Beatles and any other decent rock band of the last 50
years.”
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So tell me, what is ‘Heart
of Mind’ all about? Do you have original music?
We
write our own original music. Which has been described as Pop Rock. Our writing
process is very collaborative. Normally one of us will bring a chord
progression and a melody and or lyrics to rehearsal and we all work on the song
together. Last year we released our Debut E.P ‘Breathtaking” which we launched
at Frankies Pizza. It was the first official music we had put out. We followed
this with a little tour which we covered NSW East Coast as well as Wagga and
Canberra.
This
year we have spent writing new songs as well as releasing our latest single
“Something to Believe”. We’ve done a few cover gig sets as well as some band
competitions. Now we’ve gearing up to jump back into regular gigging schedule
performing our original material. We’re kicking this off with a Headline
Performance at Miranda’s Rock n’ Roll Club Sweaty Bettys on 15th
August.
When did you form your band
‘Heart of Mind’?
We
formed the band in 2012. Essentially we are just 5 mates who loved music and
said those five faithful words “We should start a band”. I had met Adam through
work and our love of music sparked a friendship. He had gone to school with
John and spent many hours jamming together on Beatles tunes under the name
Ad+hon. Hayden has been a long time mate of mine whom apart from rocking the
trumpet had started an interest in drumming in the final years of high school.
From there we started jamming. Adam had met Simon through college and the band
was complete.
In what moment did you
decide that making music and performing was your dream?
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I
think for all of us creating and performing music from day one was our dream.
With the band the recording of our EP in 2014 was a real turning point. We had
taken the four best songs which we had been performing all through 2013 into
the studio with a producer. With his guidance and industry training we learnt
so much from him and to hear our songs professionally recorded for the first
time, there was this notion of this real. This is us on record and it sounds
amazing.
Who are your influences?
Greenday,
Muse, Birds of Tokyo, Zeppelin, AC/DC, Ball Park Music, The Beatles.
Aside from working with your
group, what are you doing now?
We’re
all working in a number of industries e.g. Hospitality, IT, Engineering,
Consultancy. Ultimately we would love ‘Heart of Mind’ to be our career and tour
around and record our music.
So tell me, what message do
you aim to convey through your music?
With
each song and each lyric, it comes down to the listener to interpret them and
the meaning changes individually. When we perform we aim to put on a show.
Coming to one of our gigs it’s a great night out. We have so much energy the
songs a great and catchy, its fun.
If you could perform and/or
collaborate with any musician, who would it be and why?
For myself (Rowan), Jimmy
Page for sure. Collectively any member of the Beatles would be an amazing
experience
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So go check out all of their links above and follow them if you want updates on some fantastic music-making and performances. Hope you enjoyed that, I know I did. See y'all soon,
Alyssa xoxo
