Marsden Williams | Musician/band
Marsden Williams
Phone: +61 438 325 397
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25.01.2022 Posted a new song: "Take Care" https://www.reverbnation.com/q/7toocs
25.01.2022 Posted a new song: "Seems Like Only Yesterday" https://www.reverbnation.com/q/7toodk
25.01.2022 Late at night sometimes, Matt and Joe get real close together and sing "Love Hurts" gazing lovingly into each others eyes. Its all I can do to pick up a camera and capture this mutual admiration society.
21.01.2022 Here come the nice
21.01.2022 Dave 245T sticksman laying down some tracks at the Shoals
20.01.2022 Posted a new photo: https://www.reverbnation.com/q/7l6zqc
19.01.2022 Country soul legends Marsden Williams & 245T from 7:30 tonight. Billie Jean on warm up duties
19.01.2022 Posted a new song: "Consider Me" https://www.reverbnation.com/q/7tooed
18.01.2022 Marsden Williams has a show on 2019-11-17 at 17:00 @ Spotted Mallard in Brunswick, VIC https://www.reverbnation.com/q/7krxx2
17.01.2022 245T, original recipe. I like the taste of hot and spicy
16.01.2022 Posted a new photo: https://www.reverbnation.com/q/7l6zpl
15.01.2022 Posted a new photo: https://www.reverbnation.com/q/7l6zpy
15.01.2022 Marsden from Shoals staff chats with John Tennnyson about his new EP: Forgotten Dreams. So what format is it going to be released on? Just digital. No plans for... a physical release? Aw I’ll probably make some CDs for gigs. Who played on it? Couple of songs are just me, then it's got my band from Sydney, Royal Tennyson, a couple of different formations. Who are they? Hadi Ansell, Marty Wayne Lawrence, Dan Canales, Josh Sankey, Oli Taylor-Moore. We also had Kelly Miller on drums. What are your influences? Musical not spiritual influences... Bob Dylan, gospel music. Church music, probably going to church every sunday and it being a performance. I did say not spiritual. Yeh but I can’t separate them! Ah ok. What type of music is that? Uplifting, joyous? Um. Yeaah I suppose the joyful music is part of it. I think church music has some tendencies to be self-flagellating...so it's not all helpful, but I eat the meat and chuck out the bones. Did you try to pursue one particular theme? I don't think there is one, no. No overarching concept? No, its like a quilt of songs. Some of it is recording like field recording style...why did you choose to do that instead of in a studio environment? At the time the recordings were for reference, not intended for publication. My friend told me how Conor Oberst brought domos to the record company who said- ‘use the demos for an album’! So it changed my mind about my ‘reference’ recordings...I figured maybe people would enjoy them- things I made up in the first instance for myself, could be shared. Most people would feel cars going by is not ‘pro audio’...did you feel the content was more important that the recording? I just don't feel a need to conform to the culture...the culture has a need for pristine sound...but I have listened to music from throughout the century and there’s a spirit that comes through regardless of even being out of tune! Like Jack Black talks about this about that song ‘dont mind people grinnin in your face’....it just doesn’t matter. I've just learnt to be more forgiving- you can hear that some of the recordings are a bit out of time and stuff. Did you run the music by friends or focus groups? Yeah, yeah I did. Many? One, two..two friends outside of music and then my friend who mixed and mastered was a filter for feedback. Could you garner anything from their reactions? Yeh,mostly encouragement- they just would say certain songs were good What kind of tape player did you use? Was it two track? What’s two track? Its like a normal cassette tape! Oh it's not reel to reel...with microphones? I think the piano song was recorded onto a phone, If You See Him Say Hello was recorded onto the phone.Ball and Chain and Coyote Song was recorded on tape. What kind of mic? It was a built in mic in the tape. I’ve noticed a shift in guitars to piano in your later work, is that a conscious thing? The piano is something I love to play and would probably play more often but I'm just too.[pause] You don't own one or? Yeah I don’t! Maybe it's laziness, cos I would love to play the piano. What was your first instrument? Would have been the piano. Of course its very hard to carry an upright piano to a gig.. [laughs] Yeah. Its hard to get the feel and atmosphere of an upright. Who mixed and mastered? Julian Wessels did a beautiful job on Time Will Come and Details Revisited. This guy was Emmy nominated for a show he sound-produced the other day, so it was a gift to have him involved. Jordan de Gersigny did Harry Bell and then the rest is my man Hugh Fuchsen. Who produced? Well Jules and Jordan, otherwise it's just me and the tape recorder or phone. You produced yourself? Yeh. Any obscure influences? Mahalia Jackson, Brother Joe May, Pastor James Cleveland. Do you know him personally? Nah just from Spotfiy. Where’s he from? Ah I think Chicago. I think he died in ‘91, he was born in the twenties. Cool. Well let's wrap it up. What's in the future? I’m starting a cult- well it's an event called CULt to be precise. You can join me at Northcote’s 303 once a month from July 13. Any ideas...are you going to fly to the moon? Do you have a new band? Yes! I do have a new band. Foxquel Pope, KATA and Hugh F, all great players. Oh ok what’s the instrument lineup for that? Bass, guitars, keys, probably pads. What’s pads? These things that trigger drums by just pressing them. Ah ok. Hmm some people might not find the word cult very funny, can you explain that? When friends of mine got into conversations about deep things we would...sometimes someone would say something deep about the nature of reality and in response we would laugh and say ‘hey, we should start a cult!’ So it honestly started as a joke. I mean, I should also say I understand people have different experiences of religion- I’m not about denying other people’s experience. https://open.spotify.com/album/206JYejlrfN3CJsUvVLPHz See more
13.01.2022 Show this Sunday
10.01.2022 Doing some ye olde style mixing for the new 245T record " Exile On Lygon Street" Its actually a title I came up with well before the pandemic, but then it became an ongoing reality - like being trapped in a submarine for months at a time. Luckily it gave us time to record an awesome amount of material, currently Exile's runtime is 95 odd minutes, and there is expected to be at least another full 45 minutes of material still waiting to be mixed. That's a triple album, made up mostly of countryish songs by myself, Joseph Dwyer and Matt Palmer. On top of that there is possibly 120 minutes of Electronica that needs to be shelved because there is no more space for it and it is a little out of keeping with the Country stuff. I guess you have to put an end somewhere!
09.01.2022 Posted a new photo: https://www.reverbnation.com/q/7l6zoz
09.01.2022 245T modernising some rural whilst I do my best Rod Stewart impersonation at the welcome swallow this evening.
08.01.2022 Going to a go-go this Sunday at The Welcome Swallow
07.01.2022 Finally got this guy going, it came to me new unused in the box with a Japanese plug and and no belts. It must have been a second or something. I tried to fix the belts a few years back but couldn't put it back together properly coz there was nothing online about it but luckilly in the meantime someone did a blog about the exact problem I was facing. Half a days work later and I have a brand new out of the box Fostex four track. Sounds fantastic with BASF tape.
06.01.2022 Posted a new song: "spindrift" https://www.reverbnation.com/q/7toodx
06.01.2022 We are number 2 on the ReverbNation Americana charts for Brunswick East, VIC, AU. www.reverbnation.com/marsdenwilliams
05.01.2022 Posted a new song: "Stacia" https://www.reverbnation.com/q/7tood3
04.01.2022 It's been an interesting year, older, deeper in debt, still not Rod Stewart........ I keep on no less Let the good times roll
02.01.2022 j'ai des câpres cajun covid. et toi?
