{"id":35073,"date":"2018-06-28T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T21:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=35073"},"modified":"2018-06-25T14:01:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T04:01:36","slug":"jeff-martin-rem-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2018\/06\/jeff-martin-rem-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Jeff-Martin-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35074\" src=\"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Jeff-Martin-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Jeff-Martin-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Jeff-Martin-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Jeff-Martin-1-83x55.jpg 83w, https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Jeff-Martin-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>\u201cI just want to do something different, and it\u2019ll be the same with Michael Stipe, the way he sang the R.E.M. songs I can\u2019t do it like him so I need to do what I do to my strengths but at the same time going back to what we said earlier I\u2019ve got to maintain the soul and the integrity of the song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From Release: THE ONES WE LOVE is a unique series of concerts in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne Celebrating R.E.M. featuring an All-Star line-up of singers \u2013 Jeff Martin (The Tea Party), Steve Kilbey (The Church), Ron S. Peno (Died Pretty), Trish Young (The Clouds), Alannah Russack (The Hummingbirds), Ashley Naylor (Even), Greg Atkinson (Ups &amp; Downs), Peter Fenton (Crow), with special guest Amanda Brown (The Go-Betweens). Together they will pay tribute to R.E.M. by performing songs from R.E.M\u2019s rich back catalogue from the period 1982 to 1992 including \u2013 Losing My Religion, The One I Love, Man on the Moon, It\u2019s The End of the World, Radio Free Europe, Drive, Orange Crush, Everybody Hurts, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight, Nightswimming, Stand, Fall on Me, Driver 8, Shiny Happy People plus plenty more. Backing them will be some of Australia\u2019s finest musicians who will honour the sound that was uniquely and undeniably R.E.M.<\/p>\n<p>We gave our mate Jeff Martin a call to talk about the R.E.M. Celebration, how it will work, inspiration, solo tours, The Tea Party, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We have to get into this R.E.M. celebration tour because it\u2019s really interesting, how did you become involved with this tour?<\/strong><br \/>\nWell so Paul the musical director of the band that\u2019s backing all these incredible singers that I get to be a part of he\u2019d been in touch with Melissa for quite some time trying to get me to be involved with it, and the only reason I couldn\u2019t is that I had Tea Party commitments and also my production work here at Rover House a lot of clients that were in and out and having to finish and things like that, right. So we finally were able to come to a time frame where not only could I commit to three shows but I had time before the shows to totally commit to even my own rehearsals of the songs and getting my mind around it because it\u2019s something that\u2019s very important when you\u2019re asked to do something like this you\u2019ve gotta do it justice and you\u2019ve gotta put your soul behind it and your integrity, and the last time that I did a tribute thing like this would\u2019ve been the Zeppelin thing like six or seven years ago and for anyone that\u2019s a Tea Party fan or a Jeff Martin fan that wasn\u2019t a stretch doing something like that, but an R.E.M. thing when it was presented to me a lot of my fans wouldn\u2019t realise that I\u2019ve been a fan of R.E.M. for quite some time and it presented to me a very interesting challenge because I\u2019ve been given artistic license from the music director to reinterpret the songs that I\u2019ve been chosen to do and so it was basically an offer I couldn\u2019t refuse once all the stars aligned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please tell me we\u2019re going to have a dark and moody version of \u2018Shiny Happy People\u2019\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\n*laughs* You can keep thinking that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In all seriousness, I can\u2019t wait to hear your spin on these songs, so they will be Jeff Martin\u2019d or will they be closer to the originals?<\/strong><br \/>\nWell that\u2019s what I\u2019ve been asked to do but at the same time you can do that to a certain extent but there\u2019s a line you have to be careful not to cross because you have to keep the integrity and the soul of the song intact, right, and you shouldn\u2019t put your own ego onto it, you can put a flare, you can put a flavour, but I think once you put your own ego onto it you\u2019ve crossed the line and you\u2019re missing the point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, can you tell us what you\u2019ll be singing?<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019ve been asked not to let the cat out of the bag.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fair enough, so what do you think it is about the music of R.E.M. that warrants this kind of celebration?<\/strong><br \/>\nIn a word, timelessness because what R.E.M. started out as and when I first listened to them I would\u2019ve been thirteen years old and Jeff Burrows the drummer in The Tea Party was a year older than me, he was the cool kid in high school that listened to all the cool alternative music before anyone else did and so I remember him playing for me \u2018Pretty Persuasion\u2019 and that song was the first time that I heard that jangly twelve string Rickenbacker sound and then subsequently after that I found out who Peter Buck was influenced by and then I discovered Roger McGuinn, The Byrds and all that stuff but it was a pretty important moment for me. If you fast forward to what The Tea Party\u2019s most successful single has been it would be \u2018Heaven Coming Down\u2019 which is basically fueled by a twelve string Rickenbacker part, had I not listened to Peter Buck all those years ago probably wouldn\u2019t have happened.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That\u2019s really interesting to think, I never would\u2019ve put R.E.M. and The Tea Party in the same boat at all\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\nYeah, well there it is, the twelve-string electric guitar stuff if you think about it there\u2019s a lot of that on The Tea Party\u2019s music but it would\u2019ve been a sound that maybe I wouldn\u2019t have discovered had I not listened to Peter Buck all those years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you ever get the chance to meet Peter Buck?<\/strong><br \/>\nNo I did not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So you\u2019ve never played with R.E.M?<\/strong><br \/>\nNo, I saw them live in the early 90\u2019s in Detroit and I met Michael Stipe once in the village in New York maybe around the time of The Edges of Twilight we were performing there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just thinking when you were talking about Led Zeppelin and R.E.M. obviously, is it difficult for you to sing other people\u2019s songs?<\/strong><br \/>\nIs it difficult? It\u2019s not difficult it\u2019s challenging because obviously with my vocal range when I did the Zeppelin tribute many years ago of course I\u2019m not going to sing like Robert Plant because A) can\u2019t and B) don\u2019t really want to *laughs* I just want to do something different, and it\u2019ll be the same with Michael Stipe, the way he sang the R.E.M. songs I can\u2019t do it like him so I need to do what I do to my strengths but at the same time going back to what we said earlier I\u2019ve got to maintain the soul and the integrity of the song.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outside of the R.E.M. celebration you\u2019re heading out on a run of solo acoustic shows, how are you looking at shaping these up?<\/strong><br \/>\nYeah well essentially two years I spent some time in Morocco and I went around the country recording with traditional Moroccan musicians but a different musical styles and different musical traditions because Morocco even those it\u2019s a smallish country as far as African countries go, the diversity of musical traditions I would have to spend a year and a half there to even get close to exploring them all. What I did end up doing is recording with some incredible troops of musicians and reinterpreting songs of my past and ideas that I had at the present and what I did was I brought those songs back here to River House and used those field recordings and embellished them with instruments that I have here at the house and I came up with this EP that will be available for people that come to the shows and what the EP did for me was it also inspired me to upgrade the solo show that I do because basically I always thought that with The Tea Party it\u2019s all the bells and whistles and if I\u2019m going to go out solo then let\u2019s just strip it back and keep it my acoustic guitar and my voice and that\u2019s what it should be. I decided now with a lot of the toys that I have lying around the house and in the studio and whatnot I\u2019ve kind of decided to do this\u2026 well if it ends up sounding like it sounds in my head it\u2019s gonna be like this one man Pink Floyd sort of show.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That\u2019s a big call, I\u2019m looking forward that.<\/strong><br \/>\nWell you know, I\u2019m all about the big calls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s also been four years since new Tea Party music, we heard a new one at the Live shows but are there plans for a new release soon?<\/strong><br \/>\nThat song is going to come out at the end of the year and there\u2019s an EP that will follow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking back was there one piece of advice you were given when you started making music that\u2019s stuck with you to this day and that you still go back to?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt sounds clich\u00e9 but everything that you do as a musician, integrity first you know? You think about success later it\u2019s your integrity first and foremost, and if your music is laced with it, dripping with it, it\u2019s pretty hard not to be successful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A lot of things change over people\u2019s time making music and you\u2019ve been in the business for a long time, what would you say is the one thing that\u2019s stayed the same in your time making music?<\/strong><br \/>\nKnowing I can tell right away from note one if an artist has their integrity in check or not. I tell straight away before I get them here to the studio because what I ask for because I\u2019ll get so many different types of artists that want me to produce their music but what I ask them to do is especially if they\u2019re a singer, I don\u2019t want to hear your demos that you\u2019ve done in the studio with all the bells and whistles and everything else, I just want you to strip it down to the campfire test, just give me your voice and acoustic guitar or piano and I just want to hear the sentiment of the song and I want to hear if I can hear that soul coming through and if that comes through that\u2019s the only criteria that you need successfully if you want me to produce you, if you do that test successfully it doesn\u2019t matter what genre of music you do, if I have the time I\u2019ll take it on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the remainder of 2018 have in store for you?<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter the R.E.M. shows and after the solo tour I think it\u2019s basically just gearing up for and pardon the pun, the other monster, The Tea Party touring again which will probably be if it\u2019s not right at the end of the year in Canada it\u2019ll be at the beginning of next year in Canada and then probably here in Australia around Easter time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ooh Bluesfest?<\/strong><br \/>\nWell, you said it, I didn\u2019t\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE ONES WE LOVE: Celebrating R.E.M. Dates:<\/strong><br \/>\nFriday 31st August Brisbane, Tivoli Theatre<br \/>\nThursday 6th September Melbourne, Palais Theatre<br \/>\nFriday 7th September Sydney, State Theatre<\/p>\n<p>Tickets from: <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolistouring.com\/tours\/celebrating-rem\/\">https:\/\/metropolistouring.com\/tours\/celebrating-rem\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Martin solo &#8211;<\/strong> <strong>\u2018STARS IN THE SAND TOUR\u2019<\/strong><br \/>\nThu Jun 21 \u2013 Baha, Rye, NSW<br \/>\nFri Jun 22 \u2013 Karova Lounge, Ballarat, VIC<br \/>\nSat Jun 23 \u2013 Spotted Mallard, Brunswick, VIC<br \/>\nThu Jun 28 \u2013 Workers Club, Geelong, VIC<br \/>\nFri Jun 29 \u2013 Sooki Lounge, Belgrave, VIC<br \/>\nSat Jun 30 \u2013 Jive, Adelaide, SA<br \/>\nThu Jul 5 \u2013 Leadbelly, Newtown, NSW<br \/>\nFri Jul 6 \u2013 Brass Monkey, Cronulla, NSW<br \/>\nSat Jul 7 \u2013 Tattersalls Hotel, Penrith, NSW<br \/>\nFri Jul 13 \u2013 Heritage Hotel, Bulli, NSW<br \/>\nSat Jul 14 \u2013 Milton Theatre, Milton, NSW<br \/>\nSun Jul 15 \u2013 The Basement, Canberra, ACT<br \/>\nFri Jul 20 \u2013 Long Jetty Hotel, Long Jetty, NSW<br \/>\nSat Jul 21 \u2013 Lizottes, Newcastle, NSW<br \/>\nThu Jul 26 \u2013 Imperial Hotel, Eumundi, QLD<br \/>\nFri Jul 27 \u2013 Blackbear Lodge, Brisbane, QLD<br \/>\nSat Jul 28 \u2013 Kingscliff Hotel, Kingscliff, NSW<br \/>\nFri Aug 3 \u2013 Panthers, Port Macquarie, NSW<br \/>\nSat Aug 4 \u2013 5 Church St, Bellingen, NSW<\/p>\n<p>Tickets from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffmartinofficial.com\/\">www.jeffmartinofficial.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Essential information<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>From:\u00a0 <\/strong>Australia \/ Canada<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffmartinofficial.com\/\">www.jeffmartinofficial.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/The-Ones-We-Love-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35075\" src=\"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/The-Ones-We-Love-Poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/The-Ones-We-Love-Poster.jpg 600w, https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/The-Ones-We-Love-Poster-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/The-Ones-We-Love-Poster-39x55.jpg 39w, https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/The-Ones-We-Love-Poster-400x565.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI just want to do something different, and it\u2019ll be the same with Michael Stipe, the way he sang the R.E.M. songs I can\u2019t do it like him so I need to do what I do to my strengths but at the same time going back to what we said earlier I\u2019ve got to maintain the soul and the integrity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5924,5,4],"tags":[5613,428,1708,780,429],"class_list":["post-35073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5924","category-features","category-interviews","tag-bullet-proof-au","tag-jeff-martin","tag-metropolis-touring","tag-r-e-m","tag-the-tea-party"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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