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\"\"<\/a>\u201cI\u2019d done a lot of collaborations with a lot of people, I\u2019d done side projects and lots of things but I\u2019d never sat down by myself in a room with an acoustic guitar and just written a record for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Release: Best known as the frontman of the Australian rock n roll luminaires,\u00a0Eskimo Joe<\/em>, acclaimed songwriter\u00a0Kav Temperley<\/em>\u00a0is stepping out solo.\u00a0 The first taste of his upcoming album dropped today in the form of new single,\u00a0Pollyanna –\u00a0<\/em>an ominous reflection on the relativity of happiness \u2013 the single will be received instantly with all digital album pre-orders.\u00a0\u00a0Pollyanna\u00a0<\/em>precedes Kav Temperley’s highly anticipated debut solo album\u00a0All Your Devotion<\/a><\/u><\/em>, a collection of ruminating, thoughtful, and effecting songs from one of this country’s greatest talents, set for release digitally and on vinyl on September 28.<\/p>\n

In Fremantle, Kav gave us a call to talk about his debut solo album, his upcoming tour, what\u2019s happening with Eskimo Joe, and more\u2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been five years since we chatted, a lot has gone on in that time, so let\u2019s catch up. How have the last five years been for you?<\/strong>
\nWell, that\u2019s quite a large question, you know life in general it\u2019s filled with highs and lows and I guess the positive is that you end up at a place like this which is you and I talking about creation of new music and the rest of it, so we haven\u2019t done a lot of Eskies stuff in the last five years but I have managed to work towards getting this solo release out and it\u2019s always a lot more work than you think it is.<\/p>\n

We have \u2018All Your Devotion\u2019 coming at the end of September, why was now the right time for a solo album?<\/strong>
\nWell I guess any time is the right time for a solo record *laughs* but really what happened was towards the end of 2013 we had all decided in Eskies that we were going to kind of step out of that cycle of two years write a record, rehearse and record a record, tour a record and we\u2019d been doing that for a long time and we decided to step out of that cycle and one of my main things I\u2019d never really done before. I\u2019d done a lot of collaborations with a lot of people, I\u2019d done side projects and lots of things but I\u2019d never sat down by myself in a room with an acoustic guitar and just written a record for myself. When you do a solo record you can do all of your favourite things *laughs* you don\u2019t have to compromise at all in all of that kind of stuff, so that\u2019s why if there\u2019s ever an appropriate time for a solo record but that\u2019s what led us up to here. Everything was ready to go in about March and I pretty much have been working on it since about 2015 so it just goes to show you how long and how much work goes into every record.<\/p>\n

What were you able to do with this album that you feel you weren\u2019t able to do with Eskimo Joe?<\/strong>
\nI guess it\u2019s all about collaboration, in Eskimo Joe which I love we\u2019re really lucky because we all get a long really well as friends and the rest of it, but I\u2019ll bring in a song to the band, we workshop that song and we end up with an Eskimo Joe record. I guess with doing it by yourself you just really get to look at the ideas and the sounds and all those kind of things that you loved, and that\u2019s a process. Making a record of any kind is not about having more options it\u2019s about creating less options and I guess what I mean by that is aesthetically I\u2019ve ended up at this place that I always wanted to do which is this gentle, beautiful sound of that early 70\u2019s singer songwriters like your Neil Young \u2018Harvest\u2019 and Van Morrison\u2019s \u2018Moon Dance\u2019 and all those sorts of things, they\u2019re sounds that I\u2019ve always loved and I kind have injected a little bit into Eskimo Joe then again Eskimo Joe is the sum of its parts you know, we make a record it sounds like an Eskimo Joe record, so I guess it was a really great chance to explore these musical loves that I have and end up at a place. I still wanted to make a modern sounding record but I wanted to make a record that sounded the tit for tat to that era, the beautiful soft sounding drums and acoustic guitars.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a different sounding album for you, did you go into it with an idea of how you wanted it to sound or did this evolve as you started writing and creating?<\/strong>
\nAbsolutely, whenever you sit down to do a project all the people who are around you like your managers and the record company are like so what kind of record are you going to make and I\u2019m usually like I don\u2019t know man, I just go into a room and start writing and hey presto songs come out. So, I had to kind of almost write the Eskimo Joe songs out of my system, I started writing songs and I\u2019ve been writing songs for Eskies for a better part of my life, more than I haven\u2019t, so as I sat down to write these songs it just sounded like watered down Eskimo Joe, but what happened for me is obviously I had those sonic benchmarks, like the early 70\u2019s singer songwriter but I also met the love of my life in that period and it kind of allowed me for the first time because I wasn\u2019t having to represent two other guys in my lyrics and anything it allowed me to write really personal, upbeat love songs *laughs* you know, which I haven\u2019t done since our first Eskimo Joe record, we spent a lot of the time from \u2018A Song Is A City\u2019 onwards writing these kind of dark brooding tunes which was great because I could feel the potency in them as soon as I started writing them, but that can become quite insipid if you\u2019re just sitting there looking for really dark subject matter so you can write your dark song. So it was really refreshing to step out of that, it was a real benchmark moment, there was a song that is the opening track on the record called \u2018Queen of my Heart\u2019 and as soon as that song came along I really knew what kind of record I was making.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re also heading out on a solo tour, have you got an idea on how these shows will shape up yet?<\/strong>
\nWell it\u2019s hard because my aesthetics are I love acoustic guitar and piano and stuff but I always write from also like a grove bass being a bass player by trade so I was kind of wondering how it was all going to work but\u00a0 to tell you truth I really like the idea of, the whole thing is this isn\u2019t an Eskimo Joe record I\u2019m really going out and winning fans over from day one again, some people might come over and listen to it but I really feel like I\u2019m out there getting brand new fans again. So I really wanted people to come along and feel it\u2019s this embryonic thing so I love the idea of just sitting there with an acoustic guitar and playing the songs in their raw format, so people that come to these shows can be like when the whole thing evolves and there\u2019s a big band behind me playing these songs I\u2019d love people to come along and be like oh yeah I went to these shows where it was just him and an acoustic guitar and it was really cool and I heard the stories behind these songs. So I really want people to feel like they\u2019ve kind of got a fly on the wall experience from it all.<\/p>\n

Will there be any Eskimo Joe songs in the set or purely focused on the solo material?<\/strong>
\nNo I\u2019ll definitely play some Eskimo Joe stuff, it\u2019s probably be a little bit re imagined and more in the style of the record I\u2019ve written but absolutely I\u2019ll play some Eskies classics as well.<\/p>\n

Will it be weird for you up there without Joel and Stuart?<\/strong>
\nYeah it\u2019s gonna be pretty scary *laughs* you kind of rely on your band mates so much, and also we have such great chemistry as people which is why it worked as a band straight away, as soon as we got on stage to start writing songs it just worked as far as a bunch of people on stage. So I\u2019ll really kind of miss that but there is something quite good about the evolution of having to just stand up there by yourself and make it work and not rely on your brothers.<\/p>\n

Solo albums sometimes freak fans out, but can I just check in and to appease people, Eskimo Joe still of course still a thing, right? <\/strong>
\nYeah, absolutely.<\/p>\n

Good, so any word on what\u2019s happening in the Eskimo Joe camp as it\u2019s been a long time between albums for the band?<\/strong>
\nWe haven\u2019t sat down to write anything yet but as soon as I\u2019ve finished this tour I\u2019ll start writing some songs again, there might be another Kav solo album or it might be an Eskies album, who knows? We do have some recordings in the bag of our symphony orchestra shows that we played throughout the year so we recorded them and we\u2019ll put that out as a record next year but as far as sitting down and doing a whole album of brand new material hopefully early in the new year we\u2019ll get to sit down and just write one song then if that goes well and we\u2019re enjoying ourselves I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll keep going from there. Whatever we do with Eskimo Joe I just want to put out something because we want to be in the studio making music together not because I feel like we have to make another Eskimo Joe record.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s sometimes easy to say what\u2019s changed in your time in a band but what would you say is the one thing that\u2019s stayed the same in your time making music?<\/strong>
\nI think the craft is a really big thing and it\u2019s an interesting era because you have all these what we call the bedroom producers which is your dudes making music in their bedroom but nothing\u2019s changed as far as people just making good music, out of every genre or era you have a bunch of people who obviously get played on the radio because it\u2019s the style at the time, but out of all those if you look back at the new rock thing that kind of happened with The Strokes and all those kinds of bands there were some key bands that came out through that era that you still listen to now like hey this is great music and you stop thinking about the genre and the rest of it. I think this era and every era is exactly the same, good tunes are just good tunes and they will always rise above whatever is trending or whatever\u2019s happening at that point in time and these amazing characters and these new people will stick around. I mean I guess probably not so much on the programmy Flume side of things but a really good example is probably Kev from Tame Impala, I mean you\u2019ve kind of watched him come up and essentially he\u2019s like a bedroom producer but he\u2019s making psychedelic rock and roll and you\u2019ve seen him grow and turn into this amazing guy who\u2019s really just an absolute heavyweight of the industry now, so I think that just keeps happening over and over again. There\u2019s never going to be the death of creativity, there\u2019s always going to be amazing characters that are just going to rise out of any scene and just blow us away all the time.<\/p>\n

Lastly let\u2019s look ahead to the future, finish this sentence for me, by the end of 2018 Kav Temperley will\u2026<\/strong>
\nBe in the road playing his ass off with a whole lot of new tunes and thinking about what he\u2019s going to do next, probably. *laughs*<\/p>\n

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ALL YOUR DEVOTION\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/em>NATIONAL ALBUM TOUR<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

FRI 5 OCT | THE MILK FACTORY, BRISBANE QLD | 18+<\/strong>
\nTickets available from\u00a0www.kavtemperley.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0www.oztix.com.au<\/a>\u00a0| 1300 762 545 | All Oztix Outlets<\/p>\n

SAT 6 OCT | VILLA NOOSA HOTEL, SUNSHINE COAST QLD | 18+<\/strong>
\nTickets available from\u00a0www.kavtemperley.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0www.oztix.com.au<\/a>\u00a0| 1300 762 545 | All Oztix Outlets<\/p>\n

SUN 7 OCT | PUBLIC BAR @ COOLANGATTA HOTEL, GOLD COAST QLD | 18+<\/strong>\u00a0| Free show<\/p>\n

THU 11 OCT | GRACE EMILY, ADELAIDE SA | 18+<\/strong>
\nTickets available from\u00a0www.kavtemperley.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0www.oztix.com.au<\/a>\u00a0| 1300 762 545 | All Oztix Outlets<\/p>\n

FRI 12 OCT | SOOKI LOUNGE, BELGRAVE VIC | 18+<\/strong>
\nTickets available from\u00a0www.kavtemperley.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0www.oztix.com.au<\/a>\u00a0| 1300 762 545 | All Oztix Outlets<\/p>\n

SAT 13 OCT | THE TOFF IN TOWN, MELBOURNE VIC | 18+<\/strong>
\nTickets available from\u00a0www.kavtemperley.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0www.moshtix.com.au<\/a>\u00a0| 1300 GET TIX | All Moshtix Outlets<\/p>\n

FRI 19 OCT | LEADBELLY, SYDNEY NSW | 18+<\/strong>
\nTickets available from\u00a0www.kavtemperley.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0www.moshtix.com.au<\/a>\u00a0| 1300 GET TIX | All Moshtix Outlets<\/p>\n

SAT 20 OCT | LIZOTTES, NEWCASTLE NSW | 18+<\/strong>
\nTickets available from\u00a0www.kavtemperley.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0www.lizottes.com.au<\/a>\u00a0| (02) 4956 2066<\/p>\n

SAT 27 OCT | MOJOS, FREMANTLE WA | 18+<\/strong>
\nTickets available from\u00a0www.kavtemperley.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0www.oztix.com.au<\/a>\u00a0| 1300 762 545 | All Oztix Outlets<\/p>\n

FRI 2 NOV | RIVER HOTEL, MARGARET RIVER WA | 18+<\/strong>
\nTickets available from\u00a0www.kavtemperley.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0www.oztix.com.au<\/a>\u00a0| 1300 762 545 | All Oztix Outlets<\/p>\n

SAT 3 NOV | PRINCE OF WALES, BUNBURY WA | 18+<\/strong>
\nTickets available from\u00a0www.kavtemperley.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0www.oztix.com.au<\/a>\u00a0| 1300 762 545 | All Oztix Outlets<\/p>\n

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Essential Information<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong>\u00a0Fremantle, WA, Australia<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/www.kavtemperley.com.au<\/a> <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Forthcoming Release:<\/strong> All Your Devotion (Released September 28)<\/p>\n

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