The Lockerbillies
-Josh Locke
What makes music so important to you?
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It's the first thing that I was really good at, and without trying super hard. I think, because I've been studying ever since I was little for lots of different subjects, music really stuck, cause I was like, okay cool, it's fitted I didn't have to sit there and really, really think about it for ages.​
It was just a click moment and there you go!
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How did using the 'Kick starter' page for your new album come about, and was it successful?
I made my way through lots of different ones, they all took about the same amount of commission from it so it's about 10-15%. Kick-Starter looked like it had the best customization so for putting in; video's , pictures, all stuff,to advertise us it was easy to make it look like a professional website. It was quite nice to be able to put on their everything about the band. So I started by writing down everything we had done as a band, the whole history of the band. (sarcastically) That was fun.
It made me realize, my God we've done a lot. I then did a video, about it. The website guides you through the process quite well, so it sort of says, "what projects get funded the most easily all have videos and pictures." Something that talks to the person donating rather than just a bunch of text that basically says give me money!
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How does music make you feel / Has it ever been your therapy?
Yeah, It definitely has been therapy, it's either from playing live or it's literally just the way I write lyrics is I've just got notes on my phone and i'll note something new down. This happens when i'm in conversation with someone, they'll say something cool and I quickly write that down. When you're mulling stuff over,and you can't just get in straight in your head, you'll suddenly make a sentence that will sum up how you're feeling. You write that down or make a song out of it and a lot of the songs I've written, are written in a similar way to how David Bowie would write he would get snippets of thoughts and then push them together, and then they would become one big therapeutic thing, it's a poetic thing and so when you look back at what you've written it's lots of different memories in one.
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What's your favorite original song and why?
OH MAN! I'm gonna say,'Digital Bath by Deftones'
I think because it's really super groovy. Chino Moreno's vocals are really nice and breathy, with lots of expression to it.
However the song itself was about a dream. Which we know he fell asleep at a house party he also drempt that he was at that house party and the girl that he really liked lead him upstairs and ran a bath and got into it and he just dropped a toaster into it and killed her. I like the way he articulates it, I mean it is a crazy dream but the way he expresses his vocals, it makes it sound like he is repulsed by it but he also talks about it in a fragmented way which means you get into his mindset. It's brilliant.
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What is the best gig you've played and why?
I think probably the best I've felt on stage, was at a children in need show at the Spa Pavilion in Felixstowe.
It was a packed venue, we had a big stage to work on, but because it was all voluntary in terms of no one made any money of it at all, It was just all going to Children In Need the charity. I put so much time and effort into it; I'd been on the radio, i'd been on TV. i'd done all the graffics and social media. That by the end of the night we had all these other bands on stage with us we has; KidMojo, Hot tramp and us, it was a really great feeling. Receiving a letter from the BBC with the amount raised on it, That felt good.
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How did 'Josh Locke Presents' come about?
That was because of Impilo actually. Cause impilo, are kind of my brain child. They're my friends and brothers but they're also kind a little bit of my making. They were all looking to join a band and I sort of introduced them to each-other, nothing to do with the music. They obviously wrote all that and they're great at that. They didn't really have a platform just yet, they didn't really have any big gigs. So I was like alright, I'll throw my name behind them and see if that does anything put them on with Rye Shabby and Reno & Rome and it was a really great night, so people said we should do it again.