Today, we sat down with Kingsfoil to discuss their inspiration to write music, heroes, and much more! Be sure to check out the music of Kingsfoil below after the interview on Spotify.
Interview:
What is your inspiration to write your music? Is it your
surroundings?
We take inspiration from all sorts of things, our environment, things that happen to us, our emotions from day to day or other forms of thought stimulating activities. Personally I tend to write to convey a message or an emotion. The words I use to convey that are often inspired by other music, films or literature. I love a particularly satisfying phrase that concisely encapsulates a feeling, so forever searching for somewhere in that ballpark throughout my songwriting.
What type of music did you listen to growing up?
Personally, I listened to a lot of Queen, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and the like. As a grew older, more modern bands that caught my attention were Incubus, InMe, Linkin Park, Fall Out Boy, Eminem and Justin Timberlake. I really will listen to anything though as all music that tends to make it somewhere listenable has aspects of great intelligence and creativity behind it – some more than others, I’ll admit.
Is there someone you looked up as a hero?
My heroes tend to evolve over time. There are plenty of people in music that I admire for different reasons. Thinking about the more modern day I have to shout out Myles Kennedy, Howard Jones, Justin Timberlake (just to keep you on your toes), and Ed Sheeran. They’ve all stood out to me, along with plenty of other musicians. You’d run out of pixels on your site if I made you publish them all. Shout out to Dave McPherson from InMe though as he arrived as an important time in my musical development and showed me a different way to approach the genres I loved.
If you weren’t a musician, what would you be doing today?
For the past 4 years I’ve been a Developer for a disaster response charity. I love problem solving, it suits my creative mind and works really well alongside music as I work from home, so I store my social energy for the shows at the weekend/in the evenings.
What advice do you have for our fans out there that want to create
music?
Just go ahead and do it. The beauty is that there is no right or wrong. Don’t worry about fitting to a certain trend or audience, just be authentic. And if that changes over time that’s okay – that’s authentic too. And that’s what you’re really connecting to in the musicians and personalities that make the music. It’s the reason musicians like Dave Grohl stick around – they’re just themselves and they make music they’d want to listen to.
Music:
