Sharing Is Good No.6: Voxhaul Broadcast
It’s been a long time in the pipeline but we’re now pleased to bring you a Sharing Is Good track from Voxhaul Broadcast called Fact Or Fiction. This is pure feel good indie from California for your collection.
Download it here: Sharing Is Good No.6 by Voxhaul Broadcast
Voxhaul Broadcast are David Denis of Guitar and vocals, Anthony Aguiar on guit, organ and backing vocals, Phil Munsey II on bass and Kurt Allen on drums.
This isn’t any old Sharing Is Good though, because we caught up with Phil the bass man and a few of his band mates in an interview as short and sweet as 911 (and if you don’t remember them, that means: very)
B: How are you today?
P: I am well, I ended up falling asleep at 6 last night so woke up super early at 4:30am. Been drinking coffee ever since.
B: Where are you at the moment, what you up to?
P: Currently we are at home working on putting our first full length out, trying to decide on what songs to choose, who we want to work with, and playing a lot of shows, seeing what works. We’ve got a steady amount of shows and radio play, so we’re having fun!
B: We’ve featured you in our Top 5 (new) Bands. How did you start making music?
P: We all basically started playing music together. Toe Knee and Kurt have known each other since they were 4, and have been making music together since before they really could play, and David and I since we were like 10 or something, and the first time I ever heard David play was on a cassette tape recording that him and Kurt made of a song her wrote - and the day I knew I wanted to make music with him. At the time we all our bands. Kurt and Toe Knee had a band with Ma from Delta Spirit and Tony from The Union Line. David and I played in separate bands but I ended up driving their bands around since I was the only who drove at the time (a Ford Cargo van). I remember having 16 or so kids in my van coming back from shows. I was only a few years older so I was actually just a kid as well. Slowly but surely we all merged into one band year after year, literally, some name changes until, eventually, we became who we are now as musicians, writers and best friends.
B: What influences you in your work - any particular artists or things?
P: I’d think it would be a fair assumption that life plays a very important aspect of any artists work, but more specifically they way people are and how they respond to situations, but lyrics just come out when the song is doing what it’s supposed to do. When David captures this feelings he’s portraying in a song and we all play it - the song starts to bloom inside of David and he sings off the top of his head and that’s where the magic happens. So honest and true, he just sings what’s in his head and it comes out so brilliant. As far as influences go, obviously The Beatles, Beach Boys, Motown, Dylan and Nirvana.
B: You’re all the way out in L.A, where as I am all the way out in a northern post industrial British city. What’s the music scene like out there?
P: It’s pretty healthy! We live in Echo Park and it seems like everyone is in a band/s. It is pretty amazing to go down the street to any of the main coffee shops in town and know you’ll find your other band comrades chillin’, smokin’ spliffs and drinking coffee. There’s always one of your friends bands playing, all the time.
B: And finally, are there any other bands/artists other than yourselves, worth checking out?
P: So many of them; Black Apples, Rumspringa, Lemon Sun, Union Line, Sequins and Skeletons - and those are just the ones I can remember. Before we all lives in Echo Park we used to just check out the Echo and Spaceland sites for new bands.
If you’ve missed our other editions of Sharing Is Good, we’ve made a handy list below:
No.1 Thank you The Temper Trap, Live.
Volume 2. AND 3. … Bronto Skylift
4.0 Live Free and [Die] Chickenhawk
Fifth and Foremost… Shoes and Socks Off
