Michael Tilley
Interview 2012.
Ok Michael Tilley, this is it. Introduce yourself. Hello world, I am Michael James Tilley.
What do you get up to? I am a man, who likes to ah…. Explore the music world through many different instruments, numerous bands, synth, fulfilling every little aspect of my musical brain I guess. I like anything to do with art, and shit like that. Yea.
What bands? My main band would be Nutella Monk, which is my solo shabangle, and I play drums for Bing Turkby, which is more just a jam around to have fun. And play synth in Project Blood, which is an industrial band, which is good fun, and I play bass in another band but we don’t have a name yet, so if you have any good ideas let me know.
You’re open to submissions? We are.
Where can people submit their ideas? Don’t know. Just yell them out to the sky. Yell them out at the moon at night.
Where are you taking things? With music. At the moment I guess it’s a hobby, but its more something that I feel compelled to do. Every sort of waking moment when I’m not working or whatever, I seem to be trying to do something with music. Whether it’s writing music, or playing music or whatever. Pretty much I think my goal is to have fun and enjoy life really, and that’s what I do, and that’s what I enjoy. I want to write a Nutella Monk album, actually do something with that because I’ve been, I was sort of going to release my album about two years ago, then I was going to release it in two weeks, and a few weeks have elapsed since then, so that’s the main goal at the moment, this Nutella Monk thing. But there’s lots of other things, lots of other bands, all the other bands I’m in now have lots of shows on and stuff so it’s hard to find time to conjure up a good song.
That’s an ongoing life problem right, not enough time. It is, I have a lot of baskets and not enough eggs. But, I will sort it. Got to get laying.
What do you spend most of your time thinking about? Well… when I’m not thinking about Jemma Cheer…. No I don’t know, I spend a lot of time learning stuff online, I do a lot of documentary watching. Seems like I’m doing all of my learning now, it’s quite intuitive, so I’ll kind of go off on tangents online and just learn about lots of random shit, and watch documentaries about anything I can think of, whether it’s the universe or existence and stuff. A lot of that comes into Nutella Monk as well, a lot of the songs are exploring ideas or… that didn’t really make any sense?
What’s your inspiration? Inspiration behind music?
Life. Um, I guess the inspiration behind life is, my life, it’s like our conversation the other night about the meaning of life, inspiration right now is just experience and knowledge.
"Inspiration right now is just experience and knowledge."
So that’s what wakes you up in the morning? Well I don’t really wake up in the morning very easily but… that’s why I wake up at 2pm when I can.
Where can people hear your music? You can go to nutellamonk.com and that’s got a link to the reverb nation site, which is where I’ve got most of my stuff online. Which is reverbnation.com/nutellamonk but yea just go to nutellamonk.com and you’ll be able to get to it from there. There’s still only about four songs on there, I’ve got to get my ass into gear and actually release songs because there’s a lot of songs where I’ve played them live but never actually recorded them.
Anything else for print land? Balls deep.
Illustration by Michael Tilley
