Give it a bit more of a backstory, and make it more interesting than it is. That’s all I’m doing-I’m not lying about anything, but something that happened to me on a given night, I can take and make a character, and have it happen to them. ![]() We can colorize our lives to make them more interesting. Musicians are pretty good at this kind of thing. If you’re telling a story, you can just-like a movie or a screenplay-keep getting creative with it and pointing back to things you’ve experienced in your own life. If you can create characters that are based on things in your life, you have infinite content. Having written so many albums-and an EP in 2017-between 2016’s Hotel Allan and now, have you ever lost your inspiration or spark? How did you get it back? I see myself as the Harry Hard-On character I’m the guy behind the guy. He’s not a cool kid, and no one hangs out with him, but everyone from the jocks to the nerds to the goths, they all connect and relate. When he goes home, he’s got this short-wavelength radio, and he reaches the high school and all the kids connect with the stuff he talks about. It’s about a kid who moves to a new town, extremely shy, eats his lunch in the stairwell. Then, Roadhouse 02 will be the closing narrative of the story.īacking up, what about the film Pump Up The Volume strikes you? And now, with CHRISTIAN, he thinks he’s got his first real piece of work. He tries a full-length with Harry Hard-On, still a little sloppy. goes to the woods to write an album, and he starts with Courtney, an EP. Ultimately, he can’t make that balance work, so he’s selfish and picks music over everything else. You know how Marvel and DC have these cinematic universes? Roadhouse 01 and Hotel Allan are explaining the characters and where they take place: Going into the woods to write music, Allan has to balance his personal responsibility with his relationships to his family and friends, and his passion for music. It resonates with me it’s similar to the story I’m telling. If you break down, it’s essentially what I based my entire musical career around as Allan Rayman. ![]() It’s Christian Slater, and that correlates to Harry Hard-On, which stems from a movie called Pump Up The Volume. CHRISTIAN has nothing to do with religion. It’s gotta be true and real to me, and that’s the bottom line. I don’t take into mind pleasing other people. I’ve always tried to make music I like to listen to. Why the aversion to being neatly fitted into a box? We can colorize our lives to make them more interesting.”Īs with your previous works, CHRISTIAN absconds genre. As it stands, Allan doesn’t see his creativity running out any time soon: “If you can create characters that are based on things in your life, you have infinite content. Then Roadhouse 02 will be the closing narrative of the story.”Ī true writer and storyteller, I ask Allan how he manages to keep up inspiration having been so prolific. ![]() “You know how Marvel and DC have these cinematic universes?” Allan begins, “ Roadhouse 01 and Hotel Allan are explaining the characters and where they take place: Going into the woods to write music, Allan has to balance his personal responsibility with his relationships to his family and friends, and his passion for music.
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