Liverpool Acoustic Scene: Lloyd Rock acoustic tracks interview
di STEFANIA ALTOMARE [user #9239] - pubblicato il 19 aprile 2011 ore 00:57
Lloyd Rock is my favourite male artist in the Liverpool 's acoustic scene.
We met in the Open Mic UK 2010 regional final, in Liverpool.He was the coolest!!!!!!
Lloyd Rock
Acoustic Demo Track Including:
Qua Simpleton
Envy Vs Pity
To Use Your Words
Word Created New
Lloyd Rock is the kind of artist who suddenly reaches you in the deep .You instantly know he really has something to say, about his inner world. Lloyds stands, with his Ovation acoustic , starting his live session and you think: “nice guitar , good image, great voice” .He nails huge pitches easily through the warmth of his natural timber, he captures you with his tunes , he actually can tell you more than you could ear in other soft corny songs, as he just looks into things in a very personal way. As an artist, he sometimes struggles with reality , he reckons the “average Joe on the street” as a quiet and relaxed human being who could even been enviable in his almost total lack of contemplation .But that’s what he says about “Qua Simpleton”, one of his four- tracks acoustic demo songs:-“I feel it is me extending a personal compliment to those who aren’t deep thinkers about the many subjects life has to offer. Sometimes, I just want to be like your average Joe on the street; someone who goes to work, lives for the weekend, has a girlfriend a car, a house, pays a mortgage, saves for holidays and thinks that life is the sum total of all of these things (and possibly some I have failed to mention)”.
The enviable “average- Joe-on-the-street” as a main character of “Qua Simpleton” generates more reflections , which have been depicted in “Envy Vs Pity” –“ lyrically it stemmed from the first line of the song ‘If memories could gather mass, what would they do?’ It sort of popped into my head when I was thinking about past memories” ; it is about my personal dualistic conflict with the fleeting wish to be a simpleton and my inner pity for those who are not deep thinkers (in any sense). This is the reason for the title itself; the envy is my personal envy of the simpleton (and how much I sometimes yearn to be like them) VS the pity I have those who don’t think deeply about things-.His quest about his inner world starts from uneasy to solve questions about his childhood and his rising up, “To use your Words” is a song which includes a borrowed analysis about such topics. He read quite by chance his sister’s diary where she wrote her memories about their childhood ,and he is captured by her perceptions of those memories , which sort of created to him an upper level of respect to her and , in a way, an inspiration for a “time to time catharsis”.“World Created New” –“ It is a song expressing a certain frustration; short catharsis can be reached by sharing ones worries or writing them down, however, they return not only because of how I think but because the wider world works in contrast to how I feel it should at times. This is the fantasy of a post apocalyptic world; a world where structural and societal pressure didn’t exist, so the things that drive us the most (the need to eat, the need for companionship etc ) became our focus and not things that are sometimes pushed out”. Lloyd wants to play in venues where original music is appreciated, for people who want to listen and are attending a gig to listen:-“ I want to rid myself of the feeling that I am forever competing with other artists. It is a simple calculation I suppose: the more affirmation I receive, the more it encourages me to want to play!”
He keeps writing and playing both solo acoustic gigs and live concerts with his band, the “Quandrant”.