You’ve served as a benchmark for which I’ve strived to reach with my own band. You practically laid the foundations for what I have since strived to be as a pop/rock musician. Needless to say, you ignited a musical spark in me that ended up changing the course of my life – a spark that still hasn’t faded. That was the very first moment we started making music together. I had been dipping my toe into the songwriting pool, but now I was keen to jump in. She had to write and produce a pop song and wanted my help. Not long after finishing acting school, I was back in Brisbane visiting my family when my sister Amy came to me with an assignment she had for university (she actually WAS studying music). By the time I graduated, I’d written my first original song. One of the first songs I learned and performed in front of that 5-person crowd was ‘Lost!’. But as I slowly gained confidence and learned how to put chords together, I was able to keep a small audience of my class entertained for the majority of the lunch break. At first, it was just 5-10 mins at a time on my own. I started sitting down at the piano every lunch break for the remainder of my days at drama school. “Anyone but Coldplay dude… I’m having a good day.” I turned to my friend (who decidedly was NOT a fan of the band) and warned him I was about to buy and chuck on a new Coldplay album. It was Coldplay, but it didn’t sound anything like the Coldplay I had heard. The intro of the song immediately perked my ears, and when I checked who it was, I was shocked. Coincidentally, the song ‘Rainy Day’ came on through a random playlist through this fancy new streaming service I was testing out called Spotify. I remember listening to you from start to finish for the first time during a rainy Saturday afternoon in 2009, having a few cheeky beers with my flatmate on our balcony. Even so, you came along at a point in my life when my artistic mind was impressionable, ready to soak up some good influences and get inspired. In my head, I was absolutely going to be in theatre, movies and tv. I was the most annoyingly determined actor you’d ever met.
I was at drama school in Sydney and hadn’t ever planned on becoming a musician.
There’s so much I want to say to you, but I guess I should start by saying thanks for coming around at the time you did. George Sheppard, Sheppard – Coldplay, Viva La Vida (Prospekt’s March Edition)(2008)
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