Allie Jean On the Making Of “Gasoline on Fire”
What was the creative process like for this particular "Gasoline On Fire?"
It’s a bit of a long story as to how Gasoline on Fire came about. It was actually the very last song written for the album. I’d been writing the album with my guitarist and songwriting partner for about 2 years. We pretty much ended up writing about two albums worth of material. We knew the songs were getting better the more the process continued. At that point, we knew what we wanted to say with the album, and how we wanted things to sound. We rented a house up on the NSW coast for about a month and just set it up as a rehearsal space. Jase (guitarist) was just sitting on the floor messing around with this really blue grass kind of guitar part. He was half singing bits and pieces of lyrics but nothing was really working. We started working on it a bit more intently over the next few days and it just started to fall into place.
What has been one of your most favorite memories along the path to making "Gasoline On Fire?"
There are a few -actually recording the album was really amazing. Probably the first time we heard the playback of ‘Gasoline’ whilst we were recording with Matt Fell (producer) in his studio in Tasmania. We had a daily schedule where we’d work until lunchtime, then Matt would kick us out and we’d go get lunch in town whilst he would do some mixes. When we came back to keep recording Matt had been mixing, and playing us the breakdown-
the instrumental section of the song and we just all looked at each other with this shared moment of ‘yep-this is gonna be great!
What role do you feel emotions play in your music, and how do you channel them into your performances?
Emotions are probably the most important part of why I perform, but particularly regarding songwriting. Some of the songs originally intended for the album didn't end up being included because they just didn’t ring true, and because of that I couldn’t connect to them when we played them. That’s why everything on the
album-absolutely everything is real and it reflects who I am as a person and as a singer. I try and write about stuff that actually means something, so that when you perform it, no matter what you’re feeling at the time, you can connect with the emotion of a song.
