5 Q&A With The Boy And His Wolves
Is there a person/event that stimulated the creation of "Let The Good Times Roll?"
”Let The Good Times Roll” was written by our singer Howie, and it's basically him reminiscing about his youth away from Manchester. Where he lived during his childhood he had two close friends, and the three of them would do everything together. The background to the carnival mentioned in the lyrics is a call to when his local pub back home in Stockton-on-Tees would have a yearly carnival/fun fair, and winning prizes at the attractions and such. It's a song coming from a happy place.
Were there any memorable or standout moments during the recording sessions for this song?
We're probably the most boring five people you could ever meet in all honesty, so there's nothing really memorable or anything that stands out during our recording. We do all our recording at our home based studio, so it was very much the usual day to day life with a couple of hours in the studio. We had some really good pizza though. Does that count?
What do you like the best about "Let The Good Times Roll?"
What we really like is its simplicity and innocence. It's just a feel good song about living your best life as a child, and one you can relate to. It's catchy too, which is what we wanted.
Can you walk us through your creative process when writing and composing music?
Our writing process was probably some of the better times of the EP process. We all travelled up to a little place in Scotland called Pease Bay. It's more or less a little secluded spot with it's own beach, shop and pub. The internet connection is terrible there, so we just knuckled down, shooting ideas to one another and going from there. We had the EP written in about 4 days.
We're currently back at the very same spot as where we wrote the EP, but this time writing our debut album. We're hoping we can have it out by the end of the year. Watch this space.
Can you share a valuable lesson or piece of advice that you have learned along your musical journey?
Now that's a question! What we found is that creating music isn't the only part of being a band. Creating music is all well and good, but the hard part is doing the promotion and getting your music heard. There have been times in the past with other bands where we've made the music, released it, then expected the streams and media interest to just come to us, but that is definitely not that case. It's day of emails, commenting on social media posts, networking, basically whatever you can do to get someone to listen to your music. We'd like to think we've done things properly with our EP release, and we've definitely seen the benefit of all of our hard work to get the music out there.
