With two singles in the last three months, ’god-like’ and Here I Am, greenhouse launched anew! Both tracks received great reviews, and resulted in a building anticipation for their next release…here it is, The Dylan Adams (DMAs) mixed, Finally Over. A pulsating barrage of melodic indie guitar, like a more pumped up version of The Church, delivered in thicker layers and with a snotty attitude. Greenhouse are enjoying a sensational reawakening in 2023, realising the initial promise of the 90's; the promise that audiences and critics agreed should propel them toward a successful international future. They arrive today, fully formed, experienced and with a swag, chock-o-block full of killer new material.
By Kamil Bobin
Discovered via Musosoup
Kamil) Hey greenhouse, super nice to have the chance to chat with you. What first got you into music?
Hi Kamil. It’s great to talk to you too. I moved to live in Denmark when I was 18 from Australia and my friends gave me an old hollow body Electric guitar to keep me company. It was the first guitar I ever had and it was my best friend for a long, long time, I taught myself to play and couldn’t help writing songs. While I was in Denmark, I was drafted into a Danish rockabilly band because I was the only person they knew that could sing the English words fast enough. Rockabilly wasn’t necessarily my thing, but I became hooked on performing in a band. When I eventually moved home to Australia, I got involved with bands straight away. I’ve never stopped writing and loving performing.
Describe your favorite and least favorite part about being a musician.
There are great things, and not so great things about being a musician. I guess my favourite thing about being a musician is being able to write create and translate and transform emotion to other people by expressing my ideas about the world. Seeing and hearing people respond to my work, my writing is the best thing. Being able to reach people to touch People is golden. My least favourite thing is when people don’t listen. It also breaks my heart when people don’t think that being a musician is work or that art is not work. I think it takes great art to make great pop music.
Your latest song is 'Finally Over'. Can you share with us the background of its creation and did any unusual things happen during its creation?
Our new single finally over has been in our live repertoire for a long time. This song is about getting over something and being able to move on. It’s about the release of letting go. In a way, it’s about a free future. We were lucky enough to have Nick Hughes play drums for us on this track. He is the drummer from Bush. I met him online. And he lay down all the drum tracks for our upcoming album. We recorded all of the guitars outside, which I guess is fairly unusual, but it allowed us to crank the amps into their sweet spot And catcher, the fully developed sound. We weren’t restricted by being in a confined space. And our studio is really just the control room so necessity really drove a great outcome.
How do you differ from most other artists?
I think every band thinks that they’re the best band in the world, or you got something really important to say possibly. We love being in greenhouse and we love making epic sounding indie. I think if there is anything that sets us apart from what is going on in popular music at the moment, it is in no fear approach to sounding epic. I know fear approach of having an authentic nighties feel.
Where are you from and do you have a stable home or do you prefer travelling?
Where we come from is an ex-industrial city called Geelong in Victoria Australia. Waddarung country. So we started making music to brighten up the grey, drab kind of place, I guess so what we saw or felt was a bit ordinary. Geelong has since gentrified a great deal and changed a lot. We love playing in new places. Playing in the regions. and playing the big cities. Travelling allows the mind to open up and give new opportunities for new writing new experience.
How would you describe the music that you typically create?
Like I said, just before, I think the music that we create has an epic quality it’s we’re not afraid of it sounding big and and hopefully we create something that has a German of beauty in it something that illuminates something has either important or beautiful that may normally be just glanced over or not treated as such. We tried to create emotionally true music. It has to surround a listener and hopefully take them out of themselves and offer something euphoric.
How do you nurture your own creativity?
I think the best way to nurture creativity is to continue to do. Continuing being creative. Just to maintain your practice. Keep writing keep playing. Keep doing.
If you could go open a show for any artist who would it be?
I’d love to go and open for doves in our hometown show in Manchester. I just have a feeling that they are my kind of people that as a band with get on and that would be a place that would get us. I reckon to be awesome, Jimmy Goodwin is my favourite bass player so I would love to open for doves.
Who's your ideal musician to collaborate with and why?
Same again I think I would probably want to collaborate with Jimmy Goodwin or doves just because I think we make some interesting music with their dance background, and our epic tendencies could be huge!
What are your plans for the future?
We will be releasing our album Centre of the Universe in July and touring Australian capital cities on the back of that. That is gonna be huge amounts of fun. Can’t wait to meet all the people out there and see old friends back out on the road. In November, we will be heading to the UK to play some shows and that is something we are looking forward to very much.