Interview with the Band Crone Tye
COSMICK VIEW: Hello! Welcome to The Cosmick View and MBM Ten Pounder! Thank you for taking some time out of your day to chat with me, it's greatly appreciated.
Tye: Creating music and connecting with people at live shows you truly value and gives you that buzz you can’t get anywhere else, that for me drives everything.
CV: What do you feel an artist can do right now to stay relevant, especially in an environment, such as the present, where performing in front of a live audience is not an option?
Tye: The bands that are blowing up and sustaining are definitely the ones who can franchise and create their own microcosms of creative output with various mediums. There’s a lot to be said for how bands are becoming brands and franchises but balancing it well with the music. It can’t be detrimental to the core of everything otherwise people see through it.
CV: What have you found to be the balancing point between relevance and over saturation when it comes to being an artist? Is there a fine line between the two or can it be looked at to some degree as the two essentially being one in the same?
Mik: I believe an artist can fall into two places. A nostalgia act that reminds older people of when they were younger. This is mainly for financial gain. The start of this often happens when a key band member fires most of the original members and replaces them with session musicians.
Artistic relevance occurs when a band sticks to their vision. You can have an underground following and keep going. Bands like The Cardiacs, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, etc. even artists like Marilyn Manson and Clutch record and release new material regularly, sell a certain amount of albums and keep going.
CV: Is there any level of consideration, or even concern, to deliver on expectations, whether it being your own or that of the fans, when working on new material?
Tye: As a longtime fan and listener of this music, and someone who has created it for a while now, you get a pretty accurate detector of what will work and what won’t. If I were to release something I didn’t feel was a fully realized representation of an idea, I’d expect that to be reflected in how it came across or fell on people’s ears. People can smell inauthenticity like a shark does blood these days.
CV: For you, what’s first when it comes to songwriting…is it a matter of lyrics melody, chords, beat, attitude? Or is it more organic than that where the moment dictates the process and outcome?
Tye: Speaking from a lyrical and vocalist perspective, I like to have the main body of a song fleshed out and the ideas to be all but finished before I start adding my parts to it, I’ll listen to the instrumental a lot and get a feeling for the attitude or vibe of the song and pair it with or create ideas and themes from there.
CV: What do you believe makes songwriting more honest and impactful...that something that both the artist and listener can share?
CV: What do you feel has been the greatest contribution to your success as an artist?
CV: What's next for you? What can fans expect to see coming up?
CV: Thank you again for spending some time talking and sharing with
CV: Every artist experiences highs and lows. Many struggle just to move from one level to the next, and some, unfortunately, never do. What would you consider to be a pivotal point in an artist's career which would take them from one level to the next that a struggling artist should be aware of? Is it an individual mindset or does it equate more to opportunity? Or is it something all together different in your opinion?
Mik: Longevity, once you gain an initial fanbase you need to keep creating products/art. It's a different time now. I think the way to survive now and keep relevant is good placement of your music. Trying to get on a soundtrack or advert. Even if your music is dated you can have it in a period piece that's relevant and popular. Look at Kate Bush with the Stranger Things TV show. The show brought a whole new level of awareness and audience to her music. Look at WWE wrestling and what it has done for Living Colour and Motorhead. Again bringing exposure to a higher level for the bands separate from the core following they already have. Survivor - Eye of the Tiger.. etc. It's the royalties from having songs placed in the correct places that keeps a band profitable in a time when streaming brings in next to nothing.
Tye: Creating music and connecting with people at live shows you truly value and gives you that buzz you can’t get anywhere else, that for me drives everything.
CV: What do you feel an artist can do right now to stay relevant, especially in an environment, such as the present, where performing in front of a live audience is not an option?
Mik: As above but also take a theatrical approach too. Bands like Ghost and Ice Kills Nine have a cinematic approach that is equal to the music. Disney has been doing it for years with people like Miley Cyrus. TV show, toy range, clothing range, music career. It's trying to find a way to do this that's true to yourselves but also related to your audience. Making them feel they are part of a scene.
Tye: The bands that are blowing up and sustaining are definitely the ones who can franchise and create their own microcosms of creative output with various mediums. There’s a lot to be said for how bands are becoming brands and franchises but balancing it well with the music. It can’t be detrimental to the core of everything otherwise people see through it.
CV: What have you found to be the balancing point between relevance and over saturation when it comes to being an artist? Is there a fine line between the two or can it be looked at to some degree as the two essentially being one in the same?
Mik: I believe an artist can fall into two places. A nostalgia act that reminds older people of when they were younger. This is mainly for financial gain. The start of this often happens when a key band member fires most of the original members and replaces them with session musicians.
I saw bands in the early 90s playing arenas. 5 years later playing clubs and bars. Then 25 years later playing arenas again.
Artistic relevance occurs when a band sticks to their vision. You can have an underground following and keep going. Bands like The Cardiacs, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, etc. even artists like Marilyn Manson and Clutch record and release new material regularly, sell a certain amount of albums and keep going.
CV: Is there any level of consideration, or even concern, to deliver on expectations, whether it being your own or that of the fans, when working on new material?
Mik: I think if you are a fan of what you are creating it will come naturally. When people try to follow a trend they are already too late. So to answer the question if we are happy with it then that's enough. Obviously as the musicians involved we may disagree on production or musical parts but if you have respect for each other then you know the end product will be good. If you throw enough mud at a wall some of it will stick.
Tye: As a longtime fan and listener of this music, and someone who has created it for a while now, you get a pretty accurate detector of what will work and what won’t. If I were to release something I didn’t feel was a fully realized representation of an idea, I’d expect that to be reflected in how it came across or fell on people’s ears. People can smell inauthenticity like a shark does blood these days.
CV: For you, what’s first when it comes to songwriting…is it a matter of lyrics melody, chords, beat, attitude? Or is it more organic than that where the moment dictates the process and outcome?
Mik: For me personally it's a guitar riff that goes to a structured drum pattern. From there it's adding layers into the stereo field.
Tye: Speaking from a lyrical and vocalist perspective, I like to have the main body of a song fleshed out and the ideas to be all but finished before I start adding my parts to it, I’ll listen to the instrumental a lot and get a feeling for the attitude or vibe of the song and pair it with or create ideas and themes from there.
CV: What do you believe makes songwriting more honest and impactful...that something that both the artist and listener can share?
Tye: Write about something you care about or at least are interested in or really want to pursue. Whether it’s lyrics or the composition itself, you know if you’re being genuine and creating something for the right reasons. As I’ve said before, this will resonate with people much deeper than if you’re just churning out songs as products, it comes across in the final piece, there’s translation of how much an artist cares.
CV: What do you feel has been the greatest contribution to your success as an artist?
Mik: Two like minded people with a strong work ethic who share the same vision. So teamwork and the ability to deliver. If you can't work as a productive team nothing gets done.
CV: What's next for you? What can fans expect to see coming up?
Mik: I just finished recording a new track and have sent it to Tye. Would love to do a music video at some point.
CV: Thank you again for spending some time talking and sharing with
our readers. I wish you all the best and continued success.
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