Currie’s first time solo

AFTER breaking out on his own, new solo artist Tim Currie is gearing up for a big year of original releases and live shows.

While also currently a member of Ballarat surf rock band, Gangz, Currie said music has always played a huge part in his life.

“My dad played guitar and I picked it up as soon as I could hold one basically but I was never particularly good at it until I took it more seriously in high school,” he said.

“There’s a lot more work involved when you’re doing it yourself, it’s easier when there’s a big crew and we write together as a band but when you’re solo there’s a lot of writing, time on the guitar and the computer, it’s fun though.

“I’ll generally do demos in my room, spend some time getting it looking nice, then I’ll get some of my friends, also musicians, to give me some critiquing and listen over it.”

Since his debut, Currie has released two singles. Lonely for You is a poppier single and High Rise which is a little more of a soulful, country sound.

Both tracks are available on streaming platforms and also he’s currently working to finalise a series of others.

With his debut gig supporting Jess Locke at Volta earlier this year initially cancelled, Currie said he played a backyard show for some of his friends to test out some of the singles live.

“Thankfully, it got rescheduled to 23 April, so that will be really, fun supporting Jess Locke, big fan of her stuff,” he said.

“I’ll be playing all original songs, hopefully with a full band as well which will be great.”

Having received a plethora of positive feedback from friends, family and peers, Currie said having written and produced the songs during lockdown, it was nice to have some good come out of a devastating year.

“The two songs that I’ve released, I spent a lot of time on then, trying to figure out what worked and what didn’t work until they completely morphed into something different,” he said.

“I brought two out at once because this is my first release solo ever, I wanted a little bit more perspective than just one song but it was hard to choose which ones to release.

“During the first lockdown when I was writing these songs, I was listening to obscene amounts of Leonard Cohen and Father John Misty, and I was trying to write the best song I possibly good.”

Utilising his creative connections to produce the art work for the releases, Currie said he got in contact with his sister, Emma Currie, who is an established artist to help him out.

“I basically called Emma trying to figure out what to do with my art, with the hopes she would offer to do it and she did, luckily,” he said.

“I sent her all the songs and I also did a bit of a visual board of images that I thought fitted the vibe which included lots of still lifes and we ended up going with a still life sort of image.

“She had some great ideas of what to do and it turned out perfect.”

Listen to Currie’s singles at spoti.fi/3lL0f1n.