TOM LYNCH REVEALED

Tom Lynch, to those who don't know, is the lead singer of the emerging rock band Anoesis. Approaching me through the front door, an feminine figure looks and smiles at me. Lynch is well known by his fans for his eccentric stage antics, his wild private life and bisexual encounters. His distinctive vocal style and poetic lyrics have recently earned he and Anoesis a fairly big following.





Morning Tom, let's get this started. First off, how's it going, being in the spotlight?

*Laughs* Well, it's weird. Really weird to be honest, everything's suddenly just gone crazy. We haven't even released an album yet and people are already telling us they love our songs! I guess that shows we do a good job live! I mean we can hardly say we've made it yet, we still have a long way to go. But still, the spotlight, however small, is feeling great.

Do you think it actually benefits the band, musically? Or would it be a fair statement to say you've become tempted to turn commercial?

Yeah I definitely think it benefits the band, and no it wouldn't! It's obvious from the feedback we've been getting that we're doing something right so I don't see any point in changing right now! We love doing what we do and we won't change for publicity or money. Even if we were still playing in shitty bars getting changed in toilet cubical's into £1.99 eye make-up from Claire's, it would be worth it. This feels great having more and more people hearing and liking our music sure, but the kick I get is making it not other people liking it, surprisingly. I know a lot of people are in it to perform in front of people, which of course is amazing, I love it, but the main thing I came into the industry for was to make music that I liked, and that's what we're doing.

Do you think it's keeping you on your toes more though?

Not really, I'm pretty relaxed about the whole thing to be honest. I am who I am and I do what I do, if people think I'm getting lazy I may will be but just don't listen to my music then. I don't really care about people thinking we blur genre's and change around too much, because it's all just experimentation and that's what rock and roll is, just doing something different.

Interesting! Many people would say different! So what can we expect in the new album and when's it going to be out?

Ah man, loads of shit. We're going to try and touch as many of our favourite genres as we can, because that's just who we are! Mainly it's all going to be variants on psychedelic, but we'll definitely mix it up a bit with synths and obviously we've got a sax player in our band, so who knows man. We just try to make good music, that's what you can expect! And it's going to be out sometime next month.

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