Hey guys. Hope your week has been good. Today we get to talk to A JOKER'S RAGE and learn more about them as a band and what they hope to accomplish this year. Read on to find out more:
How did you guys meet one another?
We all met through the band scene in York, everyone in AJR has been in several local bands over the years and after experimenting with different line ups we finally found a chemistry like no other in the current line up.
How was the band name created?
I was living in Dubai for a while during a break from music all together, re-focussing my energy after a bitter break up with my previous band. I had no intention of creating any new projects but the writing started to flow naturally. It was during the time Christopher Nolan just released ‘The Dark Knight’ and I really connected with the joker character. All though we don’t want to ‘watch the world burn’ as he does, I felt the music I was writing came from a similar craving for chaos and escape from the mundane reality of everyday issues.
How would you describe the music your band creates?
Truthful and honest. We play rock and roll in the spirit that rock and roll originated. Our music has no limits nor boundaries. We don’t seek to ‘fit in’ with any particular scene or genre. Our writing is based on what ever pushes our buttons emotionally at the time. Our music varies but does tend to lean towards a dramatic edgy hard rock sound often combined with groovy rhythms that often engage that impulse to dance. If I had a quid for every time someone said “I don’t normally like this sort of thing but the way you
guys do it, it’s just so……well I love it.” I’d be able to afford to buy Heinz ketchup instead of the cheap shit every week!
What are some of the themes and messages that come across in your songs?
A Joker’s Rage is our escape from the shackles of reality. Therefore a lot of our messages tend to encourage healthy rebelliousness or finding a means to deal with negative issues, grabbing life by the balls and saying “fuck it, bring it on!" Throw what you can at me and I will embrace it, learn from it and throw it back at you ten fold. Our concept of ‘GameFace’ as we call it i.e the faceprint, is to channel our alter egos like super heroes and become untouchable whether it’s for a day or whenever we need to.
What are your plans for 2016?
Any success we’ve been lucky to have has come naturally from the sting of our face paint as it runs into our eyes during a live show. We’ve never made the band a top priority in our lives nor tried to ram it down people’s throats via social media desperately seeking ‘likes’ and popularity. The evolution of the band has come the old fashioned way based on the quality of our music and performances. The difference this year is we fully intend on making it a priority to go full throttle and capitalise on the fact people are digging what we do. We started this year with over 7 festival slots booked in the diary and we didn’t apply nor kiss anybodies arse to get those slots, they came to us. We’re currently in pre production for our debut album
and we’re ready to go above and beyond this year with releasing as much creativity as possible in the hopes of making some jaws drop. We enter all these festivals this year as fresh blood, underdogs so to speak. We’ll leave each festival as kings.
Where can people find you on social media?
Simon & Garfunkel - the concert in central park live album. I’d much rather listen to Paul Simon's genius of story telling through music than hear some primped cool kid with a designer beard moan about all twenty of his relationships while boasting how much pretend booze and drugs he consumes to get through his day when in reality he lives off mummy and daddy’s hard graft and couldn’t operate a fucking toaster.
Thanks to Dave from management for getting me in touch with the band and Zakk from the band for answering these questions. If any other bands would like to be featured on this blog please email me at rachelcolley@msn.com and I will send you the questions. Thanks again to Dave and Zakk for this.
Hope you enjoyed this blog post,
Rachel.
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