Your name:
Oliver Manning.
Where are you
from?
Sheffield, England.
How would you
describe yourself?
I try to avoid
it. If a gun were put to my head, I’d claim to be the bastard love-child of
Neil Young, Lou Reed and Cat Stevens. But that’d be arrogant. I sound like
1971.
Who are your
main influences musically?
The
aforementioned trio. But throw in some Beach Boys, Elliott Smith, John
Frusciante and Ludwig van Beethoven.
What do you hope
to achieve in music?
What I hope to
do is find some kind of inner peace. What I will do is publish
a massive catalogue of music and a massive collection of writings, works that
will be my stamp on the world for the next few generations to feast on. One
giant act of charity, if you will, albeit one that I will be handsomely paid
for to ensure my physical needs are met whilst here on this Earth.
What has been
the highlight of your career so far, and why?
Countless
busking moments where a little kid just starts dancing, or a cute girl smiles
at me, or some unwashed, bitter, tracksuit wearer tells me to get a real job.
Actually, what I am saying? The highlight of my career so far was playing drums
at a gig in a music shop and falling backwards off the stage.
And what’s the
moment you want to forget?
There’s nothing
I want to forget. There are, regrettably, several evenings I have forgotten,
but memories are precious. Don’t wish the past away. Use it.
If you had to
pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?
An unreleased,
unpublished song that I play at gigs called I Want To Drink Some Rum and Sleep
With You, My Blondie.
Where can we
listen to it?
You can’t. But
listen to Don Draper, instead. That’s a song about meeting a beautiful girl in
the mountains and her changing your life and you knowing that it won’t work out
but that that’s okay. Don’t cry. https://olivermanning.bandcamp.com/
Where can we
find out more about your music?
http://www.olivermanning.co.uk (I
keep a regular blog)
Anything else
you’d like to say about your band/music that I forgot to ask?
Truth is all
that matters. And if you look, you will find it. Don’t decry the fact that the
music industry isn’t what it used to be. It is what it is. Use it. Do what you
like with it. It’s far more flexible than you realise. Move towards beauty, and
away from that which is not beautiful.
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