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INDIE / ROCK guestlist.net Issue 83 / 2016 How did the band form and how long has Wet Desert been together for now? Well, we formed at the end of the Queen musical at our high school, since myself, Josh (Lead Guitar) and Ryan (Drums) had been jamming together long before the show, but had never had a reason to come together. We were 15 at the time, so it must be 5/6 years ago now! What's the significance behind the paradoxical name? We tried our best to come up with a name that was, as you say, paradoxical. Because we were so young, the name became our top priority for a while until eventually we stopped writing music! The name is significant to us because we always believed it was the quality of the music, and not the catchy name that matters with a band, hence Wet Desert (we prefer WD) was chosen as the simplest choice. Our name also makes us sound like an Oasis cover band... Did you all have professional music training before forming the band? Only two of the four current members have had professional training – Josh and our rhythm/bass guitarist Charlie. Ryan and me have been playing together since we were 11 years old, and aside from the odd music lesson in school, we are purely self-taught. Its only because we never really wanted to play other people's music! Did you always have the intention of forming a band, or was it something that just sort of formed out of a mutual interest in music? A bit of both... Our mutual passion for music brought us together as performers for "We Will Rock You", and then eventually, it was Josh who was the first to say 'we should make a band'. I guess by that time, we already had. Charlie joined us shortly after our first gig in a tiny pub called the Holly bush, and then things really took off after that. Who influences you and your music the most? It's too hard to say really... We all have our own individual influences that coalesces into a very confusing style of music. We figured that listening to our audience and responding to their opinions on our own music would help to shape the writing process, and so we don't tend to label our style – our fans do it for us! You've already released one EP and are currently working on another, will there be any major differences between the sound of the first and second? Oh absolutely! Our first EP is comprised of tracks that were written early on, and our style has changed drastically since then, thankfully. We have more musical maturity now, and the sound of this new album is surprising us even as we write it! We've come a long way since five years ago, and our first EP are all the tracks we had written together in high school. This next album will be very, very different! Is there anything else in the works that your fans have to look forward to? INTERVIEW WET DESERT Interviewed by: Teresa This week we sat down with lead singer Sam Stone of Wet Desert, a small indie rock band on the road to big things. The group is comprised of singer Sam Stone, guitarist Josh Emerson, basist Charlie Bird, and drummer Ryan O'Neill; four average English blokes form Worcestershire who just really dig good music and were brought together by their mutual love of making music. After releasing their first EP last year, the group opened for indie group Young Kato, and were recently signed to Shredder Live Lounge. Now they're on their way to producing their second album, a shift from their first album, as the artists and their music grow and evolve. 46