Oh my gosh, that was the fastest response I have had to my interview questions so far. Within a few hours after I’ve written my review for Believe and mailed the questions to Alison David she’ve sent me the answers. Kudos to her for being so fast!
Q: How does it feel to have finally your own CD after endless years of guest appearances on other people’s records?
Alison David: Well, it’s not the album I imagined. It is in fact just a collection of my favourite recordings up until the date that I was thinking of giving up, at least my approach to, music. The CD was put in to be manufactured by some teenage boys on a school business scheme called the Young Enterprise scheme. It is an international charity organisation set up to help teach kids business skills. The boys saw my music as a way to make a profit and they have; albeit a little one. Tired of having to suffer for my art and feeling the ‘album of my dreams’ to be always a little out of my reach, I realised I was keeping to myself what I had intended to share and got on with it. Now I have an album and no pressure on me to hone down my sound. I’m quite happy with it, it’s like a history book of my 10 year dance with music making.
Q: You’ve been a guest singer on many songs. Which of these session works has influenced your music style and maybe the way you write/sing a song today.
Alison David: I guess they all have.
Some of the bands have influenced my music business skills, I’d say Ashley Beedle was the best for that. He split things down the middle always. Some bands have shown me how never to work…
As far as sound is concerned, I remembered how much fun it is to get people dancing and really rock out when I played with Freeland. Also The Egg gigs I’ve performed resound in my memory, because it’s so fun to make people high. Most of my musical influences come from bands I haven’t had the pleasure of playing with yet. Mellow’s sound was very lovely to work
with also.
There’s so much more to making music than the sound itself and the bands I’ve collaborated with have shown me things like how to tour, studio skills, picking a band, how to share the stage well, on stage sound, marketing,…the list goes on.
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