He additionally speaks about his new band Far From Saints, who will launch their debut album later this 12 months and mark a brand new musical path for Jones – lead singer of one of many UK’s all-time most profitable bands.
Kelly spoke to host Chris Difford – a founding member of band Squeeze – for the primary episode in a brand new sequence of the podcast I By no means Thought It Would Occur, from charity Assist Musicians.
Within the episode, Kelly refers to Stuart – the previous drummer within the Stereophonics who sadly handed away in 2010 – as ‘like a giant brother’. Including that he goals of his pal, who he’d recognized for the reason that age of 12, ‘no less than 5 occasions per week’.
Wanting ahead, Kelly talks intimately within the podcast in regards to the means of beginning his new band – Far From Saints – for which he has teamed up with American songstress and psychological well being advocate Patty Lynn and drummer Dwight Baker from the band The Wind and the Waves.
Reflecting on the brand new path the band has taken, Kelly describes their sound as having an ‘Americana nation vibe’, including “I’ve all the time needed to make a Nashville-type document. I used to be introduced up with Crosby, Stills and Nash, Neil Younger, Bob Dylan and the Eagles. So it is all the time been in my DNA.”
Kelly additionally talks about the advantages he discovered from collaborating on songs with Patty – describing the method as ‘like remedy – however cheaper’. He says: “I believe we had been being very open with one another…we did not essentially know what one another’s components of the story had been about…however there is a sentiment and feeling that’s underlying and it is about becoming a member of the dots.”
Kelly is in fact best-known for his band Stereophonics – who’ve an astonishing eight UK Official Album Chart Quantity 1s to their identify, together with their breakthrough album Efficiency and Cocktails in 1999. When requested how the band really feel about his new mission, Kelly mentioned: “I’ve acquired an amazing relationship with the boys within the band. But it surely’s good to have that freedom. I believe generally I really feel fairly responsible, you understand, doing issues outdoors of the band that I am in and assume ‘Am I doing the precise factor?’ However you study issues from being by yourself stage you could take again to the band.”
Kelly reveals that one of many difficulties of being a musician is that there are few individuals who really perceive what it’s like. He says: “You begin experiencing much more issues, there’s much more individuals round you, however there’s quite a bit fewer individuals you may name to speak about it, since you’re experiencing much more in life than they have been by way of. You do not actually need to burden individuals with it, and it is a unusual no man’s land.”
The revealing podcast sequence from Assist Musicians is offered by the charity’s ambassador, Chris Difford, and has beforehand featured many massive names, from legendary artists like Sting, Robbie Williams, Nile Rodgers and Midge Ure by way of to up to date superstars like Blossoms and Yungblud. Upcoming friends within the third sequence embody Joan Armatrading, Pores and skin and KT Tunstall.
Assist Musicians provides a variety of assist together with a psychological well being charity, Music Minds Matter, for everybody within the trade. Music Minds Matter’s helpline is out there 24/7 to anybody who works in music and has seen a 200% enhance in calls up to now two years alone.
Musicians and people working within the music trade can name the helpline without cost to talk to an accredited counsellor who can provide emotional assist, recommendation and data. Extra data might be discovered at musicmindsmatter.org.uk
