![]() ![]() “People don’t feel great a lot of the time, and that resonates with me, and definitely comes out my music. “The fault-line’s there, it’s windy all the time, you can feel very irascible, everybody’s just trying to get on with working, the world’s a bit screwed up, and that sort of stuff,” she admits. The “anxious and claustrophobic” nature of Wellington also emerges. “I don’t write happy-dappy… songs, it doesn’t really creatively give me the urge to put pen to paper or pick a guitar up.” “I’m one of those classic kids who can just not go home… everything that happened… happens most nights I go out!” “It may be a collection of many related experiences, but I wrote that after my Christmas party,” Ellis grins. Turns out, that’s only one experience related in the lyrics. FOMO stands out – a first-person account of not wanting to leave a party. ![]() The eclectic nature of songs on ‘Heart Strings’ reflects each writer’s differing perspective, their idiosyncratic approaches coming through. If you’re not happy as the songwriter, people want to make sure they support the vision that you have.” So, it’s still collaborative in that respect, but there’s definitely that sense of ownership. “And all three of us songwriters play guitar… someone might do a wildly different thing on bass than I’d imagined. “Me, or Emmie, or Esther would bring our own vocal line, or riffs… and lyrics,” affirms Paterson. “We bring a song, pretty much finished, or still working on it… everyone brings their own arrangements.” “Pretty much everything was written by Esther, Kristen and I, we’re the three songwriters and front people,” Ellis clarifies. While the EP was written from jam sessions, their newly-released debut album ‘Heart Screams’ is the work of three individual songwriters. Persian rugs kind of laid out, like this whole massive area framed with beautiful pianos, and musical equipment,” Emmie Ellis confirms. “We got to record in this place that was really amazing and evocative… I’ve heard these ghost stories, these horror stories about Chicks, and I’d been there years ago, and Tom had done it up so beautifully,” she remembers. ![]() “We knew that Tom was really talented, and amazing, and to be honest charges not nearly enough for what he does!” Paterson enthuses. Their self-titled first EP was recorded in 2017 at Chicks Hotel in Dunedin (now Port Chalmers Recording Services) while a five-piece (without Keating). “I would never want to write a song and go straight to the studio, because you want to feel what it feels like in the practice dynamic, and also on the stage as well.” Performing their material live before going into the studio is something Paterson is pleased about. Initially, Tidal Rave worked up their material playing live around Wellington, including Eye Gum Wednesdays at San Fran, and supporting Australian bands Maureen and Swim Team. A British band shares the name, leading to mistaken (but welcome) social media attention, and gig offers from the UK. ![]() The band name (attributed to Eggleton) led to unexpected benefits, as both a dance party in Ghana. They did just that, initially recruiting drummer Charlie Camp to the first iteration of Tidal Rave before Keating returned, and Echo Beach’s Hakkaart joined the fold. “Me, Emmie, Frank and Esther started jamming in Emmie’s bedroom… we thought, ‘This is really cool, we should make these proper songs and do stuff.” “Echo Beach stopped playing because… Ann-Marie went overseas,” Kristin Paterson recalls. Amanda Mills talked with Paterson and Ellis about their 2020 debut album, ‘Heart Screams’. The multi-faceted, multi-talented Wellington-based (though half are from Dunedin) band are three singer-songwriter-guitarists ( Emmie Ellis, Kristen Paterson and Esther Gedye Taylor), keyboardist/singer ( Ann-Marie Keating) and a rhythm section of Frank Eggleton on bass and drummer Scott Hakkaart. Morphing out of a number of bands, notably Kitten Tank and Echo Beach, Tidal Rave formed three years ago, the line-up mutating to accommodate the comings, goings and joinings of a six-piece band. ![]()
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