Project Description
Interview with
LUNA
(28th April 2018)
Interviewer: Jason Beardsley
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It’s not often, if ever, you see the metal world combine with the world of Pop music. Upcoming Melbourne Dark Pop songstress Luna has managed to take her experiences of touring the world with metal acts, encounter life threatening illness before telling the world her story through her own unique fusion of Dark Pop and electronica. I was lucky enough to catch up with Luna just as her new EP ‘Bad’ was unleashed.
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In your own words, it’s time to show the world what ‘Bad’ is, how does it feel to finally have the EP out and how have your fans received it?
‘Yeah I’m so excited about that!. It’s been received really well so far. I’ve had people all around the world messaging me which was really unexpected. I just feel so relieved to have everything out that I really wanted to say. The process took most of 2017, the songs came together pretty quickly but it was a case of picking the 5 best songs to showcase where I was at in my life’.
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You have had struggles with depression and other illness throughout the making of this record, how deeply did this affect the song writing process and what were you able to learn from this experience?
‘The thing is I wasn’t just going through depression, I was also at the worst stage of my autoimmune disease. I was very sick, I couldn’t walk. I actually had to teach myself how to walk again so I pretty much had to write the whole EP when I was bed ridden. I couldn’t even leave the house, I had to be in the care of someone else. So the depression was really bad because I was so ill and I couldn’t do the things I wanted to do. I couldn’t go out with friends and you just start feeling left out of things. I thought I was going to die, So I thought if this is the end I want to write everything that I want to say and about everything that I’m feeling and just put it out to the world. In that respect it really helped the writing process because I had to reach deep down and discover parts of myself I didn’t know were there’.
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A lot of people would really struggle to find light in that situation and many others that suffer from depression or post traumatic stress would turn to counselling or medication, or just stay quiet and hide from the world. Did you find this quite a therapeutic process writing the EP?
‘Yeah I think many artists confide in their craft, especially in this day and age in such a stressful world. I wrote so many songs, some of which didn’t end up on this EP. It definitely helped me through everything and I hope people can take something from it’.
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What do you believe your experiences will teach others?
‘I think the biggest thing for me was overcoming my past and the things I’ve been through. I never thought I would get better and do the things that and I am now and it just goes to show that things can change if you just give it time and not make a rash decision when you’re at that low point’.
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How was the transition from the metal world to the world that you are in now? It’s quite a big change from what you have come from right?
‘Yeah I was a session musician and toured with a couple of different bands, that was intense. My first show was in front of a few thousand people in a foreign country only a couple of years ago now so yeah that was very different to what I’m doing now musically. I love metal, I love playing it and love listening to it. When you have to play a show and do breakdowns every night it is really intense and it’s really exhausting. After a while I just wanted to do my solo project so that’s what I did, I started from the bottom up again. However I really believed in myself and it’s something I always wanted to do, and it looks like my first show is going to sell out so that’s a pretty big accomplishment if it does. But look the worlds are completely different and I’m really enjoying just having more creative control. A lot of people and musicians especially think pops really easy but it’s not. The instrumentation could be anything and it’s hard to write catchy material and be different to what’s out there now, to be something unique. I still love metal, I still go to shows and do the odd bit of session work but I definitely enjoy where I’m at now, it’s still pretty dark’.
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You have a show coming up in Melbourne on June 28th at The Workers Club, what can fans expect from yourself and such a world class line up?
‘Yes! It’s the first time I’ve performed in around 2 years, I’m nervous but I’m just so excited to get back out there. I’ve even got 2 dancers joining my drummer and I on stage so it’s the full live experience and more. I always wanted my shows to be something more than just going to the pub or a club on the weekend, to be intense and dramatic. I put a lot of pressure on myself to make sure people have fun and I honestly believe people are going to have a great night out’.
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Touring is such an important part of an artists life in this day and age, are you planning to take your show on the road domestically and overseas?
‘There’s nothing set in stone at this stage. There is potentially an Australian tour coming up later in the year and looking into going to the US next year as well so definitely touring plans on the horizon’.
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If you could change one thing about the world what would it be?
‘Such a hard question!, there’s so many things I would change but I think the first thing I would do is find some way, maybe a funding system to get food, shelter and water to those who need it, you know, just the basic necessities. I think if we solved that problem we could stop a lot of violence and maybe a lot of conflict as a consequence of that. People get desperate in the end when survival instinct kicks in. And look I’ve been in that position myself to some degree and knowing there’s people on the street now that don’t have those things I think we take it for granted’.
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Don’t miss Luna live at The Workers Club, Fitzroy on Thursday 28th June with special guests Evangeline and Taylar Page! Tickets on sale now from Oztix.
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