Carolina Liar
There’s no doubt that the band that are set to make headlines for themselves this summer is the awesome Carolina Liar from Los Angeles. With their debut single, Show Me What I’m Looking for as our ‘Song Of The Week, I caught up with the extremely gorgeous frontman, Chad Wolf to talk about music, songs that make him cry, and 90210.
Hello there pretty, how are things going in your lovely world?
I’m doing good thank you, got nothing to complain about, everything is good!
Oh! Have you seen that you’re our ‘Song Of The Week’ this week?
Wow, that’s awesome! Thank you so much! That’s crazy! Man, it’s just this wildest thing, I feel like so many awesome things are happening to us since we’ve arrived in London, I had no idea! It’s kinda typical with us at the minute, we never really have a clue as to what’s going on, it’s really quite fun because every day you wake up and think, ‘What’s going to happen today?’
Aww, you’re sweet! So, we’ve just got your new album, Coming To Terms and we LOVE IT! It’s awesome, tell us a bit about the inspiration behind it!
Thank you so much! It’s really just kind of came form trying so many years to make a record, I mean, I’ve been in so many bands and groups and I saw it as my last chance to make it into this business so really this is where a lot of the songs come from because there were so many places in which it fell apart and to put all of the energy into it made it into a kind of positive record in many ways as I was writing and trying to find good times when things were at their absolute worst that there would always be something to look forward to and it’s crazy to put that kind of energy into something.
It sounds so hippy and new-age but we’re just out there to have fun and play music!
That’s what it should be about! So, if you could give us just one song to the album to listen to so that we would love you, which would you recommend?
Oh man! I mean my favourite song as far as what we wrote was probably be Beautiful World because it was such a big story idea when we had it at first. One of the original ideas behind the song was that one of my friends was a manic depressive and he said to me one morning; “Man I can’t stand seeing the sun come up in the morning, it just makes me sick to my stomach.” and I was like, ‘really?’ and that’s there the line, “here it come sin the morning” is from.
Then from that we were just following the whole idea of having that job you just can’t stand going to every morning and you tell yourself that the world is a beautiful place and still you get up every day and you lie and pretend until you’re almost convinced that everything is still so beautiful in the world.
To present an idea like that and still have something positive come from it was such a big thing to pull out as we started to get into it lyrically, we were puzzled at how to translate the story of him being so alone in this really cool city.
So on the album it would be one of our better acomplishments, but then there are songs like Last Night which is nothing but complete fun where you’re talking aobut a one night stand which should be simple, but you end up falling in love with that person!
I should be so lucky… so, you’ve also appeared on 90210 which is our new favourite programme at the moment, tell us a bit how you ended up on there…
There’s this music supervisor on that show called Nick and he worked on this radio station on LA and he’s discovered some huge band and I’ve always been a fan of hi Djing because he always brings really cool music to the table and I think he’s kind of responsible for getting the Ting Tings on the show and loads of other bands.
We found out that he’d been listening to the record and they’d been looking for a band to play live in this backyard scene and from that point we were like ‘this would be such a huge opportunity!’ at the same time, to be recognised by someone as legendary as Nick was like, ‘yeah, come on, we can’t turn this down, it’s such an opportunity.’
That did us a huge favour in the US because it got our video placed a little higher on NH1 and got us into a ‘You Oughta Know’ category and all sort of crazy stuff. What’s more, the 90210 cast are so awesome, the directors and everyone were just so really, really cool and they lat us play and hang out! We kept jamming and we let everyone have a go on our instruments at one lunch break they plugged all our stuff in and had a ‘crew jam!’
That’s amazing! I’m so jealous!
It was so cool! And you know, a lot of the guys from the band as still friends with some of the guys from the cast of the show! I’ll tell you what was weird though! On the show you have to lip-sync to a lot of stuff and you play, and then there’s a part where they bring in the extras and they have to dance but they never hear any music! I mean, those guys are just dancing to nothing at all! It’s pretty funny standing up in front of people and they’re all just feeling it, but there’s absolutely nothing for them to be feeling!
Haha! That’s amazing, that’s inside 90210 gossip from Carolina Liar! Okay, so now you know we’re in a recession at the moment, so why should people spend their hard-earned cash on Coming To Terms?
Oh man, that’s a really tough question, especially with everything being the way it is. I think that if there is any reason to buy it, It would be just to escape for a minute and to give you some hope because when we were writing that record, all of us were dead broke too and we technically still kinda are.
But if anything, there is hope in that record and even when things are so bad, you can realise that if you just but something a little bit positive into it, you can make your world a better place and instead of seeing the world you want to live in you can create it and make it happen as long as you believe in it hard enough. No matter how bad things are.
Aww, you’re so lovely, I want you to be my guidance councillor! Now what three bands would you have to headline your dream festival?
Oh man, dream festival… I love that MGMT record but I know we’d be a strange fit for that one, but playing with someone like The Killers or U2 would be a honour! The strange thing is we’ve been into Lady Gaga recently at the minute! We’ve been travelling across the US and that record is just so good! It’s one of those guilty pleasures, you’re like; “man… I’m not supposed to be listening to this! But damn! This thing jams”
We love her, and her dress sense!
Yeah, at least she’s pushing it and she’s really going for what she things is her things and it’s really fun to sit and watch her do it, it’s pure entertainments! Fantastic.
If you could only listen to one CD for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Oh man! It would probably be…. Oh wow, could it be a compilation?
No! That’s such a cop out! No way!
Haha! You know, I’ve been listening to The Smiths since I was nine years old and I still haven’t gotten tired of any of their albums. Also Depeche Mode’s Music For The Masses, I can still listen to that even to this day, there are a couple of Johnny Cash records too, and Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline, that still makes me cry, I’m a bit of a baby…
Good choices! I like it! And what has been your favourite musical memory to date?
Oh man, I would say it was probably hearing one of our songs in the US. The first time I heard it on the radio was such a humbling experience! I was in a store in Los Angeles and I always thought I’d be ‘Mr Cool’ when I heard our song on the radio and keep the excitement inside and silently enjoy it…
But what happened was me and some friends were in this store and I knew the cashier for the store and she was asking where we’d been and we were telling her we’ve been doing a promo tour for the radio and as I’m trying to explain, this car come by and they’re jamming the song!
The song was on so loud that I just started screaming; “It’s our song! It’s our song!” I just ran outside to my truck to find what radio station was playing the song! It was so much fun, it was such a great little moment!
Well, that was a lovely story! Aww, it’s been great speaking to you, you’re so lovely! Best of luck with everything.
FemaleFirst - Ruth Harrison
There’s no doubt that the band that are set to make headlines for themselves this summer is the awesome Carolina Liar from Los Angeles. With their debut single, Show Me What I’m Looking for as our ‘Song Of The Week, I caught up with the extremely gorgeous frontman, Chad Wolf to talk about music, songs that make him cry, and 90210.
Hello there pretty, how are things going in your lovely world?
I’m doing good thank you, got nothing to complain about, everything is good!
Oh! Have you seen that you’re our ‘Song Of The Week’ this week?
Wow, that’s awesome! Thank you so much! That’s crazy! Man, it’s just this wildest thing, I feel like so many awesome things are happening to us since we’ve arrived in London, I had no idea! It’s kinda typical with us at the minute, we never really have a clue as to what’s going on, it’s really quite fun because every day you wake up and think, ‘What’s going to happen today?’
Aww, you’re sweet! So, we’ve just got your new album, Coming To Terms and we LOVE IT! It’s awesome, tell us a bit about the inspiration behind it!
Thank you so much! It’s really just kind of came form trying so many years to make a record, I mean, I’ve been in so many bands and groups and I saw it as my last chance to make it into this business so really this is where a lot of the songs come from because there were so many places in which it fell apart and to put all of the energy into it made it into a kind of positive record in many ways as I was writing and trying to find good times when things were at their absolute worst that there would always be something to look forward to and it’s crazy to put that kind of energy into something.
It sounds so hippy and new-age but we’re just out there to have fun and play music!
That’s what it should be about! So, if you could give us just one song to the album to listen to so that we would love you, which would you recommend?
Oh man! I mean my favourite song as far as what we wrote was probably be Beautiful World because it was such a big story idea when we had it at first. One of the original ideas behind the song was that one of my friends was a manic depressive and he said to me one morning; “Man I can’t stand seeing the sun come up in the morning, it just makes me sick to my stomach.” and I was like, ‘really?’ and that’s there the line, “here it come sin the morning” is from.
Then from that we were just following the whole idea of having that job you just can’t stand going to every morning and you tell yourself that the world is a beautiful place and still you get up every day and you lie and pretend until you’re almost convinced that everything is still so beautiful in the world.
To present an idea like that and still have something positive come from it was such a big thing to pull out as we started to get into it lyrically, we were puzzled at how to translate the story of him being so alone in this really cool city.
So on the album it would be one of our better acomplishments, but then there are songs like Last Night which is nothing but complete fun where you’re talking aobut a one night stand which should be simple, but you end up falling in love with that person!
I should be so lucky… so, you’ve also appeared on 90210 which is our new favourite programme at the moment, tell us a bit how you ended up on there…
There’s this music supervisor on that show called Nick and he worked on this radio station on LA and he’s discovered some huge band and I’ve always been a fan of hi Djing because he always brings really cool music to the table and I think he’s kind of responsible for getting the Ting Tings on the show and loads of other bands.
We found out that he’d been listening to the record and they’d been looking for a band to play live in this backyard scene and from that point we were like ‘this would be such a huge opportunity!’ at the same time, to be recognised by someone as legendary as Nick was like, ‘yeah, come on, we can’t turn this down, it’s such an opportunity.’