TRENT WORLEY
when I asked about a possible support, remembered that The Finishing School had booked a gig but were looking for someone else to play with them. So it has worked out well.” The Finishing School is the duo of Thom and Emily Combe, the offspring of popular children’s entertainer Peter Combe.
“I’ve been told that,” Trent exclaims. “I had no idea because I’ve never met them. And what was funny was that I played at a kid’s afternoon birthday party at the Gov and had done a Peter Combe song. So it was all kind of weird.”
TRENT WORLEY By Robert Dunstan Trent Worley is all set to launch an EP, What’d You Call Me?, before he sets about quickly working on another one before putting together an album. We chat to him over the phone as he was walking home late one evening from his local pub and begin by suggesting that – apart from the one he just had – it’s been a long time between drinks.
“So the first song was recorded at Mixmasters and then I did the vocals at Abbey Road when I was over in London.” Abbey Road! How did that happen?
Do you often provide the entertainment at kids’ birthday parties? ‘Ha, no, never,” Trent, who once played a gig at famous New York club The Bitter End and says it’s about the same size as Jive, laughs. “But I got asked and it was more fun than I’d had in a long time. I did a Peter Combe song and one by The Wiggles.”
“I was going over there but knew they often don’t cater to completely independent artists so I was very lucky to get in,” Trent says. “I did it all over email after doing some homework and then emailed a lady by the name of Sophie Ray. And she liked “The first song Trent will follow up his current some of my older songs I had sent. release with another EP. was recorded That surprised me because I listen at Mixmasters back to them now and think…
and then I “And then I’ll put out an album,” “Anyway, I was pretty detailed in did the vocals he announces. “This new EP is my email dealings with them as kind of folky and a bit bluesy at Abbey I had all the specifics prepared,” – that’s why the songs don’t fit “Yeah, it’s been about three years since I he adds. “And the timing was just Road when I on the album I’m doing – but did anything,” Trent responds. “And that right and I also got to meet Sophie was over in the next EP will be a bit more was a bit of a weird thing where I did an which was cool. I got the chance rock’n’roll. And the album will London.” album of one take recordings using just one to personally thank her which was be blend of everything – some microphone. It was a strange thing to do but good.” folk stuff, some rock stuff and something I’d wanted to do at the time. anything else I come up with.” “I Aint Gonna Wait For No Rainy Day was “So, yeah, it’s been a long time and there recorded in a laundry at a place [producer] Trent Worley will launch his have been lots of changes Matt Hills was living in What’d You Call Me? since then,” he continues as for a while,” Trent then new EP, What’d You Call Me?, he continues his leisurely continues. “And then as a free entry affair from stroll home. “It’s been a One Tram Town Blues 8pm on Thursday 31 May at weird time because while I was done at Wizard was still writing songs, I lost Tone with a bunch of the Grace Emily Hotel, 232 a bit of confidence. I had the Rockatoos players – Waymouth St, Adelaide, with songs but didn’t know how to Sean Kemp on drums, The Finishing School (Emily record them. Nicholas Cioffi on rhythm guitar and Jason and Thom Combe) to finish up “But I’m right back in the Coe on piano – with the the evening with an acoustic game now,” the Reclink vocals done later in my set. Community Cup footballer parent’s shed. announces. “And Running is an acoustic thing I did late Trent then suggests that What’d You one night up at Mixmasters,” he adds. “And Call Me? is a bit of an odd one due to its while they are all quite different sonically, recording process. lyrically they fit together well on an EP.” “It has four songs [I’m Working On This, I Aint Gonna Wait For No Rainy Day, One Tram Town Blues and Running] but they were recorded in four different places,” he laughs. “And they are all songs that didn’t kind of fit on the album I’m doing.
The venue for Trent’s launch has come about through good fortune.
“I’d rung George at the Grace Emily and asked if they had any spare dates,” Trent says. “He said they didn’t but then,