How did you get your start in the music industry?
Been writing rhymes since Year 8 but I guess it all started
when I began doing open mic nights around Melbourne inner City, and taking first
cab off the rank supports, where I'd play to about six people! Just kept taking
support act slots wherever and whenever I could get them, and just went from there.
Best
part of the job?
Making tight tracks that I can be proud
of and performing them to people that like what I do.
Worst
part of the job?
Costs so much cash to do it.
Any
interesting experiences you can share?
Once I did a gig
at a pro boxing show in between fights. It was down at one of the sheds on the
Docklands and the whole place was filled with old gangsta and biker types. This
one biker dude comes up and asks me for the mic while I was in the ring rappin'
the hook. I thought he was a sound guy fixin' my mic or something. So I hand it
to him and then he starts abusing me in front of about 2000 people telling them
all that rap music is shit and we're all dickheads and then he threw the mic and
I picked it up and finished the track, and funny enough, the crowd thought it
was all part of the show. I'm never handing anyone the mic again!
Favourite
album of all time and why?
Eazy E - 'Eazy-Duz-it'. Was
my first ever rap album. Played it to death
Tell us about
the best live show that you ever saw?
It cost me about
$20 in Amsterdam at the red-light district… You could call it 'experimental
physical opera'
Take us through a typical "day in the life of
Eloquor"
Give my daughter a bottle at 6:45am
Take my daughter
to daycare
Work as a teacher from 8:30- 4pm
Go to the gym and train some
people til 7pm
Pick up my daughter from Mum's place (who picks her up from
daycare)
Come home and get dinner ready
Clean up
Play with my daughter
Put
daughter to bed at 9:30pm
Get on the computer and start doin' my emails and
music stuff like write rhymes, get live shows organised, all album related stuff.
What advice would you give to someone looking at getting involved in the
music industry?
If you really love it, breathe it and need it, then
do it. But if it's for any other reason, then don't. It's such a tough industry
that the only way to survive and thrive is if you give all of yourself and more
to its relentless nature.
Any news or final comments?
I gave
this album ever dollar, every bit of myself, and worked way too hard to make it
happen. 'Charge' is the result.
www.myspace.com/eloquor1
