Mikey Bee - MT Warning (29/04/2013)
Artists are so focused on how their music sounds that very few take time to think about how it would look. Vocalist Mikey Bee describes his band MT Warning as a ‘musical project’ because of their exploration of the visual aspect of music.
It all started when Mikey was performing a show attended by film maker Taylor Steele. Taylor approached Mikey with a concept to design the visual aspect of music, to deliver the story using visuals without being too literal.
He asked Mikey a question – what would a song sound like to a man lost in a boat, who hears the song underwater?
Mikey used reverbed guitars to sound like waves and discovered new ways of bending music to create a visual journey for the audience.
“It’s super inspiring,” Mikey said. “I find it a really beautiful place to create from. I’m always thinking of new ways to create music.”
Mikey describes the experience as cinematic but all based on rock and roll and audiences will be able to see it one stage when MT Warning tours with The Temper Trap and The Rubens in April and May.
“We finished some music and were feeding it out to a few friends and it came back around,” Mikey said of getting to play with such big names.
“It was perfect timing.”
Mikey lives to play on the stage and is excited to see his two different worlds of live music and the recorded world combine. “It’s humbling but it’s exciting".
MT Warning will play their first overseas gigs in London next month and Mikey said the band could not be happier with how their music is being received. The reaction is instilling positivity in Mikey ahead of the band’s first album release scheduled for mid-2013.
“The two songs that leaked out aren’t traditional singles but they portray what the record is about,” Mikey said. “It’s a full journey – it spans a lifetime as much as a day.”
Nicole Barlow
It all started when Mikey was performing a show attended by film maker Taylor Steele. Taylor approached Mikey with a concept to design the visual aspect of music, to deliver the story using visuals without being too literal.
He asked Mikey a question – what would a song sound like to a man lost in a boat, who hears the song underwater?
Mikey used reverbed guitars to sound like waves and discovered new ways of bending music to create a visual journey for the audience.
“It’s super inspiring,” Mikey said. “I find it a really beautiful place to create from. I’m always thinking of new ways to create music.”
Mikey describes the experience as cinematic but all based on rock and roll and audiences will be able to see it one stage when MT Warning tours with The Temper Trap and The Rubens in April and May.
“We finished some music and were feeding it out to a few friends and it came back around,” Mikey said of getting to play with such big names.
“It was perfect timing.”
Mikey lives to play on the stage and is excited to see his two different worlds of live music and the recorded world combine. “It’s humbling but it’s exciting".
MT Warning will play their first overseas gigs in London next month and Mikey said the band could not be happier with how their music is being received. The reaction is instilling positivity in Mikey ahead of the band’s first album release scheduled for mid-2013.
“The two songs that leaked out aren’t traditional singles but they portray what the record is about,” Mikey said. “It’s a full journey – it spans a lifetime as much as a day.”
Nicole Barlow