Live music and touring have been on lockdown and fans as well as artists are going through withdrawals. We wanted to come up with something fun to help bridge that distance between fans and artists right now. What we came up with is something called The Lockdown Lowdown and it’s a Q&A session with fun questions for artists to answer. They’re not your typical interview questions, so it gives you a peek inside of the artists themselves. We’re big music nerds here at I’m Music Magazine and we love learning things like this about the artists that we love. We’re pretty sure that you’ll get a kick out of these, so we hope you’ll take the time to read them. In this installment, we sat down for a fun Q&A session with Tim Graham, vocalist for Rozu.
1. How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time?
It has been a strange time (laughs), but I guess it has been strange for everyone. At first it was kind of interesting and loved not having to do my day job and spent a lot of time on a boat fishing. It is kind of a blessing and a curse because we can’t play shows and tour like we want/need to, but it has given us an extended period of time to work on the future of this band.
2. Have you been working on new music?
Yes we have, I think that is the only benefit of the lockdowns is we got to go back into this album we have been writing, dissect, and come out with the absolute best piece of art we can make.
3. 5 albums that changed your life
Pearl Jam’s Ten album was the first cassette I ever had so that’s always up there. Started singing to Tool’s Aenima album. Underoath’s They’re Only Chasing Safety and Define the Great Line drew me to this genre and formulated my scream, and we can add The Used self-titled to that list as well.
4. 5 artists that influenced you as a musician.
Underoath, The Used, Cartel, A Day To Remember, and Taking Back Sunday
5. Your 5 favorite live albums
Underoath’s Survive, Kaleidoscope
A Day To Remember’s Live in Switzerland
All Time Low’s Straight to DVD album
Metallica’s S&M Album
The Used Live and Acoustic at the Palace
6. Life on the road; 5 of the craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories
Driving through a town in Alabama where there was an actual tornado was pretty terrifying, something about seeing an entire towns power grid go out and the storm sirens is eye opening.
We stayed at the spookiest farmhouse in Iowa one time with this band from the UK, it was their first-time state side and day 2 of tour. They got to see what middle America is kind of like and the looks on their faces were priceless.
Craziest was getting to open for the Rise Records tour on my first week of shows as a vocalist instead of having an off day. First time in Canada we played this awesome house party show on some dude’s farm in the middle of nowhere, a lot of people and just a crazy ass Canadian party. One of our members dislocated his shoulder that night and was just crazy.
Randomly playing blackjack with Tillian and Jon Mess from Dance Gavin Dance at a casino in Chicago on separate tours was a super fun night, drunk Jon Mess is probably one of the funniest experiences of my entire life.
7. 5 favorite movies
Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift, The Godfather, any John Wick, Star Wars Return of the Jedi, Scarface.
8. Best and worst advice you ever heard.
Worst advice ever was sticking with something you hate and are not having a good time even though it can potentially further your musical career. Best advice ever was to remember that the only thing we can control in life is our perspective and response to any situation. Much like this last year we could have walked away from music easily but instead we decided to work harder than ever writing.
9. Strangest thing you ever autographed
Some fan wanted my sweat towel and for me to sign it, along with a lot of dude’s hairy chests.
10. If music was over today and you had to go into professional wrestling, what would your wrestling name be?
My wrestling name would be Timb and that would be an awesome bucket list item (laughs).
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