Formula Indie Sessions : Interview with Waste a Saint
What is your earliest memory connected to music?
Bogey: Probably either watching musicals on repeat as a kid, or when my dad listened to Pink Floyd so loudly that you could hear it all throughout the house. Music was always there growing up, so it’s hard to say what that initial memory was.
Alex: getting a shitty mp3 player as a kid – that my guitar teacher and cousins filled up with various rock music. I had no idea how to download songs, so they did it for me.
Trym: I remember coming home from school as a kid, putting on “The Wall”, cranking it up to 11, sprawling out on the floor and just experience the music.
How did your passion for creating music begin?
Bogey: I’ve always had a fondness for creating stories, but creating music was something I started doing as a teenager. It wasn’t until towards the end of high school and when I went to Trøndertun (“folk high school”, a concept where you get one year to study any subject of your choice and live at the school once you’ve finished high school), where I met Alex and Ole, that I really started to feel comfortable with making music.
Alex: It’s been a part of who I am for a long time. I have played in bands since I was a teenager. And it was hard in the beginning creating music and not only playing covers. Alot of cringy and angsty bad songs had to be created and tossed out before I felt more comfortable and evolved as a songwriter.
Trym: As an early teenager I wanted to play in a band, and when I got asked to be a drummer in one, and I experienced just how fun and cathartic it is to create art together with people, the bug bite became more like an obsession.
What’s the story behind your current music project?
the story behind…well the title of the album “…and its evergreen” captures the battle of never feeling 100% finished with your music, but once you publish it, its out there, there is nothing you can do and in time it becomes “evergreen”.
Furthermore, the textual work of the records suffer from a duality as Alex and Bogey very much shared the writing of the lyrics 50/50. And we perhaps wouldn’t say there is an obvious red string (at least from what we can see) but a more “episodic” record of each song handling something new and flirting with a lot of different genres.
Conceptually we could say that Bogey writes the dramatic and Alex the moronic.
How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard your music
before?
hm..if stoner rock had an affair with melodic hardrock and postpunk was watching it all unfold from the cuck-chair nest to the bed.
What is one thing you’ve learned that completely changed the way you make music?
Not to overthink – you always wanna go back and change things, you always wanna perfect your craft 100% – but the artistic graveyard is filled with the corpses of artists that sat on their works.
One simply has to let go of the reins and hope that your artistic work can stand on its own legs and in time become “evergreen”.
What tools, instruments, or software are essential in your creative process?
We are a “woods and wires” kinda band. No in-airs, no amp-modeling, no tracks, no click but instead tube amps, natural drums, monitors blasting in your face and chemistry, cues and communication between the band members.
DAW-vise and mic-vise you’d have to talk to the guy that recorded and mixed the record Vebjørn Svanberg Numme in Piir Studio Trondheim. (our Hypercarnivore-era drummer by the way).
He did a great job!
Which indie artist or song are you loving right now?
Alex: Momma, they are fucking great. Makes me miss the 00s. And Viagra Boys really tickle my pickle. Norwegian Agabas really hits hard as well, we lent their vocalist Sondre for our music video CMTL.
Trym: Slomosa and Moses Hightower are both constantly on repeat.
How have your personal experiences influenced your music and artistic vision?
Bogey: As a songwriter, I find that what happens in your personal life – be it positive, negative or something smack dab in the middle – it always finds a way into the music you create. Sometimes it’s obvious, you need to get something out of your system, so you write it for that purpose. And other times it isn’t until after the fact that you realize exactly what and why you’ve written something – it kinda sneaks up on you.
What emotions or messages do you hope listeners take from your work?
That’s an almost impossible question to answer, honestly. I can only hope that they get something good out of it, whether it’s to get some frustration out of their system or just to have fun.
What’s the most important lesson music has taught you so far?
If you love doing something, then keep doing it.
What is a dream venue or festival you would love to perform at?
Would have been epic to play festivals like Glastonbury or Roskilde.
If you could collaborate with any artist, past or present, who would it be and why?
Alex: I wanna be cradled by Jack White and Joshua Homme while they tell me my tone sucks.
But in all seriousness i think colaborating with Ozzy Osbourne woulda been really fucking cool.
Trym: I would love to fuck around with Psychedelic Porn Crumpets. I feel like Altin Gün and our sound would make a really strange psychedelic baby.
Where can our listeners follow and support your music? (Website,Spotify, IG, links)
We’re on pretty much all the mainstream streaming services, so spotify, tidal, youtube, etc.Other than that, i recommend following us on IG and facebook for updates on music and live shows!
https://www.facebook.com/WASTEASAINT
https://www.instagram.com/wasteasaint
https://www.youtube.com/@wasteasaint3534
Looking toward the future, what’s your dream for the next chapter of your musical
journey?
Probably to go on a proper European tour. We’ve been toying with the idea for a while now, so it would be amazing to finally get to do it.
What do you hope listeners will discover about you along the way?
That we are not chained to any genera, we play what we love and hope you’ll fall in love with us.
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