This ironic and well-put quote is exactly how piano pop up-and-comer Julian Velard describes the attention he’s been receiving lately. His recent victories include a ton of media attention, especially on Youtube, and his first headlining gig in over 6 months this past week in the town he’s housed in, London, England.
This Quentin Tarentino-meets-Elton John performer has been keeping quite busy lately what with a pending record release, as well as a tour through Europe, although he still manages to find time to post both video and text blogs to keep his constantly growing fan base well informed.
Like many true musical artists, Julian admits that he prefers live shows and events to album versions of his songs. He finds album tracks to be very defining and therefore need to be perfect, whereas in live sets he is free to play the same song angrily, or softly or however is best suited to the venue.
“The record is the statement, the live show is the interpretation.” This is how Julian summed up his take on the album vs. live show conundrum to Botonist interviewer Jordan Carp.
Record making was apparently an arduous process for Velard, because of how “minute” everything needed to be. Based on his strange personality, one could assume that going over every detail until it was polished and perfect would be a tedious task that would clash heavily with his character.
Julian describes the tracks on his forthcoming album, The Planeteer, as “cuddly and friendly with an almost game-show vibe, but there’s a very dark side to them as well.” This is easy to understand, since his upbeat style songs are usually centered around loneliness, and the romance of the concept.
The beauty in Julian’s songs come from the reason for their creation. He is not an artist simply capitalizing on the enjoyment people take in his music, but writes for the love of doing so. Simply put, he is an odd sort of character with a passion and talent, who makes his music his own way, and for his own reasons.
Julian admitted, “I just wanna make music and be great. That’s enough of a challenge” when asked about becoming famous by ShowMeHowToPlay.com. There is no argument that Julian Velard truly is a great singer/songwriter/performer, and because of that, fame will follow.
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