![]() The energy from this quirky little band was just something I didn’t know I needed in my life. ![]() (seriously, why is that design imprinted in my mind from childhood?) And also running around the stage making birds with his hands and dabbing at every opportunity. Second is the gimmicks, taking to the stage in flared jeans we all thought stopped existing in the late 90s but then Oliver cartwheels and the whole band change into these iconic matching tracksuits with a design that everyone recognises but no one knows where it’s from. His ability to control the crowd whilst still obviously not taking himself too seriously is the first highlight of his shows. I’d describe Oliver Tree as the best option for an opening band on any tour of this calibre. Watch our full interview with Hobo Johnson from Reading 2019 at the top of the page.Embarking on his biggest UK tour to date, Hobo Johnston headlined the mighty Rock City on Thursday night, bringing an outrageous performance from Oliver Tree with him. It will be edging the lines between science and God and blurring the lines so you can’t really tell the difference.” I’ll be in the crowd narrating it from the point of God and I might shoot a film version of it too. “It’s going to be like a rock opera, but I can’t make that very well – so it’s going to be more like a weird, hip-hop, folk opera where I’ll sing. “It’s like, the world so far in a parody way, then the coackroaches starting their own civilisation and history repeating itself – maybe.” “Nuclear war happens, then after that there’s little teeny cockroaches that are still left alive, then they get bigger, lose their shells, start standing upright and start creating religion and government.” “I have a song on the album called ‘You And The Cockroach’, which is about the world becoming how it is: there’s amoeba turning into fish, then fish losing their scales and getting onto land, then turning into human beings, then starting religion, starting government, to now with Trump and wanting to blow up the world and him ruining fucking everything,” he begins, very excited. Touring and celebrating his new record aside, Johnson tells us that the rest of 2019 will be spent cleaning his “new, dirty ass house” and thinking about his first ever musical, with hope for it arriving in 2020. I hope that a lot of artists continue to be honest and express how they feel.” I would like to think that and I hope so, but at least with everything going on in America right now and the political climate, it’s tough to say that anything is going well or progressing, but I hope so. Other people express that through listening to it. “To me, it’s just how I feel and expressing that makes me feel better. ![]() “In our culture, at least in American culture, when you’re sad you don’t want to say those things because you’re looked at like you’re weird, sensitive, or almost ‘weak’ in a sense,” he says of his stance on mental health. In these fractured times, Johnson is keen for his fans to know that they’re never alone. It’s a message of solidarity that needs to be delivered. So it’s important to me that I continue to be honest, but I don’t aim to do that. That gets me out of whatever spot I’m in, but I notice that people resonate with what I’m saying somehow. “At the end of the day, I make music to make myself feel better. “It’s a bi-product of what I do,” he admits. Weird sounds aside, Johnson has declared that he wants the new album to “make everyone feel less alone and a little more that they wanted to stay alive“. I would just say that it’s ‘alternative-hip-hop-rock-folk’.” ‘Typical Story’ is like a rock song, ‘Ugly Kid’ is like some weird jazz, hip-hop song. I definitely had a certain sound but this time I tried to make it so there was no way that you could nail it down. “I try not to follow one genre, especially on the last album. ‘Typical Story’ and ‘Ugly Kid’ are more or less opposite ends of the spectrum. “On the new album, I really wanted to be sure that every song sounded different from each other. Are they representative of what we can expect from the new record? So far, we’ve had the drastically different tasters of the record with ‘ Typical Story‘ and ‘ UglyKid‘. Now he’s back, with follow-up ‘The Fall Of Hobo Johnson arriving on September 13.
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