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Julian Velard chats to ilikemusic
Brooklyn born Julian Velard's classic songwriting has already seen the twenty-something compared to legends Andrew Gold, Van Morrison and Harry Nilsson by media and tastemakers last year. After receiving rave reviews for his limited EP The Movies Without You on indie Lucky Number last autumn, Julian's first official single Jimmy Dean and Steve McQueen has recently been released. We caught up with the man himself to chat about everything from writing lyrics, his favourite summer songs and his earliest musical memories.
"I Like Music because… it makes me feel funny inside. Like hugging the radiator after a cold, wet day of playing in the snow." JULIAN VELARD
ILM: Your new single Jimmy Dean and Steve McQueen is out now. Can you give us your own personal description of the tracks whole vibe?
Julian: The song is about nostalgia. I wrote it around a pretty dark time in America, in the dead of one of NYC's hottest summers. I found myself in cool, dark theaters, trying to escape the heat and world. Films offer me a reprieve. For some reason I only completely let go with a bucket of popcorn in my lap. When I'm watching a movie, I'm always thinking, 'Why am I here and now and not there and then? Why am I not Steve McQueen in Cincinnati Kid? Why can't my life be like that?' It's from that feeling that the song was born.
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