Part Three of my Interview with Local Folk Hero Tom Caulfield
Part Three of My Interview with Tom.
Continuing on from part two in the final part of my interview with Tom Caulfield I ask Tom what about what he thinks of the new Government? I find out that Tom does not like sitting on the fence!
"Umm like any government it's going to be good for parts of the UK, and not good for other parts of the UK. Not to sit on the fence about it I'll give you my honest opinion."
I wait with baited breath!
"David Cameron is fucking evil and I wait for the day when he rips off that mask and revels himself to be a snarling lizard beast! But that's what the people have chosen, for better or for worse. As far as I am concerned conservative is a dirty word, look at the word conservative, who wants to be conservative about anything! But I think it was Bill Hicks who once said 'it doesn't matter who wins because the government gets in anyway'. I am probably more interested in local government anyway, myself personally I don't think their should be any such thing as a national government, it would never work as every country around the world would have to agree to this, but whatever happens up their in London pretty much doesn't affect me, I am on the bottom rung of society, I might pay a bit more tax, I might not it's not really going to affect my standard of living. In terms of local government I will say this much, Richard Drax can suck my dick! He does not represent me, a man who does not believe in climate change has no say over how I live. I don't think he will try and have a say over how I live. What has struck me over the election campaign is how young people have become energized into sharing their opinions, and maybe because they don't remember the Tories the last time round they have been saying 'Tory Tory Tory' part of me is waiting for that moment when they really fuck up so the young people won't feel so smug!"
I wait with baited breath!
"David Cameron is fucking evil and I wait for the day when he rips off that mask and revels himself to be a snarling lizard beast! But that's what the people have chosen, for better or for worse. As far as I am concerned conservative is a dirty word, look at the word conservative, who wants to be conservative about anything! But I think it was Bill Hicks who once said 'it doesn't matter who wins because the government gets in anyway'. I am probably more interested in local government anyway, myself personally I don't think their should be any such thing as a national government, it would never work as every country around the world would have to agree to this, but whatever happens up their in London pretty much doesn't affect me, I am on the bottom rung of society, I might pay a bit more tax, I might not it's not really going to affect my standard of living. In terms of local government I will say this much, Richard Drax can suck my dick! He does not represent me, a man who does not believe in climate change has no say over how I live. I don't think he will try and have a say over how I live. What has struck me over the election campaign is how young people have become energized into sharing their opinions, and maybe because they don't remember the Tories the last time round they have been saying 'Tory Tory Tory' part of me is waiting for that moment when they really fuck up so the young people won't feel so smug!"
Tom Caulfield playing alongside Tia Roos at the Borough Arms Dorchester
After we discuss music and politics the fact that being in the public eye and aligning yourself to one political party can have a downside, especially if they manage to cock things up we move on to Tom's future plans.
"You make it sound like there a plan! Well....Just to play and write, I will play for anyone, any time, anywhere!"
Tom you musical whore!
"That said, I won't do a Tory party benefit."
It seems MR Caulfield does have some standards then.....
"Hmmmm...... Well I have the EP that's been released, it's a very small label, it's a very small corner of the internet, so hopefully the more gigs I do, the more I just win people over one by one. Hopefully start earning some money from it, I've been doing this a long time and I don't have any savings, so if I don't start earning a living fro this soon, it's going start looking kind of sad."
As we finish the interview I wanted to know Toms Opinion of who was worth listening to at the moment?
"Andy Grant, goes without saying he is a monster musician, almost perfectionist to a fault, he's taken a year to record his latest album and I can't wait to for that to come out because I know it will blow my mind, it will be great. Stomping Goats down Weymouth, they're well worth checking out, very strange, but really good, they squash, Hip Hop, Reggae and folk crammed into this very very cool band. There's a girl who plays in Weymouth, Sukulele I'd check her out if I were you, it's a brilliant act I won't spoil it for you but it's good mark my words, it's trying to think of original people, who do their own stuff, I don't understand why people don't do their own stuff, I can understand why people don't do their own stuff for example, a wedding hearing music you know all night, that makes sense to me, but what I can't understand is why allot of people really have it in for hearing new things, it's a real lack of imagination with some people, music is not just there to be enjoyed when you recognise it. There is also this problem especially in this country, that being a musician isn't viewed as a real job, it's not viewed as a craft, and it is a craft, you have to take a long time to get good at it, I have put allot of effort into it, but it's not that I crave respect or adulation, if I wanted those things then I wouldn't have become a musician, at the same time a bit of tolerance wouldn't go a miss, there should be more understanding that there is allot of stuff around locally that is every bit as good as the stuff you hear on the charts, also within local music you have the benefit you can meet these people, we're not like these untouchable people in the distance that you merely glimpse into their lifestyle, you speak to me after a gig and I'll probably have a beer with you. If we get really friendly you can come to my house. But that doesn't mean my music means any less."
There we have it, if Tom really likes you can go to his house. My thanks to Tom Caulfield, I genuinely enjoyed my evening interviewing him and watching him play at the Borough arms, Tom is a talented guy and if you haven't already done so please check out his download page @
http://tomcaulfield.bandcamp.com/album/bare-bones
© Paul Brewer 2010
