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Evermore

About Yourself:: “Evermore is very unique in that they can do it all — produce, record, write and perform. They’ll be creating great music for a long time.” John Alagia, co-producer of Real Life
Atmospheric rock three-piece Evermore clearly enjoy flirting with disaster. When recording their debut long-player, 2004’s Dreams, the trio’s New Zealand hometown of Feilding was hit with the kind of catastrophic wet weather usually associated with Biblical floods and arks. It was so bad, in fact, that the album’s producer, American Barrett Jones, felt as though he’d walked straight into the Apocalypse. “He was totally freaked out,” the band recalled. And this from a guy based in Seattle, a city that doesn’t exactly rate high on the list of holiday destinations for sun-seekers. Then, while cutting their sophomore set, 2006’s Real Life, this band of brothers — Jon (voice / guitar), Peter (keys / bass / voice) and Dann Hume (drums / voice) — stepped off a plane after two sunny months of Oz pre-production and came face-to-freezing-face with deepest, darkest Massachusetts, the US state that put the ‘chill’ into ‘chill-factor’, as temperatures plummeted to around 25 degrees below zero. So what’s up with this 20-something trio: have they got a thing for extremes?
‘Maybe we do enjoy flirting with disaster,’ says Jon. ‘Who knows? You couldn’t go outside the door at Longview [Studio] without getting frostbite.’ Once or twice during the recording of Real Life the brothers managed to escape to New York, but their cabin fever was so intense that they found it hard to communicate with other humans. It was a long way from the demo sessions on the NSW Central Coast that produced the bulk of the tunes for their second coming. “It was midsummer, this really relaxing period of time,” recalls Jon. “We were writing songs, doing things at our own pace. It was one of our most mellow times together as a band.” Real Life’s co-producer, American John Alagia (whose CV includes US superstars John Mayer and Dave Matthews) was deeply impressed by what he heard. “Their demos were near master quality,” he says. “Evermore’s growth in terms of songwriters, players and people is astounding to me. Every record of theirs is leaps ahead of what they’d done before.”
Clearly, their hard slog in a cold climate has paid off, because Real Life has even surpassed the commercial success of Dreams (which was no slouch itself, selling upwards of 120,000 copies in Australia, and helping the band claim an MTV Video Music Award and five ARIA nominations). To date, Real Life is double platinum (140,000 units sold) and counting in their adopted country. ‘Running’, the epic first single from the album, reached the Australian Top 5, while ‘Light Surrounding You’, the kind of anthem that is set to keep the makers of cigarette lighters in business for years to come, went several steps further — with the help of massive Home & Away exposure — and reached No 1. The band was on the Gold Coast, playing their part in the 2007 Big Day Out bandwagon, when the news broke, and celebratory Coronas were tapped. “Our manager screamed, with joy,” Dann recalled. “It’s funny,” Jon adds, “because we’re not necessarily a chart-y band.”
Maybe so, but ‘Running’ and ‘Light Surrounding You’ do mark the emergence of Dann Hume as a songwriter and an accidental hit machine. This evolution came about almost by chance; while on tour a couple of years back, Dann found himself in a backstage argument — with another band, mind you, not his brothers — about the merits of the man they call the Bobfather. “Someone told me how they felt that Bob Dylan was over-rated and I stormed out in disgust,” he recalls. “Around this time I’d bought a book of Dylan’s lyrics, and I thought, Man, this is what I want to do; I need to write songs that mean something. ‘Running’, ‘Light Surrounding You’, ‘It’s Too Late’, they all came out of that time. ‘Light’ came to me quickly, in about six hours.”
The brothers Hume are an interesting study in contrasts, in much the same way Evermore’s music defies easy categorisation (they’re a tad challenging for pure pop lovers and maybe a little too tuneful for the cool school, despite making a huge impact at the most recent Homebake and the Big Day Out). Away from the stage Jon — a self confessed geek and ‘outsider’ — is the quiet achiever, a guy who immerses himself in their home studio with much the same intensity that he buries himself in Evermore’s songs when playing live. Dann is the youngest and most gregarious, the one quite ready (and able) bounce between subjects with a steady blend of intelligence and enthusiasm — sometimes while wearing red pants, no less. And he’s the resident musicologist, who can ‘deconstruct’ virtually any song on first listen, breaking it down into chords, by ear. He’s also become the go-to guy for his songwriting siblings, who sometimes come to him with their own tunes-in-progress and ask him how they could be improved. Peter — who’s fast morphing into a dead-ringer for the late, great heartthrob Jeff Buckley — sits somewhere between the outgoing Dan and the more introspective Jon. That is, of course, until he plugs in and starts wielding his custom-made wireless keyboard like a lethal weapon (there are many stories of potentially catastrophic near-misses). “I guess I have a more physical presence playing live these days,” he laughs. “Pete gets this compulsion when he gets on stage,” says Jon. “He has to do things full tilt, all the time.”
Even though Real Life isn’t quite a year old, and the band are in the process of selling it overseas and gearing up for a national tour in June, their thoughts have already moved on to the next LP. And it should come as no great shock that their plans are large scale. Jon anticipates a double album, but one in the classic rock sense, with two discs of equal length, showcasing the band’s many moods — their White Album, if you will. And some of these newer sonic sketches are more panoramic than anything they’ve recorded before, featuring deep grooves and heavenly choirs, nagging riffs and funky undercurrents, with lyrics that pick apart the chaos of 21st century life, as the band heads even deeper into the same cinematic musical territory occupied by world-beaters Silverchair, Muse and Coldplay. “The next record is completely a concept album, at least now, anyway,” says Jon. “There’s an overall theme and individual stories, as well.” In short, they’re dreaming in technicolour. That’s Evermore’s Real Life.
www.evermoreband.com

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