Finding Your Feet With RYAN DALEY From WAYWARD KINGS

Interview by Kris Peters
The music business can be an unforgiving mistress. Bands can - and
do - give it everything they have, writing, recording and releasing
high-quality material and developing an ever-growing fanbase yet
still see minimal reward for effort.
But when the planets align and the wheel starts turning in your
favour it can be a beautiful industry and one which suddenly starts
giving.
After plying their trade without much overall success for the last
couple of years, Newcastle rock outfit Wayward Kings were almost by
chance introduced to Tim McLean-Smith from new Australian label
XMusic and the rest, as they say, is history in the making.
The band released their new three-track EP Another Life Another
Time last Friday, which, coupled with the recent signing, suddenly
has the planets aligning in favour of Wayward Kings.
HEAVY caught up with frontman Ryan Daley to find out the full
story.
"There's always gonna be a time when people are gonna judge you, or
they're gonna hate it," he said matter-of-factly when asked how he
was feeling about letting the EP free into the world. "I was
talking to a mate the other day, and he said he didn't like ALAT,
and that's awesome feedback. We're not out there to please
everybody. Matt and I are pretty much the brains trust of Wayward
Kings. We've played together and wrote together, and we come up
with ALAT being a bit of a rock tune that's gotta be consumed on
different levels, you know what I mean? I think it's good to have
people in your corner that go it's shit mate, or it's fucken
awesome, because they're the people that you really listen to. The
more and more stuff we put out, the more people have a chance to
have a negative feeling about it."
In the full interview, Ryan talks more about the EP musically, runs
us through each of the three tracks individually, how Another Life
Another Time differs to their last EP The B Sides, releasing EPs
over albums, signing to XMusic and more.