Tearing Down The System With TIM HENWOOD From PALACE OF THE KING

Interview by Kris Peters
One thing that has always typified Australian music is the internal
support system encouraged by those within it.
Band members often share their talents amongst two, three, or
sometimes four other bands, with his fellow bandmates offering
words of encouragement and respect rather than bemoan the fact
their guitarist, or their drummer is not exclusively a part of
their musical gang for want of a better word.
Of course, there are always exceptions to the rule, but as a whole
Australian music is made up of and populated by like-minded
musicians who just want to play.
Aussie rock outfit Palace Of The King is no exception, sharing its
members with other bands such as Jon Stevens, The Screaming Jets
and The Superjesus, an outside collective that adds nothing but
starch to the Kings when all return to the fold.
The proof of that is in the band's latest single Tear It Down, a
high-energy rock track done only as Australian rockers can. The
song is lifted from Palace Of The King's upcoming album Friends In
Low Places, which will be released via Reckless Records next
month.
HEAVY sat down recently with vocalist Tim Henwood to find out more.
We start by asking how Tear It Down has been received.
"It's been great," he beamed. "Because it's quite a full-on written
song. I don't know if you've noticed, but we've been putting a new
song out pretty much every eight weeks for months now, and I've
been trying to mix it up. The last one was a bit more of a cruisy
Americana, Black Crowes kind of thing and this one's much more
fast, risky, kind of 70s-tinged Queens Of The Stone Age type of
thing. I've been trying new stuff, so every time I put a new post
up saying here's a new single fans of the band have piped up and
said 'I wasn't expecting this', so I gave them a bit of a
banger.
In the full interview, Tim talks more about Tear It Down and what
the song is about, how it sonically represents the new album, the
overall direction of Friends In Low Places, producing and recording
his own music and the pros and cons involved, a brief history of
the band, the album launch tour and more.