The musician ALKCM and his fellow Australian the actor SarahSnook got on the phone to discuss being your own biggest fan, the satisfaction of embracing failure, and his new album 'Oxy Music.'
It’s difficult to pinpoint when, exactly, Alex Cameron’s career took off. The musician himself would argue that things kicked into gear during his teenage years, when he religiously orbited Sydney’s karaoke circuit. Others feel that his 2013 debut albumwhich he self-released online about a decade later, solidified his status as an artist’s artist—someone who Angel Olsen and The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers listened to at the gym.
CAMERON: Yeah, he was hinting very slightly at rockabilly, but perpetually slurping tomato soup. He always had a hot soup in a cheap Tupperware and he would make the kids dance to the chipmunks.CAMERON: Yeah, I found him on Facebook the other day. He’s still doing dance classes, but at geriatric homes. Isn’t that weird? And he was the first person I ever saw wearing loafers. He had really nice loafers, I guess that’s why I’m really into loafers.CAMERON: Oh, definitely.
CAMERON: That’s similar to me. I don’t really need a home, because I play like 150, 200 shows a year so I don’t need to stay anywhere.CAMERON: The other day, I was thinking of what home was, and decided that it’s a place I can comfortably leave, but know will always be there. Because if I can’t leave, then I’m not at home. There has to be the potential to bail. I have to be able to fuck off, and fast.
CAMERON: Definitely. It was such a trend at the time, transitioning out of shoegaze and Britpop and into indie. This is 15 years ago now, but I found a niche where I could experience the show with the audience instead of keeping a distance. CAMERON: It’s bizarre how instinctive it is. I guess it’s a show business cliche, but envy is so unproductive because it closes you off to opportunity.
SNOOK: I feel now, that space is just Instagram. The number of followers you have equates to your success. I don’t know how to engage with it in a way that feels honest to me. It’s just a fucking minefield.SNOOK: It lends it veracity.. I can’t express that enough. I’ve watched the whole thing three times now. It’s problematic in my life.
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