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On March 6th at the Club Soda in Montreal, I had the chance of sitting down with the lead singer from Mobile, Mat Joly. We chatted about Mobile’s success and their journey to the top.
CONFRONT: Hi
MAT: Hi
CONFRONT: So first let me explain quickly what we are. We are an online magazine called CONFRONT Magazine. Our motto is Dare Defy Provoke… Dare to Listen, Defy Stereotype and Provoke Change. We want our readers to see that there is more to music then Top 40, you know, we want to help them discover different styles and new artists.
MAT: This is a great concept
CONFRONT: Thanks. Ok so let’s start with some what we call CONFRONT questions… we ask those questions to all of our interviewees.
MAT: Cool
CONFRONT: ok so what would be the first and the last CD you remember buying?
MAT: The last CD I bought is Dennis Wilson `Pacific Ocean Blue` about a month ago and the first one would be Duran Duran `Seven and the Ragged Tiger`… and I remember that day like it was yesterday.
CONFRONT: Yeah I know that feeling … First and last concert you remember attending as a fan?
MAT: ACDC in 1991, and the last concert…..?
CONFRONT: A concert you weren’t playing in… a concert you went to for fun…
MAT: Wow… it’s been a while I haven’t seen a show live because we’ve been on tour but let me think… The Cure
CONFRONT: Nice
MAT: It was the best show of my life… they played for 3 hours non stop… amazing!
CONFRONT: Great, must have been such an experience!
MAT: For sure.
CONFRONT: What’s your guilty pleasure musically? Something you listen to alone in your car but don’t necessarily want people to know you like?
MAT: … you know I grew up listening to music and I started playing music a long time ago too…I have an older brother and an older sister and they are the ones that introduced me to music… all the 80’s bands, Duran Duran, The Police. I also like more cheesy stuff like the soundtrack of the movie The Lost Boys…
CONFRONT: Nice
MAT: Is that a guilty pleasure enough for you?
CONFRONT: Sure but it’s good music though.
MAT: Exactly
CONFRONT: So this is your sophomore album, of course it was obvious for you guys that you were going to be doing a second album but was there any pressure? A mutual desire to top the first album…?
MAT: I think there is always pressure…there is pressure now to do the third album you know… I think that might be one of the reasons why we work so hard… cause if you like what you do… you just do it… you always want to do better…you don’t do it to please the critics but to be at peace with yourself and do a good record… for ourselves and for the fans you know…
CONFRONT: Exactly.
MAT: There is pressure for the third one already…
CONFRONT: Did you start working on it yet?
MAT: Yeah of course.
CONFRONT: Talking about working on an album, what’s the writing process? Do you guys write the songs together, work on different parts individually and then come together?
MAT: Usually how we work is that Christian, our guitar player… he writes most of the music… he puts it onto his computer, sends it to me, and then I listen to it over and over and over again until the song gets into my brain… like a second skin for a while… that’s how I’m able to start come up with names or titles or works, themes…
CONFRONT: Do you go with emotions also?
MAT: Yeah of course… life is an amazing canvas for song writing!
CONFRONT: Yeah that’s a very nice way of phrasing it.
MAT: Thanks.
CONFRONT: You guys are a model for a lot of bands coming from Quebec…that want to be big, make it big…was it a hard process? You guys signed in Toronto right?
MAT: Yeah we did… but getting signed was just the beginning… it’s a hard process it’s working hard all the time, some bands think that the moment they get signed all is good and life becomes easy but no it’s worst. By that I mean it’s even more hard work to be able to meet the standard of the record label… do good music you know.
CONFRONT: Do you have any advice for young bands out there, your fans?
MAT: Of course. Well first you got to be passionate, if you’re not passionate don’t do this, you won’t do well… passion is the key, you don’t go in that business to be popular. Making it is a journey, there is a lot of steps to the top and well it makes you grow to go through them. It’s a process and well still work hard.
CONFRONT: Great advice! Writing in English (Mat’s first language is French) did it come naturally to you?
MAT: Well I learned to write and speak English I was about 12 and since I’ve always been a fan of music and wanted to know what the lyrics were all about… it just came naturally I guess…
CONFRONT: Good to know! Ok so we started this recently with some of our interviewees… the ‘I would never’ question. So I would never?
MAT: I would never sing with John Mayer…I just hate the guy… sorry I had to let it out…
CONFRONT: It’s ok. So now what have you not done yet?
MAT: oh… what I haven’t done yet? I would like to go on a holiday, somewhere hot… it’s cold here…
CONFRONT: Yeah I know Montreal in the summer is not cool.
MAT: Exactly.
CONFRONT: Ok we are at my last question… what would you want your legacy to be? Mobile in 10 years or even Mat Joly in 10 years? Because of course both are pretty much linked.
MAT: Well you know hopefully still make music, albums and tour and still be relevant after all this time as a band, and have a long career, because there is nothing else I want to do really.
CONFRONT: Great, well that was it for me.
MAT: Thanks this was great.
CONFRONT: No thank you.
Well this was my sit down with Mat Joly lead singer of the Canadian Band Mobile. To learn more about them or just to keep in touch with this band that you love visit
