In this interview spotlight I chat with DC Logan from OFFICER about the latest music, challenges and more.
Full Q&A along with links and music below.
Where are you from and what style of music do you create? (In your own words, not necessarily in marketing terms or by popular genre classifications.)
I was born on the outskirts of Glasgow in Scotland but moved away too young to really properly remember it to the North Coast of Northern Ireland where I grew up before moving to London with work. My music is just basically human… spirit meets the body meets mind… it’s so many kinds of musical and life influences rolled into something that just feels filled with what is my best possible option of expressing my magnificent mess of a heart… love, hate, lostness, foundness…
What led you down this path of music and what motivates you to stay the course?
It’s just who I am, it’s like breathing for me, I can’t stop it really. I write every day and it just is there, always. I did have key moments of it really hitting me like when I saw U2 and Ash playing in Belfast on the lead up to the peace agreement in Northern Ireland, a massive moment for my generation. I was around loads of different kinds of music all my life from pop, punk, and rock to Irish pub fireside folk, sectarian anthems on our streets, gospel, marching music, hymns… it was all very spiritually charged and it called to something deep inside me that was just already there in the same way my eyes are blue, just like some kind of emotional DNA, like for a lot of creative people, I guess. Music for me has been a friend when I really badly needed a friend and had made all the difference. It’s a way of existing, a way of expressing, a way of changing, a way of hurting and hoping. I can’t not be this.
How is your new release different than previous ones? Did you set out to accomplish anything specific?
Yeah… I went for such a specific sound and cohesion, to create my own world for this world, on this album and had to work and rework very hard to actually get there with it. It’s more vulnerable, more complete, more direct, more realised. It’s different in how more exposed I am personally, politically, spiritually, the brokenness and unbrokenness of my heart.
Do you face any challenges as an indie musician in a digital age? On the flip side, how has technology helped you (if it has)?
Yeah, it’s very tough to understand how to take ground with all sort of people yelling a million different things at you from every angle… I just don’t give up… try to always be smart and adaptable and quality, but all out of hardly any resources or cash or anything like that… technology has been a hindrance and help… help in that it has connected me in both a more intimate manner and a more professional manner to amazing people to work with or to get my music to or arrange tours with. I have had several emails from people who have followed me on social media to tell me how much my music has helped them through different pretty horrific experiences in their lives. I really didn’t expect that and it really moves me… and I guess it makes sense considering that’s what music has been for me… a friend.
Where can we follow you online and hear more music?
Please do follow me and come and say hello here…
Spotify https://spoti.fi/2CCWTrw
Anything else before we sign off?
‘All in love, stood there with your broken eyes. Let your spirit rise.’
