“We had an outside toilet and we lived in the countryside in a cottage and across the road was this gigantic, huge park on the highest point of my hometown.
And all you got was a T-shirt that had a cowboy on it, and it would be the biggest thing in the world. You could get a bottle of pop on a summer afternoon when you were playing in a cornfield somewhere, and it was a very, very big deal. We didn’t have anything, so we made a lot of nothing. I really was cripplingly shy most of my young life.
It just came into being and I was nine, so it changed my life completely at nine.” All the music that you could imagine, from skiffle to jazz to pop to to rock n roll, suddenly just existed right in front of your eyes. When it struck, it struck overnight and everything changed almost within about a month.
“And by the time I reached maybe eight or nine, after listening to all this cowboy music, The Beatles came along and that just smashed everything. And I just picked up whatever I could, wherever I could…My cousin Michael had a guitar, my brother Joe became a guitar player when he was about 11 and my mom played the piano. It was kind of the nearest thing to rock n roll. There was Western music on the American Western TV shows, which I responded to very quickly. “Since I was a kid, it was always in the background. When did you first start connecting deeply to music in your life? Our first time speaking to Waite since an initial interview in 2013, here he reflects on his career journey, discusses his love for acoustic music and his Wooden Heart albums. The acoustic collection shows Waite in his most natural state: as a performer with pure, honest and impactful musical abilities.
In March, Waite released Wooden Heart Acoustic Anthology the Complete Recordings: Volumes 1, 2, and 3. Success also came with supergroup Bad English, with whom Waite served as lead singer and bass player for four years. Early success with rock group, The Babys, led Waite to a solo career, the No 1 single Missing You and albums like 1984’s No Brakes, 1995’s Temple Bar, and 2011’s Rough & Tumble. As a teenager, Waite gravitated towards the arts and – studying at Lancaster Art College – found that music was the avenue to his greatest creative expression. John Waite: “I only really write when I’m confronted with something in my life.” We catch up with the ‘Missing You’ songwriter to discuss his long and varied career and new anthology of recordingsĪs an accomplished singer-songwriter who never settles for less than artistic authenticity, John Waite has had a steady sequence of music releases which have connected to audiences worldwide throughout his career of over 45 years.
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