NEW MUSIC ON THE FOX – TALK

Have you heard this song yet?

Because we just added it to the Fox playlist and we like it.  Well, we aren’t the only ones.

Talk is Ottawa musician Nick Durocher.  He spent almost a decade touring the country as a bassist in a country band, working on songs on his own when he found the time.  It wasn’t until the pandemic that he found himself out of work, living in his parents basement, when watching one of his favourite movies, with one of his favourite actors helped him to write this song that would go viral on TikTok, and get him world wide attention, including Late Late Show host James Corden.

As he says in an interview with CBC – “That song came from a lot of loneliness and the pandemic. Run Away to Mars came at, like, 2 a.m. on the edge of a bed in my parents’ basement. I had just watched Interstellar — it’s one of my favourite movies of all time; I think Matthew McConaughey is an icon. I love him so much [laughs]. And that was kind of going around in my head, like, he wanted to get far away or, like, go far away to save the world.  And so there’s a bit of that, there’s a bit of The Martian with Matt Damon, all these space movies of seclusion and the size of space. And I was lonely and I was, like, well, the farthest place I could conceptually get to: that’s Mars.

And so I just sat on the edge of the bed and it came out real fast, like, 15, 20 minutes. The body of the song was there. It was missing a few details, but it was pretty much there.”

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This post was written by Carrie Buchanan