{"id":57132,"date":"2015-09-24T09:59:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T09:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=57132"},"modified":"2016-09-22T14:28:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:28:37","slug":"best-next-willie-j-healey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2015\/09\/24\/best-next-willie-j-healey\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Next:  Willie J Healey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ex limo-riding crooner-songwriter.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Taken from the 10th Birthday Issue of Wonderland<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-24-at-10.54.34.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-57140\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-09-24 at 10.54.34\" src=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-24-at-10.54.34-740x1024.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p ><em>T-shirt by COACH and shirt and trousers MODEL&#8217;S OWN\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p >\u201cI\u2019ll probably be the host of an open-mic show in my local pub,\u201d smirks Willie J Healey when asked where he\u2019ll be in ten year\u2019s time. There\u2019s something quite Shameless about the singer\/songwriter\u2019s small-town charm.<\/p>\n<p >Riding around his native Oxford in a battered old limo, (\u201cI tried to keep it going because everyone was like \u2018Ah that\u2019s so funny Willie, you\u2019ve got a limo, you\u2019re such a player\u2019\u201d), Healey spent his formative years dreaming of stadium gigs and compiling playlists of sci-fi movie theme-tunes. \u201cGet me at Wembley please,\u201d Healey remembers of his mock-tantrums. \u201cGet me a monitor to put my foot up on when I solo. Grow my hair, get a beer gut, I\u2019ll probably have an earring and four guitar techs!\u201d He\u2019s upgraded these days \u2013 he now lives, sleeps, sings and washes in the back of a fully- fledged touring van.<\/p>\n<p>Healey\u2019s debut EP release, the hypnotically titled \u201cHD Malibu EP\u201d, matches meandering slide guitars with wasteman crooning. Oh, and there are one or two made-for-TV film references on the lyric sleeve, too.<\/p>\n<p>The title track sees Healey swoon after a Chevy Malibu convertible he saw in cult 80s comedy, <em>Repo Man<\/em>. When he thrillingly snarls the words \u201cHD screens\u201d, his gruff, climaxing vocals slicing through scuffed, swirling guitars, it\u2019s akin to Deerhunter\u2019s Brandon Cox on a meandering heroin comedown with Chris Isaak.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re sounds that shouldn\u2019t really come out of the mouth of this babyfaced 20-year-old, but he\u2019s sticking to what he knows for EP number two. \u201cI guess my theme is TV dinner,\u201d he quips as he departs an east London studio for, he assures us, his first ever surfing lesson. 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