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We interrogate fashion favourite and musical newcomer, Sam Way about his EP, Architect<\/em>.
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Paco Rabanne, Diesel, Tommy Hilfiger, Levi’s, GQ<\/i>,\u00a0Rollacoaster,\u00a0<\/em>Sam Way has done it all in fashion. From fronting campaigns to editorials in some of the most respected style titles in the world, his face has been in circulation since 2008. Seven years later, we’re treated to his first collection of musical work, his\u00a0Architect<\/em> EP, out today. We saw a glimpse of great things in 2013 with Sam’s first single, “Dancing Shoes”, a innocent feel-good track with a video just as playful.<\/p>\n

Today Sam’s matured into a man with a little more serious tastes. “Stargazer”, the first track available from\u00a0Architect<\/em> is a dramatic offering in an orchestral setting. Outpouring with emotion,\u00a0Architect<\/em> has more substance to it than Sam’s earlier forays into music, however likeable and charming they were. We spoke to the 27-year-old artist from Devon about breaking into two industries, unleashing his inner performer and Glastonbury dreams.<\/p>\n

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How\u2019s touring life going? Was there anywhere in particular you were excited to play or has been a standout favourite?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Touring is at once displacing, exhausting, exhilarating and fun. There is no better place to hone your craft. Playing in front of my home crowd in Devon was a night I’ll always remember, seeing people there who knew me when I must have only come up to their knees, and having all the lads from home sat round a table wearing my tour merchandise was a golden moment too.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re a model as well as a musician, do you think that\u2019s helped you with the performance aspect and sharing your music publicly?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I was 11 years old I was cast as Jack in Jack and The Beanstalk<\/em>\u00a0for the school play. I had to do this 3 minute song and dance solo wearing pants so large they were more akin to a dress and my face was covered in pink make up to make my cheeks look rosy. \u00a0So I guess performing has something that has always been in me to a certain extent, but I do think modelling, being in-front of the camera, has honed my ability to perform. I remember when I was 17 years old, I couldn’t quite believe that I was on this photo shoot with Kate Moss. When I met her at breakfast she just looked quite normal, I didn’t know what I was expecting, but then when she was in front of the camera, it was like a transformation. She knows how to turn it on. Similarly, when you’re on stage, you have to do the same. Absolutely I feel it’s helped me share my music publicly, there are people who have discovered my music though first following my career as a model and there are also various individuals and publications in the industry who are really pushing my music out there. I sort of feel like the fashion industry has it’s wing around me, and for that I feel grateful and lucky.<\/p>\n

Are you finding it tricky to maintain both sides of your career? Have you managed to do anything to incorporate the two yet?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Focus is everything. As much as I would like to, I can’t do it all. \u00a0Sometimes I have to prioritise one career over the other. But I do believe that the two careers can co-exist, can even bleed into each other and help catalyse each other too. Incorporating fashion and music? In a sense, yes. Some of the brands I work closely with have used or featured my music and\u00a0Diesel\u00a0have sponsored the recent tour, but there is so much to explore here. But time will tell.<\/p>\n

When did you decide you wanted to be a musician? Do you have a first memory of when music became important to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t think it was a decision, it just happened. I just kept on growing into it, and probably will forever. Music has always been in me, has always been important, It’s all I used to spend my money on. I’d go into HMV, clutching International DJ magazine, my bible when it came to finding new music, and find the album they featured as pick of the month, then I’d just buy it, take it home and listen to it again and again. Sometimes I’d hate it, but I made some incredible musical discoveries like that. I never listened to pop music, and loved exploring new sounds. My taste from a young age was bizarrely broad.<\/p>\n

Your Architect<\/em> EP is out now! Can you describe it for us? What\u2019s the best time and place to listen to it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Architect<\/em> EP should take you on a journey. It ebbs and it flows, rises in love and falls in it too. Sometimes it’s kind of fragile and if you listen to it with headphones on the train you’ll feel like you’re in a film. But at times it feels nothing less than epic. Strings feature heavily, as does award winning composer Edward Abela, and the London Contemporary voices Choir. It’s been a year in making. Listen on a Sunday morning, in the bath, or on a winter commute.<\/p>\n