Darnell Cole & The Vibe Interview
Sunday 21st July 2024
Maid Of Stone Festival, Mote Park, Maidstone
Interview - Darnell Cole & The Vibe (DC) - Maid of Stone (MoS) 2024:
Brief Background:
Various incarnations of Darnell Cole bands (inc. Porcelain Hill, and solo etc)
Band Names: For Darnell Cole & The Vibe
Darnell Cole on Lead & Vox (leader)
Elliott Lawrence on Bass
Jit Chatterjee on Drums
Discography:
Latest album is ‘Life on the run’
Actual Interview - Questions / Responses:
Oz = Martin Osborne
DC = Darnell Cole
Oz - Most importantly, congratulations Darnell on your first Wedding Anniversary today!
DC - Thank you for that!
Oz - Hi, thanks for sparing the time for this interview with the Wrinkly Rockers Club…… and that was a great set and show just then. I tried to buy a CD, and they’d all been sold!
DC (All) - Thanks for that, I think everyone enjoyed that. I thought all the CDs might go, which was great. Just contact me and I’ll be able to help get one to you like last time.
Ox - That’s great and thanks
Oz - So, last time I saw you guys (DC), Tom Killner and his band were backing you Darnell?
DC - Yes, but this tour, it’s the American band. We all came over and have played some great dates, but this is the end of the tour now (the UK leg), so after this, we’re taking a two-week break for some R&R. It’s a Holiday for me in Europe and a honeymoon for Elliott! Jit (drums) will be chilling’ too!
DC - After that, we’re coming back in August to play two dates in Dublin (9th), Kilkenny (10th) and a festival in Ireland (Electric Picnic on 16th)
Oz - The Life on the Run album is great, you must be pleased with it?
DC - Yes, really pleased, it’s selling very well, and has good streaming numbers too. We hope everyone is loving it too!
Oz - Yes, I think it’s gone down really well
Oz - You really do cross Genres very well…
DC - We play the Blues, and we play that with Soul, but you know, there’s only two types of Music….good and bad! We like to do good music. It’s a little like people really.
Oz - Whats the reception you get like in the UK?
DC - We really love the UK, you know, people are interested, they’re not looking at their phones, or bad-mouthing you if they don’t like you. In the UK, people come and watch us and engage, because they really like it and they want to enjoy it. It’s great
Oz - Will we see you back in the UK again soon?
DC - Well, after Ireland, we’re going to go back home, make some new music hopefully, then make our plans after that, with more touring too!
Oz - That’ll be great, everyone will be really looking forward to that!
PLUS:
Eliott Lawrence (EL): BASS - Call him ‘Uncle Money’
Oz - What’s your background / inspiration:
EL - From Pittsburgh. Play Bass guitar, inspired by all the great Bass Players from the Jazz scene
Jit Chatterjee (JC): DRUMS
Oz - What’s your background / inspiration:
JC - From New Jersey, Play Drums, inspired by all the great Drummers from the Jazz scene
INTERVIEW TIME FINISHED
Can of Stella from the ‘Trug’! / Cheers!
Martin Osborne (Oz)
Interview with Darnell Cole & The Vibe backstage (Fire-starter) at MoS in the afternoon shortly after their Set on the Fire-starter Stage at MoS on Sunday 21.07.24
Interview lasted approx 10 minutes in total, allowing for everything to settle down and for some ‘back-stage’ interruptions too, and a degree of ‘fun & frolics’ as well! Plus a brief chat with the rest of the band afterwards.
Note that Interview was recorded via an iPhone, but the Audio worked for the first part of the interview, and bombed out mid-way (again), so some elements are from memory, although all the key points are there
Transcribed on 22.07.24