“Its important to choose what makes you happy”
The faith are a band known for their rebellious antics towards the media refusing to give interviews or photo shoots and stick the finger up to the paps.But after a few years in the business Jason White the mystery front man of the indie/alternative band The Faith reveals to Faze how he made the right choice in life.
q.How are things in the Faith camp ?
Jason White(lead vocal/guitarist):”they are very good, our band are probably the closest we have ever been and even after four years together we are still deeply immersed in each others lives.Its great to love a group of people and know they feel the same way about you. I think people have a misconception of our group because we try to keep our selves hidden from the media, people think we are unhappy people when we are actually some of the silliest jokers out there.”
q.Your second album (belief) is currently top 10 in the download chart ,are you proud of this achievement?
“Well course I am proud of how far our bands come from doing gigs in bars to performing at places like 02 Brixton academy , but the achievement for me was making music my living, nothing is better then getting paid to do what you love .Yes top ten is great but im happy as long as our group has a place to perform then we are all proud just to be wanted “
q.have you always aspired to be a musician ?
“I have always had a passion for music still a big fan of hip hop, even though I am an indie musician I still like to listen to other genres in the industry, when I was younger I always dressed up like Mc hammer and did the cant touch this dance .I wasn’t always destined for music I was meant to be a plumber but my interests never suited that type of job, I mean did I really want to fix pipes and toilets for the rest of my life. I decided Its important to choose what makes you happy and i wanted to do what made me happy and music was it .”
q.Do you think people have the wrong idea about the band?
“I don’t know what people think about us. We’re just normal people and I mean that in a good way because the people in my band are completely unique.i just play video games, read books and I go out like any normal guy wanting to have fun.I don’t understand why people in bands are expected to be complete party animals 24/7 .i’d much rather be as normal as possible and when im on stage just be that same person enjoying my work.It may not seem as exciting as what people believe but at least my lifestyle is not false”
q.Is that why you have avoided doing press in the past ?
“when we started the band what we had in mind was writing, recording and playing music. When we signed up for it that’s all we thought gig was.Then you start doing interviews and you read them back and they say nothing what we said , or you see the photos and look thinking ‘I look nothing like that’ .i mean im not the type of person who likes spotlight so I just choose to pursue the parts of being in a band I love.i don’t have much of a look and I don’t have much to say .thats why when you listen to a song by us we don’t answer we ask questions.”
q.As successful as The faith are do you think your reluctance to play the media game has stop you from being bigger ?
“ I don’t think our group has any regrets about how we have treated the media ,I mean we could have done what the media wanted been global but it just wouldn’t be us.We have written a few songs which we know could have been huge hits but didn’t release them knowing this.The good thing about The Faith is you get what you see we are not some band selling ourselves for cash in pocket !”
q.Are you happy with the decisions you’ve made so far ?
Yes no I think of it ,if I could change things I wouldn’t being in The Faith has given me so many opportunities that I probably wouldn’t have had, I’ve been to many cities around the world, met many wonderful people and got paid to be creative. So ye I think my choice in life to join this band was a great decision , I cant thanks the band for it as much as I want to.
The layout i preferred was the one below because i liked the shadow i made using the gradient tool on photoshop .The thing i what i like about both experiments is the fact that the images are perfectly in focus and go well with the backgrounds.
This is my final design for my double page spread, i like this because the image is portayed to be in a shadow, This reflecting his personality .To design this i used photoshop and indesign , it took me a while to get use to using indesign but i needed to use it for the columns in the article.I put the quote near the models mouth, to make it appear the words are straight from his mouth.
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