Hailing from the golden Sunshine Coast, 19 year indie pop talent Sahara Beck is riding a wave of acclaim fresh off the back of performing, not one but two incredible sets at Bluesfest 2016 (her second appearance at the festival in recent years).
If that isn’t enough she also recently released her impressive new LP Panacea crafted over a week long session at the legendary 301 Byron Bay studios –just days before it closed for good.
To celebrate the release of Panacea Sahara Beck is hitting the road for a national tour this may and June. Beck kindly found some time to pen a track by track run down of their latest LP which you can check out below. Give it a spin and if you like what you’re hearing be sure to pop by Sahara’s Facebook page for more info.
HERE IT COMES
Here it comes represents anxiety and depression to me. I was thinking about how people get caught in the head space of repetition in their every day life and how so many people are pushed to the point of thinking that the only way to end the repetition is by killing themselves.
I created a little story in my head of someone who has hidden a gun in their dresser ready for the day that they can’t take it anymore, in each chorus I mentally visualise the cupboard rattling, the gun is calling for you. Then in the end finally running towards the cupboard, pulling out the gun and ending it. This is what the scream at the end represents.
The scream represents what I imagine that moment of release would feel like, letting go of everything and accepting that it’s time to do it. I have hopes that once knowing the meaning of this song, people who are feeling like this can get some sort of release and expression through the song rather than having to physically go to that extreme themselves.
TAPPING ON THE ROOF
When I was a little bit younger I would sometimes have visual and oral hallucinations, one was hearing a woman dancing on the ceiling above my bedroom in my mums house, eventually she disappeared, I figured if this isn’t something to write about I don’t know what is.
I took the concept a bit further by separating myself from the person who is seeing things by referring to them as “He” or “She” and in the chorus singing “Where’s my baby” as though the person going crazy is a loved one who has lost their mind.
SPINNING TIME
This song is about someone I know who would get drunk and tell a story about an event that happened to him, every time the story would change and get bigger or more exciting or more aggressive.
To me watching this felt like I was watching him change history before my eyes. To the point where I don’t even think that he knew the original story anymore because he had convinced himself that it happened in so many different ways. Spinning time = Changing history.
OOH LALA
I wrote this song when I realised my boyfriend at the time wasn’t in love with me anymore even though I had tried to do so many things so that I could convince myself to stay in love with him. So I had to accept this and end the relationship.
The process of accepting this put me through so many different trains of thought. I just wanted to sleep and dream or drink and go out so I wouldn’t have to deal with the reality of the situation. I had to find my happy place so I wouldn’t have to face it. Of course in the end I had to face the situation and end it but I knew that it was finished before I got there.
CRACK BANG BANG
I wrote this song shortly after I broke up with my boyfriend. Once I took the love goggles off I saw him for everything he was and I remembered all of the things he had said and done to me and the people he loved around him aaaaaand I put it into a song.
I’M IN LOVE
This song is about being with someone who doesn’t want to give you physical affection. It is about trying to do everything you can to not get upset about that because even though you don’t like it, you are in love with them.
No matter what they do to hurt you, you think you are in love so you can’t stop them or get out of it because your heart is confusing you and holding you back. Unfortunately this is another ex boyfriend song where he would say hurtful things to me when he was drunk but I would forgive him every time because I loved him and accepted that this was a part of his personality that he couldn’t control so… how could it be his fault? I felt it was my fault that I let myself fall in love with him.
EVERYONE WANTS NOSIE
I wrote this song at a time in my life where I felt like everyone around me was trying to be loud and stand out. “Look at me, look at how interesting I am, Look look!” I got to the point where I felt that if you have something that needs to be said, it will come across through your actions.
I will not be a part of the noise and try to stand out by being aggressively loud. I made up my mind to do go down my own path and quietly succeed while everyone was busy standing in the mud throwing mud at each other.
SARAH
This song was written as a “Note to self”. Everything was starting to become over whelming and I was forgetting all the initial reasons for why I do what I do and why I am the way I am.
I wrote the song as a mantra to repeat to myself “Don’t give into the pressure, don’t forget that you’re sweet, wear your heart on your sleeve, remember that you are free, remember that time is your friend until the end”. When you are caught up in something, everything can become very clouded, some people write themselves a letter, I did it with a song.
MOTHER MOTHER
As I was growing up, even now, I get really bad FOMO (Fear of missing out). I grew up as a teenager feeling worried that while I was hanging out with my family I was missing out on all the fun my friends were having. After moving out and beginning my own life I now realise how special and how much I value the closeness that my family has.
DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH
This was written about someone who I fell in love with who I quickly realised was a very busy person and had a lot of extremely attractive girls already chasing and waiting for him. I would see pictures of him and other girls on Instagram and Facebook and feel gutted thinking that maybe they could make him happier than I could, thinking “Of course he would love her, she’s perfect”.
One day my eyes were opening and I realised I didn’t want to be one of his hook ups who waits around for him, I wanted him to think more of me. So instead of holding my breath for him I told myself that he shouldn’t hold his breath for me because I will not be chasing anyone around.
Upcoming National Tour Dates
THURSDAY 12TH MAY – THE GASOMETER HOTEL
FRIDAY 13TH MAY – SOOKI LOUNGE
SATURDAY 14TH MAY – THE WORKERS CLUB
THURSDAY 19TH MAY – NEWTOWN SOCIAL CLUB
FRIDAY 20TH MAY – RAD – WOLLONGONG
SATURDAY 21ST MAY – LIVE AT LIZOTTES 31 MOREHEAD ST, LAMBTON
SUNDAY 22ND MAY – BRASS MONKEY
FRIDAY 27TH MAY – THE TRIFFID
SATURDAY 28TH MAY – BIG PINEAPPLE FESTIVAL
FRIDAY 10TH JUNE – STUDIO 188 IPSWICH
