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Ahead of the release of their latest album ‘Pain’ Theo Bleak speaks about Glasgow’s rich music scene and performing through character
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04/10/2023
Theo Bleak is a rising Scottish star and about to release her latest EP ‘Pain’. A regular at Glasgow venues such as King Tut’s and the Poetry Club, we spoke to Theo about the city’s music scene.
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My name's Theo Bleak and I'm an artist from Dundee in Scotland.
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So I've got an EP coming out on Halloween called Pain and it's just a look at my relationships
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and I guess being a victim of things but also causing harm as well and just having a more
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balanced look at my experiences.
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Theo Bleak as a character I guess was just an escape from myself and I've always appreciated
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artists that kind of had a stage name or like a stage presence so it was quite fun to, I
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don't know, see this character grow over the years like stylistically and aesthetically
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and also the sound, like it's like watching something you've created just grow into a
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fully formed thing which is really exciting to me.
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And yeah, it's definitely helped me channel things through more of an unbiased perspective.
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So I'm originally from Blairgowrie and then I grew up in Dundee but I lived in Glasgow
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for a year at one point when I was in my first band and was really trying to kind of like
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get into music and I think the scene here is really busy.
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I think it's probably the centre point of Scottish music or it's considered that anyway.
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However, since going back to Dundee it's been quite cool to see there's amazing musicians
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all over Scotland in the north and in the east as well that sometimes probably miss
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out a bit but it's good seeing those scenes kind of like develop and find their own sort
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of community.
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I'm noticing that in Dundee in particular there's a lot of really cool new artists and
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people who are actually wanting to get out and support live music.
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I think I'm probably somewhere between alternative rock and shoegaze indie, sonically.
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But I love a lot of stripped back things.
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I love musical theatre, I love soundtracks, I just take a lot from everything that's kind
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of around me but I kind of want the project to be more than just sound.
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I want it to be quite a visual world and a place to escape to because that's how it's
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felt for me.
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I actually planned on becoming a doctor a couple of years ago when I was like 26 and
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I didn't really know what to do next and I'd done a masters in cognitive science and philosophy
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so I was thinking about going into psychiatry but I just knew that I'd probably be able
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to get through the course and I'd probably be able to do it but my heart just wouldn't
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be in it whereas my heart is in music and it's always been and I think my philosophy
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was well even if I get older and think I'm never going to think wow I'm really glad I
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didn't pursue the thing I loved.
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I mean there's always time to do something different if it doesn't work out but I think
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there was just a voice in my head that was like you will regret not trying and I've always
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not really felt good enough or faced struggles like all people do but there's obviously a
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lot of misogyny in music too so that was overcoming that and pursuing it anyway regardless of
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what other people think.
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