Wesley Black

Perth, Western Australia

I started making it after years of story writing and eventually poetry, but my first opportunity to really play live was thanks to GOAT 6K at The Bird.

Covid slowed down the release of many visual stuff like the OUTLAW! Music Video for one, but gave me time to create heaps of innovative music and really experiment. I made heaps of music and watched a lot of movies too, which are usually my biggest inspiration for music

The whole track and visuals were inspired by a short story I wrote ages ago called You Can’t Run From The Outlaw! where Wesley Black was a character who had to overcome vices and a bad conscience to become the best version of himself. The visual themes include a masked gang, a masquerade mask and a passenger seated Wesley, all working towards his journey in becoming the Outlaw- the alpha male, the best version of me

Inspired heavily by my short story, I wrote OUTLAW! as something positive and aggressive. It’s a track that reflects my un-anxious side, to say the least, which in a sense is the polar opposite to RED! This song is about achieving your highest heights and challenging yourself to the fullest.

As I do with most of my tracks, I scout beats from a collection of Soundcloud trap producers. Once leased, I take my stems down to Shake Down Studios and record it, and then take it down to Boy Banks who co-produced and mixed and mastered this one. He is going to be mixing my entire EP, he really knows my sound.

A lot of tea and a lot of energy. I rewatched Eyes Wide Shut before I recorded it, because that was such a big influence on this track, and helped me get into the whole Wesley Black character- I brought a lot of rage and energy to the session, and went hard on the ad-libs

The video was mainly inspired by my short story I wrote in my late teens about Wesley Black and the Outlaw, a neo-Western, where Wesley Black succumbs to his vices before turning around and standing on his own two feet. It’s just a cool revenge story I wrote, and a lot of visuals were also inspired by Eyes Wide Shut

Justplay Media shot this one, and I directed and edited it myself using my storyboard I created a while back. We went all over the place, the red room scenes were shot in a sea container in Rockingham, the tea party were shot at a friends parents house and the horse scenes were shot at Sandeli Park. Everyone was super helpful.

In a lot of ways, it’s tied together. OUTLAW! features a lot of references to previous music videos, but it feels like a whole new level. I tried a lot of guerilla effects like crashing a car and using car mounts, but the lighting and camera movements feel much more cinematic, and the storyline works really well.

A lot of Dominic Fike, Smino and Travis Scott. A strange mix, but they all offer something I’m really liking at the moment.

Write stories, watch films and watch wrestling. All of these things inspire my music in the long run anyway.

A project I’m super proud of. The hardest tracks I can possibly do- it’s a whole new sound and i’m aiming to make a new subgenre off the backend of it. After that, I wanna try releasing something acoustic and raw. A whole variety this year.