“We have got to this stage in a time where it’s quite difficult to get noticed” – interview with Call Me Amour

UK four piece band Call Me Amour have just released their self-titled EP, and we got a chance to talk to them about music, pizza and unpopular opinions. Read our chat below!

Hello guys, how are you doing?

Danny Hall: Wicked, wicked. 

Geoff Murphy: I’m not doing well. I’m full of the flu, which is bad news. And there’s a few of us on the bus that have sort of come down with it, but over the last few days, I think we’re gradually getting better, but bad timing.

I will keep my fingers crossed you get better ASAP because flu is not very nice, especially when you’re on tour. So your self-titled EP is out now. Were there any songs in it that started in one way and then turned out to be completely different from the original idea?

Geoff Murphy:Yeah, they all kind of grew in a similar way. I’d say “Good Day” was one idea that started a long time ago. And then on the tour bus, on one of the previous tours we did, we’d just mess about with it, playing it acoustically, and Danny would be playing his drums on his lap like that. He kind of developed more so from that. But usually we’d have a solid idea, a demo done. With this, I had a demo, but we didn’t really do anything with it. It just sort of developed after that, if you know what I mean. So on the sound tour bus, like we are now, just playing the acoustic guitar and then using Danny’s knees for drums.

That’s amazing. So you’re currently on tour. Do you have any rituals before going on stage?

Danny Hall: Yeah, we do. We say the same thing every time. It’s not something we want to repeat to your viewers or whatever. We have a little pep talk. We all give each other love before we go on stage and talk about where we are and how lucky we feel to be there. And then we’ve got something that we shout out quite loud, but it’s not necessarily PG. It’s not something for your viewers that we shout out loud. 

Geoff Murphy: And I think it’s come to a point where if we don’t do it, we feel like we’re going to have a bad gig. So we’ve done it from the start. And now we feel if we don’t do it, we’re going to have a bad gig. So we have to do it. 

Danny Hall: Yeah, it started out as a joke. It started out as a joke, and now it’s developed into something.

Do you have any other plans for this remaining 2025 that you can share with us?

Geoff Murphy: Yeah. Yeah, we’ve got a few things going on. We’ve got the recording again with George Parks, who recorded the last EP. That’s coming up in May. We’ve got a possibility of another few dates in the UK. And we’ve also got another headline tour around Europe that we’re looking at at the minute. And possibly a festival, maybe. We don’t know yet. It’s all up in the air at the minute. We’re just waiting to see what happens. Once we get away, you know, get back home from this tour, then we can discuss it a little bit more. Yeah.

What do you think is the best thing about being an artist in 2025?

Danny Hall: It’s hard being an artist in 2025. It’s probably the hardest it’s ever been. 

Geoff Murphy: I suppose in that regard, it’s quite fulfilling that if you get to this stage in your career as an artist, that it’s, you know, you have worked hard because it’s getting harder and harder for people to break through. So, yeah, that’s the most fulfilling part of it. We have got to this stage in a time where it’s quite difficult to get, you know, get noticed and get yourself out there. 

Danny Hall: We’re lucky that we can do it and that someone’s listening. Somebody likes us.

Have you ever taught anyone how to play an instrument?

Danny Hall: Yes. Many, many, many times. Like, I’ve used that as an income sometimes in my life. It’s really rewarding, though, when you see that person go from nothing to something.

Geoff Murphy: I don’t think I have. Like, I think I’ve tried to teach people guitar and stuff, but I don’t have the patience. I have tried, but only once or twice. 

Do you have an unpopular opinion that you can share with us?

Geoff Murphy: Probably loads. Well, I don’t know if it’s unpopular. Justin Bieber’s a legend. He hates football. That’s not good.

Danny Hall: Football’s boring. 

Geoff Murphy: I like football. 

Danny Hall: Yeah, he likes it. He plays it as well. I played football for a minute and a half once, and Tom wasn’t going to be like… So, I’m definitely not made for football, ever.

Who is the messiest person in Call Me Amour?

Danny Hall: I am. I am. I’m quite reckless. I’m just dead dozy. I’m just distracted easily. That’s all I can say.

Geoff Murphy: I pride myself on being quite tidy. I’m tidy, but my wife will disagree.

Danny Hall: Yeah, you are quite tidy. 

So, you’ve had collaborations and duets in both of your EPs. I was wondering if you have to dream your wildest dreams, and you could choose any living artist to make a collaboration or a band. Which one would you choose?

Geoff Murphy: A living artist? That’s quite tough. I’d say if we were to ask whether it was somebody that was already dead, we’d probably say the same thing. Kurt Cobain. 

Danny Hall: Yeah. Literally, I’d love to play drums for him. It’d be the best day ever. 

Geoff Murphy: Yeah, living. I don’t know, actually.

I wanted to play a little game with you, if that’s all right. I’m Italian and, of course, I like pizza and hopefully you do too. Let’s say that after this interview, you get a call from a lawyer who says you have a distant relative from Italy and you’ve inherited their pizza place. Would you keep the pizza place? Would you move to Italy? Would you not keep the pizza place and sell it or, I don’t know, something else?

Geoff Murphy: Well, I’d keep the pizza place and move to Italy. I’ve been to Italy, like, I’ve only been to Italy twice now. Once in Milan, which is where we’ve just finished playing on the tour. And I went to Rome a long time ago. And the first meal I had when I got to Rome was a McDonald’s. My dad was furious with me. I have all the places to go and eat when you’re in Italy. I went to McDonald’s, so I’m embarrassed about that. But the food there in Italy was unbelievable. The pizzas were, like, crazy. Very thin crust, but full of flavour. Really nice food there. I’d definitely move to Italy and keep the pizza place. Yeah, definitely.

Danny Hall: Definitely keep it. Yeah.

Can you share with us one of the best feedback that you’ve gotten from a fan or from someone about your music and your performance,?

Geoff Murphy: We’ve been doing some interviews on this tour. One of the questions was about the prestigious award of having a breakthrough artist by Amazon Music. And they said that they could see this being on the way to receiving a Grammy, which was quite a… I mean, I was quite blown away by that. It was a bit too quick. But that’s high praise, I suppose. Well, yeah. We’ve had some really good reviews. So, you know, off the top of my head, I can’t think of one in particular, but it balances itself out. Occasionally, you’ll get somebody that doesn’t like the music, which is fine. But, yeah, a lot of… We’re lucky that we’re getting a lot of very good reviews. 

If you were to participate to the Eurovision Song Contest, which song from the latest EP would you choose to get in the competition?

Geoff Murphy: I think we’d put Dress as Vikings. We’d probably do “Bloom” or something like that. That’s quite a powerful song. We could all row onto the set of a big viking boat.

Danny Hall: With Harry and a big man-eating plant, and he’ll just, like, pop out and he’ll sing it. It’s like, actually, where did that come from? I don’t know.

Do you remember, like, the role that the music had when you were, like, in your childhood? So maybe the music that your parents or in your house you listened to?

Geoff Murphy: Yeah, I think both of them had the same sort of thing. 

Danny Hall: Yeah. And my parents were, like, into Motown and stuff. And, like, I grew up with, like, all that type of stuff. So that makes me funky, I guess. Funky. And Jeff had the same with the older parents. 

Geoff Murphy: My parents used to listen to music constantly. And it was never a particular genre. My dad was into classical music. But also listened to a lot of, like, old rock and roll. And my mum was more, I don’t know, Thin Lizzy, that kind of stuff. But, yeah, I was constantly surrounded by music when I was growing up. So, yeah, it definitely had an impact. I’d go through that vinyl collection before I went to school as a little boy, listening to it all. Yeah, definitely had an impact on me. 

Danny Hall: My parents used to maybe sit me down and maybe listen to all the tracks and make me appreciate it. You will listen. You will appreciate this. It’s brilliant. Definitely influenced me playing and me appreciation of music, definitely. For the better.

Do you think it’s harder for women to be in the rock and metal music industry?

Danny Hall: Well, not necessarily. Maybe a little. It’s a hard industry, no matter what sex you are. It’s a hard industry. There’s a lot of people who are strong and have strong opinions and strong personalities within it. And you just need to be strong to deal with it. So it doesn’t really matter if you’re a man or a woman, because there are millions of successful people of both genders. You just need to be a strong person on the inside to deal with it. So that’s my opinion. 

Geoff Murphy: I think there’s always, for a long time, rock music and metal music has always seemed to be a male-dominated area. It’s such an old-fashioned concept and way of looking at it. I think now there’s a lot of, as you said, strong female artists out there that are not breaking into it, they’re just proving themselves to be as good as anybody. So I’d say going back a good 10, 15, 20 years ago, it probably was difficult for female artists to break into rock. Now, I think it’s evened out. There are so many good female artists out there.

Thank you so much for taking the time to do this interview with me. Is there anything else that you want to add to our readers?

Danny Hall: Stay tuned. 

Geoff Murphy: Stay tuned, yeah. We’ve got a lot coming up this year. Hopefully, at the end of the year, we’ll be back in Europe, and we’ll be in Italy again. Hopefully, fingers crossed. Look forward to that, so just stay tuned, and hopefully we’ll see you at the show.