Rhythm of Love: In conversation with Annie’s O.K

Annie’s O.K an upcoming band is comprised of childhood friends whose common taste for classic rock music brought them together. They spent most of their childhood together performing at events. However their friendship has never been limited to music.
Annie’s O.K. formed in 2017 released their debut original ‘Aplomb’ recorded at Jam Studio11 which is dedicated to a particular person – ‘Lolika Kiho’.
Annie’s O.K has an interesting account to share on today’s “Rhythm Of Love”.

EASTERN MIRROR: Please introduce us to the role you each play in Annie’s O.K.
Annie’s O.K: On vocal we have Welly, Imsong on Guitars, Moa on Bass and Achang on Drums.

EASTERN MIRROR: You guys have been together since childhood and performing at events. What took you so long to come together and launch as a band?
Annie’s O.K: This has always been a work in progress but owing to commitments in our academic, we were unable to come together and invest enough time in music.

EASTERN MIRROR: How did Annie’s O.K come into reality? Talk us through your journey and the reason behind your band’s name.
Annie’s O.K: We have always been fun loving people, sharing common interest for classic rock. Our love for rock music has always kept us together through these years. Frankly, we are people who tend to see the lighter side in everything, that is how we came up with the band’s name, in response to MJ’s hit ‘Smooth Criminal’ where he literally screams the whole chorus asking whether “Annie is ok”.

EASTERN MIRROR: What is your song writing process? Do you have any influences?
Annie’s O.K: Writing music has always been about what we want to express and we try to achieve that by putting all effort to communicate the intended message to our listeners. We usually start by establishing a Musical Motive and we work on expanding that idea as a song by adding our own flavours and colours.
Born in the 80’s, we have always been drawn to music of that era ranging from Ac/Dc to RATM.

EASTERN MIRROR: Being a band of childhood friends, does it add to the creativity of your music?
Annie’s O.K: Our friendship has never been limited to music only or say-a band. We hang out regularly like any normal group of friends would.
When it comes to band sessions, the time we spent together has only been a boost in all aspects, encouraging and learning from each other, furnishing our different styles and approaches into a common expression and this keeps our individual ideas from being limited to a particular style.

EASTERN MIRROR: Talk us through your debut release ‘Aplomb’. Why did you decide to dedicate this song-particularly to a person ‘Lolika Kiho’?
Annie’s O.K: ‘Aplomb’ is a title we specifically chose because our song speaks about the strong qualities a Woman possesses and how she handles hardships and struggle life throws at her. Although our song speaks about Women in general, the decision to dedicate it to Lolika Kiho is based on our front man’s personal experience being with her and how he believes she exudes these qualities.

EASTERN MIRROR: Working as a group is not easy especially with each individual having different ideas and tastes. How do you work it out? Any issues you have faced initially?
Annie’s O.K: Considering the fact that we have different approach to music, it works miraculously for us since we like to experiment. We haven’t had any issues but instead these differences work to our advantage as stated earlier.

EASTERN MIRROR: What is the ultimate direction for your band?
Annie’s O.K: Not all of us have opted for Music as a professional career but one thing is for certain that our passion for music will never cease to end. We aspire on bringing back the Good old Rock culture but with a touch of current trends of music. Lastly, we would like to use this platform to tell the people that they can expect interesting stuff from us in the near future as we are currently working on more projects.