Review Fix Exclusive: Redwire’s D Goomani Talks Origin And Goals

December 4, 2016 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with Redwire’s D Goomani, who discusses the band’s origin, creative process and goals for the future.

Review Fix: How did the band get together?

D Goomani: Redwire started with myself and Aimee realising a mutual love of music, jamming after work and beginning to write riffs and improvising together. After a while my songwriting was getting better and we realised the songs were actually pretty good, so they started to look for other band members to perform together. They first found singer Mario in early 2014 and started serious rehearsals for their first gig at the 12 Bar Club in May 2014. Our current drummer Mike is quite new to the band but fits in perfectly.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Goomani: I’m our primary songwriter that normally comes up with lyrics, riffs and structure for the songs. The lyrics are normally based on his life experiences and are quite personal. Aimee and I then work together to carve out a good song and then we show it to the rest of the band and work on it all together from there on.

Review Fix: What’s your standout song? How was it written?

Goomani: Our standout song is probably Street Lights, from our debut EP. It’s a ballad and it’s about trying to find your way in life, and if you feel alone there are always people around you to help if you let them. It was written by me, as an expression of how I’ve previously felt in life.

Review Fix: What are your remaining goals for 2016?

Goomani: We have a planned residency at the Dublin Castle, which is based on the success of the massively popular Redrock Festival, which Redwire organised and hosted. We had 15 UK and European bands play and a lot of people came to take part in the day.

Review Fix: How do you want your music to affect people?

Goomani: We don’t write frivolous songs, we want our songs to be relatable and mean something to people. Music has an inherently special way of touching people and we’ve all experienced that. We hope we can inspire or help people that listen to us in one way or another.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Goomani: We have a single and EP planned for next year and we’re also playing at Breaking Bands Festival in May. We also have a European Tour planned for April where we’ll rock Germany, Belgium, Sweden and Denmark, we’re very much looking forward to that! We’ve also been talking to a couple of managers too so 2017 looks very promising for Redwire.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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