Review Fix Exclusive: Slomo Casino’s Jack Batchelor Talks Goals for 2022 And More

August 17, 2021 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with Slomo Casino’s Jack Batchelor, who discusses the band’s origin, creative process and so much more.

Review Fix: How did the project start? 

Jack Batchelor: The project started early last year when myself and Jonny started sending each other song ideas, these usually came in the form of voice memos we’d send each other drunk, so it’s a small miracle we actually managed to construct anything half-decent out of them. 

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like? 

Batchelor: One of us will have a melody idea, chord progression or lyrics all ready and we’ll frame other parts around that until we figure out something that works. 

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

Batchelor: “Balloon”, it’s a song that came together seamlessly; starting with an arrangement that Jonny wrote, I listened to it and at the time was staring out the skylight of my basement in a slightly hungover state and somehow I instantly knew what lyrics to write. The lyrics are almost like a love letter to wanderlust and that feeling you get when you know you belong somewhere else and the romance and excitement involved with that. It will be released as part of our upcoming EP “Marshmallow.”

Review Fix: What are your goals for the rest of 2021? 

Batchelor: We will be releasing our first single “Marshmallow” on 17.09.2021, then we plan to follow that up with a few more singles before we release the entire 5 track EP. We have our first live show planned for later in the year too as well as an acoustic EP release with a couple videos in the pipeline too. 

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

Batchelor: I think the main thing for our first release is we want the tunes to stick in peoples heads, then we’ll know if we’re writing catchy melodies. 

Review Fix: What’s next? 

Batchelor: Whilst we’re planning these separate releases over the rest of the year, the next thing will be writing and recording the next EP so we’re ahead of the game and ready for 2022!

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 13878 Articles
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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