00:00So that was my first thought was like, I just blew it.
00:05Like my whole life, I just blew it.
00:07Hey Asia 1, I'm Kyle Patrick and I'm here talking about my new project, Pacer.
00:28So I kind of wanted to take you all the way back and ask you about you being in the Click
00:365 and the fact that you guys were strangely really popular in Southeast Asia, which is
00:42like really far away from where you guys live.
00:44So what was that like?
00:45Very, very bizarre and it still is, to be honest with you.
00:49Like there's, you know, our songs are still being played on the radio and that's something
00:55I never experienced.
00:57Here in Los Angeles, I am just a regular dude and there's something about that that I like.
01:05You know, I just live this normal life over here and I've got my studio here in my house
01:09and I'm just making weird noises over here and not really thinking about there being
01:15this like area of the world where my voice might be being heard on the radio.
01:24Some of my most favorite vivid memories are arriving to the airport in Singapore and there
01:30being a crowd of people there and just being welcomed with so much love and screaming,
01:37especially screaming.
01:38A lot of screaming.
01:41Back in 2019, you were in Singapore for a really long time.
01:44I wanted to ask you about the experience, like being here and stuff.
01:51How long were you in Singapore for and like where did you live?
01:55I was making a record with an artist that is based in Singapore named Jay and I was
02:01producing his record.
02:03So he flew me out there and we wrote, I think, 10 or 12 songs and we made an album.
02:11So I was there for a two week period doing that.
02:15But I was staying with the artist actually, a combination of with him and I have a few
02:20other friends in Singapore that I was kind of bouncing around, just getting to visit
02:23some friends, too.
02:25So I always love coming back.
02:27I have made some good friends in Singapore, so it always feels like somewhat of a homecoming
02:35for some reason.
02:36Do you remember like places you like to go visit here or like the food you liked while
02:41you were still here?
02:42I know it's been a couple of years.
02:45It has, but I mainly Bak Kut Teh is like my, that's the thing I remember super well.
02:54A lot of people over here in Singapore remember you as being the lead singer of The Click
03:00Five, but may not have kept up with you afterwards.
03:03So what have you been up to since in like the last decade?
03:07I dabbled in a few things of my own, but mostly I've been focused on working with other artists
03:12and I kind of needed a break from touring and that lifestyle.
03:20It did take a bit of a toll on me.
03:22I came back to it and started working on my own songs after a breakup that kind of catapulted
03:31me into writing some new material.
03:34Of course, I had a lot on my mind and a lot to talk about.
03:37So I started writing songs about that and that was in 2019.
03:42I booked some shows, one of which was in Singapore.
03:44I did a few, a very small run of shows in 2019.
03:50They went super well.
03:51So that kind of got me really excited to do this again.
03:54And really shortly after that, I was in a really bad motorcycle accident and it broke
04:00my neck.
04:01I had a new motorcycle.
04:05It would get almost to 200 miles an hour, insanely fast motorcycle.
04:10And I probably should not have been on a motorcycle like that.
04:13I came into a corner just too fast.
04:15It was very simple what happened.
04:17I was on a full-on mountain canyon road and I was on the outside.
04:21So I actually was kind of thrown off of the edge of the road and went down this, it wasn't
04:31a cliff.
04:32It wasn't like a full drop off, but it was enough to where I was airborne for a little
04:36while and I landed on my neck and my head.
04:40My first thought was that I screwed up.
04:42I had just made a music video for No Drama, my first single.
04:45So my first thought was like, I just blew it, like my whole life, I just blew it.
04:52You're still remembered for music that's like over a decade old.
04:56I mean, I guess now that you have new music coming up, do you want to recapture the old
05:02audience or like you want to be something new completely as Pacer and get a new listening
05:08audience?
05:09Pacer is meant to be a brand new thing.
05:12It's meant to capture a new audience.
05:16It's meant to free me from some of my past, yes.
05:21It's not like I am specifically making efforts to like alienate anyone.
05:28There was success with the Click Five and I was a big part of that.
05:32I was the singer of that band.
05:34So I'm going to have, you know, association with that.
05:39People are going to remember me from that.
05:40And that's completely fine.
05:41That's, that's, of course, I welcome that.
05:44And I'm so excited that anyone even cares in the first place.
05:47You want to like plan to come back to Southeast Asia and Singapore?
05:50Definitely.
05:51Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
05:53Definitely the plan is for me to come back and perform, which I will be doing Pacer songs
05:59and some Click Five songs.
06:03I love to kind of combine things and do some singalongs for the Click Five fans as well.
06:10But yeah, the Pacer stuff is in high activity.
06:14I have currently four songs that I'll be releasing.
06:18So I have quite a few new songs that kind of stem from that breakup in 2018, 2019.
06:26I have No Drama, which is the first single that just came out.
06:32And there's a music video coming up for that song, which is the one I filmed right before
06:36my motorcycle accident.
06:38I'm going to put out another song at some point after that, maybe in August or something,
06:44July, August.
06:45I'm getting married July 21st.
06:48There's a lot going on with that and just life in general.
06:51So there's there's lots of exciting things.
06:54I am ready to to really come out with a bunch of tunes over the next six months or so.
07:04And yeah, I hope people like them.
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