00:00a way for me to collaborate with him posthumously.
00:04But you can keep that in because that's also good B-roll.
00:07Right.
00:08Right. Cheers.
00:09Good luck.
00:10For a tiny boy.
00:11I'm Leif Caulfield.
00:13I'm a music producer and artist
00:16from Glasgow.
00:18And whereabouts specifically in Glasgow?
00:20Specifically East Kilbride.
00:22Does that matter?
00:23It does.
00:24If you're outside of Glasgow,
00:26you are from Glasgow.
00:29Even at, like, from East Kilbride,
00:31if I speak to somebody outside of Glasgow,
00:33I'm from Glasgow.
00:34Just because that's, like,
00:35you could be in, like, Magaluf or something like that.
00:37Yeah.
00:38If somebody goes, like,
00:39oh, where are you from?
00:40Glasgow.
00:41But then if you speak to a Glaswegian person
00:42and then they go, like,
00:43oh, where are you from?
00:44Glasgow.
00:45He's like, whereabouts?
00:46East Kilbride.
00:47And they're like, that's the f***ing Glasgow!
00:48I would say my music is,
00:51I would say pop slash synth pop.
00:54It's just, like, variations,
00:56different variations of, like, pop.
00:57But I'm a producer first and foremost,
00:58like, that's what I started doing.
00:59I started producing when I was 18.
01:01And that's, like, my,
01:02that's the first love.
01:03Like, the first love is the creation of the music.
01:05And then I think maybe four years after that,
01:09I was, like,
01:10I was fed up of people taking ages
01:12to get back with vocals and shit like that.
01:14So then I just started singing on stuff.
01:16And then it kind of took the shape of, like,
01:18where we are now,
01:19where it's, like,
01:20now I don't need anybody.
01:22I'm my own entity.
01:24You know what I mean?
01:25The main thing with my music
01:26is I want people to, like,
01:29I want it to be, like, fun.
01:31Like, I want people to, like,
01:32have fun when they're listening.
01:33I want it to be,
01:34I don't want it to be, like, sad.
01:35Even if it's sad material,
01:37then there's probably,
01:38there's a place for that.
01:39The majority of the time,
01:40I want people to just be, like,
01:41and having fun when they're listening to music.
01:43Whether it be, like, summertime,
01:45like, you know,
01:46you're, like, vibing in a car.
01:47Always dreamed of being in a band
01:49or being a,
01:50being an artist in plenty of crowds.
01:52So it's, that's the,
01:53that's always been the end goal.
01:54It's just, like, how to get there
01:56has just, like, kind of
01:57taken the shape of what it is now.
01:59At the end of the day,
02:00it comes down to, like,
02:01I want to make the best music possible
02:02and I want to make it with
02:03the best people possible.
02:05And then I want to play
02:06to the biggest crowd possible.
02:08Do you know what I mean?
02:09Like, there's something about
02:10playing live to a crowd
02:13where it's, like,
02:14it's like a drug.
02:16I feed off of that energy.
02:17Like, I thrive on it.
02:19Do you know what I mean?
02:20So only fascination.
02:21Tell me a bit about that.
02:23So only fascination is,
02:26I mean, pardon the pun,
02:27like, the most fascinating track
02:28that I have.
02:30Because I feel like as artists,
02:32like, we always try and, like,
02:34make everything have such
02:35a deeper meaning to the music,
02:36even if it's just, like,
02:37you've made up some kind of,
02:38like, fantasy story
02:39and you write about that.
02:41This legitimately has, like, backstory.
02:44It's so deeply rooted in my family.
02:45So when my dad was,
02:48God, he must have been, like, 17.
02:50He was on holiday with his pals.
02:53For some reason,
02:54he managed to get a tape
02:56of one of my great-uncle's old demos.
03:01And it was a tune called
03:02Only Fascination.
03:03And he showed it to his pals
03:04and shit like that.
03:05Didn't say that it was his uncle.
03:07And all the boys were, like,
03:08oh, that's f***ing amazing.
03:10And then, so they were listening
03:11to it the whole holiday.
03:13And at the end, he was, like,
03:14by the way, that's my great-uncle.
03:15And they were, like, no f***ing way.
03:16This kind of story of, like,
03:17only fascination,
03:18I'd always heard about it.
03:19Like, I'd always,
03:20it was always in our, kind of,
03:21family zeitgeist.
03:23It was the stuff of, like,
03:24myth and legend.
03:25So it was just hidden somewhere.
03:26So my great-uncle was
03:28diagnosed with cancer
03:30in September of 2023.
03:34And then,
03:35so I think he was only given, like,
03:37he was actually only given
03:38a few weeks to live.
03:40So I think then he was just,
03:42kind of, like,
03:43I'll just start f***ing
03:44clearing the hard drives,
03:45kind of thing.
03:46He sent Only Fascination
03:47to my dad.
03:48And then my dad showed it to me.
03:50And I was, like,
03:51this is, like, a hit.
03:52To me, it was utterly criminal
03:54that it was never released.
03:55Well, the goal was to, like,
03:56collaborate with him on it
03:58and then release it.
04:00But his health deteriorated,
04:01like, really rapidly,
04:02as you would imagine,
04:03like, f***ing three weeks to live.
04:04You know the Beatles tune
04:05Now and Then?
04:06So they had just released that.
04:09And the backstory behind that
04:10was that, like,
04:11John Lennon had these old
04:12demo tapes and
04:13then they used AI to, like,
04:15extract the vocal
04:16and do that shit.
04:17So I was, like,
04:18amazing.
04:19So I did the same
04:20with my great-uncle's recording
04:23of Only Fascination.
04:24Basically took the vocal
04:26and then remade the rest
04:28of the instrumental
04:29from the ground up,
04:30dissecting all the parts
04:31and then recreating them.
04:32I was, like,
04:33this is f***ing amazing, man.
04:34Like, there's so much
04:35that goes into it.
04:36Even just wee,
04:37kind of, structure things,
04:38wee, kind of, chord changes
04:39that, like,
04:40I would never think of,
04:41wee melodic lines
04:42I would never think of
04:43a way for me to, like,
04:44collaborate with him
04:46posthumously.
04:47Brief, kind of,
04:48backstory about him.
04:49He was, like,
04:50in a band called
04:51the GSD Band
04:52in the 60s
04:54and early 70s.
04:55And they toured
04:58with, like,
04:59David Bowie
05:00when he was doing
05:01his UK tour
05:02back then.
05:04I think it was
05:05for the Ziggy Stardust tour,
05:06which is crazy.
05:07Pals with Billy Connolly,
05:08Gerry Rafferty,
05:09just, like...
05:10It's pretty cool.
05:11It's insane, man.
05:12The stuff of, like,
05:13Scottish legend,
05:14I think they
05:15parted ways
05:16in the, kind of,
05:17early to mid 70s
05:18and he just wrote
05:19their stuff, like...
05:20Didn't ever have, like,
05:21a solo career.
05:22I think he maybe intended to
05:23but just didn't.
05:24I think it's just nice, man.
05:25It's, like, nice that
05:26I've been able to, kind of,
05:27continue his, or, like,
05:29at least release
05:30part of his, like, legacy
05:31so that that, like,
05:32continues.
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