Bob Evans has me feeling nostalgic with his latest single “Born Yesterday.” If the lyrics don’t make you want to search for your high school yearbook, that killer sax line certainly will. At a time when so many of us are feeling frustrated by the world around us, this little trip down memory lane is the perfect sonic solution.
“I was backstage at a Jebediah gig when an old housemate from Perth messaged me with a link to our old sharehouse we lived in that was for sale. We couldn’t believe it when looking through the photos of the house that it hadn’t changed at all since we lived there in the late 90s. What followed was a slew of messaging between us, as well as the other two friends I used to live with in that house. It was my first sharehouse after leaving home and the whole exchange between us and seeing the house again just brought back a lot of great memories from that time and age, my late teens and early twenties,” he explained about the song’s inspiration. “I already had the music for the song pretty much written at that stage so all I needed was the lyric to go with it. It’s a deeply nostalgic song for me, looking back at a stage of my life that feels so long ago now, but at the time it felt like it would last forever.”
The video’s Super 8 footage amps up the nostalgia. It captures life in the studio and on the road in such a candid way that you feel like you were part of the action.
Bob Evans will play a couple of shows in May. Catch him at Melbourne’s Palais Theatre on the 19th and Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on the 20th.
Image used with permission from On the Map PR