Sam Continues Moving Past the “Movie”

I wasn’t going to post this. I saw it and thought it was a little too heavy on the references about a certain movie that we

try not to mention to much over here. But then I reread it this afternoon and decided to go ahead and post it. And since most of us are fans of the movie as well as Sam, I thought you all would appreciate it! But unlike other blogs and such, I’m concentrating on the non-Twilight/Rob part of the article because, to me, it’s the most interesting!

Enjoy!

Bradley’s been honing his skills since he was 18, the year he realized making music was what he wanted to do with his life.

A year after his family moved to North Vancouver from England, where he grew up and formed a lasting friendship with Pattinson, he experienced what Oprah Winfrey would call an “aha moment.”

He’d quit school without graduating [“when it came to exams I acted like an ass,” he says] and was working at Cafe Crepe on Granville Street when he decided to perform outside on his break.

“A homeless person sort of walked by — it was a woman — and she started dancing and singing along to my song and I kind of looked back inside and my co-workers were dancing inside,” he says.

“I just didn’t want to go back to work. I definitely wanted to play music and I thought it was a possibility.”

His folk musician mother, Lee Lindsey, was supportive of his choice: “Everyone else was kind of like, ‘pipe dream,’ ” he says.

It might have been.

“Nothing really happened until seven or eight months ago [when] I actually became a musician,” he says, referencing the Twilightmania that followed the release of the film. “I say nothing happened but I was working on you know, writing songs, I was playing in venues all over Vancouver.”

Musically the serious-faced singer is a talented guitarist with a knack for churning out slow-burning songs in the tradition of David Gray, all wrapped in a nice indie-style package.

Lyrically he covers universal topics like heartbreak head-on with simple observations, as in Sea Blue: “To live for love is clearly nonsense,” and “We seem to need a whole lot more.”

And you can tell his talent shines most when he works a crowd — guitar in hand, voice clear and strong.

(YouTube is full of his concert videos, sometimes referencing Pattinson or Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart, both of whom have attended his shows in Vancouver.)

“I feel very natural being on stage,” Bradley says.

“I want to entertain. I want to move people. Whether it be like a hip shake or a heartache. Oh god that was cheesy, but you know what I mean?”

You can read the entire article here, including more about the “movie.” I hope you guys get what we are trying to do here. We love the movies and all, but eventually the movies are going to end and we want to guys to be successful long after that happens!