I am not a rocket scientologist, but it’s safe to say the ’80s were awesome. The movies were awesome. The music was awesome. Sometimes they combined, like in the majestic Cobra. (Spoiler: Sylvester Stallone cuts his pizza with scissors.) With a dose of ’80s Miami Vice-like nostalgia, Adelaide’s Jarrad Lee Jackson, who rolls with the name World Wild, released his ode to the skate and surf scene, ‘Coast to Coast’, late last year. He kinda digs the ’80s, as we discovered through an interview with Rip It Up last year. He said: “When I write music I have imagery up, like Olivia Newton-John posters and ’80s skateboards, and I have a ’80s movie in my head, where they’re on a yacht at Miami Beach or something. I imagine this perfect world of everyone having the best life ever. Writing music, for me, is all imagination. I feel like I’m in Never-never Land, making up themes in my head of a movie I’ve never seen, or piecing bits from other movies and characters. It’s all imaginary, and I try to capture that through sound.” And now there is plenty more ’80s-inspired shiny synth pop for you to gorge on – his debut EP, Caribbean Gold. The Karova, Ballarat – May 21.
