Dustin Helgesen spoke to Chris Haines, bass player for MR E.

Mr E

Dustin: What do you hope to accomplish with your music?

Chris: We all just love music, writing, recording, producing and performing. We want to express what's going on in our lives, through our music, to as many people as possible.

Dustin: Where does your faith in Christ become most evident in the gigging environment?

Chris: We don't just play and leave - we like to take the time to talk to people in between sets, which has resulted in some very funny conversations! The music is a vehicle into these places and we're just vehicles for God, doing what he wants us to do there.

Dustin: How does the music you play come across to people at a venue?

Chris: We've taken a lot of time to develop our sound and performance, which I think people notice when we're playing, whether it's in a small, dark pub in the middle of nowhere, or a large venue. The music is just who we are and we're not trying to be anything else, and people see and hear the passion whether they're a Christian teenage rocker or a drunk tattooed biker!

Dustin: What are your goals?

Chris: We want to be successful, reaching as many people with our music as possible. Of course we'd love to get interest from a big label in order to achieve that goal but until then we're developing our own label, Knuci Records, and we'll continue to write, record and release music on our label. As long as the buzz keeps growing and we're improving as musicians we're happy.

Dustin: How do you intend to keep it fresh on future releases?

Chris: More hard work! It's true what they say, "one per cent inspiration, 99 per cent perspiration!" It's taken a lot of work, heartache, mistakes and prayer to get to where we are now and it's going to take a lot more to continue, hopefully without the heartache and mistakes! We want to be innovative, experimenting more on future Mr E albums and really pushing ourselves with every release. We're already writing and recording the next album and we have some live recordings "in the can."