[caption id="attachment_372" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Copyright © 2011 Sandra Ciampone"] [/caption] Sofar London (and New York City) performer Will Knox applies intricate details to his folk rock infused songs. He is a gem, possessing all that's needed to be successful for years to come. Knox is a musician on the verge of a breakthrough. Recently, Will answered a few questions for Sofar Extended Play: How did you hear about Sofar? I was in New York hanging out with another Sofar artist Bo Bruce - she wanted to do an acoustic gig for Sofar over there, and asked me to play guitar. That was my introduction to Sofar! It's been just as fun on both sides of the ocean.

Copyright © 2011 Sandra Ciampone What was it like to play a Sofar event? Different in the best way. There's no P.A. or microphones so there's absolutely nothing to hide behind - so it's a very honest way of performing. You can see everyone's face, and the place is dead silent, so you also have an opportunity to interact with the audience in ways that venues don't allow sometimes. If there’s one thing you try to convey with your music, what would it be? I'm not sure if this is answering the question, but I like to get the lyrics across. I put more effort in writing the lyrics than any other part of the song, which is why Sofar is so great - people listen!! How long have you been playing music? I've played the clarinet since I was seven - does that count? I haven't picked it up in a while though. I started playing guitar about 12 years ago; and writing songs about 7 years ago. But since I was a toddler music has been around me, whether I was playing it or not. Can you tell me about the tour? Yes! And as you can tell by that exclamation point I'm very excited about it. For

5 weeks I'll be touring the entire United States with my good friend Ari Herstand. We start in LA on August 1st and loop around the country until we finish in Texas. We've dubbed it 'Tour America', using modified American tourism posters for the artwork - while Ari's seen most of the States before I'm not sure if he's ready for me ooh-ing and ah-ing at everything along the way. I also only have about 10 hours of driving experience under my belt, so I'm not sure if he knows he'll be playing the role of driving instructor either! You mentioned a project that you are recording a cover song for on Twitter, have you decided on anything yet? It's between an Elliott Smith song (probably Clementine) or a Bruce Springsteen song (probably Atlantic City) - I might have to put it up to a Facebook vote as I'm torn. Suggestions welcome on Twitter too-- @willknoxmusic! Copyright © 2011 Sandra Ciampone You seem to have a love of art, outside of your music, can you tell me about it?

I think artwork is becoming more and more lost with the MP3 revolution. We used to have 12"x12" covers to fill up with artwork - something musicians used to take a lot of pride in. Now we only have 120x120 pixels on our iPods and I think artwork's been neglected. I also figured if we were going stop people just stealing MP3s we needed fun, tangible artwork that people wanted to touch, hold and look at. That was the inspiration behind my last EP 'Lexicon', a comic book (with a digital download code inside) that uses all the lyrics as the storyline. We're also developing an iPad app for it, which again will hopefully inspire someone to buy the record as opposed to just steal the MP3s on Limewire. Of all your songs, what song is nearest to your heart? Why? That's a bit like asking a parent who their favourite child is, but I suppose there's always one. I like playing the two songs I played at Sofar - Belly of the Beast and Ice Capades. I can still sing them and get the same feeling I felt when I first sang them. As a performer a lot of songs start to lose their intensity as time goes on, but not with these two.