ADAM PAVITT

Loneliness Don’t Pay is a song that is about when someone knows you just about as well as you know yourself. You can try to face things alone, but if there is someone who is looking out for you it makes it all that much easier. My favorite line in the song, “put you heartbeat next to my head and you can stop me frowning now” is all about putting you head on your loved one’s chest and letting your troubles drift away.
The feel of the song is bluesy with a bit of a soul feel for the second half. The song has a bit of a bounce to it and at times only relies on a mainly two string rhythmic strumming pattern. Once Rocky Rivers added his fretless bass line the groove started to fall into place. Cameron Spike-Porter also really added the icing to the cake with some solid slide-guitar licks. What started off as a rather sparse track was buffed out to tap into the raw emotions of the song. The main riff has hints of Diesel’s ‘Right On The Tip of My Tongue’, where as I have always favored playing his song ‘Cryin’ Shame’. So the influences of my youth have come filtering into my songwriting again.
I found a nice riff that has some strange chords that I had not played before and added them as a secondary layer in the second verse. It seems to give that section a nice lift along with the backing vocals. Naomi Jones and Joanna Flemming sang together in the studio for an old-school backing vocals natural vibe. This song was a heap of fun to practice before going in to get the vocals layer up. Jo, Naomi and I would be on the soul train and getting down with some soul claps and plenty of “shoops”.