AsiaOne catches up with Kyle Patrick, former lead singer of the American rock band The Click Five on what he's been up to the last few years.
He looks back at the band's immense popularity in Southeast Asia and tells us more about visiting Singapore in 2020, his motorcycle accident in 2021, and the new music he's releasing now under the stage name Pacer.
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He looks back at the band's immense popularity in Southeast Asia and tells us more about visiting Singapore in 2020, his motorcycle accident in 2021, and the new music he's releasing now under the stage name Pacer.
Read more: Read more: https://bit.ly/3xon0Tf
Watch more: https://www.asiaone.com/video
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00:00So that was my first thought was like, I just blew it.
00:05Like my whole life, I just blew it.
00:07Hey Asia 1, I'm Kyle Patrick and I'm here talking about my new project, Pacer.
00:28So I kind of wanted to take you all the way back and ask you about you being in the Click
00:365 and the fact that you guys were strangely really popular in Southeast Asia, which is
00:42like really far away from where you guys live.
00:44So what was that like?
00:45Very, very bizarre and it still is, to be honest with you.
00:49Like there's, you know, our songs are still being played on the radio and that's something
00:55I never experienced.
00:57Here in Los Angeles, I am just a regular dude and there's something about that that I like.
01:05You know, I just live this normal life over here and I've got my studio here in my house
01:09and I'm just making weird noises over here and not really thinking about there being
01:15this like area of the world where my voice might be being heard on the radio.
01:24Some of my most favorite vivid memories are arriving to the airport in Singapore and there
01:30being a crowd of people there and just being welcomed with so much love and screaming,
01:37especially screaming.
01:38A lot of screaming.
01:41Back in 2019, you were in Singapore for a really long time.
01:44I wanted to ask you about the experience, like being here and stuff.
01:51How long were you in Singapore for and like where did you live?
01:55I was making a record with an artist that is based in Singapore named Jay and I was
02:01producing his record.
02:03So he flew me out there and we wrote, I think, 10 or 12 songs and we made an album.
02:11So I was there for a two week period doing that.
02:15But I was staying with the artist actually, a combination of with him and I have a few
02:20other friends in Singapore that I was kind of bouncing around, just getting to visit
02:23some friends, too.
02:25So I always love coming back.
02:27I have made some good friends in Singapore, so it always feels like somewhat of a homecoming
02:35for some reason.
02:36Do you remember like places you like to go visit here or like the food you liked while
02:41you were still here?
02:42I know it's been a couple of years.
02:45It has, but I mainly Bak Kut Teh is like my, that's the thing I remember super well.
02:54A lot of people over here in Singapore remember you as being the lead singer of The Click
03:00Five, but may not have kept up with you afterwards.
03:03So what have you been up to since in like the last decade?
03:07I dabbled in a few things of my own, but mostly I've been focused on working with other artists
03:12and I kind of needed a break from touring and that lifestyle.
03:20It did take a bit of a toll on me.
03:22I came back to it and started working on my own songs after a breakup that kind of catapulted
03:31me into writing some new material.
03:34Of course, I had a lot on my mind and a lot to talk about.
03:37So I started writing songs about that and that was in 2019.
03:42I booked some shows, one of which was in Singapore.
03:44I did a few, a very small run of shows in 2019.
03:50They went super well.
03:51So that kind of got me really excited to do this again.
03:54And really shortly after that, I was in a really bad motorcycle accident and it broke
04:00my neck.
04:01I had a new motorcycle.
04:05It would get almost to 200 miles an hour, insanely fast motorcycle.
04:10And I probably should not have been on a motorcycle like that.
04:13I came into a corner just too fast.
04:15It was very simple what happened.
04:17I was on a full-on mountain canyon road and I was on the outside.
04:21So I actually was kind of thrown off of the edge of the road and went down this, it wasn't
04:31a cliff.
04:32It wasn't like a full drop off, but it was enough to where I was airborne for a little
04:36while and I landed on my neck and my head.
04:40My first thought was that I screwed up.
04:42I had just made a music video for No Drama, my first single.
04:45So my first thought was like, I just blew it, like my whole life, I just blew it.
04:52You're still remembered for music that's like over a decade old.
04:56I mean, I guess now that you have new music coming up, do you want to recapture the old
05:02audience or like you want to be something new completely as Pacer and get a new listening
05:08audience?
05:09Pacer is meant to be a brand new thing.
05:12It's meant to capture a new audience.
05:16It's meant to free me from some of my past, yes.
05:21It's not like I am specifically making efforts to like alienate anyone.
05:28There was success with the Click Five and I was a big part of that.
05:32I was the singer of that band.
05:34So I'm going to have, you know, association with that.
05:39People are going to remember me from that.
05:40And that's completely fine.
05:41That's, that's, of course, I welcome that.
05:44And I'm so excited that anyone even cares in the first place.
05:47You want to like plan to come back to Southeast Asia and Singapore?
05:50Definitely.
05:51Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
05:53Definitely the plan is for me to come back and perform, which I will be doing Pacer songs
05:59and some Click Five songs.
06:03I love to kind of combine things and do some singalongs for the Click Five fans as well.
06:10But yeah, the Pacer stuff is in high activity.
06:14I have currently four songs that I'll be releasing.
06:18So I have quite a few new songs that kind of stem from that breakup in 2018, 2019.
06:26I have No Drama, which is the first single that just came out.
06:32And there's a music video coming up for that song, which is the one I filmed right before
06:36my motorcycle accident.
06:38I'm going to put out another song at some point after that, maybe in August or something,
06:44July, August.
06:45I'm getting married July 21st.
06:48There's a lot going on with that and just life in general.
06:51So there's there's lots of exciting things.
06:54I am ready to to really come out with a bunch of tunes over the next six months or so.
07:04And yeah, I hope people like them.