Bemz made the shortlist of the 2023 Scottish Album of the Year award for his latest release Nova’s Dad.
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00:00 If one thing, life will always humble you, innit?
00:02 Do you know what I mean?
00:03 And hey, how you doing?
00:04 My name's Bems and I'm here
00:06 'cause my album, "Novus Dadus"
00:07 we're nominated for the shortlist
00:09 of the Scottish Album of the Year Award.
00:11 It's basically about a boy who became a man
00:14 because he had a child, you know?
00:15 And it was just like all the feelings that I felt
00:19 and everything that I felt during the period
00:21 of finding out I was gonna be a dad
00:23 to becoming a dad, you know?
00:24 And that's what the album embodies, you know?
00:27 It goes through all the feelings from sadness
00:29 to anxiety to the depression to happiness
00:33 to being grateful and just everything, you know?
00:35 So yeah, I hope that's a good pitch.
00:37 (laughs)
00:38 - No, but that's like, so see,
00:39 like from your like older stuff then
00:41 and like your previous work,
00:42 tell us about maybe about how you've like
00:46 developed it from then.
00:48 And obviously you've went through this like really like
00:50 huge transition in your life through this album.
00:54 So tell us how you got from like here to here.
00:56 - Um.
00:57 Doing things that you should not be doing basically.
01:02 Do you know what I mean?
01:03 No, I'm joking.
01:04 You know, it's,
01:06 if one thing, life will always humble you, innit?
01:09 Do you know what I mean?
01:10 And if one thing I always learn from is life, you know?
01:13 And that's kind of really it.
01:15 From, you know, "Saint of Lost Causes" to M4
01:18 to now and over is that.
01:20 It's just been growth and just how we can better ourselves,
01:25 you know, and I'm fortunate enough to have such a
01:29 big thing happen to me, you know, which is like my daughter,
01:32 you know, and that was really the catalyst for change.
01:36 And, you know, and I think because the project
01:39 was so personal as well,
01:40 like I really had to do it justice.
01:42 You know, I really had to take my time
01:44 when we were crafting it and it had to be
01:45 with the right people and people who understood
01:48 exactly what this project meant to me.
01:49 Do you know what I mean?
01:50 So, and once you start doing that, you know,
01:55 everything just elevates, you know,
01:56 because you're now working with people who care about you,
02:00 you know, and because they care about you,
02:02 they care about the project, you know,
02:04 because they care about the project,
02:05 it means everyone's 100% love, time and everything
02:08 went into it and you can hear it, you know,
02:10 and you can, like, when people listen to it,
02:12 I hope they hear how we all felt in the process
02:15 of making it 'cause it was very, very emotional, you know?