4 QUESTIONS WITH
Sherrin Varghese
Tell us about your style of music
My style of music is what I
have coined as Bollytronica
or Mallu dubstep and the
reason I have called it that is
because of Bollywood that is
the omnipresent devil that
we have in our country and I
personally like dance music and
the electronic side of music.
I come from the school of
thought where music should
not have only the traditional
organic sound of a live band,
neither should it have an
overtly electronic dance music
production sound! I like the
blend and the hybrid nature of
it. That’s the reason why I made
adipoli with a dubstep sound to
it. It has the sounds of an electric
guitar, nadhaswaram etc.
Also, in 2013 when I came out
with my album, I wanted to stand
out, and put my name out in
terms of the electronic scene.
Tell us your best moments of
being part of Band of Boys. What
plans do you have with the band?
A Band of Boys is India’s first
boy band and with them we have
all had the pleasure of being a
very unique, high octane, highly
regarded band in India. We have
been alive for twenty years and
this is technically our third
innings as such. When we came
out, we have had panties thrown
at us on stage, we have had four
passport booklets filled, traveled
the world, we have done 1200 plus
shows, one Bollywood film, five
albums. We have had the world‘s
best attention on us during our
peak time. We are four rascals
together and when we are in our
best elements on stage, we are
all for each other and one for
all. We have been trained and
are what we call manufactured
pop. We have the demographic
of eight to eighty taken care of.
The blend of our voices was our
USP. The one thing you would
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remember about the Band of
Boys is the energy we bring to
the stage or to the audience.
Tell us about the mics you use
My go-to mic on stage is AKG
HT 4500 because of the crisp
nature that it captures the voice.
As a musician, while producing
music, I use the AKG C214 which
is a legacy product where the
entire dynamic range is amazing!
The C451B helps capture guitars
but I’ve also used it to capture
and accentuates my voice.
As a Producer of a property The
Circuit, the heart and soul of
the audio department has been
the Soundcraft UI24R which is
a complete 24 channel mixer
which is just a junction box. The
beauty of this product is that the
UI comes on any device which
hosts a web interface. We can do
levels, mixes, separate mixes,
gain, EQ, effects, and so on. It
has so many features in it!
I use the JBL Eon One’s
PA. I can use it anywhere I
want to. I use the JBL 305P
MKII as well and that is my
studio go-to punch point.
Tell us about your
upcoming projects
I will start with the Band of
Boys, a song we are coming
up with called Nain Ladaye,
a song we have recently
recorded with a video.
My personal solo career has been
chiseling with my latest property
called The Circuit where I am
producing seven episodes in 24
minutes each with each episode
is going to be song based with
songs by me which I have
produced with producers and
arranged by musicians and they
are all different from each other.
This is going to be a seven song
album that I put out. These seven
songs have a live performance.