Jason Resch was introduced to Australian country music audiences as a member of country-pop four-piece Darlinghurst, who topped charts and won awards for their songs including ‘Pretty Doesn’t Make You Good’.

Resch’s life in music started well before then, however: on a toy piano in childhood, as he told me during our interview, before he moved on to other instruments. He played in a band from the age of thirteen until he was seventeen, and that led directly to him leaving Australia to move to the United Kingdom at the age of eighteen, to write songs for production company Xenomania. He has written songs for Kylie Minogue and Pet Shop Boys, with his songs achieving chart success around the world.

After the UK, Resch moved to Nashville for a while, mainly to write songs, and because he was drawn to country music.

Given his background we talked quite a lot about songwriting, and Resch mentioned how he doesn’t want to write ‘sugar rush songs’ which feel good initially but don’t have lasting impact – I hadn’t heard the concept expressed like that before, and it’s memorable! We then talked in depth about his songwriting, including the fact that he writes daily. And he means daily – as he said in the chat, he tried to take a holiday once!

After years of writing for others, and for Darlinghurst, Resch is now releasing his first solo single, the immediately infectious ‘Talk of the Town’, which he wrote with Michael Paynter and Michael DeLorenzis of MSquared in Melbourne, who also produced the track. Hopefully it will be the first of many solo songs.

Resch was so interesting to talk to, partly for the history of his career and also because of the detail about songwriting. I hope you find him just as interesting to listen to!

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