New West Motels â€" think Built To Spill meets Tom Petty â€" will join Seattle ‘90s heroes Sister Psychic (“Kim the Waitress”) at Jazzbones Thursday with Tacoma band Vanilla. 

Bobble Tiki caught up with New West Motels singer and guitarist Rob Sharp before the March 22 show in Tacoma.  The show will kick off with a crab feed in honor of Sharp’s birthday.  Bobble Tiki and Sharp chatted about his early love for music, his admiration for Sister Psychic and his recording time in England.

“We spent Christmas in England recording the basic tracks to our debut album â€" a great little place called APE Studios just outside Liverpool,” says Sharp. “We lived for eight days in the studio, pretty much working around the clock, on a wide marshland overlooking north Wales.  It was beautiful, and we had an amazing time.  Got to use the same Helios board that the Who recorded Tommy and Quadrophenia on, plus the Neumann board that Supertramp's Crime of the Century was recorded on, one of my favorite albums of all time (but don't tell anybody that. We all have our vices).  I highly recommend it, getting away to record, stepping away from everyday concerns to just focus on the music.”

Crap, ignore the Crime of the Century thing.

The full interview runs in Thursday’s issue of the Weekly Volcano.  Bobble Tiki can’t wait for the show, especially to see Sister Psychic again (but don’t tell Rob Sharp). â€" Bobble Tiki