The Paul Colman Trio is still a relatively new name to Christian music, but
we hope that more people hear about them in the future. One of the latest to
come over from Australia, PC3 has taken a bold step in advocating unity
among the church. With a trip to the Grammys and touring with Third Day and
many others, these three are ready to take over.

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PAUL COLMAN TRIO INTERVIEW
by Kim Flanders

Paul Colman Trio is not new to cMusicWeb. While it seems we only recently
met up with them at the end of the Come Together tour in the Fall of 2002, a
lot has happened in their lives since then, and a lot is to come.

cMW: A lot has happened since we last met. A Grammy nomination, Dove Award.
Can you share with us any experiences from those events?

GRANT: Well I had actually never been to New York before. Phil and Paul had
been to New York and done some shows even before the band was together. But
it was a brand new experience for me, and it was also a brand new experience
for us as a band. It was an incredible privilege and a wonderful time to go
to New York and to see that city and to be part of something like the Grammy
awards. And the Grammy awards were something totally unexpected to us. Paul
is quite a visionary sort of guy and he looks forward and he projects goals
and things for the band that perhaps Phil and I would not really
specifically think about. We know that we went ahead in that general
direction, but Paul set sort of flags for us to meet. Interestingly, winning
the Dove award for Best New Artist was one of those flags that Paul had put
down in front of us, one of the things that we really wanted to strive for.
But the Grammy nomination was something that we just had no idea. We did not
even really know it was on.

PHIL: That our music would be classed in any particular category. So it was
a real thrill to be nominated because that means that somebody has really
listened to it and thought it worthy on an artistic level. Because it is
Christian music, gospel music, on a lyrical content, at the same point as
well. Obviously they thought it was worthy of a nomination. And of course
Jars of Clay won which is totally worthy because their album The Eleventh
Hour is so great. And the other cool thing was that Third Day were nominated
for Rock Gospel Album and of course they won. It was kind of nice for us to
be there to be able to cheer them on when they won! In some ways they have
been big brothers to us in the industry by bringing us here, and giving us
so many opportunities.

GRANT: And another cool thing is that New Map of the World that was
nominated has been out for over a year now, and we would like that album to
reach more ears than it has because we think it is a good album, and it has
a lot of good things to say and musically we think it is worth people
listening to so we hope things like the Grammy nomination and the Dove award
would bring the CD to more people's attention.

There are a lot of cool stories from our trip to New York. For one, Paul's
dad was able to be there, and he is a Pastor in Melbourne. His dad Robert is
really strong and Robert is also a singer and he had quite a career in
theatre music and releasing albums. So it was nice to spend time with him.
We also got to meet some people like Elvis Costello and he is a bit of a
hero to us as far as signing goes.

PHIL: It was also interesting being involved a little bit in the mainstream
music culture. An interesting thing that happened when we arrived at the
Grammys. We walked the red carpet where all the media was lined up and the
cameras. Basically the deal is that they usually call the artist over, "Come
on over, we want to talk with you." And no one was really interviewing us so
Paul, as bold as he is, turned around and went back to the start of the line
and dragged us with him. And he would walk up to them and say, "Hey. We are
from Australia, and there are only two artists who were nominated who are
from Australia, we are nobodies, would you like an interview anyway?" And
most of them were kind enough to take us on for a short interview anyway. I
don't think any of it turned out on television, but it was fun.

cMW: Tell us more about your trip back to Australia and recording your
upcoming album.

GRANT: There is a studio in Melbourne called Sing Sing and it is a studio
that as we grew up in Melbourne we'd always look to and think, "Gee,
wouldn't it be great to record something there someday." And we actually
tried to make that happen a few times and it never did. And bands like
Crowded House, U2, and Midnight Oil have recorded there, and we have always
wanted to be able to record there. It just worked out where Brent Milligan,
the producer of the new project agreed to travel with his family and his
wife out to Australia and let us do the basic 4 weeks of tracking for the
new album there in Melbourne. We did not finish the album there, we finished
it back in Nashville in between performances in the Spring. It is finished
now. It is called One and we are really excited about it. It comes out
September 9th.

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ONE - PAUL COLMAN TRIO
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