In Conversation: Popeye Vogelsang of Calling Hours
He's best known as the singer for Farside, but 28 years after our original interview, Popeye has found the resolve to ask for your ear again—even if he's too modest to see it that way.
On one level, this could be seen as a “reunion interview.” Popeye originally appeared in Anti-Matter in 1995 and his band, Farside, contributed a song to the Anti-Matter compilation album a year later. I am hesitant to call it that—at least, purely—because Popeye’s excellent new band, Calling Hours, just released their debut for Revelation last week, making the much-loved singer a very present concern.
Since that interview, so much has changed: After leaving a solitary life in Los Angeles for the married life in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Popeye was forced to deal with a loss in voiceover work—the career path he established after Farside ended—and the near immediate onset of a pandemic. Calling Hours came out of that sense of uncertainty and displacement, a…