Guitarist and vocalist Jordi Davieson said they will perform these new songs during the Mount Isa gig. These are the songs the Fremantle based musician wrote within a year following his break-up from a long-term relationship. 

“I don’t really write feel good songs,” he said. “I don’t really go ‘I’m so happy, I’m going to write a song. I’ve never done that.” 

The album is formed from some of the songs he wrote while learning to adjust without the partner he had since high school. Not all the songs he wrote made the record. 

“It was pretty rough and I learned a lot about myself and everyone else,” Davieson said.

“You grow up being with someone for that long and you’ve grown up with them for most of your young adult life. 

“I call them my moral compass. You were there for each other, you grew up together...you bounce ideas off each other and they pull you into line when you’re being a d—khead.

“All of a sudden you have got nobody doing that for you.

“You have just got to figure that out for yourself. 

“I went into a destructive mode and went a bit crazy, partying a lot and drinking a lot and being a loose unit. And then slowly kind of figured out the kind of person I wanted to be by myself. 

“I threw the silly stuff out of my system and slowly pulled myself back on track.” 

The Water may have been shaped by Davieson’s experience but he said it was not a break-up album.

“A few of them are love songs, the topic of love, but it may be about a friend I’m a lot more involved with now.

“You don’t have a partner so you sort of invest your love and care in close friends around you.

“It’s not just a whole record of break-up songs. It’s all sorts of things.” 

When he listens to the album now Davieson realises how much can change within a year. And he also feels that a song is not about how the writer feels. 

“It’s about how other people grab them and use them and make them relevant to their life,” he said.

Fans had told him the band’s songs had helped them through dark times, such as a death in the family, or a relationship break-up.  

“There’s nothing special about songs that do that, but they happen to listen to our songs when going through that,” he said.  

San Cisco perform at One Night Stand at Tony White Oval on Saturday, April 22. 

“It will just be a lot of people with a great line-up in the middle of nowhere which will be really fun," Davieson said. “It will be a great festival show which is what we love to do, which is why we play music.” 

And he promised to be out and about, asking the locals what to do, instead of hiding in the hotel room with the TV before the show. “We will see you at the pub,” he said. 

They will learn from the locals what to do in Mount Isa. The band loved rural pubs, museums, and “any sort of adventures and nice drives.”