Feltbeats.com received the unique opportunity to discuss Tom Felton’s music in light of his upcoming new album, “In Good Hands.” To spice things up, we decided to solicit interview questions from the Tom Felton followers on Twitter.

Remember to keep an eye out for Tom’s new album, “In Good Hands,” which should be released on iTunes any day now.

In the next few weeks, Feltbeats.com will be releasing more of this exclusive interview with Tom Felton.

• Part Zero, The Twitter Interview: Snitchseeker Preview
• – Friday, March 27 – Part Two, The Twitter Interview: Musical Background: Tom answers questions from tweeple about how he learned to play guitar and the songwriting process.
• – Wednesday, April 1 – Part Three, The Twitter Interview: Music & Acting: Tom discusses how acting relates to singing.
• – Friday, April 3 – Part Four, The Twitter Interview: Lyrics: Tom and Misha from Feltbeats.com get into a heated argument over the lyrics to some of Tom’s songs. Spoiler alert: He wins.

Because this is titled the “Twitter Interview,” I should remind you to follow Tom Felton and Feltbeats on Twitter!

“In Good Hands” album cover photo

Feltbeats.com: So let’s talk a little bit about the new album. Tell me how you’d compare the old one versus the new one.

Tom Felton: It’s hard for me to say because it seems like it was ages ago. I think you, and all the other people who have listened to the old stuff a lot, will be the best people to determine that. But, I would say… well, some songs aren’t as developed as before, and some songs are more developed. Some are quite recently recorded, and some are older. It’s quite a mix.

I guess it really is an album for the people that have already heard the other stuff and sort of like it. I guess, in a way. I don’t know. I don’t know. I’ll really be intrigued to hear what people say. You guys will be the perfect people to determine how it is different, and I’m sure I’ll agree with you.

FB: Another Twitter question: just_like_youx3 wants to know, “What’s your favorite song from the new album?”

TF: Ahhhh, again, you know… I’m just trying to think in my head now, which ones are exactly on there… I know it sounds stupid, but there are ones that I was unsure of putting on there, so…

“If you Could Be Anywhere” was a really old song that I’d written a long time ago with just the chorus. And then, when we were Florida on holiday – I’m sorry, in Hawaii – I played that for Jade, and she was like, “Wow, who’s that?” And I was like, “It’s mine! It’s an old song.” And she said, “Are you crazy? Why don’t you record that! It’s a great song.” So it’s like… I’d already had that song written years ago, I just never did anything with it. So that one comes from that. That’s my most recent recording, and it’s the one I’m most happy with the outcome and the additional instruments and the harmonies and things like that, so that’s why I put that one on there as Track One. It’s sort of a “Yeah! Feel-good” song.

FB: That’s so funny you mentioned that, because I think the day you recorded it Jade wrote to me and said, “Wow, you have to hear this song he just recorded, it’s so good!” And she’d never done that before, so I knew it must have been good.

TF: Oh, really? (Laughs) So there you go. That’s cool. That’s cool. Yeah, I think it came out really well. I’m really pleased with the full version of it.

Now, Track Two, that’s “We Belong.” That’s my attempt at a bit of a ballad, I guess. Now, the first chorus, it’s only about thirty seconds long. That’s like one of my favorite thirty seconds of music that I’ve ever actually managed to produce. There are just really nice sounds going on. And, you know, it’s really about Jade, pretty much. So you know, I just felt the need to share that one.

On Track Three, that’s “When Angels Come,” again, it’s a quick one. It came to me, and I sort of recorded it within a few days. And I was pretty happy with the recording, so I thought I’d put it out there. Now, you asked me what they’re about, and “When Angels Come” is a bit of a, again, it’s quite a lovely song, I guess the idea is that, when angels come… Well, the chorus is – I’ll give you a bit of a sneak preview – “When angels come, and take me from this world, I’ll say none of you look half as good as my girl.” It goes along that line. So, it’s not really anything to do with the next life, it’s just really the idea that there are no angels out there that are as good looking as my girlfriend.

Track Four, “Convinced.” I really like this track lyrically. It’s one of my better songs, lyric-wise. It’s quite simple on the guitar. It’s all about Jade being WAY too honest for her own good. It’s all about, like, how she just comes out and says things: “I don’t like the color of your car. I don’t like the color of your wallpaper.” She’ll just come out with it. She completely speaks her mind and is extremely forthright and truthful. Because she is like that, when she says she loves me, I believe her. I know she’s too honest, she would never lie.

Now “Father of Mine.” It’s basically, well, it’s nothing too deep. It’s pretty simple: just one voice, one guitar. It’s just about, you know, not really seeing much of my old man over the last few years. Roughly about that.

Track Six is different. It’s the one that, I think, everyone will hate, or everyone will love, I should think. I don’t know. I’m really in two minds about it. That’s why I’m quite excited about you hearing it. It’s called “If that’s all right with you,” and again, it’s written in the stage where I didn’t have a girlfriend, and I was sort of searching for this girl. He’s sort of searching for this girl, and what he’s going to do when he finds her, so to speak. It’s a mixture of singing and sort of rapping, blended together. I can’t wait for you to hear it.

FB: Sounds like fun.

TF: It is a bit of fun. It is fun. It’s not to be taken too seriously, but the chorus is quite catchy; that’s why I hope people will see through the cringiness of the rapping. And the lyrics are quite sweet, so I’m hoping you’ll give me some allowance there.

FB: Thank you for those great descriptions! Let’s talk about the future now, and get back to some Twitter questions. Slytherinss asks if you are planning on touring?

TF: I’m not really planning on it. If there was an event that I couldn’t turn down, I’d love to. It’s sort of been a dream of mine, but, by the same token, it sort of scares the shit out of me. It’d have to be something fairly well organized or something like that. So I don’t know. I’d have to wait and see.

FB: Magicmarkers asks: If you were offered a professional record deal would you take it? Do you want to pursue your music as a career or just as a hobby?

TF: Yeah, not really. I mean, it depends on the offer. Now, if someone wants to come in and try to polish up my songs and try and put them on a CD, I’m game on for that. But as far as a big marketing campaign and trying to get myself on TV and stuff, nah, I’m not really interested in all that. I’d rather just keep it to the listeners that it has got.

And obviously keep it open for people who want to listen to it more. It’s a funny one, as much as I want it to be in the mainstream, I don’t want it to be that much in the mainstream.

FB: You haven’t had anyone who wanted to partner with you at all?

TF: No, not really. I’ve got a good friend, actually, who you see on my YouTube account; I favorited his song on YouTube. A guy called Sam Roman. He’s quite a successful producer as well as an incredibly talented musician. I worked with him for a bit.

The thing is, I don’t know, it’s funny, I’m quite a quick guy. I can finish a song within a day. Whereas these guys are taking about, like, a week to write it, a week to record the guitar, a week to record all the vocals. And it’s… it’s not that I get bored with it, I’m just ready to move on in twenty hours, really. That’s why I said a lot of my songs are half-finished, because I have recorded them, then I’ve just left them. So now I’ve gone through all those, so I had more songs for the album.

FB: Well, it seems things are really rolling now with the iTunes…

TF: Yeah, yeah. It wasn’t at first, but now it is starting to pick up. You know, it’s interesting, I can see a breakdown on the website of where the purchases are being made; sixty percent is in the U.S. There was, like, two people in Japan who bought my album, so here is a shout-out to them.

FB: Did you notice Brazil on there?

TF: I don’t know. No, I don’t remember it; there were a few European countries, but I have received a little bit of Brazilian interest from fans and whatever, and that’s great. I’ve always wanted to go to Brazil, so it’s good to make some friends before I go out there.

FB: It seems to me that, you know, you’ve got lots of fans in the U.S. and in the U.K., but I’ve had lots of people tell me that you’re big in Brazil. They’ll say, “Oh yeah, Tom Felton is the bomb in Brazil.”

TF: Really?

FB: Especially in terms of Harry Potter, I’m told you’re like the most popular actor in Brazil.

TF: Oh! Well, rock on! That’s the place I need to go! Yeah, I’d fancy that.

Thanks so much Tom! We’ll post the next part of the interview on Friday!

Tom has been interviewed by the Great Ormond Street Hospital’s “Teens First For Health” Web site.

In the interview, Tom discusses health and medical issues – and he reveals that a few years ago he spent four days in the hospital after his lung collapsed!

He also shares some of his philosophies on life, such as, “Someone told me a great thing once, and I think it’s true. They said that the people with the best sense of what’s important in the world, and what is important and what’s not, are the people who have dealt with these terrible tragedies and difficulties.”

Here is an excerpt:

I spent four nights in hospital about three years ago for a collapsed lung.

I actually found out about it on a medical for the fourth Harry Potter film. They said I wasn’t fit for work and there was a large pocket of air in my lungs.

I have never been in hospital except for visiting friends and family so I was scared but it gives you insight into what life is all about.

Credit to the nurses for being light-hearted. They treated me best by having some banter. Luckily my mum and friends were there too.

I was there about four nights and in that time I made very good friends with a blind man who was next to me. He told me all his stories.

Click here to read the entire article.

Goodprattle.com, an “interview website that conducts innovative interviews with intriguing people,” has just released a new interview with Tom Felton. The interviewer does experience some trouble with the Skype connection, but otherwise it is a fantastic interview. More of the interview will be posted later.

Hey, Tom?

Hello! How—I can’t hear you that well.

I’m sorry, say again?

I can’t hear you that well. We’ll do our best!

Oh, okay—can you hear me now?

Yes, I can hear you.

Okay, let’s get started. First of all, I wanted to talk about your music before anything else.

Okay, sure.

So, recently you’ve been putting up songs on YouTube, on iTunes, under the handle Feltbeats—

Yeah, yeah.

Just—how did that come about?

Well the long and short of it is, I’ve been trying these out for a couple of years now, and a few of my friends moved away and to keep them in the loop of new songs, I posted them on YouTube under a different name, and once people started hearing it, people I knew started distributing it in their own fashion and it became relatively successful after a girl I know put it on iTunes and a portion of it—we put the money toward [unintelligible]. Nothing’s been set at the moment, but…

I noticed that the first song you put on YouTube, “Time Isn’t Healing”, now has backing tracks on iTunes. So you’ve been developing your music as you go along, I assume.

Yeah, I have.

So, is this entirely a solo project, or have you been collaborating with other people, or…?

Do I collaborate, did you say?

Yeah, have you been collaborating, or is this all based on you?

At the moment it’s pretty much a one-man band, but I’d like to collaborate, and I’d like to develop the songs further. But at the moment I’m doing it as a hobby, I’m not doing it as a financial venture. I’m not looking to make a pop career out of it or anything like that. At the moment it’s just a bit of fun, and hopefully in years to come it can be something that I can contribute back into music somehow, but just a bit of fun at the moment.

Well, you’re very talented, and it’s great to see you embarking on another sort of endeavor.

Well, sure, thank you very much, I appreciate the comment. It’s something that I do for fun. I wouldn’t want my rent being paid to be relied on me writing a good song, because that’s not the way that it should be done.

So, you said before that even before you started with Feltbeats you’d been playing guitar for a couple of years, right? How did you first get into music to begin with?

Um, I have to really think about this one, actually. You know, I was really interested in some different contents of music, and I went to Africa for my 18th birthday, and there was a little girl out there that we met and we played Jack Johnson for her in the car and pretty much ever since I heard that CD I’ve been playing guitar.

You went to Africa for your eighteenth birthday? …Hello?

Hello?

Hi. Can you hear me?

No, sorry, go on.

No, you mentioned that you went to Africa for your 18th birthday?

Yeah, that’s right. It was amazing. It was just me and my brother for ten days just looking at animals and visiting different towns and having a real experience in the country. It was a great trip.

Yeah, and you get to travel all sorts of places, especially with Harry Potter, I’m sure—

Yeah, sure.

So are there any other places in particular that have just blown you away? Or, I guess, that you would like to go to?

Sure. I’d like to go to France, or a lot of Europe in general. I went to Venice not so long ago, and Venice is a town like I’ve never been to, like no other. I think every person has to go to Venice at least once.

What about… well, I imagine that you’ve been to New York, and the big cities in the States, as well.

Yeah, I’ve been to New York City, once, anyway—the premiere, the first one, and it was very nice. I plan on going back there in November, as well.

You should definitely come and check out Brooklyn next time you’re in New York. As a Brooklyn resident, I felt obliged to say that.

Okay, fair enough!

So, by the way, you also have a new movie coming out that’s not Harry Potter or anything. It’s called The Disappeared, right?

Yeah, that’s right. It’s a very small British film in between this and the last Harry Potter film. I don’t think it’s got a major release just yet, and I’m pretty sure it’s not going to make it to the States, but it was just fun filming it, and nice to see the other end of the finance world when it comes to filming.

Right. And the Harry Potter series wasn’t your very start, it was—

No, I’d done a couple of films before that.

So this was sort of a return to branching out and doing other films, I would imagine.

Sure, it was really nice to sort of see how the real world works, if that makes sense, because Warner Brothers has extensive time and extensive money, while this other company doesn’t, and it’s quite contrasting to see the style of filming between the two, and it was great fun and it was a nice contrast from Harry Potter.

So, could you talk about what the film is about and about your character in the film?

Yeah, his name is Simon and he’s best friends with one of the main characters, with the central role, and, again, it’s quite contrasting from Harry Potter, he’s very normal, really, and there’s not a lot of acting involved, it was more or less just being yourself, so again, that was very different to Harry Potter.

Yeah. It’s certainly quite a departure from the Harry Potter series, although I guess pretty much anything would be, because it’s such a singular experience.

Yeah, yeah. Very true. Anything would really be a bit of a contrast to Draco, though, because he’s quite unique character.

So, actually, let’s talk about Harry Potter now. The sixth one is coming out, and in this one Draco is a lot more important to the plot than he has been in previous books.

Sure, yeah, he’s quite a central role to the plot in this one, I think.

And I think what’s interesting is that we get to kind of see another side of him.

Sure, completely, completely. I think in the previous he’s been quite two dimensional. In this film another dimension really comes out. I think he’s very keen to play sort of the evil Harry, if that makes sense, the Chosen One, if you will, but you see it unfold, and he doesn’t quite have the courage and strength to become Harry.

Yeah, I actually think that Draco is one of the more complex characters in the series—because Harry views him so negatively, we only really see one side of him in the books until Harry himself sees more.

Sure, sure. The long and short of it, from my point of view, is that there’s—

Hello? [various obscenities are uttered; we have been disconnected]

Based on the posting history, I would guess the second half will be posted next week. Stay tuned!