Tony Cummings met up with the Florida-based acoustic duo TEMPLE VEIL

Tony: Was that a struggle for you?

Brysson: It was, yes.
DeRock: It was a struggle for the both of us: Brysson wasn't originally an acoustic guitar-player, and I was not a lead type of a singer guy. I can back up any day and night, being in a supporting role, but you start to talk about putting me out in a front-runner or lead person, that wasn't my expertise. It was very uncomfortable for the both of us.

Tony: It's brave of you to say how to you were led into worship, because, in a sense, it was almost like expediency. When did it really begin to stir in your heart that this was something God wanted you to do?

Brysson: We went on tour, and we thought this would be a temporary thing: 'After this tour, we'll get back to doing the regular thing.' On that tour we started seeing the response of people, saw lives changed and people coming to the Lord. That's when we realised we just needed to be obedient with the direction: that's where the Lord was telling us to go. Being obedient to the calling, that's all he wanted from us. We realised we need to walk in that, and since then we've been going full-steam ahead with Temple Veil.

Tony: I understand that you are in the process of making a new record.

Brysson: We have an EP that will be coming out soon. We've been working on it too long. We went to Nashville with this EP, which wasn't a cheap way to go. We've made a lot of investment into this EP. We don't have an exact release date yet, but the only thing that's left is mastering and manufacturing, so it's going to be soon. It's going to be called 'Give His Love Away'.
DeRock: Is that what we're going with?
Brysson: I think that's what we decided.

Tony: Tell me about some of the songs on the new EP.

DeRock: "Give His Love Away" is a pretty cool track; it's really about just looking out and giving Jesus' love away. Many times we see people out on the street and think, 'Gosh, man, I wish I had a pound to give that guy,' or we're thinking the other thing like, 'Man, they could really go get a job'. As Christians our job is to love one another, and that's what that whole song is about - loving each other regardless of where we came from or what we are.
Brysson: We have to be willing to get out hands dirty to do that: sometimes we have to go out there and labour in places that aren't necessarily comfortable.

Tony: Tell me about another song.

Brysson: There's a track on there that's called "Radiate". That's going to be a little bit of a different direction for Temple Veil.
DeRock: It's more of a poppish rock.
Brysson: More electronic - a little electric guitar in there. It's definitely pushing the envelope of what we've done before.
DeRock: There's a slight hint of EDM going on there.