As Bobble Tiki makes painfully clear on almost a weekly basis, he’s not a fan of meeting new people. When it comes to cultivating new friends or connecting with new acquaintances, Bobble Tiki really isn’t interested. Bobble Tiki’s got five friends in real life, and that suits him just fine. Any more personal relationships would simply be pushing it.

However, while Bobble Tiki may shutter at the thought of expanding his social circle, the idea of expanding his musical acquaintances is always an appealing one. Bobble Tiki can never get enough good music, so when he sees a band from a far away place slated to hit the South Sound, Bobble Tiki usually can’t resist.

While Bobble Tiki isn’t exactly sure if Utah counts as a far away place, the Mormon flush state will send Vinyl Williams — a kicking and screaming band of teenaged longhaired emo rockers — up the West Coast and into Le Voyeur in Olympia tonight. The news was more than enough to pique Bobble Tiki’s interest.

Vinyl Williams started as a one man act — created by band leader Lionel Williams. In the band’s infancy, it was just Williams, and he played under his actual name. After recruiting more musicians — turning the band into the three piece it is today — it was decided a more fitting band name was appropriate — thus the change to Vinyl Williams.

Earlier this year, Vinyl Williams released a debut EP — ripe with nu-rock screamers and shrills only a Hot Topic crowd could appreciate. Luckily for Vinyl Williams, Hot Topic does good business. This band has that tortured sound that kids everywhere go gaga for, and that makes elders wonder what the hell happened to music. It’s a sound that, despite his age, makes Bobble Tiki grin.

Vinyl Williams has experienced some success in Utah, and is eager to expand on that success on their first real tour — which, as mentioned, will bring Vinyl Williams to Le Voyeur tonight.

To better understand this band known as Vinyl Williams, Bobble Tiki caught up with the leader — Lionel.

BOBBLE TIKI: You created this thing by yourself, but you’ve since enlisted the help of Bryan Lee and Logan Vandehei. Talk about the original vision compared to what the band is today? Is this the way you always wanted to sound?”

LIONEL WILLIAMS: The original vision was very vague, honestly. My prospects were minimal. I was creating music without the thought of performing it live. When the original “Lionel Williams” lineup was created, I really thought I could make the music gig appropriate. It failed, and we were playing a lot of the same music we play today. I believe it was just the poor member choice and lack of practicing. We didn’t have the mental vibe needed to create a great sounding mesh. But I knew how I wanted to sound, and through several member changes and song tweaks — some being re-written completely — the current lineup was found. The moment Bryan (current drummer) and I got together and started making music, I knew that this wouldn’t be a solo project anymore, but a collaborative band. We immediately started writing together, and so far it’s working well.

TIKI: What are the main differences between working by yourself and working with two other band members? How’s the Vinyl Williams chemistry?

WILLIAMS: We collaborate more and more with every new song. When I wrote songs by myself I enjoyed the free will, but once I started writing with other band members songs felt empty when I excluded their good input. Logan and Bryan give amazing input — enough to allow the songwriting process to become completely collaborative. Without Logan and Bryan songwriting would feel like musical masturbation now.

TIKI: You released Talks in Her Sleep in late February? Now that the record has been out for a while, what are your feelings about it? Are you still pleased with everything, or are there things you’d tweak?

WILLIAMS: I feel happy with the direction I went with it, because I wanted to put out a more mainstream EP to draw more attention, and then shortly after release our debut full length with much more experimentation. I’m pleased with the songs still; mostly because I put my heart into the recording process, and can’t stray away from the fact that three grand was spent recording it. I won’t allow myself to hate it or over-intellectualize things.

TIKI: What’s in the future for Vinyl Williams? Where would you like to take this?

WILLIAMS: The future could be a risky one for Vinyl Williams. Our motives for performing are abstract. We make music definitively for the purpose of creating a mesh of frequencies that pleasure the ear more than the standard frequencies one hears while listening to music. We layer every song to try and find the correct mesh; it’s a painful and tedious process, but the end result always makes us smile.

Once again, surprising no one, Bobble Tiki doesn’t care what you do this week because he doesn’t even know you. That’s been Bobble Tiki’s line for as long as his alcohol soaked brain can recall, and the chances of it changing anytime soon are minimal at best. Check out www.weeklyvolcanospew.com for all your South Sound blogosphere needs, and consider that good enough. Think about it: There are kids in Kazbekistan who don’t even know what a blog is.

[Le Voyeur, Vinyl Williams, Darling You Should Be Ashamed, Brownstar, Glass Elevator, Thursday, July 24, 10 p.m., $5, 404 Fourth Ave. E., Olympia, 360.943.5710]

Bobble Tiki is going out of his head via e-mail at bobbletiki@weeklyvolcano.com