Julia Stone Interview

1 month ago 24th Mar 10:49

Brother and sister duo Angus and Julia Stone appeared on the music scene in 2006 with their EP Chocolates and Cigarettes.

After moving from their native Australia to living in London the pair have become popular on the tour and festival circuits. I caught up with Julia to discuss their debut album A Book Like This and what the future holds for the duo.

You had an EP release in 2006, Chocolates and Cigarettes, why has it taken so long to release a debut album?

I don’t know I would have to ask the record company, I think it’s just the nature of things getting done; we released the record in Australia about six months ago or eight months ago.

We were signed to Independiente for the first season that we were releasing it pretty much independently off a very small indie label called Flock, Flock music.

So I suppose doing it independently takes a little bit more organisation and time on the management and the promo side of things.

You work with Fran Healy on the album how did he get involved and what does he bring to the record?

Well we got involved, I suppose a little bit by coincidence a little bit by chance, we were on the same label and we were recording with Chris Potter at the time for the second EP.

We wanted to record something on the piano and the guy that signed us to Independiente had said he that he knew this guy who had heard our music and liked it and maybe we could go over to his house and record on his piano, he has got a beautiful grand piano at his house, and we headed over there.

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