How are you finding the reaction to your music here?
Good, same as everywhere I suppose, people who come to the shows seem to enjoy the music and they are really lovely, people who enjoy our music have always been really sweet, and audiences in the UK have always been really respectful of the music so we have had a great time playing shows over here.
Where did your interest in pursuing a music career come from?
The way that it all happened it was never something where we woke up one and went hey Angus do you want to go and travel the world and get out music out there and make a record?
It kind of never happened like that we were living at dads house, when dad first met his wife, we had heaps of time and we werent paying rent just playing music together because we had not job or anything. We would go in and play open mic nights so it was al done for a bit of fun.
Cathy, our manager, came back from the UK and turned up to one of the shows and was like I would like you to meet a few people. We went in a played for a few different record companies and then she said well why dont you two release something together so we put together Chocolates and Cigarettes.
After that she flew over to the UK and David Boyd straight away said could the guys come so we could meet them? And we came over here and went on tour there wasnt any one point when were asked if this is what we wanted to do we just sort of did it.
Obviously this is a great job to have, its not even a job its just playing music, so I suppose that is the thing it never felt like there was a decision to make, like to go out and become musicians, its happened and we are stoked that its happened.
Your music has been described as folk/blues how did you get interested in this sound or did you find it by accident?
Like the same with the whole process of coming to this place it was the same with the music we were living in the house Angus was writing his music I was writing my music.
Like we do now we were writing because it made us feel good we didnt actually sit down and think about it making a folky sound or a bluesy sound, its usually other people that figure out labels to put on it. I suppose folk music is quite a big umbrella.
We grew up listening to a lot of music from the sixties and the seventies that our dad played in a cover band and who knows that probably was a part of it, everything is a part of it really the life that you live and the people that you meet.
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