"Whether you're
on your own creating your music, doing you're art, playing your
gigs and then the next thing is six months later you're getting
signed, financing the band properly with people who are going
to work with and drive the band. So it has to expand and with
expansion comes problems and then you've got no time at all.
We're on planes all the time. We get on a plane and then we're
there at the next city. We don't see much of them but we had
good times in Berlin and Texas."
"We've put quite a lot into our lives as a band. You have
to because there's two of us," states Katie. "I think
that as much as I love performing live it's quite draining as
well. In Texas we were doing 3 shows a day. I was fainting with
it. So that might burn us out a bit. Then you just take a few
days off."
"I think we've got the first album's worth of material
in the bag," declares Jules. "Then there's the touring,
performing and you're absolutely adoring it. We're only on 8-9
songs on this headline tour. Which is the right thing for the
first headline act and then we've got more songs to put in."
The band had been getting some unfair stick on the internet
about its short sets but this was at the time of the emergence
of the duo. 'Hot Tips' and 'Bands to Watch' labels can create
expectations for others. Which leads back to the beginning of
how long their songs have been around.
"We've only had a few songs for six months," states
Katie. "The songs came out really easily as well. We've
always had them. We wanted to think through how we were going
to perform them and they all seem to be working."
"Also there's a period of time," exclaims Jules. "We
recorded ten songs and scrapped everything that wasn't working
in that period of time and that's it. That's the work and that's
what this band is. That's what we've born, that's what we've
become and that's the first album, which we're touring. It's
one song less and we'll go into the full set on maybe the next
headline tour in May...."
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