WINTER 2012
“You can cut the bullshit when you’re with your mates and your brothers. We’re pretty comfortable with criticism, taking it and moving on.” style. Proper synths and new age stuff doesn’t pretty comfortable with criticism, taking it and work with our music and guitars kind of clash. moving on. We’re not going to quit practicing for the day. It was really hard deciding how we were going It’s funny coming home as well. We all live to keep it sounding fresh. We didn’t want to with our parents, with touring and stuff there’s sound too stylised. We made a point of not no point in moving away yet. After every tour, wanting to do a throwback to another genre we come home and the day after, we’re all and so did our producer. We weren’t afraid sitting at home on the sofa, depressed with our to use new technology on the record as well. We recorded all the drums live but underneath lap tops and looking at each other, wondering them we’ve programmed beats like a hip-hop what we are going to do with the day. The difference between touring and coming off track. That was really important to us too touring is ridiculous. because we love hip-hop beats. F: Sibling musicians have been a trend through the ages, from the Von Trapp Family, to The Bee Gees, to Angus and Julia Stone. What are the draw cards of performing with your siblings?
It’s a hard question for me to answer though because I’ve never performed with anyone else. If you asked someone who is close to us, like our mum or Scotty on drums, you would get a good answer!
SM: You can cut the bullshit when you’re with your mates and your brothers. We’re
F: Which song from The Rubens do you hold closest to your heart?
SM: “Never be the same.” We’d finished recording in the big studio and we were about to start the over-dubbing of the whole record. It was nearing the end of the whole recording process. I was upstairs in one of the smaller studios whacking around with a tenor by myself. I pretty much wrote that one within half an hour. That’s my favourite one for sure. It’s the only track I can listen to again and again. It’s rare when it’s your own music to be able to listen to it again.
The band’s self-titled debut album, The Rubens, will be out this September through Ivy League Records.
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