>>Hi I'm Chris from MusicRadar.com and we're here at Magnetic festival in Prague and we're
here with Nervo.. Olivia and Mim, and... >>Liv, Liv, call me Liv
>>Mim >>Olivia is when I'm in Trouble, so Liv is
when I'm not in trouble >>You're not in trouble now its ok. So first
off, you've just come off stage, so how was it?
>>Amazing. >>Is it your first gig in Prague or...?
>>Its the 2nd gig but the first gig we did was about 8 months ago in a small club that
fitted like 500 people so this is a totally different vibe.
>>Do you play the same kind of thing? >>No. We play a much different set because
with something like this we've only got an hour, so we have to play a lot of our own
records. >>Every second record is basically ours.
>>Our own record, so its jam packed with ours. you have to think about it a lot more,
especially because now we've recorded vocals on so many of our tracks so we don't want
a whole half an hour of our vocals so we have to spread them out, keep the energy going.
>>You get pretty hyped out there >>Yeah we do, we get more excited than the
people in the crowd I think >>I think we can't help it
>>How does it work in the booth though as this is a duo, are you fighting to play the
next record or do you have a set or? >>Tonight was.. we did a little bit of fighting
tonight. >>Yeah we did, especially towards the end.
>>And even... >>Fighting is the wrong word.
>>Yeah creative... >>differences
>>yes exactly. We actually spoke about the set before we got here because it was such
a short set and then we changed it up towards the end anyway.
>>So it was like "I want to play this for the last song" "No I want to play this one"
>>Yeah and it was like we've got 20 minutes so that's four records. And I was like "I
want this one I want this one!" and she's like "noo"
>>So who won? >>I won tonight
>>I kind of won, at least I got xxx >>We had a good compromise because you got
TJR in. >>I did, I love that record
>>And I was going to compromise that record for another one so...but we got both in. We
were doing a few quick mixes actually. >>So does it always work like that, like hot
on the stage deciding >>Yeah and it went down well Mim, well done.
>>It did go down well. I was like "Liv are you watching this? There you go"
>>So what's on your DJ tech writer then? Are you CDJs or?
>>Yeah really basic, its just CDJs and a microphone through the mixer because we like to effect
our vocals as we chant or even as we scream to hype up the crowd. We like to mess it up..
>>And just these >>Oh my God
>>It used to be SDs but we started to lose so many because you, if you can't see them
>>You don't take them out >>Exactly, so now we purposefully have USBs so we
so we can see the little end.
>>And are you a record box? >>Yes, sometimes, when we have the time.
>>Ok, so I've seen other interviews and you said that David Guetta was one of the guys
that said you should step up and come out from behind the shadows. What was that process
like though? >>He did, we were working for him for his
album. It was a really clear project that we were dedicated to for quite a while and
he always knew that we loved clubbing because we would go to his shows
>>We've seen him in Ibiza >>So he would help us get in VIPs all the
time with his mates >>And this is even way before When Love Takes
Over so >>And then we started sending records,
"oh David have you heard the new San Van Doorn or whatever"
>>Wasn't When Love Takes Over an instrumental that you played out in Ibiza which Kelly heard
or something? >>I think he played it in the south of France
with Kelly. We were working with Kelly for her album so we have now idea there was any
connection between David and her, but then she gave us the track, the David Guetta track.
We were immediately like "lets work on this". Because we were big fans of Love is Gone and
Love Don't Let Me Go and Love is Mine >>Yeah all that is amazing
>>So we wrote the song, we delivered it to Kelly's label and they didn't like it. They
passed on it and that's fine because some one's trash is some one's treasure. And David
called us 3 months later out of the blue and said "Girls I love what you've done, I'd love
to release it." >>So, you're incredibly talented and quite
casual about how.. you take it for granted your talent and song writing, but what advice
would you give to people who are song writing in their bedrooms and maybe have got into
Logic and are trying to break out? And they don't necessarily know what they want to be,
whether they want to be a DJ >>Or even genre because for us genre was kind
of a big thing >>So how did you step out of that...?
>>Because we didn't want to be genre specific. We didn't want to be just house or electro
house because we love all kinds of music, like indie music we love. We're influenced
in our vocals definitely from indie artists. >>When you started were you like a duo?
>>We always were a duo writing >>We always wrote together. Because we just
bounce off each other. We argue a lot in the studio but when we both like something, we
feel like its right. >>So when you were approaching A&R to try 0:05:25.350.209,0:05:28.459 and get you a track, you were approaching like "look this is a track for some one else"
>>Exactly, all the time. >>We actually, on the Armin Van Buuren project
was interesting because we were so... at that point in our writing careers we were
really not very inspired by a lot of pop sounds. We were working with Universal with the particular
A&R. She represented Sophie Ellis Bextor and we were like, Sophie's come from the dance
and club world with Spiller, you know. We've got so many connections in that world, let's
bring them together so we actually went to her A&R and then approached Armin and was
like "hey you want this pop star Sophie Ellis Bextor on your album?"
>>Why don't we start some ideas and finish them..
>>So that's how that collab happened, so we were always inspired by the two worlds to
bring them together. Because we had a lot of connections more in the pop world. Even
with Kelly, she had a whole load of ideas she wanted to work on and the second she said
"oh I met a guy called David Guetta from France" and we were like this is really cool so..
I think its interesting how our worlds did come together.
>>How they collided, yeah. >>And now its fermented, its stuck
>>Yeah and now its there, you know what I mean.
>>Its like Nervo songwriters DJs, it doesn't have to be any separate thing now.
>>What are you working on now? Are you still writing for other people?
>>Yeah. We really enjoy writing for others. >>Can you say what you're working on?
>>Well the thing is, now, because we've signed a record deal there's a lot of time constraints,
a lot of pressure on us to deliver a record - an album, and it takes time. So at the moment
we've just been prioritising our stuff. >>Is it difficult to decide when you have
a song, is it us or is it somebody else? >>Yeah totally. Especially now because our
stuff and our audience is getting more and more dancey or clubby that we're finding we
don't want the album to be full of 128 floor bangers. We want a few dance floor pleasers
there but we also want bring it down... >>We want it to be more artist...
>>But in the pop world its getting tougher, so its like they're catching up with you and
you're sort of... >>Yeah. Its interesting we've got so many
ideas I think at some point - which is not our forte - is we need to sit back and pick
and then go with them. >>I guess your label will help with that won't
they.. >>Yeah, yeah
>>OK, final question which I've been asking everyone, worst gig you've ever had? You don't
have to mention countries >>I know one. It wasn't really technically
bad. Not a disaster... >>Tonight's beginning was pretty bad
>>Oh because there was an introduction playing as we started
>>So we start mixing into Tommy, you know, his last track and we start mixing in and
we start with an a capella and start mixing in another track pretty quickly and...
>>We didn't realise they had an intro.. >>with the beat and everything..
>>We didn't know where it was coming from.. >>And I thought we were train wrecking, I'm
like listening in my head.. no no no! The next thing I know the guy's like "the intro
has started, sorry girls its going in. We were so far into our mixing that I didn't
know what to do so we just kinda rode it out and I turned it up louder and hopefully ours
was louder than their intro >>I think another funny gig of ours was quite
recently. I think I always remember the recent ones you know. We were in this club, tiny
tiny club and there was a glass barrier infront of us and there were only Liv, myself and
the lighting guy and one other person kept coming into the booth.
>>He kind of ran the club, ran the night. >>And I think he had eaten something really
bad and it smelt terrible. He kept farting the whole time
>>And we were stuck behind this glass wall >>Tiny tiny booth
>>Literally going to vomit, because we're really excited like jumping around...
>>And I kept looking at Liv going "What..!" >>And I kept looking at Mim and going "its
not me!". We couldn't work out Who was it, lighting guy or the guy who kept coming in!?
>>So they built this box just for the guy to fart in?
>>Literally you could only fit crammed in. You could only fit 5 people
>>Actually that was the worst >>There were 4 people in there and some one
had bad bad bowels and we were paying for it. And then what happened is people would
spill - the lighting guy kept spilling his drink and it kept filling up on the floor
and there was like a layer this thick of beer so my feet were completely wet the whole time
but whatever, we have a shower at the end of the night, its not that bad.
>>I felt pretty disgusting that night >>Me too. Gas chamber.
>>What's next for the rest of the year? >>A few records. Records records records.
A few collaborations and we're moving to Ibiza again which is our dream come true.
>>So you've got a residency there? >>Yes, xxxx. Have you been?
>>Yes >>Yes of course you have. We're playing with
David, bless him, he still supports us and he has supported us from the beginning. On
Monday's we're playing with him and on Thursdays we have our own night, Nervo Nation, at the
Tower, which is a free party, which we're so excited about because we love free parties.
Its a cool vibe and people don't have to pay for tickets.
>>Especially in Ibiza where it can be expensive. >>Especially now.
>>Yeah yeah exactly. I don't know how we could have done it...
>>I don't know how we could have done it 6 years ago when we were broke.
>>Broke songwriters. >>Or maybe we could have if you go to DC10
and you spend the whole night there. But if you want to check out Ushuaia or pacha or
the places that charge a bit more.. >>So plenty of places to see you then. Are
you touring after Ibiza? >>Yes loads of festivals. We're going to take
time off. We've already got the first two weeks of October off and we're going to a
yoga retreat in Sri Lanka. So I think we're going to need it after this summer.
>>Definitely going to need it. >>And then basically from mid October onwards
its knuckle down on the album to try and get it done by the end of the year, so we
can have it out first thing next year. >>We have a beautiful collaboration with Marco
xxxx and we're just really excited about that because its totally different. Its deeper,
its housier. The main mix won't suit our sets, our peak time sets but we'll do another mix
that will. So we're really excited about that and we have a few more records spaced out,
hopefully an album first quarter of next year. >>OK. Excellent. Well thank you so much for
taking the time to speak with us >>Awww thank you