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Hey guys, I’m Simon Miraudo, and today I’m chatting with the band, Little Sea.
How you going?
Good, how are you?
Good.
Now I want to talk to you about your early days, first up, because I understand a few of you
actually started in a prog metal band.
That is absolutely correct my friend, we were in a progressive metal band.
Me, Oliver and Andy, we played in a very dark, brooding…
It was like a teenage angst sort of thing; sort of phase.
There was double kick flying.
You guys seem sad about it.
Look man, you don’t know what it was like in there.
A different world.
Did you exorcise all that teenage angst, is that while you were able to move away from it?
I think, yeah, I reckon that's what happened. We did that and were like, “Woah, we need to relax."
We stopped doing that and then the four of us got together.
The worst part about it was that it was restricting I guess; you can only do so many things in its style.
I don’t think it was really us either.
Yeah, songs were like eight minutes as well. I got bored halfway through my own song.
Yeah, what’s worse than being in a prog band? Being a crap prog band.
What are you trying to say?
Last year you toured around with 5SOS. Can you tell us a little about what that experience was like?
It was fun. Yeah it was crazy, playing big shows like that. It was nuts.
Super overwhelming.
So how is the tour different now that you’re headliners? It’s all about you and
specifically your fans are coming to see you.
You get free pizza.
Really.
Yep. I mean I don’t want to brag; it’s not my style.
Is this just one of the things on the rider? What else we got?
It’s pretty much pizza, every rider. I don’t know why we’re sick though.
It’s kind of cool looking at the crowd and seeing them sing your songs.
It’s definitely about the crowd, knowing that they’re all there for you and they all know your songs.
I think it’s way easier to perform, I think, when people are there to see you.
Well you’re promoting your current EP, ‘With You Without You’. Can you tell me a little
about what the inspiration for this album was? Sonically, what bands you were listening
to at the time of writing and recording it, or just, what are the themes?
What are the issues you’re getting into here?
Politics, religion.
You’re covering all the hot button issues.
Yeah, anything on the current news.
I think we spent a lot of time honing the sound, trying to find something that has pop
sensibilities but is ‘Little Sea’ – has our own little unique twist on it.
We reference like so many different bands – I don’t even know – when we go in to write songs.
We reference like... Incubus.
I dunno... Empire of the Sun. INXS. I dunno, there’s like loads of different influences.
We were trying to take all that and put it in a blender.
Put it in a blender. Stir it up. I think that’s how you get, sonically, the EP we’ve created.
In terms of themes and stuff, it’s just about what we go through; being 19, 20 during
that writing process. Relationships.
I think it’s kind of a positive EP.
Yeah, we were in a good spot. We're feeling good, I think.
I keep running away to get back to you now. Back to you now.
Our first EP was a bit sad I guess, because we all sort of quit our jobs and quit uni and all that sort of stuff.
Relationship stuff. Relationship breakdowns and things like that. When it came to this one,
we were all in a good spot, because we’re in a band and we have each other.
We’d just been to LA.
Is that kind of a far cry from what you’re describing with the first EP? Was there hesitation
when you quit your jobs and quit uni to work on the band as a full time thing?
Was there a bit of worry there?
I don’t think there was hesitation, but there’s definitely like, more like pressures,
family and stuff like that. People in general. Friends and stuff.
There’s definitely an element of doubt in that respect. And you sort of worry what people will think.
Obviously, as the band’s gone on, we’ve done lots
of different sorts of things. People are more like, “Oh cool. I saw you on Channel V."
We picked a good time to do it. We’d just finished school. It’s just that gap year I guess some people take out.
It's like, when you’re younger you can’t really play as many shows and stuff,
Because you’re not 18. So it just makes it so hard.
But then sometimes you might be too old – well not really – it’s easy to do this while you’re young.
We live at home. I think we’re the right age.
So the parents are all officially on board now? Any still need converting?
I think. Every day they’re a little bit different. But they came to our show in Sydney;
my parents – I think everybody's did - they really saw what we’re doing and really appreciated
all the hard work.
What’s the song you’re really enjoying performing, right now? What's the thing you're having the most fun with?
It might be different amongst you.
Three, two one – Red Lights.
All I see is red lights every time you’re around;
Gravity’s on your side, you’re still letting me down.
Your buddies at 5 Seconds of Summer had a bit of a run in with fire fairly recently.
Are you keeping safe on stage?
Yeah, we got rid of the pyro. Unfortunately. So if you’re coming to our show in Perth.
We were going to have a huge flame dragon go across the audience and come back to us.
But yeah we had to cancel it because of the concerns.
We do have incense though.
We got incense.
And have you got permits for that incense?
Nope, because we’re rock stars. Rock and roll. I can burn sandalwood if we want.
In Brisbane, we didn’t even do the dishes cause we’re sick.
Guys congrats on the EP and good luck with the rest of the tour.
Appreciate it, thanks Simon.
We make plans just to make plans but we never keep them.
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