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KGRL Exclusive Lovers Electric Interview
Hotel Cafe - 02.16.07
KGRL had a chance to go on a one on one interview with the very talented duo - Eden & David of Lovers Electric. The interview was held in Hotel Cafe @ 02.16.07.
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KGRL: Can you give us a background on how the two of you met and how you got into music?
Eden: I'm Eden and I'm from a musical family. Music is not really a thing you get into, it's something you are born with. I'm not forced into but heavily encouraged into. I started singing from a very young age with my sisters/family. I mainly sing. I don't play any instruments. My sisters are all highly talented when it comes to instruments. David, what did you do?
David: My dad is a poet and my mom is a pianist. I guess kind of a half musical - half writer family.
Eden: We met when we were teenagers in Australia. I was home in the holiday and we met up. And then David came back to England. We kind of started a band - you were in another band there for a couple of years. About a year and a half ago we started Lovers Electric.
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KGRL: Why did you name the band Lovers Electric? You performed acoustically tonight; doesn't that make you Lovers Acoustic?
David: Right, right yeah... That's kind of a running joke!
Eden: We normally perform with a full band in London, so the electric bit makes a little more sense. But, we are lovers of life and we are together so it kind of makes sense. And electric - it's exciting!
David: We did once do an electronic kind of dance music together before this project. We like the electric word and the energy of that word... So yeah, Lovers Electric just kind of makes sense.
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KGRL: How would you describe your songs?
Eden: Psychedelic 80's...
David: No, a little bit 80's...
Eden: We are a pop duo. We used to be Indie Pop but now we're Pop, but good Pop! (laughs)
David: No, not Britney Spears Pop...
Eden: Not that she's bad, but this is different... this is kind of... edgier pop, maybe!
David: Kind of a little bit of 80's influence...
Eden: Yeah, we like Cyndi Lauper and The B-52's!
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KGRL: Can you tell us your songwriting process? Who does what mostly?
David: Every song has both of us involved in it at some point.
Eden: We write together!
David: Yeah, we generally write together. Sometimes one person do more and the other person edits. It's very collaborative. Each song is different but every song has both of us in it.
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KGRL: So breaking it down, who writes the music and who writes the lyrics?
David: It was always the both of us...
Eden: Pretty much a joint effort. I'm kind of the editor. David writes a lot of the words and I write a lot of the melodies. We edit each other and just mix it up. It changes... it always changes... it always evolves... a bit of both.
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KGRL: We love the CD! It’s got fabulous songs, great recording and fantastic sound, wonderful vocals - to name a few of the merits. How did you two get into creating and recording your first album?
David: We just kind of decided to do an album... Our band, that we were in for a few years, broke up.
Eden: We constantly demoed all the time with the other band. We finally went - "stop this we're going to record an album!" So we, on a laptop portable studio, traveled around on a bus. We have a portable studio and we recorded the entire album ourselves on that mac/laptop - that's a little promotion for mac there (laughs), they're very good laptops. A friend in Nashville mastered it for us. It was on a budget too...
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KGRL: How much did you spend recording and creating this album?
Eden: Spend... Energy or money? (laughs) A lot of energy! Not that much money to be honest because it's more time than money if you record it yourself. We mixed the album ourselves as well. What we did was we bought a computer for £800 (we had £820 - in England it buys quite a lot) and we mixed the album at a friend's house (we're house-sitting at the time). After mixing the album we sold the computer for £750 - so, mixing cost us £50. (laughs) We could eat again after we sold it. (laughs)
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KGRL: How hard is it for an independent artist to come up with a quality full-length?
David: Honestly it can just be about believing in doing it. Because I think when you have a label and a team behind you. They can give you the confidence to just go "Ahh, let's do an album... Great, this is going to work..." But when you're by yourself - "I don't know. Should I do an album? Maybe we should just demo some songs and wait till something happens and works out." We feel we really should do an album. The hottest thing about being independent is that you just kind of go for it and do it. And that you believe that it's possible that it can go somewhere...
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KGRL: Who are your musical influences?
Eden: I'm from a family of 7 girls - I'm number 5. My dad is a singer as well. He used to buy and deliberately play female artist records in front of us girls. He hardly ever bought records with male artists - it was always female artists. And it worked because 4 out of 7 of us do music pretty much full-time. B-52's, Cyndi Lauper, and Midnight Oil... and who else?
David: The Cure.... the 80's...
Eden: Yeah, it is the 80's...
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KGRL: Why did you decide to be based in US/UK instead of establishing your musical career in Australia?
David: We do say we were from Australia because that's where we spend a lot of time. But it's really hard to do music in a really serious level. There are few really successful ones that can make a living in Australia. It's actually really very difficult - this is not a very big population. It's a huge country to tour and it's quite expensive.
Eden: And Australians like American music, not Australian.
David: If you make it somewhere else, then you're big in Australia. It's the strangest thing!
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KGRL: Have you both done co-writes?
David: No we haven't and no one's co-written with us.
Eden: We just write everything ourselves. We're still pretty young - I'm 25 and Dave is 26. We're still at the very beginning. We're planning on doing this for a very long time. I think we're still at the beginning of that whole stuff - that kind of songwriting or producing. Maybe in the future we'll do that stuff but we haven't yet.
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KGRL: If given a chance to co-write with any other artist, who would you want to co-write with?
Eden: That's a good question!
David: I've never thought about that!
Eden: I never even thought about that at all...
David: Yeah, but I like the idea...
Eden: I'd like to work with a really cool dance act - like Bassment Jaxx or like Air. Something more on the electronic - we actually listen to electronic music most of the time for some reason. We don't really listen to music like our own - we do sometimes, but a lot of that electronic kind of weird European stuff which I love. That would be quite fun.
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KGRL: Are any of you involved in any other projects?
David: I kind of just do music all the time... (laughs)
Eden: I'm a fashion designer as well. I run my own label, Eden Honeydew. I'm on the artier side rather than commercial side, in a way that I don't really do it for money. I do it for the love of it because you can't make money anyway (laughs) - I might as well enjoy it while I'm at it. I do things like wedding dresses and fun projects that come up or like films. We just finished doing a film. My sister was doing a film - so I'm helping out with that.
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KGRL: Have you performed in Australia?
David: Yeah...
Eden: Yes, not with this band though... Oh no, we did once - in Melbourne.
David: Yeah I know we did, when we were there last. We played a few shows in our friend in Melbourne and we got paid in...
Eden: In this Italian restaurant! That was worth it, that was a very good pay that night.
David: It was some of the very best pay we've ever had... (laughs)
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KGRL: What was your best experience playing live?
David: Our best experience playing live... Actually, the last gig we did in The Basement in Nashville was really cool because we know quite a few friends there... LA is very cool too
Eden: Yeah, LA is very cool but in a different way...
David: But that show (in Nashville) - we just happen to have a lot of friends there who have already fallen in love with the album and have told their friends to listen to it. That was one of the few shows where people were almost singing along because they knew the album so well.
Eden: That was cool. We also did our single launch for "Honey" in London. We did it in a retro bowling alley. So while we were playing our gig there was 10 lanes of bowling going on at the same time. So while we're doing the set there was "Hooray!" yelling and "Nice try!" - that was quite an enjoyable gig!
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KGRL: We have a lot of favorites in the CD. In the slow ballad type, both Closer and Is It Over? are really good. In the more upbeat we love I Don't Know and Start Over. Which ones are your favorites?
Eden: I really like Closer - that's a really sweet slow song. I really like the recording that we did on the album. I like the loud ones too. I quite like Not Good Enough, which is really loud with cool drums and stuff. That's really fun to play live with a full band - very kind of loud.
David: I like Start Again. It's a song that's one of my favorites.
Eden: Yeah!
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KGRL: We know you love playing You Got It and we saw why - you get audience participation with the clapping. Which other songs do you enjoy playing live?
David: Yeah, that's a good one - because of the audience participation, you get that response immediately.
Eden: Closer is nice to play live with the piano. It was nice there's a piano tonight so we could play that.
David: I really like playing Honey. It's just a real energetic song.
Eden: With the acoustic or with the full band - that's a pretty fun song.
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KGRL: Has it been hard touring without a regular band? Do you prefer or are you more comfortable with just the two of you?
Eden: Financially it's a lot better to perform with the two of us. (laughs) And we don't have to pay each other! (laughs) I really enjoy performing with a duo, to be honest. We're really enjoying it and getting great responses. The band is fun but it's a lot more work and the other guys have other projects as well - because we're a duo you know, that kind of stuff.
David: Where we are at the moment, the duo is really good. But I'm really looking forward to getting back with band and play again - and do some loud kind of shows as well.
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KGRL: Which steps are you taking to have your CD be released on a much wider distribution?
Eden: Umm, the usual world-domination-type stuff!
David: Yeah, then we hand it over to our manager. He's doing well at that.
Eden: We do have a wonderful manager and he's helping us out. I don't know. It's a timing thing. I don't think there are any particular steps you can do for that stuff. I think it's a matter of time... Oh no, not time, whether it happens or not - it's worth enjoying it. Maybe we will have a big record or maybe we won't - we don't really care at the moment.
David: Yeah... So far it's just iTunes through that label they put up for us. Yeah, that's it so far. But yeah, we would love to release it with a label over here that wants to put it in shops and promote it and stuff...
Eden: Yeah, promotion - that's a cool concept!
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KGRL: Any new artists you both listen to?
Eden: Metric! We like Metric, they're a Canadian band - they're pretty cool! As a new singer, Dawn Kinnard - you know actually, KGRL would really like her stuff. She's very very cool. She just finished her debut album in England.
David: I've been enjoying that guy in Australia, but he's not new...
Eden: Sleepy Jackson? They're not new...
David: Yeah, I like Sleepy Jackson, they're cool!
Eden: But that's a guy! And we're on woman's only thing, you know! (laughs)
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KGRL: Are you currently shopping for a label? Do you prefer independent or major label?
Eden: We don't mind... You know, we're up for anything! You can get a really big label and it can be disastrous or it can be wonderful - it depends on who the people are you're working with. Our manager is good. It's good to have the cleverer side of business as well. He's helping us out, which is cool. We have a little bit of idea but not really - but he has a good idea. I didn't really know what we were doing - if we were shopping. I guess we want to release this album better and not just on iTunes - maybe on other places as well.
David: But it's been really good doing everything independent as well...
Eden: Yeah, it's a lot of control... You have a lot of freedom.
David: You want to pick and choose the best. You want the promotion of the major with the choices of an independent - that will be the ultimate. You get the big body that can really promote this stuff and get it out there towards the people but be able to retain your creativity.
Eden: Yeah, that sounds good!
David: Yeah, it did actually! (laughs)
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KGRL: If you both did not get into music, what do you think you will be doing?
Eden: Ooh... David you have been a steam train driver!
David: Yeah, a steam train driver!
Eden: I'd be a designer. It has to be boring because I'm a designer already. I'd just do art anyway - arty stuff. You might have done arty stuff too, not just train driving. (laughs)
David: Yeah, I'm pretty crap at painting and all that visual stuff!
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KGRL: We're pretty sure we heard a new song tonight (Love Waits). Does that mean you guys are already on your way to recording a new album?
David: Well, you know... We're definitely on our way to writing stuff for the next album.
Eden: We demoed some stuff. We demoed that song.
David: We're doing bits and pieces. We want to focus on getting this first album really - you know take it as far as it can go. But we're definitely writing for the second album (like the song - Love Waits).
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KGRL: What's the next step for Lovers Electric? Anything you two are planning?
David: Well, I guess this is the thing - we're playing at the moment...
Eden: In two weeks time we got another gig, ready or not.
David: Just being here doing the shows and hopefully to release the album a bit more over here. And have people like you help us get it out there and get people to listen to it. People have heard it in UK but still we're pretty young and we really want to get people to listen to it.
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KGRL: Any last words for our KGRL listeners?
Eden: I hope you enjoy the music!
David: Yeah, thanks for listening!
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Special thanks goes to Eden & David of Lovers Electric.
Lovers Electric Links:
Official Website: http://www.loverselectric.com
MySpace Page: http://www.myspace.com/loverselectric
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