LOCAL NATIVES
INTERVIEW
OLYMPIC 7NOVEMBRE2010
, NANTES
To make it short, there are two things to know about the types of Local Natives.
First, it is not up to them he must turn if you want chopper. They are all, except one couple, yet they live together in the same slum. Weird huh? Well you say that girls with whom they will try to fix you once think the same thing. By extension, you'll spend too weird for a guy.
The other thing to know is more like a commandment: Never, O great God never getting into a car with them. As a precaution, I lay this command to any machine or other device that can perform any movement. Simple matter of precaution.
STAGE INVASION: You named your Group Local Natives, it's nice, but you are truly native to where?
Kelcey: Most of us grew up in southern California, apart from Andy who is from Colorado, but we all live in California now. I think the history of the name of the group we wanted something that represented us in a good way, and that people could remember easily. We write and compose all the group as a community musicians, then "Local Natives" represents us well.
/ / You played in Paris last night (Saturday, 6, ed) , and the festival of Inrocks, your concert they described as the best festival yet.
MATT: Wow, really? Yeah, it was a great concert. Paris has always been lucky so far, it's always good times with the public, people seem to appreciate what you are doing then it's great.
/ / We spent the afternoon trying to find reviews negative online about your group, but we have found absolutely nothing. Looks like everyone loves you.
Kelcey: (laughs) What more?! But we, we saw some ...
/ / We had to miss them. So go ahead and do your own critique.
Kelcey: Something that could change within the group, perhaps? There are probably millions.
MATT: (ironically) No, it is perfect!
Kelcey: We're too perfectionist, very picky about every detail.
MATT: We're not very prolific. It takes us time to write and compose, for example, is virtually incapable when on tour. This is not necessarily a bad thing because that is what defines our group, we're like that, but we should perhaps learn to be more multitasking.
/ / And maybe a negative outside of music? Come on, spit the bit.
MATT: We spend too much time together ...
Kelcey: Right, yeah. It was very lucky because we had all been through friends we had in common, and it is as if we were to meet. When we finally formed the band four years ago to so, we all already considered as full-fledged musician. Having spent two years together in the same house, was lucky to still bear. There was not a lot of record or assume blame each other in the end ... unfortunately!
/ / Besides, the house you called Gorilla Manor ...
Kelcey: This is the name of the album too, and therefore it refers to where you wrote the disc in two different houses, one in Orange County and one in Silver Lake, east Los Angeles. I thought the name reflected the flavor of the house, a place very dirty with a bunch of boys trying to make music ...
/ / Okay, let's summarize. You all live in the same house, you feel each group member as important as another and you claim your musical influences as belonging to the 1970s. It is concluded therefore that you are hippies.
MATT: (laughs) In fact, we no longer live together now - we're on tour for so long as one has passed on the house. But I would not say we're hippies, one's own kind enough you know!
/ / You've already missed the time when you were in France last winter for the Route du Rock with Beach House and The Tallest Man On Earth. How was it?
Kelcey: Awesome! We really wanted to see The Tallest Man On Earth because we love his album. It seems to me that xx was supposed to play that night but they also had to cancel because of a personal problem and had to be replaced by These New Puritans ... which eventually canceled too! In fact, we're the only ones coming! (laughs) But it was amazing , we ended up playing later, headlining all the others have canceled.
/ / We do not really understand the theme of the shark in the video Eyes Wide ... A little explanation may be?
MATT: Well of course it has nothing to do with the song! (laughs) Our guitarist, Ryan, has a ridiculous fear of sharks, it is really terrified to see when in the water. So he came up with this idea and it was dark, with this ridiculous concept, praying for success to do something!
Kelcey: We have not obscure history to tell to justify it, unfortunately!
/ / This may be an opportunity to tell us then, obscure stories.
Kelcey: I must have 14 or 15 years. I went to the lake with one of my friends, the kind of place where everyone organizes parties. We had a golf cart that drove a little around the lake. I had apparently very little experience alcohol problems, because I had two beers and I was already gone. So we were going down a hill with the golf cart, and I know not why, I came up the idea of jumping from the car at full speed. So I yelled "hipppppiiii" I jumped, I wickedly picked up by ground and I rolled in the mud. I remember thinking at the time "but what a jerk! You really are a moron! "My head ached, ached all in fact, it was horrible. Yeah, it's probably one of the stupidest things I've done.
MATT: To stay on the subject of cars, I was at a restaurant, drive-in. So I was driving, and there was a car ahead of me (luckily, was one of my friends). It should be noted that there was a slight slope forward. A friend was with me, someone arrived to announce something - I forget what - or why I'm out of the car like super excited, and I totally forgot to turn off the engine and then put the parking brake, like any normal person. Then the car crashed into one of my buddy, who came out screaming "but what the hell is that?! "
Kelcey: I think we have a problem with the act of abandoning cars running! (laughs)
/ / bad experiences stage invasions question?
Kelcey: We had little. There's one that we scored, a few months ago in Florida. A guy came to us before the concert and asked me "do you mind if I go for Sun Hands? "And I had to answer something like" oh, no, it's not worth it, but thank you for asking. " So we went on stage, and when Matt started playing the drums on Sun Hands , I see the guy in the crowd, I made signs as if to warn me that he will go on stage, and I do everything to ignore it but two seconds later the guy is on stage, jumping in all directions, and ended up falling on the drums! And after the concert, he told his buddies we mean: "those two put me on stage! .
MATT: You should know that it was a tiny stage, a bar of 200 people at most, and the guy has messed up my battery!
Kelcey: So now, we do not like invasions of scene, but mostly it does not depend on us anyway.
MATT: But you are like you, so you can get on stage and destroy my battery if you want! (laughs)
/ / (whispering) Otherwise, you have a plan for the number of chopper chicks from Warpaint?
Kelcey: You should keep hanging around the corner and try your luck with them!
/ / Oh no, no, it was especially for you! But cons, you're five, they are four ...
Kelcey: Oh, okay! There is a single from the group to tell the truth, it was almost all friends ... But we know a little Warpaint, they are also from LA and we have already toured with them. It's good to see familiar faces on the tour elsewhere. I wish it was longer, four or five concerts, it's pretty short.
/ / Your European tour is also nearly complete, is not it?
MATT: We have two weeks in England.
Kelcey: And then we will take a break, because it's been two whole years we look, so it will be good to take time for us and we feel to be normal people again, who remain in the same zone for more than three days! And next year we will begin writing the next album. It has a few tricks, but it has not really started to linger. And when all this is done, we will return to France!
/ / You can find a word, phrase, to finish the interview?
MATT: Do not step on our stage! (laughs) No, just kidding.
Kelcey: Always put the handbrake! Do not skip a golf cart on its way! Do not make all kinds of crap in your car in general actually.
Local Natives - Eyes Wide
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LOCAL NATIVES.
album Gorilla Manor / / (Pias)
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