1.Your Profile
Hello. We’re The Cairos. We play dreamy pop music by day, and sultry, hot buttered soul jams by night. We sound like Kevin Shields having a passive-aggressive disagreement with Isaac Hayes about The Beatles. We like swimming holes, nature walks, long road trips, sunbaking, Netflix, coriander, Mexican food, each other, and candlelit dinners for four or more.
2. Keeping Busy
Lately, we’ve been spending all our time in the studio cutting transients for our upcoming sophomore LP. We’re playing a few festivals over the summer, and we’re hitting the road in January for our Love Don’t Feel Right tour. In our spare time we ride pushbikes, build cars, go swimming, and talk about our feelings openly and honestly.
3. Best Gig Ever
I don’t know if we could pick a favourite gig. They’re all special in different ways. We played an amazing show with the beautiful Nova Heart at Yugong Yishan in Beijing last year. Cargo Bar in Vietnam was another good one – we got to play three encores and ate the best pho of our lives.
4. Current Playlist
Hazel English is writing some of the best, understated pop songs around at the moment. Her track ‘Fix’ is definitely worth a listen. Last Dinosaurs released one of our favourite albums of 2015. The title track ‘Wellness’ is honestly brilliant. We also really like the song ‘Distant Dreaming’ by Shining Bird. It’s such a great tune that features heavily in our tour van playlists. Additional honourable mentions to Winston Surfshirt, Craig David, Dreller, High-Tails, Bad//Dreems, Zeffirelli and Silicon.
5. Your Ultimate Rider
Our current rider features beers, a bottle of spirits, fruit and gluten-free sandwiches… Our ultimate rider would probably involve personal chefs who cook breakfast foods at any time of the day. Croissants flown in direct from France. Some kind of fresh fruit juice. 100-year-old Scotch. Joyrides in an MR2. A waiter that addresses us as ‘sir’. Wi-Fi password. iPhone chargers. You know, the essentials.
The Cairos appear at theBrighton Up Bar on Friday January 22.
