1.Your Profile
Gritty, Mediterranean, reckless abandonment. Whisky on the back of a motorcycle on a tiny island in Greece.
2.Keeping Busy
We finished off last year with a tour. We were on the road for about six weeks by the end so it was a pretty crazy time. We went everywhere from sleeping in inner city Melbourne in our shabby plumbing van to Woodford Festival, where there were spiders everywhere and the heat was so intense you didn’t bother sleeping anyway. When we came home we got a warehouse studio space where we’ve been spending a lot of time writing and rehearsing. At the end February we recorded a new track, ‘King Of Bohemia’, at Jungle Studios with Lachlan Mitchell. In two weeks we’ll be doing an east coast tour to promote the tune, before heading to Canada to play Canadian Music Week. Aside from that, Pete’s been perfecting the art of bliss balls and we’ve been scraping together all our pennies to fund it all. Damn bliss balls.
3.Best Gig Ever
We had a show at Brighton Up Bar late last year for the launch of our previous single and it was the first real show with our new band. It ended up being a sell-out night and packed with people, but we were so nervous before to see if people would turn up or not. It was like having a big house party and nervously/excitedly drinking all the tequila while you wait for your mates to show. Then when we finally got onstage a combination of not enough practice gigs and crazy nerves came into fruition so that somehow we played one of the best sets we’ve ever done. Everything just kind of clicked into place. It was a pretty wild night and some people were definitely topless by the end.
4.Current Playlist
There’s a whole lot of rad stuff coming out of Australia. Courtney Barnett’s album is pretty banging! We also found this American band called Foxygen the other day. Also, Pete just discovered the world of SoundCloud and let loose on there and managed to discover some insane old BBC interviews. In one of them Lou Reed is being interviewed about his time working with Andy Warhol and Andy’s influence on Lou.
5.Your Ultimate Rider
Ultimate rider would be a bunch of ripe avocados, maybe some poached eggs, Turkish bread, lemon, chilli, a bottle of Jameson and maybe some VBs. Our usual rider at the moment is aligned with the saying ‘beggars can’t be choosers’ [laughs].
Betty & Oswald playBrighton Up Bar onFriday April 10.
