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"We want to be as creative as possible without any borders or without looking at other acts"
You’re in Australia playing Electric Gardens a one-day festival in Sydney and then Rainbow Serpent which is a kind of like a multi-day hedonist extravaganza. Do you approach those sets differently?
I think so because I think in Sydney we’re going to play the main stage with like Basement Jaxx and Eric Prydz and like the big players and, I mean, it’s always spontaneous but we will see how big the stage is, how many people are there, etc. It always depends on what the surroundings are, what the people are like. But you know playing those huge stages and festivals it’s always a little bit different.
We’ve never been to Rainbow and we’re very excited to go and I think we’ll just go with the flow and see but we’re really looking forward to playing both. It’s actually the first time we’ll play a festival in Australia. We come here so often but we’ve never played a festival. We’ve been coming here for four years … Australia in general is one of our favourite countries to tour.
You’re here quite often and tonight with Kolsch and Monkey Safari, a few other guys, what’s your connection to Australia and specifically Melbourne. You guys seem to have a great time and we love having you here.
First of all the people in Australia are super cool, very nice, and Mike Toner the CEO of Thick as Thieves, which is the promoter who always brings us here, was the first promoter who brought us to Australia and we became close friends and it’s always a pleasure to come here and spend time with him and all the other friends we have here, and people seem to like what we do so the shows are always great, and we have a super cool time and … I mean it for real because I’ve said it in so many interviews, not just with Australian press, that Australia is one of our favourite countries and, especially Melbourne, one of our favourite cities to play in the whole world so it really means a lot to us to be here and play for the fans so it’s going to be an amazing tour.
Scott Carbines is Mixmag's Australian Digital Content Editor, follow him on Twitter
