And, you know, as I said earlier, the hype that goes around these little chartless acts, in order to try to throw out into the universe, is phenomenal and completely full of their lies. And the things... all you’ve got to hear is these two people who write songs and play. I mean Kara has got one of… the best voice I have ever recorded.
Kara: Thank you.
Dave: Then we’ve said: how are people going to understand who we are and how we got together and everything? And it’s been told using all the mediums that we have today, TV, internet, all these sorts of things. And it’s a mythological story that lands you with in the present day and with us. It’s almost like Jefferson Aeroplane turning into Jefferson Starship or something. That whole way of getting through to the general public.
In a way it’s based, a lot more into reality than most things. Nowadays… before they would only be word of mouth or the printed word, and the mythology that surrounds David Bowie, who was David Jones, or Dylan who was Robert Zimmerman and told everyone he was Woody Guthrie’s son. All these various things they got expanded on and written about, to the point where you’ve no idea whether it’s true or not.
But it doesn’t really matter because it’s all wrapped around their music and their words. That’s a good way of explaining it.
Kara: The thing that is interesting is that a lot of the artists out there. I’m not even sure if it’s the singer singing. I won’t name which record, but she didn’t do her own vocal work. But really what is the… I hope that people can hear what we are without all that… see past that hype.
Dave: I think that Kara’s right at the end of the day, what we wanted to do was to have created enough fuss about what we were doing with the documentary or anything other of the mess, that they go “hey what is this, I want to listen to it”. And then they get the album and they’ll love the album.
Kara: They will love it.
Tell me about your lyrics. There seems to be a strong influence of Eurythmics.
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