Dave: It’s a complete mixture of my influence and Kara’s influence. What’s kind of unique about this duo is that I’m English, from the North East of England, and Kara is from upstate New York. You get this American/English kind of feel that’s a bit like Fleetwood Mac; they were part-English. There was a total mixture there of the English and American.
And you feel you have the same mixture?
Dave: Well yeah. Not because we’re trying to but just we can’t do anything else.
Kara: But, we definitely have a different relationship than Dave had with Annie and than I have had with other collaborators. I mean with respect to that iconic relationship. Dave and I have such a, lightness in our relationship even though it’s… I mean I am a totally different character to Annie.
So your music together is lighter?
Kara: Well the music reflects us but also Dave and I don’t have a relationship which Dave and Annie did. We aren’t lovers and Dave and Annie were.
Dave: Yeah. Yep…
Kara: So it’s [the music] based on our relationship with each other. There is one song called “Taking Chances”, which is basically us looking at each other and going we don’t really know each other that well, we made a great job of this music, this is kind of wild but let’s give it a go.
Dave: Sorry… I’m just directing someone who has never driven in LA who before. Excuse me if I sound alarmed now and then. (laughs)
No, please give direction first. I would hate to be responsible for the death of Dave Stewart. My friends would kill me. (all laugh)
Dave: I think what Kara and I are really looking forward to is playing in front of an audience. We have been doing a few performances and Kara is a phenomenal performer and she hasn’t really had a chance to do it yet.
Are you a live performance virgin Kara?
Kara: More like Hello Dolly in eighth grade.
Dave: When she was nine I think.
When are you performing live for the first time?
Kara: I don’t know. Dave, when are going to be performing?
Dave: The plan is — tour in America in October. For Britain we would probably arrive in late January or early February and play dates around the time the release of the album.
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