When is it released?
Dave: It’s released on September 19th in America and late January/early February in Britain. But pre-lease in Britain there is going to be a whole load of stuff available for people to hear. Give them a chance to follow the history and that sort of thing.
Are you worried that it will be all over the internet first?
Dave: Well we don’t mind that really actually. The internet sometimes gets a bad name by labels paranoia and that. But on the other hand if your music is strong enough then people want to see you and everything, they will buy your record anyway.
We strongly agree with you!
Dave, you seem to have a very unusual relationship with very musical women.
Dave: Yeah, I know… the longer I live the more I realize this. I have no idea why apart from… I’m really drawn toward the female voice particularly, if it has a kind of, as Kara discovered, melancholy in it.
Kara: He likes us depressed. I’m not depressed…
You don’t seem depressed.
Kara: We have that melancholy in our voice. I'm not depressed.
You also have a lot of power behind your voice Kara.
Dave: Yeah… Kara has got an incredible amount of power in her voice. But also totally clear and perfect pitch.
Kara: My voice is so strong that even when I speak I can be heard all over.
Dave: Yeah when Kara and I first met I thought she was shouting at me all the time but then I realised that is just how she talks anyway.
How long have the two of you known each other? And are you going to continue making music together?
Dave: I don’t think lightly about forming another duo with a girl, if you know what I mean. I’ve done it before. It’s just because we get on so well personally but also in our musical collaboration. We just seem to be on the same wavelength.
Kara: We’ve never had an argument. We’ve never written a song and not been on the same page about it. It’s very odd. It’s very organic. That’s what is made it so easy.
Where did the idea for doing the back-story?
Dave: Well it’s kind of evolved because I was toying with all this 70s-sounding guitars and stuff like that and I was talking all about this. We just fall in and write in this particular way. And from that stories came out about what happened in those lost years. And really I was crazy about guitars and all this kind of stuff. Then from that and I started talking to friends… and it became apparent that we hadn’t just appeared but that we were a band that was always meant to be. Like a Legend kind of a band, a Super-group kind of band. Then Jimmy Lovine (chairman and co-founder of Interscope Records) says “yeah that’s right we are. We should make a film”. And so we did.
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