Cosmo's Midnight Made A Friend And They're Bringing Her On Tour

Cosmo and Patrick Liney are taking the dance music world by storm. Having only released their sophomore EP Moments last month, the boys are set to embark on a national tour in celebration before heading to America for the first time to play SXSW. "I can't remember which show is first," Patrick Liney says down the line from Sydney, still trying to take it all in. "Maybe Sydney is up early. It's gonna be fun, I'm really excited. I need to choose a support to each show actually."

Perth's avant-electronic lass Kucka, who features on the duo's track Walk With Me, will be joining the boys on all dates of their forthcoming tour and fellow collaborator Wave Racer will be showcasing his live outfit on the Adelaide leg of the tour. "We wrote Walk With Me, it was just an instrumental," Liney says of how he and Cosmo initially came to collaborate with Kucka. "I was just looking around and then I stumbled on Kucka on SoundCloud and I was like 'Oh my God, this person exists in Australia.'

"Then we had to learn the dance moves... It took us like four hours to get it right on the day and it was so hot. I got so sunburnt."

"So I just hit her up and was like 'You have to come work with us, if you like our track that is,' and then she came to Sydney twice and we worked on some music and we finished Walk With Me during that time and she killed it."

The boys' first live show with Kucka was supporting American DJ and producer Porter Robinson in Sydney. "That was really cool," Liney says. "It was really fun. It was the first time we had bought someone on stage to sing with us so it was really exciting. We've got other songs that she can do amazingly well as well — like the AlunaGeorge remix we did, she just did that amazingly."

Unlike the video clip for Walk With Me, Liney says it might be a bit too hot to don their famous tracksuits on the tour. "We've bought some new tracksuits," he says. "Those ones we got from like a $2 shop and they just fell apart. They're passed their use-by date now." But will they still bust out some dance moves on stage like they do in the clip? "Maybe," he chuckles. "I haven't done it yet but maybe for the tour." But, if it happens, it'll be planned, unlike the clip. "I just read the script and it was like 'Cosmo and Patrick join the dancers' and I was like 'Wait, what?' and they were like 'Yeah you should dance,'" he says, laughing. "They convinced us and then we had to learn the dance moves... It took us like four hours to get it right on the day and it was so hot. I got so sunburnt."

Along with the dance moves, the duo will also be playing instruments on the tour. "I play on a drum pad and my brother plays keys and we have amazing visuals courtesy of our friend Sam," he says. He did the visuals for Wave Racer's tour and Basenji's tour and I saw videos of him at Jack Rabbit Slim's and it looks pretty awesome."

And then it's off to America for the lads to play SXSW. "We are in the process of getting our visas approved," he says. "I'm super excited to be going to America. There's so many Americans who come to our shows. We met a whole bunch of them from LA. It's exciting."