On Pre-Recorded Acceptance Speeches, Jarryd James And Scratchies

Eves The Behavior (Hannah Karydas to her nearest and dearest) has scored the most Queensland Music Awards nominations this year. She's the only artist with three noms (across two categories): TV (Best Song, Best Music Video) and Electrical (Best Music Video). On how she funded these music videos, Karydas explains her label Dew Process was "very, very helpful". "They're obviously founded in Queensland so it's kind of special that I'm nominated for the Queensland Music Awards while being signed to them because, I dunno, it just feels like we're rooting for the home territory." Karydas further praises Dew Process for "bringing my crazy ideas to life," she adds with a chuckle. "And sort of just saying, 'Okay, you can do that!' And I think it's more [that] they just connected me with people that I can make stuff with and that's been so beneficial so, yeah! I had a lot of fun making those videos."

"It's my first record, so I'm sort of like feeling in the dark as to how to make a record, you know?"

When asked whether she's won anything before, music-related or otherwise, Karydas offers, "I think the most I've ever won on a scratchie is five dollars". Eves The Behavior was booked to support The Jezabels on their national tour, but Karydas laments, "It got cancelled under really terrible circumstances [the band's keyboardist is undergoing cancer treatment] so I didn't get to come home. But I mean, you know, it just is what it is. I really send my thoughts to the band." 

Still in London, this probably means Karydas will have to pre-record some video acceptance speeches if Eves The Behavior win any Queensland Music Awards. She laughs, "That might be really awkward." Win or lose, though, Karydas stresses, "It's nice to be nominated".

Some of her favorite fellow Queensland artists are Jarryd James: "He's killing it. I mean, he's actually playing in London in two weeks, I think, so I'll probably go to that show," and her "good friend Emma Louise". "We're both from Cairns, so when I was 13 I used to go and watch her play and I used to go, 'I'm gonna go and do that one day'," she reminisces. Karydas says the pair would "laugh together about the fact that [they] had silly aspirations for life".     

Things are going swimmingly for Karydas and she's currently in London working on her debut album. "It's my first record, so I'm sort of like feeling in the dark as to how to make a record, you know?" she admits. "'Cause I've never done this before. It's a lotta fun — it's not stressful, it's just more like I sometimes have days where I freak out [about] whether I'm doing it the right way and then I realise, 'Well, it's completely up to me, I can do it however I want'.

"So the way I've picked doing it is to just keep it between me and a couple of friends, and I really didn't wanna go and do this with like someone I'd never met before, like, some acclaimed producer or whatever." Karydas is currently working with Samuel Dixon (who's written songs with Sia and Adele) and Stella Mozgawa from Warpaint and enthuses, "We're just friends and we hang out and it's really lovely. We just kind of have fun and we joke around all day, and it just kind of becomes reflective in the music, I think; the sense of ease and this, like, very forthcoming feeling."