Features / Music

The duo known to the majority of people as New York's Sleigh Bells, have kindly decided to play a couple of BDO sideshows for us in Sydney and Melbourne.

Muso’s Greg Phillips speaks with Tristan Bouillaut about his new project Dead In A Second.

At what point does an artist need a manager? Why would you? Where do you find one anyway? Greg Phillips asks Catherine Haridy, she is one!

"It was scary – it was very scary,” Margin explains. “Suddenly we had all these eyes on us and all these record labels after us. We knew we needed them because we were over there living off our parents’ money that we’d borrowed."

"Our minds are all a lot heavier with stuff; we’re all 30 now instead of 26. And it’s a different place in your head. There’s a lot of peering over the edge of proper adulthood at 30…"

"There was a new energy, and we were determined not to compromise but instead make decisions where we saw fit. Things were allowed to be different; that idea seemed totally valid."

"I always take those huge risks, and I always survive and I’m always in a better place than I was before."

“Really, I just want a copy of the album to give to my mum and I want a copy of the album to sit in my bedroom. Anything beyond that will be just a bonus, really.”

“We don’t want to isolate and push our fans away, we’d love it if they came with us, but we recognise that it’s hard to sort of continue that party vibe when you’re sort of doing dark, challenging, artistic music.”

"We trimmed away until what we had left was something punchy. All the best bits are jammed in there, so nothing is left to chance this time around."

"We’re doing some funny, funny whacky production things that are gonna make the performance so memorable in like a 3D kind of way… There’s some interactive stuff happening with the crowd that includes fire and things like that – it’s gonna be really fun."

"It’s still dark, but I thought I fooled everyone with the tambourines."