Features / Music

"I guess because we’re all surfers, we’re on the same wavelength and understand the feeling you get from a good surf. It’s similar to playing music: nothing else matters."

Red Ink chat to us about their new single, Euphoria.

"They then proceeded to baptise us in some sort of ancient surfer rock ritual involving a fine white powder, the burning of seaweed and a game played with the beaks of fallen seagulls. It sure was a jolly good show!"

"I know that, if we do make another record, it will only be because we want to. I just don’t think we’ll know if we want to go through that again until the end of this year."

"It’s the awesomest feeling to just say, ‘You know what? I want to make a beat like this today.’ I feel like I don’t have the pressure that we had with labels. The expectations are not there. The only expectation is to do something good. Do something great."

"It’s like the entire group has received this collective breath of fresh air, this inspired vigour for music and life, and we thought it was just that initial getting-back-together, things-slotting-into-place phase. But it’s continued into 2012, and it has revitalised us."

"We like to have fun with the audience and our friends at live shows, and the experience is something you can’t get through recording."

“You grow up and become more comfortable with yourself. By getting out of certain situations, you are empowered by that because you’ve made a choice and it’s the right thing for you.”

"Just about everything that’s happened to me has happened by chance."

"A couple of months later we’d been in contact with the guy who organised the event whose name is Mikey Jayy – he’s host of some [online] radio show in LA [The Great Unknowns presents KGUP 106.5] – and he asked us to come and perform over there as well."

"What I tried to do this year is two things in particular. I’ve gone back to my roots, so it’s going to be a very authentic 1930s night."