James Draper And Jordan Brady Of Winterbourne Crack Wise

If music doesn't work out for best buds James Draper and Jordan Brady they should go into stand-up comedy. Draper plays the role of the (moderately) serious, professional musician, while Brady wise-arses and cracks the sarcasm whip like a pro, sending us all onto hilarious tangents at each other's expense.

"We met playing handball in high school in year eight. I don't think you liked me very much," Draper says to Brady. "You were the mysterious 'other' friend that my best friend had," he retorts. "I remember not liking [Brady] as well. Our mutual friend Adrian, we had a band and I played guitar and he played guitar," explains Draper. "Very nice band," Brady rolls his eyes. "I remember finding out that you could only play power chords." "I play all the chords!" Draper throws up his hands in mock protest.

"We made, like, 60 bucks in coins. We were really proud of our 60 bucks, which was a lot when we were 15."

The first original songs the boys penned "were pretty bad" expressions of teen ego — "Just AC/DC style slamming. It was all about the solos," laughs Draper. By the time they hit 15, money was starting to come in from their music through busking. "We sat on a bench down in Darling Harbour with two acoustic guitars and we were too scared to sing," Draper explains. "We made, like, 60 bucks in coins. We were really proud of our 60 bucks, which was a lot when we were 15."

"[Pity donations] were very similar to our style busking," says Brady, straight-faced. "We had a nun give us 50 bucks on Pitt St once. She teached... taught… teaches guitar and took pity on us."

“A lot of our fan base came from busking. So by the time we started doing shows we kinda had people who liked us. But when we did the first headline tour we were freakin’ out a bit. Every night I’d go out and go ‘If you’re not all smiling the whole time I’m going to be really upset,’" Brady confides.

"[Our closeness] tends to help a lot with songwriting because we have similar tastes, so if something sucks we both tend to agree on it. We've never argued or anything over a song," Draper says. "Yes we have," shoots back Brady, and I ask for them to elaborate. Anything to do with a girl? "Nope," shuts down Draper as Brady laughs "Not that has impacted on the music."

"We will not disclose this information. That's taking it way back. 2009, we were 14," Draper says to Brady seriously. "It's all behind us now. We couldn't possibly go back," Brady says, equally as serious. "Those were very dark times."

What actually inspires them beyond pubescent heartbreak? "Twenty-one-year-old heartbreak!" Draper exclaims. "It's always a combination of [our] personal experience and what [we've] observed in someone else's experience. But nothing that bad has happened to us; a lot of the time we need to comment on [someone else's experience]."

So following the release of their debut Pendulum, what's the big, pie-in-the-sky dream for these young'uns? "We, um… stand-up comedy… um. This is a dumb, shit question," Brady jokes. This is the last question of the interview. "Oh, so this is the important one, 'the last question'." Brady clears his throat and leans into the microphone. Nothing. "We want to play Wembley," Draper saves in his most serious voice.