Off the Record

Unknown Speaker 3:43
Day.

Tyler Farnes 4:27
This is WKNC 8.1 FM HQ on ROI, I'm your host elope. And this is off the record, a WKNC podcast series where artists, many different genres and origins are interviewed. This week I had the pleasure of speaking with another NC local band based here in Raleigh, my sister Maura, that song that was just playing before was was Mars by my sister are up for their EP. It's great to have you all here in the studio. Thank you all for coming down. Thank you. You're having a great day. Um, so, you know, introduce yourself, you know, what's your name, you know, What instruments do you play? You know, yadda yadda, all that type of stuff. So,

Katie 5:08
yeah, my name is Katie. And I am the guitarist, and I do vocals as well. And a little bit of cello.

Elijah 5:16
Oh, my name is Eliza. I play bass and I sing a little bit.

Dave 5:23
I'm Dave and I hang out in the back playing the drums.

Tyler Farnes 5:27
Nice. Nice. i This just came to mind me Elijah, you're the tallest and you're the bass player. You're kind of like Kristin like, like Nirvana.

Dave 5:34
He really is.He really is.

Elijah 5:37
Like having to take off my shoes.

Tyler Farnes 5:39
Yeah, it's it. That just carried him.

Elijah 5:43
No, actually this is like we Katie and I went to go see Nirvani like Nirvana cover? Yeah, because they make so yeah, but Yeah, and like yeah, they were like, hilariously amazing. Like it was so fun but like shockingly Yeah, but we were like talking about like because they kept doing like the you know Kurt Cobain Krishna was like running into each other. We got to start doing we got I

Tyler Farnes 6:09
think I think that I saw actually a Nirvana cover band as well. This was like back when I was like 18 Back in back in my hometown of Swansboro but um it was an i RVANN A that's what how they were Oh my god. So Nervana like that so it's

Katie 6:30
got a shirt it says the tribute experience. upon first glance it would look like I'm just your average Nirvana Stan but no, no.

Dave 6:41
Attribute experience.

Tyler Farnes 6:42
I like to stands that stand nirvana. That's so I'm so Are y'all originally from North Carolina? Have you guys lived here your whole lives like, what's up?

Dave 6:54
We have Yeah,

Speaker 3 6:55
pretty much. Yeah, we're not interesting in that.

Tyler Farnes 6:58
Are you from the Raleigh area? Are you just kind of where y'all from everywhere I

Dave 7:02
am. I'm triangle where I grew up here in North Raleigh. Cool home. There Raleigh transport transplants

Katie 7:08
lived in Durham until this past January and moved to Raleigh.

Tyler Farnes 7:12
Cool. Cool.

Elijah 7:13
I live. I grew up in Hickory. It's not a it's a little bumblebee little town. Yeah.

Tyler Farnes 7:19
Cool. Um, so getting into my sister Maura, how long has my sister Mara have been around? Have you guys sort of been bitten as a group together?

Dave 7:33
So this band officially got started pretty much April of last year 2022. So just over a year. We did not play our first live show, though, until October of last year. So we haven't been playing live quite as long as we've been together. But those first first few months really dedicated to just writing some material kind of figuring things out as a band. So we've really made a lot of progress. And so we're excited to see what the future holds.

Katie 7:57
Funny thing, actually is Elijah and I met and we bonded over the Smiths. They did and and then Elijah judged me real hard when I said my favorite Smith album was instead he was like, really impressed. He's like, Oh, Smith, and then I said that he's like, oh, okay, well, nevermind. But then he hit me up. And April was like, you want to start a band. And I was like, like, the resentments didn't last too long. Is that easier?

Dave 8:22
This bad guy. This this band got started from a band that Elijah and I used to play together. And that was how I met him. When we were both students at NC State, we had started a band called the outside cats that got broken up due to COVID. So when Elijah hit me up in early 20, to 2020, you said, hey, I want to get some star. You want to play drums for me? I said, Absolutely. Let's do some. So here we are. So it's been really great. I'm truly honored to play with these two

Katie 8:48
Sweet. It's it goes both ways.

Dave 8:52
Thank you. Good luck. You'll haven't kicked me out yet.

Tyler Farnes 8:58
All right, so how long have you guys been playing individually like your own individual strengths? Obviously, David, David and Alicia, you've been playing in a separate band like since like 2018. You've been playing at least in the scene. But how long have you all been playing your instruments like in general?

Elijah 9:15
I started playing guitar when I was like 15 and eventually transitioned to bass because I mean, I don't know. I don't really know how that happened. I mean, I play guitar and bass still, like I still like guitar a lot, but I kind of just prefer playing bass in bands. Yeah, like 15.

Katie 9:31
I actually got started with piano that was my first instrument, like every good Asian kid. And I am I wrong. So I did that and then just kind of transitioned to guitar after some time and also got started with orchestra, which I did for about seven years. And now I'm a very mid cello player. So I just love Stick to playing like whole notes. But it works out. So yeah, I've been playing I don't know about since middle school like guitar wise. A little earlier.

Tyler Farnes 10:10
I was about to say can we because definitely in, in faithful daisies and Ghost in, I got to watch I forgot what's a ghost in the lesson the pavement goes in payment you DCE the idea here that shows definitely coming in.

Dave 10:28
I got started playing percussion in eighth grade when I was 14, so 10 years now. But so that was like snare drum mallet type stuff in school band. So drum kit, nine year so that was definitely where I trained. I kind of switched, I used some classical training to kind of teach myself how to play drum set. So yeah, but that's certainly a lot more fun.

Tyler Farnes 10:50
Cool, cool. Cool. So um, I know that. So Elijah and Davey Dave, if you have this is your first entry into the NC local scene you were what's the band name? Again? sets have to do with cats. Right? The outside cats that was our previous band. But Katie, is this like your first like, foray into sort of a more band? Sort of in the NC local scene or

Katie 11:12
yeah, this okay, really fun. But yeah, it definitely is.

Tyler Farnes 11:15
Nice. Nice. So I guess like, why did you guys originally form like that, like, year ago? Was it just because y'all were just kind of just like, again, like, a lot like calling each other like hooked up? Or like, Hey, you want to start something? Or just like, why? Or is it just some happenstance? Like, what's up? Well,

Elijah 11:36
I like graduated from NC State, December 2021. And then I was like, I didn't really know what I was gonna do, went home and lived with my parents for a few months. I just started applying for jobs. And I just happened to get a job in Raleigh. So I moved back here. And so that's where I live now. And I was like, well, now I need to start a new band. Like, yeah, like,

Dave 11:59
that was exactly what happened. Yeah. And him knowing that obviously, I was here in Raleigh said, hey, I want to get something going. I said, Absolutely. Let's do it. So here we are. So it's been really great,

Tyler Farnes 12:08
I suppose say, How did you get into Okay, yeah,

Katie 12:11
it's funny, because so we have a mutual friend, Elijah and I, and so we met through him. And it's like, after a couple months when I mentioned, you know, before Elijah hit me up, he actually proposed the idea of us being like, kind of post punk New Wave

Elijah 12:27
Darkwave

Katie 12:29
transition to shoegaze at some point, eventually, it was you guys. I don't know how that happened.

Tyler Farnes 12:36
I mean, like, I mean, you get so many pedals into it. Just shoegaze you know?

Katie 12:42
Like, I was I started with, you know, the notion I already had like a tuner pedal. I need a tuner. looper. I had a tuner and a looper. And then I got a tuner and I was like, that's all I really need. And I was like, I'll cap it at that. And now I have like, six or seven shouldn't

Dave 13:00
even say you still don't have Brandon beat. Yeah. So Brandon's a friend of ours.

Katie 13:07
A massive pedal board? Yeah. Like he has like four, like, distortions on there. And he's like, I need them all. Like, one gig and I'm like,why?

Elijah 13:17
Okay, but he does sound exactly like Albert Hammond Jr.

Katie 13:20
Shout out to Brandon getting that strokes tone.

Elijah 13:24
T like, yeah,

Katie 13:25
they're in heat stroke, by the way, just shout out.

Tyler Farnes 13:28
Yeah. Cool. Um, so I guess, going into the music and I guess you did mention shoegaze. Again, like, I saw that like keyword and like, I remember, like, oh, wait, I DJ shoegaze for like, a couple of months. I was like, and I've always liked that sound. So right now, you do have your one one EP out feigning screams we will talk about that right now. But we'll get like more into it specifically in the second. So but I want to talk about sort of how you define your own music and your tone. So when I first started listening to you guys, it was definitely did seem definitely indie shoegaze sort of like very dreamy dream pop type thing. And that's how I saw it. And sort of I don't really know if any other Raleigh people that sort of like have have have defined themselves as shoegaze or how that sort of like vibe or like tone with them, like specifically do you guys hear yourself as that sort of genre do you guys see like yourself just like, going all over the place? Like, like, how do you guys personally see your own tone and sort of sound

Elijah 14:39
is funny because like, like we said, initially, we were gonna I was gonna try to be like a post punk Darkwave band that got abandoned very quickly. And then I was like, we started writing songs together. And I was like, Let's do like, we can do some shoe gays and then like, we had like three or four songs written I was like, you know, we kind of went in with the mindset of sounding shoegaze, but then we're like, none of these songs sound Like shoegaze, like they actually know like, they just kind of sound like a indie rock.

Dave 15:05
That's definitely part of the mutual influence that we all have. So I guess that's kind of how it gets to that point.

Elijah 15:10
Yeah. But then like, like, we thought none of them sounded cheesy, but then a lot of people do come up to us and say, Yeah, you sound so shoegaze

Dave 15:18
certainly surprised. Some of our songs sound more shoegazing than others. So it definitely depends, but that's kind of what we like, is varying our sound experimenting, trying to sound so? Yeah,

Tyler Farnes 15:28
I think it's definitely I think definitely having that mentality of sort of putting yourself in one one genre or like one one soundscape to early, especially just like, if you're just like, like a local beta in general has definitely, like, I guess, for me, it's not really worth it. It's good to sort of experiment around it. Yeah. Which is why like, which is why when I say more shoegaze I definitely do think more, like more alternative and sort of, like dreamy and sort of just like, obviously more sort of a surf I guess, wavy and sort of hazy and sort of all type of effects. But yeah, so you guys, if you could, no, that's not a good question to ask. Hold on. So I'm going to, how am I going to I want to say this. I went So on a scale from like, like, super fuzzy to, like, super dreamy. How would you say you put yourself into, like a one to 10 scale?

Katie 16:29
Actually, this is kind of funny, because Elijah has like a plan. I'll let you explain the plan.

Elijah 16:34
So I'm okay. Like, what like so like, what is super dreamy? 10 Super fuzzy. Yeah, yeah, I feel like the first EP is maybe about like a two or three. It's super dreamy. It's not very hard. It's very mellow. very mellow, very dreamy. But it's in a lot of people have kind of mentioned like, how they like that sound because it is, there are a lot of like, more popular shoegaze bands these days. And it's really popular to like, you know, all the new shoegaze bands are really heavy and really loud. Yeah.

Tyler Farnes 17:10
Yeah, so, yeah. Okay. Like, like, I guess more sort of at that. It's definitely trauma Ray and slow crush. I think it's definitely a good example of that. Yeah, stuff. Yeah.

Elijah 17:19
But, yeah, it's funny though, because I do want to, I think I'm gonna just like fall into, like, fall into that theme. And because I am kind of planning for our next release to be a lot more fuzzy and loud. And like, what's thrashy? Yeah, a little more. thrashy? Yes,

Katie 17:37
I think LP two which. Yeah. That's, that's like the third step at the plant. LPT you might be like, just more, I don't know. Sad. Like,

Elijah 17:51
more like, slower,

Katie 17:52
like more slow core. Okay,

Tyler Farnes 17:54
cool. Is I guess, Dave Are you excited to have it be more thrashy?

Dave 18:01
Yes, I'm fine. with it. I'm I guess just my my drumming influencers are usually a lot of classic rock drummers like John Bonham is definitely my biggest one. So definitely, that style of being very hard. Hitting fast is definitely kind of my my sweet spot where I like to play. So that just fits me in the way I like to play very, very well. So I'm definitely excited to do that. So yeah,

Tyler Farnes 18:25
it is it. Okay, so like, so right now, I guess you could say that you're definitely more assertive, I guess we're sort of if you know, these bands are sort of more blue smiley sort of just suddenly the planet type bands or it's like the racially very dreamy, very served as like out there. And then you're getting more into like, oh, is your plan to get more aggressive and more sort of, like, totally fuzzy as a sort of get said to the point where, like, do you have like an endpoint for like your for like your, your plan or fantasy? Or is just kind of just like, we're just gonna go wherever it takes us to everything? Yeah, okay. Cool. Do you guys like, like influence wise? Do you guys look at more so like, classic bands in in the genre that they are looking more towards you? You kind of look at new stuff, like you kind of do stuff on your own sort of jam together? Like how was that process like when you're writing your your music and your and a song?

Elijah 19:20
I think like, I'm primarily influenced, like if we're talking gays usually like earlier shoegaze bands like, like 14 Ice bears, or like pale saints like that kind of late 80s, early 90s shoe gays you know, classic Slowdive and whatnot. Um, but, I mean, yeah, we're influenced by growing.

Katie 19:41
I mean, a lot of like, even like, you know, more poppy bands like Japanese breakfast.

Elijah 19:45
Oh, yeah. Japanese breakfast has been a big one for me too.

Katie 19:47
Yeah, they're great.

Tyler Farnes 19:50
I know that I know, Dave that you said earlier that you really like the Foo Fighters? Yes. Yes. We were talking earlier. Yes.

Dave 19:56
I'm a huge, huge Foo Fighters fan. I saw them live. I have my freshman year college fall 2017, which was awesome. Dave Grohl is definitely one of my musical heroes. So definitely, I guess kind of my influences or at least on my musical style are a lot older, like 70 6070s Rock, he's like John Bonham, Ginger Baker, those are kind of my two primarily drummer influences. So I usually try to incorporate that type of sound into my playing when I'm working with them. I'll be honest, I really didn't hardly know anything about shoegaze until I joined this band. So the two of them definitely really opened my eyes a lot more to that is that I shoegaze band that I didn't have any knowledge of before. So it's kind of I guess I'm kind of I incorporate a lot of classic rock influence into my playing, but try to make that in his into his shoegaze II as sound as I can have you

Tyler Farnes 20:45
have have any of these serve like influences or where you want to take it, how they sort of like clash together, especially because classic rock, it seems, it's definitely a lot more sort of just like sort of, I guess, not necessarily playing but we are way more structured than absolutely, then like, then like, you know, Japanese breakfast or just like slow dives type stuff. Have you guys seen that sort of clash between each other with influences as big or as that has been really like a smoother, sort of, like, come together?

Dave 21:10
Brilliant, I wouldn't say say it's clashed at all. In fact, it's definitely made me grow as a musician playing with them. And that playing with people that have very different influences, and I guess part kind of what I think really helped me train to, rather to be part of this band was I was playing in a jam band before the four even start playing with Elijah. So that really helped me get a lot better, being a lot more free, free flowing with my playing changing quickly. So that definitely made me I think, a lot better suited for this. Putting that influence in there as well.

Elijah 21:40
Dave is real chameleon, he can kind of just like go with anything and figure it out and make it work

Tyler Farnes 21:45
a try. Cool and

Katie 21:47
kind of trying to keep this a little bit in the download. But we might be trying to shoot gays via like a classic rock song for gay

Elijah 21:54
just for a dave.

Tyler Farnes 21:54
It's just awesome.

Dave 21:56
I threw out the idea at one point of trying to cater to the dads in the audience. So that was that was the thought was trying to do a shoe gay spin on an old classic rock song or something. So

Tyler Farnes 22:09
it's just adding one distortion pedal. You know, there's and then you got it. That's that's all you need.

Dave 22:13
I'm the boomer of this group with my music taste. But hey, Sophia

Katie 22:17
gonna whip that out at one show in the future. So stay tuned. Yes. Ready.

Tyler Farnes 22:23
Just like a just like a stairway to heaven covered. Because I actually like, like, nice, like, fuzzed out. So cool. But I guess like also going into just more sort of like, general sounds and all type of stuff. Your EP faintest screams it released on February 26 2023. So it's coming up on this three month anniversary, I think released when you guys are sort of more officially sort of out there. How do you like it? Overall? Do you like do you like the sound of it? Do you like everything about it? Like, is there a type of things where it's kind of just like, is it mid?

Katie 23:05
Because we've heard it so much the recording process over time, we were just like, Okay, we've heard it, we get it. But I personally like it. Like if I was listened to it as an outsider, I'd probably like it. Yeah. But it's just weird. Like listening to your own work, you know, like, like, you have such a strong connection to your music that you didn't create. So when you create something also like I'm super judgmental on my own work as Elijah knows, so it's, I like it. I really liked the EP, but it's just a different perspective coming in as the creek.

Elijah 23:36
I agree with that. Like I resonated with a lot of that. The only part that like is the end of in my room. That's like that part I think is good.

Katie 23:45
I like the end of Daisies

Elijah 23:48
Oh like the end of in my room everything else I can believe.

Katie 23:51
What do you like? What's your favorite?

Dave 23:53
Um, honestly, honestly, I think my favorite on that one is Mars. Personally, I just I think that really is a good good way to kind of showcase our sound a little bit kind of what what we want to be as a shoegaze band. Okay,

Elijah 24:04
we're gonna shoot baseband DAVE Oh, what personally drumming and Mars slabs

Dave 24:13
Thank you.

Elijah 24:14
It was a good year and I was

Dave 24:16
talking about like our style and influence earlier so that's definitely one of the ones that I get to well and be a little harder on with that one. So I definitely I definitely liked that one but it's kind of it's kind of a sweet spot for me to have that that type of drumming So

Elijah 24:29
Mars is definitely really mellow on the record as are all the songs but uh we play marzo heavier live we

Dave 24:35
do Yeah,

Elijah 24:35
yeah.

Tyler Farnes 24:36
It are, are a lot of the songs like, is it definitely more collaborative like like each songs have your own little influence on it or have each of you sort of like taken one song you like just because because you've mentioned like Mars was sort of more of a drum track that that you like and sort of like to play in general is more very collaborative or it's more kind of everybody does thing or it's just kind of a

Katie 25:00
Yeah, like varies based on the song like our first song that we wrote together. Actually, I think Elijah when we first met no was it? I tried to write silver? Yeah, yeah. The first day I met Elijah, we wrote silver, and silver. Yeah. But um, yeah, it depends. We either collaborate on it or like, maybe Elijah writes it, or I write it. And then we kind of, like, offer suggestions on how to, you know, what direction to take it in. And we actually really want to have Dave like, Shine On, on a song and a feature, we want him to kind of be the driver of that and then just work around him. Because he is kind of the glue of this band. So

Dave 25:42
not aware of this. Thank you.

Katie 25:45
We'd love to have that.

Tyler Farnes 25:47
Okay, yeah,

Dave 25:48
definitely. Our creative process is extremely collaborative. So I think that really helps us a band.

Katie 25:54
Also, like labels to a lot of people ask me like, oh, like, are you? Oh, like, are you? What are you like, what are you in the band? I think honestly, I just like it to be, you know, whoever, like float between roles, like me and Elijah kind of like switch off between basic guitar sometimes, so I don't really like to label like, someone's like, who's the frontman? It's like, I mean, there isn't really one like, we kind of just share the role. We both sing.

Tyler Farnes 26:20
Okay, cool. It's, uh, I guess, speaking, or specifically now into the songs. Um, actually, no, let's Yeah. Okay. That's, that's a good transition. What is um, what's your guys's favorite songs individually of the of the EP that you like to either play live or you just like to sound or just in general if you guys had to put away all your judgments, every song and you can only play one song? Would it be

Elijah 26:52
just just from the four on the EP? Yeah. I mean, I think I think in my room is my favorite. Still like, no, Katy has been telling me a lot like I'm so tired of playing in my room. played all these songs so many times. But I think in my room still probably my favorite because it just has a really fun baseline. It actually is a very like post punk like the cure kind of baseline.

Tyler Farnes 27:13
A lot of the baselines on your songs like I love I love when when bases use pics, and it's sad. And it's alarmist with that. Yes, though. So like so like, again, it's sort of just like, You're slow. You're You're very dreamy. And then you have a pig base that goes with it. I'm like that is that sounds wow,

Elijah 27:32
that's really cool that you pointed that out, like knowing that I use a pig without without knowing that was cool.

Tyler Farnes 27:37
I love that.

Elijah 27:39
Like, actually rip Andy Rourke. The bass is from the Smiths. He just died a few days ago. One of the honestly most creative bass players I've ever heard and like really probably my biggest influence as a basis rest in peace. What a what a bassist, but, uh, yeah, probably in my room, because the baseline at the beginning is really fun to play. And just the end is so loud and big. And that's like, probably my favorite thing we've recorded thus far.

Katie 28:04
I would say I enjoy playing Mars. It's just like super fun to play. Yeah. Yeah, I would say I enjoy playing Mars the most just the chords like the chord progression itself and then how it goes to my kinda like loud and thrash you to that really soft kind of pre chorus or whatever you call it. I don't even know what it is. But the dynamics I'm a big fan of but dynamics.

Elijah 28:25
The chord like the chord on Mars is just like a literal like open C major chord, but then you just use your thumb to play the F on the bass.

Tyler Farnes 28:34
I did see that because I I was looking at your Instagram and your latest video of your of the house show they get and it zooms into you playing guitar and you using your thumb Oh yeah, I love like it he for like doing an E which which is awesome. I love it because especially it looks really cool.

Katie 28:57
I remember the day Elijah texted me and he was like, Bro a C with an F bass. And he was like bringing out

Elijah 29:04
actually it's really just an F major seven roughly speaking and so we actually just reused another major seven.

Katie 29:11
I mean, that's all we do. It's just major sevens nevermind Forget I said and it sounds good. All the same anyway, so

Dave 29:19
Okay, well as heard on the EP, I would say Mars but definitely playing live I think ghost is my favorite to play live because we play that one live very differently than how you hear it on the record. We actually have a jam that we do afterwards when we play it live dope. Um, so that's that's definitely my favorite to play live just because that contrast and transition. But going back like drumming styles and stuff I do like as hard on EP I love playing Mars. Just the way the be the tempo, the way it meshes with the guitars and bass. I just love playing that one.

Tyler Farnes 29:52
Okay. So you guys bring a cello to any of your of your live shows are really

Katie 29:59
just I bought a cello pickup, which I'm super excited. Because I we will, we will bring that out for a couple of shows. And I can like throw on a lot of effects on it like all the pedals, I can apply to that. So I'm really excited for that.

Elijah 30:14
That's what he was posting to her Instagram story the other day and it was like her with her cello pickup and like you literally posting all on the pedal effects on it like that. She'll never heard Wah on it.

Katie 30:24
I mean,

Dave 30:25
I think also, it's kind of nice. It's something that sets us apart a little bit from some of the other bands. That's kind of our unique little thing that we have going for us. So we haven't done that yet. Definitely, definitely. Definitely looking forward to adding that

Tyler Farnes 30:36
you're gonna pull out that show on that house show. It's gonna be like freaking out. But but my coincidentally both faithful as Daisy and I got so far away from a computer I gotta read. Ghosts in pavement are my two favorite songs from the from the EP because it has a chill answer, because it's more acoustic, but still very, sort of, I guess, louder and sort of like driving a little bit. That's what I really like about sort of like my music and sort of just like, like shoegaze in general, like you can have those soft undertones, that sort of dreamy vision sort of like acoustic flowing, but you could still have a sort of driving force that still kind of puts you through it in general. Or is there going to be a lot more acoustic representation you guys like, sort of having that acoustic sound in your songs? Like, what how do you guys feel about it? Like, what's up with it?

Elijah 31:35
Like, in the future, I don't think we're going to do too much like noon, like because Daisy is kind of just an exclusively acoustic song like a song that doesn't use electric guitars. I doubt we'll do that much more. But I do really like using acoustic guitars in songs like underneath electric guitars, like as a background. Something REM does a lot like my favorite band ever. Yeah, I'm like a really big fan of just kind of using acoustic guitars in the background. I'd like to do that a lot more on the record. Maybe we throw an acoustic

Katie 32:06
I mean I was gonna say I personally would really love entertaining it entertaining the idea of going on just kind of an acoustic song on one of our future LPS even without like percussion or anything just like super like kind of intimate. I think that'd be cool.

Tyler Farnes 32:21
Okay, cool.

Dave 32:22
We've toyed with the idea is we'll have like playing live acoustically, like with me on Cahoon or something like that. But we we actually did a live acoustic performance here at NC State a couple months ago. Yeah. So and then we we have a couple of videos record our YouTube channel of us doing a couple songs performed acoustics acoustically. So that's something that we might be messing with some of the future particularly maybe a smaller venue or something that we couldn't get get away get away with playing

Tyler Farnes 32:46
gonna play some brushes bring us some brushes

Dave 32:48
we've done that we've done that so Yes, nice. So kind of like the nirvana or stones that's something that we might that we might mess with some in the future live so we'll see

Katie 33:00
our first I guess performance if you will call it a performance was an open mic at Lucky tree actually, we it was really well received and we really appreciate that community. They're awesome. And we performed ghost and so that was acoustic that was our first like kind of debut. Oh, yeah, we'd love to do more acoustic performances. We have one show coming up that I think we're going to plan to do fully acoustic so

Tyler Farnes 33:24
Okay, sick sick. I think I think doing acoustic performance at school kids would probably be really cool. Because the record shop and definitely fits the vibe maybe Yeah, but I mean, like, I don't know, like, I like school kids in general, just sort of that sort of like smaller thing.

Dave 33:39
It's a fun place to play.

Tyler Farnes 33:41
Yeah. And sort of, I guess more transitioning into that sort of local scene. You guys are one of the newer groups I guess in the local scene in general your guys about a year old a BB put out your official EP, I guess like a few months ago, but you guys have obviously been playing for a while. So and you guys have already played like at venues like a cat's cradle school kids Wicked Witch and also a whole bunch of house shows the whole Bucha like really cool like NC local artists like Tiger Beach, Saturn Alice, teens and trouble bang space angels. How how's it been playing with all these like sort of more guests established bands in these established venues and sort of like coming into it?

Dave 34:28
It's been really awesome, especially playing with these bands has definitely helped get us out there. And they've been really great to us of letting us play with them and get on the bill and stuff. So it's really been helpful for us just making connections on the local scene to play but I mean, it's just fun. I mean, what's not to love about playing live music and especially Raleigh. Just there's so many nice places. We've had a lot of really fun shows lately. And like, like just recently for me was we recently got to play a show at Durham Central Park. And that was certainly kind of a bucket list for me. I'd seen a fan there years and years ago. When I was with my parents at the Durham farmers market, and it'd be cool to play here. So that was definitely kind of a bucket list item for me getting to play a show there. So yeah,

Katie 35:07
also just a huge shout out to Saturnalia, because they really took us under their wing. Because, you know, we have kind of adjacent sounds. And so we, you know, our bills are pretty complementary to each other. So they really kind of got us into it. And from there it snowballed. And we've been meeting tons of awesome bands, meeting new people and making connections. So it's been a really great ride. It's

Tyler Farnes 35:29
cool.

Elijah 35:30
I think one thing that's cool is like, the volume of like, actually, like genuinely really good bands there are in Raleigh, like all the ones you just threw out there, we're all are all stuck faced Angel teams and troubles at an alias. Like, not only are they you know, like, playing a lot of music and really, but they're playing good music. Yeah, releasing music and like, what the heck, like, these are local artists. And they're like, but that's not supposed to be.

Dave 35:53
That's the nice thing. There's a lot of really awesome talent here in the Raleigh area. So we are really enjoying getting to be part of it.

Tyler Farnes 36:02
Nice. So I guess what are your overall goals? I guess with being a part of this sort of vocal scene, and sort of music going forward, you guys want to keep on making music? Keep on making those connections, or, you know, just sort of see where it goes like like WhatsApp, you have anything planned out. I know they have your music planned out, but with a local scene in general, and you want to do well. Any any like venues with any bills that you want to play or just like anything like that, or Yeah.

Elijah 36:35
Okay. He's like laughing at me, and I'm not sure why. Because they could be totally two reasons while she's laughing at me. No, why? Well, no, there's two though. Okay. Well, when I first message Katie to like, start this band with me, I was like, I like made a list of like, my goals. And she was like, Oh, this guy's kind of creepy. Why is he like,

Katie 36:58
no, no, he you sent me that you were like, one I wanted, you know, you can

Elijah 37:03
remember, like, record music?

Katie 37:05
Yes,

Elijah 37:05
play shows. Or it was write original music.

Katie 37:08
Yeah,

Elijah 37:08
record said music. Les said music live. Those are the three things.

Katie 37:12
But it was a list like 123. And I was like, This guy's insane.

Elijah 37:18
As far as like the actual local scene goes, like, because you were talking more about local scene specific goals. Those are like more like, music specific goals. But for like, local scenes specific goal, I also have a very big one, which is to play a show a DP doe? Yes. I don't know how I'm going to do that. It's kind of impossible. Right? But I just feel like it would be like 10 times like 10 times better than the Denise Grand Slam. Oh, we look at the P wave it

Dave 37:45
fit in there perfect. Having frequent and TP do quite a bit with the type of music they play in there. Our sound would fit perfectly.

Elijah 37:53
If anyone who's listening to this, know someone that DP do hit me up. Yes, please. We are trying to make this happen. Please find me. I really want to play DP there. Cool. I guess it's my only goal with local. Like, if I do that, I'll just quit. After that, like what do you have to achieve?

Dave 38:11
I guess kind of this has kind of been a goal person mine has tried to start playing some more like festivals and stuff. As we get a little bit more established that would really be ideal just to expose our music to a greater audience, hopefully get more people into us and make some further musical connections. But that can of course happen down the road. But even so, we've checked off several milestones, at least for me, like for instance, I just mentioned Durham Central Park, getting to play there was a big one. That's great cradle back room. We got to play there. That was a huge thing for me as well, having seen multiple exit, personally a cat's cradle so I think

Katie 38:43
also something like the bigger venues like like big ish venues like Motorco and Lincoln theater, you know, this is some of the Reach venues. At some point we might be able to complete it.

Dave 38:53
Fingers crossed. Yeah,

Elijah 38:54
there are a lot of nice venues.

Tyler Farnes 38:55
Yeah, there is. So I guess how has your reception been of your music? They have sort of gotten back from fans and like what I was gonna say Yeah, same way wheeling. Projecting. I hate my own music. have you guys gotten like good reception, like, reception by reception? Like how the crowd is feeling with everything?

Elijah 39:27
Yeah, actually. Okay. So it's like, usually, like it's sometimes we go to a show and there'll be like, 10 people there which you know, it happens but like usually, like the 10 people are so nice and like so loud and supportive. Still,

Katie 39:40
it's not it's definitely not a waste of time. It's like, it's like making connections meaning people even if it's literally like three people

Dave 39:47
even so like our Instagram and Spotify following has grown continuously, the more and more more and more we've played so I'm assuming that means what's being positively received. So,

Katie 39:55
you know, it's fun. We have a friend named storm and their biggest fan Yeah, he came to one of our we played an open mic at this like tavern. It was rough. Like that's like, like, archived SpongeBob. It was to not speak of he was there and he's seen our evolution.

Dave 40:13
Yeah. But that was a second live performance ever, by the way. So definitely it was. Yeah, it was he was expendable.

Katie 40:20
We love getting feedback from him just because he like tells us he's like y'all have like, improved like a ton. And then like, you know, the people that we meet, you know, as of recently telling us that we you know that they appreciate our sound really like it. It's really cool just to see how far we've come.

Elijah 40:36
We played a show at anisakis bakery, shout out acids are the coolest vinyasa. What's his name? Jason. Jason. Jason, what do they want to know?

Katie 40:48
Sorry, we forgot your last name.

Elijah 40:50
He played in like songs Ohio. He works at the library here. You don't talk about

Tyler Farnes 40:54
Nah,

Elijah 40:55
he's really cool. Anyway, but he has this bakery. And the bakery. And they haven't been shows there. And but we played there with a group called Hazel and the problems was actually a father daughter duo. It was really interesting. of them. Yeah. Oh, do you know them? Yeah, really good.

Tyler Farnes 41:09
Well, I don't know him personally. But yeah, but you know, they exist. Yeah.

Elijah 41:12
Their Instagram bio was lovely. It says, middle aged regret and teenage angst. Yeah, yes, yeah. But we played a show there with them. And then after the show, the father came up to me. And he was like, that one song that you said right before you played it. And you said, I wrote this song. It doesn't mean anything, is like that was my favorite one. It might have not meant anything to you. But it meant something to me. And I was like, wow, that's like the sweetest thing anyone's ever said to me. My heart's been touch

Katie 41:41
it just the community man, like the local community, like the local scene, like there's so much love in the music community really, really awesome. And like, also just like walking down the street and seeing someone that you know, from like a band or a show is, you know, everything's connected. So good to see familiar faces.

Tyler Farnes 41:56
Nice. So So So would you say that, like the sort of a community that the scene and like you guys have been very welcomed and served as very Absolutely, in general, which is very nice. Awesome. Well, cool. Cool. Well, is there anything else that sorry?

Dave 42:16
Oh, absolutely. They have been the local SEO has been extremely welcoming to us. So that has really been awesome.

Tyler Farnes 42:21
Okay. Okay. I thought you said something like on your breath. I was like, I was I don't know if I'm talking over. No, absolutely. All right. Well, thank you all very much for coming into WKNC. It was great to have you on here and talk to you all. Where can we find you? Where can people find you?

Elijah 42:40
You can follow us on Instagram at My Sister Maura. M A U R A for Maura. And then you can find our music on like any streaming service, Spotify, Apple Music Bandcamp even have a SoundCloud

Dave 42:56
you can also check us out on YouTube. Oh, My Sister Maura. We usually post a lot of our live shows there. So there's well,

Elijah 43:03
there's some live recordings on YouTube. There's one of the house show we played recently. That's like It's like VHS VHS. Shout out.

Dave 43:09
Shout out to Adam for that one.

Tyler Farnes 43:11
Yeah,

Katie 43:11
our friend Adam did from space age on that.

Tyler Farnes 43:14
Is that the that? Is that the Incognito house one. Yeah. Okay. I watched it on the edge camera. It's pretty good. I like that vibe.

Dave 43:24
Where you have to post up the VHS camera more often.

Tyler Farnes 43:27
That's an actual VHS.

Elijah 43:28
Yeah.

Dave 43:29
Yes. It's pretty cool.

Tyler Farnes 43:32
That's awesome.

Elijah 43:34
Now we're real, were not posers.

Tyler Farnes 43:38
That's awesome. Um, all right. Well, thank you all so much again. This has been WKNC 8.1 FM HG one Raleigh. You've been listening to off the record. Thank you again My Sister Maura for coming out I'm gonna take you at the listener with I'm going to put on both Faithful as Daisy and Ghosts in the Pavement from My Sister's Mara up Faintest Screams Alright, talk to you later. Peace.

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