HOW DID THE PANDEMIC AFFECT YOUR PLANS TO RECORD THE FOLLOW-UP TO 2018’STŪ?
Henry de Jong (drums): “It was our first day at Roundhead Studios in Auckland when the NZ government announced the country was going into lockdown for five weeks. We’d spent half the day setting up the drums and everything, so we recorded guide tracks for a few songs and did drum tracking for one of them. Then we had to pack everything up and go back to Waipu, which is two hours’ drive north. Now that the only restrictions are around our borders, we are going back to the studio next week.”
HOW MUCH OF THE NEXT ALBUM HAVE YOU WRITTEN SO FAR?
Lewis de Jong (vocals): “We do have a rehearsal room and a smaller studio in Waipu, so as soon as the lockdown restrictions eased a bit and we were allowed to travel between each others’ houses, we got back into more songwriting and as a result we have pretty much the whole album written.”