ALT-J say it’s simply not cricket relating to money-making from low-cost collaborations.
The English indie giants are heading our approach for the primary time in six years.
The final time they had been right here in Perth, they had been greatly surprised after they casually ran into their cricketing heroes ingesting on the bar.
They rely the likes of Miley Cyrus as a pal after that includes her voice on the hit Hunger of the Pine however clarify why they resist teaming up with well-known names after taking management and going label-less.
“Perth is a place I had a very exciting experience in,” member Gus Unger-Hamilton tells Today.
“We were staying in the same hotel as the England cricket team,” he says.
“We were in the hotel bar after the show, and I was like, ‘That’s Alastair Cook, wait — that’s f***ing everybody!”
“It was mental. I was like, ‘You’ve got a glass of wine — hey, you have to bat tomorrow!’
“It was my favourite memory. I was so over-excited, but I was like, ‘Don’t ruin it by going and talking to them’. Enjoy the fact you are in the same room as them. It doesn’t need to be any more than this! Be happy.”
It was an enormous deal for the Breezeblock trio, who’ve clocked over a billion streams on Spotify. They don’t take celeb encounters flippantly.
“We had a brief friendship with Miley that lasted a couple of years,” says Gus on their wild occasions hanging out with the Flowers singer.
“We went to her gig in London, and we hung out afterwards, and she came to one of our gigs in LA. It’s been a few years.”
They’d be eager to get her again within the studio however gained’t bounce right into a duet with anybody.
“100 per cent — we definitely would with Miley if it felt right,” Gus says.
“We are not a big collab band. Our main collaboration is with each other. That’s enough for us. If we had a label, they’d go, ‘You’re doing a song with Ed Sheeran, then you are going to do a song with Calvin Harris, and then you are going to get Sean Paul featuring’.
“You can do that, and that is great, and it makes you really successful and makes you loads of money, but it’s not really us.”
They are touring their 2022 pandemic album, The Dream, for the primary time right here.
“It’s lovely to be back in Australia. It’s been six years since our last visits — we are re-remembering our warm welcome here. The fans remember who we are,” Gus says.
“People know what they are going to get with ALT-J now. Not in the sense that we are predictable, but we are not an unknown quantity.
“We are not a band that has made a few demos that play gigs in pubs that aren’t very good.
“We’ve shown the world who we are, what we do and how many tickets we sell. We’re very proud of that. It’s not as many as some people, but it’s much more than others.
“We’re a known quantity, and now we can do what we want. For the most part, we have.”
And they love being their bosses too.
“We’re an unsigned band now,” he says.
“No labels. So it’s kind of up to us when we make records now.
“When we signed in 2011, people were still talking about CDs — streaming was just something people heard of. It’s so different now. We have a bit more control over things now.”
Alt-J play HBF Stadium on Sunday 7 May. Tickets can be found right here.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
