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🎻 Angus & Julia Stone on how work as a musical sibling duo! · KIIS Breakfast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kiss Breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: Big Aussie act. It is their seventh studio album about
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  Speaker 2: to come out. It's Angus, it's Julia Stone. They are
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  Speaker 2: joining us live in the studio. Hello, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome, guys. Now, for those who don't know, you are siblings.
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  Speaker 3: What is it like working with your sibling? Mostly good
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  Speaker 3: or mostly shit?
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  Speaker 1: I would say mostly good. I think like we've gone
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  Speaker 1: through the rough times, but it's 20 years in now
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  Speaker 1: and we're pretty good at working together.
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  Speaker 2: You originally weren't going to work together, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. How did it start? It was sort of like
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  Speaker 1: we were doing open mic nights around Sydney.
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  Speaker 4: Someone from a label came along and saw us play.
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  Speaker 1: But it was like Angus would do his songs and
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  Speaker 1: I would do my songs. Oh, really?
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  Speaker 2: Separately?
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  Speaker 1: We had our own little demos that we would sell separately.
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  Speaker 1: We'd perform together, but then we'd stand on either side
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  Speaker 1: of the stage and people would sort of have to pick.
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  Speaker 4: It's very obvious.
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  Speaker 3: Like, no, I'm going to be my own person. But
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  Speaker 3: your voices blend so well together. So how did it
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  Speaker 3: not click until earlier that this is what it was
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  Speaker 3: supposed to be?
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  Speaker 1: I guess you just, you know, we grew up together
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  Speaker 1: and I think we wanted to do our own thing,
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  Speaker 1: you know. We also wrote differently, like our styles, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it wasn't until we got offered this deal
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  Speaker 1: together that we sort of thought, oh, maybe we should
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  Speaker 1: give it a go, you know, and see what happens
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  Speaker 1: working together. We have other projects and we do that
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  Speaker 1: in between working together and I think that keeps us
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  Speaker 1: coming back to it, you know. It's just kind of
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  Speaker 1: like we don't know if we'll make another record together
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  Speaker 1: but we kind of end up wanting to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you have one now called Karaoke Bar. So
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  Speaker 2: are you both a big fan of karaoke?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think what's beautiful about the karaoke bar is
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  Speaker 4: you have all walks of life in there. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you have people that have just had the roughest day
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  Speaker 4: to the people that are just, you know, having a
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  Speaker 4: fun night. And there's a communion... in it. You know,
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  Speaker 4: everyone's sort of there for that, you know, that joy.
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  Speaker 2: And you've got to be drunk. I mean, no one's
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  Speaker 2: doing karaoke sober.
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  Speaker 3: I've done karaoke sober. No, I've done it sober and
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  Speaker 3: it is really hard. As Angus and Julia Stone though,
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  Speaker 3: you must judge people that get up in a karaoke bar.
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  Speaker 3: Like if someone's awful, would you just sit there thinking
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  Speaker 3: pitch off, tempo off?
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  Speaker 1: We grew up in a house with a lot of
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  Speaker 1: live music. So our dad's a wedding band singer. And
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  Speaker 1: so they used to rehearse at the house. And we'd
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  Speaker 1: bring friends over and dad would always get everybody in singing.
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  Speaker 1: So we're used to like people feeling uncomfortable and being
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  Speaker 1: forced to sing. And so it actually, I think it
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  Speaker 1: instilled in us like a real love of like people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, sharing their voices, good or bad.
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  Speaker 3: And not being embarrassed and ashamed.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's like a, it's a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a birthright. You know, when we all sing in the
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  Speaker 1: shower or sing in the car, you feel so good.
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  Speaker 1: It brings joy.
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  Speaker 2: But you either have it or you don't, right?
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  Speaker 4: I think the worst is better.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Probably not recording and making albums, but auto-tune these days.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, maybe they should pop auto-tune on karaoke nights.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good idea.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that would be so cool. So your parents are musos.
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  Speaker 3: Does that mean like basically it was drilled into you
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  Speaker 3: from an early age that you had to get into
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  Speaker 3: music or do you remember distinctly loving it anyway?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's more that. I think because you see
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  Speaker 1: it bringing joy as a child, I think you're naturally
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  Speaker 1: drawn to it and you sort of start to think
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  Speaker 1: as you're becoming a teenager and you're going through life stuff, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is a way that I can process things. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that.
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  Speaker 2: An outlet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it becomes an outlet. And that I think we're
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  Speaker 1: so grateful to our parents for that because it's It's
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  Speaker 1: been such a healing thing for us through our lives.
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  Speaker 2: Angus and Julia Stone, yeah, go and get the new album,
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  Speaker 2: Karaoke Bar. Yep, out now. Thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. It was nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 1: Lovely to meet you too.