London electronic duo Real Lies play their debut Irish show at The Workman's Club, Dublin on December 4. We asked front man Kev Kharas the BIG questions . . .
Kharas and bandmate Patrick King are set to release their second album Lad Ash, which they describe as, "every sound feels like a treasured memory. One of unfettered youthful freedom, containing both highs and lows, but mostly the blurry in-between moments.
"Moments created on night buses, in the smoking areas of clubs, in tiny cars speeding through country lanes - those that exist in the hour of stillness that joins night-time to first light."
Tell us three things about yourself?
I'm a decent enough guy who likes staying out late at night - and I’m about to play live in Dublin for the very first time.
How would you describe your music?
All the best music sounds like longing. Ours longs to sound like that, too.
Who are your musical inspirations?
There have been lots. But nothing has ever really topped the voices I’d hear coming through the radio as I fiddled about with the medium wave dial as a ten-year-old. Football commentators on rainy, late-night midweek assignments and irate cabbies vying with pirate radio MCs speaking in tongues over jungle.
What was the first gig you ever went to and the first record you ever bought/downloaded?
My dad took me to see James in Brixton when I was about ten. The first record I ever bought was Do The Bartman by Bart Simpson. Both continue to inspire me to this day.
What’s your favourite song right now?
Blue Bayou by Roy Orbison.
Favourite lyric of all time?
Whatever it is that Elizabeth Fraser is singing on those Cocteau Twins albums.
If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life what would it be?
The Rhythm of the Night by Corona.
Where can people find your music/more information?
I realised one day that Twitter is full of people convinced they’re living the worst life possible, and Instagram is full of people trying to convince you they’re living the best life possible. For sanity’s sake, these days I veer more toward the latter and Spotify. We haunt all the usual places though.
Real Lies play The Workman's Club, Dublin on December 4.
