Are you doing South by Southwest?

Freya: We’re actually holidaying; I’m going with my boyfriend and then Al’s having a big holiday. We’ve been meaning to go on a trip for ages!

Well you’ve had such a long year; you’ve done so much!

Freya: Yes! A holiday is in order!

You certainly deserve it! Are you still at Uni?

Freya: I just finished

What about you Alyx?

Alyx: I never finished. If I go back to Uni it wont be in Sydney. It just wasn’t my thing at all.

Manning wasn’t your lifestyle?

Alyx: No. I ironically made a lot of good friends at manning but not because I hung out there or anything. I worked there a bit. But no, manning is not my sort of lifestyle.

Freya: (laughs) Neither!

Let’s look back over the year. It obviously goes back to late to middle of last year with the Sydney uni band comp where you made history with a unanimous decision from the judges. Can you talk a bit about that sort of experience and what you took from that?

Alyx: It was pretty incredible. It was all an incredible combination of events, like real serendipitous and we kind of fell in place.

Freya: We never even really thought of being a band, we just accidently started playing music together and Alyx had wanted to be in the band comp so we entered together and then everything shaped us. I don’t know what we would have done without it.

Alyx: Having the deadlines and the incentive to win, not that we were in it too win but just those incentives and that motivation in the two weeks leading up to competition we wrote so many of our songs.

Freya: Even just playing at Manning, it was pretty amazing to be able to play on that stage.

But it got you essentially to where you are now, it got that ball rolling and now your collaborating with Parades every now and then. How did that all come about?

Alyx: The girl in their band left, and it was only a few weeks before homebake and they were pretty desperate so they approached us.

So they were talent searching?

Alyx: (laughing) Well it was either going to be us or no one. Beck had been in and out of the band and they’d tried stuff with other people but when they heard what we did they thought it would work quite well and they asked us. Their story goes they were surprised we said yes.

I think the last time I saw you guys play with them was at Sound Summit?

Freya: I only played like four shows with them, and then I was away in Japan for a month, so Al kept playing with them. We didn’t want to leave them high and dry, because they didn’t know what they were going to do and because we obviously couldn’t be in the band permanently plus it was never a creative thing, we never actually wrote any songs with them or anything like that.

Alyx: And then it was also a really good opportunity for me. I broke my leg really badly.

How did you do that if you don’t mind me asking?

Alyx: I jumped off a wall.

Freya: It was a pretty small wall too.

Were you at least drunk at the time?

Alyx: No, nothing interesting. Well we were drunk on having just finished mixing the album. So to play with Parades and to go on tour with them was a really good opportunity for me to keep playing music while I had a broken leg because I couldn’t play KYU stuff at all. We’re moving around so much and I use a kick drum and it just wasn’t possible.

Your busy girls on that stage!

Freya: Its true. But we often watch bands and we’re like ‘oh man, I wish we could just jump around on stage with a tambourine and have fun’ but we cant, we’re concentrating so much on what were doing. But I mean there are parts where it’s a bit more breezy.

Alyx: And with Parades it was the best of both worlds, because we had the creative challenging outlet with KYU and then with Parades it was kind of being dickheads on stage.

So we started talking about the end of 2009 and now were at the end of 2010 and you’ve just had your sold out show at Good God, played Paddington town hall and then you did some shows around the country. Are you guys exhausted?

Freya: Had we been talking before I went to Perth, I would have said yes, but I actually crashed there. I slept so much, every night I would go to bed and I would wake up at around ten because I was just sleeping off that year! We had such a busy year, so much touring, flying. Trying to get used to it, it’s a really different sort of lifestyle, you do have to get accustomed to it defiantly.

Alyx: Sometimes you cant get accustomed to it, it has been so exhausting and it has been really hard being on the road, especially when its not five people its two people. It is a really hard, stressful lifestyle being really busy.

Freya: It’s not as glamorous as people make it sound that’s for sure.

So what can we expect from you in the New Year?

Alyx: (Laughs) We have no idea!

Freya: We’re doing a bit of recording but we’re not really sure when we are going to unleash that. I mean, were only 20 so we want to do some exploring next year and we’ve had such a busy year it would be really nice to just take some time.

Well this is a good way to end a pretty fantastic year then?

Alyx: I think so. I think we both have a lot of room for growth, to learn new things and explore new worlds. Its good to keep moving, even if your comfortable somewhere.