Danny Yau (Sydney) chats Do You Think We’ll Live Here Forever!

Sydney’s Danny Yau stopped by AU HQ in Sydney recently to have a chat about his new album and the importance of the material reflecting Yau’s hometown and his love for the city vibe that has supported him and his music. As he tells Larry, the music that is featured on Do You Think We’ll Live Here Forever, is predominantly newer material that came about from travelling abroad.

“A lot it [the music] is really recent,” he says. “This record basically came about in the last couple of years; I was living overseas and I came back to Sydney. I moved back to Sydney thinking, ‘I’m not going to have my old life, I’m going to move to the beach. I’m going to be a beach person,’ and none of that happened. All my friends were in the inner-west when I moved back here. I was going to be a dad and I realised that if I didn’t record this album soon, then I wouldn’t be recording it for years.”

Describing the importance of the presence of Sydney as a kind of individual character of its own on the record, Yau talks us through the process behind the making of the album and the impact Australian musicians are having on listeners overseas.

“It was very important for me to make it a Sydney record,” he explains. “If there is something that I don’t love about Australian music – and it’s definitely changed very recently – is bands like Birds of Tokyo and stuff just sounding like they could’ve come from anywhere. Living overseas, there was no pride in being an Australian and hearing these bands. Now, it’s great. Now you have Royal Headache and Courtney Barnett – some American kid is thinking about the suburb of Preston in Melbourne the way I thought about “Rockaway Beach” by the Ramones.”

Check out the full interview with Danny below! He brings Do You Think We’ll Live Here Forever to the Junk Bar in Brisbane TONIGHT – doors are at 7:30pm, $10 entry!

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