Angus & Julia Stone

Who were your idols and influences growing up?
"Mum and Dad were both really strong personalities. Mum was never embarrassed to sing at the top of her voice when she felt like it, or get up in front of people and make speeches. She was a big influence, a very powerful woman in our community. Dad was also a really a strong advocate for the public school system and for the importance of music as part of the education system. So growing up with them, certainly inspired me to find confidence and to be passionate about life... I think I have always idolised drummers. They were always the ones who kept the time in the school bands and always seemed to be super cool. Our band conductor would always call them the bus driver. I thought it might be nice to be the bus driver some day... to be the timekeeper..."

If you both hadn't decided to pursue music, what would you be doing as a job?
"Angus would be a carpenter I think. I mean he might say something else, but he was always building things at home. When we were living together after school at Dad's place, we had all sorts of ideas on how to improve the house. We wanted to have a greenhouse on the roof to grow our own vegetables and herbs. So when Dad was at his girlfriend's house Angus built a full greenhouse on the roof. It was all going well until Dad found out and told us to pull it down because the whole thing was making the roof of the house sink. It was so funny. And me... I like the idea of running a live music venue where we grew up [Sydney's northern beaches]. A music venue that serves mulled wine... maybe I would do that..."

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Angus & Julia Stone's album A Book Like This is out now.

 

 

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