Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like?
Ramona: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Breeders, The Kills and Sleater-Kinney.
What inspires or has influenced your music the most?
Ellie: I won’t lie. I started playing drums because of Zac Hanson. I was 12, in love, and thought if I learned to play that one day we could have beautiful, blonde babies together. I’m still waiting.
Ramona: Definitely not Zac Hanson.
When are you playing live/releasing your album/EP/single/etc?
Ellie: We’ve released our debut single, Let Yourself Be Free. It’s short, catchy and you’ll want to dance and head bang at the same time.
When are you doing your thing next?
Ellie: At our single launch – Friday 22 November at Yah Yah’s. Adalita’s playing bass for us that night (she also played on the single), so it should be pretty excellent. A Gender and Cranes Against Clouds are playing too.
If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why?
Ellie: Chrissy Amphlett. She’s a big inspiration to Ramona and me. An amazing woman and an incredible musician. Plus, I like to think she’d have dug what we do.
What do you hate about the music industry?
Ramona: Money as the driver
What makes you happiest about what you’re doing?
Ramona: The fact that Ellie and I just get into the studio and the music just happens so naturally. We just click.
What part of making music excites you the most?
Ramona: When you know you have a song swirling around inside you.
Tell us about the last song you wrote.
Ramona: We just wrote a song called Sway In My Light. It’s about your inner animal coming out. I like to reference animals a lot.
Do you have a pre-gig ritual? If so, what is it?
Ramona: Putting on red lipstick
Ellie: Hiding a glass of bourbon and coke and stretching my dodgy shoulders.
If someone made a movie about your life, who would play you?
Ramona: It would have been River Phoenix.
Ellie: Darryl Hannah, circa Blade Runner.
