Your names:
Ami and Lee.
Where are you
from?
London, England.
Band name:
Them&Us.
How would you
describe yourselves?
Lee: We often
describe ourselves as a twisted fairytale mixed with a bombastic Game Of
Thrones. Ethereal strings and vocals meets heavy drops, anthemic melodies and
vocal hydraulics.
Who are your
main influences musically?
Lee: The
first things that hit you as a kid are normally the things that never leave
your heart - for me it was Guns N Roses, Motorhead, Public Enemy, NWA. Nowadays
its everyone and anything. old, new.. but its gotta be good. Music with guts
and a political point of view.
Ami: Mine are artists Like Bjork. Grace Jones, David Bowie - but also heavier
artists like The Prodigy. I guess a lot of our music is influenced by the
greats, the artists who aren't/werent afraid to push the boundaries. We are
very much on our own vibe musically and try not to let too much 'influence' the
sound. If we vibe on what we are doing, we keep going!
What do you hope
to achieve in music?
Lee: For me I
just want to achieve music with integrity, instead of all the questionable
middle of the road commercial stuff that's coming out at the moment.
Ami:
Same here. I've been making music a long time, but Them&Us really feels like
the thing I've been waiting for. To be able to put everything into something
and have people enjoy that is the greatest achievement. Of course, to take
Them&Us on a world for would be great too!
What has been
the highlight of your career so far, and why?
Lee: That's a question
that'd be good to ask this time next year as we're still building :-) I'd say
our best successes have been the small the steps, like making 10+ tracks. Being
a couple, that alone is a highlight considering the energy it takes and the
creative space you have to work with together.
And what’s the
moment you want to forget?
Ami: Actually I don't really want to forget
anything! Even the hard or embarrassing moments! Things like that keep you
human. If there are no cringe worthy moments in your career, you haven't been
working hard enough! Haha!
If you had to
pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?
Lee: Lost Our Heads. I think, it
says and does everything I get off on.
Ami: That's tough for me because there are
so many facets to our music that to pick one wouldn't do it justice! We have so
much more music in the bag that isn't online or anywhere yet. I'd say our
song Heart attack (as yet unreleased) represents a softer side to
Them&Us that hasn't been unleashed, but with the same grandeur / wall of
sound as Sleep Talk!
Where can we
listen to it?
Sleep Talk (our new track online) can be
heard here
It had its first UK radio play on Eddy
Temple Morris's show on XFM. His words were "This is Epic Stuff!"
We have a live version up on our YouTube channel - http://youtu.be/CkV2cASiEcQ
Where can we
find out more about your music?
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