interview: no kids

No Kids are Justin Kellam, Julia Chirka and Nick Krgovich, from Vancouver. They were three out of the original four-piece band, P:ano. They’re indie-pop. They’re coming to Australia for the Sugar Mountain festival at the end of April. And I got to speak to frontman Nick Krgovich all about it!

So how’s the band feeling about coming to Melbourne?
Pretty excited, and anxious. It’ll be a long plane ride, I haven’t been on a plane for longer than 8 hours so that will definitely be an experience. Looking forward to it. We’re probably be staying in Melbourne for most of it, doing the koala and kangaroo visits, a little bit of sight seeing but most of the time we’ll just be rehearsing for the show. We hear Melbourne has awesome coffee and café culture so we’ll definitely have to check that out.

Do you know any of the other bands playing in the Festival?
Actually no! Other than Hazel from Otouto, we really have no idea what to expect.

Any Australian bands you hoping to meet?
Well we met Architecture in Helsinki when they were in North America so it’ll be great to catch up with them while we’re over in Melbourne. To be honest I really don’t know much about the Melbourne music scene, so we’ll probably just figure things out when we get there.

I was listening to your album Come Into My House, and EP Judy At The Grove, and I loved how diverse both were, each song has it’s own identity, making it difficult to really pinpoint a specific genre. Is this done intentionally in anyway?
It’s certainly not a reaction to being pigeon-holed, when I listen to music I don’t hear things in their specific genre, so we don’t make music in that way. I suppose our production style is based on sounding different. Something new, that not only we haven’t done before, but something that we haven’t heard before. It’s a challenge but it keeps things interesting.

Are you hoping to collaborate with any Australian bands while you’re over here, try out your method down under?
Well I don’t really know any other bands other than Architecture In Helsinki, but they would be great to work with. It would be a lot of fun, they’re a different sound to ours, so we’ll see what happens. If not this trip, then we’d love work something out in the future.