The Presets are an electronic/pop duo from Sydney, Australia. They just released Apocalypso, their follow-up to 2006’s Beams – both cds are excellent - and are set to tour the States in September and October with fellow Australians, Cut Copy. I talked to the Presets’ drummer and co-writer, Kim Moyes from London. Moyes has a fantastic sense of humor and even answered some of my stranger questions about Cane Toads and masks.
Q: So you’re in London? I noticed you have a lot of shows there.
Kim Moyes: We just did a festival yesterday called Get Loaded and then we did another one called Creamfields. We’re kind of in London all the time and jet-setting around, doing festivals in Europe.
Q: You travel a lot. Do you
have any pets at home?
K.M.: No. A girlfriend – a very patient girlfriend. I’m not that
cruel to get pets. I suppose she could look after them but I don’t
know how well she’d do.
Q: Were both of you (in the Presets) fans of Pet Shop Boys?
K.M.: Yeah, we still are. We weren’t sort of obsessive fans. I think we like what they do in terms of pop music. They’re really quite camp – and there’s one guy, you don’t really know what he does. They’ve always kind struck of as kind of weird and they’ve always had crazy video clips and flamboyant shows.
Q: How come you two weren’t wrestling in the milk in the video for This Boy’s in Love?
K.M.: We were meant to be standing in purgatory or something seeing these two people fighting. I don’t know why weren’t in it – that’s just the way the treatment came through.
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