
LR: When did you first meet and decide how to do the band?
Julie: We first met in High School but decided to do it when he was living in New York and I was still in L.A.
Maurice: There was a trial month in 2004.
LR: Did you share music over the Internet?
Julie:
No Mark came to L.A. for a month and I had this digital 8-track
recorder in my apartment. It was good and it worked out so he came back.
I
remember he came back and none of us had been in bands before so we
thought, "What is the first thing a band does?" So we got a practice
space, which was the first big order of the day. Then it was
like...what instruments should we play?
Maurice: She had never played drums before.
Julie:
I played keyboards but hadn’t played drums before, but I knew I wanted
to. Mark plays guitar and we wanted to have more than just guitar and
drums. I didn’t want to just add beats because I really love melodies
so that’s when the keyboard came in.