Little Red- Quang and Taka

NL: Your new album ‘Midnight Remember’ has moved from 60s Garage Pop to a more 80s feel. Why this change?

Quang: Well, when you finish an album it’s like breaking up with a girlfriend; you want to find a new one.

Taka: Wow! That was a good answer. Well, I invented the fast capacitor and I can get 12GW of electricity into the fast capacitor and we travelled to the future (simultaneously with Quang).

Quang: Yeah. We went into the future and listened to the music they were playing and we just ripped it off, same as Marty McFly.

NL: Yeah. Well I mean, you were back in time and you just travelled forward in time to the 80s and now, you’re still back in time. Next you’ll just be in the present.

Quang: Yeah. The next album we’ll be ourselves. Maybe we’ll be really primal.

NL: Everyone in the band has a very upright contribution to the band. Are there ever any fights about who gets to write songs or anything?

Quang: No not really, whatever song is good we want to play it. So that’s about it for our philosophy on that kind of stuff.

Taka: Well it’s just like lightning hitting a tree; whoever has the biggest lightning wins; it’s obvious.

NL: What are your thoughts on ‘second album syndrome’?

Quang: I don’t believe in that, I think it’s a myth created by people who can’t write second albums.

Taka: I have to sleep in my bed for about two years.

NL: Why did you agree to play at That Festival?

Quang: We say yes to pretty much any invitation.

NL: Did you ever hear about That Festival?

Quang: No, not this ‘That Festival.’

NL: What do you think about festivals that are supporting local acts and their music scene?

Quang: You’ve got to support it as much as you can because I think every place has it’s own mystique if you go deep enough and encouraging it to grow into something real is good.

Taka: Hopefully we can inspire some local acts or local people and just spread the word you know.

NL: I hear you’re going overseas very soon. What’s this all about?

Taka: Well, we are going to England pretty soon and we just got signed to a Japanese label called P-Vine, so they are going to take us there, take us to Japan. So yeah, next year is going to be a busy year.

NL: Major vs Independent labels. What’s your opinion?

Quang: My opinion is that these days you are better off just doing it on your own. If you need a leg up sign to a label, but make sure you have some kind of control over what you do.

NL: Why do you play music?

Quang: Because I believe imagination is the avenue to the soul and most lost and wandering people play music because they’re trying to figure out who they are and they’re just trying to tap into the recesses of their imagination.

NL: What’s next for Little Red?

Quang: I don’t know. We’ll take it as it comes.

Taka: We are going to Mars on a Space Project sponsored by NASA.

Quang: I do have a prediction of something that I might want to happen and the music I want to make is freedom music pretty much. So that’s the new thing I think. In my head anyway.