+ Sky Larkin +

Also known as Anika In London must be one of the busiest gigoers in London town. Anika popped along to see Sky Larkin at PureGroove back in October and wrote a review on her blog (and took some ace photos). She posed some questions to the band and here’s the response….

5 things you’re excited about in 2009?

KATIE:
1. Roaming over more of the world to see new and familiar faces and pastures.
2. The release of The Golden Spike so we finally have a document to share
3. Moving to the seaside (I’m moving house)
4. Reading and writing as much as possible
5. Root Beer

A ‘challenge’! Can you think of two sentences that rhyme to describe your band?

KATIE: We make noise. A girl and two boys.

You have a new record coming out in 2009, which you recorded in Seattle with John Goodmanson, what was the recording process like?

KATIE: We spent a week at Death Cab for Cutie’s studio (they kindly lent us drums and amps as we came over with just our baggage allowance of guitars) and a week at John’s place. The recording process involved lots of ice coffee (katie), Red Mountain Dew (Nestor) root beer (katie), PBR (Doug) and 35 cent ramen noodles.

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