FreeWilliamsburg Showcase Q&A with Real Estate
Before you guys come to our showcase on friday, we thought it would be only fitting that you get to know the bands we love a little more personally. First up are our boys in Real Estate.
It's difficult to believe that before September this band didn't exist. They have since been signed to one of the best labels right now Woodsist, been all over Pitchfork and recently finished up a tour stint with Love is All.
FW: What's your daily routine as a band?
Martin Courtney:
We don't really have a daily routine as a band; we don't like live together or anything. If we lived together, it would be in the suburbs, and we would do things like jam and eat mac and cheese.
Etienne Duguay:
chill then grip;
chill, jam, party, grip
FW: What's been your best experience playing live?
Courtney:
My favorite time playing live was at the Natrix Natrix house in Austin, Texas, during SXSW. There weren't that many people there but it was killer.
Alex Bleeker:
The best show we ever played live was in Pensacola, FLA. These high school kids called us the day of the show and asked us to play in their house. We duct taped a microphone to a broomstick and stuck it in a bucket.
All of the kids were seniors about to graduate, drinking and smoking with us in someone's backyard on a school night. Later that night we drove to Louisiana.
FW: How do you feel about the snowstorm of press you guys have been getting?
Courtney:
That's a hard question to answer. I feel like it is chill and sick at the same time.
FW: You guys seem to be pretty proud of hailing from New Jersey (save Etienne). Why so much Jersey pride?
Courtney:
We have Jersey pride because New Jersey is the best state. Etienne comes from the best historical reenactment village, though.
Bleeker:
You have to be from New Jersey to understand it. It's that simple.
FW: A little bit of a joke....who has the best hair?
Courtney:
Etienne has the best hair because he cares about it and puts a lot of love into it.
Bleeker:
I have the best hair, it's the most exciting...on second thought, Matt has the best hair because it ducktails.
