{"id":4410,"date":"2019-04-18T15:26:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T19:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=4410"},"modified":"2019-04-18T15:27:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T19:27:44","slug":"interview-barrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2019\/04\/18\/interview-barrie\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW: Barrie"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Allie Antonevich<\/em><\/p>\n

At SXSW, WTBU DJ Allie Antonevich interviewed Barrie, a Brooklyn-based band, at Historic Scoot Inn during the B+Q BBQ Day Party. Just coming off their tour with Miya Folick, their debut LP, \u201cHappy To Be Here,\u201d is out May 3rd.<\/p>\n

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Allie Antonevich: How did you guys all come together and when?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barrie Lindsay: So, our first manager found my songs online. And he\u2019s like, \u201cI know these two guys in New York\u2026 You should come to New York and start a band with them.\u201d I was living in Boston at the time.<\/p>\n

Sabine Holler: And then they needed a bassist, and they found me on Tinder.<\/p>\n

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AA: I saw that on Twitter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

SH: Yeah, it\u2019s true\u2026 I swiped right.<\/p>\n

BL: How would you explain how Dom came in?<\/p>\n

Noah Prebish: Dom plays in another band called \u201cIs Tropical,\u201d I play in another band called \u201cSimon Spine,\u201d and our bands are on the same record label and so I\u2019ve known him for a pretty long time. And he told us he\u2019s moving to the United States, so I told him he had to be in our band. He\u2019s one of my favorite drummers, he has a really unique style. It was perfect. Our old manager, our first manager also knew him it turned out through unrelated ways. New York is super serendipitous like that, everybody knows everybody.<\/p>\n

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AA: I know you guys were on tour as well, and I wanted to go to your show in Cambridge and couldn\u2019t, but did you favorite venues or memories from that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

SH: It was so great! Atlanta was my birthday, that was really special.<\/p>\n

NP: When we were in Atlanta, we celebrated Sabine\u2019s birthday by going Atlanta\u2019s oldest strip club, which is honestly one of the most harrowing experiences in my life.<\/p>\n

BL: Clarify what you mean by oldest, though \u2014<\/p>\n

SH: It\u2019s one of the oldest run.<\/p>\n

NP: Well, in both senses of the word, it\u2019s Atlanta\u2019s oldest strip club. The cigarette smoke was so strong it was literally stinging my eyes the entire time we were there.<\/p>\n

SH: He was using his t-shirt to cover his eyes.<\/p>\n

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AA: You should have brought swim goggles.<\/strong><\/p>\n

NP: (Laughs<\/em>) Yes exactly. And like, a snorkel.<\/p>\n

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AA: Who or what do you guys draw inspiration from?<\/strong><\/p>\n

SH: Everything\u2026 Life! Life is inspiring.<\/p>\n

BL: Brazilian Cocteau Twins was our touchstone.<\/p>\n

NP: We really do like Brazilian music. That\u2019s a pretty central theme I would say.<\/p>\n

BL: Yeah, we all have super different backgrounds and I think we draw on our own backgrounds and filter it through this lens of my songs.<\/p>\n

NP: Barrie writes all the songs and gets them to a certain point, and then we all put ourselves through the Barrie-filter and see what comes out.<\/p>\n

BL: Yeah, I write the songs and once we get into studio and production, we all get them to the next level.<\/p>\n

NP: We\u2019ll do little production and compositional arrangement changes, but it mostly comes from Barrie\u2019s late night sessions.<\/p>\n

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AA: What are your favorite parts about being in a band?<\/strong><\/p>\n

SH: We get to play music.<\/p>\n

Spurge Carter: We get to learn from each other quite a bit.<\/p>\n

SH: It\u2019s kind of a five-people marriage.<\/p>\n

SC: It\u2019s been a great learning experience. We come with different tastes, even our first day hanging out in our AirBnB and showing each other music. That\u2019s one of my favorite parts.<\/p>\n

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AA: What do you guys want for the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dominic Apa: Money.<\/p>\n

BL: (Laughs<\/em>) That would be nice.<\/p>\n

SH: We want to achieve a bigger audience.<\/p>\n

BL: What we\u2019ve got right now is really special. If we can have this on a larger scale… The point of this is connecting with people, and the more people you connect with…<\/p>\n

NP: I don\u2019t even need us to have a huge fanbase. I think if we could take what we have going on and make the comfort of living a bit\u2026 But that\u2019s what everybody\u2019s looking for. We don\u2019t need it to be crazy.<\/p>\n

SC: I don\u2019t need it to be crazy, but I also\u2026 We\u2019re literally driving around playing shows for free because we want to impact people. It\u2019s connecting, but it\u2019s also impacting people. A lot of us are super passionate about it.<\/p>\n

SH: To know that your job is to give people a good time. To find the value of giving your expression to someone and seeing that you\u2019re connecting with them.<\/p>\n

BL: I want to be able to write music all the time, and not be able to worry about \u2026 we all have day jobs that are pretty unrelated, and it would be pretty nice to just have the freedom to do music all the time.<\/p>\n

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AA: I know \u201cHappy to be Here\u201d is coming out soon, how would you describe it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

NP: Fucked-up pop.<\/p>\n

BL: Fucked up classic.<\/p>\n

DA: Fleetwood Mac if they were born in South America.<\/p>\n

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By Allie Antonevich At SXSW, WTBU DJ Allie Antonevich interviewed Barrie, a Brooklyn-based band, at Historic Scoot Inn during the B+Q BBQ Day Party. Just coming off their tour with Miya Folick, their debut LP, \u201cHappy To Be Here,\u201d is out May 3rd.   Allie Antonevich: How did you guys all come together and when? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[744,29,742],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4412,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions\/4412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}