ME: You guys have been making music for over a decade now. What do you feel is the biggest difference from when you started and now in terms of the music industry?
LITTLE COMETS: I think there are a lot of conversations the music industry that are being had, which is great, but I think the industry is lacking on taking action on those conversations. I think now we're more open to those conversations and likely to take those actions but there's still room for improvement.
M: Dancing Song is obviously one of your biggest hits and was the first one of yours I’d ever heard. What did you take from that song for lack of a better phrase going viral?
LC: It does get to the point sometimes where we're practicing the song and we're like we are sooo sick of this song, but it is great when we perform it and see so many people enjoying it and dancing with us. We started out doing the whole label thing and ended up without it all but we wouldn't change that, it's how we prefer it, it's our personal process. We kind of did it the opposite way it's supposed to go!
M: I know a lot of bands have songs do amazing but not keep any consistent followers and listeners but you guys still have over 100k monthly listeners which is amazing. Do you feel like part of that motivates you to continue creating?
LC: It definitely feels like we've created a community, a family. I think it definitely pushes us to create in the way where we know what they like and don't like, and there's such a great feeling seeing people sing your songs back to you. You know there are people who have supported us from the beginning and we recognise them on a name-basis and know their friends, etc. It's great!
M: You haven’t released anything since 2021. Can we expect anything soon?
LC: There are things that are written but we reached a point where we were quite stressed with completing them and executing them to their final point so once we've got a hang of that we will have stuff coming.
M: I’ve always always loved your name. Where did little comets come from?
LC: It's a stupid story! Back in the day of MSN a mate of mine named himself la petit comète and I asked him what it meant and he said little comet and I thought well yeah I should have gathered that. But every musician has a bunch of those little moments that they factor in when they go to decide their name and for us it was the best of a bad bunch.
M: What was changed the most in the music scene or your process post pandemic?
LC: We have yet to perform post-pandemic so we can't talk on that yet but in terms of our process it's really stayed the same. We kind of found a way pre-pandemic where we'd kind of do things from home or using a studio very little so for us not much has changed really!
M: There’s a lot of art on your band account on insta; do you feel like your creativity with music spills over into other creative passions or hobbies and interests?
LC: I think I kind of missed the train on that one. I wish I studied something more creative at university or that I had, when I was younger, gone into more artistic things. I love art and collages but I can't draw and so I don't think I can really call myself an artist if I can't draw.
M: You guys very openly support situations and communities such as the lgbtq+, what kind of initiated you to be outspoken cause so many artists are still to this day so afraid to be?
LC: I think when there's space for our voice in something that we want to talk about, we'll talk about it. Sometimes, you need to know when not to talk and voice your opinion because your opinion may not matter or be what people are wanting to listen to, other times it's the opposite. We've always wanted to be authentic and so we're never not ourselves, and the things we talk about are things that matter to us in our day to day lives.
M: If you could describe your more recent music in just three words, what would they be?
LC: I think our music has always been reflective and honest and even if it's been more mellow lyrics I hope people have still found it fun. So, honest, fun, and reflective I think. It till sounds like we enjoy doing it like you'll listen and think someone definitely had fun making this!
M: I like to end on a fun one. If there was a band called Big Meteors existed, what kind of music do you think they’d make?
LC: 90s/early 2000s big scar punk! That's the vibe, with like a really bouncy bass and a drummer with a mohawk!
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