ib:So: before you were Quixote. Now there's a new line-up and you're Bunny Suit. How's life as Bunny Suit? And how are people responding to the change?
CL: Quixote was a while ago now but the reaction was great from day 1, we were very lucky to be able to get a finished recording and video out before we played our first show so people had a chance to digest what we were doing. That first song caught some attention from the industry and Quixote gave us a good framework to build on so we were able to hit the ground running.
ib:You've recently signed a publishing deal with Universal - what a lot of bands are working towards. Now you've got there, how is it? What does it involve in a practical sense, in a day-to-day sense, being signed to a publisher?
CL: Universal have been very good to us and have allowed us complete creative freedom, which is something you sometimes might not expect from a major. Its a great team from the boss to the sync department to the brand management and especially our main contact there from the edition.
The biggest change is the access you get to the right people for building the full team to support you, and having that team allows us to focus on the creative side. It's fashionable to bitch about the majors but so far there's nothing but good things to say about the way they've handled us.
ib:You've recently finished an EP, great songs by the way - is that now out on general release? Can we go and buy it? And if so where and how?
CL: It's not out on general release, no. We're looking to use the material for promotional purposes and just to give people a chance to get into what we are doing, so it's more of a release for the fan base and industry, rather than a general sales thing. But you can buy the CD from our official website.
ib: You said a while ago that Bunny Suit is more like a project than a band...that there are a few core members but that it can expand to a ten piece or a twenty piece or...something like that. Is that still the way it is? And what was it like starting to work with a whole new line-up of musicians? Did it take a while to build up the trust and so on?
CL: The core members are very much a band now, but it's still a project of some sort purely due to the way the songs are always shifting and changing, which leads to new collaborations with new people all the time. I don't think there's ever been a trust issue.
We all look after each other and there's a clear plan for the guests when they come to the studio.... And when there's not, they get to experiment themselves which breeds a collaborative spirit as well.
ib: Bunny Suit in 2015 in five words...
CL: Five words is not enough.
Interview with Cameron Laing from Bunny Suit
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