Meeting Jackie Onassis
Recording and Touring
Q: for those who don’ t know, who is Jackie Onassis?
A: Jackie Onassis is Kai and Raph, two guys who went to school together who love music. Raph makes the beats, Kai does the vocals. Q: Tell me what has 2013 been like for you guys so far? A: Really exciting, we’ ve gone from putting out an EP for free on the internet by ourselves, to doing a national tour, playing festivals and heading over to the UK to play gigs. If you’ d told me last year that we’ d be we are now I wouldn’ t have believed you!
Q: You guys were at Big Day Out this year, tell me about that experience?
A: It was hot – like, hotter than hot. It was the hottest day in Sydney on record and the venue in Sydney is just all concrete. Our car was telling us the ground temperature was 53 degrees which is mental. But it was a great day – one of the first chance’ s we’ ve had to play to an all ages crowd and heaps of people turned out, young and old to check us. Then we basically spent the rest of the day watching bands – so yeah, great day.
Q: You guys go on tour August 1 tell me what places will you be visiting?
A: We’ re heading all over the place, from Queensland to Tassie to WA. We’ ve done a few gigs in SA recently so we won’ t be going there this tour, likewise Darwin, but other than that we’ ve probably got a gig near you!
Q: What’ s one of the most embarrassing things to happen to you while you’ ve been on the road? A: To be honest we haven’ t really been touring enough to have anything super awkward happen to us … I mean, we have missed flights and stuff, but yeah, so far so good. Knowing us there will be a doosy soon.
Q: Did you ever anticipate you would have this much success on the back of your record Crystal Balling?
A: No way – we literally put an EP out on the net for free. We“ announced” it a week before it was released, and by announced I mean put a post on Facebook to basically our mates. We’ re blown away by where it’ s got us!
Q & A: Jackie Onassis
Q: Your new track Holiday is out now, tell me how that track came about?
A: We were in the Blue Mountains mixing some tunes and staying in a little cottage out on the edge of the bush. We brought half our studio with us and set it up in the lounge room so that after a day of mixing we’ d come back and make tunes – that’ s where the beat and the concept was made for the track. When we got back to Sydney we thought that it would be great to get our good mates Spit Syndicate on it- they were feeling it so we made the track!
Q: When can we expect an album from Jackie Onassis?
A: The album will be next year – we’ re just finishing off a second EP right now, it’ s called Juliette and we’ ll have more information on its release very soon!
Q: for those who don’ t know, who is Jackie Onassis?
A: Jackie Onassis is Kai and Raph, two guys who went to school together who love music. Raph makes the beats, Kai does the vocals.
Q: Tell me what has 2013 been like for you guys so far?
A: Really exciting, we’ ve gone from putting out an EP for free on the internet by ourselves, to doing a national tour, playing festivals and heading over to the UK to play gigs. If you’ d told me last year that we’ d be we are now I wouldn’ t have believed you!