“Sometimes you’re just sitting there in the surf
and it kinda like resets your mind, but it’s funny
too because surfing is kinda like a lifestyle
image here in California and especially as a
band, we’re reluctant to be anything that is
too California - we always wanted to be more
like a gloomy London band from the London
underground or something, so surfing is like,
way too bright,” he laughs.
“But you get to a certain point where we’ve
been doing this for 10 years, and you know
what? – it’s OK! I don’t need to always have
like a jacket on and a book of poetry or
something.”
In fact, Nathan’s found a new sense of
freedom from former constraints like public
image and relationship worries, thanks to a
little parcel delivered around seven months
ago – a baby girl.
The conversation flows to how often growing
older isn’t what you’d expect, how you think
you’re going to get wiser but when babies
come along it’s easy to grow even more
uncertain of the world and its future. So has
parenthood changed Nathan?
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