now, as a trio, though we still do enjoy a good ballad, there is this upbeat, positive vibe to our songs. We must bring it out in each other. Growing up we listened to such a broad range of music that I wouldn¹t have pegged that our song writing would evolve like this.


Louisa: Your music is bright and breezy and yet has a certain melancholy too. Is it a true reflection of your character?


Louisa: How did the Good Lovelies meet?


Kerri: The beginnings of our band are a bit of a mystery. Sue thinks we met during a limbo competition, Caroline believes it was at a chess tournament but I’m convinced it was during a bar fight! So as you can see our recollections are fuzzy. Pleased we did meet though! There was nothing calculated or planned about the band. We enjoyed each others’ songs and we enjoyed singing in harmony.


Louisa: Tell me a little of your background individually, how did you get to the music career you have now?


Kerrie: Speaking for myself, I grew up in a musical family, played piano and sang in choirs. I eventually went to a music school and ended up teaching banjo and bass. Caroline grew up in a musical family - she started playing guitar when she was six and picked up mandolin, banjo and electric guitar in the past five years. As for Sue took piano lessons, singing lessons and also sang in choirs. She taught herself to play guitar and also bass and mandolin more recently too. We wanted to be more on stage than three girls playing guitars so we’ve kept things interesting by adding instruments and swapping them often.


Louisa: You write a lot of your songs, how does that work?


Kerrie: What usually happens is each of us writes a song on our own and then brings it to “the table”, and the three of us work it out and make it a “Good Lovelies” song. It was different with our Christmas album, which was mostly covers, but we each still contributed an original Christmas song to the album.


Louisa: I am very intrigued on how and why three young singers have managed to get this very Fifties sound?


Kerrie: We also found it interesting that our combined music became this upbeat, old timey sound. As songwriters, prior to this band, each one of us preferred writing slower, pensive ballads. But somehow


Kerrie: The new album definitely feels bright and breezy - and there’s just a hint of sadness or longing. I think that’s the life of a touring musician. You finally reach a point where you’re doing exactly what you’ve always wanted to do - tour your music - and then you start to see there are two sides to that lifestyle - the exciting performing part and the part that keeps you away from life at home. Touring is definitely easier as a trio of best friends but we do miss our families and fellas and friends when we’re away so often


Louisa: This is your third album, how does it compare to the other two?


Kerrie: This new record bridges the themes and styles of the previous full- length album and also introduces other more modern elements to our repertoire. We feel we’ve really come together as a band and put out a record that


is cohesive and represents the three of us. Of course the album before this one was a Christmas album... so that’s an entirely different beast altogether.


Louisa: How long have you been together?


Kerrie: Our band’s birthday is December 15, 2006 - so about four years and two months I guess.


Louisa: You are touring the UK soon, what do you expect to find?


Kerrie: We can’t wait to meet the audiences in the UK. We also want to get the chance to wander around like tourists while we’re there and enjoy the towns we’re going to be playing. That really is the best part about going somewhere new.


Louisa: How about your plans for the future?


Kerrie: We have all sorts of fun things planned for the future. We’ll continue to write songs, release albums, tour, make videos, write books, maybe do a tour of schools to talk about what life on the road is really like to young people. There are so many possibilities. I’m sure we’ll also take some time off to devote to our other passions and hobbies and spend time with our families.


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