Show, which couldn't be more British… I LOVE Da Ali G Show. It's the greatest show ever.
Now I wanted to ask you a little about the time when, as you explained, you stopped gigging to write the album. Did you worry that if you weren't playing, things were going to be moving on without you? Erm, it actually wasn't that hard for us, because we hadn't actually been on the road - we'd only played around LA. We'd never gone out of LA, we'd never done SXSW; we were literally just this band that had played every venue over, like, 300 times over four or five years. It was nuts. So when we stopped, it was kinda like, either this is gonna work or it's not gonna work. In our eyes, it was always going to work, but in other people's eyes, it probably wasn't. We were probably always gonna be - you know, always the bridesmaid, never the bride - we were gonna be always the opener, never the headliner. So when we stopped, it was really like we needed to just figure our shit out. Danielle had been on tour with Julian Casablancas from Te Stokes and Jenny Lewis. She'd come home and be like, "You guys, we can fucking do this! We can be that band. Let's just get our shit together and do it." So we stopped playing - and it was kinda scary to stop playing, or not scary, but more hard because people would call us and be like, "We want you to open for us at this place", and we'd have to say no, and we'd never said no before. So yeah, that was pretty much the weird part, just saying no and focusing on the 'Forever' EP, and getting our act together.
I wondered how disciplined you were during that period; I've watched lots of interviews with you together and you're always having a laugh, as you would, being sisters. With us, me, Este and Danielle have always been really close, like even when we were little because my parents worked so hard growing up, you know. Tey had to provide for three little girls, which is a lot of children, so Este was kinda like the mama bear in that situation. My parents were always like, whenever we would fight - just stupid baby sister, girl stuff - they'd be like "Why are you fighting? Your sisters are always going to be with you the rest of your life. Tey're your blood." Tey
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thought I'd ask you a little about San Fernando Valley. I looked it up, and pretty much every site told me it was the porn capital of the world. It's known as Pornando Valley. Oh yeah, it's like centre of the porn industry. Tere's definitely no, like, porn stores but there's a specific
down the street and see, like, billboards for porn. It's very hidden. We're 15 minutes
I don't walk
away from all the porn shit, but it's around.
drilled that in our brains and so growing up, we never fought. It also did help that we were in a band with our parents. We've been in a band since I was like, four years old, so we had to figure out how to play music together very young, but it just worked. So basically, I was born with the coolest sisters on the planet, who let their little sister hang out with them all the time. Tat's kind of how we were.
Now Alana, because we're a magazine concerned with locality, I
place called Van Nuys where like, literally every single porn movie is created. I think it's just because in the Valley, it's so cheap to buy a house that the porn industry bought all these houses to film porn in, which I think is really hilarious. I don't walk down the street and see, like, billboards for porn. It's very hidden. You'd never think that in this weird, perfect little town, half the houses in the street, porn is being filmed in! But it's kinda hilarious. We're definitely like 15 minutes away from all the porn shit, but it's around.
Tat's crazy. It must be really easy to find someone to come to fix your fridge. It makes Norwich seem so tame. We're only famous for English mustard. Oh my God, I wanna live there.
Colman’s yellow, hot, English mustard. No. Fucking. Way. Tat's awesome. Tat's way better than the porn industry. Tat's something I can use!
Lastly, I just want to talk about boys loving Haim. Even the balls-to-the-wall, rock-loving guys love Haim. You really seem to snare in the lads. I love that dudes like it. You always get scared being a woman playing rock music, that dudes aren't gonna like it 'cause it's girly, but we welcome all life forms to our shows. Even pets.
Emma R. Garwood
MORE INFORMATION Haim come to the UEA on December 4th. For tickets, go to
www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk. Read the uncut version of this intervie on
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