A lot of people are curious about the name My Little Airport, does it hint to a girl’s body?
Nicole:Maybe I just like the airplane meals a lot, keep guessing.
阿P:That’s the most common guess in Hong Kong.
Are the album cover designs your own ideas? The cover on “the ok thing to do on Sunday afternoon is to toddle in the zoo” has little touch of lesbianism, was that your intention for the album?
Nicole:he idea came from us and a friend from our label. First came the concept, then we did the photo shoot and the design. Hints and little touches have always been our thing; we leave the guessing to our audience.
阿P:The girls on the cover are our good friends, I think they’re beautiful!
Let’s talk about the coming concert in Malaysia, what you do anticipate from the gig?
Nicole: This is our first time playing in South East Asia, we’ve heard of Huang Huo and Soundscapes before, this time it’s this indie label called Dong Tai Du who invited us and it’s the first time we’re collaborating. The Malaysian gig on the 30th is our first stop, we’ll be hanging out there for a day then head down to Singapore for the next show. I just think of it as kind of a trip.
阿P:We’re pretty easy actually, we don’t mind much. I heard the organizers hooked us up with a nice venue, so there are some worries that we’ll be playing in a place that’s a little too formal and it may not go down that well with our kind of “easy-going” music. All our songs, productions and performances have always been really easy going.
Malaysians may not know you too well, can you tell us more about your music and how you got here?
阿P:Most of the lyrics are about our friends and the little things that happened in school, some of them (friends) I can’t even remember their faces, but it’s through creating music that brought the memories back. In the first album, all I used was a CASIO toy keyboard and some simple guitar works. We didn’t even step into a studio, all of it was home recording.
What comes to play in your regular composing sessions?
Nicole:We don’t meet much actually, probably because we’ve met each other way too much before. Now, most of time we just meet online. Most of the songs in the album are written by P, he makes me a demo, then I sing him a demo and we send them to each other on MP3. P’s brain spins really fast, the compositions change like on a daily basis. I use a small MD player and microphone to record my vocals at home. The actual recordings are mostly done in P’s place, P gives me a hard time when I make a mistake…
阿P:A lot of our songs, I don’t even know if they’re actually considered songs… we have long titles but short short songs… haha! I used to write songs because I was unhappy, now I’m still unhappy but I’ll consider the concept of an album and start from there. First comes the title, then the lyrics, and then the melody. Nicole will sing it, then I’ll edit the arrangements. Sometimes she doesn’t practice her thing, even the melodies are completely off and I can get really upset, other times it’s okay, haha! I use Cubase and Reason for the recording, a guitar and three Casio keyboards that I got from the UK Ebay.
What’s the latest musical direction for MLA?
Nicole：Most the promo items from our previous gigs would label us as a “cult” band, a lot of folks think that we’ll be headed to some more extreme, weirder sounds, actually it’s all bullshit. P feels that the mainstream media people don’t really get what “cult” actually means, and don’t really know how to describe MLA, so we kind of made it a joke.
阿P:From our indie-pop period to now “cult”, a lot people are beginning to think that our songs have a little bit of edge in it. That’s really the thing for our third album; I don’t think there’s much of a “standard” to adhere to for MLA, now we’re moving to another place. I’d say we’re moving into a “sweet but deadly dangerous” music period.
Nicole:I want to give a little space for thought for our audience through our performances, a little sense of lost, and the need to try to relive and understand the things that are close to them
What kind of music and movies do you like?
阿P:I like Gundam and films from Terayama Shūji. I like music from The Teenagers, Shocking Piks, Sebastien Tellier, Landon Pigg as well as Reverend and the Makers.
Nicole:Stuff like “Goodbye Lenin!” and “Triplets of Belleville”, recently it’s “Shawshank Redemption” and of course a lot more that I can’t remember right now. The ones I really love are the ones that I could revisit a lot of times and still think they’re great. But I don’t really think they have any real effect on our music.
Nicole:Maybe I just like the airplane meals a lot, keep guessing.
阿P:That’s the most common guess in Hong Kong.
Are the album cover designs your own ideas? The cover on “the ok thing to do on Sunday afternoon is to toddle in the zoo” has little touch of lesbianism, was that your intention for the album?
Nicole:he idea came from us and a friend from our label. First came the concept, then we did the photo shoot and the design. Hints and little touches have always been our thing; we leave the guessing to our audience.
阿P:The girls on the cover are our good friends, I think they’re beautiful!
Let’s talk about the coming concert in Malaysia, what you do anticipate from the gig?
Nicole: This is our first time playing in South East Asia, we’ve heard of Huang Huo and Soundscapes before, this time it’s this indie label called Dong Tai Du who invited us and it’s the first time we’re collaborating. The Malaysian gig on the 30th is our first stop, we’ll be hanging out there for a day then head down to Singapore for the next show. I just think of it as kind of a trip.
阿P:We’re pretty easy actually, we don’t mind much. I heard the organizers hooked us up with a nice venue, so there are some worries that we’ll be playing in a place that’s a little too formal and it may not go down that well with our kind of “easy-going” music. All our songs, productions and performances have always been really easy going.
Malaysians may not know you too well, can you tell us more about your music and how you got here?
阿P:Most of the lyrics are about our friends and the little things that happened in school, some of them (friends) I can’t even remember their faces, but it’s through creating music that brought the memories back. In the first album, all I used was a CASIO toy keyboard and some simple guitar works. We didn’t even step into a studio, all of it was home recording.
What comes to play in your regular composing sessions?
Nicole:We don’t meet much actually, probably because we’ve met each other way too much before. Now, most of time we just meet online. Most of the songs in the album are written by P, he makes me a demo, then I sing him a demo and we send them to each other on MP3. P’s brain spins really fast, the compositions change like on a daily basis. I use a small MD player and microphone to record my vocals at home. The actual recordings are mostly done in P’s place, P gives me a hard time when I make a mistake…
阿P:A lot of our songs, I don’t even know if they’re actually considered songs… we have long titles but short short songs… haha! I used to write songs because I was unhappy, now I’m still unhappy but I’ll consider the concept of an album and start from there. First comes the title, then the lyrics, and then the melody. Nicole will sing it, then I’ll edit the arrangements. Sometimes she doesn’t practice her thing, even the melodies are completely off and I can get really upset, other times it’s okay, haha! I use Cubase and Reason for the recording, a guitar and three Casio keyboards that I got from the UK Ebay.
What’s the latest musical direction for MLA?
Nicole：Most the promo items from our previous gigs would label us as a “cult” band, a lot of folks think that we’ll be headed to some more extreme, weirder sounds, actually it’s all bullshit. P feels that the mainstream media people don’t really get what “cult” actually means, and don’t really know how to describe MLA, so we kind of made it a joke.
阿P:From our indie-pop period to now “cult”, a lot people are beginning to think that our songs have a little bit of edge in it. That’s really the thing for our third album; I don’t think there’s much of a “standard” to adhere to for MLA, now we’re moving to another place. I’d say we’re moving into a “sweet but deadly dangerous” music period.
Nicole:I want to give a little space for thought for our audience through our performances, a little sense of lost, and the need to try to relive and understand the things that are close to them
What kind of music and movies do you like?
阿P:I like Gundam and films from Terayama Shūji. I like music from The Teenagers, Shocking Piks, Sebastien Tellier, Landon Pigg as well as Reverend and the Makers.
Nicole:Stuff like “Goodbye Lenin!” and “Triplets of Belleville”, recently it’s “Shawshank Redemption” and of course a lot more that I can’t remember right now. The ones I really love are the ones that I could revisit a lot of times and still think they’re great. But I don’t really think they have any real effect on our music.
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