The Cairos
Prior to taking time off for the Christmas and New Year break, the City Hub had the opportunity to speak with Jacob Trotter of Brisbane band The Cairos, who at the time were in the midst of preparations for their Love Don’t Feel Right tour. Since then things have changed quite rapidly, with the boys announcing this past Monday that they have decided to part ways indefinitely, and these shows will now be their farewell.
In December Jacob spoke about how excited the group was about the future, given that they had just left Island Records and were set to become a fully independent band. “Over the past three or four years we’ve been working on music and building our skills as producers and songwriters, we’ve developed to the point where we can do everything ourselves,” he explained. “In the day and age we live in it’s really good to be able to have full creative control, so when our contract came to an end it seemed like the perfect time to throw ourselves into the ether.”
At the time Jacob sounded very excited to be returning to the stage in Australia, as they haven’t played here for some time: “We’re really looking forward to getting out there, seeing some friends and playing these new songs on our own shows.”
With the benefit of hindsight however, it seems as though the signs of the breakup may have been evident even then. When speaking about the creative process, Jacob explained how the band had been doing less and less together as a group: “We’ve all put a lot of time, effort and money into building our own studios over the past two to three years, so now we kind of all write separately. It’s very different to the album we wrote largely as a band working together in the rehearsal studio and I think you can hear that in the recording as well, it (Love Don’t Feel Right single) doesn’t sound like as much of a band as our album did.”
The Cairos now have three final shows together where they can thank fans for their support over the years. They stated on their Facebook page: “After spending the best part of seven years in planes, vans, rehearsal rooms, sleeping on couches, it’s time for new creative creative challenges, projects and adventures. To everyone who has come to a show, supported us or bought our music we want to say thank you so much. We’ve achieved more than we could have imagined and we’re extremely grateful to those who have been a part of the journey. We couldn’t have come this far without you.” (JA)
Jan 22. Brighton Up Bar, 1/77 Oxford St, Darlinghurst. $15+b.f. Tickets & info: http://bit.ly/CairosSydney
