Q: Where were you born and where did you grow up?

Geoff: We were brought up in a town called Springwood in the Blue Mountains.
Ben: Geoff and I still live there. We’re about 5 minutes away from each other.

Q: Was there anyone in particular who played an influential part in shaping your career?

Geoff: Mum and Dad were a big influence on our careers
Ben: When we were young Dad use to play Eagles, Bread, The Doobie Brothers and The Bee Gees continuously. Dad was always playing the guitar and singing through out the house as well.
Geoff: Mum was great as well. She would always encourage us. We were very young when we started out in the music industry so it really helped to have her continuous support.

Q: How long is it since you first got started in the industry?

Ben: Its been about 15 years for us now.

Q: What year did you do your first recording?

Geoff: We first started in 1994. Our first album was called ‘Symmetry’. We had no idea what we were doing at the time, we were just there to pretty much sing. We did however get to write two songs on the album. That was a major learning curb for us.

Q: What was it that made you decide to go into the recording industry?

Ben: It was our brother Stus birthday. Geoff was singing and we ended up singing with him for the first time. Geoff was working with a producer at this stage, they were working on some songs together. Geoff dragged us into the studio and we sang one song “Baker St”.  We presented it to two Record Labels. BMG and Polygram. To our surprise both labels wanted to sign us so we left it up to fate.

Geoff: We flipped a coin, heads ‘BMG’, tails ‘Polygram’. We ended up with BMG.

Q: You have a relatively new album, want tell me about it

Ben: Well we flew over to Nashville in the US and hooked up with producer Bobby E Boyd. Bobby had recently worked with the Rascal Flats and won a grammy for their #1 single Bless the Brocken Road. In Nashville we completed writing and pre – production before heading into Dark Horse Studios to cut the album.

Geoff: We got the name of the album from our boarding pass actually. Ben and I were sitting on the plane and were arguing over what to call the album. Ben looked down and his boarding pass and it read ‘FLIGHT 1974’, it just made sense to us.Ben & Geoff departed

Q: You’ve got some songs that are doing well for you

Geoff: Yeah our latest single Language of Heaven is doing great. It was picked up by Mix 106.5, which was very surprising to us as they don’t usually play country songs. The song has also peaked at #8 on the Music Network’s National Country Hot 30.

Ben: We will be however releasing a new single very soon called ‘Not Beautiful’ which is about women with insecurity problems. This single has more of a country feel to it and we will be filming the video clip for it in the next few days.

Q: How many albums do you have now?

Ben: During our career we’ve released 3 albums. Symmetry, Here and Flight 1974

Q: You have been doing well overseas, some pretty big engagements, tell me about them

Geoff:  Surprisingly enough we’re quite popular in Asia and in Germany. They call us TRB over there. Its amazing doing shows in Asia. We usually perform to approximately 10,000 people.

Q: Your most memorable occasion?

Ben: This one is easy! It would have to be when we performed at the 2000 Olympic Games with John Lennon and Stevie Wonder. They had John Lennon starting off with his infamous song ‘Imagine’ on this massive screen (they were filming live in the US), then they cut to Stevie Wonder and then us. There were approximately 80,000 people in the stadiums alone, not to mention the other 4 billion people watching around the world. I can honestly say that we will never forget that moment!

Q: Your most embarrassing moment

Geoff: Hahaha ok I have a great story for this! We were in China performing live on a television show.  I’m strumming the guitar and all of a sudden my strap decides to break off during our performance! The guitar smashes to the ground, Ben and I just look at each other in shock and then all of a sudden they cut straight to the weather.

Ben: hahahaha the look on the producers face was brilliant! He looked like she was going to have a heart attack. That would have to be the most embarrassing moments of our careers!

Q: You’ve won some pretty big awards, want to tell me about them

Geoff: We’ve won 11 Mos, 11 Aces and 2 Aria’s

Q: Ben I hear there’s a funny story to the song So Hard. Want to tell us about it?

Geoff: Yes Benjamin please tell us….

Ben: hahaha ok ok. So the idea for the song came about over a relationship of mine which had recently ended. We were playing a gig one night, I come home, open the door and find myself standing in an empty house with my dog sitting up staring at me with this dumbfounded look on his face. I looked around at first and I immediately thought I had been robbed, then realized that my girlfriend had left me and took everything with her. The woman took everything except my dog (Thank God!) and my bed! When I say everything, I mean everything! She even took my cutlery!

Geoff: I think she left you the bed because she couldn’t fit it with all your other stuff that she took!

Ben: Probably! So that’s where the song So Hard came from.

Q: Is there anything you would like to add that we haven’t already mentioned?

Geoff: I think we’re good at this point.
Ben: Yeah I agree, I think we’ve covered all grounds.

Q: I have placed the titles of the tracks below, and you may add a comment to any or all of them if you wish.

Flight 1974 (2008)

1. Every Minute Of The Year (Is about our career)
2. The Language Of Heaven (the relationship at this point was going well)
3. Not Beautiful (about everyone’s insecurities)
4. A Million Ways (we had a big fight)
5. Love Let Me See Her (a very single moment)
6. The Time It Takes (trying to win her back)
7. When You Grow (still trying)
8. So Hard (she took all my stuff. Except the dog)
9. Who Am I? (it wasn’t working)
10. Always The Only Way (hmmmmmmmmm)
11. Miss You Anymore (depressed had to try and win her back)
12. More Than Alone (it didn’t work)

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