Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore had to wait for the cosmic delivery of their latest album.
Emperor Luke Steele is dressed to kill in ghost-white kabuki face-paint and wide-brimmed black fedora. His long red silk robe and studded black stole swish around his ankles. Silver ornaments glimmer like sacred artefacts inside his vestments.
“Luke was wearing a suit and carrying a suitcase and I thought, this is the coolest guy,” Littlemore recalls with amusement. “Every time there was something different in the suitcase. It might have been a bunch of bananas, or a typewriter, or a telephone …”“I think I was trying to be like William Burroughs or something, carrying all this stuff,” Steele says with a laugh. “Nick would have notebooks and more notebooks; like Jack Kerouac sitting there writing and writing non-stop.
“At high school I didn’t really fit in so I spent weekends with my four-track trying to remake ‘the White Album’. I kind of fell into this laboratory mindset, ‘I’m gonna show you – I’m gonna make the greatest records’.” “The stage show, we knew, had to be epic,” he says of their lavish smoke-and-costumes spectacle. Amazingly, the sticky carpet grind had no role in their conquest. Empire of the Sun made a grand-scale debut on the Park Life Festival that toured five state capitals in 2009.
The Emperor says: “At first it was really hard for me … because I’ve grown up in that traditional way of making a record and then you tour. But yeah, as we moved into it, it was obviously for the best. “The label wanted this record four years ago, but we stand by the truth,” says Steele . “We only deliver it once it’s been delivered to us.”
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