 What's the big deal if it's what you call love, then I'm digging my heels. Hi everyone, I'm Sophia Garcia from CalTV. And I'm Mariana from CalTV. And today we'd like to give an especially warm welcome to brothers Ollie and Louis from Lime Cordial. Lime Cordial is currently on their third U.S. tour following the release of their singles pedestal and the big reveal Ole Pokrit. And we'll be stopping in our own Berkeley, California to play a show at Cornerstone on April 17th. Ollie and Louis, we're so glad to be chatting with you guys today. You guys started as a duo in 2009. Imagine somebody had been living under a rock. Who is Lime Cordial? Who is Lime Cordial? You know, a band from Australia. We get a whole bunch of different genres. You know, I only just realized that Australian indie was a genre. And that's how people have been discovering us. So I guess that's the genre. Louis and I kind of front the band as brothers from the northern beaches of Sydney. And we've got three other guys on tour with us that are bloody legends. To get ready for shows, Ollie and Louis share their fun pre-show ritual. I've usually got like a pretty guilty pleasure playlist. It's like pretty naughty, you know, like Sean DePaul, Beyonce, you know, like. Get hyped up. Hype up tunes. Yeah. Lots and lots of vocal warm-ups. Miki Aachama pair usually says something bit lovely, bit silly. As a high part before we go on stage. Yeah. Along with meeting new people and fans, the brothers love exploring the city's they tour. If we're in a new city, we often like go out the streets, get an awesome meal, you know. And as we've been touring more and more worldwide, our touring has become more of like a food tour than ever before. The things we look forward to in the States, definitely Mexican food. That's like high up on the list. Mexican restaurant right there. Yes. When it comes to writing songs, their process is very fluid. Really have a songwriting process. I find it weird that people can have a bit of a formula when putting songs together, because I think you really like get inspired when something feels really fresh. In general, we sort of have these ideas, bring them together, are pretty critical of people of each other's ideas or really want to just help the other person to finish it. Like with all siblings, being in a band still comes with the typical sibling dynamic. Probably the worst for Ollie is that I'm always late for interviews. You have to like grow gravity just then. Well, the worst one for me is just always being the bossy older brother. I feel like always being bossy. Hurry up, we're going to interview. The best part is just like always having the support and the friend there, you know, especially when you're on the other side of the world and you're just in a very foreign place and it just, it can feel a bit scary. You just kind of always got that support and the friend there and the kind of love, you know, family love. Finally, they offered their best advice to our talented music community at Berkeley. Oh, man, it's intimidating even trying to give advice to a Berkeley student. I think like pursuing and sticking around is really important. I think over the course of our career so far, how long the band's been together, we've seen so many bands like shoot up and we get a little bit jealous. But like there's no point feeling those feelings because you just, well, first of all, any other musician is only just going to like support you if you're somewhat connected to them. I think the other bit of advice I was going to say is that just to not be, not be too critical and not be too competitive because there's not really a right and wrong in modern music. It's just kind of, if it has that feeling and it sounds good, it feels good to you then it's, then it's right and no one can really tell you what's wrong. Catch Lime Cordial at Cornerstone on April 17th. This has been Sophia Garcia and Mariana Garcia for Cal TV News.