What was the last record you bought/downloaded/lagged?
Nic: While in London last week I picked up an old record by The Forerunners. It was just one of those rare moments in which I wandered into a record shop and instantly fell in love with what I heard.
Ephraim: Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion and Broken Social Scene presents: Brendan Canning – Something for All of Us. Both are equally good and easy on the ears.
Ben: Keith Jarrett’s Radiance. Very intense improvised solo piano for over two hours! Some parts are difficult to listen to because of the complexity and atonality.
Ding: Jaguar Love’s Take Me to the Sea. It is amazing and head banging.

What was the last gig that truly blew you away?
Ben: I think it was seeing Godspeed You Black Emperor in London some time back around 2002-2003. Great atmosphere and they played in a theatre with seats.
Ephraim: A band called Album Leaf in some small venue in Portland, Oregon. It was sometime early this year. It was a stellar show. That and probably The Rolling Stones at Harbour Fest in HK a while back.
Nic: Belle & Sebastian in 1999. It was refreshing to see an unpretentious band on stage that seemed sincere and genuine, singing about sincere and genuine things.

What was the most embarrassing thing that happened during a gig?
Ephraim: Nothing too crazy or memorable, mostly the usual mishaps like equipment malfunctioning halfway through a song, etc. I once damaged my guitar pretty badly after swinging it hard at the end of a song when we were touring Singapore in ’07. It landed hard on the floor. It was more painful to watch for me than embarrassing, really.
Ben: I played a show with Lovesong once where my mic was turned off the whole time. Not much fun.
Ding: As my right leg was injured, I used the left on the bass drum and screwed the show up.
Nic: Watching Ben and Ephraim share a tiny guitar amp. Only in HK.

Which musician, other than yourself, have you ever wanted to be and why?
Ben: Never really wanted to be another musician. But wanted to be in a rock band (like Europe around the final countdown era) when I was very young.
Ephraim: John Lennon – minus the psycho fan and the crazy Japanese wife, circa the late ’70s. Three words: Beatles reunion, dude.

Who made you want to create your own music?
Nic: I’d have to go with the generic HK band guy answer and say that I picked up the guitar because of Beyond.
Ephraim: Guns n’ Roses Appetite for Destruction. Enough said.
Ben: Listening to the song The Final Countdown by Europe when I was 11 or so. That riff on the keyboard was intense, especially never really having heard rock music before.

What was the worst job you have had in the past?
Ding: As a student, taking exams to please my mama.
Ben: I have enjoyed most of my previous jobs, even though flight attending was quite tough physically (jetlag etc).
Ephraim: I worked as kitchen staff in a pizza joint when I was 19. The work wasn’t really terrible, it was just boring to work with the jerks I worked with. I think my kitchen career lasted like three months.

What songs would you play at your own funeral?
Ben: Probably a piano sonata that I like by Beethoven or something happier/jazzy like Blossom Dearie.
Ephraim: Johnny Cash’s cover of the Beatles’ In My Life.
Ding: I don’t really want to have funeral; it is just time-wasting and boring.

The Lovesong will be touring China later in June and are in production for a full-length album hopefully out later this year. Meanwhile they will be playing with Innisfallen, Maniac, Chui Ball Tong, Killer Soap and SYU MUSO at the 2009 annual performance of the HK Shue Yan University Music Society on May 8 at Youth Outreach Hang-Out (1/F, 2 Holy Cross Path, Sai Wan Ho). The show starts at 6:30pm and advance tickets are $50 from Zoo Records and White Noise Records, or walk in on the day for $60.