Real Estate brought beachy, easy-going indie rock to the Local 506 earlier this month. All that was missing was sunny weather and the ocean. Actually, I'm pretty sure it was monsooning that night in Chapel Hill. Regardless of the weather, they put on a great show, playing songs about good summer times and growing up in surburbia. And although their self-titled debut album was released just in time for the wrong season (November this year), it's a perfect reminder of all the great memories of summers past, which have already gotten me through some cold wintery days. So actually, it was released just in time.
Real Estate's drummer, Etienne Duguay, was nice enough to answer a couple questions after the show:
What's your favorite band?
ED: Probably a three-way tie between Steely Dan, Prefab Sprout and Sade.
What's behind the name...why "Real Estate"?
ED: It's almost a three-way band name. One, because many members of the band were involved in real estate at the conception of the moniker. Also, many of the songs are based around a suburbian theme, and Martin writes about where we grew up in suburbia. And thirdly, at the conception of the band it was the beginning of our current economic recession, which happened mostly because of real estate, mortgage, yada yada... I don't really keep up with that stuff.
What's your goal in life?
ED: I have many goals. But my most important goal is to be happy in a social and artistic sense. I'm trying to find that state of happiness or some kind of spiritual nirvana. I'm actually a relatively spiritual person. But I'd like to find that sense of spiritual security, which is hard to find in this modern world we live in...but I won't get into all that right now. And then, I'd like to eventually find someone to marry, have kids...but that's a couple years away.
One last question...Edward or Jacob?
ED: I don't know what that means. What does that mean?
