London in Berlin

I'm sitting on the sofa in our flat/studio in the center of Berlin feeling content. This is why I lifted my laptop onto my lap (no pun intended) looking out the window and thinking peacefully how I will miss this city that I've had the fortune to get to know, even if a month is rather brief. I shouldn't get too ahead of myself, because our time here isn't up yet, but my heart feels full with the good work we've been producing and the shows we played and have yet to play thus far have been spectacular.

As artists, we're always trying to push ourselves outside our comfort zones, challenge our spirit in order to attain purity and push boundaries. I believe this is very important that as artists, you're constantly evolving and feeding that hungry passion. And by keeping things interesting, you must constantly produce work, even if it's "shit", this "shit" work is what helps you find the essence that makes your niche unique and spectacular.

Thomas Edison, founder of the light bulb, was supposedly asked by a reporter what it felt like to experience 1,000 failures when trying to create the light bulb. To that Edison replied "I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."

We came to Berlin for many reasons, one was we got bored of London's music scene, another reason was we wanted to experience a new city and get fresh inspiration and the last reason was to see how our music would translate to the Berliners. Although I think London respects our work, most are just not fully into it (yet), maybe that's to due with a cultural difference in style, sound and attitude... Let me put it this way, Berlin is open for anything and they're ready to take new artists by the horns and they follow through with their curiosity.

I think as artists, it's just as important to evolve your art as it is to take the appropriate steps to find your audience, even if that means moving countries. Thing is, if we are serious in making this band our number one job, then we gotta go where the money and the interest is. But don't confuse that with being part of a scene because Ravens will never be part of a scene unless a scene develops around them. We won't actively go out there and try and belong to a group in order to have our audience already there for us. We're way to versatile and really, for us it's not about that, it's about our creations and anyone can follow us from where ever they're from. Ravens are pretty much from everywhere anyway and our influences are mixed up so our sound will always surprise you. No one will ever be able to peg us down because the genre we've created doesn't have a name yet, but I'm sure some journalist will one day come alone and name us something that will stick...

We're our own genre, scene, style and sound.