Say who you are and what you do in the band, so that I'll know who you are on the tape.

Jarvis: Hello. I am Jarvis and I sing, play the keyboards, and produce and write music.
Sam: Hi, I'm Sam, I play the keyboards, and sing and dance.
Mike Bucher (as Luis): What's up I'm Luis Rosiles, I play the drums.
Simon (as Bucher): Hey I'm Mike Bucher, and I scream a lot and get really loud and get really amped at random times. Wooo!
Jarvis (as Simon): And what's up I'm Simon, I've been playing guitar for 15 years and we are...
All together: Iglu and Hartly!
Jarvis: Old school tape recorder, by the way. Awesome.

Yeah, I have not advanced into the 21st century.
Jarvis: That's sick. (then, in a sarcastic, hipster voice) Digitize it you know, just digitize it.

No way man, that's worked for years, I'm not gonna change it now.
Jarvis: Hell no. This is rad dude. Like full gears and everything.
Bucher: Digital shit does not have gears. That's what's fucked!
Jarvis: It feels good! When you're holding this thing, you feel the gears winding, you're like, something's working. Digital, you don't know, you drop it, erased. Drop this, still got the tape!

And it'll probably still be recording.
Sam: Exactly.
Jarvis: Oh, yeah, for sure. Back to Liz!

Jarvis and Sam (right)

How did this show come about? Cause I know you guys have been touring a lot since the cd & Then Boom came out on the 5th (of May). So how did you end up here at this show?
Jarvis: Well 97X has been playing our tune "In This City" a lot and it's really cool cause a lot of stations on the east coast didn't actually start playing it. But over here, I mean it's cool. I think it must be the humidity making them a little crazy though. They're like, "Let's play Iglu & Hartly!"
Simon: I think it's the beach scene here. California on the east coast!
Jarvis: And I tell you what, it's cool. We've never been to Florida so when our booking agent, Larry Webman said "Hey, you guys wanna play Florida?" We were like, Hell yeah! We just met all the guys at 97X and they're awesome. We're just expanding the family to the Everglades.

You got in last night. Have you done anything exciting since? Are you enjoying Florida?
Jarvis: Bucher do you wanna take this?
Simon: Talk about the cab driver.
Bucher: So oh my God, this is awesome. I'm gonna start in reverse. So the night ended with our cab driver, we gotta make a U-turn, we're staying at the Marriott, livin' it up large, livin' large, woo-woo Marriott! Right? So he's gotta do a U-turn. Instead of waiting for the light, he goes I'm gonna hop the center divider. Hops the divider. Slams on the bottom of the car, so we're fully stuck on the thing. I'm like, it's all good, this guy's cool, he's mellow. We'll just get out and it'll lighten it up. So we got out of the car, it got 2 inches up, and then he reversed. But before that, we went and saw a movie, we all did a band outing. We saw Terminator, the new Terminator flick.
Sam: Which is fucking horrible.
Simon: Don't got see it.

Bucher and Simon (right)

Would you like to do a movie review right now?
Bucher: Yeah, yeah, let's do it.
Jarvis: Iglu & Hartly Terminator Movie Review! Ok so Luis I'd say, gave it a 4 out of 5.
Simon: He is the worst! Luis basically likes every shitty movie you could ever imagine liking.
Jarvis: Luis isn't here to defend himself, so we won't ...
Sam: Luis like the movies that don't even make it to the theatre.
Jarvis: I'd give it a 2 out of 5.
Sam: I gave it a 1 out of 5.
Bucher: I gave it a 3.
Simon: I'm a 2.1.
Jarvis: So that's a 2.5 out of 5.
Sam: Not very good, Warner Brothers.

Did Christian Bale talk in his Batman voice?
Jarvis: Christian Bale did not talk in his Batman voice.
Bucher: It's like that serious, male, significant actor voice, ya know?
Everybody impersonates Christian Bale: Yes! What! What are we going to dooo? Yes! Who are you?
Sam: It sucked.

So, I first heard your music on a college, internet iTunes radio station...
Jarvis: Nice! Which one?

It was one from Scotland. I don't know which one but it was in Scotland.
Jarvis: Okay. Nice! Scotland, what up!
Simon: We like Scotland!
Jarvis: Possibly Edinburgh?

That's the one. So, how much influence has college radio had on your success and people knowing who you are?
Jarvis: I think a lot, you know? A lot of people still listen to the radio, and college radio and radio stations stream their stuff online so people could hear it and then they list it on (their websites) so really true music-loving people will go after they hear a song they like and check it out on the actual website and then look it up. I think it has about 50/50 to MySpace...I'm just kidding. It's a lot more. It's a lot more. It's great. All the stations and all the internet stations, blogs, and everything. That's pretty much why we're able to bring our music to the masses and we support that. Send us your tweet names so we can @ you! Tweet us at @igluandhartly!

This is an unofficial-official question. The song "People" - is that on a movie or tv show or commercial? Cause I swear I heard it before.
Simon: The new Superman movie.
Jarvis: No, it's actually not. But our music does have a familiar quality because it's just..the melodies and everything. A lot of people have said that, 'Hey, your music sounds familiar' but they've never heard it before. It's because it's a lot of soul stuff put together, and a lot of different influences combining into one form of music so I'd say, yeah, maybe it sounds familiar because we're just taking everything you love, maybe, and putting it together.

Why do you make the music that you make? Is it because you heard a band or genre and thought 'I could improve on that' or are you just making music that you wanna hear, that isn't being made right now?
Simon: Ding ding ding ding!
Jarvis: We pick B!
Bucher: Right answer!
Jarvis: We're very elusive in the genre region. Everyone's like, 'what the fuck, what the hell kind of music is this?' Which is funny, which is why we're being added to alternative stations, cause it's like, 'what are you guys?'>
Simon: They're like, "is this frat rock? Or is this yat rock? I don't know!'
Jarvis: (laughs) That's the funny new thing. Yat rock and frat rock, we don't even know...
Simon: What does even mean?
(Everyone discusses frat rock and yat rock's deeper meanings for a moment)
Jarvis: Anyway, we're just making tunes that we feel like are pushing people and inspiring other people. We don't make music just for ourselves. We make it for everybody. We want everybody to be involved. Come to the shows. Come hang out, meet us.
Simon: Jarvis, what was that word we were just using earlier that I can't even remember now. The word that AJ didn't even know the (meaning).
Jarvis: "Dude I'm gonna get so exonerated right now"
Everybody: Exonerated!
Bucher: Tell them why we say exonerated.
Simon: We have our buddy, he's like our mascot kinda guy. He's always amped, he's always crazy, but he always lies. He'll use words that he has no idea what they mean, all the time. So sometimes we call him out. He's like 'Yeah dude, I'm gettin' so exonerated right now!' And we're like, 'AJ, what does exonerated mean?' And he's like, 'Dude I'm gonna go party right now!' He will just totally avoid the question and run off. So exonerated is our word of the day.
Luis: Use it in a sentence.
Jarvis: I'm getting exonerated right now. I'm exonerating Simon from the microphone.

What is the message that you are trying to....exonerate with your music?
(Everyone cheers and I get a round of applause!)
Jarvis: Word of the day!
Sam: I think we're trying to exonerate...

Well, music with rapping is not as ususally positive as your music is.
Sam: Oh, yeah. We're trying to make positive rap music.
Luis: Can I say something? About why we rap? Me and Jarvis talked about this and the reason why it's rap...it's not really rap, it's just that you can say more rapping than in singing, so that's why they lyricize their feelings in that manner.
Jarvis: I think our music is...we're kinda like Barack Obama (everybody laughs). Where we are put in front of people and if we're not gonna make a positive difference, then what are we doing there? That's why I don't understand bands like Hollywood Undead and garbage like that, ya know? Because it's just like, what the fuck are you doing? Just making kids hate their dads even more. They're just gonna end up in prison cause they thought it was okay to say 'Fuck you' to this big cool guy who kicked your ass. Anyone, the point is Iglu & Hartly understands...we're out there, we're making tunes, we make great music together, and we're gonna do it for a reason that helps people out instead of lets them dig their grave even deeper. We wanna put them above the ground, put them in the sky.

Sam

Iglu & Hartly's friend Pete showed up at this point and the conversation veered towards their history together...
Jarvis: Pete was part of the original Hoodie Mob.
Sam decided on the next question: What role did Hoodie Mob play in Iglu & Hartly?
Jarvis: Hoodie Mob was basically the starting point of me making beats and involving people in my music. Before I just made beats and I'd be like 'Well, this is gay.' I'm just hanging out making beats in my basement and then my mom would be like 'Mikey! Dinner! (everybody laughs at this impression) and then I'd be like, ah shit I gotta stop making beats. So I thought if maybe I bring all my friends down, my mom wouldn't bother me making beats. And it worked. And then Pete over here, an original member of the Hoodie Mob. (Pete does an old Hoodie Mob rap about chicken chow mein) Anyway Hoodie Mob was a group that I started in high school with Luis.
Simon: So Jarvis basically started making beats to avoid his mom calling him for dinner?
(Everyone says yes)
Luis: That's the only reason Iglu & Hartly exists now.
Jarvis: But then it got me used to involving people and stuff. Then when I went to college, I was making beats by myself and going to the radio station and being like, 'Hey I'm just trying to look for a rapper to rap on my beats.' I'd rap on my beats but I'd be like 'dude this is garbage!' (laughs) But I was determined to find someone else. And then I found Sam who would rap on my beats in college. (to Sam) Elaborate.
Sam: He'd make a beat and then he'd be like, 'hey you should rap some shit' And I'd have a little rap laid down and we'd just make really great songs together. In Boulder.
Jarvis: In Boulder, Colorado! Shout out to Lazy Eyes, and Whiskey Blanket...
Sam: And Tom.
Jarvis: Tom Morales.

So what is the significance of the ampersand (&)? It's everywhere, I know you guys have tattoos of it...
Bucher: Brotherhood!
Jarvis: It's brotherhood, baby, tell you what!
Simon: People actually ask us if it's a communist symbol all the time. They think it's the syckel and the hammer. Is it? No! It's not! Bucher, where's your tattoo?
Bucher: It's on the bottom of my left foot. (everyone laughs)
Simon: You know, it's our band's symbol but it's also a period in our lives where we're all just like chargin it, trying to make this band happen, and it kinda symbolizes that whole era of our lives, which was like for the past 3 years.
Jarvis: If you go back to Hoodie Mob it's over 10.
Simon: It was not the symbol for Hoodie Mob though.

So you've been playing in the UK an awful lot, for awhile. So what is the difference in the crowds between the UK and the US? Do you see a difference even within the countries?
Jarvis: Not really. Everybody's basically getting really into the shows, being involved. We like to be involved with everybody on stage and the audience and everything. The difference is, after the shows, the girls have different voices. It's either like (puts on an English accent) 'Jarvis, great show' or (in American accent) 'Great show, I don't know your name' (everybody laughs). It's different ya know? I'd say it's...we'll find out. Cause in the UK we've got a top 5 single, just blew up in the UK, did huge shows all over. The US it's not like that now, but we're building up to do that, we're playing shows, coming out to places like this, and visiting around the country. We've never been to Florida, like we said, so we're excited to do that. So it's like a new process. So we'll see.

What is the oddest venue or crowd that you've played to?
Bucher: Bus. In a bus.
Jarvis: Dickie's in Boulder. We played at this biker bar in Boulder, Colorado, as DJ Iglu & Hartly Darkness. (everyone got interrupted for a moment but then refocused) Iglu & Hartly's all about just having everybody exposed to the knowledge that we think that we can provide.

Jarvis

Knowlege that you think you can provide...What is the knowledge that you think you can provide?"
Jarvis: Just bettering people's live. Like, 'hey you know what, don't do that, do this.' Just listen to the record, go check it out.
Sam: We help people find their confidence and their real beings. When they look in the mirror, they're confident and strong.
Simon: We just want everyone to be themselves. We're ourselves. Look at us. (everybody laughs)
Bucher: How good do I look?
Jarvis: Bucher looks good. So, Bucher, the question was, the most odd show we've ever played. We played in a bus. This acoustic, literally a VW bus thing, bongos and stuff. Japan...come on, there's gotta be a awesomer one....Ohhh! We played in Germany! This is the most retarded...it's not really about the crowd, but it was the last show of our first tour, 5 month tour, so we're in the Hofbräuhaus, ya know, 'Another one, dude! Another one!' And then our stage manager's like, 'You guys are late for the show! You're 20 minutes late!' We're all like 'ugghhh' We get on stage, 3 songs deep, the stage is a slip and slide, full of beer, and Nick Lewis our manager has a black eye cause Jarvis was throwing water bottles at him. Anyways, it was a 3 ring circus, and it's on youtube.
Sam: I have a funny comment about that! I saw all these kids leave messages in different languages so I'd copy and paste them into a translator to see what they'd say and every comment was like 'Very sexually charged!' (everybody laughs)

Describe each member of your band in one word or phrase, including yourself.
Jarvis: Wow.
Sam: I'll start off with Mike Bucher. I'll say...
Jarvis: So you do a person and then you say a word to describe yourself.
Sam: Okay. Mike Bucher: primal. Sam Martin: Sensitive, yet cold and calculative.
(Jarvis has the mic and silently thinks for awhile)
Bucher: I love how we're taking this very seriously.
Sam: We had to do this in Japan and it got so sensitive.
Bucher: It was like a retreat.
Jarvis: Let's see...I'll do Simon. Simon Katz: overbearing yet indispensible.
Simon: That was mean!
Jarvis: No it wasn't! You were just this close to my face! I'll redo it. Redo, redo. I wasn't doing generalities, I was doing the fact that you were 2 inches away from my face. Let's do another one. Simon Katz...
Bucher: How about committed, and responsibile.
Jarvis: I like that! I will speak for myself.
Simon: Bucher, I love you!
Jarvis: Careful, genius glue stick. Simon Katz. Is that better?
Simon: Much better!
Bucher: A genius glue stick is a really cool thing if you think about it. What does a glue do, ya know?
Jarvis: Sticks people together. Simon's the glue. Me, I'd say I'm the best ever in the entire world. (everybody laughs)
Simon: (to Bucher) Has anybody done you?

Simon

You didn't do your missing member.
Simon: Ohh we gotta do Luis. Should we all do Luis? We should all do Luis together right now.
Bucher: Stylin'!
Simon: I would say robotic and I mean that in a creative way and emotionally way. Not in like a bad robot way. (to Jarvis) What do you think about Luis?
Jarvis: Sunglasses. Headbands. No, Luis has been my bro since back in the day, about 5 more years than everybody else. But he disappeared off the face of the planet for like two years but I brought him back to life. I take full responsibility.
Simon: He's got some sass!
Jarvis: He's got some sass! (laughs) Every now and then he has a little bit of sass in his brass.
Simon: He did try and take his shirt off and fight a bouncer a few weeks ago.
Bucher: Shut the fuck up!
Simon: Oh I didn't tell you about this! Oh my God, I have a story for you Michael.
Jarvis: Yep. Anyway, Luis Raselis. He is the hardest worker on tour in Iglu & Hartly, for sure.

We started another question but before we could finish, the guys were literally whisked off the RV to get on stage to set up and perform. Click the link below to check out more photos from the interview and their performance, plus photos of the other bands that played that day - Mute Math and The Airborne Toxic Event!

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