August 31, 2024 • 14 mins
Kiwi singer Georgia Nott is best known as half of the electronic indie duo Broods - but she's been expanding her output.
Nott has recently been focusing on her own solo projects as Georgia Gets By, starting with her new EP Split Lip.
She says it's a different experience to working with her brother as part of Broods - but she's ready for a new challenge.
"It's very different, I have to wear a few more hats and be a little bit more self-sufficient - but it's cool, I like it, I like the challenge."
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Usually we associate Georgia Not as one half of the
sibling duo Brudes, but Georgia has gone solo. What you're
hearing now is music released as Georgia gets By, and
her new EP split will release this coming Friday. Georgia
Not joins me now from La Hey, Georgia.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Hi, nice to be here kind.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Of after a decade with Brudes. How does it feel
going alone?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
It feels like a lot of different things. Feels really
cool in a lot of ways. So just I don't know,
feel like a sense of independency and you know, feel
like I'm, yeah, doing like the first first like work
(01:04):
thing outside of my brother that for a long time,
and so that's cool. But it's also you know, it's
very different. I have to wear a few more hats
and be a little bit more self efficient, self sufficient,
but it's cool. I like it. I like the challenge.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Are you feeling a little bit grown up?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Oh yeah, I'm like I'm thirty now, so that on
its own feels like such a significant, like grown up number.
But yeah, it feels good. It feels like all the
stuff that I learned over the last ten years is
(01:48):
coming in handy, But I still have this feeling that
I'm at the beginning of something, and that's like kind
of such a sweet spot, you know, like it's really
nice to be feeling like it's fresh, but also I
have all this experience to draw upon. It's nice we
feel can't.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Is that why you decided to give it a crack
new job, almost new experience.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, I mean, you can't do the same thing forever.
That would just drive you nuts. But also I think
both of us were where, you know, like we were
feeling like what next. You know, we just kind of
have been really just like non stop for a decade,
(02:35):
and we're both feeling a little bit maybe I don't
want to say jaded, but I think we're feeling like
a little bit like, well, like let's like take a
step back and like also think about like music differently
and and get back to this place where it doesn't
(02:59):
feel like a job, you know, it feels like why
we started doing it, which was just for you know,
for love of it and for the like honestly the
therapy of it. And that's definitely where this project came from,
which is basically my it's my therapy and my diary.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yay, because I'm going to approach that it looks the
music feels to me, and this is just my thoughts.
It feels like it does feel like a step forward.
You're playing around more with the sound that's guitar riffs
in there. It feels moody. I thought it felt moodier,
intimate and mature. That's what I kind of wrote down
when I listened to it. Is that how you see
(03:40):
this movement to solo land? As if I nailed that.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I feel like that's really on point. I think like
I've changed as a songwriter a lot, and I think
this way, this format of that's a little bit more
singer songwritery. It's a little bit more like, yeah, like
moodio with a lot of distorted to guitars. It feels
(04:05):
daring me, know like I think Bruds is very me
and Caleb together, and then like this is very me
and that's really fun. I think I needed to just
like even know what that was, you know. I think
this has been a really cool, cool like discovery. Georgia.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Is it easy to write about very personal things because
this album's got a lot of your songs on it
about breakups and things like that. Is it easy to
put it out there? I mean, there's there's artists out
there like Taylor Swift that make it look like a
breeze and we expect nothing else.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I think it's easy to write the songs, it's not
easy to share them. Like it's it's I definitely have
to psych myself up, But I think I'm getting more
and more at ease with the idea of sharing because obviously,
to me, it's like I hear the songs and all
I can think about is like the details of what
(05:01):
it's about, and like the feelings and like it's so
it's so personal. But I think if I let go
of that and I think about what a listener is hearing,
it's I think each listener is is more thinking about themselves,
to be honest, and like what it means to them,
not really what it means to me. And I think
(05:22):
that that is a nice, like a nice way of
like detaching from the actual like content of the song
and like the event that you know, triggered the me
to write that song, and more about like just bringing
it into this universal kind of human experience.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Of like, you know, I write a lot about love,
and you know, that's one of the one of the
big ones, one of the big human experiences, and so
like thinking about it that way makes it easier writing
it is just yeah, I can't help it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Is the songwriting process different now that you're on your own.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, yeah, it's different. I think I spend a lot
more time going, like a lot more time on my own,
you know, like a lot more time just sitting with
the guitar and playing and until you know, it all
palls out, which I think is nice because that's how
I started, you know, when I was a teenager or
(06:25):
even like when I was like a kid, I've first
learned to play guitar and I just sit in my
room for hours on my own and just write songs.
And it wasn't really for any other reason but to
try and understand like my own feelings and regulate myself.
And like, it's kind of crazy that that coping mechanism
(06:46):
has now turned into this project, but that's cool, you know.
I think it's like, really it's really fun to go
back to my roots.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I guess in a way, do you work with people
you've already worked with before over the years, or did
you want a bit of a fresh start with this project.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I haven't really worked with anybody that Caleb and I
worked with. I mean I made Actually that's not true.
I've made the first the first EP with a producer
called Noah Barrison, and we'd worked on a few things
for Space Island together, the last Birds record. But this
(07:26):
record is just like all people that I've kind of
started working with outside of outside of Broods. My main
collaborator as a producer called John Balascirz here in La
and and we've kind of built this new world together
(07:50):
and it's nice to have like somebody that wasn't involved
in that project come in. I think it's like makes
it a little bit easier to start from the beginning.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Again, this is a bit of a left field question,
but white artists and label still release EPs.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Because it's cheaper.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I thought it would be a practical answer.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I'm honestly such a fan of EPs. I think it's
it's kind of like, you know, like a short cartoon,
like people only like the attention span or something short.
But it's also such a I feel like it's such
a nice little like conduced thing that maybe like for me,
(08:36):
I feel find it really easy to knock out an
EP because it's easy to kind of like just condense
a certain time of your life into five or six songs,
and like, you know, you just kind of pick the
best songs you've written. And but also, yeah, cheaper music's expensive.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, look thinking looking back, and we should we should
point out that Bruds's hasn't gone away. You're still together.
You and Caleb both have working on sort of solo
projects and things. But have you had time over the Yeah,
the successive Brudes, it's been massive. Have you had time
over the years to sort of let it all sink in?
(09:16):
Or does it feel a bit like a whirlwind now
you look back over the last decade.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I feel like sometimes it does hit me and I'm like,
oh yeah, true, Or like somebody will be like I'll
meet somebody real random here and they'll be like, oh,
I listened to your songs so much in college, and
I'm like, oh, yeah, I got that, Like people at
been around now about that. Yeah, Like somebody came up
(09:44):
to me, Like I think it was like a couple
of years ago playing R and B, and somebody came
up to me and I was like, oh my god,
I've been listened to your music since I was ten
years old. And I was like what. And I think,
I think like the longevity of it kind of is
like still kind of like I didn't I think at
(10:06):
the beginning that it would last this long. Like I
was like under the impression that would be like, okay,
like we'll do it for three years and I'll like
quote unquote get it out of my system. It turns
out doesn't work out, like it doesn't actually work like that,
and I have to do this for ever maybe, but
it still kind of blows my mind that people one
(10:28):
kid to begin with, but also like still care. It's
like makes me feel like a real sense of purpose
and what I'm doing, and that it's like more than
just a moment, you know, it's actually something really I
feel like it might be a little bit like delusional,
(10:49):
but I feel like I'm supposed to do this with
my life and this is my you know, what I've
been put here for. And it's really validating when other
people are into what you're making. And that is the
thing that still like blows my mind. And then I
think about like some of the shows that we've played,
(11:10):
and I'm like, well, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, absolutely you've been you were based in the States
for a long time. You moved back to Wellington recently,
and now you've moved back to Los Angeles. Is that
really where you need to be for your music career?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I think this is where I've like built most of
my life. You know that I've moved here when I
was twenty one and really have only experienced life as
an adult in LA and like built a whole community here.
Like the music industry is obviously like really large here
(11:54):
compared to New Zealand. And it's also sunny all the time,
which is quite nice. But yeah, I feel like it's
where I want to be right now. When since moving back,
I feel like really good about the decision. And but yeah,
it's but weird, like having my life broken into two
(12:16):
places like like that, it's always feels like you're kind
of pining for the other place no matter what.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
What's Caleb up to.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Caleb is working on building a studio and working out
his own music, and also he's like studying to I
guess like be a dock ranger fantastic, Yeah, which is
so like anybody if anybody out there knows how, they'll
(12:53):
know that that is actually like the perfect thing for
him to study. He's he's like such a bush boy,
but yeah, he's studying conservation and really loving it and
having like another outlet that's not music for a while,
which is healthy, I think.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And any plans in the immediate future for the two
of you to work again or tour again, play again.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, I think, like I think once once, it feels
like natural and we're in the same place for long enough.
Having a studio will help. But yeah, it's I think
we've spent like the last ten years putting a lot
of pressure on ourselves to be constantly releasing and touring music,
(13:48):
and I think it's quite nice for both of us
to be like, hey, should we like put ourselves first
for a second and like just figure out what makes
us happy?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Oh well, very excited to have new music from you.
Love title Georgia gets By. I think you're doing a
lot more than just getting by, But it's a title
I think many of us will relate to. So thank
you so much for your time today.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Oh thanks, Francisca, it's so nice to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Georgia's new EP split lip Is out this coming Friday.
Can find it on our website Georgia gets by dot com.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
For more from the Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to news talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Usually we associate Georgia Not as one half of the
sibling duo Brudes, but Georgia has gone solo. What you're
hearing now is music released as Georgia gets By, and
her new EP split will release this coming Friday. Georgia
Not joins me now from La Hey, Georgia.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Hi, nice to be here kind.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Of after a decade with Brudes. How does it feel
going alone?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
It feels like a lot of different things. Feels really
cool in a lot of ways. So just I don't know,
feel like a sense of independency and you know, feel
like I'm, yeah, doing like the first first like work
(01:04):
thing outside of my brother that for a long time,
and so that's cool. But it's also you know, it's
very different. I have to wear a few more hats
and be a little bit more self efficient, self sufficient,
but it's cool. I like it. I like the challenge.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Are you feeling a little bit grown up?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Oh yeah, I'm like I'm thirty now, so that on
its own feels like such a significant, like grown up number.
But yeah, it feels good. It feels like all the
stuff that I learned over the last ten years is
(01:48):
coming in handy, But I still have this feeling that
I'm at the beginning of something, and that's like kind
of such a sweet spot, you know, like it's really
nice to be feeling like it's fresh, but also I
have all this experience to draw upon. It's nice we
feel can't.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Is that why you decided to give it a crack
new job, almost new experience.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, I mean, you can't do the same thing forever.
That would just drive you nuts. But also I think
both of us were where, you know, like we were
feeling like what next. You know, we just kind of
have been really just like non stop for a decade,
(02:35):
and we're both feeling a little bit maybe I don't
want to say jaded, but I think we're feeling like
a little bit like, well, like let's like take a
step back and like also think about like music differently
and and get back to this place where it doesn't
(02:59):
feel like a job, you know, it feels like why
we started doing it, which was just for you know,
for love of it and for the like honestly the
therapy of it. And that's definitely where this project came from,
which is basically my it's my therapy and my diary.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yay, because I'm going to approach that it looks the
music feels to me, and this is just my thoughts.
It feels like it does feel like a step forward.
You're playing around more with the sound that's guitar riffs
in there. It feels moody. I thought it felt moodier,
intimate and mature. That's what I kind of wrote down
when I listened to it. Is that how you see
(03:40):
this movement to solo land? As if I nailed that.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I feel like that's really on point. I think like
I've changed as a songwriter a lot, and I think
this way, this format of that's a little bit more
singer songwritery. It's a little bit more like, yeah, like
moodio with a lot of distorted to guitars. It feels
(04:05):
daring me, know like I think Bruds is very me
and Caleb together, and then like this is very me
and that's really fun. I think I needed to just
like even know what that was, you know. I think
this has been a really cool, cool like discovery. Georgia.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Is it easy to write about very personal things because
this album's got a lot of your songs on it
about breakups and things like that. Is it easy to
put it out there? I mean, there's there's artists out
there like Taylor Swift that make it look like a
breeze and we expect nothing else.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I think it's easy to write the songs, it's not
easy to share them. Like it's it's I definitely have
to psych myself up, But I think I'm getting more
and more at ease with the idea of sharing because obviously,
to me, it's like I hear the songs and all
I can think about is like the details of what
(05:01):
it's about, and like the feelings and like it's so
it's so personal. But I think if I let go
of that and I think about what a listener is hearing,
it's I think each listener is is more thinking about themselves,
to be honest, and like what it means to them,
not really what it means to me. And I think
(05:22):
that that is a nice, like a nice way of
like detaching from the actual like content of the song
and like the event that you know, triggered the me
to write that song, and more about like just bringing
it into this universal kind of human experience.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Of like, you know, I write a lot about love,
and you know, that's one of the one of the
big ones, one of the big human experiences, and so
like thinking about it that way makes it easier writing
it is just yeah, I can't help it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Is the songwriting process different now that you're on your own.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, yeah, it's different. I think I spend a lot
more time going, like a lot more time on my own,
you know, like a lot more time just sitting with
the guitar and playing and until you know, it all
palls out, which I think is nice because that's how
I started, you know, when I was a teenager or
(06:25):
even like when I was like a kid, I've first
learned to play guitar and I just sit in my
room for hours on my own and just write songs.
And it wasn't really for any other reason but to
try and understand like my own feelings and regulate myself.
And like, it's kind of crazy that that coping mechanism
(06:46):
has now turned into this project, but that's cool, you know.
I think it's like, really it's really fun to go
back to my roots.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I guess in a way, do you work with people
you've already worked with before over the years, or did
you want a bit of a fresh start with this project.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I haven't really worked with anybody that Caleb and I
worked with. I mean I made Actually that's not true.
I've made the first the first EP with a producer
called Noah Barrison, and we'd worked on a few things
for Space Island together, the last Birds record. But this
(07:26):
record is just like all people that I've kind of
started working with outside of outside of Broods. My main
collaborator as a producer called John Balascirz here in La
and and we've kind of built this new world together
(07:50):
and it's nice to have like somebody that wasn't involved
in that project come in. I think it's like makes
it a little bit easier to start from the beginning.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Again, this is a bit of a left field question,
but white artists and label still release EPs.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Because it's cheaper.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I thought it would be a practical answer.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I'm honestly such a fan of EPs. I think it's
it's kind of like, you know, like a short cartoon,
like people only like the attention span or something short.
But it's also such a I feel like it's such
a nice little like conduced thing that maybe like for me,
(08:36):
I feel find it really easy to knock out an
EP because it's easy to kind of like just condense
a certain time of your life into five or six songs,
and like, you know, you just kind of pick the
best songs you've written. And but also, yeah, cheaper music's expensive.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, look thinking looking back, and we should we should
point out that Bruds's hasn't gone away. You're still together.
You and Caleb both have working on sort of solo
projects and things. But have you had time over the Yeah,
the successive Brudes, it's been massive. Have you had time
over the years to sort of let it all sink in?
(09:16):
Or does it feel a bit like a whirlwind now
you look back over the last decade.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I feel like sometimes it does hit me and I'm like,
oh yeah, true, Or like somebody will be like I'll
meet somebody real random here and they'll be like, oh,
I listened to your songs so much in college, and
I'm like, oh, yeah, I got that, Like people at
been around now about that. Yeah, Like somebody came up
(09:44):
to me, Like I think it was like a couple
of years ago playing R and B, and somebody came
up to me and I was like, oh my god,
I've been listened to your music since I was ten
years old. And I was like what. And I think,
I think like the longevity of it kind of is
like still kind of like I didn't I think at
(10:06):
the beginning that it would last this long. Like I
was like under the impression that would be like, okay,
like we'll do it for three years and I'll like
quote unquote get it out of my system. It turns
out doesn't work out, like it doesn't actually work like that,
and I have to do this for ever maybe, but
it still kind of blows my mind that people one
(10:28):
kid to begin with, but also like still care. It's
like makes me feel like a real sense of purpose
and what I'm doing, and that it's like more than
just a moment, you know, it's actually something really I
feel like it might be a little bit like delusional,
(10:49):
but I feel like I'm supposed to do this with
my life and this is my you know, what I've
been put here for. And it's really validating when other
people are into what you're making. And that is the
thing that still like blows my mind. And then I
think about like some of the shows that we've played,
(11:10):
and I'm like, well, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, absolutely you've been you were based in the States
for a long time. You moved back to Wellington recently,
and now you've moved back to Los Angeles. Is that
really where you need to be for your music career?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I think this is where I've like built most of
my life. You know that I've moved here when I
was twenty one and really have only experienced life as
an adult in LA and like built a whole community here.
Like the music industry is obviously like really large here
(11:54):
compared to New Zealand. And it's also sunny all the time,
which is quite nice. But yeah, I feel like it's
where I want to be right now. When since moving back,
I feel like really good about the decision. And but yeah,
it's but weird, like having my life broken into two
(12:16):
places like like that, it's always feels like you're kind
of pining for the other place no matter what.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
What's Caleb up to.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Caleb is working on building a studio and working out
his own music, and also he's like studying to I
guess like be a dock ranger fantastic, Yeah, which is
so like anybody if anybody out there knows how, they'll
(12:53):
know that that is actually like the perfect thing for
him to study. He's he's like such a bush boy,
but yeah, he's studying conservation and really loving it and
having like another outlet that's not music for a while,
which is healthy, I think.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And any plans in the immediate future for the two
of you to work again or tour again, play again.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, I think, like I think once once, it feels
like natural and we're in the same place for long enough.
Having a studio will help. But yeah, it's I think
we've spent like the last ten years putting a lot
of pressure on ourselves to be constantly releasing and touring music,
(13:48):
and I think it's quite nice for both of us
to be like, hey, should we like put ourselves first
for a second and like just figure out what makes
us happy?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Oh well, very excited to have new music from you.
Love title Georgia gets By. I think you're doing a
lot more than just getting by, But it's a title
I think many of us will relate to. So thank
you so much for your time today.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Oh thanks, Francisca, it's so nice to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Georgia's new EP split lip Is out this coming Friday.
Can find it on our website Georgia gets by dot com.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
For more from the Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to news talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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