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What's got you motivated right now? Well at the moment its actually just basically following up to the nice things that have sort of happened over the previous year with Sweet Tempest and my own stuff. I have got a lot to go on, so I am just taking that and trying my best to follow up on it, it's a bit nerve-wracking actually but it is also very motivating. What was it like growing up with a famous mum (Bridget Nielsen)? Yeah, it hasn't been boring, I can put it that way. Incidentally, my father in the Scandinavian areas was quite a successful musician. So I have always had a lot of input on both sides to sort of keep me going which was very, very nice. When you are young and wanting to do the arts, that there isn't someone saying 'no go out and fucking become a lawyer'. No one was saying that. So when did you first meet Luna, the other half of Sweet Tempest? Basically we sort of hang out once a while, on and off throughout the years and then one day she was having trouble with a music project and I offered to help her finish it on the production side and then one night we just happened to get really, really drunk and then we wrote 'Never Break' . A Sweet Tempest song and then when we did that it was kinda like 'this is pretty cool, maybe we should do some more' and it really didn't take long before we became a band after that. Tell us about your latest EP Bones and Machinations? After the first EP which was very sweet and tender and all of that, we had been playing around with a lot of different genres and we are both big fans of old school rock n roll and I think that EP the second one, it was kinda us trying some things and still maintaining the old sound. But trying a few new things, you know a bit more crunch on the guitars, a slightly more dirty sound and all that, so seeing where we can take it and I think in a way it is like a stepping stone that EP, moving towards another venture so to speak. You also produced the hit soundtrack to the film Neon Demon in 2016 'Demon Dance' directed by Nicolas Winding Refn - how did that come about? Well, a bit of sheer luck actually. I mean as you probably know I am related to the director but he's not the kinda guy whose like 'oh we are family here's a job kinda thing'. His not like that at all. So what actually happened was that they had a track planned for the film which didn't work out and they were in a panic and he was like let's try and give Julian a call, you know, maybe he can help us out, maybe he can't. And then I got down and fuckin' helped them out, and they were really happy with it and then it just sort of moves along by itself from there and it was pretty smooth sailing. What's been your proudest moment so far? Some of my proudest moment haven't been particularly spectacular, some of it has just been the first album that I ever released with my old band Hard Candy many years ago. Playing the first massive concert it's just completely overwhelming, it's amazing, just seeing the audience who's there with you backing you up. I think also with Luna, when I saw her, all bands have to train up sometimes and there was this special moment where I could see that now she was in the zone and she fucking nailed it so hard and I was just standing there behind her, with my guitar and keyboard just being like 'fuck yes!' It was a really, really special moment and the Neon Demon gotta say that was pretty amazing. What ideas changed your life? You know being a musician can be really tough, it can be very punishing, there's no one who says that when you are good at music you are going to make money. It doesn't work like that, unfortunately. And you know there was many punishing years with broken projects and all kinds of stuff and I guess there was a moment where I sort of reinvented myself, where I took a look at what I wanted to do and how I could achieve the things that I wanted to do. Well basically I gained a different perspective of myself, and that actually, when I really took the production seriously, the creating music seriously...I used to think that I wanted to be a frontman, I wanted to be out singing and doing all these stuff, but really creating the music, doing the production, you know making all these things was what it was all about and now I am actually getting somewhere. I think it was a change of focus, I think when you find that, what's going to make you happy, music is making me happy and if I can make my life function and work around that, well then damn that's jackpot! So what's next for the Sweet Tempest? So basically both me and Luna have been hard at work on our separate things, she's releasing an album soon, and I am releasing my albums as well so we just basically said let's just give each other the space to do that, cause you know it is a complete mess like finishing several albums at the same time. And then we are going to pick up writing the first sort of real album. Any last words? Keep making music everyone and do LSD at least once in your life! Made up of Danish duo Julian Winding and Luna Kira, Sweet Tempest are known for expertly crafting songs that will leave you feeling nostalgic with their otherworldly quality. Now back with their latest EP Bones & Machinations, we talk to Julian Winding about his famous mother Bridget Nielsen, meeting Luna, LSD, future plans for Sweet Tempest and his proudest moments so far. " MUSIC IS MAKING ME HAPPY AND IF I CAN MAKE MY LIFE FUNCTION AND WORK AROUND THAT, WELL THEN DAMN THAT'S JACKPOT! 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