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CousteauX were extremely successful in 2000. What do you look back on now and think is your proudest moment? I think the proudest moments, where the big shows in Milan and Rome I guess. Something changes when suddenly people love your music. Suddenly we had big auditoriums a couple of thousand seaters, packed full of people who cheered when we came on, that was a welcomed relief, after all those years of feeling despondent. During your break from the band, what did you get up to? Raised a really nice girl. Because we kinda collided like some musicians do with a band taking off and starting to have children, they are sadly often mutually very difficult to be a good dad and a busy touring musician. I know there are lots of people that make that work for them, and I really admire them. So, I went off and did that, and Liam did the same as well, which is why our kids are the same age now. Cos we did it at the same time more or less. Now that they're their own people now, we can go off and join the circus again. We did our big sensible bit, now we can go back to playing our music, and I guess reconnect with our little dream of making this peculiar music. To be honest we had a messy divorce. Because we toured around and did four hundred gigs, in five years. It's like going camping for five years with somebody. You get sick of it! And then we realized in the fullness of time, actually, we had something really special. As you get older you value the good stuff, and so we're delighted to be working again. All enmity dissolved away instantly when we started talking to each other again. So what brought you guys back together? Well, it's as simple as this, what brought us back together, is that all those years we were apart, as much as we fought it and try to replace it, we came to the realization, that sometimes you just find the perfect fit for your music in a partner. And he and I just have that hand in glove complementary rebalancing. We're like a good singer- songwriter distributed across two bodies. He's a fine singer and a frontman with a story, wild- life, and background. And I'm a songwriter, that can do a bunch of things.It's blend of that synergy I think, it's bigger than some of the parts. And in all honesty, we've found ourselves with an opportunity to do music again, as older guys, because we reckon we've got a pretty good story now. So your album came out in September . Is there anything exciting fans can expect? Well, we used to be very romantic but now when we got back together, listening to a lot Liam's solo work; he'd been doing a lot darker and edgier stuff, he did more like Mick Cave or Kelexico. He likes his Noirish music. And I kinda clocked that and thought well actually we could chill to a much more edgy direction with this CousteauX thing. Now you have an X on your band name, why the X? We like to see it as a scar like it also honours the fact that our guitarist, drummer bass player aren't with us anymore, so it's a kiss and scar and a legacy of a band that once was, but now updated. What life motto do you live by to stay so focused? I don't wanna say something cheesy, but I think I'm just determined to make music that I want to hear. And that happened with CousteauX, me and Liam are clear about this, because we spent years trying to get bands off the ground, and trying to get signed, and getting signed and dropped into crap management, labels and all that sort of stuff. But the minute we actually thought, hold up let's just make the music we really wanna hear, and just for us. Then ironically, more paradoxically, it started to come good for us. And I think that's a sort of motto that I work with for us, that is just to make something that I truly truly love, and then the love for that will hopefully radiate out, and affect other people. What's next for CousteauX? We're just kinda re-establishing ourselves, and the music that's gone out to the world hopefully into people's lives. I think we've done our part now, as much as we can. And I think we're going up to Spain, Portugal and Italy. So we'll go out and do that. And I think then we'll take a little break and come back in the spring of next year, cos Liam has to go back to Australia for a little while. But the idea is that we're just gonna build it slowly, and let the gist of the music settle in people's lives for a little while. I think that's the thing now. And then go out there and play it live. 2017 / ISSUE 103 INDIE 47 CousteauX are back with a bang or should I say an X, and after more than 10 years apart, it's like they never left. We had a chat with band member Davey Ray Moor about CousteauX's new self-titled album, life away from the band and Davey's future plans for the group. "WE'VE FOUND OURSELVES WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO MUSIC AGAIN, AS OLDER GUYS, BECAUSE WE RECKON WE'VE GOT A PRETTY GOOD STORY NOW. " follow @CousteauXmusic Claudia Rivas | Guestlist INTERVIEW: COUSTEAUX