Even after Darian Woods and Lucy Botting broke up, the music they made together remained a priority, with the pair sharing custody of their band Wet Wings.
Darian Woods and Lucy Botting pair have just released a new mini-album titled Willow Peak, on Lil’ Chief records. Photo: Unknown
The duo got together as lovers in Christchurch, before moving to Wellington so that Darian could work for Treasury. “Because we were a couple we wrote songs about each other and it was real cute and stuff,” says Botting.
The pair broke up after the release of their first album Glory Glory in 2011, but they say making music together was easy, even after the split, because their personalities are so similar.
Coming together to finish off half-written songs for a new mini-album, Willow Peak, seemed like a “natural thing to do”, says Woods.
“I guess it was more important than, you know, the post-relationship fall out. It was like a joint custody, like it was like our child – we got to be mature enough to see each other every fortnight and drop the kids off.”
LISTEN to Wet Wings give Anthonie Tonnon an intimate account of making music together: