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Empire Of The Sun man clarifies ‘missing’ stories
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 1 October 2009
Okay, so, you all remember that Empire Of The Sun’s Luke Steele said last month that his bandmate Nick Littlemore was not performing live with him on tour because he’d gone missing five months ago, right?
And that many people inferred that Littlemore’s no-show on the tour was in someway a surprise, even though there’d already been a statement earlier this year that Littlemore would not form part of the duo’s live band? And that we, therefore, suggested that Steele might have been joking about his bandmate actually going AWOL? Well, it seems there may have actually been a shred of truth in Steele’s claims that he didn’t know where Littlemore was.
Littlemore is, as previously reported, currently working on the new album by his other group, Pnau. And it seems that working with Elton John on that album, as well as collaborating with Cirque Du Soleil on another project, has left him a little distracted.
Steele told the NME: “We’re making a studio album with Elton John co-writing on some tracks for the next Pnau album. We met Elton in Australia and his manager has now become our manager. I’ve been working with Cirque du Soleil in Montreal and writing and recording the next Pnau album in London, Atlanta and New York with [Pnau bandmate] Peter Mayes”.
So too busy to be keeping up with his Empire Of The Sun co-hort. But, hey, surely he could have sent Steele a text message to let him know he was okay? Apparently not. He added: “I was recording in Atlanta and [went] swimming with my phone in my pocket. I’ve never managed to replace it”.
