Shoegaze influenced, guitar drenched melodies accented and supported by samples, honey sweet tone driven vocals and old school dance beats, you’ll find them all in “Sugar”, The Sunshine Factory latest EP + a bonus interview below:

What’s the age difference between you and Ian?

Robert: Between myself and Ian? I’m 47 and he is 21
Ian: Pretty Big…but not too bad.
Robert: I’m old enough to be he dad. (Laughs Hysterically)

Do you see it helpful or a hindrance when making music for popular consumption?

Robert: I think it’s helpful. I see us as trendsetting in a certain way because my generation is the first that has truly grown up on rock and roll. We didn’t switch over in the middle of our lifetime to something else. It wasn’t like we were listening to Bebop or something. I grew straight up on rock and roll. So this relationship that exists between he and I think is not something unique. I think a lot of parents have a more intimate relationship, instead of a more parental kind of old fashion, “Leave it to Beaver”, kind of relationship. We think along the same lines…we even have some of the same interest. Parents can listen to the same music of their children now.
Ian: Right
Robert: Where as in the old days parents listened to one type of music and their children another. So I see us more representative than unusual.
Ian: He is the main lyricist of the band you know. I’ve written maybe one or two of the songs. There is a depth there that I can’t write about because I haven’t experienced it yet. It just adds a real intensity to the music.

So who came up with the name of the Band?

Ian: Uh, That would be my dad
Robert: We both agreed on naming it that. But it fact, I was an emergency room nurse for about 15 years until I started my own business. It kind of came to me one night. I wrote a song called, “The Sunshine Factory” and it was really about the hospital environment…with all the neon lights and just the whole healing factory concept. We were supposed to bring sunshine into these people’s lives. So that is where the wording came from and that was about 1995. So when Ian started his project and was looking for a name, he was like I really like that name, do you think I can use that dad? And I was like yeah sure.
Ian: Yeah I’ve always really liked that song. It’s a good song. We might end up recording it one day.
Robert: We play it acoustically together every now and then, but we’ve never actually recorded it.

Is that how you normally perform live? Acoustically…or is it more of an electronic experience?

Ian: Basically I load all of my songs up on a laptop. And then we have a whole light show with TV’s and it’s pretty cool. But I play electric guitar live with the tracks playing off the laptop.

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