Tomorrow night at DC9, Unbuckled will feature Deleted Scenes, discussed on the site yesterday, and Georgie James, a new collaboration between John Davis, formerly of Q and Not U, and Laura Burhenn. You can read about the band and listen to their (excellent) songs here. Today, we talk to Davis, who was kind enough to take a few of our questions.

Questions for Georgie James:

So, it wasn’t that long after Q and Not U said goodbye that the Geogie James demo was finished. Was this band something you two had talked about and worked on while involved with your other projects?

Yeah, we had started working on songs before the last Q And Not U show. In fact, though I knew that Q And Not U’s days were numbered, I think we didn’t decide to end that band until about two months after Laura and I started writing. So, I guess I knew that I was going to have a lot of time open to start something new. I really enjoyed doing Q And Not U, but I was hankering to work on different music, so this has really fulfilled that.

The songs on that first record surprised a lot of people, I think, because they were so well done and because they had pinpointed and developed a signature sound, despite the short time the group had been together. Were you guys also surprised at how quickly and how well everything came together?

I was surprised somewhat, since I didn’t know for sure how things would go. But I think we played together a few times and there were enough moments where I thought that this could really work to make it clear that we should really commit to making this a band. To clarify, there hasn’t even been a “first record.” The thing we’ve been selling at shows is just an overview of some of the demos we’ve been making since last fall.