I was pleasantly surprised when I arrived at Magnet Club to find it was already half full thirty minutes before the show started. Not at all how I expected a Monday night at Magnet to be. The occasion was The Magic Numbers, two sets of siblings from the UK, who recently released their third album The Runaway. Before they went on stage I had the chance to meet the feminine half of the band, Michele Stodart and Angela Gannon, to have a chat about Berlin, about finding your own sound and about being on tour with your brother.
As part of their European tour, they’d just arrived in Berlin from Copenhagen and they seemed happy to have seen a little bit of the city before the gig.
”I love Berlin. It’s such a great atmosphere. I love how you can just turn the corner, and there’s art everywhere,” Angela says, whilst trying to find out what’s wrong with one of her contact lenses.
The group had a three year break before finally releasing The Runaway, and 
with this third album, they feel that they are going in the right direction, according to Michele:
”I think what is new about it is that, we finally found a way of recording our sound, really. We were trying and exploring on the first two, but sonically it didn’t quite make it there. And we worked with a producer as well with this one, so it was really just a lot more focused and we knew what we were doing.
Even within the set that we’ve been playing on this tour, trying to work in the other two records, we’ve realized we would change elements of the older songs to fit in with where we wanna go now.”
The Runaway is produced by Valgeir Sigur
