THE ONLY WAY IS UP
How do you survive lockdown with your twin brother? For Josh and Jake Kiszka, Greta Van Fleet’s singer and guitarist respectively, it’s all about space. Happily their capacious Nashville pad, where they’ve hunkered down for the past year, has plenty of that. Listening to them chat about their living situation over Zoom – with a curious mix of schoolboy gusto and the self-assurance of two worldly hippies – it’s hard not to think of childhood sleepovers (with a bigger budget).
“We have a rehearsal space here and we’ve just been non-stop jamming around,” quietly earnest guitarist Jake says with a grin. “Testing out new material and stuff and playing it ourselves and bringing new things in.”
“I’m surprised Jake and I haven’t killed each other!” Josh says in a separate call the next day. “But it’s three storeys, so he has his floor, I have mine, and there’s this sort of middle ground. It’s like a battlefield, if you want to look at it that way.”
When we talk, the pint-sized singer (the eldest of the two by five minutes) is sitting in their large, stylish kitchen nursing a hangover. “A of hungover!” he declares good-naturedly. Josh declares things a lot – it’s a bit like watching a young, moustachioed hybrid of Ron Howard and Owen Wilson holding court at a cocktail party. “We had a long meeting last night, and I thought: ‘Oh, I’ll get through this by !’ And now I regret it!”
