![]() “Oh yeah, I did, didn’t I? I guess I’m jaded now.” “You did win a Grammy in 2017, you know,” I say. When I ask him about any “OK, this is insane” moments he has experienced since we last met, he thinks about it for so long that I need to prompt him. But I’m soon to discover the biggest change has been on the inside.įlume performing at Coachella last month. He looks different to the guy I met in 2016. ![]() Streten now sports a bleached blonde pageboy haircut and he’s wearing army fatigue pants, Blundstone boots, a Nike t-shirt and a corduroy jacket with faux-Grecian figures embroidered on the shoulders. It has finally decided to stop raining in Sydney and it’s a sunny, warm, blue-sky Tuesday morning in early May. Six years later, we’re walking through Sydney’s Botanic Garden. The stories kept coming, and he finished each one with the words that went through his head every time this stuff happened – “OK, this is insane.” He told me about the day his debut album, 2012’s Flume, knocked One Direction off the top of the Australian charts and the group’s fans hurled a Twitter tornado of abuse towards him. We’d driven to the headland in his luxury Tesla and he was telling me stories about Elon Musk asking him for his opinions of the car at an LA party held by Sean Parker, the multi-billionaire co-founder of Napster and former president of Facebook. The world knew Streten better as Australian electronic artist Flume. It was 2016, and I was sitting with 24-year-old Harley Streten on a headland overlooking his local surf spot at Manly Beach. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size
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