FULL INTERVIEW: David Dallas

On Friday, Stace, Azur and Charlie caught up with kiwi musican David Dallas ahead of his latest gig at Galatos where he first performed 20 years ago! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Flavor Podcast Network, the Flavor Breakfast Podcast with Stace,
Azarah and.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Charlie all Right joining us live in the studio. This morning,
we have the one and only the legend David Dalla.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Thanks for having me, of course, easy peasy. The best
thing is is that you're coming bearing good news, right, yep?

Speaker 4 (00:22):
Good news.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
So what are you going to do? Tell the people
where they can see you. Thursday the twenty six, just
a couple of weeks.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
I'm doing this event Worth Tiger. We we're heading back
to Galatos Live in Auckland. I haven't played there for
probably twenty years, I think. Ah, so it's like, obviously,
you know, Live Venus at this time need our support,
and I just thought it was a cool initiative to
be part of, to go back and play a place
I haven't played in a long time.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Love Galatos, good Galatos memories. What some of your Galatos memories?

Speaker 4 (00:49):
I mean, I've said in other things, but it's like
it's the first place I played there had an actual stage,
you know, because at the time I was coming up,
a lot of things I played was like just a
little little clubs where we have a riser and you're
like two scene of the audience. So this is the
first time I like I can remember playing there, standing
on the stage and feeling like, oh, this is what
it feels like to be right, I know, like, oh,
this is a real there's a real performance.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
But it's a really good size though, because the stage
isn't it's still intimate, do you know what I mean,
Like some stages a few miles away, but it's beautifully
sort of shaped and crafted to be good for acoustics.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Yeah, it's a proper it's a proper performance venue, and
we don't actually have many of those even you know,
even though there were heaps a place for me to
perform when I started out there, there still wasn't much
like that.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
And that's what I'm talking about. You did have some
pretty cool live venues. You got Gelatas, you had The
Rising Sun for twenty and I feel that like now
in this day and age, live venues or venues in
itself like have sort of died down. You know, people
are not really going out or going to watch live
gigs these days. Bro, Do you feel that?

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, totally. I mean that's why that's why I was
say keen to be part of the initiatives to do
this venue veterance thing with TAGA, like it's it's needed, you.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Know, bring back the love music venue veterans. Is it
going to be a series that lots of different small
venues that that deserve to you.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
Know, Yeah, it's going to be a series as far
as I know. So I think it's gonna be in
other cities. Should be cool, it's awesome.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
So what are you going to do? Like what can
we expect from your big nights as far as like
I'll just do.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
I'm looking to do a mixture of like old like
obviously I got to a new project which I at least
couple of months back, so I want to do some
stuff off that I haven't performed any of it, but
you know, I think it's important to do a bunch
of old stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, People go like, okay, here I'm David.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Dallas live band, live band as well.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
No no live band for this because that's like, that's
not that wouldn't be authentic. I didn't start out with
a life. I start out was me and the DJ
in this type of venue. So that's what's going.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
To be gosh, and I'm not gonna lie I think
some of the best gigs I've ever gone to are
those ones where yeah, you're right, there's a stage, but
I felt really close to the artist. I mean I
went to gig and and it was at the pub,
but Lo B was playing, and I was like, how
was this real life? Like the one on the corner
boiler room on the I don't know once and I

(03:04):
know that one one. And it's just there's something about
those venues, right, They just they give you this feeling
of I don't know, it's different. It's different to say,
going to somewhere like Spark Arena. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah, that's when I was talking to someone about it,
and it's like sometimes it's like it's the small, the
small ones that we actually learned to perform, because sometimes
you can get to like when you start out and
you go to a festival or something and you play,
it's almost there's almost an ease to it, like because.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, no matter what you do exactly, so you can.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Come away and think like a good perform And then
you go into a small place and you play the
like where you've got to try and pull the crowd
and all come off the stage and you're like, man,
I'm trash put it.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Roofless out in these smaller towns, bro. So if you suck,
but they'll just look at you and it's like, nah,
that's not it, bro, this.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Is would you say, it's more nerve wrecking them, because again,
because you're so close to the audience, are you like
making like content, Like times that I've like.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
Forgotten my words, they always come from things like that.
Like it's like someone will catch your eye and you'll
be like, it's is this person playing attention? And it
takes your mind for and then you're just like where
am I on the song?

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Yeah, yeah, so yeah. There's a there's an intensity too
it that you don't get when you're on a biggest
stage or a festival with you know, there's like a
ten meter gap between you.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
And that's the beauty of playing live, bro, you know
you get to experience all of that, the crowd singing
your songs, and sometimes if you forget your own lyrics,
you know someone in the crowd is like, bro.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
That's not it.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Speaking from experience, how.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
There's heaps of times bro, like people like hey are
recognizing that the second verse you see something else that's
not what it is on the.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Album doesn't happen to David Dallas is that I can't lie.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Actually, there's times where you look and you're just like me,
and this person knows the song, especially for older stuff
that you don't do so much. Sometimes you're looking like me.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
This means a lot to you.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Nice, Yeah, And I just think, like Tiger come together
and doing this, this Venue Veterans series. It feels so
special and like something we've needed, especially because of COVID
hah heck man, like live music concerts, even festivals and
bigger things. It took a hit. It took a hurt,
and I can feel it feels like the dust are settling,
and we have noticed o cool people are starting to

(05:19):
buy their festival tickets and their big tickets and we've
sort of forgotten about these types of venues.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, and it's important, like it is. It is an ecosystem.
You need all of it, do you know what I mean?
Like you need you need small venues, artists need them
to come up and perform like the whole thing, like
you need it.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
So people need to come see you. So we can
search up Venue Veterans that will make sure that we
get to come see you Thursday, the twenty six Galatas.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yeah, that's right, So just set up Tiger Bears IG. Yeah,
R through there, So.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
I just quickly say I love a Tiger on tap anyway, ok,
thank you so much for coming and David, it's been
absolutely epic. Everyone check it out Venue Veterans. Okay, thanks
for listening to the Flavor This podcast.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
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