September 5, 2024 • 11 mins
Auckland band Coast Arcade can't wait to play their new song Baited to crowds in Auckland and Taupo in the coming months. Their drummer Thom called up for a chat about Taylor Hawkins, Travis Barker and the downward trend of drum solos at gigs.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Radio hodar kis Off the Record podcast with
Greg Treven.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Let's have a chat with co Starcade killed Tom. Hello mate, Yeah,
really well thanks mate. Where about some in the country
are you this evening?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I'm currently in Auckland, in the beautiful beds of Auckland.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That's where the whole band is, right, Yeah, all.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Of us are based in Auckland.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
So me and Bella both went to high school together,
so we the band started in high school. And then
we've also got Leo who is from Avondale kind of originally,
but he also went to Glendarwie College for a bit
and then now then he moved to Avondale, and so
we've got Leo joining us in bass.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
And then we're just in and out to guitar players
at the moment.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
All right, So are you playing the guitar just to
sort of fill in between guitarists?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Honestly, if I could play guitar, I'd love to.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
But me and drums just have a thing together and
every time I pick up with guitar, we can get
an okay, but I just don't know what it is.
But the coordination and me just don't work together.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Really.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
The coordination, yet you're a drummer.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I know it sounds so silly to say.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Every time around Bella's or anything and I pick up
the guitar, I just get looks of don't you dare
muck anything up?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Because her guitars are like her babies, which just quite funny.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
So any time my mucky grubs get upon them, I
get a little dirty look.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
From her, from her precious.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
From her precious.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, so you've always played the drums in high school?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Were you?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And other bands before you and Bella put something together?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So I'm originally from the UK, so funny enough, back
to guitars. I started playing learning guitar when I was
sick Sishow and my guitar guitar teacher actually went to
my parents and went just not for him, give him
a different instrument. So then I was chucked drums at
my way. And then now for the last ten eleven
years been playing drums. But I only started like playing
(01:49):
drums and bands when I moved to high school and
Bella used to mentor my like junior band when I
was year nine because Bella is two years older than me.
And then she was in another rock band called Riguera
and when they went part she poached me from my
Year nine band and that's how Costacad's started.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Wow, So how long have you guys been Coast Arcade.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
We've been Coast Arcade now for three and a half years,
befour years next March.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
It's absolutely flown by.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
We've definitely gone through a lot and a lot to
change since we first began, but we're really happy where
we are now.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And when you say you were looking for a new guitarist,
how do you look these days for a new guitarist?
Do you put an ad on trade me? Is he
a musician's Facebook page you go on? Or do you
just sort of ask Graham when you're at the pub?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Social media is your biggest way.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
But recently we've just had Alo Berris playing with us
and we're loving Arlo's dynamic in the band at the moment.
So he's playing session for us at the moment. But yeah,
he's class and loving to have him around.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah cool, And whose idea was it to come up
with the song baited?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Baited was a mix of both Bella and Leo.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
So Leo funny enough is originally and he plays in
a doom metal band and then Beller a bit more
on the indie side, So we've kind of we've got
a great mix between this quite heavy to then more
indie kind of rock side that Bella and Leo both
work with together, and that's kind of so they both
work on Baita together and it's just came across with
(03:14):
both of them.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And you're the guy hitting the skins. What's going on
with the drums on this track?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's hands down one of my favorite tracks that I
think I've ever recorded. On the drums, it's heavy, it's driving.
I've grown up with a big inspiration from people like
Taylor Hawkins and Travis Barker. So fast, loud and quite
strong impacting drums. So Baited I think definitely shows the
drive in it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
All Right, well let's check it out you from Coast Arka,
this is Baited.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
The dark.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well soon.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
You gotta start, kid, said I on oh that thinks
about the things she said?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Be in the backyard bags will.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
He killed me?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Start faircase leads, trying to make me slam, Start to
try and get a boats, keep ball from the bad you.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Try to call me here, Jesus st.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Me, do not And then I try to find.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
The thing makes me up the cold.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Hid then come down and I try to fight it.
The thing makes me stand out.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
A hide Okay, the t try to call this is
a go see it to tryna come here just to
(06:06):
start something for fun.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's Radio Hodarchy. That's new from Coast Arcade. It's called Baited,
and we're luck enough to have their drummer Tom on
a zoom with us. Now killu. Tom, thanks for bringing
us at tune.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Thank you very much for having us and playing it.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It sounds like you're having a lot of fun playing
the drums on that one.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
As they're saying before, I absolutely love playing that track
live and even just listening to it. Usually, like when
we've released songs have been like I love listening to them,
but I get to a point a bit sick. But
Baited I could have them repeat all day and just
the drive of it.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I can't get enough of it.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Nice. Well, speaking of playing live, have you got any
gigs on the horizon?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
We are playing at the town Hall on the twelfth
October with Amy Shark and we are very excited for it.
It's our first of a town hall show and I'm
absolutely buzzing to finally be able to play at that
venue because it is so cool.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Have you been to that venue before and seen other
bands play?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I have?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I Funny enough, the times I've been to town Hall
is I've started working in production. I'm only I've just
turned nineteen now, so I want to kind of work
in production and my mentor Owen Dree's taking me along
to a few town Hall shows and I've seen the
Dragon shows.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Phenomenal as well. The organ in the backdrop just makes
it spectacular.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, they do have that large old organ which looks
like it's one hundred years old. Up the back. It
looks like it's probably the biggest organ in New Zealand
as well. Do you know the history of that thing?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
The best thing I know about that organ is when
the Foods were here just before the Concrete and Gold album.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I'm pretty sure Dave Grol ended.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Up playing on that organ during this set and like
for the stories I've heard, it was absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Can you play the organ?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I honestly I wish.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
If we were, I probably should contact them and see
if I can get a little jam in it beforehand
for the Amy Shark Show.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
That'd be quite funny.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, even just if you've got some soft mallets, you know,
to hit with sticks, playing it like it's some sort
of timpani r xyophone.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
That would be quite funny.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I'd have to go around with Beller and say what
she thinks about that idea.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, true, Just find out what song it would fit with,
unless you do a drum solo midway through the set
and sort of branch out into those big pipes up
the back.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Oh, you're you're giving me too many good ideas. Now.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I saw a band the other night called Greater van Fleet,
and they have for very much a seventies eighties glam
rock sort of aesthetic, and they did the solos that
there was a ten minute long guitar solo. It is
probably tem minute long drum solo, very self indulgent, but
they seem to be having a good time. Is there
something you ever do because it feels like I don't
see that many drum solos anymore.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
On about Greta van Fleet quickly.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Daniel Wagner is a phenomenal drummer, and I've heard so
much about him, never seen I never got to the
gohos on that Great Van Fleet show.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
But I wish I'd seen it.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
But drummers and drum solos they come bigger now in
the arena shows, but in a smaller and smaller bands.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I think they're becoming less and less common.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
But I think now drummers are finding more fun to
add little bits of solos throughout kind of sets, to
chuck in little bits and bobs. But definitely I think
drum solos are on the down a bit.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I wish they'd come back.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
If it was me, i'd just go sit and watch
drummers do drum solos all day, but I don't think.
I don't think the band would approve that of that
too much. But just sat behind the kettle day, just
absolutely whamming them.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
But nah, uh, Let's talk about summer because there's a
lot of shows being announced at the moment. The Electric
Avenue Festival in christ Your steer looks incredible. Are you
guys lining up anything.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
For the Sofa December?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
We've got the Currents coming up and which is a
festival we've always looked at and always wanted to be on,
so we're really stalk to be planning that this year.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
So if we want to keep an eye on, were
you guys are going to be playing the summer. We'll
just go back and listen to baited. Where's the best
place to find information on you guys.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Instagram, which is simply just at Coast Arcade.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Tom from Coast ArKade, Thanks you, Tom and Hurdaki, Thank.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
You very much.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Greg Radio, hold Aches off the Record podcast. Why not
subscribe so they download automatically and don't forget to rate
us five stars?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Thanks mate. Find out more about this
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Podcast and the people who make it at hodache dot
co dot nz in
Welcome to Radio hodar kis Off the Record podcast with
Greg Treven.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Let's have a chat with co Starcade killed Tom. Hello mate, Yeah,
really well thanks mate. Where about some in the country
are you this evening?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I'm currently in Auckland, in the beautiful beds of Auckland.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That's where the whole band is, right, Yeah, all.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Of us are based in Auckland.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
So me and Bella both went to high school together,
so we the band started in high school. And then
we've also got Leo who is from Avondale kind of originally,
but he also went to Glendarwie College for a bit
and then now then he moved to Avondale, and so
we've got Leo joining us in bass.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
And then we're just in and out to guitar players
at the moment.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
All right, So are you playing the guitar just to
sort of fill in between guitarists?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Honestly, if I could play guitar, I'd love to.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
But me and drums just have a thing together and
every time I pick up with guitar, we can get
an okay, but I just don't know what it is.
But the coordination and me just don't work together.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Really.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
The coordination, yet you're a drummer.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I know it sounds so silly to say.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Every time around Bella's or anything and I pick up
the guitar, I just get looks of don't you dare
muck anything up?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Because her guitars are like her babies, which just quite funny.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
So any time my mucky grubs get upon them, I
get a little dirty look.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
From her, from her precious.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
From her precious.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, so you've always played the drums in high school?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Were you?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And other bands before you and Bella put something together?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So I'm originally from the UK, so funny enough, back
to guitars. I started playing learning guitar when I was
sick Sishow and my guitar guitar teacher actually went to
my parents and went just not for him, give him
a different instrument. So then I was chucked drums at
my way. And then now for the last ten eleven
years been playing drums. But I only started like playing
(01:49):
drums and bands when I moved to high school and
Bella used to mentor my like junior band when I
was year nine because Bella is two years older than me.
And then she was in another rock band called Riguera
and when they went part she poached me from my
Year nine band and that's how Costacad's started.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Wow, So how long have you guys been Coast Arcade.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
We've been Coast Arcade now for three and a half years,
befour years next March.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
It's absolutely flown by.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
We've definitely gone through a lot and a lot to
change since we first began, but we're really happy where
we are now.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And when you say you were looking for a new guitarist,
how do you look these days for a new guitarist?
Do you put an ad on trade me? Is he
a musician's Facebook page you go on? Or do you
just sort of ask Graham when you're at the pub?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Social media is your biggest way.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
But recently we've just had Alo Berris playing with us
and we're loving Arlo's dynamic in the band at the moment.
So he's playing session for us at the moment. But yeah,
he's class and loving to have him around.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah cool, And whose idea was it to come up
with the song baited?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Baited was a mix of both Bella and Leo.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
So Leo funny enough is originally and he plays in
a doom metal band and then Beller a bit more
on the indie side, So we've kind of we've got
a great mix between this quite heavy to then more
indie kind of rock side that Bella and Leo both
work with together, and that's kind of so they both
work on Baita together and it's just came across with
(03:14):
both of them.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And you're the guy hitting the skins. What's going on
with the drums on this track?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's hands down one of my favorite tracks that I
think I've ever recorded. On the drums, it's heavy, it's driving.
I've grown up with a big inspiration from people like
Taylor Hawkins and Travis Barker. So fast, loud and quite
strong impacting drums. So Baited I think definitely shows the
drive in it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
All Right, well let's check it out you from Coast Arka,
this is Baited.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
The dark.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well soon.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
You gotta start, kid, said I on oh that thinks
about the things she said?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Be in the backyard bags will.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
He killed me?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Start faircase leads, trying to make me slam, Start to
try and get a boats, keep ball from the bad you.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Try to call me here, Jesus st.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Me, do not And then I try to find.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
The thing makes me up the cold.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Hid then come down and I try to fight it.
The thing makes me stand out.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
A hide Okay, the t try to call this is
a go see it to tryna come here just to
(06:06):
start something for fun.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's Radio Hodarchy. That's new from Coast Arcade. It's called Baited,
and we're luck enough to have their drummer Tom on
a zoom with us. Now killu. Tom, thanks for bringing
us at tune.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Thank you very much for having us and playing it.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It sounds like you're having a lot of fun playing
the drums on that one.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
As they're saying before, I absolutely love playing that track
live and even just listening to it. Usually, like when
we've released songs have been like I love listening to them,
but I get to a point a bit sick. But
Baited I could have them repeat all day and just
the drive of it.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I can't get enough of it.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Nice. Well, speaking of playing live, have you got any
gigs on the horizon?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
We are playing at the town Hall on the twelfth
October with Amy Shark and we are very excited for it.
It's our first of a town hall show and I'm
absolutely buzzing to finally be able to play at that
venue because it is so cool.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Have you been to that venue before and seen other
bands play?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I have?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I Funny enough, the times I've been to town Hall
is I've started working in production. I'm only I've just
turned nineteen now, so I want to kind of work
in production and my mentor Owen Dree's taking me along
to a few town Hall shows and I've seen the
Dragon shows.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Phenomenal as well. The organ in the backdrop just makes
it spectacular.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, they do have that large old organ which looks
like it's one hundred years old. Up the back. It
looks like it's probably the biggest organ in New Zealand
as well. Do you know the history of that thing?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
The best thing I know about that organ is when
the Foods were here just before the Concrete and Gold album.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I'm pretty sure Dave Grol ended.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Up playing on that organ during this set and like
for the stories I've heard, it was absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Can you play the organ?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I honestly I wish.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
If we were, I probably should contact them and see
if I can get a little jam in it beforehand
for the Amy Shark Show.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
That'd be quite funny.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, even just if you've got some soft mallets, you know,
to hit with sticks, playing it like it's some sort
of timpani r xyophone.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
That would be quite funny.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I'd have to go around with Beller and say what
she thinks about that idea.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, true, Just find out what song it would fit with,
unless you do a drum solo midway through the set
and sort of branch out into those big pipes up
the back.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Oh, you're you're giving me too many good ideas. Now.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I saw a band the other night called Greater van Fleet,
and they have for very much a seventies eighties glam
rock sort of aesthetic, and they did the solos that
there was a ten minute long guitar solo. It is
probably tem minute long drum solo, very self indulgent, but
they seem to be having a good time. Is there
something you ever do because it feels like I don't
see that many drum solos anymore.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
On about Greta van Fleet quickly.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Daniel Wagner is a phenomenal drummer, and I've heard so
much about him, never seen I never got to the
gohos on that Great Van Fleet show.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
But I wish I'd seen it.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
But drummers and drum solos they come bigger now in
the arena shows, but in a smaller and smaller bands.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I think they're becoming less and less common.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
But I think now drummers are finding more fun to
add little bits of solos throughout kind of sets, to
chuck in little bits and bobs. But definitely I think
drum solos are on the down a bit.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I wish they'd come back.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
If it was me, i'd just go sit and watch
drummers do drum solos all day, but I don't think.
I don't think the band would approve that of that
too much. But just sat behind the kettle day, just
absolutely whamming them.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
But nah, uh, Let's talk about summer because there's a
lot of shows being announced at the moment. The Electric
Avenue Festival in christ Your steer looks incredible. Are you
guys lining up anything.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
For the Sofa December?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
We've got the Currents coming up and which is a
festival we've always looked at and always wanted to be on,
so we're really stalk to be planning that this year.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
So if we want to keep an eye on, were
you guys are going to be playing the summer. We'll
just go back and listen to baited. Where's the best
place to find information on you guys.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Instagram, which is simply just at Coast Arcade.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Tom from Coast ArKade, Thanks you, Tom and Hurdaki, Thank.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
You very much.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Greg Radio, hold Aches off the Record podcast. Why not
subscribe so they download automatically and don't forget to rate
us five stars?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Thanks mate. Find out more about this
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Podcast and the people who make it at hodache dot
co dot nz in
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