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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Radio hodarchis Off the Record podcast with Greg.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Let's have a chat with Jim Nothing.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Yeah, Curder, Greg, how you doing? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Really well? Thanks mate. Where about some of the country
are you this evening?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I'm zooming in from Grayland in.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Aucklandland and Auckland storms and hit you too hard today.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
It's kind of storming a little bit, but it's yeah, no,
it seems to be gone.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
All right, Yeah, all right, Hey you've been anyway twenty
twenty four. What's been going on for you and the band?
Jim Nothing.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We started recording this new album, recording on and off
for about a year now.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You can just take us back twelve months or so.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, Well, this this album in particular, the album's called
gray Eyes Grayland, so it is a really like geographically
focused album. My previous album in the Marigolds was written
a lot between christ Church, Melbourne and Auckland, whereas this
one is a very kind of Auckland centric album for me.
So there's a lot of kind of localized themes that
kind of seep into it. I'm a big proponent of
(01:01):
going for walks. It's a great kind of neighborhood to
walk and from where I live. You basically descend down
the hill a little bit and then you're in the park,
and then you go further and you can you eventually
kind of end up at Cox's Bay, and it's a
really lovely like little walk that I do when I'm
trying to like hash things out in my brain or
I carry a little notebook in my pocket. Now I'll
listen to lots of the Maxes and write things down
(01:21):
and then kind of work on lyrics that way. So
a lot of that's kind of seeped into the album.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, I know Cox's but it's a real nice spot.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's a great little walk from where I am. It's yeah,
you basically it's just like three different parks to get there.
I only have to cross a few roads, so it's
great when you've got your head in the clouds, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And how much time did you spend in christ Church
in Melbourne?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So I grew up in christ Church. This project actually
started in christ Church twenty thirteen. I was recording a
lot on cassette four tracks at the time, so it's
a lot more lo fi, more rough around the edges.
So yeah, I grew up in christ Church and then
briefly kind of use Melbourne as a bit of a
stepping stone to coming to Auckland. I tried to live
over there, but I never got my shit together and
(02:02):
ended up coming here and I love it up there
opens a fantastic place to be.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah. Nice And at some point you've come up with
the song Wildflowers. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
So interestingly enough, this is one of the first songs
I ever wrote for the project that it's Jim Nothing.
I wrote it in twenty thirteen when I was living
in Richmond and Christchurch Sneaks to Linwood. I was spending
a lot of time with my head between the speakers,
listening to Chiiny Jangly sixty stuff like the Birds, and
I got really obsessed with those kind of descending chords.
(02:32):
The song itself hasn't changed a lot since then. The
lyrics have those lyrics we're read in this year, so
it's kind of a bit of a strange amalgamation from
you know, the last kind of ten or so years
that it's finally kind of come together. In the song itself,
I kind of took the lyrics from that feeling when
(02:53):
you're walking back from the beach at night, a little
bit kind of magical in the brain or whatever. And
the road after being in the sun all day gets
really soft and that you can kind of if you're
walking in barefoot, you kind of sing into it a
little bit. And so yeah, the lyrics are just kind
of about that feeling that you get.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I can't wait to experience that again this summer. I mean,
daylight saving just on Sunday gone, and you know, things
were starting to get better until today and the storm came.
But yeah, I can't wait for summer. So this is
this is getting us in the mood for that, I suppose.
I can't wait to hear a bit more about the
new album in a moment. But first, shall we play
the new song?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yes, sweet as this is Gym Nothing and you're about
to listen to my new single Wildflowers on Radio Hodak June.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Nothing.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Where are we trip we so so.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So it's ready a hurd ichy and that is new
from Jim Nothing. It's called Wildflowers and we're lucky enough
to have Jim on a zoom with us now, Kilda, Jim,
(04:53):
thanks for bringing us that tune.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, Kildare, thank you, thank you for glad.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Your name Jim Nothing Thing Is that your actual name
or is that a stage name like Madonna or Cher?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's very much late Madonna and Share. Yeah, it's stage name,
I guess much late Madonna and Sheer as well. They
kind of they don't know where they start or they
end or so I kind of am having that thing
at the moment. But it's a little bit of a
self deprecating name that I I've had for a long time,
but it kind of a you know, it becomes you
as well, will you become it? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, right, So it's almost like your Clark Kent and
Superman at the same time, precisely. Yeah. So that's off
a new album, my.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Album called Gray Eyes Gray Linn, which is coming out
on October the eighteenth through Melted ice Cream Records, a
record label down in christ Church and kind of co
released with a record label over in Spain called Meritoria Records.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So the album's being made in Spain, pressed on vinyl there,
shipped back over here. Does that mean you'll go to
Spain at some point maybe two of the album?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, I'd love to wait. It's I haven't left the
country in ten years only I just got my passport renude.
So yeah, the last time I left the country was
twenty fifteen, and we did a I think we're in
the States on tour for five weeks or something. We
really we went all over so it was I guess
before the USA kind of started crumbling, or maybe it
was as it was crumbling.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
There was a yeah, last time I left the country.
So yeah, I'm looking forward to trying out again.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You know, did you rent a van?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I'm really sure we might have even purchased a van.
I have these like weird memories of the sky in
Chicago frantically counting bills and then giving us the keys.
So yeah, it was a massive chivvy van that yeah,
I guess. We just traveled around and it was it
was great fun.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
So being an old van as a risky of it
breaking down.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I think it was actually all right. Yeah, I think
it was all right. Yeah, I can't even I can't
remember any breakdowns. It was one minor traffic incident, but
apart from that we were all good.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You seem like you stop yourself from telling that story
the wait, may I shouldn't tell us?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yeah, you just got a sometime leave a bit to
the imagination sometimes you know for.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Sure, any chance of renting or purchasing a van in
New Zealand and touring the new album. It's out on
October eighteen.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
There's going to be an album release show at a
great little art gallery called the Audio Foundation, which, if
you're in Auckland, is in the basement of the Parisian
Tai Factory, so that beautiful world building just behind Saint
Givens Arcade top of Meyer's Park, so it's in the
basement of that well.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
In the meantime, and that's given us something to look
forward to. The album out October eighteen. But if we
just want to go back and listen to that song
Wildflowers that we play before, or just follow you and
what's going on over the next few weeks, months, years.
Gym Nothing, where's the best place to find information?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Follow me on Instagram. It's just at gym Nothing. If
you want to purchase the record as well, it'll be
out in all good record stores or you can pre
order it from band camp. It's called Gray Eyees grayln
Gym Nothing.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Thanks for your time on Hidaki.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Appreciate it. Greg.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
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