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January 27, 2026 10 mins

Before The Beths tour Japan, New Zealand and America this year, they popped in for a chat with us about life on the road, the Obama list and other highlights from the last twelve months

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Radio Hold Keys Off the Record Podcast with
Jason Hoyt, Mike.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Minogue and very Special Tree.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
We've got Liz from the Bests in the studio with us.
Get a Liz, how's life?

Speaker 4 (00:15):
It's me? That's I'm Liz. Nice to be here.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
That was really good and natural.

Speaker 4 (00:19):
Yeah, I'm gonna pession, but I'm glad you've noticed.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Have you been enjoying this glorious days.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Let's start off there a little bit of weather Chat.
Have you been doing some we the chat lately?

Speaker 4 (00:31):
I love the chat?

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Who does it?

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Yeah? Are you crazy? If you don't.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
We're going to start off universe.

Speaker 5 (00:37):
We'll start with weather Chat and then we'll ease our
way into sleep chat as well. That's two specialties on
the show.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
How are you? How are you sleeping at the moment?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Liz?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Is everything good? On that funnel? You were nervous, sort
of anxious sleeper like Moggi and I.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
How could you sleep before such an interview as this?

Speaker 3 (00:54):
You wouldn't be the first to be intimidated by being
on the big show. That's true.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Good Liz, Chris here, what keasy? Great to have you
in studio. Obviously, we're here to chatty about the fact
that you guys about to go on a mess of
tour of back home.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Man, how does that feel?

Speaker 4 (01:07):
It feels very good. We've played a lot of shows
elsewhere and I felt very It felt kind of shameful
to not have announced a new Zealand show.

Speaker 5 (01:15):
For Yeah, while you were gone, everyone's been talking about
you behind your bet. Yeah, and the fact that you
haven't hit a tour here.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Now yeah, you know, the rumors come come back.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, now you're beat, so people will be happy about
what people were saying to me, Magie.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
This has changed since the Beasts have become massive and
you guys, would you has has your success been greater
than you anticipated?

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yes, because now I'm being serious, you guys are pretty huge.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
We're pretty Yeah, you're extremely rich to get into any rock.
But you know, when we first started, we were we
were like, we would like to play Theomi Bar in
fifty countries and then we will have achieved the dream.
And we've we've ticked we ticked that off a little
while ago, so we've had to make some new goals.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, well what are those goals for the bit from
the Beths?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
What are they?

Speaker 4 (02:12):
We keep we keep, we keep, we keep meeting them,
which is frustrating. As you can imagine. You had the
big show. Yeah, I don't know. We we played. We
did a it's called a late night show recently, which
is a big tic. Ye get Jimmy Kimmel.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Oh how good?

Speaker 4 (02:27):
It was fun see the behind the scenes of how
they make a television show, because.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Getting on those late night shows for years has always
been a big deal. Of course, Litterman was always the one.
You know, you wanted to get it on Letterman back
in the day.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
Oh my god, I was so sad when he returned.
I was like, now beyond little.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Jimmy Kimmel is probably the next best thing, and so
many like iconic performances like the Food Fighter is one
of their first ever big performances was on Letterman back
in the nineties and things like that. So getting on
Jimmy for the best How was that for you guys?

Speaker 4 (02:54):
It feels it was. It was, It was a good
get and it was, but it was crazy though. We like,
we we booked it, and then a week after we
had like just confirmed it. A week after that he
got taken off the air and we were like, never mind.
And then he got back on the air, so we
rebooked it.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Think and did they get in did they reach out
to you or are you submitting applications to get on there?

Speaker 4 (03:15):
I think it's both. We have we have we have
a team now, is you know, furiously emailing and getting
on the on the phone with whoever's in charge.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yes, I remember in terms of Letterman, you know, do
you know the band Future Islands?

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Good band? Good band?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
They had an extraordinary because their lead singer I can't
remember his name, as just the ultimate front man and
they just went batshit crazy and I remember it just
erupted everywhere. I'd probably launched them. Have you noticed a
significant sort of change and people listening to you since
that the Jimmy Kimmeltan all of these things.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
It's like a little, a little bump like everything that
you do. But yeah, I remember I remember firstly watching
I think I feel like Liam Finn was on yeah,
and being like, wow.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
That's right, concords are on there and that blew my mind. Yeah,
and oh my goodness. And you guys have take that
off now, I mean, like, what is there left of
you guys? Or do you just shut it down now
that you're.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
At the top.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, I think we're retiring. Yeah, this is announcing.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
You don't retire as a band, you break up as
a band. So there needs to be some sort of
weird tension going on or someone's heading the booze too
hard or smashing into the drugs type thing, rather than
just going, oh, we've achieved, even them, We're just going
to shut it down now.

Speaker 5 (04:35):
You don't want to do if she had and just
sort of call it quits because you're over it. You know,
you need to have a horrendous argument publicly.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, but if you do you had, you get to
have a really big I went to the home Brow
the Homebrew note that they they oh that was great.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:53):
Or you could do what Kess do and do their
final tour ever two years and then you.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
Yeah, it's meant open the window to do another one,
do another last tour ever.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Radio hold Keys Off the Record podcast with Jason Hoyt,
Mike Minogue and Kesy.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
We've got Lose from the Best with us and they're
about to do a tour of New Zealand and we
were talking about in the break there lives and you
are pumped, You're fired up for it.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
I'm fired up to play and yes you've nailed.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
There are a whole heap of shows going on too
in Wellington that's where it starts thirteenth and fourtength of
March at Miao Nui. They got to Dunedin to the
glen Roy Auditorium, christ Church at James Hay on Sunday
the twenty second of March, and then Nelson as well.
And you're playing up in Auckland as well. Is it correct?

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yeah, two shows at the power station, but.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
I believe is it is it sold out? I've heard
so you got to give.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
In that quick smart Yeah, just on that. With the
touring around there, now that you're huge rock and roll stars,
what are we what are you traveling around? And have
you got a sick van or you're in a sick
bus or do you take a plane?

Speaker 4 (05:58):
In New Zealand where I think will be we'll be
taking a sick plane. Unfortunately, I wish we had a
cool van, but it's it's just quite a long way. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
A picture a band like the Beds driving around and
sort of like the Mystery Machine from Scooby Doo, but
like that, like a retro van it's cuted out, it's
got your riding on the side, and it's got like
the couches in the back and stuff.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, I'm thinking more.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
I've got more of a picture of like a massive bus,
you know, you know that's got all sorts of plants
and stuff in it and bongs and all that sort
of stuff.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah. We travel in a bus in
the in the States because there you do.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Just drive everywhere.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Buses they are that we're usually when your breakdown once a.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, right, and as a driver also a mechanic.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
They have to maintain the bus, and it's it's strange.
It's it's a strange career to have. Is like driving
the bus. You drive through the night and the band
and all the crew on the bus sweeps through the night,
and it's a strange lifestyle. So it's strange people.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
In the States too. It's so far between every destination,
right New Zealand. It's a few hours to get from
Auckland down to like Todngo or well into wherever you're going.
I see here as well that you're about to head
over to Japan and play. Yeah, so yeah, you're playing
in Tokyo then you're going to Ausica as well, which
is very exciting.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
You.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Well, what's it like playing to an audience and have
you experienced it with it? Maybe English as their second language?

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Well, it's I mean you say that, but we've played
a lot of places, like we've played in Europe and
Hong Kong stuff. I guess a lot of people speak English,
and particularly if they listen to our music, they probably
have at least a passing and standing which is which
is very nice. Most a lot of people are bilingual trilingual.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, and also I suppose it's it's more about the music, right,
So if it sounds good, then that's what matters.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
But also you must.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Give very universal language music.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Man, did you invent that? It's true?

Speaker 4 (07:49):
That's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
I'm making that tattooed just quickly, so yes, just before
you jumped in there. Do you ever get surprised when
you do go to a country like, for example, Japan
and you've not played there yet, but especially if English
isn't the first language, and then you find these all
these people around the world listening in places that you're
just like, what the heck, how have we got fans here?

Speaker 4 (08:08):
Yeah, it's it's pretty it's pretty great, it's beautiful. It
does make me regret choosing the Beaths as a name.
It's maybe the hardest couple of words to pronounce in
almost every other language. You go to France and they're
like Germany and they're like diabets, like it's not it's
not I apologize to the world.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
Well.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
In relation to Kisi's question, which I was going to
ask presumably though, when you're touring around the world and stuff,
you look at places and go, hey, have we got
a following there?

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Is it worth us actually going? You must crunch the numbers,
as they say.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, there's just data driven. It's very That's what we're
all about as a band is data. And yeah, you
want to go where people want you to go. But
we're having one to Brazil yet, which is what everybody's
always saying, has come to Brazil.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
But yeah, I'd love to go there, bloody exciting stuff.
Yeah I would.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
I'm trying to say I would never say that without
saying never, but I can't.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
True if you are interested in hitting along to see
any of those shows. Once again, the best are performing
in Dunedian christ Church, Nelson, Wellington and Auckland as well,
which is bloody exciting. Where's the best place to go
because the best dot com Ford Slash Tour has literally
everything you guys are doing.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Is that probably the best place to go?

Speaker 4 (09:26):
Yeah, we do have an official website. That's a brag.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
It's pretty cool. Is a dot com or a dot
co dot in z? Yeah, it's a dot com.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
You want to go to the Auckland show?

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Are you actually totally? Because you say you're going to
do stuff and you never do? Ye there.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, he's also angling for a free ticket, so don't
give him one.

Speaker 5 (09:51):
Right, Yeah my campaign? All right, he's got that dog
squad man you show dog squad. We'll see you a
few seasons through.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
It's on t and he's the voice. It's police Dogs.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Okay, the drama a game of View.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
This is on your IMDb page then what's thats? What?

Speaker 3 (10:10):
An absolute pleasure? All the best for your tour. I
hope you have a great time.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
Thanks so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
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Speaker 2 (10:24):
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Speaker 1 (10:25):
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