September 24, 2024 • 8 mins
West Auckland duo Made You Look have released their debut single called Lonely Party. Shelton Woolright and Alex Thompson called in to chat about how they met and what makes this colab different from anything they've done before.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Radio hod Keys Off the Record podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It was Tony Lyle and joining us now after the
release of their debut single, Lonely Party. It has Shelton
all Right and Alex Thompson from Maje You look Foulus.
Thanks for joining us, Thank you nice, Thanks for having us, ma'am. Yeah,
we're sort of just me clapping here. A little bit
awkward to start the interview that way. So about that
I was clapping under the table and the song was
very cool. I got a bootleg copy that I could
listen to. You guys is pretty proud of it.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Man, Yeah, with stoke Man debut single. Very happy with that,
so thanks for spinning it.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And I read somewhere that you guys met fist fighting.
Is this true? Is there truth to these rooms now? Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
No? Yeah, we were so yeah. We met in the
boxing gym when I was about sixteen. I was aspiring
partner for his Fight for Life fight and I was
making music prior and showed him a little bit. Didn't
see him for a couple of years. Ran into him
backstage at Rhythm of Vines and he'd been listening to
it and he wanted to work on some music. And
he said, I'll give you a call in a year.
Just give me one year, and so I waited and eventually, yeah,
(00:58):
he did call and it.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Was about a year later, and I wait, didn't sound
like you're like sitting I was sitting by the phone.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
That was that was actually pretty weird. It's a weird story.
I was like, I remember hanging out with a buddy
of mine and things weren't like going incredibly well. I
was kind of at a crossroads and he was like, well,
why don't you just like go really hard with your
music to stop what you're doing and just go hard
on that. And he's like, do you have anything coming up?
And I was like, wow, actually I'm waiting on a
call from Shouts. Actually I think he wants to do
some work on dead Beat. And my buddy was like,
that's a really really awesome thing. I hope that happens.
(01:25):
And a few weeks later or a month later or whatever, Yeah,
I got a call and Bam started working on it
and knew that it was like it meant to be
kind of thing. Ah, yeah, that's how it felt.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Perfect timing and Shelton, I've got to ask, is it
normal protocol when you're sparring for a flight. To choose
a sixteen year old, it seems like child.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
With similar size. Yeah, your same frame.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I don't know, man, I just got chucked in near
by my coach, but I mean I couldn't scrape it
that point out. He'd been at the gym for a
few years, so it was kind of pretty even, to
be fair. Gave me a bit of a black eye,
and I give me a bit of a blood blood nose.
But yeah, I was definitely using their man strength later on.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
But it was either a spar with me or spar
with for three someone.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, which I to And that's the story I was
telling you are actually how I broke my wrist was sparring. Yeah,
I was a very solid forehead kind of punched that
and it just my wrist, wink.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I once broke at the end of my boxing career.
To be honest, I once.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Broke my hand playing rugby and I went in and
the doctor was like, you're a bad fighter. Who did
you punch because this is a classic bad fighter injury.
Oh no, no, sir, I was just playing rugby. I
didn't get hurt, so I'm assuming that was a similar technique.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Floor. Well, yeah, it's like I didn't think a head
was going to feel like a brick wall, So yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
It's fair enough. And you mentioned dead Beat there as well,
and Shelton. I guess you've had so many different iterations
through your career with blind Spot, dead Beat, where does
made you Look sort of fit in amongst it all?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's just a progression, really, I mean it's a in
a way when I look back at it, it's just
everything like from the start of blind Spot through the
I Am Giant, dead Beat now to made you look
just all those schools have been transferable with songwriting and stuff.
I've just evolved as an artist and working with different
people along the way, and it just keeps it fresh.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
So really enjoyed it. And Alex.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
You know, I see a lot of myself and Alex
and being from with Storkland and things like that, so
we've the collaborations been pretty seamless and fun and cool.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
So I really enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It's obviously a departure from where I started from, like
the the Iron Giant stuff, sorry that the blind Spot
stuff sorry, But political lyrical context is quite similar though.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So you say you're both from We're Stalkland. I got
to ask, as we're stee myself, we're specifically are we're
talking from here, let's starle it down, Alex, where you're from?
I was born in you were born there?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah? Well I'm not in the house I was born
and oh man, I would have gone black lung if
I was born in that house. Basically I was born
in Whiteaker Hospital.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
But good stuff, I'm able to man myself. So I'm
feeling very at home here with you. Feltas do you
need a third and major?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Look?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Well, what are you? What instrument you bring to the town.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I'm more of a vibe guy.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Im a vibe guy. Yeah, we like the vibe.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You know, I'm good after party or like?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You know what is your sort of I know you
live proponent, all your stuff is exceptional live and I
did beat was crazy watching that. I imagine you've got
something up your sleeve for Major. You look the live shows,
are you going to have a person like me sort
of spraying toilet paper into the crowd?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
How we probably can get you in a bit of
a mascot.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I was just thinking, as Scott, Yes, so you have
to you have to really bring the vibe though.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
What animal would you be though.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I don't know, Probably some sort of sex yual gimp
put on a dehumanizing cat.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I think this is a good idea. I think we're on.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
If you just had a gimp floating around the front
of the stage, just menacing, looking out at the stage,
that'd be all right, one it.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah, we'll give it, We'll give it and shouting out.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You are known for, you know, dressing, I'm putting on
a show like ye you know, fool zombie mode for
for dead beat. I know you've sort of experimented with
ink and die painting your face all the jazz. What
are we dealing with here? Are you going? Are you
going to be wearing a mascot?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Nothing? At this point, I think I'm I think I
would looking weird. Anyways. Yeah, you're coming to tators and stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
But we haven't to be fair, we've got our first
show on the twenty seventh December the Currents Festival. Oh wow,
So we haven't actually moved into the live space just yet.
We've been focusing on releasing and writing the songs, but
we'll probably the next couple of months start getting that ready.
But it'll be a pretty similar setup to dead Beat
in terms of the live performance, So the drum kit
on stage and and Alex singing, and we'll slowly start
(05:19):
bringing instruments ourselves, like guitar and stuff like that, but
we haven't quite got there yet. So there is there is,
you know, while we're still in the creative process in
this room for the game up into the show, just
tune up.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I'm going to roll in full game mask and be like, no, no,
I'm in the band, and I feel like they're gonna
come to it now.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It kind of fits the name, right, you've been to
run on the front of stage, made you did I'm
a fuller or leather velcro and the.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Just two of you guys in the band? Is that
kind of the dream I know you've come from. You know,
I'm giant blind spot where there's countless people. You've got guitars, amps, basses,
all the stats. Like, can you guys roll up pretty
low key set up and jammed just the USB?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
If we want to break it right down, we can
plug our backing tracks into a USP into the back
of like a role in SPD drum Machine, and then
trigger the backing tracks and I can drum on top
and Alex can sing on top, so that that's kind
of a like for me personally, obviously coming from Blindspot
and the back of the day, it's like it's a
big setup, you know, it's quite a and it still
is to this day. And then I am giant and
(06:21):
I kind of started going, I actually just want to
do stuff by myself so I can call the shots.
That's what they'd be. Actually was why it was like
just a drummer on stage. But then it was like
I need someone else to have a bit of fun with.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It's hard to hype up the crowd.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
And Alex was so much fun on the did beat stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
So that's how we kind of kept on working on this.
But yeah, it'll be a similar sort of sort of thing.
And it is kind of cool just two of you, man,
Like everything's just straight up the guts, just have a conversation,
you know, it's down the middle, so diplomatic as Yeah,
and like.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You said, you Mitt Shelton when you were sixteen years old.
I mean, he was there a fight for life. He'd
already had his experience behind him. There's a kind of
crazy few now to sit there and think I'm in
a band with the drummer from Blind Do you still buzz.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Out about it?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I do, Yeah, I do all the time. Yeah, it's
pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Being we still clan that Blind Spot first. CD must
have been absolutely wrapping it in your JBC, hiding it
in your car, that.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
It was definitely in the household. I was more I
think I'm giant was when I really sort of understood
who Shelton was. Guy. I saw this like real tended
up dude smashing drums on TV. I thought it was
really buzzy, but I didn't think too much of it.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
And then it's weird.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, like you mentioned, like ten years later or like
longer than that, that was about when I met Scheltz,
But you know, being in a band with them, it's yeah,
it's insane. It was really insane.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
The chemistry guys got is pretty visible even just chatting
to Yes. So looking forward to seeing you out there
over the summertime exercising some of these new tunes, and
we've got the new one for you now, Lonely Party
from Major Look. Gentlemen, thanks very much for taking the
time to come into us and all the bits of
the project.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Cheers man.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Thank you cheers.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Radio hodouches Off the Record podcast. Why not subscribe so
they download automatically and don't forget to rate us five stars?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Thanks mate.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Find out more about.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
This podcast and the people who at hodache dot co
dot inz it
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Mmmm
Welcome to Radio hod Keys Off the Record podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It was Tony Lyle and joining us now after the
release of their debut single, Lonely Party. It has Shelton
all Right and Alex Thompson from Maje You look Foulus.
Thanks for joining us, Thank you nice, Thanks for having us, ma'am. Yeah,
we're sort of just me clapping here. A little bit
awkward to start the interview that way. So about that
I was clapping under the table and the song was
very cool. I got a bootleg copy that I could
listen to. You guys is pretty proud of it.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Man, Yeah, with stoke Man debut single. Very happy with that,
so thanks for spinning it.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And I read somewhere that you guys met fist fighting.
Is this true? Is there truth to these rooms now? Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
No? Yeah, we were so yeah. We met in the
boxing gym when I was about sixteen. I was aspiring
partner for his Fight for Life fight and I was
making music prior and showed him a little bit. Didn't
see him for a couple of years. Ran into him
backstage at Rhythm of Vines and he'd been listening to
it and he wanted to work on some music. And
he said, I'll give you a call in a year.
Just give me one year, and so I waited and eventually, yeah,
(00:58):
he did call and it.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Was about a year later, and I wait, didn't sound
like you're like sitting I was sitting by the phone.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
That was that was actually pretty weird. It's a weird story.
I was like, I remember hanging out with a buddy
of mine and things weren't like going incredibly well. I
was kind of at a crossroads and he was like, well,
why don't you just like go really hard with your
music to stop what you're doing and just go hard
on that. And he's like, do you have anything coming up?
And I was like, wow, actually I'm waiting on a
call from Shouts. Actually I think he wants to do
some work on dead Beat. And my buddy was like,
that's a really really awesome thing. I hope that happens.
(01:25):
And a few weeks later or a month later or whatever, Yeah,
I got a call and Bam started working on it
and knew that it was like it meant to be
kind of thing. Ah, yeah, that's how it felt.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Perfect timing and Shelton, I've got to ask, is it
normal protocol when you're sparring for a flight. To choose
a sixteen year old, it seems like child.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
With similar size. Yeah, your same frame.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I don't know, man, I just got chucked in near
by my coach, but I mean I couldn't scrape it
that point out. He'd been at the gym for a
few years, so it was kind of pretty even, to
be fair. Gave me a bit of a black eye,
and I give me a bit of a blood blood nose.
But yeah, I was definitely using their man strength later on.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
But it was either a spar with me or spar
with for three someone.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, which I to And that's the story I was
telling you are actually how I broke my wrist was sparring. Yeah,
I was a very solid forehead kind of punched that
and it just my wrist, wink.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I once broke at the end of my boxing career.
To be honest, I once.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Broke my hand playing rugby and I went in and
the doctor was like, you're a bad fighter. Who did
you punch because this is a classic bad fighter injury.
Oh no, no, sir, I was just playing rugby. I
didn't get hurt, so I'm assuming that was a similar technique.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Floor. Well, yeah, it's like I didn't think a head
was going to feel like a brick wall, So yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
It's fair enough. And you mentioned dead Beat there as well,
and Shelton. I guess you've had so many different iterations
through your career with blind Spot, dead Beat, where does
made you Look sort of fit in amongst it all?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's just a progression, really, I mean it's a in
a way when I look back at it, it's just
everything like from the start of blind Spot through the
I Am Giant, dead Beat now to made you look
just all those schools have been transferable with songwriting and stuff.
I've just evolved as an artist and working with different
people along the way, and it just keeps it fresh.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
So really enjoyed it. And Alex.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
You know, I see a lot of myself and Alex
and being from with Storkland and things like that, so
we've the collaborations been pretty seamless and fun and cool.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
So I really enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It's obviously a departure from where I started from, like
the the Iron Giant stuff, sorry that the blind Spot
stuff sorry, But political lyrical context is quite similar though.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So you say you're both from We're Stalkland. I got
to ask, as we're stee myself, we're specifically are we're
talking from here, let's starle it down, Alex, where you're from?
I was born in you were born there?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah? Well I'm not in the house I was born
and oh man, I would have gone black lung if
I was born in that house. Basically I was born
in Whiteaker Hospital.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
But good stuff, I'm able to man myself. So I'm
feeling very at home here with you. Feltas do you
need a third and major?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Look?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Well, what are you? What instrument you bring to the town.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I'm more of a vibe guy.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Im a vibe guy. Yeah, we like the vibe.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
You know, I'm good after party or like?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You know what is your sort of I know you
live proponent, all your stuff is exceptional live and I
did beat was crazy watching that. I imagine you've got
something up your sleeve for Major. You look the live shows,
are you going to have a person like me sort
of spraying toilet paper into the crowd?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
How we probably can get you in a bit of
a mascot.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I was just thinking, as Scott, Yes, so you have
to you have to really bring the vibe though.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
What animal would you be though.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I don't know, Probably some sort of sex yual gimp
put on a dehumanizing cat.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I think this is a good idea. I think we're on.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
If you just had a gimp floating around the front
of the stage, just menacing, looking out at the stage,
that'd be all right, one it.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yeah, we'll give it, We'll give it and shouting out.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You are known for, you know, dressing, I'm putting on
a show like ye you know, fool zombie mode for
for dead beat. I know you've sort of experimented with
ink and die painting your face all the jazz. What
are we dealing with here? Are you going? Are you
going to be wearing a mascot?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Nothing? At this point, I think I'm I think I
would looking weird. Anyways. Yeah, you're coming to tators and stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
But we haven't to be fair, we've got our first
show on the twenty seventh December the Currents Festival. Oh wow,
So we haven't actually moved into the live space just yet.
We've been focusing on releasing and writing the songs, but
we'll probably the next couple of months start getting that ready.
But it'll be a pretty similar setup to dead Beat
in terms of the live performance, So the drum kit
on stage and and Alex singing, and we'll slowly start
(05:19):
bringing instruments ourselves, like guitar and stuff like that, but
we haven't quite got there yet. So there is there is,
you know, while we're still in the creative process in
this room for the game up into the show, just
tune up.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I'm going to roll in full game mask and be like, no, no,
I'm in the band, and I feel like they're gonna
come to it now.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It kind of fits the name, right, you've been to
run on the front of stage, made you did I'm
a fuller or leather velcro and the.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Just two of you guys in the band? Is that
kind of the dream I know you've come from. You know,
I'm giant blind spot where there's countless people. You've got guitars, amps, basses,
all the stats. Like, can you guys roll up pretty
low key set up and jammed just the USB?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
If we want to break it right down, we can
plug our backing tracks into a USP into the back
of like a role in SPD drum Machine, and then
trigger the backing tracks and I can drum on top
and Alex can sing on top, so that that's kind
of a like for me personally, obviously coming from Blindspot
and the back of the day, it's like it's a
big setup, you know, it's quite a and it still
is to this day. And then I am giant and
(06:21):
I kind of started going, I actually just want to
do stuff by myself so I can call the shots.
That's what they'd be. Actually was why it was like
just a drummer on stage. But then it was like
I need someone else to have a bit of fun with.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It's hard to hype up the crowd.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
And Alex was so much fun on the did beat stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
So that's how we kind of kept on working on this.
But yeah, it'll be a similar sort of sort of thing.
And it is kind of cool just two of you, man,
Like everything's just straight up the guts, just have a conversation,
you know, it's down the middle, so diplomatic as Yeah,
and like.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You said, you Mitt Shelton when you were sixteen years old.
I mean, he was there a fight for life. He'd
already had his experience behind him. There's a kind of
crazy few now to sit there and think I'm in
a band with the drummer from Blind Do you still buzz.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Out about it?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I do, Yeah, I do all the time. Yeah, it's
pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Being we still clan that Blind Spot first. CD must
have been absolutely wrapping it in your JBC, hiding it
in your car, that.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
It was definitely in the household. I was more I
think I'm giant was when I really sort of understood
who Shelton was. Guy. I saw this like real tended
up dude smashing drums on TV. I thought it was
really buzzy, but I didn't think too much of it.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
And then it's weird.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, like you mentioned, like ten years later or like
longer than that, that was about when I met Scheltz,
But you know, being in a band with them, it's yeah,
it's insane. It was really insane.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
The chemistry guys got is pretty visible even just chatting
to Yes. So looking forward to seeing you out there
over the summertime exercising some of these new tunes, and
we've got the new one for you now, Lonely Party
from Major Look. Gentlemen, thanks very much for taking the
time to come into us and all the bits of
the project.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Cheers man.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Thank you cheers.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Radio hodouches Off the Record podcast. Why not subscribe so
they download automatically and don't forget to rate us five stars?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Thanks mate.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Find out more about.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
This podcast and the people who at hodache dot co
dot inz it
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Mmmm
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