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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Radio Hodar Keys Off the Record podcast with
Greg Trive.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Let's have a chat with Makeshift Parachutes Cure to Danny.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Hi Greg, here you going?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah really well? Thanks mate?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
How's the dave in?
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Today's been pretty nice an impromptu day off from works.
I've had the day to run around your errands that
sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah, right, And how come you got the day off
just like an impromptu thing. Were you feeling a little
under the weather or what was the deal?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Well, the weather is the issue.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Indeed, I work in real access, so we can't work
in I winds and rain at the moment, and so yeah,
couldn't work today.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So you're up trees chopping trees planning it. What other
things are you up?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Yeah, buildings mostly, I've been working on a big twenty
five story building, uh downtown and just doing some routine
maintenance on it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, all right, you're obviously pretty good with height scene.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Honestly quite scared of it, but you just have to
put in your big blue pants and you know, trust
in your gear and for it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Really have you written a song about that?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Who kind of about work?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
It's called Rainbow Makers from our previous album I think
it was rainbow maker was in reference to a water
blaster there.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, because if you catch it when the sun's on
the water, rainbows. So twenty twenty four team months, end
of the year. What's been a highlight for you guys?
For Makesure parashi Ites.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Been good to get the band back together again. We
were without a drummer for a while. A wonderful edition
of a drummer this year, and we were working on
some new tunes. We recorded a new EP and just
today putting out the first track of that.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
We did a little tour around the North Island to
celebrate a little.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Bit before we released a single, because I think we
backed ourselves to finish it up in time for the tour,
which unfortunately didn't quite happen that way.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Right, So you got the song, you thought we'll release
the song and then go on two and then didn't
quite release a song, but you still did the tour anyway,
that's correct.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Where'd you go Auckland?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
We did Wellington, We did Napier, Mount, mang and Ui,
Wanganui and Hamilton.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Which one was your favorite?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Oh loved wang and Nui.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
It was kind of an underground gig and we got
to play with Anthony Tanan. It was his show and
he was trying out some new materials, so we got
to jump on the bill and play support him, and
that was really amazing. He's just an amazing musician and
kind of did performers. It was great to be part
of that bill.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, great New Zealander. So the song that you've just
got out today and that you've already played live to
some people, I'm guessing on those shows you would have
chucked it in the silist, because why not. It's called
kool Aid.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
This one sort of started off. He had a riffund
of the guitar and started putting some drum beats to it,
and then we made some demos in garage band, and yeah,
I just sort of came together.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
It's quite a collaborative tune.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
This one's it's about drinking the kool aid.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Honestly, I don't really like kool aid. I have first
time I ever got.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Drunk, I would have been like maybe thirteen or fourteen,
and I got drunk on brandy and grape kool aid.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
So I said to myself never again.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, fair enough, but obviously memorable enough to come up
in this new song.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Well, you know, kool Aid I think has a lot
of connotations throughout pop culture historically, So.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Let's tick it out.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I'm Danny from Makeshift Parachutes and you're listening to kool
Aid on Radio Hararchy.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That's ready, I heard. Okay, that's brain new from Makeshift Parachutes.
It's just come out today. It's called kool Aid, and
we're lucky enough to have Danny from the band on
a zoom with us now, Cidre Danny, thanks for bringing
us that tune.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Thanks for having us on here.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Coool Aid. You mentioned that you had a bad experience
on your teenager with the Koolady. You don't really like it,
but obviously someone in the band does.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Yeah, I mean, you know, it's a sipping the kool aids.
Could be metaphorical rather than literal, but take it as
you will.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, there's some complex instrumentation going on there.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, there's some definitely some odd timings in this one.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I couldn't really count it out to you if I tried,
Just played by feel at this point, I think that
the weird times in this one came from from Shru's
guitar riff. He's struggling to write songs that are just
in the standard for four. These days, everything's going to
be in six, four or seven or who knows what.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
So where do you get that inspiration from? From bands
like tool Ah?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Not really, I don't know where He's just he's just
gone down a tangent these days of writing riffs and
not time signatures, and he'll just put on a metronome
type drum bee that doesn't really have any times need
to it, and then just jams and oftentimes just ends
up writing something that's out of your standard for four.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So I've got kool aid and you've toured the country
already on the back of that song, even though the
song just came out today. Is there a plan to
do some more live shows to celebrate the release?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, definitely at the moment.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
On the cards, we've got New Year's Festival playing it on,
which is about forty minutes north of Auckland, playing there
for the tenth anniversary. We actually played their first ever festival,
So beget to go back there and see how far
they've come.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
That one's called which is au M yes correct, Yeah,
just making sure it's the same one I'm thinking of
ten years Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
That's really good. Yeah, it's a good long while.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
What was the first one?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Like it was? It was funs definitely quite grass rootsy.
Love and care had.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Gone into it creating it by the organizers, and I
think that they've kept that same spirit and feel and
just grown in leaps and bounds.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Really. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So that song that we heard before kool Aid, that's
part of an EP that's coming out next year.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Have you made those songs already or the still the company?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah, they've all been written and recorded. We're just sort
of in the mastering stage.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It's four of you on the band, you may manage
to make decisions easily.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
We've definitely had times in the past where we've been
buttoned heads, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
But I think that we've all come to a place
where we.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Concede on certain things we know, we we give up
where we don't need to fight in certain areas and
then fight for the things only that we need to
fight for, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
So Yeah, definitely getting better in the decision making department.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Some people, when they want to get the songs mastered,
they get it done by someone overseas.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Yeah, so this one we actually had we basically all
in house at the lab. We recorded it with Joel
and he did all the mixing for the track, and
then Ollie, who also is there at the lab, he
did the master. So we have done overseas in the
past and we have used also POG Studios in this time.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
All he mastered it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
And the four of you in the band outside of
making the tunes. I mean, obviously one of them is
your brother. But are you all Mike still get along?
Do you hang out?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah? We do.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
I mean, you know, we all spend quite a lot
of time together in in in the band settings, so
but yeah, basically all brothers at this point, you.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Know, yeah, at this point.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah. Well, you know, the band's been around for quite
a while.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
So our vocalist Chris, he's originally from the United States
and he's been over here and he's yelling now for
about ten years playing with us.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
We go back a long time.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
So m hm, where did you grow up?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
I'm keeping by nationality, but I was raised overseas and
I lived the longest in Mexico, so it sounded a
bit weird.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And your brother the same.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, same story.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Thomas is from originally Hawk's Bay but moved to Wellington
played in a bunch of bands around there, and now
it's living up in Auckland, so we were We're lucky.
We met him a couple of years ago when he
played in his band Seamouse and they came up and
did a gig at Whammibar and we opened for them,
and I met him then and then we were looking
for a drummer and he just happened to be living
(09:12):
a narcot at the time.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So yeah, So if we want to go back and
listen to that track again, or check you guys out
at New Year's or just looking to the EP when
it comes out next year. Where's the best place to
find information about you guys?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Disney Gram's probably the best way to get ahold of
us or to find out what we're up to.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
What's the handle make Shift Parachutes?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Danny from that Makeshift Parachutes? Thanks your time on Hidache.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Awesome, Thanks Greg, Thanks much for having us radio.
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