July 18, 2024 • 10 mins
Mikey Videotape has released a new song that he made at home in Auckland using musicians from all over the world that he met on social media. He called up for a chat about how he met these guys and formed a new band, plus why he's channelling David Bowie for his next gig.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Radio hodarkis Off the Record podcast with Greg.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Let's have a chat with Mikey Videotape.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Hey, bro, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Is that your real name?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yes? Mate?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Is this a persona you've taken on in order to
release solo music.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I am a big Radiohead fan. They have the song
called Videotape, and I don't know, maybe when I started
my Instagram account, I thought it'd be cool to call
myself Mikey Videotape. And this was long before I had
any vision of actually doing any solo music, and I
was working with bands, and then when I decided to
go solo, I was like, I don't want to change
my socials and everything, so I'll just keep that name
and roll it out as a as a music persona.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Here and the bands that you were playing with at
that time, did they have any influence by Radiohead?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, well, I've still got the band going. Actually, my
band is called Outside and we've released an album and
an EP under that name over the last few years
and were actually in studio working on the second album
at the moment, and that project is definitely a little
bit of a Radiohead influence. It's a bit Heavier probably
it's like heavier Radiohead. There's a bit of Tool in there,
in a bit of maybe a Perfect Circle and Pink
(01:12):
Floyd and Muse.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And then what sort of bands influence what you do
now is Mikey Videotape is his solo.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Stuff, side projects of some of those bigger bands, like
I Really Love Posofer, which is maned from Tool's own
project that he's got going where it's eighties electronic influence.
Mikey Videotape was born around the same time that Stranger
Things was a big, big deal. I've done like three
releases now, and two of them are very synthy eighties
Strangest Things Aesthetic. Then with Manic Ordinary Day, my latest,
(01:43):
it's still got that retro feel, but it's also got
a bit of a modern pop kind of influence as well.
And that one's the first one that I've done with
the band as a solo project.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And where did you find these band members?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
We were playing at the Tuning Fork with City of
Souls and we got talking to their manager at the
time and she was like, you dudes are missing a
huge opportunity not being on TikTok And at the time
I was like, Oh, that is really unappealing. But I
went on there and just started shipping away honestly, Like
(02:15):
I've made more musical connections, sold more merch, Like I've
just done everything times ten over there that I had
done on other platforms combined historically, Like man I sold
a lot of merch when I first got on there,
and I've made heaps of really amazing connections. Like the
bands that plays on Manic Ordinary Day. They're all three
friends of mine from TikTok who live in the States,
(02:38):
and they've never been in the room together, and I've
never met any of them in person, but We've become
fantastic friends. And so they've all contributed their own drums,
bass and guitars from their own locations.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I don't use TikTok that much. It seems to be
a video platform. So do you FaceTime each other? How
does that work? How do you actually connect?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I mean you kind of make friends with people. I
guess as a musician you see other musicians showcasing cool
stuff that they can do or playing covers, and you
make friends with people who have interests with similar bands,
and so someone might be playing I don't know, little
band and getting like the tool Chism bassline. So then
another friend will duet that video and make it into
(03:16):
a split screen and play along on the drums, and
then I'll jump in on vocals and things like that.
So I been making friends with other musicians by playing
along to their videos and then uploading that. Just crazy
the new connections I've been able to make over there.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So this song that's come out of New Zealand and
America from you, Mikey video Time, Manic Ordinary Day.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
This song is just about winding yourself up about stuff
that doesn't matter that much on the daily basis. And
it's just another manic ordinary day. You've had too many coffees,
you're running around your stress, you're late to this and that.
I'm just kind of put that energy into a song
and just try to power myself to be like, well, yeah,
you're doing it to yourself, monk, get on with it, hustle.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Well let's check it out.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Hey, team, it's Mikey Videotape speaking and you're about to
listen to man Coordinary Day, my latest single on radio.
Codeking m.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Stop seeking operation.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
From people who don't know uses.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I gotta finemance switch think most days I couldn't give
a shap sneaky thoughts that climb on to me.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Will I have a fun way?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Not in the click.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Can never well be.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
It doesn't matter anyway.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
There's a sky, a popula, there's no miskaping anything, sweat shaping.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Can you let a tell take anyway? But why myself
fucking war? Myself job? It's just enough manic em day
(05:30):
days and the best day.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
It took a crazy real ranking everything.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Every now and then I catch myself think all my chances.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Have already been im hand.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
It's a county con job. I might as I go
about a handy thing, tell me the worst thing I
could possibly have them. It's just a many day.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
The cake, but there's a whole I made to scalp
a pache chicking by. It's no escaping anything a matter
thought that.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Straight shot that cake.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
It's got to take it away. But what about self?
Fuck awhere myself joke. It's just another manicating a.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Family feed.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
It's just a bottle man in everything.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
F it's ready. I heard Ikey. That's brand new from
(07:21):
Mikey videotape. It's called manic ordinary Day. And we're lucky
enough to have Mikey on a zoom with us now
Curre and Mikey, thanks for bringing us that tune.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Kilder Bro, thanks for having me on again. It's great
to be here and thanks for playing my song man,
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Mikey. Just a bit of background on you, where you're from.
Where'd you grow up?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Right here in Tomacky Makoto, Aubland city, right And.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It seems like you've got a lot going on. You've
got kids, you've got school holidays at the moment, you've
got the solo project, Mikey videotape, You've got a band.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
So it's been nice to have a slowgoon project, my band,
which we painstakingly deal with details and tricky time signatures
and polyrhythmic ideas and things, and then doing Mikey videotape,
which is a lot more well yeah, fun and a
lot more easy going, and it fills in the gaps
while we take a bit longer with some of my
other projects. So it's been freeing.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You mentioned that your band outside In are working on
a new album at the moment. Is there any talks
of releasing an album under your solo project, under Mikey
videotape and would the two be out at the same
time or would you try and separate them.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
That's a great question, man. I've been with the album
for the band, actually working with a different guitarist for
each individual song on that and there from again like
all over the world, So it'd be quite cool to
get like a really sort of mixed flavor out of
it because we've got all these different influences coming in,
and then with the MV stuff, I think I'll keep
(08:41):
doing singles as that's kind of easier to work through
and market. I would love to do an EP next
year for Mikey videotape. I definitely would be doing them
at separate times so that I can give my full
focus to whichever project is releasing anything else. I'm working
with Orchestrated Events, which is a local guy who arranges
(09:03):
orchestral and string quartet parts for well known groups and
then does a show with me a singer, and I
play a little bit of guitar or a bit of keys.
We recently did a Radiohead tribute. We played songs off
all their different albums. Yeah, with a string quartet and
with me on vocals or guitar and stuff, and then
in September we're doing a David Bowie tribute with the
(09:23):
same orchestral group. So it's been a really cool new
world for me playing with orchestral players and doing something
different there too, which is cool.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Do you have a favorite Bowie song?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I like the one There's a Star Man Bla.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I really like that man.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, but yeah, I'm just learning them on my runs
in the morning because I don't know them so well.
So I listened to them on looping run around the
neighborhood and the cold.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
So if we want to see this Bowie show with
the strings added at that Baptist church in Pontson beyond
September six, we want to keep tabs on the song
you just played us before that manic ordinary day or
outside and stuff. We're the best place to find information
on you and what you do on.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Your favorite platform type and mike videotape and follow.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Your eyes and it's Mikey m I k e y.
I know some people spell Mikey with two easy at
the end, but you're e y Mikey. Yeah, that's right,
Mikey videotape. Thanks for your time on Hodakie.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Thank you so much. For having me Greg.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
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 (10:29):
Thanks mate.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Find out more about this podcast and the people who
make it at hodache dot co dot nz.
Welcome to Radio hodarkis Off the Record podcast with Greg.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Let's have a chat with Mikey Videotape.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Hey, bro, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Is that your real name?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yes? Mate?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Is this a persona you've taken on in order to
release solo music.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I am a big Radiohead fan. They have the song
called Videotape, and I don't know, maybe when I started
my Instagram account, I thought it'd be cool to call
myself Mikey Videotape. And this was long before I had
any vision of actually doing any solo music, and I
was working with bands, and then when I decided to
go solo, I was like, I don't want to change
my socials and everything, so I'll just keep that name
and roll it out as a as a music persona.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Here and the bands that you were playing with at
that time, did they have any influence by Radiohead?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, well, I've still got the band going. Actually, my
band is called Outside and we've released an album and
an EP under that name over the last few years
and were actually in studio working on the second album
at the moment, and that project is definitely a little
bit of a Radiohead influence. It's a bit Heavier probably
it's like heavier Radiohead. There's a bit of Tool in there,
in a bit of maybe a Perfect Circle and Pink
(01:12):
Floyd and Muse.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And then what sort of bands influence what you do
now is Mikey Videotape is his solo.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Stuff, side projects of some of those bigger bands, like
I Really Love Posofer, which is maned from Tool's own
project that he's got going where it's eighties electronic influence.
Mikey Videotape was born around the same time that Stranger
Things was a big, big deal. I've done like three
releases now, and two of them are very synthy eighties
Strangest Things Aesthetic. Then with Manic Ordinary Day, my latest,
(01:43):
it's still got that retro feel, but it's also got
a bit of a modern pop kind of influence as well.
And that one's the first one that I've done with
the band as a solo project.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
And where did you find these band members?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
We were playing at the Tuning Fork with City of
Souls and we got talking to their manager at the
time and she was like, you dudes are missing a
huge opportunity not being on TikTok And at the time
I was like, Oh, that is really unappealing. But I
went on there and just started shipping away honestly, Like
(02:15):
I've made more musical connections, sold more merch, Like I've
just done everything times ten over there that I had
done on other platforms combined historically, Like man I sold
a lot of merch when I first got on there,
and I've made heaps of really amazing connections. Like the
bands that plays on Manic Ordinary Day. They're all three
friends of mine from TikTok who live in the States,
(02:38):
and they've never been in the room together, and I've
never met any of them in person, but We've become
fantastic friends. And so they've all contributed their own drums,
bass and guitars from their own locations.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I don't use TikTok that much. It seems to be
a video platform. So do you FaceTime each other? How
does that work? How do you actually connect?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I mean you kind of make friends with people. I
guess as a musician you see other musicians showcasing cool
stuff that they can do or playing covers, and you
make friends with people who have interests with similar bands,
and so someone might be playing I don't know, little
band and getting like the tool Chism bassline. So then
another friend will duet that video and make it into
(03:16):
a split screen and play along on the drums, and
then I'll jump in on vocals and things like that.
So I been making friends with other musicians by playing
along to their videos and then uploading that. Just crazy
the new connections I've been able to make over there.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So this song that's come out of New Zealand and
America from you, Mikey video Time, Manic Ordinary Day.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
This song is just about winding yourself up about stuff
that doesn't matter that much on the daily basis. And
it's just another manic ordinary day. You've had too many coffees,
you're running around your stress, you're late to this and that.
I'm just kind of put that energy into a song
and just try to power myself to be like, well, yeah,
you're doing it to yourself, monk, get on with it, hustle.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Well let's check it out.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Hey, team, it's Mikey Videotape speaking and you're about to
listen to man Coordinary Day, my latest single on radio.
Codeking m.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Stop seeking operation.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
From people who don't know uses.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I gotta finemance switch think most days I couldn't give
a shap sneaky thoughts that climb on to me.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Will I have a fun way?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Not in the click.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Can never well be.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
It doesn't matter anyway.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
There's a sky, a popula, there's no miskaping anything, sweat shaping.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Can you let a tell take anyway? But why myself
fucking war? Myself job? It's just enough manic em day
(05:30):
days and the best day.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
It took a crazy real ranking everything.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Every now and then I catch myself think all my chances.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Have already been im hand.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
It's a county con job. I might as I go
about a handy thing, tell me the worst thing I
could possibly have them. It's just a many day.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
The cake, but there's a whole I made to scalp
a pache chicking by. It's no escaping anything a matter
thought that.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Straight shot that cake.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
It's got to take it away. But what about self?
Fuck awhere myself joke. It's just another manicating a.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Family feed.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
It's just a bottle man in everything.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
F it's ready. I heard Ikey. That's brand new from
(07:21):
Mikey videotape. It's called manic ordinary Day. And we're lucky
enough to have Mikey on a zoom with us now
Curre and Mikey, thanks for bringing us that tune.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Kilder Bro, thanks for having me on again. It's great
to be here and thanks for playing my song man,
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Mikey. Just a bit of background on you, where you're from.
Where'd you grow up?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Right here in Tomacky Makoto, Aubland city, right And.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It seems like you've got a lot going on. You've
got kids, you've got school holidays at the moment, you've
got the solo project, Mikey videotape, You've got a band.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
So it's been nice to have a slowgoon project, my band,
which we painstakingly deal with details and tricky time signatures
and polyrhythmic ideas and things, and then doing Mikey videotape,
which is a lot more well yeah, fun and a
lot more easy going, and it fills in the gaps
while we take a bit longer with some of my
other projects. So it's been freeing.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You mentioned that your band outside In are working on
a new album at the moment. Is there any talks
of releasing an album under your solo project, under Mikey
videotape and would the two be out at the same
time or would you try and separate them.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
That's a great question, man. I've been with the album
for the band, actually working with a different guitarist for
each individual song on that and there from again like
all over the world, So it'd be quite cool to
get like a really sort of mixed flavor out of
it because we've got all these different influences coming in,
and then with the MV stuff, I think I'll keep
(08:41):
doing singles as that's kind of easier to work through
and market. I would love to do an EP next
year for Mikey videotape. I definitely would be doing them
at separate times so that I can give my full
focus to whichever project is releasing anything else. I'm working
with Orchestrated Events, which is a local guy who arranges
(09:03):
orchestral and string quartet parts for well known groups and
then does a show with me a singer, and I
play a little bit of guitar or a bit of keys.
We recently did a Radiohead tribute. We played songs off
all their different albums. Yeah, with a string quartet and
with me on vocals or guitar and stuff, and then
in September we're doing a David Bowie tribute with the
(09:23):
same orchestral group. So it's been a really cool new
world for me playing with orchestral players and doing something
different there too, which is cool.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Do you have a favorite Bowie song?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I like the one There's a Star Man Bla.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I really like that man.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, but yeah, I'm just learning them on my runs
in the morning because I don't know them so well.
So I listened to them on looping run around the
neighborhood and the cold.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
So if we want to see this Bowie show with
the strings added at that Baptist church in Pontson beyond
September six, we want to keep tabs on the song
you just played us before that manic ordinary day or
outside and stuff. We're the best place to find information
on you and what you do on.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Your favorite platform type and mike videotape and follow.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Your eyes and it's Mikey m I k e y.
I know some people spell Mikey with two easy at
the end, but you're e y Mikey. Yeah, that's right,
Mikey videotape. Thanks for your time on Hodakie.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Thank you so much. For having me Greg.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
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 (10:29):
Thanks mate.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Find out more about this podcast and the people who
make it at hodache dot co dot nz.
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