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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Radio Hold Keys Off the Record Podcast with
Jason Hoyt, Mike Minogue and Kisy.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
What a special trip. We've got a whole band in
here today, the boys from She How are you going, Fellas? Yeah,
I'm sorry, I don't know if you know this. At
the moment, media is really struggling. So we've only got
the two mics for all four of you there, so
you're just going to have to share them. Is that
okay with you?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Check one twouting?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Great? So what's going on, lads? What's happening? I believe
you're doing your final tour? Apparently yep.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Wow, it's not apparent fact it's fake triple fact checked
and it is not fake news yes or misinformation?
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Sure? Okay, well it seems what you guys get along
fairly well, but that's only what you're showing the public. Generally,
with any kind of a breakup, you know, you can
say we just sort of grew apart. Sure, I was
at one member's decision. Who was the driving force behind
calling it.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
A guitarist sleep with my drummer? Yeah, relationships are hard
to contain.
Speaker 7 (01:06):
Yeah, yeah, well, I mean because how long you guys
have been operating since the late eighties. What's the key
to the longeery jevity there? Because we're three in years
and we're falling apart message.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I mean, we hated each other after the first.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
Sex month exactly. So what's the key to second together
this whole time?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (01:23):
The music man?
Speaker 6 (01:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (01:24):
Okay, yeah, yeah, finding you know, for you know, people
with a similar drive, yeah, and a similar desire to
you know, go down different paths and right, you know,
and be a really tight rock and rollmand basically.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:38):
And it was a situation where someone woke up one
night was just like I think we did do one
final tour then ended, you know, or was it something
you've been sort of talking about and discussing or yeah,
we've been.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Talking about it for a couple of years again.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, in all seriousness and all seriousness why, I mean,
you guys are legends. You could go on forever Man
rock and roll and ever Dies fellows a year. You
could go on and on.
Speaker 8 (02:11):
I mean, you want to go out on it with
a band with a band, yeah, Okay, I reckon, I reckon.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Well it's yeah, it's she had requires an amount of
dedication and focus sure to make it work, right, and
that's not just because very easy for us to get
in the room together and write music. It's very easy
for us to get up on a stage. But to
continue the narrative, to continue making the story and the
dialogue that she had is requires so much more than that.
(02:39):
And it requires people giving up time in their life
and they have to create space in their lives, and.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
That space is.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
No longer available. So then the ability for she had
to deliver on that is not really possible going forward.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
I'm getting a real kiss Motley crewe vibe here that
this will be the final one, and maybe there'll be
there'll be a few more final ones the opposite. But
you see it a lot, right, You see a lot
where it's the final one, and that's sort of how
the band feels. I mean, there's the pretty shocking examples
of you know, of of never ending last two shameless.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
We know, we know as the Countant, so we know.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It's interesting actually, and that's fair enough, man. I get that.
You know, you often talk about you watch a TV
series or something like that, and you got God, the
first two seasons were genius, and then it kind of
wanes after that. And incidentally, it was quite funny. The
three of us were having a conversation the other day
about live gigs and you know and sort of superstars
and rock stars and ship and whenever they do their
(03:48):
new stuff, everyone's like, oh no, we just want to
hear your old shit.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Do you guys get that a lot or what?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
The thing?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
The thing that I I think look for me. It's
a really funny because the thing I think brought it
into really clear focus is that we did Old Gods
in twenty twenty one. Yes, that number one over here,
we're top ten in Australia after thirty you know, thirty
sex Well then it was thirty three years, after thirty
three years to be able to deliver an album that
(04:16):
does that sure, and also one that's you know, it's
a blistering slab of rock and it's still moving the needle. Yeah,
a lot of bands just end up eating their own
tail all that kind of thing. It's still that. So there,
it was this brilliant piece of work and we couldn't
deliver around it. And so, you know, in some ways,
(04:40):
we started with a Metallica tribute in this band, we
started playing speed metal, and we ended with one too,
because where that where that landed us is that we
couldn't deliver on it, we couldn't turn it. We ended
up in a counseling session.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Right yeah, right, right, So that's that's the point.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And it's like, well, okay, we've got all these versions
of what she had is and what personal commitments towards
she had is, and what the spaces we bring to
she had in our lives, and that's not fitting together anymore.
Sure we can still produce the goods, yes, but can
we get out there and back it?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, right fantastic said, well, well let's go to one
of your great tunes and we'll get back to it.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Yeah, this is Deb's night Out.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Oh tuney fellas Jim.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Absolute tune. I will say it's it is. It's bloody
but as sweet. It's going to be a lot of
people that are sad about this. Like I've grown up
on you guys. I was over in Australia when you
guys correcked it with the general Electric was a really
big thing. You would always come on at home bake
or the big day out or any of those sort
of festivals, and you'd always sort of come on at
(06:03):
around about four or five o'clock. During the rest of
the day you pass around, but as soon as you
guys came on, the energy for the whole event completely changed.
It genuinely did. Like you guys have been adopted as
an Australian band. You're beloved the world over and so
for us to not have you a part of those
summer tools, to know that there's not going to be
any more albums that come out it is it's a
(06:26):
huge invenera, like you are our biggest ever rock band.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
That's bullshit, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I mean, I think you know we were talking about
it before. It's something that we've come to terms with
over probably twenty four months. It's been something that you know,
it has been on the table, maybe off the table,
on the table, and then it's just it's it's found
its natural conclusion. Yeah, I just can't sustain.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
You can't deliver the full package because there is a way,
like in the future you could see she had you
come along. You're not producing your music. You just get together,
you play all the staff people the here and then
you're disband again. But that's not what she had, is right.
You guys are always creating and moving forward.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, I think, I mean I was very much the
last person to the party with the deciding to finish up,
and yeah, I think, really it's not going to properly
hit me until we start doing these shows.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
But yeah, but I.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Mean, yeah, we just don't We don't want there to
be a sniff of us fizzling out.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah right, okay, you know, yeah point the talk us
through the tour, Fellas, where where you're gone, when's it
happened and all that.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
It's massive.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, it sounds well, it is.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
It is huge, and it's sort of enormous. It starts Sunday,
twenty ninth of December and New Plymouth instead of goes
Hawks Bay Nelson Cromanal crist hitch Auckland at Spark Arena
on the fourteenth of match. You spread it out over
a few months and the Fellas and then finishing Homegrown,
finishing at home Grown home. That is huge.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
That is going to be an epic Will there be
epic night? Will there be tears on the stage at Homegrown?
It's hard tears.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I mean for me hit you at weird times. Yeah,
you know, it's not a funeral, it's it's fucking.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
A cup of tea and you know, I know, but
tears hit me last night night before I watched Gladiator again,
the original with Russell Crowe and when he's like finally
going home to see his kids and his wife and stuff.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
I st was home alone. As I started crying, I
was like, Wow, this is weird.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
You know.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
So if I was in your band, which I'm not.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Talking about this more later Keys, we're going to be
diving into this exactly like that.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
When he.
Speaker 8 (08:36):
Exactly really it's exactly could.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
You tell us with homegrowing, I'm assuming you'll be closing
out the show if you can tell us these details.
Have you got an extra long set or is it
going to be what's the gaps? It's got to be
You've got to You've got to be given Metallica linked sets,
don't you for that?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You're the fingers to be Just just on that front,
Magie was going to play because he went to Peel
Jam in the weekend and he said he didn't like
the little guitar solos.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I didn't.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
They went little. By any stretch of the major.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
There was there was many many guitars and he's Mike
McCready is unbelievable. But when you just yeah, there's a
solo and every song which I like. I like the
solo in the song. But then he also got handed
another ten minute solo and it was he was taken.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Like he was taking.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
He turned around to the person next said, well, at.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Some point he did a guitar solo behind us. He
did a guitar solo behind his head during maybe it
was black. I can't remember what it was, but it
didn't make me think that he was an amazing guitarist
for being able to do that, and made me think
that playing the guitar must be easy if he can
do that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (09:47):
The other way, Yeah, it's totally easy. A fellas.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, guys, you know I need to be said, as
Maggie has already kind of said, with you guys are
legends and you're going to be hugely messed. But I
tell you what, I massively respect what you're doing and
I think that's that's a great choice that you're making.
And I have no doubt you're gonna go out with
(10:10):
a bang boys.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
The shows will be special, Yeah, and it's it's important
to us to you know, finish it with the intent
we started, you know, it was full ownership determination, making
something overwhelming and.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Exciting for us and the audience, and we're honoring.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
It well, John cal Phil Tom, thank you so much
for coming in sheeha dot com for tickets that are
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