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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Radio Hodar Keys Off the Record podcast with
Greg Preven.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Let's have a chat with table Fox, Cure and Matt
How you how you going man?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Really well, thanks, congrats on the new song. And you
had a gig to celebrate on Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah, we have a showdown at Mothership. First time playing there. Yeah,
it was a really fun night. Nice to be doing
a headlining show and just being able to kind of
smash out a set of old and you in front
of some good friends and new people. So yeah, it
was a great night.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
The Mothership is downtown Auckland.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, yeah, just off Queen Street on Shortland Street.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
There, Shortland Street. It's not that Shortland Street, I don't think, so.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Maybe some link's here in the past.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
How well do you know Auckland? Is this a city
you're from?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I was born and raised in the wonderful seaside town
of Hawk and shifted around a lot. Had a my
parents born and did up houses when I was little,
so we had something like twenty houses or something and
how can packer anger? And then yeah, I've lived in
Wellington for a while but came back to Akland.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
The rest of the band's also got somehow a heritage
as well.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, is that how you all came to be?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I had a gig with the quite a heavy metal
band I was playing in a long while back, actually
supporting band called Sepultur at the town Hall and we
needed to borrow a drum stall and the drummer was
friends with a person called Clint Bell who lent us
the drum stall for the show. So I didn't know
(01:33):
Clint at the time. I didn't meet him again until
many years later. But there's a little piece of history
where we came across each other's paths.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
And you can't borrow a drum stall off Sepultur.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
No, it doesn't. It doesn't always work like that. We
usually get put out in front of a touring band
and a space in front of their dru drum kit,
so everything can kind of get cleared off stage and
the main act can come on.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, way too complicated to move a seat from one
part of the stage to another. Year and three the
whole show will be ruined.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, it's always panic stations with those that you're on
North and seconds and if you're not you're in trouble.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
So you guys must have been pretty heavy because simple
jurre pretty heavy.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, yeah, obviously slightly to the side kind of genre
to Table Fox, but you know, there's there's elements of
that that come in to my playing.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
So yeah, in terms of let the guitar solos, do
you shred?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Like?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Then? I had quite a melodic side to my soloing
and I still, you know, you you don't really completely
change how you play, so a lot of that is
in my playing anyway, so you know, and I've done
a lot of different kind of genres over the years,
so it's kind of I think it all adds to
the soundscape that I provide to Table Fox, and.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You provided that yet again on this new song where
Do I Belong?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I got the Johnny Marr's Guitars books for a Christmas present, actually,
and it inspired me to start getting back into some
Johnny Mars stuff and I mucking around with the riff
that was kind of I kind of felt it was
a little bit Johnny Maer esque slash the Cure, that
kind of thing, quite slow and reverb your delay, and
(03:20):
I took it to practice and Clint interpreted it in
the way that what quite often happens is that Chris
or I will bring something in then Clint will interpret
it through his filter, which meant that we kind of
he said, oh, why don't you throw some distortion in
that and slow it down a bit and have it
a bit more of a sort of a plod. We
(03:41):
both kind of clicked on this sort of death leapid
vibe in the verse where with sort of muted picked
guitars going on. So it's quite an interesting example of
how an idea can come in as one thing and
end up very different. I know Chris the other guitarist,
that happens every single time. He'll come in with some
(04:01):
idea that he's you know, this is how this is
going to go, This is going to be great, and
it just turns into a completely different song.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, a picture of that. So guys, what are you
doing this?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, it's great, but why don't we completely redo it?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Pretty much.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah, that's what's nice, and what makes the band really
cool is that we've kind of got different influences and
each of our own spins on it builds the final product.
I had someone message me regarding the new track and said,
you guys have definitely reached that point where you were
more than the sum of your parts, and you've got
this sound thing going on that's you know, you just
(04:36):
can't really pin down to either one of you.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
There was something nice, Yeah, yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It is because you know, and it's kind of what
you've Well, the goal is, really, I guess, is to
come up with a sound that's not constructed in any
particular way. It's just you know, the essence of all
the mebs of the band. Yeah, really great feedback to
get something like that.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Well, let's hear this unique tune.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
The smack Carson and this is our new song from
Table Fox, Where Do I Belong? On Radio Hierarchy.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It's Radio Hodarchy. Let's bringing you from table Fox. It's
called where Do I Belong? And we're lucky enough to
have Matt Carson from the band on a zoom with us.
Now cure to Matt, thanks for bringing us a tune.
No worries man, Matt. That song has just been released
a couple of weeks ago. You had a show to
celebrate in Auckland on Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
We'll probably doing some touring early next year. We're going
to take a bit of a break because we're working
towards our next album, and so we've been putting a
lot of work towards that.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So you say you're working on the new album. How
do you get inspired for things like that? Because some people,
when they seeking creative inspiration, it doesn't always come when
they sit down to actually want it to happen. It
comes to them when they're in the shower or when
they're in the car by themselves and just the thought
pops into the head at the most random of moments.
Is that sometimes how songs or riffs come to you?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, definitely. I mean it usually doesn't happen if they
go and purposely go and go to the studio going
to write something. Quite often my ideas come. I do
a lot of cycling to and from my work, so
I do about eighty k a day cycling and so
I'll have a lot of time to a wake up
and then be the ideas start sort of flowing.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
There's some good cycle ways around Auckland. Do you find
it a fairly safe experience during those eighty k's a day?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I do now, But I learned my lesson after getting
run over by a truck some years ago. Yeah, so
I'm have survived and am now extra cautious.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah. I got run over by a car a couple
of years ago in Auckland when I was on my bike,
and I thought that was bad enough. But WHOA a
track that's next level?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, yeah, pretty scary. Yeah, definitely thought I was a gonner. What.
Thankfully for carbon fiber shoes, I didn't get my foot
squashed and came out of it.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Okay, wow, carbon fiber shoes. Am I to invest in
some of those? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Well, they don't take impact well, but carbon fiber holds weight,
so very lucky to say the least.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, did you write a song about it?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Well?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Maybe subconsciously it inspired the emotions that went into the
next lot of songs after that. It was quite close
to the recording of the Object's album has a lot
of emotional streaks through it, so yeah, could have for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
On another note, there's you're in Auckland and there's a
lot of live music happening there this weekend. You've got
the Buzzcocks, John Too Goods doing an acoustic show on
k Road and of course Pearl Jam Pixies and Liam Finn.
Are you thinking of partaking in any of this?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yes, I'm taking my two sons to Pearl Jam on
Friday night and the Pixies. Yeah, so that's going to
be really neat. My oldest came along to the gig
on Saturday and watch the band play, and that's always
really special having him there to see kind of what
I do.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So yeah, yeah and yeah wow. So from watching his
old man to watching some other older gentlemen in the
form of Pixies and Pearl Jam on stage doing their thing.
But I guess being at the Mothership a much smaller venue,
you can sort of get intimate with the band, can't you,
and get eye contact with them. A bit harder to
do that at Mount Smart Stadium.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, yeah, definitely, which he really enjoys that side of it.
So he's definitely forcing me to go right up the
front for Pearl Jam.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
So get in the moss.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah yeah, so yeah, we've been a fortune and right
there up the front. That'll be really neat though.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Have an awesome time. And in the meantime, if we
want to go back to that song that you just
played us before. What's the best place to find information
on you guys.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Facebook dot com, Ford Swash, table Fox.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, Matt from table Fox, thanks your time. On hodache
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