May 14, 2026 • 9 mins
On the eve of releasing their new song Falling Into You, Tadpole called in for an exclusive preview of the track, including their singer Lauren who'd just flown in from Christchurch with some exciting news.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Radio Hodar Keys Off the Record Podcast with
Jason Hoyt, Mike Minogue and Keezy.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We've got the team from Tadpole and with us Christine
and Lauren. How do you gain your mare, bastards. You've
been telling us all about your your adventures down in
hook a Ticket.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Yes, getting down to the Deep South. What an adventure,
what a journey? Yes, we're just telling you guys. It
took us like nearly a whole day to just travel
from Auckland down there and get there. We we flew
down there. We flew from christ just over, but they
wouldn't land, so we flew back to christ Church. We
then caught a bus. The bus broke down on Arthur's
Past Hell, so we rolled back to spring Vale. We
(00:41):
hung out at a pub there until we got the
cavalry and a couple of people vans to pick us up. Yes,
so you know it's been. It was an amazing experience.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It was.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
It was.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
And the regular punters that were at the hook tick
a Wild Food festival, you know they would have eaten
some Hooho grubs, you know, rub shoulders with the big
show watch you guys perform. But what they don't know
is that the day after you guys actually recorded part
of the tune we're about to debut tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Am I right?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
That is exactly correct. So we had recorded most of
the track, we hadn't laid down the base yet. So
the next day we literally asked the hotel if they
had a space where we could just accosted and set
up our little mini recording studio, which is literally a
laptop and a sound card.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
And they were like, well, the restaurant's not open. Well
that's what they told us. It actually was open. There
were a few punters in the corner, but you know,
we're recording with headphones and that. So yeah, we recorded
the base in the restaurant of the Copthorn Hotel in Graymouth,
and yeah it turned out well.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Was it a tasty little riff man being recorded in
the restaurant?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It just added to the added to the tastiest.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
How good? So I mean you guys falling into You
guys have been touring a wee bit as well. You've
been on board with quite a few other big big
ax you know, good show at highly Suspect Yellow Card
as well. Are you guys pretty fired up to get
stuck in release more music now, maybe an album things
like that, or am I getting ahead of myself?
Speaker 6 (02:14):
We definitely are. Yeah, that's our plan. This is kind
of the beginning, This new single of yeah, sort of
a new era for us. I want to keep the
moment from going and yeah, I have a bunch of
new tunes for everyone. We don't quite have a date yet,
but that's sort of We've got a bit of a
break now now that it's winter and things have slowed
down a little bit, so yeah, we will be working
(02:36):
on that over the winter and coming out with some
golden nuggets.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I reckon how long a break did you guys take
because you were a big part of my youngie. I
won't call it youth. You guys have like you're about
the same age as same age as.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Me, but you like.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Very very young. I just looked terrible. But you guys,
you took a decent break because you were a huge
part and it was head after head after hat and
you were hugely laughed. And I guess everyone is the
sort of thing where everyone runs off and has to
have a family or you hate each other's got for
a while and you need some time apart and then
you come back together. Yeah, like all of that.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, life that.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Way, Yeah, get married, have kids, yeah, all those you know, responsibilities.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, and you think I'm going to get the band
back together this yeah you know yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Well yeah, initially we were just we're only supposed to
do that Devil's Can tour.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And then it was like, oh men, Chris, if we've
written some news, oh maybe we should let's do another album.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Yeah right, okay, so you guys got together. Did someone
shoulder tap you and say, hey, come to it with
Devil Skin And then you guys, okay, we'll see how
we go. And then from that you just get back
into it and you're like, hang on, why why did
we stop doing this?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah, that's exactly what happened. They reached out to us
and I was like, hey, can you get the literally,
can you get the band back together and come to
it with us? And we're okay, we'll see if we
can find a way. And we found a way, and
it was really great because we always thought the songs
translated well live. I mean, we're a live band back
in the day, and the response was great and we
(04:11):
just had a bit of a sit down and a
power going. Do we just want to be a nostalgia
band just play the old stuff, or you want to
open a new creative chapter and see what might be
lurking inside.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Was it like it's sort of like it's giving me
the vibes of the Dirty Dozen't you remember that film?
And they get you know, let's get the Dirty Dozen
back together? And you know one of them is just
a piss head. He just sits in the bar, you
know that sort of thing. I'll tell you what we're
going to do. We'll go to the chain and I'll
be honest with you. We've already listened to it. It's
a banger, yeah hit Falling into You by tad Pole.
(04:47):
We've got Christine and Lauren from the band and with us.
How do you feel, guys, You're excited listening to it?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Pumped?
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Yeah, pump.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What's the situation for you guys, because you know, we
get a lot of bands in and often the situation is,
you know, members are all over the country or even
another country. Sometimes you know, you guys in the same
sort of vicinity or are you having to sort of
get on the computer and do all that jazz.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
I literally got off the plane from christ rich and
ran here just now. So I'm still on Christchurch but
I'm working on getting here. But we've done a bit
of a makeshift situation.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Without We've got band members all over the country and
does make it very difficult our DJKF he lives in
New Plymouth. Lauren is currently in christ Church but looking
to move up to Auckland soon. The rest of us
are in Auckland, so yeah, it's a logistical nightmare.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It's kind of the same with everyone though, right, because
we're talking to the guys in Shapey's and they're saying
exactly the same thing. Black Seeds members living all over
the show. But at least now you can there's a
way to make it work and the technology that's available
to it. It's not completely impossible, don't you Reckon man?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Yeah, sure, it's it's harder though, right, isn't it. It
is harder, But I mean, obviously you guys have got
members of the band all over the shop, but you
managed to wrangle in a few more big names from
back in the day as well. Bo wronga Bo Wronger
from Stella. She she worked on what was it mastering
(06:14):
the vocals or was it like working with Bo Oh.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Man, that was incredible. She's so lovely and she's so talented.
I'm not close enough to the Mickeller, that's all right, Yeah, No,
Bo's amazing. It was such an home to work with her.
She's you know, she's one of those icons, especially as
a female sort of rock artist. We had a great time.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Yeah, she's lovely. I sat next to her at this
like Battle of the Band's thing, and she was I
was one of the judges, and then Bo sat next
to me and I was like, well, hang.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
On, you sort outranked there absolutely ICND.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, yeah, now you're also we were talking in the
break there. You got a video coming out tomorrow night
at about seven thirty, I believe tell us a bit
about that.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Well, you know, you have to have audio to videos
to go with the audio these days. So yeah, we've
got a brand new music and video for this, which
we're going to premiere at seven thirty tomorrow night on YouTube.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
What can you tell us about the video?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Is it like?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
What is it like?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
What is this some sort of thing happening in the video?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Is it like?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Ah, I'd say it's the story of the song. So
there's footage of us in the studio. There's footage of
us taking that song to the stage.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
It's it's the journey of the.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Song from its recording to people will get to see it,
like and how does it How is the new song
translated to?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Have you had a chance to play it live? Yet?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
We have?
Speaker 6 (07:36):
We've played it a few times. Actually. We kind of
started with like our original idea, and as time's gone on,
we've like changed a few things and added a few things.
But it was cool to see people kind of vibing it.
Like even back like a year ago, we were sort
of like, well what people think and here we are
now having it the final version with all the picks
(07:57):
and all the.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Right and so and how much has it changed since
your first you know, had to crack it at life.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Actually, not that much. It's just like there's fine tuning,
but road testing songs is something that we've always done
because there's nothing quite late taking an idea out there,
seeing how people react and then you take that on
board and go okay, well we could do this, this
and this just like little fine tuning bits. Ye, no,
it's definitely helped.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, well I tell you what, team, it's a bloody
great tune and we appreciate it and if people want to,
people get it the usual way these days. Your spotifies,
et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Yeah, yeah, your spotifies, your your social media is your
tech talks, Yeah, your Instagrams, all those bloody things.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Wherever you get your music from. The new churn is
called Falling Into You from Tadpole. It officially comes out tomorrow,
So that was an exclusive first listen right here on
Radio Hodarky Tadpole, thank you so much for coming in
to him. It's been awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
No, thank you, Jens.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Radio hod aches off the Record podcast not subscribe, so
they download automatically and don't forget to rate us five stars.
Thanks mate. Find out more about this podcast and the
people who make it at hodache dot co dot nz
it
Welcome to Radio Hodar Keys Off the Record Podcast with
Jason Hoyt, Mike Minogue and Keezy.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We've got the team from Tadpole and with us Christine
and Lauren. How do you gain your mare, bastards. You've
been telling us all about your your adventures down in
hook a Ticket.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Yes, getting down to the Deep South. What an adventure,
what a journey? Yes, we're just telling you guys. It
took us like nearly a whole day to just travel
from Auckland down there and get there. We we flew
down there. We flew from christ just over, but they
wouldn't land, so we flew back to christ Church. We
then caught a bus. The bus broke down on Arthur's
Past Hell, so we rolled back to spring Vale. We
(00:41):
hung out at a pub there until we got the
cavalry and a couple of people vans to pick us up. Yes,
so you know it's been. It was an amazing experience.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It was.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
It was.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
And the regular punters that were at the hook tick
a Wild Food festival, you know they would have eaten
some Hooho grubs, you know, rub shoulders with the big
show watch you guys perform. But what they don't know
is that the day after you guys actually recorded part
of the tune we're about to debut tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Am I right?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
That is exactly correct. So we had recorded most of
the track, we hadn't laid down the base yet. So
the next day we literally asked the hotel if they
had a space where we could just accosted and set
up our little mini recording studio, which is literally a
laptop and a sound card.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
And they were like, well, the restaurant's not open. Well
that's what they told us. It actually was open. There
were a few punters in the corner, but you know,
we're recording with headphones and that. So yeah, we recorded
the base in the restaurant of the Copthorn Hotel in Graymouth,
and yeah it turned out well.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Was it a tasty little riff man being recorded in
the restaurant?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It just added to the added to the tastiest.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
How good? So I mean you guys falling into You
guys have been touring a wee bit as well. You've
been on board with quite a few other big big
ax you know, good show at highly Suspect Yellow Card
as well. Are you guys pretty fired up to get
stuck in release more music now, maybe an album things
like that, or am I getting ahead of myself?
Speaker 6 (02:14):
We definitely are. Yeah, that's our plan. This is kind
of the beginning, This new single of yeah, sort of
a new era for us. I want to keep the
moment from going and yeah, I have a bunch of
new tunes for everyone. We don't quite have a date yet,
but that's sort of We've got a bit of a
break now now that it's winter and things have slowed
down a little bit, so yeah, we will be working
(02:36):
on that over the winter and coming out with some
golden nuggets.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I reckon how long a break did you guys take
because you were a big part of my youngie. I
won't call it youth. You guys have like you're about
the same age as same age as.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Me, but you like.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Very very young. I just looked terrible. But you guys,
you took a decent break because you were a huge
part and it was head after head after hat and
you were hugely laughed. And I guess everyone is the
sort of thing where everyone runs off and has to
have a family or you hate each other's got for
a while and you need some time apart and then
you come back together. Yeah, like all of that.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, life that.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Way, Yeah, get married, have kids, yeah, all those you know, responsibilities.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, and you think I'm going to get the band
back together this yeah you know yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Well yeah, initially we were just we're only supposed to
do that Devil's Can tour.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And then it was like, oh men, Chris, if we've
written some news, oh maybe we should let's do another album.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Yeah right, okay, so you guys got together. Did someone
shoulder tap you and say, hey, come to it with
Devil Skin And then you guys, okay, we'll see how
we go. And then from that you just get back
into it and you're like, hang on, why why did
we stop doing this?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah, that's exactly what happened. They reached out to us
and I was like, hey, can you get the literally,
can you get the band back together and come to
it with us? And we're okay, we'll see if we
can find a way. And we found a way, and
it was really great because we always thought the songs
translated well live. I mean, we're a live band back
in the day, and the response was great and we
(04:11):
just had a bit of a sit down and a
power going. Do we just want to be a nostalgia
band just play the old stuff, or you want to
open a new creative chapter and see what might be
lurking inside.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Was it like it's sort of like it's giving me
the vibes of the Dirty Dozen't you remember that film?
And they get you know, let's get the Dirty Dozen
back together? And you know one of them is just
a piss head. He just sits in the bar, you
know that sort of thing. I'll tell you what we're
going to do. We'll go to the chain and I'll
be honest with you. We've already listened to it. It's
a banger, yeah hit Falling into You by tad Pole.
(04:47):
We've got Christine and Lauren from the band and with us.
How do you feel, guys, You're excited listening to it?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Pumped?
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Yeah, pump.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What's the situation for you guys, because you know, we
get a lot of bands in and often the situation is,
you know, members are all over the country or even
another country. Sometimes you know, you guys in the same
sort of vicinity or are you having to sort of
get on the computer and do all that jazz.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
I literally got off the plane from christ rich and
ran here just now. So I'm still on Christchurch but
I'm working on getting here. But we've done a bit
of a makeshift situation.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Without We've got band members all over the country and
does make it very difficult our DJKF he lives in
New Plymouth. Lauren is currently in christ Church but looking
to move up to Auckland soon. The rest of us
are in Auckland, so yeah, it's a logistical nightmare.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It's kind of the same with everyone though, right, because
we're talking to the guys in Shapey's and they're saying
exactly the same thing. Black Seeds members living all over
the show. But at least now you can there's a
way to make it work and the technology that's available
to it. It's not completely impossible, don't you Reckon man?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Yeah, sure, it's it's harder though, right, isn't it. It
is harder, But I mean, obviously you guys have got
members of the band all over the shop, but you
managed to wrangle in a few more big names from
back in the day as well. Bo wronga Bo Wronger
from Stella. She she worked on what was it mastering
(06:14):
the vocals or was it like working with Bo Oh.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Man, that was incredible. She's so lovely and she's so talented.
I'm not close enough to the Mickeller, that's all right, Yeah, No,
Bo's amazing. It was such an home to work with her.
She's you know, she's one of those icons, especially as
a female sort of rock artist. We had a great time.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Yeah, she's lovely. I sat next to her at this
like Battle of the Band's thing, and she was I
was one of the judges, and then Bo sat next
to me and I was like, well, hang.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
On, you sort outranked there absolutely ICND.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, yeah, now you're also we were talking in the
break there. You got a video coming out tomorrow night
at about seven thirty, I believe tell us a bit
about that.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Well, you know, you have to have audio to videos
to go with the audio these days. So yeah, we've
got a brand new music and video for this, which
we're going to premiere at seven thirty tomorrow night on YouTube.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
What can you tell us about the video?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Is it like?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
What is it like?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
What is this some sort of thing happening in the video?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Is it like?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Ah, I'd say it's the story of the song. So
there's footage of us in the studio. There's footage of
us taking that song to the stage.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
It's it's the journey of the.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Song from its recording to people will get to see it,
like and how does it How is the new song
translated to?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Have you had a chance to play it live? Yet?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
We have?
Speaker 6 (07:36):
We've played it a few times. Actually. We kind of
started with like our original idea, and as time's gone on,
we've like changed a few things and added a few things.
But it was cool to see people kind of vibing it.
Like even back like a year ago, we were sort
of like, well what people think and here we are
now having it the final version with all the picks
(07:57):
and all the.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Right and so and how much has it changed since
your first you know, had to crack it at life.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Actually, not that much. It's just like there's fine tuning,
but road testing songs is something that we've always done
because there's nothing quite late taking an idea out there,
seeing how people react and then you take that on
board and go okay, well we could do this, this
and this just like little fine tuning bits. Ye, no,
it's definitely helped.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, well I tell you what, team, it's a bloody
great tune and we appreciate it and if people want to,
people get it the usual way these days. Your spotifies,
et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Yeah, yeah, your spotifies, your your social media is your
tech talks, Yeah, your Instagrams, all those bloody things.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Wherever you get your music from. The new churn is
called Falling Into You from Tadpole. It officially comes out tomorrow,
So that was an exclusive first listen right here on
Radio Hodarky Tadpole, thank you so much for coming in
to him. It's been awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
No, thank you, Jens.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Radio hod aches off the Record podcast not subscribe, so
they download automatically and don't forget to rate us five stars.
Thanks mate. Find out more about this podcast and the
people who make it at hodache dot co dot nz
it
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