October 24, 2024 • 8 mins
On the eve of Wellington rockers Wiri Donna releasing their new EP In My Chambers, lead singer Bianca called up to talk about mashing EDM and grunge, and channelling rage on demand. Plus there's all the tour dates around New Zealand to celebrate the release, and why their drums won't be going with them.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Radio Hodarkeys Off the Record podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
With Let's have a Chat with Woody, Donna, Kyoto, Bianca Yoder,
Greg How you doing Yeah really well, thanks mate. The
new EP is out tomorrow. I can't wait to hear
all these new songs, but the one that's already out
is Bad Behavior.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
The song's actually, I think a beautiful piece of collaborations
between myself, the band members, and our producer James Goldsmith.
It's a song that was completely different when we took
it to the studio for the first time, and I
think James likes to refer to it of what can
happen when an artist and a producer fully trusts each other.
(00:43):
I think it went through the biggest journey and change
out of all of the songs on the EP.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
When you say it went through some changes that it
started off like a DM track or some drum and bass,
because there's still influences of that in the tune, I think.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well, no, it started off more I can I would say,
like a soft rock ballad. So the d and drum
and bassed influences came out of the drive to push
the song, make it a little bit faster and faster
and faster, and then all of a sudden we realize
that we'd pushed it into the c ed in space
(01:18):
a little bit in those verses, but then still keeping
those those choruses and the and the bridge and stuff.
Very rock music to the chorus of sticking along with
the bigger, bigger Woody do on a big picture vibes.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Not easy to do live drum and bass, you know,
I mean, shape Shift obviously do it, but not many
bands do. So to have that element in there with
a live band doing it, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, I think it's going to I can't wait to
talk this one in November. It's going to be so
so good to play it live. Finally, I think we've
cracked it too. I think we've got a good, good
setup going for the.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah for it cool? All right, Well, we'll talk more
about those shows around the country next month in a moment,
But first let's hear the tune.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Hey, this is the yunker from Woody Donna. You're about
to listen to bad behavior on radio recorder.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's already a hurdarchy that's new from Woody Tonnor. It's
called bad behavior, and we're lucky enough to have their
singer at Bianca on a zoom with us now Cure
to Be. Thanks for bringing us that tune.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Thanks so much for having me and playing the tune.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It's from a new EP that's out tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, So tomorrow is the release of in My Chambers.
It is a six track EP, so the same as
the last release that we did, but a completely different vibe.
I think we've gone a lot heavier with this record.
We've really pulled into the rock music of it all,
thinking more is more, more guitars, more energy, and playing
(03:03):
around with some really dark sounds, heavy sounds, even as
you just heard a little bit of idiom in there too. Yeah,
and I think it's very much I record that I
think is all of the rage that I have pot
into this record, so I don't have to hold it
with me.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
You sound pretty relaxed now. I'm glad we've caught you
at a good time. But are you saying there's rage
from time to time? And I guess the music's a
good outlet for that.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, It's something that I noticed a lot when I
was recording this record, because I think when I was
writing a lot of these songs, I was in a
very Yeah, I would say challenging time, or I was
experiencing burnout. I was experiencing just a lot of frustrations
and a lot of that pent up rage. And the
(03:53):
song writing process really helped me process a lot of
all of that and stay a little bit more relaxed
when it comes to, you know, day to day life,
which is good. Sometimes I'd find myself singing the songs
and James Goldsmith, our producer, would be like, no, no, no,
you have to start again. You sound way too happy.
You need to be more angry, and I keep being like,
(04:13):
I just I just don't know. I'm like, not here anymore.
I don't know how to be so angry because I'm
having like I'm just having a really nice time, you know,
I just really enjoying, you know, making this record. It's
a lot of fun. How do I So I had
to almost, yeah, find the anger that I had at
the time of writing the songs all over again.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Although you might need to pull it out of the
bag when you go to do these songs on stage
to you know, like you say, get the vibe of
the songs back. And I bring that up because I
was talking to someone about Tom York Show and christ
Church last night, and apparently he comes across quite an
introverted guy, but on stage is just out there, was happy,
was beaming, was smiling, was having a great time.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think there's something really unique
about live performance. It's like you almost get this permission
slip to be this character that you would never walk,
a path that you'd never walk in your day to
day life. So I love the way that different people
can really lean into this energy and this persona that
they can put on and be. When you're in the
(05:14):
moment of a live performance, in the moment you've put
the guitar down or stop singing, or you're speaking to
someone one on one, you can just be yourself again.
But like, it's so weird how you can just put
on this Oh this is what I'm doing now it's
time to be angry, or it's time to be bubbly
and energized, and you know.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, and where are we going to see these personas?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
So we're starting off at dark Room and christ Church
on Friday the fifteenth of November, and then followed by
Yours in Dunedin on the sixteenth November, and then the
following week we're starting the road trip from Welly up
to Napier, playing at Paisley Stage on the twenty first
of November, followed by last Place in Hamilton on the
(05:57):
twenty second, and then double whammy in Tammocky, Makoto and
Auckland on the twenty third of November. And then we've
got a couple of weeks off before we do our
hometown show down here in Ponickey sixth of December and Wellington.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And where's that going to be? At San Fran.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, at San Fran.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Good to finish at home.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. I think the
last couple of tours we've done, we've seemed to do
the hometown show first, and I think there's going to
be something really special about it being the end of
the run for us and being able to, I guess
celebrate with everyone at home. I think it's going to
be a really amazing show.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
How many of you are there in the band and
can you all squeeze into one vehicle?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Ah? Yes? So there's four of us in the band,
so myself, Harrison Skulls on the bass, Elliott Dawson on
the guitar, and James McEwen on drums, So theoretically we
can fit into one car. I have a Toyota Corolla Fielder,
which my license plate is drumgl which we call it
(06:57):
drum Girl. So that's the main touring vehicle. We go
up and down the country and drum Girl, and then
sometimes we have to bring a second car. Yes, sometimes
people want to bring partners and friends and whatnot. So
the more the merrier, and if we can spread out
a little bit, the car's less smelly.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
What about the drums, Oh, hopefully.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
We don't have to bring those. I'm hoping.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Do you just hire them from someone else or bry
them when you get to the venue and hope that
they have a couple of drums and smack together.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, most of the time. Most of the time we'll
be able to forget I have drums. Provided there are
a couple of places on tour that we can't. But
we're hoping one of those places being done in Hamilton.
But we're tempting a boatload of friends from Tommackie to
come down. We'll get them some accommodation for the night
if they drive down with some backlimb for us and
come to the show.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, all right, well, safe travels on the road. All
the best for the EP out tomorrow and my Chambers.
It's called if we want to find out more information
about the tunes the show, where's the best place to
find details?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Instagram? Woody dot Donner. That's w I R I d
O n n.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
A Bianca from What Are You Donna? Thanks your time
on Hodaki.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Radio hod aches off the Record podcast. Why not subscribe
so they download automatically and don't forget to rate us
five stars?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Thanks mate.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Find out more about this podcast and the people who
make it at hodache dot co dot nz it
Welcome to Radio Hodarkeys Off the Record podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
With Let's have a Chat with Woody, Donna, Kyoto, Bianca Yoder,
Greg How you doing Yeah really well, thanks mate. The
new EP is out tomorrow. I can't wait to hear
all these new songs, but the one that's already out
is Bad Behavior.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
The song's actually, I think a beautiful piece of collaborations
between myself, the band members, and our producer James Goldsmith.
It's a song that was completely different when we took
it to the studio for the first time, and I
think James likes to refer to it of what can
happen when an artist and a producer fully trusts each other.
(00:43):
I think it went through the biggest journey and change
out of all of the songs on the EP.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
When you say it went through some changes that it
started off like a DM track or some drum and bass,
because there's still influences of that in the tune, I think.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well, no, it started off more I can I would say,
like a soft rock ballad. So the d and drum
and bassed influences came out of the drive to push
the song, make it a little bit faster and faster
and faster, and then all of a sudden we realize
that we'd pushed it into the c ed in space
(01:18):
a little bit in those verses, but then still keeping
those those choruses and the and the bridge and stuff.
Very rock music to the chorus of sticking along with
the bigger, bigger Woody do on a big picture vibes.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Not easy to do live drum and bass, you know,
I mean, shape Shift obviously do it, but not many
bands do. So to have that element in there with
a live band doing it, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, I think it's going to I can't wait to
talk this one in November. It's going to be so
so good to play it live. Finally, I think we've
cracked it too. I think we've got a good, good
setup going for the.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah for it cool? All right, Well, we'll talk more
about those shows around the country next month in a moment,
But first let's hear the tune.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Hey, this is the yunker from Woody Donna. You're about
to listen to bad behavior on radio recorder.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's already a hurdarchy that's new from Woody Tonnor. It's
called bad behavior, and we're lucky enough to have their
singer at Bianca on a zoom with us now Cure
to Be. Thanks for bringing us that tune.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Thanks so much for having me and playing the tune.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It's from a new EP that's out tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, So tomorrow is the release of in My Chambers.
It is a six track EP, so the same as
the last release that we did, but a completely different vibe.
I think we've gone a lot heavier with this record.
We've really pulled into the rock music of it all,
thinking more is more, more guitars, more energy, and playing
(03:03):
around with some really dark sounds, heavy sounds, even as
you just heard a little bit of idiom in there too. Yeah,
and I think it's very much I record that I
think is all of the rage that I have pot
into this record, so I don't have to hold it
with me.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
You sound pretty relaxed now. I'm glad we've caught you
at a good time. But are you saying there's rage
from time to time? And I guess the music's a
good outlet for that.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, It's something that I noticed a lot when I
was recording this record, because I think when I was
writing a lot of these songs, I was in a
very Yeah, I would say challenging time, or I was
experiencing burnout. I was experiencing just a lot of frustrations
and a lot of that pent up rage. And the
(03:53):
song writing process really helped me process a lot of
all of that and stay a little bit more relaxed
when it comes to, you know, day to day life,
which is good. Sometimes I'd find myself singing the songs
and James Goldsmith, our producer, would be like, no, no, no,
you have to start again. You sound way too happy.
You need to be more angry, and I keep being like,
(04:13):
I just I just don't know. I'm like, not here anymore.
I don't know how to be so angry because I'm
having like I'm just having a really nice time, you know,
I just really enjoying, you know, making this record. It's
a lot of fun. How do I So I had
to almost, yeah, find the anger that I had at
the time of writing the songs all over again.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Although you might need to pull it out of the
bag when you go to do these songs on stage
to you know, like you say, get the vibe of
the songs back. And I bring that up because I
was talking to someone about Tom York Show and christ
Church last night, and apparently he comes across quite an
introverted guy, but on stage is just out there, was happy,
was beaming, was smiling, was having a great time.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think there's something really unique
about live performance. It's like you almost get this permission
slip to be this character that you would never walk,
a path that you'd never walk in your day to
day life. So I love the way that different people
can really lean into this energy and this persona that
they can put on and be. When you're in the
(05:14):
moment of a live performance, in the moment you've put
the guitar down or stop singing, or you're speaking to
someone one on one, you can just be yourself again.
But like, it's so weird how you can just put
on this Oh this is what I'm doing now it's
time to be angry, or it's time to be bubbly
and energized, and you know.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, and where are we going to see these personas?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
So we're starting off at dark Room and christ Church
on Friday the fifteenth of November, and then followed by
Yours in Dunedin on the sixteenth November, and then the
following week we're starting the road trip from Welly up
to Napier, playing at Paisley Stage on the twenty first
of November, followed by last Place in Hamilton on the
(05:57):
twenty second, and then double whammy in Tammocky, Makoto and
Auckland on the twenty third of November. And then we've
got a couple of weeks off before we do our
hometown show down here in Ponickey sixth of December and Wellington.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And where's that going to be? At San Fran.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, at San Fran.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Good to finish at home.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. I think the
last couple of tours we've done, we've seemed to do
the hometown show first, and I think there's going to
be something really special about it being the end of
the run for us and being able to, I guess
celebrate with everyone at home. I think it's going to
be a really amazing show.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
How many of you are there in the band and
can you all squeeze into one vehicle?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Ah? Yes? So there's four of us in the band,
so myself, Harrison Skulls on the bass, Elliott Dawson on
the guitar, and James McEwen on drums, So theoretically we
can fit into one car. I have a Toyota Corolla Fielder,
which my license plate is drumgl which we call it
(06:57):
drum Girl. So that's the main touring vehicle. We go
up and down the country and drum Girl, and then
sometimes we have to bring a second car. Yes, sometimes
people want to bring partners and friends and whatnot. So
the more the merrier, and if we can spread out
a little bit, the car's less smelly.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
What about the drums, Oh, hopefully.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
We don't have to bring those. I'm hoping.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Do you just hire them from someone else or bry
them when you get to the venue and hope that
they have a couple of drums and smack together.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, most of the time. Most of the time we'll
be able to forget I have drums. Provided there are
a couple of places on tour that we can't. But
we're hoping one of those places being done in Hamilton.
But we're tempting a boatload of friends from Tommackie to
come down. We'll get them some accommodation for the night
if they drive down with some backlimb for us and
come to the show.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, all right, well, safe travels on the road. All
the best for the EP out tomorrow and my Chambers.
It's called if we want to find out more information
about the tunes the show, where's the best place to
find details?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Instagram? Woody dot Donner. That's w I R I d
O n n.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
A Bianca from What Are You Donna? Thanks your time
on Hodaki.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Radio hod aches off the Record podcast. Why not subscribe
so they download automatically and don't forget to rate us
five stars?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Thanks mate.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Find out more about this podcast and the people who
make it at hodache dot co dot nz it
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