September 17, 2024 • 4 mins
Kaelin talks to Knox backstage at Lollapalooza. They talk manifesting, the inspiration behind 'Not The 1975', his name, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh yeah I do.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I was like, I did, You're like you do?
Speaker 3 (00:03):
You brought me flowers?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, I was trying to look cool today. I don't
know if you look very cool really very promised. Yeah,
I probably. I trust you the coolest.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
All right, what up, guys, It's kaelin backstage at Lallapalooza
with my new friend NOx.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hello, I'm great.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Welcome to Chicago. But you're a Midwest boy.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Right Oh yeah, Dayton Ohio.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Ok Ohio. Okay, yes ma'am. So you have been to Chicago,
I'm assuming before.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Yeah, I actually came here last year and got to
do all this, but I wasn't performing, so I felt special.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
It's pretty sick, okay, because that's what I was going
to bring up because obviously I was creeping you before
I got to talk to you, and you manifested this
kind of Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, I pretty much. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I was here and we did like since nineteen seventy
five was headlining, we like flew some fans because not
the ninety seventy five.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It just came out. So we did a thing.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
And then I got here and like all the radio
stations were like, yo, let's like bring you on so
I wasn't performing, so I pretty much just came into
every radio station was like, I'm definitely playing here next.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Year, and you're definitely playing and now it's happening.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Yeah, yeah, I just yeah, I was just kind of
really just talking mess and it just swat as you should.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, I always talk about that's funny. So a lot of
my friends wanted to go see Kendrick. They were the
same time as nineteen seventy five last year, but I
was like, no, I want to go to the nineteen
seventy five.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So I went by myself. I've never done that before.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It was like the greatest show I've ever seen them.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It was wonderful, and the time of night and the skyline,
it was just very vibe.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I need friends. I kept walking up to you like
that's beautiful, that's beautiful. Yeah, it was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So were you just and are you just a big
fan of the nineteen seventy five or how did the
song come about?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Because it's a banger?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I am like a huge fan of them already and
then yeah, I mean basically long story shorts.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Somebody just told me.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
They were like I was telling them I was a
musician because I was trying to like impress lex.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah, I was like, yeah, I make music, and they
they said, they were like, well you'll never be Mattie
Healy's so I don't care. Literally, that's like and I
just thought that was like hilarious. It was like such
a way to get turned down by a girl who
is beautiful.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It was a turn down.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Oh yeah for sure, but listen, listen, we fail and
we fail and that's why we succeed. You know. My
girlfriend's here somewhere and like that that you know, yeah
and uh man, So she said that. So the next
day we wrote the song like kind of as a joke.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, and then we were like, actually it's a banger.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
You make all my like middle school emo dreams come true.
I feel like the pop emo it's been lacking a
little bit, and you give me like boys like girls.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Oh my gosh you thank you, of course, thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
And I have the fondest memories of them. They were
actually just here recently.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I saw them and I was gonna say the band Camino,
and then I saw that you have done stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah yeah, I just finished We just finished tour. We
just did seventeen shows. We just finished like two days ago.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
So it's such a hat Like your music is so
happy driving summer with the windows down, just positive vibes.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I love it, and I'm so happy for.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Your success because from what I've heard and seen and
now know, you seem like such a.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Nice uh do thank you?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, so what else can we act? I saw you're
going on a college tour.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, we're just doing It's not so much even a tour.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
It's kind of just like a bunch of random one
offs that just so happened to be close together. So yeah,
it's like we go out for one weekend, do three shows,
then come home and then do three more. So but yeah,
we're just doing some like you know, college campuses. It's
called the Varsity Tour, but this is really just kind
of like our cool down shows and then we're kind
of gonna chill for the rest of the year, I think,
(03:23):
other than like maybe a couple of random things and
then yeah, and then we have like a really big
tour for the spring plan.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It's like all the rooms I've always kind of wanted
to play that I've seen my favorite artists, so it's
it's gonna be cool to be able to do it myself.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So are you're doing obviously all across the country. Will
you be here?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah? Absolutely. I don't know the venue yet.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I mean I'm sure they do, but yeah, but yeah,
we'll definitely be in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Oh my god, amazing. All right, So tell people first
of all, where they can follow you.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, just music, buy knocks on everything.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Wait, what is knocks? How did that come about?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Ready, I'm gonna blow your mind.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It's just my first name. I just took it off.
I just took off the last name.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Well, that's listen.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
That's I feel like people have such cool stage names
that you never assume it's a real name.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
People just think I'm like really creative and artsy and stuff,
and I'm just like I just let him think that.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I'm like, yeah, dude, like I'm just going by my
first name.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Yeah. Yeah, But it is cool because, like I guess,
Knox is becoming a popular like kid's name. I don't know.
I see this all the time. Yeah, They're like, we
named our kid Knocks, and I'm like, I was ninety seven, dude,
I've been knocks you know.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Seven, I'm old.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
No, no one, no, no, You're good. You're good?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Are you gen Z or you Millennia?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I don't even know. I am I gen Z. I
hope not. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah. I was gonna say you're a clussper. Maybe Yeah, dude,
I just I just man, You're just I love that.
All right?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Well cool, So everyone look out for him on tour
please La la palooza.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
You manifested it.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yes, thank you for sapping dude.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Thank you guys for having me. I appreciate it. Was
great to make a new friend. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Best friends, yes, yes,
Oh yeah I do.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I was like, I did, You're like you do?
Speaker 3 (00:03):
You brought me flowers?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, I was trying to look cool today. I don't
know if you look very cool really very promised. Yeah,
I probably. I trust you the coolest.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
All right, what up, guys, It's kaelin backstage at Lallapalooza
with my new friend NOx.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hello, I'm great.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Welcome to Chicago. But you're a Midwest boy.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Right Oh yeah, Dayton Ohio.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Ok Ohio. Okay, yes ma'am. So you have been to Chicago,
I'm assuming before.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Yeah, I actually came here last year and got to
do all this, but I wasn't performing, so I felt special.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
It's pretty sick, okay, because that's what I was going
to bring up because obviously I was creeping you before
I got to talk to you, and you manifested this
kind of Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, I pretty much. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I was here and we did like since nineteen seventy
five was headlining, we like flew some fans because not
the ninety seventy five.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It just came out. So we did a thing.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
And then I got here and like all the radio
stations were like, yo, let's like bring you on so
I wasn't performing, so I pretty much just came into
every radio station was like, I'm definitely playing here next.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Year, and you're definitely playing and now it's happening.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Yeah, yeah, I just yeah, I was just kind of
really just talking mess and it just swat as you should.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, I always talk about that's funny. So a lot of
my friends wanted to go see Kendrick. They were the
same time as nineteen seventy five last year, but I
was like, no, I want to go to the nineteen
seventy five.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So I went by myself. I've never done that before.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It was like the greatest show I've ever seen them.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It was wonderful, and the time of night and the skyline,
it was just very vibe.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I need friends. I kept walking up to you like
that's beautiful, that's beautiful. Yeah, it was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So were you just and are you just a big
fan of the nineteen seventy five or how did the
song come about?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Because it's a banger?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I am like a huge fan of them already and
then yeah, I mean basically long story shorts.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Somebody just told me.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
They were like I was telling them I was a
musician because I was trying to like impress lex.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah, I was like, yeah, I make music, and they
they said, they were like, well you'll never be Mattie
Healy's so I don't care. Literally, that's like and I
just thought that was like hilarious. It was like such
a way to get turned down by a girl who
is beautiful.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It was a turn down.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Oh yeah for sure, but listen, listen, we fail and
we fail and that's why we succeed. You know. My
girlfriend's here somewhere and like that that you know, yeah
and uh man, So she said that. So the next
day we wrote the song like kind of as a joke.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, and then we were like, actually it's a banger.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
You make all my like middle school emo dreams come true.
I feel like the pop emo it's been lacking a
little bit, and you give me like boys like girls.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Oh my gosh you thank you, of course, thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
And I have the fondest memories of them. They were
actually just here recently.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I saw them and I was gonna say the band Camino,
and then I saw that you have done stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah yeah, I just finished We just finished tour. We
just did seventeen shows. We just finished like two days ago.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
So it's such a hat Like your music is so
happy driving summer with the windows down, just positive vibes.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I love it, and I'm so happy for.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Your success because from what I've heard and seen and
now know, you seem like such a.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Nice uh do thank you?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, so what else can we act? I saw you're
going on a college tour.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, we're just doing It's not so much even a tour.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
It's kind of just like a bunch of random one
offs that just so happened to be close together. So yeah,
it's like we go out for one weekend, do three shows,
then come home and then do three more. So but yeah,
we're just doing some like you know, college campuses. It's
called the Varsity Tour, but this is really just kind
of like our cool down shows and then we're kind
of gonna chill for the rest of the year, I think,
(03:23):
other than like maybe a couple of random things and
then yeah, and then we have like a really big
tour for the spring plan.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
It's like all the rooms I've always kind of wanted
to play that I've seen my favorite artists, so it's
it's gonna be cool to be able to do it myself.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So are you're doing obviously all across the country. Will
you be here?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah? Absolutely. I don't know the venue yet.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I mean I'm sure they do, but yeah, but yeah,
we'll definitely be in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Oh my god, amazing. All right, So tell people first
of all, where they can follow you.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, just music, buy knocks on everything.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Wait, what is knocks? How did that come about?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Ready, I'm gonna blow your mind.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It's just my first name. I just took it off.
I just took off the last name.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Well, that's listen.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
That's I feel like people have such cool stage names
that you never assume it's a real name.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
People just think I'm like really creative and artsy and stuff,
and I'm just like I just let him think that.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I'm like, yeah, dude, like I'm just going by my
first name.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Yeah. Yeah, But it is cool because, like I guess,
Knox is becoming a popular like kid's name. I don't know.
I see this all the time. Yeah, They're like, we
named our kid Knocks, and I'm like, I was ninety seven, dude,
I've been knocks you know.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Seven, I'm old.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
No, no one, no, no, You're good. You're good?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Are you gen Z or you Millennia?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I don't even know. I am I gen Z. I
hope not. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah. I was gonna say you're a clussper. Maybe Yeah, dude,
I just I just man, You're just I love that.
All right?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Well cool, So everyone look out for him on tour
please La la palooza.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
You manifested it.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yes, thank you for sapping dude.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Thank you guys for having me. I appreciate it. Was
great to make a new friend. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Best friends, yes, yes,
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