Established more than 40 years ago, the Exponents are Kiwi rock legends.
They’re part of New Zealand’s sonic landscape – a guaranteed play at the pub, a party, or a summer barbeque.
The band initially parted ways in 1999, but have periodically reunited in the years since and will be doing the same for this year’s Synthony Festival.
Frontman Jordan Luck told Jack Tame they’re very excited about this one – they only do a handful of shows as the Exponents these days, so he’s really looking forward to it.
"It’s going to be an amazing event.”
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
I will you love me?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
You know I'm hurting for you.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It seems now that it's sober, but there is nothing
I can do.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
What.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Does them do this too?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I don't know. Born out of the three more than
forty years ago, the Exponents are Kiwi rock legends, have
lodged their sound indelibly in the national psyche and there
a guaranteed play at the pub or a summer barbecue.
You know, once upon a time I was a twenty
first DJ. Honestly best job I ever had, and I
(01:03):
reckon if I was to go back and look through
the playlists of those about eighty percent of the nights.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Would have finished with this song.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Later this month, the Exponents are going to reunite on
stage in front of more than twenty five thousand for
the Symphony Festival, and Exponents front man Jordan Luck is
with me this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Killed her.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Good morning, Good magic day, Jack. How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I'm very well. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
You sound very upbeat given what you've been through over
the last couple of weeks. Dare I ask have you
got dry feet this morning?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I do humming gun boots.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Well, that's the key.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I'll tell you what I'm going to ask about all
of that, because you have really been through it recently.
I'll ask about all of that in a couple of minutes.
But let's start off with symphony. So how does it
feel to have the band back together for an event
of the side.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That's how it feels. Feels very excited about this one.
I mean, obviously it's an Exponents kig, so that's kind
of odd for a start. We we only do a
handful of shows and really looking forward to it. Yeah,
it's always bringing playing with those younger fellas.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, so how does it actually work?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Explain the kind of mechanics of it to us?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well, I suppose in a serious way. Exposed last played
back in April twenty twenty three when we did we
did a tour yea, and of course that that that
entails the whole production, the whole lot organizationally. Yeah, we
(02:35):
had got a weak rehearsal down in Aerrow Town and
then well then the then the logistics of it are
just larger. You know, you're doing concert halls and yeah,
but this one just walk in, walk out? What But yeah,
a fabulous show to be involved with, I mean faith
(02:58):
Less and Black Seeds and yeah, really excited.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
It's gonna it's going to be an amazing, an amazing
event and so so so like talk to us about
the kind of symphony side of things.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Have you been to synphony gigs before?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And that's another reason why I'm thrilled. I've not seen
a show.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Oh wow, what have you heard?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Just that people that have done the shows. I think
there was a new premouth one that folk raved about
a while back, and yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It's I mean that they're a real experience thing. I
think one of the things that's amazing about them too
is they kind of kind of cut across generations. Not
that the exponents don't. I feel like you guys could
say that as it is anyway, but you know what
I mean, like it's you sort of you know, people
from all different generations can kind of connect over the
music and find their own thing with it very much.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So, yeah, genre crossing, Yeah, enterprise.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yeah, So like you say, you did that big tour
in tw and what did that experience tell you about
the place that the exponents still hold in New Zealand's
music fans hearts and.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, we've got a rehearse with the black band Boom Bash.
We're just on fire, consistently jigging up and down the nation.
But exponents, Yeah, we have Brett Adams on board, but
Brian Jones, Harry David Gen. Yeah, we will go back together.
(04:39):
I mean we see each other occasionally, but not that often. Yeah,
and then yeah, we get locked into a rehearsal room
and yeah. It's it's work in the sense that it
depends on how much everyone remembers. And mind having said that,
(05:00):
the very very short set it how short I think
it was affording the net maybe, oh yeah, so we
could do who Loves to Victoria? Well do this to
me and Jaz's odyssey.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I don't think you don't think what's going to be
upset about that seat list. It's going to be it's
going to be a type. It's going to be a
type forty minutes. So I'm sure you're gonna get to
come out of course.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, bang so.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
So when you're in that rehearsal room, though, describe that.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
To us a little bit like you see that, you
see it.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
It's work working that it's working, that it's not fun
or working.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
That honestly, Jack, it is great fun because people, well,
it's intriguing because folk may not be used to a
section or actually just everyone does still play, but playing
(05:59):
together that's a different chemistry. That's always intriguing. And exponents
were always volatile kind of unit.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Anyway, has that changed at all over the years.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I found I found on the tour it was very professional.
Britt Adams probably brings that on board. I was just
earlier in the year I know he was. It was
not only a mocker, but he was also a dude
at the same show. So yeah, he brings a lot
of professionalism to the just to the affair.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
But it is there, still is the volatility still a
little bit of a component? Is it still there?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Deep down?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I think that can edge itself, will present itself on stage.
That's when Yeah, it kind of like, Oh, you're looking around,
You're going, has he got this? Has he got this? Yeah? Nails?
Yeah that's good. Yeah, it's a it's your seat stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I was going to say, in a way, you can't
you don't want to stamp it out a like that's
the that kind of that volatility might be the secret source.
That might that might be another word for Rex factor
in a way.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I concurt that really made the live shows during the
tour in twenty three definitely.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah, you're listening to Jack Tame. I'm speaking with Jordan
Luck ahead of the Exponent's performance at the Symphony Festival.
So when was the last time you reckon you played
in front of twenty five thousand people?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Gosh, I'm thinking that would be for the band together
for the gosh. It was after the first earthquake. I
think it was mid November twenty ten and everyone I
think there was one hundred and twenty thousand sort of
fleet system it. Yeah, and that was christ was just
(07:59):
so optimistic, you know, rebuild was happening, that no one
had partner and had lost their life. Yeah, after the
first quake and it was just really positive. And then gosh,
of course the second one hit.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah, yeah, and then and then everyone's lives changed and
my gosh, I mean you are still in it. So
you are in Little River for people who don't know,
Canterbury and banks p Ninsula super well. If you're driving
from christ Church to Akard or Little Rivers before just before.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You get to the big hill.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
So you go go through Ti Tapo, you kind of
skirt around. Well, you know, I know it super well.
It's my old stomping ground. So but people might know
Little River because Little River became a kind of big river,
didn't it?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Last month? With these with these floods. Yeah, it's flooded.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I've been here since twenty sixteen. It's flooded five times.
It backs up from Lake Foresyth, but this time it
was coming down from the hills. One of the rivers breached.
It wiped out two of our rooms. That's gone through
twelve maybe forteen different homes to various degrees. Yeah, and
(09:14):
they're still cleaning up. Well, I've never seen the like
we were. It was like being in a boat surrounded
by water everywhere, and with two rivers actually either side
of us. But the weird it was we had a
moat actually but without a drawbridge for two days. But yeah,
(09:38):
you just didn't know where where the current where the
torrents we were going to go, and you'd think it
was receding the water levels, but then it would rise
back up because something else is further upstream had had happened.
And yeah, it was I mean exciting to it and adrenaline. Yeah, way, but.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Sort of as in the moment a but then you know,
like we learned this in the earthquakes too. It's the
kind of days and weeks afterwards when you're still still sealing,
still dealing.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
With all the.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
All the mess and the cells and the damage and
everything else, and you're exhausted, and you know, lots of
other people in other parts of the country et they've
kind of moved on and they're on to the next thing.
It can it can be a really it can be
a really difficult thing to experience.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Absolutely no power, no sewerage. We've been lucky in that respect.
Crush it's earthquake, I mean five weeks, six weeks. Yeah,
it's happening. We saw during Lackman going through s Qvalley
(10:49):
vineyards there just aucand with after Gabriel, the blooming homes
that you'd never think would ever have seen water flooded
out basements and yeah Africa Motoracre with my mum, my
mum is their roads still wiped out sort of in
(11:12):
between chery and yeah, at the bottom of the able
Tasman train.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Just happens all the time. Much Yeah, Yeah, the one in.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
One hundred years. That's kind of wow. That one hundred
years came up quickly.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yeah, yeah, it's a it's it's a pretty worrying thought. Really,
So is your place okay?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Now?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It's try probably moving. No, I wouldn't be able to.
I can't estimate it. Very lucky Farmer's Mutual Group have
been very good. Yeah, we'll see probably, I don't know,
actually a month maybe hopefully.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Yeah, I really hope it's all right. And I'll tell
you what it'll be. It'll be nice just to as
great as it'll be to have everything at home sorted
and settled and dry and warm and all that stuff.
I can imagine that actually getting out of the valley
just a little bit and putting on some shows. It
might be a little nice distraction.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, we've we've got we've got into the actually two
shows in the Roads with the trom I'm grown. Yeah
it's good. And then the Exponents Symphony. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
It's going to be amazing.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Well, look, we're delighted to speak with you. Really really
looking forward to the Symphony Festival. It's gonna be it's
gonna be an extraordinary thing to behold. Good luck with
everything at home. Keep your chin up and we look
forward to speaking soon.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Well, Love, thank you so much, Jack, thank you for
your time.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
So good Jordan. Luck from the Exponent. So symphony is
next weekend. You can get tickets at symphony dot com.
And of course it's Symphony not Symphony, so s y
n t h o n Y synthhony dot com. We'll
make sure we put a link in the details up
on the News Talks. He'd website as.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Well for more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. Listen
live to news Talks he'd be from nine am Saturday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
from News Talks at b.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I will you love me?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
You know I'm hurting for you.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It seems now that it's sober, but there is nothing
I can do.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
What.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Does them do this too?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I don't know. Born out of the three more than
forty years ago, the Exponents are Kiwi rock legends, have
lodged their sound indelibly in the national psyche and there
a guaranteed play at the pub or a summer barbecue.
You know, once upon a time I was a twenty
first DJ. Honestly best job I ever had, and I
(01:03):
reckon if I was to go back and look through
the playlists of those about eighty percent of the nights.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Would have finished with this song.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Later this month, the Exponents are going to reunite on
stage in front of more than twenty five thousand for
the Symphony Festival, and Exponents front man Jordan Luck is
with me this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Killed her.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Good morning, Good magic day, Jack. How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I'm very well. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
You sound very upbeat given what you've been through over
the last couple of weeks. Dare I ask have you
got dry feet this morning?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I do humming gun boots.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Well, that's the key.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I'll tell you what I'm going to ask about all
of that, because you have really been through it recently.
I'll ask about all of that in a couple of minutes.
But let's start off with symphony. So how does it
feel to have the band back together for an event
of the side.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That's how it feels. Feels very excited about this one.
I mean, obviously it's an Exponents kig, so that's kind
of odd for a start. We we only do a
handful of shows and really looking forward to it. Yeah,
it's always bringing playing with those younger fellas.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, so how does it actually work?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Explain the kind of mechanics of it to us?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well, I suppose in a serious way. Exposed last played
back in April twenty twenty three when we did we
did a tour yea, and of course that that that
entails the whole production, the whole lot organizationally. Yeah, we
(02:35):
had got a weak rehearsal down in Aerrow Town and
then well then the then the logistics of it are
just larger. You know, you're doing concert halls and yeah,
but this one just walk in, walk out? What But yeah,
a fabulous show to be involved with, I mean faith
(02:58):
Less and Black Seeds and yeah, really excited.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
It's gonna it's going to be an amazing, an amazing
event and so so so like talk to us about
the kind of symphony side of things.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Have you been to synphony gigs before?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And that's another reason why I'm thrilled. I've not seen
a show.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Oh wow, what have you heard?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Just that people that have done the shows. I think
there was a new premouth one that folk raved about
a while back, and yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It's I mean that they're a real experience thing. I
think one of the things that's amazing about them too
is they kind of kind of cut across generations. Not
that the exponents don't. I feel like you guys could
say that as it is anyway, but you know what
I mean, like it's you sort of you know, people
from all different generations can kind of connect over the
music and find their own thing with it very much.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So, yeah, genre crossing, Yeah, enterprise.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yeah, So like you say, you did that big tour
in tw and what did that experience tell you about
the place that the exponents still hold in New Zealand's
music fans hearts and.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, we've got a rehearse with the black band Boom Bash.
We're just on fire, consistently jigging up and down the nation.
But exponents, Yeah, we have Brett Adams on board, but
Brian Jones, Harry David Gen. Yeah, we will go back together.
(04:39):
I mean we see each other occasionally, but not that often. Yeah,
and then yeah, we get locked into a rehearsal room
and yeah. It's it's work in the sense that it
depends on how much everyone remembers. And mind having said that,
(05:00):
the very very short set it how short I think
it was affording the net maybe, oh yeah, so we
could do who Loves to Victoria? Well do this to
me and Jaz's odyssey.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I don't think you don't think what's going to be
upset about that seat list. It's going to be it's
going to be a type. It's going to be a
type forty minutes. So I'm sure you're gonna get to
come out of course.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, bang so.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
So when you're in that rehearsal room, though, describe that.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
To us a little bit like you see that, you
see it.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
It's work working that it's working, that it's not fun
or working.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
That honestly, Jack, it is great fun because people, well,
it's intriguing because folk may not be used to a
section or actually just everyone does still play, but playing
(05:59):
together that's a different chemistry. That's always intriguing. And exponents
were always volatile kind of unit.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Anyway, has that changed at all over the years.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I found I found on the tour it was very professional.
Britt Adams probably brings that on board. I was just
earlier in the year I know he was. It was
not only a mocker, but he was also a dude
at the same show. So yeah, he brings a lot
of professionalism to the just to the affair.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
But it is there, still is the volatility still a
little bit of a component? Is it still there?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Deep down?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I think that can edge itself, will present itself on stage.
That's when Yeah, it kind of like, Oh, you're looking around,
You're going, has he got this? Has he got this? Yeah? Nails?
Yeah that's good. Yeah, it's a it's your seat stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I was going to say, in a way, you can't
you don't want to stamp it out a like that's
the that kind of that volatility might be the secret source.
That might that might be another word for Rex factor
in a way.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I concurt that really made the live shows during the
tour in twenty three definitely.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah, you're listening to Jack Tame. I'm speaking with Jordan
Luck ahead of the Exponent's performance at the Symphony Festival.
So when was the last time you reckon you played
in front of twenty five thousand people?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Gosh, I'm thinking that would be for the band together
for the gosh. It was after the first earthquake. I
think it was mid November twenty ten and everyone I
think there was one hundred and twenty thousand sort of
fleet system it. Yeah, and that was christ was just
(07:59):
so optimistic, you know, rebuild was happening, that no one
had partner and had lost their life. Yeah, after the
first quake and it was just really positive. And then gosh,
of course the second one hit.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah, yeah, and then and then everyone's lives changed and
my gosh, I mean you are still in it. So
you are in Little River for people who don't know,
Canterbury and banks p Ninsula super well. If you're driving
from christ Church to Akard or Little Rivers before just before.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You get to the big hill.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
So you go go through Ti Tapo, you kind of
skirt around. Well, you know, I know it super well.
It's my old stomping ground. So but people might know
Little River because Little River became a kind of big river,
didn't it?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Last month? With these with these floods. Yeah, it's flooded.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I've been here since twenty sixteen. It's flooded five times.
It backs up from Lake Foresyth, but this time it
was coming down from the hills. One of the rivers breached.
It wiped out two of our rooms. That's gone through
twelve maybe forteen different homes to various degrees. Yeah, and
(09:14):
they're still cleaning up. Well, I've never seen the like
we were. It was like being in a boat surrounded
by water everywhere, and with two rivers actually either side
of us. But the weird it was we had a
moat actually but without a drawbridge for two days. But yeah,
(09:38):
you just didn't know where where the current where the
torrents we were going to go, and you'd think it
was receding the water levels, but then it would rise
back up because something else is further upstream had had happened.
And yeah, it was I mean exciting to it and adrenaline. Yeah, way, but.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Sort of as in the moment a but then you know,
like we learned this in the earthquakes too. It's the
kind of days and weeks afterwards when you're still still sealing,
still dealing.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
With all the.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
All the mess and the cells and the damage and
everything else, and you're exhausted, and you know, lots of
other people in other parts of the country et they've
kind of moved on and they're on to the next thing.
It can it can be a really it can be
a really difficult thing to experience.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Absolutely no power, no sewerage. We've been lucky in that respect.
Crush it's earthquake, I mean five weeks, six weeks. Yeah,
it's happening. We saw during Lackman going through s Qvalley
(10:49):
vineyards there just aucand with after Gabriel, the blooming homes
that you'd never think would ever have seen water flooded
out basements and yeah Africa Motoracre with my mum, my
mum is their roads still wiped out sort of in
(11:12):
between chery and yeah, at the bottom of the able
Tasman train.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Just happens all the time. Much Yeah, Yeah, the one in.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
One hundred years. That's kind of wow. That one hundred
years came up quickly.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yeah, yeah, it's a it's it's a pretty worrying thought. Really,
So is your place okay?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Now?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It's try probably moving. No, I wouldn't be able to.
I can't estimate it. Very lucky Farmer's Mutual Group have
been very good. Yeah, we'll see probably, I don't know,
actually a month maybe hopefully.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Yeah, I really hope it's all right. And I'll tell
you what it'll be. It'll be nice just to as
great as it'll be to have everything at home sorted
and settled and dry and warm and all that stuff.
I can imagine that actually getting out of the valley
just a little bit and putting on some shows. It
might be a little nice distraction.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, we've we've got we've got into the actually two
shows in the Roads with the trom I'm grown. Yeah
it's good. And then the Exponents Symphony. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
It's going to be amazing.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Well, look, we're delighted to speak with you. Really really
looking forward to the Symphony Festival. It's gonna be it's
gonna be an extraordinary thing to behold. Good luck with
everything at home. Keep your chin up and we look
forward to speaking soon.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Well, Love, thank you so much, Jack, thank you for
your time.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
So good Jordan. Luck from the Exponent. So symphony is
next weekend. You can get tickets at symphony dot com.
And of course it's Symphony not Symphony, so s y
n t h o n Y synthhony dot com. We'll
make sure we put a link in the details up
on the News Talks. He'd website as.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Well for more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. Listen
live to news Talks he'd be from nine am Saturday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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