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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now it has been seventeen years since Pete Murray toured here.
His first EP was released way back in two thousand
and one, but it was two thousand and three when
the album Feeler with the hit song Beautiful met A
put a rocket under proceedings. He's at last coming back.
There's a fifty five day tour in Australia which includes
four stops here. He's got famous recently though, as well,
for his appearance on the cover of Men's Health All
Ripped and is the beneficiary of healthy living and good Diet,
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So we got to talk about that. Pete Murray's with
us from the Mighty Byron Bay. Good morning, thanks Mike,
and saying back first of all, Byron Bay. Have the
Hemsworths wrecked it?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
All's it's I think, look, I know the guys, they're
good fellas and they get a lot of attention of
course anywhere they go, but you know, being Byron.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And so it's pretty hard to not stand out when
you're Hemsworth, I guess.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
But look good guys, they're lovely family, actually really nice.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So no, I don't think brecked the place at all.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
It's a lot of people have come and changed place
over time. For me, it's really the thing I loved
about when I first moved here to Byron was that
it was had such a real bohemian feel, and that's
kind of lost the loot now because a lot of
hippies that with it were here can't afford to be
in the place anymore. It needs to be the drumming
circle up near the main beach that they got. There'd
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be like, you know, fifty to one hundred people just
drumming and dancing and you know, jingling and jangling, and
it was just that was kind of a lot of fun.
But we missed that. And I first when I first
moved here, I had a Coombe. I've still got my
Coombia in nineteen seventy seven. So you'd be driving past
Combyanners all the time, you know, doing the Combe sign,
and there's not too many comedies left on the roads anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So I was going to ask about that. I mean,
do you have Byron Bay cred because you were in
Byron Bay before it became you know, Byron Bay.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Well, who knows? I mean, I feel like I do.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I feel like I came here, you know, in the
early days when there weren't too many artists and well
known people living in the area or too much wealth
in the area. Still shouldn't say that still a very
wealthy place for a lot of people, but there was
also you know, the hippies could live here and the
people that were kind of made the town what it was.
I think they were able to live here. They can't
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afford anymore, which is a shame. That's the thing I
really missed about the place now. But it's still a
beautiful part of the world, and that's why, you know,
people want to come and live here because it is
such a stunning place.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
The beaches are incredible, and you know, the town itself
is just a beautiful town.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
And was it creative and is it still creative for
a person like you?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Look, I think it's just evolved over time. I think
Byron and I came here in the early nineties. For me,
I came and saw this place and the first time,
you know, it's changed a little bit, still the same
at what it is, So I think it's just evolved
over time. I remember friends who were my wife, for example,
who was born and raised in this area. You know,
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the beach Hotel was the main hotel in town there
that looks over the ocean. There used to be a
bit of a rough, rough pub years ago. I think
a bit of a bikey hang out. But it's changed
it now. But it's like I said, it's evolved to
what it is, but it still has this Really it's a.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Peaceful spot to be.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Everyone sort of chills out when they come here, and
that's the beautiful thing about it.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Was it affected by that big storm the other day
by the way.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
There was a few trees that were blown down, Yet
it wasn't as bad as what everyone was thinking. Unfortunately
I wasn't even here or fortunately, but I think for
me being away, I was in Western Australia doing a
show and I had my family over this so we
had a holiday when it was all coming through. It
was a bit hard not being here to help people
and just sort of hoping for the best, and you know,
but our place was fine. We had a massive gum
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tree went down. Lots of gum trees went down actually
in those in that storm. So but look, I think
the place wasn't as bad as what they thought it
was going to be.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Okay, now, listen to this health business and now you're
big on health and what have you done for yourself?
And it sort of culminated in the cover of men's health,
and I'll come to that in the mind. But what
have you done for yourself? And what would you say
to people by way of a health journey as to
its value life wise?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, look for me, Mike, my dad died when I
was he was forty seven, I was eighteen. So for me,
I've always been involved in athletics and swimming and rugby.
That was the were my you know, three big sports.
I love them, and I always remained sort of healthy.
I never wanted to be unfit, so you know, when
dad died, it was even more of a I guess
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a factor for me to go make sure they look
after my health, make sure that they eat well, and
I look after himself because his dad also had a stroke,
and we started to go, Okay, there's a bit of
hereditary heart diseases, so we've got to be careful.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I've been tested and I'm fine.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You know, they've been told I shouldn't, I shouldn't drop
out of a heart attack, So let's hope that doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
But I feel healthy and fit.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And look, you know in Byron Bay we have healthy food,
her organic food. We try to eat as organic food
as possible. And I think just keeping you know, as
you get older, you really got to keep up your
strength and and your fitness, otherwise you start to fall away.
And it's harder as you get older, harder to sort
of keep to maintain that once you start to lose it.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
But I've always been kind of kept healthy and fit.
I just like it. I feeling that way now.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Of course, the cover of Memes Health. I mean a
lot of us, you know, are healthy and do well
and all that sort of stuff, but we don't end
up on the cover of Men's Health. You really, I
mean looking at you, you look not far shorter than
the Donners. How did how did you get to that point?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well? That was you know, that was just kind of
luck how that happened. I had.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I was buying some shoes off the trainers who I
was doing that with em and Chief, and the shoes
didn't arrive, so they felt really bad, and they said, look,
can we can we at least off you a fitness program?
And and I said, well, look, you know what you've
actually got a few of my friends on the cover
of Men's Health, so I'll take a fitness program for sure, and.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
They said, well, let's make let's make it our goal
to get you on the cover. So I did this.
It was diet that was the biggest thing for me.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I'd always been sort of working hard with my training,
but I wasn't probably looking after the dietary side it
that well.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
To drop the fat. You know.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
So I've got a full carbs and all sugars, and
I don't have a lot of sugar anyway. But when
you cut all sugars out on your diet, man, do
you start craving sugar? In the first week, I just
was dreaming of Mars bars and ice cream. I couldn't
get out of my head, you know, like I never
think about that stuff. But once you drop all that
stuff and then all the carbs, I just really sort
of had a really lean diet, lean meat, salads and es,
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and that's what I stuck to. So that was with
my training. We just changed it a bit to really
sort of increase my heart rate while I was still
doing my strength work, and the.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Weight just dropped off. So in twelve weeks I was.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I think I was ninety three kilo, which I'm normally
at most of the time, and I dropped down to
eighty one. So on that cover, I was like, I
was quite too lean for me, I thought, But you know,
sticking to that program, I just shredded down and you know,
you got to see a six pack back there again,
which is nice. I've kind of maintained that a bit now,
not probably to that level, but I'm still maintaining this.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Because one of the things, correct me if I'm right,
once you put the energy in the effort and you
don't want to go back.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Correct, yeah, you don't.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
And I think, just like I said with m got
me on this, on this diet, which I still stick
to pretty much, you know, and just taking a lot
of sugars and carbs out and I like that. So
I like, you feel a lot leaner. You're not carrying
you know, I think even carrying a bit of weight
around your face. Just don't do that anymore, you know.
(07:25):
So and at your training, I just I have less
breaks in between the sets so that I kind of
keep the heart rate up and you just keep you
just keep burning that fuel.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
And good for your performance as well. Apart from anything
I'm assuming.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Oh absolutely mate.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah, we'll look, you know, coming into this tour that
I'm about to do, just like I think, it's fifty
nine to sixty dates, adding the New Zealand shows in there,
so it's a lot of shows coming up. And so
you know, by the time he gets a sort of
halfway through there, you start getting pretty tired that the
travel starts to get to a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But like I said, I I eat well.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
If I can get to the gym when I'm a
camera of a land and in the next place, I
get to the gym and keep healthy, you always feel better.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Now, listen, what is what the I haven't been to
New Zealand for seventeen years? What's that about?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Was that seventeen years?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Well, that's what I'm that's what I'm reading. You haven't
been there for years. Clearly you're going to tell me
that's not.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
True, that's wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Well, the last time I played there, Well, let me
just check this up. I'm trying to think the last
time I played there that could be right.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Well, well, hold on, don't come on this program and
tell me I'm wrong. It's like, you know, twenty five
minus seventeen, What have you got? Two thousand and seven,
two thousand and eight, something like that.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You know what? That might be? Right?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, there you go, you think of that long. But
I think the last time I remember playing there was
probably around that time. I think someone can correct me
if I'm wrong here, Some of them can make a
call and let me know. But I think that was
the last time I remember playing. I've been back there before,
love New Zealand, getting back over and holiday with family
just recently too. In fact, when COVID hit a few
years back, I got the last flight out of the
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place back back to Australia. In fact, we were probably
disappointed that we've got on that flight because it been
nice to stay in New Zealand for that time. But
yet playing shows, there's been a long time being back there.
Could be right, So.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I go back to the original question, what's with the
seventeen years Pete since your last played here?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You know that's been too long, hasn't.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
We've got a corect that now make sure I get
back there and certain and I'm coming back to correct
that now. So looking forward to it actually doing four
shows over there in New Zealand. It may one two,
three and four. So yeah, it's gonna be good.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Fun, brilliant to talk to you. Now listen, maybe when
you get here, bring a guitar and come in and
see us and sing us a song. That'll be nice.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
A yeah, I'm totally upfair mate, that'd be great. Good
on you go. Well.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Pete Murray so coming to the country. He's got that wrong, one, two,
three and four. It is the thirtieth of April's in Queenstown.
I mean, first of all, we didn't know when he
was last year, so let's me you know, it's a
miracle who's coming. I mean, in fact, for all we know,
may not may just think he's coming, you may not turner.
So thirtieth of April's in Queenstown. Then it's one, two
and three Littleton, Wellington and Auckland. If you're into a
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bit of Peat Murray, which we are.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
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