May 27, 2024 • 7 mins
The Church are coming to Perth in December playing tracks from their first four albums, Clairsy & Lisa spoke to front man Steve Kilbey where he told them what it was actually like to perform on Countdown and why other bands found it very awkward.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
December is shaping up to be a very big month
at the Asta Theater on December five. The Church is
going to be there on the already yesterday tour. Tickets
are available through a ticke tek and Steve Kilby's joining
us now, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
How are you going?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Good?
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Very well?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
So the Asta December five?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
What a great dick an amazing old theater. Yeah, great sound,
great feeling. Everybody who goes there always says, oh boy,
I love the Astra.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I love the Asta.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I used to go to the Asta with my grandmother
when it was still a movie theater.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
She took me to see the sound of music there.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Oh really nineteen times.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So the band's playing songs are from your first four
albums of Skins and Heart, The Blurred Crusades, Seance, and Heyday.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Do you have a favorite child out of those?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah? Can I also say that's the first set and
then the second set we're going to come on and
play some other stuff.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Oh beautiful? Yeah even better?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, not all old of old and then a bit
more new. Yeah. Yeah, my favorite one out of the
first force probably Heyday.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Oh right, yeah, it was a different album, wasn't it. Steve,
you sort of became writers as a band as opposed
to just your stuff doing the demos.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
That's true, That's exactly what happened. The band started writing
as a unit and then I would put the vocals
on at the end, and it's sort of expanded. It's
really expanded everything. I think.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, absolutely great album to commemorate the two or all
four albums are being reissued on vinyl throughout the year.
I remember the first vinyl album I ever bought with
my own pocket money was Stone Age Romeos by the
HOODI grew Steve, do you remember the first vinyl your
first final purchase?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Does it count if I sent my dad in to
get it for me because I was too shy?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Of course, that counts your money, your pocket money.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Okay, okay, it was It's Too Easy by the Easy
Beat fifty five.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Oh yeah, Stevie right going off? Love that? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Well, aloof and engaging one. I read that in the
review on your Instagram mate, you've had some interesting reviews?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Are there any Do you just ignore journalism and the
like that? Or you have you had? There's something is
stuck in your crawl all these years?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
No, you know what?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
No, I can recite bad reviews like the how is
this for a chunk? Richard Klube's drums termed tempting mysteries
into turgid mistakes.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Dear with Richard, isn't it beautiful?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You know, all those years practicing in the garage, someone
could call.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Me terrific because it's so close to turn, isn't it
that's awful?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Just sounds dirty.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, it's in that category. The good ones I can't
take on board and the bad ones I take on
board too much. Yeah, so it's crazy like one hundred,
say there were one hundred reviews in the ninety nine
were yep, and one was bad. It'd be the bad
one that I'd be seeing there going.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Why why you all love me?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Have you learned to give yourself a break a bit
though over the years in respect of that.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
No, no, no, no, I know I have no.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I don't. I don't give myself a breakover and I
don't I like, I make myself miserable. I've just realized
what I've been doing for the last fifty years.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Steve, come close. It's not your phone, it's not your fault.
We can say that, mate.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
And speaking of fans, I look at the reaction to
fans around the world to this very day, fans from
all over the planet on your Instagram saying come to Chili.
Don't forget Mexico, USA this summer. They're wonderful that day.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
You know what, No matter where you say you're playing,
one will say I'll play here instead, even though the
whole like we are playing here, and then everybody from
everywhere else go, oh, play here, and they'll put the
name of their place, so like it's a weird Yeah,
it's like a weird tangent, you know what I mean. Yeah,
(04:13):
it's like, hey, you want to come over to dinner
Sunday and they go Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, exactly, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
They're like, well, oh, you know, it just brings everything
to a halt.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, if this is what they're saying, you can't be
too turgent. What what you're in the US at the moment?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
What are you up to over there?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I mean Austin, Texas recording.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
An album, right Texas with the church and the Church.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, Texas. It's about five o'clock in the afternoon. It's
about ninety five degrees fahrenheit overpast and incredibly stormy and
sort of intense and close.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Very close. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Are you staying in Darwin?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah, are you.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Staying at the Austin Motel? Mate, I've seen the photo.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
It's a ripper.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
No, I'm not staying there. I'm staying No, I'm not.
I knew, you know what. I looked at that this
morning and thought people are going to think we're staying
there with that hotel with that montosity out the front.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
There, and then people will get it on Instagram and
go no, come and stay at the Austin motor.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Do you remember the first time did you ever heard
yourself on the radio?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yeah, was it?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I do? Yes, I do. We were the band, We're
in the car and we were driving along and down
came on. It seemed very loud. I realized then one
of the thing about that record, it sounded very loud
compared to all the other all the other songs of radio.
(05:54):
It's all jumped out of the radio like unbelievably. And
we were like ah, and it was like yeah, it's
like unbelievable feelings, just like you'd imagine.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
It would be, imagine it would be unreal.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Was that ungoded moment man that you first heard yepal
so damn good.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That was what it was.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yeah, yeah, did you take you by surprise? Then?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yeah, all of a sudden, one day, Molly's calling saying,
come on countdown and you know what did you knew
when you came up with it and you went, there's
something special about this this pop so on.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I didn't realize there was so much to go wrong,
and remember in those days, So we went on countdown
and mind to our song. There was no playback. You
didn't get to stand around and say anything or see anything.
You did it. Then they went, okay, you're done. You
had no idea. I have seen a lot of people
before me and after me, come I'm done on countdown,
(06:45):
not necessarily through their own fault. They just looked awkward
or that's something about us. We just looked right in
our element and there it was, and I watched it
and I went, wow, maybe I've got a chance. And
you know, the next night the place was full.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yeah that's what you want.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well, we can see the church in their element December
five at the beautiful Asta Theater on the already yesterday
tour tickets are through ticket.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
We can't wait to see it. Steve.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Okay, then thank you thanks not all the best. We
appreciate your time
December is shaping up to be a very big month
at the Asta Theater on December five. The Church is
going to be there on the already yesterday tour. Tickets
are available through a ticke tek and Steve Kilby's joining
us now, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
How are you going?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Good?
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Very well?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
So the Asta December five?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
What a great dick an amazing old theater. Yeah, great sound,
great feeling. Everybody who goes there always says, oh boy,
I love the Astra.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I love the Asta.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I used to go to the Asta with my grandmother
when it was still a movie theater.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
She took me to see the sound of music there.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Oh really nineteen times.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So the band's playing songs are from your first four
albums of Skins and Heart, The Blurred Crusades, Seance, and Heyday.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Do you have a favorite child out of those?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah? Can I also say that's the first set and
then the second set we're going to come on and
play some other stuff.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Oh beautiful? Yeah even better?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, not all old of old and then a bit
more new. Yeah. Yeah, my favorite one out of the
first force probably Heyday.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Oh right, yeah, it was a different album, wasn't it. Steve,
you sort of became writers as a band as opposed
to just your stuff doing the demos.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
That's true, That's exactly what happened. The band started writing
as a unit and then I would put the vocals
on at the end, and it's sort of expanded. It's
really expanded everything. I think.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, absolutely great album to commemorate the two or all
four albums are being reissued on vinyl throughout the year.
I remember the first vinyl album I ever bought with
my own pocket money was Stone Age Romeos by the
HOODI grew Steve, do you remember the first vinyl your
first final purchase?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Does it count if I sent my dad in to
get it for me because I was too shy?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Of course, that counts your money, your pocket money.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Okay, okay, it was It's Too Easy by the Easy
Beat fifty five.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Oh yeah, Stevie right going off? Love that? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Well, aloof and engaging one. I read that in the
review on your Instagram mate, you've had some interesting reviews?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Are there any Do you just ignore journalism and the
like that? Or you have you had? There's something is
stuck in your crawl all these years?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
No, you know what?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
No, I can recite bad reviews like the how is
this for a chunk? Richard Klube's drums termed tempting mysteries
into turgid mistakes.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Dear with Richard, isn't it beautiful?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You know, all those years practicing in the garage, someone
could call.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Me terrific because it's so close to turn, isn't it
that's awful?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Just sounds dirty.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, it's in that category. The good ones I can't
take on board and the bad ones I take on
board too much. Yeah, so it's crazy like one hundred,
say there were one hundred reviews in the ninety nine
were yep, and one was bad. It'd be the bad
one that I'd be seeing there going.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Why why you all love me?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Have you learned to give yourself a break a bit
though over the years in respect of that.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
No, no, no, no, I know I have no.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I don't. I don't give myself a breakover and I
don't I like, I make myself miserable. I've just realized
what I've been doing for the last fifty years.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Steve, come close. It's not your phone, it's not your fault.
We can say that, mate.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
And speaking of fans, I look at the reaction to
fans around the world to this very day, fans from
all over the planet on your Instagram saying come to Chili.
Don't forget Mexico, USA this summer. They're wonderful that day.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
You know what, No matter where you say you're playing,
one will say I'll play here instead, even though the
whole like we are playing here, and then everybody from
everywhere else go, oh, play here, and they'll put the
name of their place, so like it's a weird Yeah,
it's like a weird tangent, you know what I mean. Yeah,
(04:13):
it's like, hey, you want to come over to dinner
Sunday and they go Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, exactly, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
They're like, well, oh, you know, it just brings everything
to a halt.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, if this is what they're saying, you can't be
too turgent. What what you're in the US at the moment?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
What are you up to over there?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I mean Austin, Texas recording.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
An album, right Texas with the church and the Church.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, Texas. It's about five o'clock in the afternoon. It's
about ninety five degrees fahrenheit overpast and incredibly stormy and
sort of intense and close.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Very close. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Are you staying in Darwin?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah, are you.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Staying at the Austin Motel? Mate, I've seen the photo.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
It's a ripper.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
No, I'm not staying there. I'm staying No, I'm not.
I knew, you know what. I looked at that this
morning and thought people are going to think we're staying
there with that hotel with that montosity out the front.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
There, and then people will get it on Instagram and
go no, come and stay at the Austin motor.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Do you remember the first time did you ever heard
yourself on the radio?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yeah, was it?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I do? Yes, I do. We were the band, We're
in the car and we were driving along and down
came on. It seemed very loud. I realized then one
of the thing about that record, it sounded very loud
compared to all the other all the other songs of radio.
(05:54):
It's all jumped out of the radio like unbelievably. And
we were like ah, and it was like yeah, it's
like unbelievable feelings, just like you'd imagine.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
It would be, imagine it would be unreal.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Was that ungoded moment man that you first heard yepal
so damn good.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That was what it was.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yeah, yeah, did you take you by surprise? Then?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yeah, all of a sudden, one day, Molly's calling saying,
come on countdown and you know what did you knew
when you came up with it and you went, there's
something special about this this pop so on.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I didn't realize there was so much to go wrong,
and remember in those days, So we went on countdown
and mind to our song. There was no playback. You
didn't get to stand around and say anything or see anything.
You did it. Then they went, okay, you're done. You
had no idea. I have seen a lot of people
before me and after me, come I'm done on countdown,
(06:45):
not necessarily through their own fault. They just looked awkward
or that's something about us. We just looked right in
our element and there it was, and I watched it
and I went, wow, maybe I've got a chance. And
you know, the next night the place was full.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yeah that's what you want.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well, we can see the church in their element December
five at the beautiful Asta Theater on the already yesterday
tour tickets are through ticket.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
We can't wait to see it. Steve.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Okay, then thank you thanks not all the best. We
appreciate your time
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