February 25, 2025 • 9 mins
Iconic Perth band The Stems are touring again and are throwing The Stems Garden Party at Port Beach Brewery at the end of March. Clairsy & Lisa had a chat to lead singer Dom Mariani about the upcoming gig.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
At least I mentioned that I've been a fan of
this man for a long long time. I know, you know,
some loves DM three's instrumental.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Stuff with it for a long time I noticed to
be true.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Yes, and the Mighty Stems, of course you can catch
them the Stems Garden Party at Port Beach Brewery Saturday,
March twenty nine. Tickets are available from Perth tickets dot
com dot are you don Marry Arnie. Good to see you, mate.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Good morning guys, thanks for coming in, Thanks for having
me in mate.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
This party is going to go off, isn't it. We hope.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
So yes, it's a good lineup and yeah, Port Beach
haven't played there before, so yeah, absolutely, it's a great
it's a nice factually, its beautiful, good time a year to.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Do it, so yeah, absolutely at the end of March. Yeah,
forty years of celebrations mate for the band, just fairly recently.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, forty one in March. We've clicked that forty years.
It's been a it's been an interesting you know, I
guess ride I suppose away. We've sort of been broken
up a few few times and come back a few times.
So at the moment, you know, the band's firing and
(01:06):
sounding really good, enjoying playing which is you know what
we're doing now, which is great, trying trying to do
as many gigs as we can.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Absolutely, did you always hope forty years ago that that
might be the case forty years down the track or
did you dare not think that far? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I thought it would be all over, you know, after
about four or five years, I reckon.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Look, you know, back then when we formed the band,
it was pretty much let's do a single. Yeah, that
was the sort of main aim, and then from there
it sort of went, well, jeez, that went okay, let's
do an album, and you know, and then we're touring
and doing the East Coast and know most of the
Australian states and eventually got to Europe and Japan or
(01:45):
the US, and yes, it's just kept going on and
on and on.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
When was the biggest surprise market wise? Was that somewhere
in Europe where you went, oh, we've got some serious
fans here.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Yeah, I'd have to say Spain. Yeah, of all the places.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, Like a friend of mine was saying, you should
go to Spain because you're big there, and Spain I
didn't really think about Spain at all. I was always
thinking of, you know, France and Paris, and more than
a romantic kind of notion of playing New York or London.
But having gone there was a ninety five I think
it was. It was the second time I've been to
(02:19):
Europe to tour. Yeah, the fans just came out of
the woodwork, and I just thought, Wow, I've got to
keep coming back here.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
It's a really nice place.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And they liked it. I like to be there.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, you toured Europe just last year we did.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Is it a very different sort of thing touring now
to touring then first time you went to Spain.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, I think they're a little more organized the yes. Yeah,
I do recall that the first gigs in Spain are
sort of small clubs, I suppose, and the gear wasn't flash.
But yeah, they've really got it together now. I think Spain,
you know, for rock and roll and music, is one
of the best countries in the world. They have amazing
festivals there. I think it's just kept building over the years.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Rightayse afternoon naps, I think all ready to guys to.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Fairly too.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
That's the secret.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, Yeah, another thing that's changed so much about the
music industry made in forty years is a totally different ballgame,
isn't it. I did hear someone the other day say,
if you can get a song onto a hit album
around the world now, even if you've just written the song,
you make about you used to make six or seven
hundred grand and now you make about six or seven
grand hot a stream.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
I was going to say six or seven dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
No, that's probably more like it. But yeah, it has changed,
and that's what people are touring right to try and
make it.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Absolutely, I think the live thing is is the thing
that's keeping bands going. Yeah, yeah, you know, like I
love to record and release stuff. Yeah, just to have
that record of what you've written, especially vinyl. I really
like the whole idea of you know, recording an album
and someone presses it and there's a.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Cover to look at.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Absolutely notes.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I wasn't much into CDs, but you know, we went
into the you know, went along with all that.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, that was the tech at the time.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, but playing live is where it's at really if Yeah,
you want to be in a band and enjoy playing music.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And that's why we've got to be careful.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
You know, with things like Frio Social, which is one
of the players you played last year as part of
the fortieth anniversary, and you know this talk about it
maybe having to close because of someone's noise complaints and something,
and what do you make of all that?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yeah, look, it's disappointing. And you hear all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Gentrification of say Freo and places like that where you know,
people move into Free because I'm a Freeo guy.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yeah, born and bred and Free. I lived there all
my life pretty much.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
And you know, people want to go to Frio and
they love Freer. They think Free has got a vibe
and everything. And then and then they buy an apartment
and oh, what's.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
That sound down the street? Yeah, it's nine o'clock. What's
going on?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
You knew what you were moving to, That's why you
wanted to move there, And now all of a sudden,
I don't think people should be able to come at
you with those you know, post complaints.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You know what you're moving Was there a.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Long time ago to before it becomes social?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Isn't it exactly?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
For sure? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, I think you know, it's like the council, you know,
like I don't want to get too heavy Internet. But
you know they should sort of make the developer or
whoever's you know doing the apartments, yeah, sound proofos rather
than put the put the onus on the on the
venue's who've been lazing them, been there for a long time.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, and it's such an important mid to level venue
as well, isn't it. What do you about? Five hundred
in there now, the hangar in there at three or so.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
It's a great venue, it is, and we can't afford
to lose them.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Not everyone's going to fill that Perth Arena or what's
it all or something?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Everyone wants to go to Perth Arena or a different episode.
We want to go to places you need.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
The smaller gigs definitely for bands that you can't pull
you know, five ten thousand people whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, but it's a different kinds.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
It's a night out that you want to have, you know,
a long side, the nights out of the arena and everything.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So yeah, Dom, I'm fifty nine, mates, so I love
your music and I'll go to a gig. But are
you seeing don't ask me my age, I'm OK, you're good,
but are you seeing the people's kids there? Gigs in
that now? Because the music. Yea, love across the jets definitely.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I think, you know, people who have grown up with
you know, I guess the sort of music scene, their
kids come along and yeah, it's great to see younger
people coming on appreciating what we do.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
You know, as you know that the music scene is
quite weird these days.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I think anything, isn't it. Yeah, the pop market is,
you know, quite different.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, there's a lot of talk about there's hardly any
bands around in the charts anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Solo sol artists, yeah, yeah, just sort of icons and personalities, yesh.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah, but often solo with like nine different guests. Yeah,
especially songwriters such and such weird featuring YadA and YadA
and YadA.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
It's yeah, so it's weird.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It was not unusual would be eleven or twelve songwriters,
that's right. Yeah, what's inspiring you to write songs? Now? Mate?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Just South the love of music. I suppose I South Beach.
I don't know, Yeah, I just just love music.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Really.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I still listen to, you know, whatever I feel like
like listening to during that day. At the moment, I'm
sort of going back and listening to a bit of
Bob Dylan.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I enjoyed that.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, some country stuff, and I like I'd like some
heavy kind of music. The band that I've got sort
of locally day Tutor Force kind of heavy kind of
blues rock thing.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
All the country, This whole country, you know, blending in
with other stuff at the moment is interesting, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I don't mind a bit of jelly roll.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I'm finding my mom's surprising.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, it's amazing. But that's all good.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Yeah, I think so. I think there's great music in
every genre.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd like to listen to everything pretty much.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Were you influenced by bands by like the Birds because
of that guitar sound, definitely?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Yeah, Yeah, they're one on photo Yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, there's a lot of that. A lot of people
love that sixties guitars sontly get Dave Faukner in quite
a bit from he was inspired bottle of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Well, I've been working on a solo album for the
last four years, you know, finally got to the point
where it's been mixed and I'm just sort of going
through it and you know, tweaking a few things. But
the first single off the album was very birds inspired
called jangle Land.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So yeah, there was a lot of inspiration for Tom
Petty's whole career, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Absolutely You play a twelve string guitar on that, don't you?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Now? Is it twice as hard to play a.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
String guitar as Yeah, yeah, you need twelve fingers? Not really,
It depends on the guitar. You know, the rick and
Backer guitar, which is the classics of.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
What Tom Petty wants for Christmas.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Guitar, you know, the classics sort of twelve stred guitar.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
It's got quite a narrow neck, right and I'll find
that hard because.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
You're just trying to finger the cords.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Okay, so I've got I've got something else which is
a Dan Electro which is a wider neck, And yeah,
it's easy to play.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
So yeah, easy for you to say you can sort of.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Stumble across a bit.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Oh yeah, well we look forward to seeing you stumbling
your way through it on at Port Beach, Brey. You
can catch the Stams Garden Party Port Beach Brewery Saturday,
March twenty nine. Tickets are available from Perth tickets dot
com dot au.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Thank you for coming in.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
My pleasure guys, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
And I'll stalk you down at sea lanes against it.
Okay fish and chips together absolutely
At least I mentioned that I've been a fan of
this man for a long long time. I know, you know,
some loves DM three's instrumental.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Stuff with it for a long time I noticed to
be true.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Yes, and the Mighty Stems, of course you can catch
them the Stems Garden Party at Port Beach Brewery Saturday,
March twenty nine. Tickets are available from Perth tickets dot
com dot are you don Marry Arnie. Good to see you, mate.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Good morning guys, thanks for coming in, Thanks for having
me in mate.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
This party is going to go off, isn't it. We hope.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
So yes, it's a good lineup and yeah, Port Beach
haven't played there before, so yeah, absolutely, it's a great
it's a nice factually, its beautiful, good time a year to.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Do it, so yeah, absolutely at the end of March. Yeah,
forty years of celebrations mate for the band, just fairly recently.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, forty one in March. We've clicked that forty years.
It's been a it's been an interesting you know, I
guess ride I suppose away. We've sort of been broken
up a few few times and come back a few times.
So at the moment, you know, the band's firing and
(01:06):
sounding really good, enjoying playing which is you know what
we're doing now, which is great, trying trying to do
as many gigs as we can.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Absolutely, did you always hope forty years ago that that
might be the case forty years down the track or
did you dare not think that far? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I thought it would be all over, you know, after
about four or five years, I reckon.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Look, you know, back then when we formed the band,
it was pretty much let's do a single. Yeah, that
was the sort of main aim, and then from there
it sort of went, well, jeez, that went okay, let's
do an album, and you know, and then we're touring
and doing the East Coast and know most of the
Australian states and eventually got to Europe and Japan or
(01:45):
the US, and yes, it's just kept going on and
on and on.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
When was the biggest surprise market wise? Was that somewhere
in Europe where you went, oh, we've got some serious
fans here.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Yeah, I'd have to say Spain. Yeah, of all the places.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, Like a friend of mine was saying, you should
go to Spain because you're big there, and Spain I
didn't really think about Spain at all. I was always
thinking of, you know, France and Paris, and more than
a romantic kind of notion of playing New York or London.
But having gone there was a ninety five I think
it was. It was the second time I've been to
(02:19):
Europe to tour. Yeah, the fans just came out of
the woodwork, and I just thought, Wow, I've got to
keep coming back here.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
It's a really nice place.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And they liked it. I like to be there.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, you toured Europe just last year we did.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Is it a very different sort of thing touring now
to touring then first time you went to Spain.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, I think they're a little more organized the yes. Yeah,
I do recall that the first gigs in Spain are
sort of small clubs, I suppose, and the gear wasn't flash.
But yeah, they've really got it together now. I think Spain,
you know, for rock and roll and music, is one
of the best countries in the world. They have amazing
festivals there. I think it's just kept building over the years.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Rightayse afternoon naps, I think all ready to guys to.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Fairly too.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
That's the secret.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, Yeah, another thing that's changed so much about the
music industry made in forty years is a totally different ballgame,
isn't it. I did hear someone the other day say,
if you can get a song onto a hit album
around the world now, even if you've just written the song,
you make about you used to make six or seven
hundred grand and now you make about six or seven
grand hot a stream.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
I was going to say six or seven dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
No, that's probably more like it. But yeah, it has changed,
and that's what people are touring right to try and
make it.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Absolutely, I think the live thing is is the thing
that's keeping bands going. Yeah, yeah, you know, like I
love to record and release stuff. Yeah, just to have
that record of what you've written, especially vinyl. I really
like the whole idea of you know, recording an album
and someone presses it and there's a.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Cover to look at.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Absolutely notes.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I wasn't much into CDs, but you know, we went
into the you know, went along with all that.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, that was the tech at the time.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, but playing live is where it's at really if Yeah,
you want to be in a band and enjoy playing music.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And that's why we've got to be careful.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
You know, with things like Frio Social, which is one
of the players you played last year as part of
the fortieth anniversary, and you know this talk about it
maybe having to close because of someone's noise complaints and something,
and what do you make of all that?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yeah, look, it's disappointing. And you hear all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Gentrification of say Freo and places like that where you know,
people move into Free because I'm a Freeo guy.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yeah, born and bred and Free. I lived there all
my life pretty much.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
And you know, people want to go to Frio and
they love Freer. They think Free has got a vibe
and everything. And then and then they buy an apartment
and oh, what's.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
That sound down the street? Yeah, it's nine o'clock. What's
going on?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
You knew what you were moving to, That's why you
wanted to move there, And now all of a sudden,
I don't think people should be able to come at
you with those you know, post complaints.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You know what you're moving Was there a.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Long time ago to before it becomes social?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Isn't it exactly?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
For sure? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, I think you know, it's like the council, you know,
like I don't want to get too heavy Internet. But
you know they should sort of make the developer or
whoever's you know doing the apartments, yeah, sound proofos rather
than put the put the onus on the on the
venue's who've been lazing them, been there for a long time.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, and it's such an important mid to level venue
as well, isn't it. What do you about? Five hundred
in there now, the hangar in there at three or so.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
It's a great venue, it is, and we can't afford
to lose them.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Not everyone's going to fill that Perth Arena or what's
it all or something?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Everyone wants to go to Perth Arena or a different episode.
We want to go to places you need.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
The smaller gigs definitely for bands that you can't pull
you know, five ten thousand people whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, but it's a different kinds.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
It's a night out that you want to have, you know,
a long side, the nights out of the arena and everything.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So yeah, Dom, I'm fifty nine, mates, so I love
your music and I'll go to a gig. But are
you seeing don't ask me my age, I'm OK, you're good,
but are you seeing the people's kids there? Gigs in
that now? Because the music. Yea, love across the jets definitely.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I think, you know, people who have grown up with
you know, I guess the sort of music scene, their
kids come along and yeah, it's great to see younger
people coming on appreciating what we do.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
You know, as you know that the music scene is
quite weird these days.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I think anything, isn't it. Yeah, the pop market is,
you know, quite different.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, there's a lot of talk about there's hardly any
bands around in the charts anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Solo sol artists, yeah, yeah, just sort of icons and personalities, yesh.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah, but often solo with like nine different guests. Yeah,
especially songwriters such and such weird featuring YadA and YadA
and YadA.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
It's yeah, so it's weird.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It was not unusual would be eleven or twelve songwriters,
that's right. Yeah, what's inspiring you to write songs? Now? Mate?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Just South the love of music. I suppose I South Beach.
I don't know, Yeah, I just just love music.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Really.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I still listen to, you know, whatever I feel like
like listening to during that day. At the moment, I'm
sort of going back and listening to a bit of
Bob Dylan.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I enjoyed that.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, some country stuff, and I like I'd like some
heavy kind of music. The band that I've got sort
of locally day Tutor Force kind of heavy kind of
blues rock thing.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
All the country, This whole country, you know, blending in
with other stuff at the moment is interesting, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I don't mind a bit of jelly roll.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I'm finding my mom's surprising.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, it's amazing. But that's all good.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Yeah, I think so. I think there's great music in
every genre.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd like to listen to everything pretty much.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Were you influenced by bands by like the Birds because
of that guitar sound, definitely?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Yeah, Yeah, they're one on photo Yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah, there's a lot of that. A lot of people
love that sixties guitars sontly get Dave Faukner in quite
a bit from he was inspired bottle of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Well, I've been working on a solo album for the
last four years, you know, finally got to the point
where it's been mixed and I'm just sort of going
through it and you know, tweaking a few things. But
the first single off the album was very birds inspired
called jangle Land.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So yeah, there was a lot of inspiration for Tom
Petty's whole career, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Absolutely You play a twelve string guitar on that, don't you?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Now? Is it twice as hard to play a.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
String guitar as Yeah, yeah, you need twelve fingers? Not really,
It depends on the guitar. You know, the rick and
Backer guitar, which is the classics of.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
What Tom Petty wants for Christmas.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Guitar, you know, the classics sort of twelve stred guitar.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
It's got quite a narrow neck, right and I'll find
that hard because.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
You're just trying to finger the cords.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Okay, so I've got I've got something else which is
a Dan Electro which is a wider neck, And yeah,
it's easy to play.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
So yeah, easy for you to say you can sort of.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Stumble across a bit.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Oh yeah, well we look forward to seeing you stumbling
your way through it on at Port Beach, Brey. You
can catch the Stams Garden Party Port Beach Brewery Saturday,
March twenty nine. Tickets are available from Perth tickets dot
com dot au.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Thank you for coming in.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
My pleasure guys, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
And I'll stalk you down at sea lanes against it.
Okay fish and chips together absolutely
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