January 22, 2025 • 37 mins
On the show today, John Aiken from Married At First Sight joins Clairsy & Lisa in studio to talk about all the juicy details upcoming on MAFS.
With the heatwave over Perth this week, we ask you ‘When are you the hottest you’ve ever been….ever?’
Matt Hadgraft swings past the studio to talk about his two Fringe shows revolving around Billy Joel and Elton John.
In The Shaw Report, Benson Boon does a ‘shoey’ whilst in Australia and Billy Idol and Joan Jett go on tour together.
Peter Garrett calls in to talk about his upcoming show in February with the Alter Egos, in a very unconventional space!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Powered by the iHeartRadio app from ninety six airfam to
wherever you're listening today, This is Clearsy and leases podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Coming up on the podcast today, John Aitken joins us
Maths is back in.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Town and of course there's been a heat way, But
we asked you when was the hottest you've ever been?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Matt had Graft swings bid to talk Billy Joel and
Elton John featuring in his upcoming fringe shows.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It was a packed sure report, including another celeb doing
a shoey once in Australia, and.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Peter Garrett talks to us about his upcoming show in
a very unconventional space.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
He won't be doing any shoeies.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Here we go again. She played White Snake.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Go again.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Look, we've got a great cast this year. They're very
unfiltered and raw. Yes, slightly younger this year, but we
have some real interesting twists along the way. One of
the things that I noticed that hasn't happened before is
that TikTok social media is really influencing people's approaches to
dating and relationships, and this year those really extreme mindsets
(01:06):
show up on the experiments. So we have our trade wives,
we have our men with their warrior mindsets, and they're very,
very fixed about what they want and what they won't
put up with. And there's no commitment they don't want
because they are able to swipe, you know, out in
the real world so quickly. So it's very transactional.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
This is the thing what they won't put up with.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
There's very little negotiations, it seems these days, among people,
and they're gonna I mean you, I would think you'd
have to snap out of that.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Well, that's one of our roles this year is really
to shake them up and say listen.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
It doesn't know given that's right, there's got to.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Be some compromise here. But they love being in their
fem roles and their masculine roles, and they're very particular
about deal breakers. And they've always got this sense of
the grass is greener and if this person it doesn't
take every single one of these many boxes, then John,
you're to blame. You're a failure, and I'm going to
(02:04):
have you up on it.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Actually, this is really serious, this attitude that has developed,
because it is it is completely a false world that
they think exists.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yes, and John, what do you foresee down the track?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
In twenty years has been the stage of relationships.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Well, I'm hoping that people realize that, you know, getting
your dating and relationship advice from TikTok actually probably is
not the best thing to do. You're better off to
go and meet someone face to face or talk to
someone who's got expertise about it. And I think there
is a move going back to that, you know, people
getting to running clubs where they're trying to you know,
(02:43):
actually converse with people face to face rather than just
on apps which are very physically based.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, you're what about the swiping thing though, because there
was a time I think, you know, my mum and dad'
z Eira when they broke up. Mum was a shame
that it was. There was a divorce, the divorce came up,
whereas now it's so easy for popping, but it feels
like it's easier and like you said, deal breakers.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
That's right. And so what you see on the show
is these very different mindsets that we haven't seen before.
That's one of the secret sources of the shows that
we tap into the zeitguys. So if it's gas lighting,
it'll show up on our show. If it's people speaking
their truth only.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Fan God, I hate that expression.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Speak truth.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
This year it's all about social.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Well, this is very interesting. You have a real responsibility.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, the show is now a cautionary tale. It's so
many things and it could well hopefully be the thing
that you know, you can pivot on and start getting
people to understand that it's not how it is on TikTok.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
I think there's gonna be a lot of noise around
it because people will hear things and go, really, you
don't want a woman with any ambition or career? Is
that really what you're you're telling me? So get ready
for that, Get ready for couples. That twist this year
is that one of our couples knew each other.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Okay, do we matched? It's taken ten years, but yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
They walk down the aisle, they turn around and go
oh you oh really yes, Yeah, we've never had that before,
but we leaned into it. What's going to happen? Can
they turn it around? And will they use the help
of the experts to get through this? So that's very interesting. Also,
we have a very key I guess challenge at the
end of the experiment we call the final test week,
(04:30):
and that's never been done before. We threw it at
the couples because they know what's coming. Generally they've seen
eleven seasons of it. Yeah, so we did this to
shake them up, and it really did and it gets
them to think about, Okay, what do we do with
temptation here? So that's all I'll tell you about it.
But it really does wrong to a number of our couples.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It's easy for us to curate people curate their lives,
especially on social media, but you can't under the you know,
once they're on the show, they can only last for
a while, can't it the real person in the mind?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
That's right, I'd say, you know, I mean, you can
get through about two or three weeks, but because it's
a ten week experience, you know, you got pretty much
cameras on. You're twenty four to seven from about six
am in the morning. The masks come off after about
three weeks, and then you really see the true selves
come out, and particularly their patterns in relationships, you know,
(05:25):
because they're not very aware of what they're like, and
they really struggle when it comes to intimacy, and so
you see it play out. And then one of our
roles with the experts is to really hold that mirror
up and say, this is how you're running your life romantically,
what are you going to do here? Because there's a
problem and a number of the times I just don't
(05:46):
want to hear it.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I'm so stuck on this something about the people that
know each other, because I'm thinking it wouldn't be interesting
to see what their dynamic was when they knew each other,
Like if it was one that ran for the hills
and the other one was disappointed.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That it stopped us. I'm key to see how that
plays out.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
I'll let you find out about that, because how that ended, really,
you're quite right, was very heavily influential in how they
were able to get together this time on our show,
you know, so stay tuned for that one.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
All right. So we've got five people from w A.
That's definitely the most that we've ever had, Yes.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
And they're fantastic. You know, they're a great cast from
w A. And they are all of them really give
everything of themselves, you know, which is what you need.
You don't want them narrating their image or trying to,
you know, be someone behind closed doors. It's different on camera.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
We're saying that they think that, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
That's right. But these guys from w A really just
laid it all out on the table.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, from different walks of life, similar ages, but very
very very different.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
We got I think Paul. He's a Frenchman, a very
fit wellness advisor. Karina is very glamorous. Yes, Karina is
our fashion easter of the show. She's amazing, but she
also very very interestingly. She doesn't like conflict, finds herself
(07:15):
in the middle of it almost every week because the
dinner parties are so extreme. Jake's very quirky and his
match is very interesting in terms of how unique and
special they are. Afena is our solo parent and she's
very much hard on a sleeve, okay, gives you everything
(07:35):
and a lot of emotion. And then Billy, good old
Billy Billy the plaster from the UK. He's great, Yeah,
I geezer geezer and he rips it up.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
And here the mummies by self proclaimed possibly he is
good luck.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
To he's a good look and he's very fun that
he likes it up every time he's on screen.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It's still a ratings juggernaut. Yeah, you know, we talk
about it every year. I guess I guess you answered
it in some way when you talked earlier about how
it's ever evolving. You know, this year we are dealing
with that whole online effect on the way people think
relationships should work. And everyone's the most important person in
their own world these days. So I guess it's we
(08:26):
evolve as it evolves, and we're all.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
That's why it continues to rate. Yes, because it's not
the same old, same old every week.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
We don't really need to tweak the format that much.
Every now and then we'll do something to keep people guessing.
But ultimately the show lives and dies on the cast,
and they bring in all of their patterns, their backgrounds,
the insecurities and vulnerabilities. That really is what makes the show.
And then you've got the experts. We're very We go
(08:56):
much harder at them now than we did several years ago.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
You have to, because they get They behave extremely the
bit of bad chat yes yeah, politeness, I'm with you,
I'm with the host.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
There they don't go you yeah, which is a real
so going back, that's right, and I think it's a
real key element to the show's success because you know,
when you look at reality shows, typically the hosts or
the judges, the experts, they're put on a pedestal. They
come in, true, they give their opinions, and then they
leave and everybody goes, thank you very much. On our show,
(09:32):
we give our opinions and they go, John, you don't
know what you're talking about. Ah, and they.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You're right, because no one flicks auce on menu, did they.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
You know this is the thing, really absolutely, And I
look at I look at some of these other reality
shows and they're very different to ours because ours this,
and you feel it when you go in there into
a commitment ceremony and you've got to give feedback. You know,
they're not your friends. You know, they are people that
you are trying to essentially educate and hold to account
(10:04):
and call out bad behavior, and they don't like that,
and so they will come at you hard and often
they've never been spoken to in a way which really
puts the spotlight on it.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, okay, I'm curious about his final test because they
keep it fresh for you guys as well. Wouldn't it
something different?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Yes? Yes, And I have to say that I was
surprised at some of the very poor choices of our participants.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Oh nothing surprises me and I can't wait not to
be surprised or not surprised again for another season.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
John, thanks for popping in the smooth.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
A pleasure, lovely to see you too.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You too, and we haven't seen it, seen you for
a year, but you Benjamin Button, what's going on? You
look five years at.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Anyone else taking backwards.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
I love you, guys, I love you.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
It's a bit freaky.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Maybe it's just all the stress in my life dealing
with all these participants.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Budget blush before six twenty.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Thanks guys.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That's going to be another hot day in Perth, so
we thought we'd take it to the phones today. Okay,
not about today's weather or this week's weather, but about
when you've been the hottest ever in your life that
you can recall.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Well, growing up in the seventies without air conditioning, living
in les Murdy where the sea breeze did not reach
ever ever, trying to sleep, and just the memories of
flipping the pillow yes to the cool side, yeah, all
night long, especially that damn pillow. Every time I turn
(11:31):
my pillow over, I have a flashback. Really, my bedroom
boiling boiling all night.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yes, like just cooking in your own.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Self juice, your own sweets, absolutely vile. Right now, Yes
it's hot, but I sleep with the air con and
sleep like a baby.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Fans. I remember the summer of eighty one eighty two, right,
living in hammers Our pool pump died right at the
start of summer and mom didn't have the money to
buy and you pull pump or filter. Yeah, she said,
when you're fifteen and a half, you can fill the
pool in. That seems like it was my job to
fill the pool in.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It seems like such an extreme reaction to a broken
pool filter to.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Fill in the pool single month for kids.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I mean, how do you fill in? Why did Why
did you need to fill in the pool? Couldn't you
have just left it empty?
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Well?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You could have.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Do you fill in a pool?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Everything went in there, put it in the pool room, everything.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Not if you have you meant to do it.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
Had an old clothesline, you held toys, that's called landfill
blow up. The other end of Belvaniere Road had some sand.
I'd have to go up there with the wheelbarrow and
take that down. But after a while mums sold the
pool fence right, And then after a while it starts
sinking down exactly.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
You have to fill it in with you meant that,
you meant that proper filter. Yeah, so the level kept
going down. You could always se the old bike. You
could always see the outline. There's a couple of those
in there had bikes. Maybe an old uncle, I don't.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Know, don't say dead stuff from there.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Exscelluentely so other friends, you know, the rich friends around
the suburb was swimming.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Idiot.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
He was filling in the pool. The hottest I've ever
been anyway.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Biz, Yeah, I do think that is a bizarre reaction.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
That's what she did to Margaret, broken pool filter. She
didn't want to just sitting there down in green I
think that was what it was.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yeah, yeah, drain the pool.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Well, yeah, we don't train it, but then you're going
to fill it in an ugly empty blue thing in
the backyard anyway.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah, you might have got a for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I don't want to talk about it anymore. I've had
therapy leaves. Bring it up.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Ten sixty five.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Our text number A zero four seven six ninety six
ninety six ninety six Barry and Bayswater has texted us
and said the hottest ive've bead is every time I
look in the mirror.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Here you go, bears good for you, Barry, Yeah, good
on you. You'll be right when he gets his confidence back
and he comes out of the shell.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Christy on the text, Christy in Westminster says she remembers
this because it was her seventeenth birthday. Twenty third February
nineteen ninety seven was forty six point something. Forty six
point something. Tim in Bilia says the hottest he he's
ever been is when he was working as a chef
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kitchens in Cloncurry in western Queensland. The temperature was around
fifty degrees every day, so you can imagine how hot
the kitchen was.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Air conditioner couldn't keep up with it.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
But the beer after work was the best beer ever
because it was so cold.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
How cold and how satisfying. Let's go to high work
in morning.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Denise, good morning, How are you good?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Denise? Was the host you've been So?
Speaker 10 (14:41):
It was November twenty three and I was doing release
special in Ada, and I was just working at local
primary school and I was driving there for a minute,
you know, take a minute, I thought I walked, So
I walked there. This day. It was very hot, very humid,
walking around and then I walked home. I was thought
off on fire, I was my face was the hottest. Honestly.
(15:07):
I had a shower Colt shower and honestly thought I
was going to combust.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
So it's horrible.
Speaker 10 (15:13):
Consequently, so consequently I drove after that. So yeah, trying
to you know, say petrol and yeah, and of course
schools only have a backup of air conditioning.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
So especially on steamy days, is not that great.
Speaker 10 (15:28):
Hot all day. Walked home and thought I was, Yes,
so anyway, I've never and I grew up in billiona
Ora Coole Guardian, I grew up in the air conditioning.
It was the hottest I've ever been. Yes, anyway, I did.
I cooled down eventually, but it.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Was pretty hard on fire.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I ended up with that butterby Joyce kind of a completion.
Speaker 11 (15:49):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Sorry, that's hot.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
It's like menopause. That's the hardest you'll ever be.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Let me tell you right now, Peter and Iky, what's
the hordest you've ever.
Speaker 12 (15:59):
Been in your year? To Basically, well, I was hearing
at Nyang station with me mate, and it was fifty
degrees and there wasn't a breath of air and that
and but one of the worst things about it the
water from the homestead shearing shed ran on top of
(16:21):
the ground and it was Jessica Night's pipe, so yeah,
and like it just out come out of steam. So
we had to get the water out of the donkey, yeah,
which is and that was.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Cooler, yeah.
Speaker 12 (16:39):
Water, and with it. Then at the end of the
day we couldn't have a shower because it was just
too hot. So we were in the sheep draft, big tank,
then into the into the shower quickly, you know. And
then the people were fading us cheese sandwiches and well
we're working so hard, but so and then there was
(17:03):
no freak for a cold beer, sock.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
And hang it out to us, sock.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
It's like a cool guardy cooler eighteen ninety nine.
Speaker 12 (17:12):
Yes, after the first two it didn't matter.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah, you tell the kids today that I never believe you.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, And that that piper above the ground, mate, that's
a worry, and that from the house.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (17:26):
And we're there for about nine days.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Oh my god, earned your money?
Speaker 12 (17:30):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah, yeah, we definitely didn't. Then they can.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Blak you too.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Have first beer when you go back from that. That
was the original fly and fly out job.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Wasn't it bloody hard work? I'd imagine too.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Jesse and Armadale on the text says, the hottest I've
been was in a Transperth bus on Boxing Day twenty
twenty one. It was forty eight degrees inside with a
broken air Connor remember that year was really rue, really
hot Christmas Day. And Chris from Haynes says he's been
like Barry. Hardest I've been was the day I married
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my wife. I was one spokey hunk.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Hey, good for you, Chris. Yeah, got a bit of swagger.
Love that right, It's gonna being good. Aaron, When was
the hottest you ever have been?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Good morning?
Speaker 11 (18:22):
Ninety four?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Okay, nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 11 (18:27):
I was thirty six weeks pregnant. Oh, it was forty
three degrees. I was an Oh where was it?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (18:37):
I'm going to the steady somewhere. And so basically you're
a human incubator. A week pregnant, thirty next week you
feel like a whale. And I can remember lying in
the bath. And for those of you who can't get pregnant,
bellies aren't just static. So as the baby moves like
your belly moves as well. So I was lying in
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the bath this island, going okay, mummy is dying. You
need to get out. Now you're big enough, You're going
to be fine out And the bellys just waving, waving
at me and creating ripples.
Speaker 12 (19:08):
In the water.
Speaker 11 (19:09):
And she said for another four weeks. She didn't want
to get out.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
For the four weeks.
Speaker 11 (19:16):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 12 (19:17):
It wasn't fine.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Wine flu. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11 (19:24):
I had forty two degrees as a temperature when I
had swine flu, and I swear that frequency was worse.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Sar, you want that water to be cool, and.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Yes you would. Jeff in Balladura, what's the hottest you've
ever been?
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Back in the day of a removalist?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
And we had to go up to Fitzroy Crossing. I
worked for Grace. It was forty seven degrees.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
In the shade.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
For some reason, I picked the dough the shed to
pack the shed pools there it was fifty five degrees.
He's in the shed and I was packing these tools
are all sweating that much. I couldn't The tape wasn't
taking to the boxes.
Speaker 11 (20:08):
Was horrific.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
How long in did the shed did you realize you
made a bad choice there?
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Jeff absolutely should have took the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Shed the sheds.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
He must have been a woodwork teacher or something. He
had so many tools. I had to get out of there.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
That's dangerous.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Thanks Jeff and Jeff.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
All right, do we all feel a bit better now
about It's not so bad?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
It's warm more more podcasts.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Matt had Graft has told us the story behind that song.
I have was not familiar with it about Billy Joel.
But that's not in the show, is it, Matt.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
That's not in the show, So I don't have to
I can tell you the story if well during.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Matt to the studio here with his fringe shows Elton
John Your Song Tonight and Tomorrow Night and Billy Joel's
Just the Way You Are Friday and Saturday. Both shows
are at His Majesty's Theater, one of the most beautiful
theaters that you can perform mat It is sumptuous and
tickets for both are available through Fringe world dot com
dot are you now?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
We're going to have to quickly tell the story.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Very quickly. Indeed, Billy Joel had a depressing moment in
his life and he thought he would end it all
by drinking bleach, and then he thought, no, furniture polish
is going to taste better than that. So it didn't
kill him. But he wrote that song, you know, second Wind,
to try to talk anyone else down from the ledge,
and that's why it's so upbeat and everything.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Now the ledge is very shiny, yes now.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Elton John and Billy Joel individually fantastic. I've seen them together,
they were fantastic. What is it about the music of
these two that you love so much?
Speaker 6 (21:53):
The thing I love about Elton John is, especially the
ones I picked from the seventies, just so singable. There's
something iconic in every one of the songs, you know,
whether it whoops up to something up in his high voice,
or whether it's just a good old tune. It's just fun.
And those kinds of songs where that you remember them
from the radio being on in the background while you
(22:13):
did something else, but it became part of your DNA.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Absolutely. I heard Philadelphia Freedom the other day when I
was shopping, and I went, what a great song. Haven't
heard it for you?
Speaker 6 (22:22):
It's awesome and you know. But the other thing I
find is everyone if you look around a shop when
something like Rocketman comes up, you see everyone lip syncing toyah.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Especially since the movie yes the music to another level
with another audience.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
And it revitalized it. Favorite CPR have another innings.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
How do you pick the songs because there were so
many for both artists.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Yeah, it was hard as anything, and I just kind
of thought. I was looking down the list of them
and I thought, what part of that song does everyone
just know?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
You know?
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Some people, you know, people come up and they go like, oh,
you're going to do are you going to do mad Catism?
I'm like, no, what, Yeah, people kind of vaguely know
that some thing like Candle in the Wind, everyone just
knows it not and nobody knows how.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yes, It's like when they start singing Tiny Dancer and
almost Famous on the Bus.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Yeah yeah, yeah, everybody does. That's the thing. So yeah,
I'm confident everyone knows all of the songs in the show.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, So they're all relatable ones that very much. Do
you have a favorite song by each of them?
Speaker 6 (23:24):
In the in this show? I love Benny and the Jets.
There's just something about it that.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Just I've always loved Benny and the Jets, and of
course he launched the you know, the final concert with.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
That, and it was just the best at.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Moment high notes to get that.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
I don't know what you're talking about. Luckily you can
outsource that kind of thing to a fun crowd. Wise,
you haven't heard something until you've heard all the men
singing the Benny bit. Oh, it's gorgeous right now, it's great,
I'm heard. Okay, as you wish, you're a courage people
(24:06):
to sing along?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Why would I dress up?
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Exactly?
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (24:10):
You know, fewer people dress up because I don't know why.
Maybe they maybe they just didn't nit past the costume
store that day. But everyone's encouraged to sing along. In fact,
you'll get a QR code and when you scan it,
it'll bring up the words.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
So you can get it out exactly baptastic.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Why would you want to go and see anything to
do with Elton John without singing along to it? You're
ic you to be part of it.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Now when as a performer, how do you feel about
the billy stuff when you haven't played it and you
you're debuting, how do you feel about that? Do you know,
it's exciting.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
It is exciting and terrifying at the same time. But
they you know, they say, the hardest note to play
is the first one, and then after that you just
remember why you love songs like this. And with Billy,
Joel he's really like I mean, you know, with Elton
he wrote the music and Bernie toy Will Joel kind
of did everything. And the words are really really, really
(25:04):
sophisticated and a bugger to learn, let me tell you.
But once the songs get going, they just kind of
they have their own life. I think I'm just a
just a conduit sitting up there.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
You are You've done us some other shows as well.
You've done Peter Allen, Oh yes, boy from Oswald.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
If I had energy to do that again. I'll tell
you what.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
One of our favorite guests on this show actually is.
Joel Jackson. I don't oh yeah, Joel is from Albany.
He played Peter Allen and he was the boy and
he was amazing. It must he must just be the
most divine character to play Peter Allen.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
He is great just because there's nothing. When I say
he's not skilled, I don't mean that in a bitchy
way the thing was. He he's just so authentic with
how he got up there and his body moved around,
he jumped about the place.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Just before his time.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Yeah, he never he never let the audience out of
his side either, watching Alan John his faces down the
whole time. Peter Allen locked eyes with the audience and
did let.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
It's so good though, and I'm reassured that he drops
notes on the piano all the timely. Yeah, but just
what you get his energy from him? So yeah, at
the end of one of those shows, you're sleep.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Well, Oh I bet you?
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yeah. And the others who played me, Hugh Jackman, they
said the same thing, although the jack Show was more
about the celebrity of Jackman taking everything the.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Care well the thing. I met Todd McKenney and he
said the same kind of thing too, and he gave
me a video that was just like, please go and
see Matt's show. So I don't have to do it anymore.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I feel like Peter Allen's never been played by anyone ordinary.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
No, I'll take yourself.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I do have to ask about the Abbot show though, Benny.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
I was Benny and brew my hair. It's called a
lioness head yea, and yeah, okay, well I'm in real
hair helps because he swings his head around all the
plays and yeah, and I apprenticed in having to stand
up to play piano.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Oh how did you go? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
I just I.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Didn't wasn't part of a gym at the time, and
I didn't need to do because between Peter Allen and Benny. Yeah,
some chiropractice is going to make a fortune out of
my neck.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
You get the trifect. You play John Lord from Deep
Purple Fashion with a heavy rock band.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
It's possibly not as campy as my.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Definitely this time it's the great piano players Elton John
and Billy Joel. Your song is Tonight and Tomorrow Night.
Billy's just the way you are as Friday and Saturday.
All of His Majesty's tickets are available through Fringe world
dot com dot Are you thank you for coming in
so early in the morning.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
We know it's early for French people.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
No, thank you for having me. In fact, I popped
over and put my clothes in the laundromat before I came.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
It's incredible.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
I didn't want to say anything. Matt.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
We got get a visual of this somewhere and now
you'm a beaver.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Now he makes my brothers at the stealing your your small.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Half is luck jeez if they fit him.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
The Sure Report on ninety six air FM, there's.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
A headline this morning that says Benson Boone embraces Australian
tradition with an on stage showy ugh, it's I blame
you Daniel Ricardo for this.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
It's not an Aussie tradition.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It's gross. It's not a tradition. It's not a thing.
It's just a gross thing Daniel did once after a race.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Yuck. Stop calling it an Ossie tradition. I'm embarrassed. But anyway,
so Benson Boone, he's this guy, M.
Speaker 10 (28:43):
Please stay, I want you, I need you.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Hold God?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Do tick?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Is this beautiful thing that I've gone?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
He was doing a sold out performance at Sydney's Horde
and Pavilion when he paused the show to drink.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Water out of a cowboy boot.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
However, Boone opted for a sanitized twist, using bottled water
and a clean boot.
Speaker 10 (29:13):
And do I put a lot of water? It just
a little bit like how much I'm going to drink
right now?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
When in Australia, stars like post Malone, Lizzo I wouldn't
want to drink out of post Malone, shoe Oh My God,
and Harry Styles have all famously done shoeies while on
tour down Under in recent years.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Hence it now copying the Ossie tradition label.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Damn SOEs that mean, now you build that up, You're
going to do one and we're going to film it
and it's going to be on the social.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yes, not an AUSSI tradition's gross. The last living member
of the band, multi instrumentalist Garth Hudson, has died peacefully
in his sleep in Woodstock, in New York's. He was
eighty seven.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Beladree be held.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
You put the Long Run on Well talking about great songs.
Scart played piano on that wonderful song The Weight. He
was also the band's archivist, helping to document the band's
nineteen sixty six tour with Bob Dylan. This is why
they were called the band because they were Bob Dylan's
band when Dylan controversially went electric. Big Pink and John
(30:32):
Sykes has died overnight. He was a guitarist with White
Snake and Thin Lizzie John was sixty five. Sadly he
had been battling cancer for several years.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Now, this is what I alluded to before.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Billy Idol and Joan Jets are going on tour together.
They're promoting it as it's a nice day to go
on tour again. At this stage they've only announced states
in the US and Canada. But I'm saying at this
stage because you know, you never know, never never know,
you never know, you know.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I stay for a white wedding. If you love rock
and rock.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
More Clesya more podcast.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Soon you can catch Peter Garrett and the Alter Egos
February twenty eight at the East Perth power Station as
part of the Perth Festival.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Tickets are available through Perth Festival dot com, dot au
and Peter Garrett is joining us now.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Good morning, morning, morning.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Peter Garrett playing at a power station just speaks to
me in a very kismety way.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
It's a better way to do it, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Put it in absolutely, It's been elaborated for years.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Nice to see it.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Being used totally totally. Well look, I mean, you know
it's great and exciting and all of that stuff. To
still be playing and you know, to scratch the itch
and to really let that energy thing, which I'm very
thankful for still run its course, and the fact that
we're able to come over and do a show. It's
part of the fist. Obviously it's a really good thing
(31:57):
and very cool and exciting and so on. But I
also like inhabiting different spaces and places when we play
Loved It in the Oars, Loved It in the Altars,
and transforming something from what it was into something new
where people can actually just gather and celebrate and enjoy
and you know, have a night of it.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
You've never been a shin and to a mere man
on stage, so I can't imagine what you would what
you know, state you'd be in if you didn't have
that outlet out on stage to.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Worry those boats. You feel the same way.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Actually, what do you get bored at home? Paid what
do you like to be out in the road? Duntain
and they're doing different.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Boredom and all that stuff. It's just not in my
DNA really, But I think, you know, when I think
about it, and I think about the time with the Oars,
and even when we've played over in the West, or
wherever it might have been. Just that opportunity that incredible.
It's like the sacred space, you know, the fact that
you can still occupy a stage and you know you've
(32:55):
got music and you've got things that you want to say,
and you want to make the night. You want to
make it shimmer and shake as much as you can.
And yeah, if I have to do it elsewhere, I'm
happy to do it elsewhere. But I love it. And
I've got plenty else things that I'm doing and lots
of stuff that I'm interested in, and you know, the
sub politics or whatever it might be. But you know,
(33:16):
at this point in time, it's still it's a retreat,
you know, to be able to take that energy and
to utilize it and to bring some really fine missings
on stage. Matt Lossy's playing with me, made the record
with me, and you know it's just it's a heap
of fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
True North solo album came out last year. How do
you find the process, you know, when you when you're
going solo, the decision making the recording. I mean, sometimes
I guess life can be a bit careful what you
wish for.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Well, you know the truth of it is that I mean,
I suppose it is. It is a solo thing. It
doesn't feel like it to me, just feels like an
offshoot what I've always been doing.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Okay, the boys.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Always had other projects some ago, and I think, yeah,
when I made a first record, I thought, oh, this
is fun. I don't have to please for other people,
you know, So that side of it, You've got a
bit more freedom to explore things. And it's also the
unpredictability of not knowing where a song will go. I
mean the power and the intensity that we were, you know,
(34:22):
like absolutely welded and so incredibly lucky to have in
the oils. There was always a surplus of that, you know.
We always we didn't have two forty, you know, we
had five hundred. So the authors, I think it's it's different,
but it's also just it's doing the same thing in
a different way and just enjoying the business of creativity.
(34:45):
I found it. I had a lark, you know, like
I was in the sandpit. Really that was probably the
best way to describe it.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
But you talked about things you like doing. I like
walking up the street. I live in Free and walked
up to Essex Street. Cine was last year and plucked
myself down to see your movie The Hardest Line Docco,
which was real, and the aid of various ages of
people watching the Midnight Oil movie were it was incredible.
There were fans older than me I'm fifty nine, and
there was some twenty somethings as well. That's the appeal
of the Oil's music, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Well. I mean, I think if you hang around long enough,
then you know, people interest in produce to their kids
or their younger brothers and sisters or whatever. It was interesting.
I mean, I think when we came back out, we
noticed that, you know, there was another generation of people
that had come to see us, and that's I mean,
that's just you don't expect that, and it's very very special.
But I think the other thing is a lot of
(35:33):
what we are on about, both the way that we played,
the way I approached the business of performing, and the
things that we sing about. Unfortunately, some of them are
things which we were, you know, wanting to raise the
flag on and maybe sort of say hey, this is
what we think. And there's still stuff that's very important.
So in some ways it's like, oh God, are we
still singing about this? But in other ways you realize
(35:54):
it's actually, you know, historically speaking, probably a pretty short
period of times, so there's a relevance there also, which
counts for us. I think finally, last but not least,
I carried this through with what I'm doing. Martin has
Jim and Robb doing their own ways like it's the
biggest obvious statement of the bleeding obviously you've ever heard.
(36:14):
But it was always about the music and the message.
And yeah, you know, if that's still got juice and
it's still cut through, then you're going to get it
to people, no matter what age they are or where
they live. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Well, Blue sky Mining for One turns thirty five this year.
It contains one of the most important songs to this
state ever, you know.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
I mean they should teach that in school, really, Blue.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Sky Mine and the history of Whitnamen, so that we
never see anything.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Like that again.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Peter Garrett, it has been lovely to chat to you.
The Alter Egos. February the twenty eighth that the East
Perth Power Station. You can get tickets through Perthfestival dot
com dot au.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Look forward to seeing you in town.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
No, we're excited about it's going to be a blast.
Thanks guys, good to you again, Crazy Lisa
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Speaker 3 (00:13):
Town and of course there's been a heat way, But
we asked you when was the hottest you've ever been?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Matt had Graft swings bid to talk Billy Joel and
Elton John featuring in his upcoming fringe shows.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It was a packed sure report, including another celeb doing
a shoey once in Australia, and.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Peter Garrett talks to us about his upcoming show in
a very unconventional space.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
He won't be doing any shoeies.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Here we go again. She played White Snake.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Go again.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Look, we've got a great cast this year. They're very
unfiltered and raw. Yes, slightly younger this year, but we
have some real interesting twists along the way. One of
the things that I noticed that hasn't happened before is
that TikTok social media is really influencing people's approaches to
dating and relationships, and this year those really extreme mindsets
(01:06):
show up on the experiments. So we have our trade wives,
we have our men with their warrior mindsets, and they're very,
very fixed about what they want and what they won't
put up with. And there's no commitment they don't want
because they are able to swipe, you know, out in
the real world so quickly. So it's very transactional.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
This is the thing what they won't put up with.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
There's very little negotiations, it seems these days, among people,
and they're gonna I mean you, I would think you'd
have to snap out of that.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Well, that's one of our roles this year is really
to shake them up and say listen.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
It doesn't know given that's right, there's got to.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Be some compromise here. But they love being in their
fem roles and their masculine roles, and they're very particular
about deal breakers. And they've always got this sense of
the grass is greener and if this person it doesn't
take every single one of these many boxes, then John,
you're to blame. You're a failure, and I'm going to
(02:04):
have you up on it.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Actually, this is really serious, this attitude that has developed,
because it is it is completely a false world that
they think exists.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yes, and John, what do you foresee down the track?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
In twenty years has been the stage of relationships.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Well, I'm hoping that people realize that, you know, getting
your dating and relationship advice from TikTok actually probably is
not the best thing to do. You're better off to
go and meet someone face to face or talk to
someone who's got expertise about it. And I think there
is a move going back to that, you know, people
getting to running clubs where they're trying to you know,
(02:43):
actually converse with people face to face rather than just
on apps which are very physically based.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, you're what about the swiping thing though, because there
was a time I think, you know, my mum and dad'
z Eira when they broke up. Mum was a shame
that it was. There was a divorce, the divorce came up,
whereas now it's so easy for popping, but it feels
like it's easier and like you said, deal breakers.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
That's right. And so what you see on the show
is these very different mindsets that we haven't seen before.
That's one of the secret sources of the shows that
we tap into the zeitguys. So if it's gas lighting,
it'll show up on our show. If it's people speaking
their truth only.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Fan God, I hate that expression.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Speak truth.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
This year it's all about social.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Well, this is very interesting. You have a real responsibility.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, the show is now a cautionary tale. It's so
many things and it could well hopefully be the thing
that you know, you can pivot on and start getting
people to understand that it's not how it is on TikTok.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
I think there's gonna be a lot of noise around
it because people will hear things and go, really, you
don't want a woman with any ambition or career? Is
that really what you're you're telling me? So get ready
for that, Get ready for couples. That twist this year
is that one of our couples knew each other.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Okay, do we matched? It's taken ten years, but yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
They walk down the aisle, they turn around and go
oh you oh really yes, Yeah, we've never had that before,
but we leaned into it. What's going to happen? Can
they turn it around? And will they use the help
of the experts to get through this? So that's very interesting. Also,
we have a very key I guess challenge at the
end of the experiment we call the final test week,
(04:30):
and that's never been done before. We threw it at
the couples because they know what's coming. Generally they've seen
eleven seasons of it. Yeah, so we did this to
shake them up, and it really did and it gets
them to think about, Okay, what do we do with
temptation here? So that's all I'll tell you about it.
But it really does wrong to a number of our couples.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It's easy for us to curate people curate their lives,
especially on social media, but you can't under the you know,
once they're on the show, they can only last for
a while, can't it the real person in the mind?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
That's right, I'd say, you know, I mean, you can
get through about two or three weeks, but because it's
a ten week experience, you know, you got pretty much
cameras on. You're twenty four to seven from about six
am in the morning. The masks come off after about
three weeks, and then you really see the true selves
come out, and particularly their patterns in relationships, you know,
(05:25):
because they're not very aware of what they're like, and
they really struggle when it comes to intimacy, and so
you see it play out. And then one of our
roles with the experts is to really hold that mirror
up and say, this is how you're running your life romantically,
what are you going to do here? Because there's a
problem and a number of the times I just don't
(05:46):
want to hear it.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I'm so stuck on this something about the people that
know each other, because I'm thinking it wouldn't be interesting
to see what their dynamic was when they knew each other,
Like if it was one that ran for the hills
and the other one was disappointed.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That it stopped us. I'm key to see how that
plays out.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
I'll let you find out about that, because how that ended, really,
you're quite right, was very heavily influential in how they
were able to get together this time on our show,
you know, so stay tuned for that one.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
All right. So we've got five people from w A.
That's definitely the most that we've ever had, Yes.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
And they're fantastic. You know, they're a great cast from
w A. And they are all of them really give
everything of themselves, you know, which is what you need.
You don't want them narrating their image or trying to,
you know, be someone behind closed doors. It's different on camera.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
We're saying that they think that, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
That's right. But these guys from w A really just
laid it all out on the table.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, from different walks of life, similar ages, but very
very very different.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
We got I think Paul. He's a Frenchman, a very
fit wellness advisor. Karina is very glamorous. Yes, Karina is
our fashion easter of the show. She's amazing, but she
also very very interestingly. She doesn't like conflict, finds herself
(07:15):
in the middle of it almost every week because the
dinner parties are so extreme. Jake's very quirky and his
match is very interesting in terms of how unique and
special they are. Afena is our solo parent and she's
very much hard on a sleeve, okay, gives you everything
(07:35):
and a lot of emotion. And then Billy, good old
Billy Billy the plaster from the UK. He's great, Yeah,
I geezer geezer and he rips it up.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
And here the mummies by self proclaimed possibly he is
good luck.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
To he's a good look and he's very fun that
he likes it up every time he's on screen.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It's still a ratings juggernaut. Yeah, you know, we talk
about it every year. I guess I guess you answered
it in some way when you talked earlier about how
it's ever evolving. You know, this year we are dealing
with that whole online effect on the way people think
relationships should work. And everyone's the most important person in
their own world these days. So I guess it's we
(08:26):
evolve as it evolves, and we're all.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
That's why it continues to rate. Yes, because it's not
the same old, same old every week.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
We don't really need to tweak the format that much.
Every now and then we'll do something to keep people guessing.
But ultimately the show lives and dies on the cast,
and they bring in all of their patterns, their backgrounds,
the insecurities and vulnerabilities. That really is what makes the show.
And then you've got the experts. We're very We go
(08:56):
much harder at them now than we did several years ago.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
You have to, because they get They behave extremely the
bit of bad chat yes yeah, politeness, I'm with you,
I'm with the host.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
There they don't go you yeah, which is a real
so going back, that's right, and I think it's a
real key element to the show's success because you know,
when you look at reality shows, typically the hosts or
the judges, the experts, they're put on a pedestal. They
come in, true, they give their opinions, and then they
leave and everybody goes, thank you very much. On our show,
(09:32):
we give our opinions and they go, John, you don't
know what you're talking about. Ah, and they.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You're right, because no one flicks auce on menu, did they.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
You know this is the thing, really absolutely, And I
look at I look at some of these other reality
shows and they're very different to ours because ours this,
and you feel it when you go in there into
a commitment ceremony and you've got to give feedback. You know,
they're not your friends. You know, they are people that
you are trying to essentially educate and hold to account
(10:04):
and call out bad behavior, and they don't like that,
and so they will come at you hard and often
they've never been spoken to in a way which really
puts the spotlight on it.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, okay, I'm curious about his final test because they
keep it fresh for you guys as well. Wouldn't it
something different?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Yes? Yes, And I have to say that I was
surprised at some of the very poor choices of our participants.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Oh nothing surprises me and I can't wait not to
be surprised or not surprised again for another season.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
John, thanks for popping in the smooth.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
A pleasure, lovely to see you too.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You too, and we haven't seen it, seen you for
a year, but you Benjamin Button, what's going on? You
look five years at.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Anyone else taking backwards.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
I love you, guys, I love you.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
It's a bit freaky.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Maybe it's just all the stress in my life dealing
with all these participants.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Budget blush before six twenty.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Thanks guys.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That's going to be another hot day in Perth, so
we thought we'd take it to the phones today. Okay,
not about today's weather or this week's weather, but about
when you've been the hottest ever in your life that
you can recall.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Well, growing up in the seventies without air conditioning, living
in les Murdy where the sea breeze did not reach
ever ever, trying to sleep, and just the memories of
flipping the pillow yes to the cool side, yeah, all
night long, especially that damn pillow. Every time I turn
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my pillow over, I have a flashback. Really, my bedroom
boiling boiling all night.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yes, like just cooking in your own.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Self juice, your own sweets, absolutely vile. Right now, Yes
it's hot, but I sleep with the air con and
sleep like a baby.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Fans. I remember the summer of eighty one eighty two, right,
living in hammers Our pool pump died right at the
start of summer and mom didn't have the money to
buy and you pull pump or filter. Yeah, she said,
when you're fifteen and a half, you can fill the
pool in. That seems like it was my job to
fill the pool in.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It seems like such an extreme reaction to a broken
pool filter to.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Fill in the pool single month for kids.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I mean, how do you fill in? Why did Why
did you need to fill in the pool? Couldn't you
have just left it empty?
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Well?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You could have.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Do you fill in a pool?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Everything went in there, put it in the pool room, everything.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Not if you have you meant to do it.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
Had an old clothesline, you held toys, that's called landfill
blow up. The other end of Belvaniere Road had some sand.
I'd have to go up there with the wheelbarrow and
take that down. But after a while mums sold the
pool fence right, And then after a while it starts
sinking down exactly.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
You have to fill it in with you meant that,
you meant that proper filter. Yeah, so the level kept
going down. You could always se the old bike. You
could always see the outline. There's a couple of those
in there had bikes. Maybe an old uncle, I don't.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Know, don't say dead stuff from there.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Exscelluentely so other friends, you know, the rich friends around
the suburb was swimming.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Idiot.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
He was filling in the pool. The hottest I've ever
been anyway.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Biz, Yeah, I do think that is a bizarre reaction.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
That's what she did to Margaret, broken pool filter. She
didn't want to just sitting there down in green I
think that was what it was.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yeah, yeah, drain the pool.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Well, yeah, we don't train it, but then you're going
to fill it in an ugly empty blue thing in
the backyard anyway.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah, you might have got a for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I don't want to talk about it anymore. I've had
therapy leaves. Bring it up.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Ten sixty five.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Our text number A zero four seven six ninety six
ninety six ninety six Barry and Bayswater has texted us
and said the hottest ive've bead is every time I
look in the mirror.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Here you go, bears good for you, Barry, Yeah, good
on you. You'll be right when he gets his confidence back
and he comes out of the shell.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Christy on the text, Christy in Westminster says she remembers
this because it was her seventeenth birthday. Twenty third February
nineteen ninety seven was forty six point something. Forty six
point something. Tim in Bilia says the hottest he he's
ever been is when he was working as a chef
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kitchens in Cloncurry in western Queensland. The temperature was around
fifty degrees every day, so you can imagine how hot
the kitchen was.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Air conditioner couldn't keep up with it.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
But the beer after work was the best beer ever
because it was so cold.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
How cold and how satisfying. Let's go to high work
in morning.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Denise, good morning, How are you good?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Denise? Was the host you've been So?
Speaker 10 (14:41):
It was November twenty three and I was doing release
special in Ada, and I was just working at local
primary school and I was driving there for a minute,
you know, take a minute, I thought I walked, So
I walked there. This day. It was very hot, very humid,
walking around and then I walked home. I was thought
off on fire, I was my face was the hottest. Honestly.
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I had a shower Colt shower and honestly thought I
was going to combust.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
So it's horrible.
Speaker 10 (15:13):
Consequently, so consequently I drove after that. So yeah, trying
to you know, say petrol and yeah, and of course
schools only have a backup of air conditioning.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
So especially on steamy days, is not that great.
Speaker 10 (15:28):
Hot all day. Walked home and thought I was, Yes,
so anyway, I've never and I grew up in billiona
Ora Coole Guardian, I grew up in the air conditioning.
It was the hottest I've ever been. Yes, anyway, I did.
I cooled down eventually, but it.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Was pretty hard on fire.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I ended up with that butterby Joyce kind of a completion.
Speaker 11 (15:49):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Sorry, that's hot.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
It's like menopause. That's the hardest you'll ever be.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Let me tell you right now, Peter and Iky, what's
the hordest you've ever.
Speaker 12 (15:59):
Been in your year? To Basically, well, I was hearing
at Nyang station with me mate, and it was fifty
degrees and there wasn't a breath of air and that
and but one of the worst things about it the
water from the homestead shearing shed ran on top of
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the ground and it was Jessica Night's pipe, so yeah,
and like it just out come out of steam. So
we had to get the water out of the donkey, yeah,
which is and that was.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Cooler, yeah.
Speaker 12 (16:39):
Water, and with it. Then at the end of the
day we couldn't have a shower because it was just
too hot. So we were in the sheep draft, big tank,
then into the into the shower quickly, you know. And
then the people were fading us cheese sandwiches and well
we're working so hard, but so and then there was
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no freak for a cold beer, sock.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
And hang it out to us, sock.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
It's like a cool guardy cooler eighteen ninety nine.
Speaker 12 (17:12):
Yes, after the first two it didn't matter.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah, you tell the kids today that I never believe you.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, And that that piper above the ground, mate, that's
a worry, and that from the house.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (17:26):
And we're there for about nine days.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Oh my god, earned your money?
Speaker 12 (17:30):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah, yeah, we definitely didn't. Then they can.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Blak you too.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Have first beer when you go back from that. That
was the original fly and fly out job.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Wasn't it bloody hard work? I'd imagine too.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Jesse and Armadale on the text says, the hottest I've
been was in a Transperth bus on Boxing Day twenty
twenty one. It was forty eight degrees inside with a
broken air Connor remember that year was really rue, really
hot Christmas Day. And Chris from Haynes says he's been
like Barry. Hardest I've been was the day I married
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my wife. I was one spokey hunk.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Hey, good for you, Chris. Yeah, got a bit of swagger.
Love that right, It's gonna being good. Aaron, When was
the hottest you ever have been?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Good morning?
Speaker 11 (18:22):
Ninety four?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Okay, nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 11 (18:27):
I was thirty six weeks pregnant. Oh, it was forty
three degrees. I was an Oh where was it?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (18:37):
I'm going to the steady somewhere. And so basically you're
a human incubator. A week pregnant, thirty next week you
feel like a whale. And I can remember lying in
the bath. And for those of you who can't get pregnant,
bellies aren't just static. So as the baby moves like
your belly moves as well. So I was lying in
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the bath this island, going okay, mummy is dying. You
need to get out. Now you're big enough, You're going
to be fine out And the bellys just waving, waving
at me and creating ripples.
Speaker 12 (19:08):
In the water.
Speaker 11 (19:09):
And she said for another four weeks. She didn't want
to get out.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
For the four weeks.
Speaker 11 (19:16):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 12 (19:17):
It wasn't fine.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Wine flu. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11 (19:24):
I had forty two degrees as a temperature when I
had swine flu, and I swear that frequency was worse.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Sar, you want that water to be cool, and.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Yes you would. Jeff in Balladura, what's the hottest you've
ever been?
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Back in the day of a removalist?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
And we had to go up to Fitzroy Crossing. I
worked for Grace. It was forty seven degrees.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
In the shade.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
For some reason, I picked the dough the shed to
pack the shed pools there it was fifty five degrees.
He's in the shed and I was packing these tools
are all sweating that much. I couldn't The tape wasn't
taking to the boxes.
Speaker 11 (20:08):
Was horrific.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
How long in did the shed did you realize you
made a bad choice there?
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Jeff absolutely should have took the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Shed the sheds.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
He must have been a woodwork teacher or something. He
had so many tools. I had to get out of there.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
That's dangerous.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Thanks Jeff and Jeff.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
All right, do we all feel a bit better now
about It's not so bad?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
It's warm more more podcasts.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Matt had Graft has told us the story behind that song.
I have was not familiar with it about Billy Joel.
But that's not in the show, is it, Matt.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
That's not in the show, So I don't have to
I can tell you the story if well during.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Matt to the studio here with his fringe shows Elton
John Your Song Tonight and Tomorrow Night and Billy Joel's
Just the Way You Are Friday and Saturday. Both shows
are at His Majesty's Theater, one of the most beautiful
theaters that you can perform mat It is sumptuous and
tickets for both are available through Fringe world dot com
dot are you now?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
We're going to have to quickly tell the story.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Very quickly. Indeed, Billy Joel had a depressing moment in
his life and he thought he would end it all
by drinking bleach, and then he thought, no, furniture polish
is going to taste better than that. So it didn't
kill him. But he wrote that song, you know, second Wind,
to try to talk anyone else down from the ledge,
and that's why it's so upbeat and everything.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Now the ledge is very shiny, yes now.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Elton John and Billy Joel individually fantastic. I've seen them together,
they were fantastic. What is it about the music of
these two that you love so much?
Speaker 6 (21:53):
The thing I love about Elton John is, especially the
ones I picked from the seventies, just so singable. There's
something iconic in every one of the songs, you know,
whether it whoops up to something up in his high voice,
or whether it's just a good old tune. It's just fun.
And those kinds of songs where that you remember them
from the radio being on in the background while you
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did something else, but it became part of your DNA.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Absolutely. I heard Philadelphia Freedom the other day when I
was shopping, and I went, what a great song. Haven't
heard it for you?
Speaker 6 (22:22):
It's awesome and you know. But the other thing I
find is everyone if you look around a shop when
something like Rocketman comes up, you see everyone lip syncing toyah.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Especially since the movie yes the music to another level
with another audience.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
And it revitalized it. Favorite CPR have another innings.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
How do you pick the songs because there were so
many for both artists.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Yeah, it was hard as anything, and I just kind
of thought. I was looking down the list of them
and I thought, what part of that song does everyone
just know?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
You know?
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Some people, you know, people come up and they go like, oh,
you're going to do are you going to do mad Catism?
I'm like, no, what, Yeah, people kind of vaguely know
that some thing like Candle in the Wind, everyone just
knows it not and nobody knows how.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yes, It's like when they start singing Tiny Dancer and
almost Famous on the Bus.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Yeah yeah, yeah, everybody does. That's the thing. So yeah,
I'm confident everyone knows all of the songs in the show.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, So they're all relatable ones that very much. Do
you have a favorite song by each of them?
Speaker 6 (23:24):
In the in this show? I love Benny and the Jets.
There's just something about it that.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Just I've always loved Benny and the Jets, and of
course he launched the you know, the final concert with.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
That, and it was just the best at.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Moment high notes to get that.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
I don't know what you're talking about. Luckily you can
outsource that kind of thing to a fun crowd. Wise,
you haven't heard something until you've heard all the men
singing the Benny bit. Oh, it's gorgeous right now, it's great,
I'm heard. Okay, as you wish, you're a courage people
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to sing along?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Why would I dress up?
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Exactly?
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (24:10):
You know, fewer people dress up because I don't know why.
Maybe they maybe they just didn't nit past the costume
store that day. But everyone's encouraged to sing along. In fact,
you'll get a QR code and when you scan it,
it'll bring up the words.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
So you can get it out exactly baptastic.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Why would you want to go and see anything to
do with Elton John without singing along to it? You're
ic you to be part of it.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Now when as a performer, how do you feel about
the billy stuff when you haven't played it and you
you're debuting, how do you feel about that? Do you know,
it's exciting.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
It is exciting and terrifying at the same time. But
they you know, they say, the hardest note to play
is the first one, and then after that you just
remember why you love songs like this. And with Billy,
Joel he's really like I mean, you know, with Elton
he wrote the music and Bernie toy Will Joel kind
of did everything. And the words are really really, really
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sophisticated and a bugger to learn, let me tell you.
But once the songs get going, they just kind of
they have their own life. I think I'm just a
just a conduit sitting up there.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
You are You've done us some other shows as well.
You've done Peter Allen, Oh yes, boy from Oswald.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
If I had energy to do that again. I'll tell
you what.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
One of our favorite guests on this show actually is.
Joel Jackson. I don't oh yeah, Joel is from Albany.
He played Peter Allen and he was the boy and
he was amazing. It must he must just be the
most divine character to play Peter Allen.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
He is great just because there's nothing. When I say
he's not skilled, I don't mean that in a bitchy
way the thing was. He he's just so authentic with
how he got up there and his body moved around,
he jumped about the place.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Just before his time.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Yeah, he never he never let the audience out of
his side either, watching Alan John his faces down the
whole time. Peter Allen locked eyes with the audience and
did let.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
It's so good though, and I'm reassured that he drops
notes on the piano all the timely. Yeah, but just
what you get his energy from him? So yeah, at
the end of one of those shows, you're sleep.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Well, Oh I bet you?
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yeah. And the others who played me, Hugh Jackman, they
said the same thing, although the jack Show was more
about the celebrity of Jackman taking everything the.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Care well the thing. I met Todd McKenney and he
said the same kind of thing too, and he gave
me a video that was just like, please go and
see Matt's show. So I don't have to do it anymore.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I feel like Peter Allen's never been played by anyone ordinary.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
No, I'll take yourself.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I do have to ask about the Abbot show though, Benny.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
I was Benny and brew my hair. It's called a
lioness head yea, and yeah, okay, well I'm in real
hair helps because he swings his head around all the
plays and yeah, and I apprenticed in having to stand
up to play piano.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Oh how did you go? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
I just I.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Didn't wasn't part of a gym at the time, and
I didn't need to do because between Peter Allen and Benny. Yeah,
some chiropractice is going to make a fortune out of
my neck.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
You get the trifect. You play John Lord from Deep
Purple Fashion with a heavy rock band.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
It's possibly not as campy as my.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Definitely this time it's the great piano players Elton John
and Billy Joel. Your song is Tonight and Tomorrow Night.
Billy's just the way you are as Friday and Saturday.
All of His Majesty's tickets are available through Fringe world
dot com dot Are you thank you for coming in
so early in the morning.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
We know it's early for French people.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
No, thank you for having me. In fact, I popped
over and put my clothes in the laundromat before I came.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
It's incredible.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
I didn't want to say anything. Matt.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
We got get a visual of this somewhere and now
you'm a beaver.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Now he makes my brothers at the stealing your your small.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Half is luck jeez if they fit him.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
The Sure Report on ninety six air FM, there's.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
A headline this morning that says Benson Boone embraces Australian
tradition with an on stage showy ugh, it's I blame
you Daniel Ricardo for this.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
It's not an Aussie tradition.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It's gross. It's not a tradition. It's not a thing.
It's just a gross thing Daniel did once after a race.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Yuck. Stop calling it an Ossie tradition. I'm embarrassed. But anyway,
so Benson Boone, he's this guy, M.
Speaker 10 (28:43):
Please stay, I want you, I need you.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Hold God?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Do tick?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Is this beautiful thing that I've gone?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
He was doing a sold out performance at Sydney's Horde
and Pavilion when he paused the show to drink.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Water out of a cowboy boot.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
However, Boone opted for a sanitized twist, using bottled water
and a clean boot.
Speaker 10 (29:13):
And do I put a lot of water? It just
a little bit like how much I'm going to drink
right now?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
When in Australia, stars like post Malone, Lizzo I wouldn't
want to drink out of post Malone, shoe Oh My God,
and Harry Styles have all famously done shoeies while on
tour down Under in recent years.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Hence it now copying the Ossie tradition label.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Damn SOEs that mean, now you build that up, You're
going to do one and we're going to film it
and it's going to be on the social.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yes, not an AUSSI tradition's gross. The last living member
of the band, multi instrumentalist Garth Hudson, has died peacefully
in his sleep in Woodstock, in New York's. He was
eighty seven.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Beladree be held.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
You put the Long Run on Well talking about great songs.
Scart played piano on that wonderful song The Weight. He
was also the band's archivist, helping to document the band's
nineteen sixty six tour with Bob Dylan. This is why
they were called the band because they were Bob Dylan's
band when Dylan controversially went electric. Big Pink and John
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Sykes has died overnight. He was a guitarist with White
Snake and Thin Lizzie John was sixty five. Sadly he
had been battling cancer for several years.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Now, this is what I alluded to before.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Billy Idol and Joan Jets are going on tour together.
They're promoting it as it's a nice day to go
on tour again. At this stage they've only announced states
in the US and Canada. But I'm saying at this
stage because you know, you never know, never never know,
you never know, you know.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I stay for a white wedding. If you love rock
and rock.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
More Clesya more podcast.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Soon you can catch Peter Garrett and the Alter Egos
February twenty eight at the East Perth power Station as
part of the Perth Festival.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Tickets are available through Perth Festival dot com, dot au
and Peter Garrett is joining us now.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Good morning, morning, morning.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Peter Garrett playing at a power station just speaks to
me in a very kismety way.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
It's a better way to do it, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Put it in absolutely, It's been elaborated for years.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Nice to see it.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Being used totally totally. Well look, I mean, you know
it's great and exciting and all of that stuff. To
still be playing and you know, to scratch the itch
and to really let that energy thing, which I'm very
thankful for still run its course, and the fact that
we're able to come over and do a show. It's
part of the fist. Obviously it's a really good thing
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and very cool and exciting and so on. But I
also like inhabiting different spaces and places when we play
Loved It in the Oars, Loved It in the Altars,
and transforming something from what it was into something new
where people can actually just gather and celebrate and enjoy
and you know, have a night of it.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
You've never been a shin and to a mere man
on stage, so I can't imagine what you would what
you know, state you'd be in if you didn't have
that outlet out on stage to.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Worry those boats. You feel the same way.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Actually, what do you get bored at home? Paid what
do you like to be out in the road? Duntain
and they're doing different.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Boredom and all that stuff. It's just not in my
DNA really, But I think, you know, when I think
about it, and I think about the time with the Oars,
and even when we've played over in the West, or
wherever it might have been. Just that opportunity that incredible.
It's like the sacred space, you know, the fact that
you can still occupy a stage and you know you've
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got music and you've got things that you want to say,
and you want to make the night. You want to
make it shimmer and shake as much as you can.
And yeah, if I have to do it elsewhere, I'm
happy to do it elsewhere. But I love it. And
I've got plenty else things that I'm doing and lots
of stuff that I'm interested in, and you know, the
sub politics or whatever it might be. But you know,
(33:16):
at this point in time, it's still it's a retreat,
you know, to be able to take that energy and
to utilize it and to bring some really fine missings
on stage. Matt Lossy's playing with me, made the record
with me, and you know it's just it's a heap
of fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
True North solo album came out last year. How do
you find the process, you know, when you when you're
going solo, the decision making the recording. I mean, sometimes
I guess life can be a bit careful what you
wish for.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Well, you know the truth of it is that I mean,
I suppose it is. It is a solo thing. It
doesn't feel like it to me, just feels like an
offshoot what I've always been doing.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Okay, the boys.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Always had other projects some ago, and I think, yeah,
when I made a first record, I thought, oh, this
is fun. I don't have to please for other people,
you know, So that side of it, You've got a
bit more freedom to explore things. And it's also the
unpredictability of not knowing where a song will go. I
mean the power and the intensity that we were, you know,
(34:22):
like absolutely welded and so incredibly lucky to have in
the oils. There was always a surplus of that, you know.
We always we didn't have two forty, you know, we
had five hundred. So the authors, I think it's it's different,
but it's also just it's doing the same thing in
a different way and just enjoying the business of creativity.
(34:45):
I found it. I had a lark, you know, like
I was in the sandpit. Really that was probably the
best way to describe it.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
But you talked about things you like doing. I like
walking up the street. I live in Free and walked
up to Essex Street. Cine was last year and plucked
myself down to see your movie The Hardest Line Docco,
which was real, and the aid of various ages of
people watching the Midnight Oil movie were it was incredible.
There were fans older than me I'm fifty nine, and
there was some twenty somethings as well. That's the appeal
of the Oil's music, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Well. I mean, I think if you hang around long enough,
then you know, people interest in produce to their kids
or their younger brothers and sisters or whatever. It was interesting.
I mean, I think when we came back out, we
noticed that, you know, there was another generation of people
that had come to see us, and that's I mean,
that's just you don't expect that, and it's very very special.
But I think the other thing is a lot of
(35:33):
what we are on about, both the way that we played,
the way I approached the business of performing, and the
things that we sing about. Unfortunately, some of them are
things which we were, you know, wanting to raise the
flag on and maybe sort of say hey, this is
what we think. And there's still stuff that's very important.
So in some ways it's like, oh God, are we
still singing about this? But in other ways you realize
(35:54):
it's actually, you know, historically speaking, probably a pretty short
period of times, so there's a relevance there also, which
counts for us. I think finally, last but not least,
I carried this through with what I'm doing. Martin has
Jim and Robb doing their own ways like it's the
biggest obvious statement of the bleeding obviously you've ever heard.
(36:14):
But it was always about the music and the message.
And yeah, you know, if that's still got juice and
it's still cut through, then you're going to get it
to people, no matter what age they are or where
they live. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Well, Blue sky Mining for One turns thirty five this year.
It contains one of the most important songs to this
state ever, you know.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
I mean they should teach that in school, really, Blue.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Sky Mine and the history of Whitnamen, so that we
never see anything.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Like that again.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Peter Garrett, it has been lovely to chat to you.
The Alter Egos. February the twenty eighth that the East
Perth Power Station. You can get tickets through Perthfestival dot
com dot au.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Look forward to seeing you in town.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
No, we're excited about it's going to be a blast.
Thanks guys, good to you again, Crazy Lisa
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