August 24, 2023 • 8 mins
80's band Berlin are supporting Culture Club when they hit town next month, their lead singer Terri Nunn spoke to Clairsy & Lisa about the band's success especially in Australia and the iconic movie role she once auditioned for.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You can catch Berlin and Culture Club at the rac
Arena September five, tickets through Ticketech and from Berlin. Terry Nunn,
good morning and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hi, thank you for Hay, thank you for joining us
so Berlin one of those, you know, great new wave
bands forming in Los Angeles at the very tail end
of the seventies.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Terry.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I believe that you actually got on board by answering
an ad through a musician's contact service in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, because they didn't have the Internet then. No.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
I actually had to go to a police in Hollywood
and look through notebook after notebook of bands looking for singers.
And that's the way that we connected back then.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
So did you just get it feels I feel like
this one's going to be huge.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Well, John said, you know, this was in nineteen seventy nine.
He said that he the band was unique, and I
like unique. I like the bands that you know, like
like Pink Floyd or the B fifty twos. They don't
sound like anybody else yet to me, just takes a
lot of courage and I so I was like, okay,
(01:07):
I'm intrigued, and so he sent me a cassette.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Oh yes, and I listened to it.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, it was this weird like electronics stuff. I was like,
what's this, you know, because back then it was punk
and power pop and that wasn't going on at all
in America. But he I went and met with him
because I really liked the whole vibe and he's, well,
there's these bands that are you know, they're doing this
and this thing called a synthesizer. I have one, and
(01:35):
we're just trying stuff and it's really fun and it's
just different. And I was all about it. I just
I lied. I said that I had a lot of experience.
I didn't. I wanted to see it as band. So yeah, yeah,
I got wonderful.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, hy Terry. I've been writing the book by Martin
Camp the vice play from spandaut Ballet, talking about how
much goes into the video went into the videos in
the eighties, and they might from Birmingham Duran Duran. But
I watched the No More Words video this morning. That's
like a movie in itself, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Thank You? That's my favorite one we did because Bonnie
and Clyde. When I saw it as a well, I say,
as a kid, I got my first kiss was watching
Bonnie and Clyde. So it meant a great deal to me.
And when they asked for some concept ideas, I said, well,
let's do Bunny and so they went for it and
(02:27):
I got to be Bonnie.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Video Living the.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Fate, run Away and Warren Bate. I loved that movie
as well. I remember watching it on Saturday afternoons every
time it came on Ellie's.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Oh yeah they're hot.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
They were.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I mean, you know, they were bad.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
They were trouble, they were trouble, but they were hot.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Trouble.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Now, who were they but we ladies. We liked trouble. Yeah,
like trouble. They like them that are that are troubles. Yeah,
it was pretty bad. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
We early influencers included I believe craft Work and Devo.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Oh oh, I loved you absolutely, but I mean we
I ad My earliest influences, as I'm older than that
would be you know, key wreckin Boy. I mean, yeah,
we're going back Bowie, David Bowie. No, yeah, I mean
if David, if back then we had social media, I
would have stocked David Bowie. If I had any idea
(03:29):
that I could actually like three cham like he would
she would.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Read what I'm what I'm you know, I would Yeah,
I would have been all over them.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, it would have been not the only one, not
the he said that, looking straight at me. All right, well,
let's let's go forward the nineteen to nineteen eighty six
and take My Breath Away. And it featured on you know,
the soundtrack of a huge movie. Obviously you'd put in
lots of work leading up to that point, but was
this just a you know, and a further game changer
(04:00):
with that when that song came out.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, I mean, Australia, we have a special place in
our hearts for you guys because you embraced us even
before that. I mean you you made hits there out
of no more words and like Flames and Metro. I
mean you were you were playing this even before that.
It meant a lot to us because before you, I mean,
(04:26):
we were in our home country, the US, we were
doing well, but you guys were the first overseas and
that that meant a lot to us. And then when
Topgun happened, Yeah, I mean it was it was just
a tsunami. It was all over the world. It was the.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Unprecedented an academy.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, no, because it's best song and the writer gets
the Oscar for best Songs. I sang it. Yeah, I
was definitely part of it. Yeah, moder definitely deserves.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Still, I'd still be dining out on the sentence we
wanted again.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Oh yeah, Jim has got enough trophies. We talked about movies.
How did you enjoy the Bobby movie?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Did you love it? I did? I just loved Ryan Gosling. Yeah, yeah,
all if everybody patterns his role after the bachelorette guys,
because they walk.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Around and when the girls in the room, they're all like, hey,
how's it going. But as soon as the girlies, they're
like they don't know what to do with themselves. They're
just kind of like flexing and trying to look cool
and and and doing push ups and like they don't exist.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
They just don't know. They don't They're not men unless
the woman is there, you know. That's what I've satterned
it after. Hey, Barb, yes, space have love. There's his childer.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Speaking of movies, is you audition for the role of
Princess Lear?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Is that rush? You can see it on YouTube?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Your audition?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, you can look, ye, the audition is actually up
I don't know who posted it, but it's there. In
a deck chair with with Harrison Ford, we're reading the line, Oh,
Star Wars didn't exist, so.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
We're really you know, like Darth Vader grabbed.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
The phasers, Like, what's the Darth Vader?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
We had the Yeah, because they didn't exist, they hadn't
made it.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
It's like here's this Lucas idea. Yeah, that's fantastic. It
was a great out of his mind.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You're coming to town with Coach Club. I've always reckoned
the boy. Georgia be a great guy to hang around
with on TUA. Have you you know, worked with them before.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yes, we did some shows with them last year and
they went really well. So when they called us, I
think it was February to do you know this worldwide tour,
we were an instant yees because it's like a traveling circuit. Yeah,
but get out there and there's all this stuff going
on and if everybody gets along, and you know, they're iconic.
(07:15):
It was great, you know, musically to play with them,
but they're also really nice guy. Yeah, and the show
is great. I know ours was great, but I also
know now that their show is great. So it was
an instant.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yes, well, Dan, he ad dive you band. Mike can
put his hat on because he's a bit of a
he does everything. This guy was a cowboy hat and
he's a music He's a pilot and an animal rescue guys.
He's an all round isn't he.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Are you telling you about David Diamonds. Yeah, diamond he
would thank you for that. I mean he doesn't usually
get his due and it means a lot that you
brought him up. Yeah. He's a keyboard player and guitar
player since nineteen eighty three and back in the band
along with John Crawford, the original founder of the band
(07:58):
seventy seven. We're in forty six years for Liz.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Wow, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well, we can't wait to have you and John and
David in the whole band here. It's just a couple
of weeks away. Everyone can get their tickets at Ticke Tech.
Terry Nun, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Thank you for having me on your show.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Thanks Terry. A bit like you would have been with Bowie.
I'm talking you on instagram S. You probably guessed.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Please do
Speaker 3 (08:31):
So
You can catch Berlin and Culture Club at the rac
Arena September five, tickets through Ticketech and from Berlin. Terry Nunn,
good morning and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hi, thank you for Hay, thank you for joining us
so Berlin one of those, you know, great new wave
bands forming in Los Angeles at the very tail end
of the seventies.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Terry.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I believe that you actually got on board by answering
an ad through a musician's contact service in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, because they didn't have the Internet then. No.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
I actually had to go to a police in Hollywood
and look through notebook after notebook of bands looking for singers.
And that's the way that we connected back then.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
So did you just get it feels I feel like
this one's going to be huge.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Well, John said, you know, this was in nineteen seventy nine.
He said that he the band was unique, and I
like unique. I like the bands that you know, like
like Pink Floyd or the B fifty twos. They don't
sound like anybody else yet to me, just takes a
lot of courage and I so I was like, okay,
(01:07):
I'm intrigued, and so he sent me a cassette.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Oh yes, and I listened to it.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, it was this weird like electronics stuff. I was like,
what's this, you know, because back then it was punk
and power pop and that wasn't going on at all
in America. But he I went and met with him
because I really liked the whole vibe and he's, well,
there's these bands that are you know, they're doing this
and this thing called a synthesizer. I have one, and
(01:35):
we're just trying stuff and it's really fun and it's
just different. And I was all about it. I just
I lied. I said that I had a lot of experience.
I didn't. I wanted to see it as band. So yeah, yeah,
I got wonderful.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, hy Terry. I've been writing the book by Martin
Camp the vice play from spandaut Ballet, talking about how
much goes into the video went into the videos in
the eighties, and they might from Birmingham Duran Duran. But
I watched the No More Words video this morning. That's
like a movie in itself, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Thank You? That's my favorite one we did because Bonnie
and Clyde. When I saw it as a well, I say,
as a kid, I got my first kiss was watching
Bonnie and Clyde. So it meant a great deal to me.
And when they asked for some concept ideas, I said, well,
let's do Bunny and so they went for it and
(02:27):
I got to be Bonnie.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Video Living the.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Fate, run Away and Warren Bate. I loved that movie
as well. I remember watching it on Saturday afternoons every
time it came on Ellie's.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Oh yeah they're hot.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
They were.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I mean, you know, they were bad.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
They were trouble, they were trouble, but they were hot.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Trouble.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Now, who were they but we ladies. We liked trouble. Yeah,
like trouble. They like them that are that are troubles. Yeah,
it was pretty bad. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
We early influencers included I believe craft Work and Devo.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Oh oh, I loved you absolutely, but I mean we
I ad My earliest influences, as I'm older than that
would be you know, key wreckin Boy. I mean, yeah,
we're going back Bowie, David Bowie. No, yeah, I mean
if David, if back then we had social media, I
would have stocked David Bowie. If I had any idea
(03:29):
that I could actually like three cham like he would
she would.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Read what I'm what I'm you know, I would Yeah,
I would have been all over them.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, it would have been not the only one, not
the he said that, looking straight at me. All right, well,
let's let's go forward the nineteen to nineteen eighty six
and take My Breath Away. And it featured on you know,
the soundtrack of a huge movie. Obviously you'd put in
lots of work leading up to that point, but was
this just a you know, and a further game changer
(04:00):
with that when that song came out.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, I mean, Australia, we have a special place in
our hearts for you guys because you embraced us even
before that. I mean you you made hits there out
of no more words and like Flames and Metro. I
mean you were you were playing this even before that.
It meant a lot to us because before you, I mean,
(04:26):
we were in our home country, the US, we were
doing well, but you guys were the first overseas and
that that meant a lot to us. And then when
Topgun happened, Yeah, I mean it was it was just
a tsunami. It was all over the world. It was the.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Unprecedented an academy.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, no, because it's best song and the writer gets
the Oscar for best Songs. I sang it. Yeah, I
was definitely part of it. Yeah, moder definitely deserves.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Still, I'd still be dining out on the sentence we
wanted again.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Oh yeah, Jim has got enough trophies. We talked about movies.
How did you enjoy the Bobby movie?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Did you love it? I did? I just loved Ryan Gosling. Yeah, yeah,
all if everybody patterns his role after the bachelorette guys,
because they walk.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Around and when the girls in the room, they're all like, hey,
how's it going. But as soon as the girlies, they're
like they don't know what to do with themselves. They're
just kind of like flexing and trying to look cool
and and and doing push ups and like they don't exist.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
They just don't know. They don't They're not men unless
the woman is there, you know. That's what I've satterned
it after. Hey, Barb, yes, space have love. There's his childer.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Speaking of movies, is you audition for the role of
Princess Lear?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Is that rush? You can see it on YouTube?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Your audition?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, you can look, ye, the audition is actually up
I don't know who posted it, but it's there. In
a deck chair with with Harrison Ford, we're reading the line, Oh,
Star Wars didn't exist, so.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
We're really you know, like Darth Vader grabbed.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
The phasers, Like, what's the Darth Vader?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
We had the Yeah, because they didn't exist, they hadn't
made it.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
It's like here's this Lucas idea. Yeah, that's fantastic. It
was a great out of his mind.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You're coming to town with Coach Club. I've always reckoned
the boy. Georgia be a great guy to hang around
with on TUA. Have you you know, worked with them before.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yes, we did some shows with them last year and
they went really well. So when they called us, I
think it was February to do you know this worldwide tour,
we were an instant yees because it's like a traveling circuit. Yeah,
but get out there and there's all this stuff going
on and if everybody gets along, and you know, they're iconic.
(07:15):
It was great, you know, musically to play with them,
but they're also really nice guy. Yeah, and the show
is great. I know ours was great, but I also
know now that their show is great. So it was
an instant.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yes, well, Dan, he ad dive you band. Mike can
put his hat on because he's a bit of a
he does everything. This guy was a cowboy hat and
he's a music He's a pilot and an animal rescue guys.
He's an all round isn't he.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Are you telling you about David Diamonds. Yeah, diamond he
would thank you for that. I mean he doesn't usually
get his due and it means a lot that you
brought him up. Yeah. He's a keyboard player and guitar
player since nineteen eighty three and back in the band
along with John Crawford, the original founder of the band
(07:58):
seventy seven. We're in forty six years for Liz.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Wow, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well, we can't wait to have you and John and
David in the whole band here. It's just a couple
of weeks away. Everyone can get their tickets at Ticke Tech.
Terry Nun, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Thank you for having me on your show.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Thanks Terry. A bit like you would have been with Bowie.
I'm talking you on instagram S. You probably guessed.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Please do
Speaker 3 (08:31):
So
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