May 29, 2025 • 5 mins
What can Omo tell us about the Jonesy of the 80s?
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
And Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's hard to believe that a little over a week
ago we hadn't even heard of Bad Element.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Remember the days where we hadn't heard of Bad Element?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
What was life on the streets without Bad Element.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You found an old cassette that had four songs on
it with you and two other friends known as Bad Element,
and you've dropped the songs bit by bit. We started
off with this one no Lies. You was the lead
singer on this one banger. Then we went to Forgetful
Nights with Omo on vocals.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Ye, too Young, too Pretty, the Scourge of Drugs and
King's Cross.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And I think my favorite, and then I think my
favorite might be the one that we just heard yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Know her name?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
She so.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Not enough songs aten about fluffy ducks.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah. Now, it's been lovely to hear you recount your
days as the drummer and sometime lead singer.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
But I think is the star power mister good rhyme there.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I thought it'd be great to go to the man
himself and here's his memories of those days. Omo, Hello, Amena,
here you go on, I'm going.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'm here too, mate. Guitarists syndrome Now Hi, Brendan.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
In this last week.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Is your life just turned around now that bad Elements
getting such airplay?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
It is and it was good to follow Midnight Oil
the time.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Ever, what are your memories of those days? What was
Jonesy like paint the picture for us?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Oh jeez? Well, ironically, Bizz the other member that when
I met London, it was in Brendan was in business
boat and I was in another boat. That's when we
first met, and Brendan was just Brendan's pretty much what
you see now.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
It's a shame, but I hear this.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
But yeah, always bum and smokes office and stuff because
you never had money. But it was a different a
different sort of time. We thought we were going to
be rock stars, but we were We were just in
hope that we were going to play and someone would listened.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Look at this and why why did the band end?
What did someone lose interest? What happened?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I think someone went to Kartha, didn't.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
He was that you Brendan out of my radio dream.
I went to the Snow and then I went to Kartha.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
There was a lot of skill, yeah, and once you'd left,
you just couldn't keep going.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
We saw that we morphed into something else, but the
fund was all going out of it.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
The fun games, you would have had more cigarettes to yourself.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It's been said that the Jones he thinks he's a
good drummer, but he's completely out of time.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
How was he as a drummer?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Yeah, well that's why we couldn't pick the pace up.
But anyone, it was about as good as I was.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Here as a good drummer, as you were a singer.
Let's leave it at that, shall we?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Butte look at we're getting airplay now. Remember if you
said to us our seventy year old selves, one day
you'll be getting airplay on the radio holding back the
information that will be fifty seven.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yeah, but when you message me the other day, I
didn't think you'd get past Monday with this.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah. Well look we've managed to drop song after song
after song.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
People aren't complaining. In fact, there's a pole at the moment.
What would you rather hear a woman that drinks milk?
This lactose intolerant.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Woman drinks milk and then records the results which sound
like this or bad element And you should be hugely flattered, Omo,
because eighty four percent of people on the poll said
they'd rather hear a bad element.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
That sounds similar.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
But anyway, this could mean reunion tour. You're still playing
your axe?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Is it a reunion too? Of farewell to?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I don't know. It could be.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
It could be the beginning of the end of the.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Band back together? In contact with biz, would you be.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Interested in getting the band back togethermo oh?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Get it sounds all right?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Really wow that passion.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I'm cheering up just listening to this.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I've still got the sixty dollars guitar that Brendan got me.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
There you go, right?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Did you spend sixty dollars on got it for him
off another person? Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Okay, so you didn't.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Payer No, I made ten bucks out of it.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I'm just listening to the two of you chat. I
can see what your lyrics are, so serious and so beautiful.
It's like listening to Don McLean.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Well, I'm sure sure it has to get back to
work now and do his work and be a grown up.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Omo.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Right, lucky, I've got a job, right, good.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Joe's nice to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You take to carry on, mate.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Let me hear a little bit more of.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
The final one. Know her name because I do think
that's my favorite?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Started when I saw at the park she was so
cut up ball. I offered to buy a drink and
she said yes, So I went to the bar.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I came back get she wasn't there, And what's a
book to ever?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Fluffy Doe fluffy duck Omo. I feel like I was there.
I have a good Friday, mate.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Thanks goos
And Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's hard to believe that a little over a week
ago we hadn't even heard of Bad Element.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Remember the days where we hadn't heard of Bad Element?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
What was life on the streets without Bad Element.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You found an old cassette that had four songs on
it with you and two other friends known as Bad Element,
and you've dropped the songs bit by bit. We started
off with this one no Lies. You was the lead
singer on this one banger. Then we went to Forgetful
Nights with Omo on vocals.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Ye, too Young, too Pretty, the Scourge of Drugs and
King's Cross.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And I think my favorite, and then I think my
favorite might be the one that we just heard yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Know her name?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
She so.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Not enough songs aten about fluffy ducks.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah. Now, it's been lovely to hear you recount your
days as the drummer and sometime lead singer.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
But I think is the star power mister good rhyme there.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I thought it'd be great to go to the man
himself and here's his memories of those days. Omo, Hello, Amena,
here you go on, I'm going.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'm here too, mate. Guitarists syndrome Now Hi, Brendan.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
In this last week.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Is your life just turned around now that bad Elements
getting such airplay?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
It is and it was good to follow Midnight Oil
the time.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Ever, what are your memories of those days? What was
Jonesy like paint the picture for us?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Oh jeez? Well, ironically, Bizz the other member that when
I met London, it was in Brendan was in business
boat and I was in another boat. That's when we
first met, and Brendan was just Brendan's pretty much what
you see now.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
It's a shame, but I hear this.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
But yeah, always bum and smokes office and stuff because
you never had money. But it was a different a
different sort of time. We thought we were going to
be rock stars, but we were We were just in
hope that we were going to play and someone would listened.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Look at this and why why did the band end?
What did someone lose interest? What happened?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I think someone went to Kartha, didn't.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
He was that you Brendan out of my radio dream.
I went to the Snow and then I went to Kartha.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
There was a lot of skill, yeah, and once you'd left,
you just couldn't keep going.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
We saw that we morphed into something else, but the
fund was all going out of it.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
The fun games, you would have had more cigarettes to yourself.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It's been said that the Jones he thinks he's a
good drummer, but he's completely out of time.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
How was he as a drummer?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Yeah, well that's why we couldn't pick the pace up.
But anyone, it was about as good as I was.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Here as a good drummer, as you were a singer.
Let's leave it at that, shall we?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Butte look at we're getting airplay now. Remember if you
said to us our seventy year old selves, one day
you'll be getting airplay on the radio holding back the
information that will be fifty seven.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yeah, but when you message me the other day, I
didn't think you'd get past Monday with this.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah. Well look we've managed to drop song after song
after song.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
People aren't complaining. In fact, there's a pole at the moment.
What would you rather hear a woman that drinks milk?
This lactose intolerant.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Woman drinks milk and then records the results which sound
like this or bad element And you should be hugely flattered, Omo,
because eighty four percent of people on the poll said
they'd rather hear a bad element.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
That sounds similar.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
But anyway, this could mean reunion tour. You're still playing
your axe?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Is it a reunion too? Of farewell to?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I don't know. It could be.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
It could be the beginning of the end of the.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Band back together? In contact with biz, would you be.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Interested in getting the band back togethermo oh?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Get it sounds all right?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Really wow that passion.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I'm cheering up just listening to this.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I've still got the sixty dollars guitar that Brendan got me.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
There you go, right?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Did you spend sixty dollars on got it for him
off another person? Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Okay, so you didn't.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Payer No, I made ten bucks out of it.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I'm just listening to the two of you chat. I
can see what your lyrics are, so serious and so beautiful.
It's like listening to Don McLean.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Well, I'm sure sure it has to get back to
work now and do his work and be a grown up.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Omo.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Right, lucky, I've got a job, right, good.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Joe's nice to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You take to carry on, mate.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Let me hear a little bit more of.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
The final one. Know her name because I do think
that's my favorite?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Started when I saw at the park she was so
cut up ball. I offered to buy a drink and
she said yes, So I went to the bar.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I came back get she wasn't there, And what's a
book to ever?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Fluffy Doe fluffy duck Omo. I feel like I was there.
I have a good Friday, mate.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Thanks goos
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