🎉 EXCLUSIVE CHAT: Furnace And The Fundamentals

The extraordinary Furnace and the Fundamentals - who described themselves as "six loveable idiots playing the greatest songs of all time" - join Jonesy & Amanda for a chat!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Brendan Jones has banged on for so long about Furnace
and the fundamentals.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Where did you see them before?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
I was an Australia A concert at Kernala and I've
done this for a bit and these guys came on
the stage and what happened? Daryl Braithwaite had pulled out
dB had had some sort of incident.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Who can possibly replace Darrel?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
The night before, I get a text Daryl Braithwaite has
pulled out of the Australia A concert and I went on, no,
it's going to be Carnala Riots again.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
But you were right. There was a right, But for
all the best reasons.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
These guys, I've become their Colonel Tom Parker.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Without the suit and Colonel Sanders.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I want to see them go to bigger and better things.
But I don't think they even need me.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Where else are you going to hear ac, DC Cy
and Jalo in one mash?

Speaker 1 (01:04):
You're going to hear it here right now with us. Hello,
Furnace and the fundamentals. Hello, well, well hello, look one
to let me see if I can count one, two, three, four,
five six.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Is it expensive to have six members of a band.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
It's definitely more expensive than having three.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yes, So if someone doesn't perform, you you're out. I
got to feed the cat this week.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Oh look, I mean thankfully. You know, we've had some success,
so we can feed everyone in the band and hopefully
that continues some success.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
You guys are everywhere. You're extraordinary. So you've just come
back from London.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
I saw on your socials you've been performing big shows
in England.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, we've managed to get on a few like cool
family festivals over there, which is something they do super well,
like Buzztock and Todd in the Hole, and we've become
like sort of local celebrities, Like no one in London
England really knows us, but in these little festivals. We've
played them a few years now and they're really fun.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
So yeah, I when you guys showed up that day
and I didn't know what you guys were about. I
looked on YouTube and I, oh, this is great, and
then I just remember being backstage watching guys blow up
inflatable men and the council. Because the council is getting
a bit worried. They go, what are they doing with
these bloff dolls? It's a family event. And then I said,

(02:18):
I reckon, it's going to be okay, And they said,
are you sure. If you say it's going to be okay,
it'll be okay, It'll be okay.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Was it okay?

Speaker 2 (02:26):
So that guys go into the raining men remix and
then these inflatable dolls go out into the crowd. I've
never seen so much joy from a band, you guys. Honestly,
we I had to tell people at the end go
and have a look at the fireworks. I had to say, hey, guys,
that's furnace. Now it's time for the fireworks. So congratulations. Honestly,
you guys are so.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Thank you very much. Yeah, I mean, joy is our
whole aim. You know, if we're not having fun on stage,
we assume that, you know, why would anyone else be
having fun?

Speaker 1 (02:55):
So can any song be and I know you don't
do mashups, but can any song lead into another song?

Speaker 3 (03:00):
And there's a science to what works.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
I mean, it is difficult. There is a bit of
a science. There's a lot of thought that goes into it,
I should say. And it's something that you know, we
talk about the journey when we're mixing all mashing songs.
You know, we usually do ten or fifteen minute blocks,
and that journey is not that easily found. We find
and it is something that's nuanced and takes a lot
of thought and practice.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
I can imagine.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, and that's sort of the thing that looks easy
once we're doing it on stage. But yeah, there's been
a bit of work behind it.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Because in that show you played, was it thirty nine
songs in forty minutes?

Speaker 3 (03:33):
So I can't remember.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
I think it was an hour, but yes, it would
have been about.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
That, thirty nine songs in an hour.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Can I just say this, boys, you're here, you're dressed up,
there's a keyboard setup. Can we take a break? Come back?
And can you just on the radio. Have you been
on the radio before with your stuff?

Speaker 1 (03:50):
No?

Speaker 4 (03:50):
We haven't.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
This is yeah, you could be lying to us and
I don't care. I would say our first and why
do you? DJs always ask that, But wouldn't it be great?
Can we get furnace, let's do it.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
I don't want to these beautiful suits that you've worn
in today.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, so let's take a breathe up. We'll come back
with in the fundamentals