🎙️ EXCLUSIVE CHAT: Hoodoo Gurus

The Hoodoo Gurus join Jonesy & Amanda for a chat ahead of their Friday Feels performance!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gold Hello there, it's Jonesy Demanda driving your home.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
We have had some incredible people come in for our
Friday Field sessions. We've had solo artists, we've had duos,
we've had a quartet member Jersey Boys. But one thing
we haven't had, and we've been quite desperate, is a band.
And today not just any band. We have the Hoodoo
Gurus to tear up the studio. Dave Faulkner, Brad Shepherd,

(00:23):
Rick Grossman, Hello, Hello, Hello, well steady on. Actually, have
you ever been the kind of band to do those things?
To throw TVs out of windows?

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Or is all that apocryphal? I think the worst we've
got was a cheese planter. You make a mess. We
weren't happy the hotel afterwards. We make our beds in
the hotels when we leave.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Hospital corners and a tidy vol.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
So.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
But you, I mean, obviously you've lived lives, but you've
never been known for being the crazy guys.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
I'm guessing no.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Well, especially for me as a singer, I kind of
put myself in cotton wall a little bit. These guys
can cut them cut up if they want, but they
generally don't do that either.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
So we're pretty clean living.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
And because of your voice, I know that you know
you hear Mariah Carey care is sleeping with humidy, fires
on certain angles and things like that. Do you at
nine o'clock say sorry, I can't stay at this loud restaurant.
I have to go.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Uh. It is the fact that I've got to be honest,
you know. But I generally don't go to restaurants anyway.
I mean, I don't drink a glass of wine or
anything on the day of a show, and even probably
the day before a show. I'll be careful about that.
So yeah, I'm a little bit of a hermit when
it comes to you have to be your instrument, my instrument.
It's not the greatest instruments, so I got to take

(01:42):
care of what's there. But you know, it's just, you know,
I enjoy playing so much that it's not a sacrifice
to give up a little bit of a you know,
a bit of drinking and carousing in the day before,
when you're gonna have so much fun on stage next night.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, it seems more and more that that's not the
case anymore the old days.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Ah, Look, you know that we have our moments back
in the day, and you know, I'm sure there'll be
some moments ahead of us. But you know, when you're
working a lot, you don't want to do a bad
job for people.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
You know, did you have.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Any idea when you were first recording these songs how
universally iconic they'd become.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
No idea, of course, you know.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
I mean every song was written just bere because of
something that was striking me at the time, and then
take it to the band and get in rehearsal and
see if it works for everyone else. And that's what
as as far as we ever thought, you know, we
pleased ourselves. And then the next thing, you know, people
are sort of doing what they want with them afterwards,
and you know, using them for weddings and funerals and
all sorts of things, you know, becoming quite involved in

(02:40):
people's real lives outside of you know, we could ever
imagine that.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
What are some of the stories you've heard about how
your music has been used?

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Well, definitely, you know, as I say, weddings and funerals
and sometimes the same song which is quite of amazing really.
What it was a song called Castles in the Air,
which is from the Kinky Elm, which is the one
they had one thousand. I was away on it and yeah,
that song, I actually say at a friends wedding. Jonathan
Docking used to play for the Sharks, I was that
he just missing that one. And then someone wrote to

(03:09):
me recently I said that they've played it at their
dad's funeral and you know he loved the HOODI Gurus
and and that song.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
It's all about you know.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
The cycle of Oh actually is more about connection that song,
So it makes it works for either sort of thing,
you know, making connection or you know, losing a connection
with someone that you still are connected to.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
But it's good that you guys have come in for
the Friday Field sessions. We've only had anything but success
so far.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
It will be anything about success.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
We've had nothing, nothing can possibly go wrong. So boys,
what we're going to do is because we've got the
full compliment of guitars and bass, so this is a
big deal.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
We unfortunately Nick couldn't make it our drummer, but you've
got the three piece versions acoustic style, so we're going
to manfully manage without the drums to cover as a
former drummer.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Still right where you are, step up, right where you are.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
I'm not stepping in, so we're going to come back.
We'll have a break and then the Hoodo Gurus live
for the Friday Field Sessions on Gold