TIM WHEATLEY SHARES NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO LIFTED FROM EP, SHINY TACOMA

Shiny Tacoma is just a taste of what Tim and Glenn were working on together, Glenn ever so proud of the way his son had forged a music career of his own. Tim’s flair for classic songwriting is evident on every song on the EP – old school rock, country and folk are clear influences here, and Tim’s knack for telling a great story shines throughout. He spins narratives across playful, upbeat, rambling instrumentations, perfect for a summer barbeque, or simply to transport the listener to more carefree times

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Going right around the country with the biggest sozz he
hits at night for OZ Made. It's Maddie Goward and
this country it has lost a champion of Australian music
very very recently, Gwyn Wheatley. But Tim Wheatley has got
some brand new stuff out. He is releasing the audio
book from his father as well as some new music.
We're shining to Comba now I've got a kid at
out wild track, So I do hope that we can
still be friends and the Toyota is sorting you out

(00:22):
with some good stuff on this one. Tim Wheatley, thanks
for joining us here and I was made.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Thank you very much for having me. Maddie. I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
We appreciate you spending some time and what you're doing
for Australian music as well as this legacy that is
yourself and your father and the family name continues on.
Are you guys? First off, you're going okay?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah? You know together, everyone grieves differently. He left us
with quite a list of things to get done, so
I mean we haven't really had time to stop and
deal with it too much. He's kept us incredibly busy
busy with this.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Audio book as well, and was there anything involved personally
yourself with the book. Was it was always going to
be coming out this sort of year.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
We took it upon himself to actually record it about
three weeks from months before he passed. I was unawares
of it and I got told that it happened. Now,
it's also something that's like so fresh that I find
it impossible to listen to the course at the moment,
and you know, I can't get actually yeah, rested, sure here. Still,
it's very fantastic. It's very company also to actually have

(01:19):
his last story in his words and his boys.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
I was lucky enough to zoom with him not that
long ago myself to chat about celebrating the fifty years
with Master's apprentices and what's been going on, and to
talk about John Farnham. It's a little bit desensitizing to
someone who's coming from just speaking, so I can only
imagine for yourself and the Weekly family.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, look it is, but it's a great comfort and
funnily enough, you know, I didn't know that we owned
this and it quickly became the most precious things.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Luckily, we've got all this technology now that we can
keep things safe it's not on like a scratchable CD
or some kind of tape that's going to get chewed up.
And we don't have to wait long for some fresh
stuff for you that's out. Now we've got shiny to
come Marte. Tim, how did this one come about for you?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I actually wrote this some time ago and recorded it
for pre Pandemic. That's probably the much happier time. The
song came to me in about half an hour. It's
not that I'm bragging, but I do find that the
good ones just flow naturally. You're sitting in an empty
apartment in London, having just moved there, and sitting there
thinking to myself, well, how the hell did I end

(02:18):
up here? What have you got yourself into? Now? Put
a positive spin on it and say let's just go
with it. And that's pretty much the premise of the song, and.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
We shined to Kim. It's obviously a bit of a
taste of the EP and stuff. Have you got some
more in the back catalog that we're looking at, or
you're doing a bit of a writing phase. What's going
on for Tim Whitley?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well, you know, in light of the tragedy, it's a
double edged sword Maddy and True Adversity, just the writers
really hit their straps, I find and I've been writing furiously,
and the back catalog is sort of falling by the wayside.
At the moment, just before the death and my father,
those lyrics seem ridiculous to me. I want to get

(02:54):
moving forward and start harboring the stuff that I'm feeling
at the moment. So I'm getting back into this study
and starting in all of them there. I'm sure we'll
be largely dedicated to my father.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
And with that, do you have a particular story that
just kind of sums him up? If nobody had the
pleasure of meeting Glenn.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Wheatley, I guess this is radio. I love the thought
of him starting up the first FM radio station, which
was in Bank Street, South Melbourne, just around the corner
from where I am now. And he was always saying
that no one's going to remember the second station. They
weren't ready, but he heard that another station was going
up around the corner, so him and his manic thing
just plugged a microphone and grabbed Lee Simon by the

(03:31):
scruff of the next through him in front of it,
stapled up tonteen and the eggshell cartons around the room,
just say.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Something, and I'm sure that there's plenty more of those
kind of stories in the audiobook.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
That's at too exactly right.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Awesome mate, Well, we're looking forward to plenty more music
from yourself, Tim Wheatley, and we're looking forward to playing
it right now, Shiny to comb. Tim Wheatley, an absolute pleasure.
Thank you so much for taking the time out giving
a bit of an insight into not only your musical
career but also the dable career of your father.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Anytime, Maddie, Thank you very much for having me and
hopefully speak you soon. One names sim Wheatley. You listen
to Shane Takoma