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Speaker 1 (00:12):
I Heard podcasts, year more Kiss podcasts, playlists and listen
live on the free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
When the lights go out, It's five. It's Robin and
Kip now with Choreo. It's on Kiss ninety seven, three,
eight eleven. Five are coming to Brisbane May twenty next year,
and we had a chat with all five of the
boys on zoom.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Iconic you Ke Band five are back with their original
lineup for the Keep On Moving to at Brisbane Entertainment
Center May twenty.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Book a ticketteck.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
You boys are bringing the energy. Have you bet out?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You had a couple of pints? What's happening?
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Yeah, we've been on it all day.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
So boys, how exciting? Back together twenty five years. Let's
just go through the timeline. So you get together in
ninety ninety seven, you have this amazing run where you
seld twenty million plus albums worldwide, including a million in Australia.
The world loves you. Then somewhere around two thousand it's
all over.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
So we ended in two thousand and one, and we
feel like the reason why this is working so well
now is because we had unfinished business in this industry.
We jumped off, you know, when we were all having
sort of like mental breakdowns and stuff like that, and
it was time to call it a day.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
But okay, now they're laughing hysterical.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Few mental breakdowns? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Did he just gloss over your mental breakdown? Just go
on with the story.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Sorry, so we all know that obvious normal mental breakdowns.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And then we had twenty years off and then we thought,
why don't we get back in a room to get
that's exactly what happened, and got back in the room
together to reconnect as friends. And we hadn't seen each
other for a long time, and that didn't feel it
didn't feel right. There was something wrong with the picture
that we weren't in each other's lives. So we're back now.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
A lot of things have changed, apart from our maturity.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Did you end up having to have a conversation about
all the things that had gone down or did you
just park it and say that was then.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
I can up?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
And we did.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
We did like sort of say listen, you know when
this happened, it made me feel that but it was
in a much more mature way and it was just
stuff that was actually really nice to sort of oh right, Okay,
I didn't realize you were feeling that way at that time,
you know, when this was my reaction to that blah
blah blah, And in the end it was it was
just a beautiful conversation.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
It was really nice.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
But at the same time, when we first met, before
I had even thought about time or anything, we met
in the room for the first time. We actually got
an airbnb, and there was also just a massive unspoken
bond that you kind of didn't need to say something,
you just need to do. It's going to sound cheesy, but.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
There was love there, no matter what, nothing, nothing, nothing,
all right, just straight up guy that Now speaking of maturity,
because I think we're a similar vintage and I know
(03:42):
for me now getting up and getting down is not
what it used to be.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And a lot of your songs are about getting up.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
There's a lot of getting up.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
There's a lot of getting up and getting down and done.
Speaker 9 (04:06):
Are the moves you go to be similar?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Yes, are going to be.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
We're not holding back, We're going to be smashing the
routines out loads of energy. I think we've already said it,
and it's not from an arrogant place, but just because
of where we are mentally, which is probably not stables
shows we've ever ever done.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I don't think I know they will be. It feels amazing.
So we are giving everything and it will be the
best show ever.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
And if I'm sitting down as part of the choreography.
Speaker 9 (04:46):
Plenty of ice bars and after its performance.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Do you know that the show that we're doing on
the twentieth is Shawn's birthday in britty.
Speaker 10 (05:01):
Yeah, it's pretty birth his birthday, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
It is if it can birthday?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Should we put on the fireworks and sort out a nightclub?
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Never in a million years did we dream that Australia
and New Zealand at Komombo, So you know, not a
bad place to spend your birthday.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Can we go back to like your early like forming
and stuff, because in the nineties we loved you so
much And yes, of course, as Kip said, you broke
up in the two thousands. But you guys were created
by the people that made the Spice Girls.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And yeah it was safe Management that Bob and Chris
Herbert who put together the Spice Girls.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
So that's where their genius lies is putting acts together.
They're very good at just putting characters.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, and they certainly done a good job putting these reports.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
When you were going through, like through the dramas and
the breakdowns, do you remember looking around and going, I
can't believe they put me with this guy?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
And that was just in the mirror in my hotel.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Was it Simon call then your manager?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
No.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Simon basically went to Chris Herbert and Bob Herbert, who
were the people who put the Spice Girls together, and
he said, we're seeing the sort of job you did
put in the Spice Girls together. Can you do a
male version of It's a Simon was involved in basically
instigating Bob and Chris to do a male version. Obviously
it didn't quite turn out like that kind of musically
(06:39):
and persona wise, but that was what they were shoes
him for at.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
First, so it would have been a wise. I always
thought Richard a bit of a minti fellow.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
I don't know what it.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Means, but it's it's like a friend or a mink
like that.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I really wish a radio audience could see Richie following
that compliment, Richie, you actually lived here for a while too,
are you? Because your your your extras Australian girl.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Yeah, so I'm I'm actually dual citizen, so I'm actually
a NAUSI.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah. So when you guys come through the customs, do
you get the short line passport? I get the blue.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Past thought always get pulled for some reason. Might live
it might be the face.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The check.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Check.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Can I ask you where you were based?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Was it or Queensland?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
No, it's New South?
Speaker 8 (07:47):
Did you did you?
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Please tell me?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Well, you know, just by default, and I know you're
in Queensland and everyone's going to grow, but you know,
I was living in Sydney, so yeah, but I lived
there at the time when Queensland used to absolutely trounced
New South.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
I don't worry.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
And you guys mind, I know, but Corey here actually
played for Queensland, played a dozen games four queens.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
I've just a couple of months ago I went I
was at this State of Origin in Perth. Oh yeah wow,
and went to a few n r L games and
that's how Yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
When is here, there'll be some cracking games a chance.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Actually State of Origin time awesome And yeah, well we
can sort out tickets, but only if you wear Maria.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Come on.
Speaker 10 (08:37):
Tickets and we've just come back from from Vegas where
we went saw the Backstreet Boys at the Sphere.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, absolutely incredible. Back in the day, was there a
fun competitiveness you had with them or do you look
back and think like, did you used to hate them
back in the day, Like how was your feeling?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
My first memory of the Backstreet Boys is we'd only
ever rehearsed one song that we could perform. We were
invited to go to Holland to do a show. It's
called Pepsi Pop and there's like Janet Jackson, George Michael,
Backstreet Boys, and we're doing a song and like we
we just like fresh off.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
The street pretty much.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Remember seeing the Backstreet Boys and they'd obviously been running
for like three four years or whatever it was, and
they were so like slick. I remember just watching them, going,
Oh my god, Street Boys fan.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I always thought like, Wow, imagine if I could be
in a boy band, I would under which one I
would be?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Our picnic car?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
When I got into five, I remember thinking, I mean, I.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Mean, but that's guy is actually the only one that
I ever wanted to be in. Yeah, a little bit
of our magic that we're just sort of just landed here.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Do alla right to the front.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Nick carteron now has a restraining order around.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
That's actually that's very funny, right the because obviously I
would I've met old of the bax Bit boys and
always held it. I've not been like, oh fan boy,
I was at this. I know I was at this
breakfast at a hotel and Nick Carr was literally sitting
like there and I'll tell me you stolen Susy. I didn't.
(10:34):
I didn't, I didn't even.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
True stories. Scott did a empty cribs and when the
camera crew and they saw the blow up doll made
up as Nick Carter, I just I'm.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Just starting to gather why you got mental break. Thank
you so much, Wednesday. May you guys are in Brisbane
next year. I really hope we can. We can see
you in studio. Will come and see the show and
get you some sicken star. I thank you you just come.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Along for the links between songs. Y.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I'm sound like I'm there for I'm coming back.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I
I Heard podcasts, year more Kiss podcasts, playlists and listen
live on the free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
When the lights go out, It's five. It's Robin and
Kip now with Choreo. It's on Kiss ninety seven, three,
eight eleven. Five are coming to Brisbane May twenty next year,
and we had a chat with all five of the
boys on zoom.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Iconic you Ke Band five are back with their original
lineup for the Keep On Moving to at Brisbane Entertainment
Center May twenty.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Book a ticketteck.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
You boys are bringing the energy. Have you bet out?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You had a couple of pints? What's happening?
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Yeah, we've been on it all day.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
So boys, how exciting? Back together twenty five years. Let's
just go through the timeline. So you get together in
ninety ninety seven, you have this amazing run where you
seld twenty million plus albums worldwide, including a million in Australia.
The world loves you. Then somewhere around two thousand it's
all over.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
So we ended in two thousand and one, and we
feel like the reason why this is working so well
now is because we had unfinished business in this industry.
We jumped off, you know, when we were all having
sort of like mental breakdowns and stuff like that, and
it was time to call it a day.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
But okay, now they're laughing hysterical.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Few mental breakdowns? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Did he just gloss over your mental breakdown? Just go
on with the story.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Sorry, so we all know that obvious normal mental breakdowns.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And then we had twenty years off and then we thought,
why don't we get back in a room to get
that's exactly what happened, and got back in the room
together to reconnect as friends. And we hadn't seen each
other for a long time, and that didn't feel it
didn't feel right. There was something wrong with the picture
that we weren't in each other's lives. So we're back now.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
A lot of things have changed, apart from our maturity.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Did you end up having to have a conversation about
all the things that had gone down or did you
just park it and say that was then.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
I can up?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
And we did.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
We did like sort of say listen, you know when
this happened, it made me feel that but it was
in a much more mature way and it was just
stuff that was actually really nice to sort of oh right, Okay,
I didn't realize you were feeling that way at that time,
you know, when this was my reaction to that blah
blah blah, And in the end it was it was
just a beautiful conversation.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
It was really nice.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
But at the same time, when we first met, before
I had even thought about time or anything, we met
in the room for the first time. We actually got
an airbnb, and there was also just a massive unspoken
bond that you kind of didn't need to say something,
you just need to do. It's going to sound cheesy, but.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
There was love there, no matter what, nothing, nothing, nothing,
all right, just straight up guy that Now speaking of maturity,
because I think we're a similar vintage and I know
(03:42):
for me now getting up and getting down is not
what it used to be.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And a lot of your songs are about getting up.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
There's a lot of getting up.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
There's a lot of getting up and getting down and done.
Speaker 9 (04:06):
Are the moves you go to be similar?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Yes, are going to be.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
We're not holding back, We're going to be smashing the
routines out loads of energy. I think we've already said it,
and it's not from an arrogant place, but just because
of where we are mentally, which is probably not stables
shows we've ever ever done.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I don't think I know they will be. It feels amazing.
So we are giving everything and it will be the
best show ever.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
And if I'm sitting down as part of the choreography.
Speaker 9 (04:46):
Plenty of ice bars and after its performance.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Do you know that the show that we're doing on
the twentieth is Shawn's birthday in britty.
Speaker 10 (05:01):
Yeah, it's pretty birth his birthday, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
It is if it can birthday?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Should we put on the fireworks and sort out a nightclub?
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Never in a million years did we dream that Australia
and New Zealand at Komombo, So you know, not a
bad place to spend your birthday.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Can we go back to like your early like forming
and stuff, because in the nineties we loved you so
much And yes, of course, as Kip said, you broke
up in the two thousands. But you guys were created
by the people that made the Spice Girls.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And yeah it was safe Management that Bob and Chris
Herbert who put together the Spice Girls.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
So that's where their genius lies is putting acts together.
They're very good at just putting characters.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, and they certainly done a good job putting these reports.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
When you were going through, like through the dramas and
the breakdowns, do you remember looking around and going, I
can't believe they put me with this guy?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
And that was just in the mirror in my hotel.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Was it Simon call then your manager?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
No.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Simon basically went to Chris Herbert and Bob Herbert, who
were the people who put the Spice Girls together, and
he said, we're seeing the sort of job you did
put in the Spice Girls together. Can you do a
male version of It's a Simon was involved in basically
instigating Bob and Chris to do a male version. Obviously
it didn't quite turn out like that kind of musically
(06:39):
and persona wise, but that was what they were shoes
him for at.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
First, so it would have been a wise. I always
thought Richard a bit of a minti fellow.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
I don't know what it.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Means, but it's it's like a friend or a mink
like that.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I really wish a radio audience could see Richie following
that compliment, Richie, you actually lived here for a while too,
are you? Because your your your extras Australian girl.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Yeah, so I'm I'm actually dual citizen, so I'm actually
a NAUSI.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah. So when you guys come through the customs, do
you get the short line passport? I get the blue.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Past thought always get pulled for some reason. Might live
it might be the face.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The check.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Check.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Can I ask you where you were based?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Was it or Queensland?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
No, it's New South?
Speaker 8 (07:47):
Did you did you?
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Please tell me?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Well, you know, just by default, and I know you're
in Queensland and everyone's going to grow, but you know,
I was living in Sydney, so yeah, but I lived
there at the time when Queensland used to absolutely trounced
New South.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
I don't worry.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
And you guys mind, I know, but Corey here actually
played for Queensland, played a dozen games four queens.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
I've just a couple of months ago I went I
was at this State of Origin in Perth. Oh yeah wow,
and went to a few n r L games and
that's how Yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
When is here, there'll be some cracking games a chance.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Actually State of Origin time awesome And yeah, well we
can sort out tickets, but only if you wear Maria.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Come on.
Speaker 10 (08:37):
Tickets and we've just come back from from Vegas where
we went saw the Backstreet Boys at the Sphere.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, absolutely incredible. Back in the day, was there a
fun competitiveness you had with them or do you look
back and think like, did you used to hate them
back in the day, Like how was your feeling?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
My first memory of the Backstreet Boys is we'd only
ever rehearsed one song that we could perform. We were
invited to go to Holland to do a show. It's
called Pepsi Pop and there's like Janet Jackson, George Michael,
Backstreet Boys, and we're doing a song and like we
we just like fresh off.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
The street pretty much.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Remember seeing the Backstreet Boys and they'd obviously been running
for like three four years or whatever it was, and
they were so like slick. I remember just watching them, going,
Oh my god, Street Boys fan.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I always thought like, Wow, imagine if I could be
in a boy band, I would under which one I
would be?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Our picnic car?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
When I got into five, I remember thinking, I mean, I.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Mean, but that's guy is actually the only one that
I ever wanted to be in. Yeah, a little bit
of our magic that we're just sort of just landed here.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Do alla right to the front.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Nick carteron now has a restraining order around.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
That's actually that's very funny, right the because obviously I
would I've met old of the bax Bit boys and
always held it. I've not been like, oh fan boy,
I was at this. I know I was at this
breakfast at a hotel and Nick Carr was literally sitting
like there and I'll tell me you stolen Susy. I didn't.
(10:34):
I didn't, I didn't even.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
True stories. Scott did a empty cribs and when the
camera crew and they saw the blow up doll made
up as Nick Carter, I just I'm.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Just starting to gather why you got mental break. Thank
you so much, Wednesday. May you guys are in Brisbane
next year. I really hope we can. We can see
you in studio. Will come and see the show and
get you some sicken star. I thank you you just come.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Along for the links between songs. Y.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I'm sound like I'm there for I'm coming back.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I
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