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Speaker 1 (00:06):
All right, myn ex guest is a Buddy superstar just
performed his first ever Australian shows. A year ago was
performing to you know, tiny tiny crowds. Now he's in
Australia with his music that's blowing up online everywhere.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
That voice.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
First time on the night show, Artemis joins us Live.
Hello buddy, how are you welcome to the show?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Hello mate? How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'm really good?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Good?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
What a voice on you?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
You think? So?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, I'm gonna close my eyes.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I think maybe I've lost Like it's good.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I've done two shows in the last few days and
maybe I'm a bit raspier.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Really usual.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, but it's the accent.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
You've got accent.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It's a good accent because it's like it's British, but
it has twangs. It doesn't feel like classic British. Where
are you from?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I'm from UK, from south of England.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Really, whereabout it?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Oxfordshire?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, you said that's so suspicious. I'm from south of England,
you know. Really.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I went to the UK for the first time last
year and I went to a place called Evesham, like
in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Even I've heard of Evesham.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yeah, I'm usually good on my UK geography.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, really, I won't have a good time.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
It was great. I really enjoyed it. But growing up
in the UK is it? What is it? What's the
life like coming to Australia is it similar? Do you
fight like similar vibes because we're like the big cousin of.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
The UK, you know.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
I think Melbourne felt maybe a little quite similar to
London es of it. Some of it is like just
super super super American, like Brisbane felt Americans?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Did it really?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
And yeah Sydney?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
What what we your vibes on Sydney because people offer
tourists often don't love Sydney.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
That's what people were saying.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
But I think I've had a quite a pleasant time
really in Sydney.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Place.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, such a place, I know, because you spent a
lot of time in the hotel. And then I'm also trying.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I haven't been able to get into the studio much,
so we've been in like studios as well.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
But like I know, new Town that area.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah nice in Newtown. It's a great spot. Yeah, it's
very cool. Look at you, you're a local exactly, you're one.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Of us thinking, Uh, the fo Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
That's nice.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
VB.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Have you had a VB? Probably Victorian Bitter? It's beer,
it's terrible, like it's.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, it's every beer I've had has been nice.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Okay, then you haven't had a VB. Okay, so we've
got to get people made you do a shoe eat
a concert last night.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I didn't want to. I really was against the idea
of doing it.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
And then I just like randomly, like impulsively, like promised
that if someone through a shoe in the stage that
I do it. And I did, and then I forgot.
Then I came out the end and now I've got
in my ears.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
From the screaming.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Just yeah, it was like it was wild and it
wasn't that disgusting. I think I was just so cooked
from the performance that Yeah, I just i'd lost the
connection the brainway from my tongue. Yeah, I don't remember it.
Maybe I'll get ill.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Oh you will probably.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Really, the tour's over now, it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, And there's so much bacteria in that shoe that
it cancels out.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
You reckon, Yeah, you reckon. I'm screwed.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, No, I reckon, You're fine.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I reckon, Yeah, I reckon that the bacteria is kind
of like bolsters your immune system.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Okay, yeah, yeah, because it's a shoe, It's just what
kind of show is it?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Was it a boot?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I didn't actually focus in on it, but like, I
will say that the guy who threw the shoe on
the stage, he did look quite sweaty.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, quite that you're gonna get You're gonna you might
might get sick.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Let's do an update in a week. I'll send you
how's your guy? Have you yourself yet?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
If you're dead, and then we'll know. It was the
shoe to death. What an awful way to go?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
And did he die?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Ye had a shoey in Sydney and shadowimself to death
in New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It was awful. I like the Way You Kissed Me
such a great song.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I mean, that's would you say that is the song
that you know put you out onto this this journey
that you're on now.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
No, there was there was a couple more just before
that kind of like got the show on the road.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
That was certainly the one that, like, I don't know,
there was a lot of people. I loved that one.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
If you think I'm pretty as well.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Do you think I'm pretty like did its thing as well,
and that was that was huge.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, I know it's really really cool. But the internet
like just make it.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
It wouldn't be that possible to have that big song
so early on in your career in the past, Yes,
things that.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Things spread really quickly.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah, I guess hit songs, yeah, all the big ones.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
So Artemis, who is Artemis is a character? Because I've
been reading about you and.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
It's not a character.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
It's just like it's like an exaggerated I I like
to sing about like melodramatic things and I'm never going
to be singing about missing home or maybe I will
one day and I don't know, and like drinking coffee
in the morning and taking in the sun. But I
(05:04):
like to sing about like, you know, the drama stuff,
the drama you know, for me, I just get off
on that. Yeah, Like why why though, way, Like I
don't know because I don't like talking about it.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yes, And like it's.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Like the music is a is a way that I
can like say some really embarrassing things about myself in
a song. Yeah, in my false Setter, and it just
feels like freeing rather than embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, and then you know.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
People listen till you get paid and keep going.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It's exactly You're right, You've won.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The system, the fact that like we have to pay.
I've got to pay a therapist to listen to me
sit there and cry and waffle on about ship.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And you get through.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Maybe and maybe I should do that too, with the money,
with the money I made from the from the trauma dumping,
I'm doing the music.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And maybe go see a therapist. Yeah, yeah, it might
help you, maybe you might find more.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
But also, like I don't know, I produce a mix
and master all my songs. I'm singing on the songs
like I think it like and if I was just
always singing about exactly what happened in my life, Like
a lot of my early twenties was being in like
a room by myself making music and like no one
wants to hear about that. That wasn't an exciting lifestyle.
(06:19):
I didn't really Always a lot of it was like
manifesting and like creating these like scenarios. And then I
don't know, I'm living more of a life now that
I'm like touring and like, yeah, there's more to write
about it.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
There's much more to write about.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
What all that tells me is that the next music
is going to be even better? Well yeah, yeah, I
can only imagine. So who was I mean who he
as a young kid? Like, were you we? Did you
have friends? Did you go out?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Or you were?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Like?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
No, I want to I don't have a therapist friends?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Alright?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Oh really?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Oh yeah, yeah what every one of my friends says.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
And of friends, loads of friends, I.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Can imagine want to listen to someone? No, So I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I was pretty, I was pretty.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Like normal, I was only I was an only child.
I went to I went to a boarding school, and
there were a lot of people around me that were
into music, and then one and then once in the
school holidays, I just because I'm I didn't I live
like far away from from the school, so they weren't
(07:20):
actually so I didn't actually have many friends around me
in the holidays, So I had a lot of time
on man's and I just randomly stumbled across the Nirvana
documentary on Netflix when I was like sixteen. Yeah, and
you know when you're that age and you're just like
really trying to find your identity.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
And like who am I?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And you and I watched that and and it sounds
kind of cringe and cliche, cliche by like a kind
of like known I've wanted to do this like halfway
through that documentary really and I don't know it just
and then went back to school and my granny and
like knitted me this like red and black ah cut
(07:59):
to be in this jump but that he was like
famously worn. Yeah, I would wear around everywhere and everyone
called me nasty names, but I didn't care because I
was an outcast now because.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, and I just picked up a guitar. They're quite
easy to learn on the guitar. Okay, okay, good time,
And then it's a good introduction. It's quite simple songwriter.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah's and then yeah, just I haven't really looked back since,
and just.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
The Kirkbang story is quite grim. I mean, I know,
I know what.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
It was about it. I think it was I was
more into the just the aesthetic of it all rather
than like, you know, the like.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
The act.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I think I wanted to be like in such a
cringe way when I was like seventeen, I wanted to be.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Like a little bit more messed up.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
It's like nihilistic and totally but I just naturally wasn't
and so that's why I make like, you know, bubblegum
pop now.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, hand in hand, Yeah, it makes plenty of sense. Well,
there you go.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I'm getting more of an interesting like tapestries to who
you are because you're very interesting. You've got a lot
of fans. People love you. The Aussie shows went off.
You must be in a very happy spot in your
career to be to have wanted that as a kid,
now to be here touring performing talking to you know.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah, I mean like genuinely, like a year ago, I
had less than two hundred fans really like I don't
like I played like my managers here and like we
did like wow, just like less than two years ago
we did a show and there were like these two
girls at the front who knew every word and then
my parents at the very bad.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
What are your parents like?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
They're supportive?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah, very supportive.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, good good.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Well I saw on your Instagram your bio is like
what you're new here or you're early here.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Well you gotta change that because you're famous.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Now, not really you are famous.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Do you get stopped in the streets sometimes?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Really sometimes quite like it's happened a bit more, you know, but.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, but you don't have to have been too much.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Song is famous. The song is a more famous than me,
which is kind of cool as well. It's been like
times where I've been in like a and there was
this one time in Poland and a group of these girls,
like the song came on and these group of girls
literally like got up from where they sat down and
all started like singing singing it, and I just sat
there in the corner and.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
They had no like, why is he staring?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Did you tell them? Because that could be you might
not be welcoming.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I got my mates and they were like, cool, did
you actually? Probably didn't I call? Actually I was drunk.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Oh man, I'm the same like I because I do
a lot of not anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I was in a like a cafe and my show
was on, and I was like, oh, you're listening to
this station much and she's like, oh, we just put
it on to feel the noise.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Okay, So but you the show that's on.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Do you like it?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I don't know where the ramots can't turn him off.
I'm like ship that did not go at all as planning.
So sometimes the bite two.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
In the ass.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah, now what's going on about you're doing it?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It's not a mixtape you're doing next or you are
calling it him.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
I'm pretty random with the word. I put twenty seven
songs gathered. Yeah, and so I'm pretty random in it. Like,
uh so, I don't really know all I've just I've
got loads of like I could put out another mixtape
if I wanted to in a week. But it's about
I quite like playing off my fans and like teasing
them with releases as this.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Thing I do called edging, yeah, which.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Which which is what they get annoyed at me for
edging them with new releases and yeah, putting them out.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
But you know, we've all got to have our ways.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
No, I get you. You know, Yeah, You're not wrong.
I think other people get off to edging too. I
don't know if Yeah, I know I've got some friends. Yeah,
I know some people. Yeah, pretty low places to be
yeah not I So how do I pronounce the name
of the mixtape And you're keeping it ambiguous on purpose?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Is what I read?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Like?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You want people to attach whatever they whatever meaning they
want to put on it.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah? I think it was just.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
With I think it's good to like not overthink these
things sometimes, and it was like, I honestly this, so
that the way that started was I'd put out the
snippet of if you Think I'm Pretty, and it was
like blowing up and it was done, and so I
was like, let's just put it out as soon as possible.
And I needed I needed a some artwork. And some
(12:20):
girl just followed me and I went on her profile
and she had all these like cool things that all
looked like artworks, and I just picked that one and
that was the first mixtape, and then I just did
the same on this one.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
And I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
It's just kind of like if I unless I come
and one day, you know, I'll probably get more high
concept with it.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
But if I think it's not good, it's better.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
To go super low effort and it looked quite cool,
then go super like super high e it and pretend
it's like this high concept thing and it's actually not,
you know, And that's the way to be kids.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I think you do need therapy, and can you in
contact with someone really good?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
That's not fair. I can time radio.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
You were out of time, sadly unfortunately, And that's the
note we'll have to end it on and we'll actually
edit everything else out and it'll just be your therapy, Johnny.
And this is actually an intervention your manager planned day time,
and we have issue.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
We're worried about you.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You know, I'm a therapist, You're in a doctor's office.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
What the hell?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, man, we got you. You can't say they say
I wanted this intervention needed to happen.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
We know A.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Got him. We got ya. Nice to meet you, buddy,