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September 18, 2024 37 mins

This week’s guests are Filiva’a and Joseph from band Shepherds Reign.

This band was born out of a South Auckland garage, has travelled as far as Norway and received millions of views. Recently the most nominated act at the Pacific Music Awards, Fili & Joe look back on crafting their niche - sharing their talents with the world. Genius to perform the siva tau underneath some metal! 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Flavor Podcast Network Island Roots Auckland Ways.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
This one's for the Brown brothers and sisters who want
to be one with themselves, their culture, their identity, their roots.
This is Island Roots Auckland Ways'll love.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
The man less we who welcome back to Island Roots
Auckland Ways. How oh this week Mariner?

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah, man, very good, thank you because we had spoken
with Shepherd's ragin funny as these.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Guys are funny but also extremely talented. You can tell
that they really really love their work, very passionate, which
I feel like it r like sorry, fubbed out, rubbed
off on me because now I'm like wanting to reflect
on our journey Mariner, and I'm wanting to like, you know,
it was just so cool to hear about the individual

(00:58):
experiences but then also they collective experience. Yeah, what did
you take from it? Mas?

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Learning more about Middle.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Literally, because I feel like we have a misconception about
Middle that it's just like ah, but like the episode,
the only Middle that I've ever listened to really is
Shepherd's Rain. Apart from maybe when I was trying to
be like cool in high school, I think I listened
to trying to be deaf, you know, like not like
other girls, but Sheeper's Train and songs like Ainger and

(01:24):
Afana as such powerful messages about like culture. But I
think like the tone and intensity of Meddle can sometimes
put people off. But She's Rain has something really cool,
like the visuals and the lyrics and the culture like
middle culture and someone culture coming.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Together, one of one, one of the only one.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
And listen to that one right now. And welcome back
to Alan roots Auckland. Why it's joining us now? Joseph
and Feeley from Shepherd's Rain. Hello, how are we this morning?

Speaker 5 (01:59):
For a good?

Speaker 6 (02:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:00):
Good? Thank you?

Speaker 6 (02:01):
We're We're alive, We're awaken, We're here, Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
We were talking about this off Mike. You guys meet
to Norway to perform?

Speaker 6 (02:08):
How is that good?

Speaker 7 (02:10):
An amazing experience? Heaps of fun, meeting heaps of cool people.
The Norwegian people are really kind.

Speaker 6 (02:18):
And really friendly, friendly, very welcoming.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
How long are you guys in Norway for?

Speaker 6 (02:25):
We were there for five days? Yeah yeah, total five days? Short?

Speaker 1 (02:31):
And how does it compare to the paradise that money?

Speaker 5 (02:39):
I don't know. I wouldn't call that a paradise.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Shot fire. I was waiting for.

Speaker 5 (02:49):
It was nice.

Speaker 7 (02:51):
You know, ice caps on the mountains like mangy.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
And yes.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Outside and it looks like a painting that's so kind
to you.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Just like, oh, exactly, okay?

Speaker 5 (03:04):
Are you guys live like the worst people?

Speaker 6 (03:06):
Really?

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Boys?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Every episode we share what we love about home. So
what is home to you? Whether that's where you currently live,
where you may fly to or travel to to feel
like home. It can be somewhere that you don't actually
physically reside in or have been to, but it feels
like home.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
What is home and what do you love about it?

Speaker 3 (03:31):
We'll start off first, and what I love about home
this week is taking my little sister to school.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
I am the.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Eldest child of our family, so I hold kind of
like that parental responsibility A and I have always kind
of felt like because me and my sister we have
a fourteen year age gap, so I truly do feel
like her parent. She's nine years old, I'm twenty three,
and so little things like taking her to school, being
able to shout us a feed after school, taking her

(04:00):
to do her errands, it makes me feel closer to home.
And I don't actually live with her, but whenever I'm
doing those little things with her.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
It makes me feel like I'm right at home.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
It's lovely nice. Well, I love about home this week.
Obviously money Doer is home, I would say, I mean
all the best people from Allegedly. I can't really pinpoint
like one specific thing, but I've been going on a

(04:31):
lot of runs around Rewaar and just there's so many
different spots that just like mean a lot to me,
like certain dairies where I would go like after school,
or just certain spots, and I think there's like, really,
it's such like a cool The fact that I still
live where I've grown up and can still like attribute
that those kind of like nostalgic memories and then create
new ones in those spaces is really cool to me.

(04:52):
So I just think I just love all of freewe Yep, Yeah,
what do you guys love about home?

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Exactly what she said?

Speaker 6 (05:06):
I think, Oh, that's a tough one. I think home.
Home for me is more of a place where I
can just go somewhere, somewhere where I can go and
just relax, you know, somewhere where I don't have to
worry about anything. I don't have to worry about work,
I don't have to worry about studying, so somewhere where

(05:27):
I can just relax, pull my feet up and just
do nothing, no worries at all.

Speaker 7 (05:33):
Rest home for me is obviously Mangani.

Speaker 5 (05:44):
Mai used to be exist.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
I always make that distinction because Mangoi East is very
different from Mangedi Central, very different from Mangoi Bridge.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
Yeah that's right.

Speaker 7 (05:55):
So I currently live in Mugiti Central, but I was
born and raised in among the East on Yates Road,
and I call that home because that's where I was
born and raised. But I think on the weekend I
was really good seeing I took my son over and
we went to see mom and hung out there for
the weekend. Had go right, you're there, and so it's

(06:17):
always good to be back where I grew up, spent
most of the years of my life, and my father
recently passed earlier this year, so it was always good
to be at home where you can remember things they
used to do with that after that I used to
do with dead and yeah, all of it, all that

(06:39):
cool stuff.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
It's so special.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
It's always good going home for cornati because it's soul food.

Speaker 6 (06:46):
M Absolutely I love that.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Well, you two are from Shepherd's Reign, which is just
an incredible I think the Shepard's Rain copaper and it
was just so awesome. It's like the taking of like
this music that isn't necessarily attributed to someone or brown,
or music that comes out yeah Pacific music, and then
putting this stamp on it, like making music and someone

(07:13):
I don't know. It's just so cool. I love the
co paper. I would love to know how you all
met and connected and then also what was have you
always been like Middle fans? Was that initially? What made
you Kineicks? Please tell us all about Oh.

Speaker 6 (07:28):
I'll start off, I'm the latest member of the group.
And how I got into the group was Oliver, who's
our guitarist, and he was my teacher at high school
at Monday to or Hi and when I was when
I was about sixteen, he came to me and he
was like, oh, because sorry, I'll restart. I was in

(07:50):
one of the practice rooms in Rewa and he was
just walking by and you heard me playing some metal
because growing up with Middle I love to play it
and nice. Yeah, and I'm an original guitarists okay and
yeah that's foul. And he came through and he was like, oh,
do you want to come play bass with my band?

Speaker 5 (08:10):
And I was like, bass basis think.

Speaker 6 (08:15):
No bass on about He's like, oh the spots open,
you know, and yeah and hit. But the thing is
I was sixteen and he had to wait till I
was eighteen, so I was legal to play in the
bars or yeah, and yeah. As soon as I turned eighteen,
he hit me up again and he goes, oh, we
haven't practiced tonight. You want to come through? And then yeah,

(08:36):
he came through with all the boys and yeah, restless history.
You know. This was back in twenty nineteen, was when
I first started.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Okay, so you came around to the idea of playing
bass and yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Had you had any experience playing bass or only guitar?

Speaker 6 (08:55):
I did in twenty seventeen. I was playing bass for
Oh sorry, I think it was twenty sixteen. I was
playing bass for a band and we were in Tongue
in too beats. Oh yeah, love and yeah that was
like the only experience I had.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah, so I supposed going into the band. You're eighteen,
you're part of this group. Yeah, what are you feeling?
Is it good to get amos?

Speaker 6 (09:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (09:18):
Yeah, it always is.

Speaker 6 (09:19):
You know, I've always wanted to be a part of
a middle band ever since I was young. So yeah,
going through high school, no one, no one's, no one
else was into middle you know. Everyone else was playing
in the reggae, which I absolute absolutely love, but yeah,
middle was more my kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, so
it was real good up until mid these guys and yeah,

(09:40):
everything else was. I just felt like a perfect.

Speaker 7 (09:45):
Me and aur guitarist Oliver started in two thousand and eight,
and then we went through heaps of heaps of different
musicians to fill in them spots for the band. Later
on found out drummer. I think it was in that
same year or maybe two thousand and nine. I asked

(10:06):
Oliver if he had a drummer, and he said that
he knows of someone that went to Odahu College with him.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
They both went out who College.

Speaker 7 (10:13):
So that's why I met where I met Shaman, and
so me, Oliver and Shaman have been together since.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
Two thousand and nine.

Speaker 7 (10:20):
Wow, and he's still our drummer now and Oliver is
still guitar. Went through a lot of different bass players
and guitarists and it wasn't until two thousand and fourteen
fifteen and fifteen twenty fifteen, we met Goody and who's
our other guitarist who's now a part of the part
of the band as well. And then yeah, like Joe City,

(10:41):
he's the newest member of the band. We've all been
listening to Middle for most of our lives. I started,
I was the typical someone in South Aakland, listening to
everything from regae to gangster rapp.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
The church music. So I was I was normal, like
every other Polynesian.

Speaker 7 (11:03):
But it wasn't. It was maybe I was five years old,
six years old where I saw Guns and Roses on TV,
on Juice TV. I can't yes, yes, yeah, that was
really cool. That's when Juice we're playing genres everything, Yeah,

(11:24):
playing everything. I think I think we're at two thousands
or maybe later started being just.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
Pops off top forty songs.

Speaker 7 (11:32):
But back then they were playing everything from rock to
yeah to pop, all of it, every genre.

Speaker 5 (11:38):
So I fell in love with Guns and Roses.

Speaker 7 (11:40):
And I started playing a classical piano when I was seven,
and the two pretty much just intertwine. So Middle and
classical music really similar and in music theory, so if

(12:01):
you were to play a classical piece, and you just
added distortion or like you know, on the ap at
distortion and things like that, it will sound like a middle,
like a middle idea.

Speaker 5 (12:13):
So it's pretty it's pretty funny how music works. Yeah,
and yeah, I loved the middle ever since.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
How accommodating was the New Zealand music space to Shepherd's
Rai when it started? So two thousand and eight, how
was it for you guys Auckland?

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Ways for the Brown brothers and sisters who want to
be one with themselves, their culture, their identity, This is
Island roots Auckland.

Speaker 7 (12:43):
We we did Elvis, but with what you had. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
none of us said any experience. And then the music scene,
we just knew that we loved the middle and we
wanted to make middle songs and we wanted to play
in front of people.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
So the Pacific side.

Speaker 7 (13:03):
Of things, nothing, nothing happened, but there was more of
the the local bars that play rock and the middle.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
Those guys helped us out.

Speaker 7 (13:13):
So we played at the spark called ding Dong Lounge,
and we started just a little gigs.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
You know, we were playing in front of like two
people through.

Speaker 7 (13:24):
But back then as teenagers were you know, we'll go
to band practice and end up getting wasted. Yeah, typical,
typical young young men. So we'd go and make songs
and and get wasted, go to the gigs already hammered.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Flex spots like seventy years that's like blue kind of.

Speaker 7 (13:55):
So yeah, we yeah, I think every bend starts off
like that, and it's that cool experience that you get,
and it's cool to think about it now that we're
much more professional, and so looking back at it, I
think I don't regret it. I don't regret everything we did.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
We life experience.

Speaker 6 (14:14):
Yeah, so we went.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
Through hell and beck.

Speaker 7 (14:19):
We did. Now we're received. Actually, no, it's about twenty
eighteen we started getting recognized, especially from the Pacific community,
and we're grateful. Yeah, yea very grateful that. You know,
they don't look at us as these guys are just
middle heads being idiots in the music.

Speaker 5 (14:42):
They actually they love us, and obviously it shows with.

Speaker 7 (14:47):
Awards that we've won, the nominations that we've gotten received.
So yeah, very proud of it.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
There must be so many misunderstandings or misconceptions about the
middle genre, though, right, Like, what is it that you guys,
I just love about it that you think other people
should know.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
Yeah, that's a good question.

Speaker 6 (15:05):
I think if anything kind, Oh how do you put this?
It's more of it seems able to like dive deeper
into the song. You know, it might sound angry, but
if you really look into how we're writing our music
and a lot of our lyrics that Philly writes, it's
really about family, about someone heritage.

Speaker 5 (15:27):
Yeah, you know we love that.

Speaker 6 (15:28):
We're trying to split that across the world.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah, I love nothing. That's one of my favorites. Like,
I'm not a huge middle head myself. I say the
only middle as it's right, But when I listen to
nothing to it, I'm locks just like like feeling within
me as you know, it's you sound more like the
sense of strength and like someone, Yeah someone someone as

(15:50):
well Like that is so special and even songs like
I Inger are so like powerful lyrically. But I feel
like maybe the tone and the ta today might not
necessarily scare people off, But I personally think it's really
cool that there are just so many ways and iterations
of what it means to be some war now with
all this like cool new music coming out. When you

(16:12):
first started creating music with Shipard's rain. Were you writing
in Simon then or was that just something that happened
over time.

Speaker 7 (16:19):
That's something that happened over time. At the very beginning,
I had an idea to start off our set with
a someone intro, and I kind of brought up the
idea but it just vanished, just died sort of thing.
But it wasn't until It wasn't until twenty sixteen or

(16:39):
seventeen the making of Lemanu, and I was trying to
figure out some words to put into it. At that time,
I was playing the bass, so it wasn't in it.
So I was recording the bassline and it came time
to write lyrics and I wanted something real powerful. But

(17:01):
then writing in English, you couldn't find anything. There's nothing
that shuits the song or this this rhythm that we
have and then no ship. This is a true story.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
I was sleeping and I woke up.

Speaker 7 (17:17):
For some reason, the Sundone civer toe was in my head.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (17:20):
I was like, man, I don't know why I was
in my head, but I ended up singing the cever
towel with that beat and it just went perfect, and
I was like, boys, I think I got it.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
You must have been dreaming about playing some rugby or.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
No idea.

Speaker 7 (17:39):
But yeah, Oliver was cracking up love. He was like,
so I go, let's start again, stuff from the top,
and I'll sing and and and just tell me if
you guys like this.

Speaker 5 (17:48):
And then I did civer toe and everyone's like, oh man,
what what was that?

Speaker 7 (17:55):
Yeah, I think I've got a lyrics So the first
versus the civ toe and and I just had to
make an extended vision for the seconds and the chorus,
and that, man.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
Didn't work. Yeah, that's a begger. I wanted to ask.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
So, when you're performing to your audiences, many of whom
probably aren't basufical or are aware of the cultural nuance
and the lyricism of your work, Like, what what is
the response? What reception are you getting from your audience?
Are they just hyped that they're hearing like this new thing,
these new things?

Speaker 6 (18:31):
Definitely?

Speaker 7 (18:32):
M Yeah, you're right. So there's this majority of uh,
you know, Blongese, majority of Bilongese, and I think it's
probably one of the most heartwarming feelings when you're you're
singing and you can actually see them yeah miming your words,
and these guys I think there was a gig we

(18:54):
had and it may have been in Wellington and it
was all these white people and they're also and I
could hear them over myself that was coming out of
the fold backs, and I was I was real proud. Yeah,
I saw some someone flags on the side.

Speaker 6 (19:09):
That's so cool.

Speaker 7 (19:10):
Best feeling feeling.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Do you have a favorite gig that you've played.

Speaker 6 (19:15):
Like, yeah, yeah, I think favorite one would definitely be
this year would be Sparkling.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (19:22):
Yeah, that was a huge gig.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
I admire that camaraderie and that kind of culture of
generosity within the middle community.

Speaker 6 (19:30):
That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
Oh they're great.

Speaker 5 (19:31):
The middle community is probably one of the kindest, nicest
people that you'll ever meet. Yeah, it's real funny.

Speaker 7 (19:37):
I'm one of my friends came to l Wellington show
and she's never been to a middle gig before and
she goes, oh my god, this what she doesn't sound
like that.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
But oh my dad, oh my gosh.

Speaker 7 (19:56):
You guys, Oh my god, like your you guys people
she goes to, your guys people are so kind.

Speaker 5 (20:03):
I thought they were like what, like, I don't know,
and then it's just like yes, like these people were
just asking.

Speaker 7 (20:20):
If I was okay someone because there was as there
was a circle put going on, you know when they
go crazy.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
Yeah, that was about to start. And uh one guy
saw her standing there and then he like quarter back
and she was like what are you doing?

Speaker 7 (20:36):
And he was like.

Speaker 5 (20:39):
Yeah, and sure enough she.

Speaker 7 (20:42):
Was standing there and then she saw everything going on.
She's like, okay, okay, these people are really kind and
I like I like them that. She said that middle
people because a lot of people think, you know, all
blackdown or gothic looking, and then.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
Ye must be like.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, yeah, Marilyn man, it's.

Speaker 6 (21:04):
Very very man.

Speaker 5 (21:07):
What did David individualists?

Speaker 6 (21:09):
Kind of Yeah, that is so cool.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
Recently you've kind of popped off so like your social
media on so many views, heaps of interactions.

Speaker 4 (21:27):
Shout out to Queen Loud.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Mass louw we meet in Uni, so we did our
business degrees together. And yeah, she's always been one to
support local music.

Speaker 5 (21:39):
She's good like that.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yeah, she is like hearty for everyone, no matter what
genre you are, She's going to give you the same
amount of love. Was it kind of overwhelming getting all
this interaction on social media because I'm talking Instagram, TikTok
everywhere YouTube, people like, millions of yous like and pretty
much all came out one to be honest, Yeah, yeah,

(22:04):
I don't know. Just there you guys going to social media.
What's the relationship.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
That's why we got That's where wet when we got at.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Yeah, did you guys get connected?

Speaker 7 (22:18):
I made her last years it's gonna it's gonna with.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
That connection started.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it was real funny. We had
a we had a nice streak that night, and.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
That was a longs night. Let me tell you what
they said Ireland time. Yeah, that's what it's gonna be. Like,
it's gonna go past midnight.

Speaker 6 (22:40):
I just know.

Speaker 7 (22:43):
Midr the after party. And I was I was doing
social media at that time, so I was on my
phone and I was like trying to.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
Cook the posts. I know there was a story.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
Really okay, is this a story?

Speaker 7 (23:00):
Ye? So don't knows a lot more than I do.
But obviously wasn't there at the time, so I was
trying to quickly do something. But I was taking ages
and obviously half half twists and then low like comes
she she had been talking to me and poetic and
who else is there a good old Wayno, you were
all talking together and okay, yeah, I had a good

(23:24):
chair and she was in the mix as well. And
then she saw what I was doing and she comes along.
She's like, hey, let me do that for you. What
are you what are you doing? I gave it to
her and I was like, I'm just trying to I
think it was a story you were real, and I'm
trying to move it from the post on Instagram so

(23:44):
it comes on Facebook as well, so I don't need
to go on Facebook and do it. And then she
was like easy, a couple of swipes and you know, taps.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
On her phone and it was done on my phone
and it was done.

Speaker 6 (23:54):
I was like, you do this.

Speaker 7 (23:57):
For a living or something, and she goes.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
That she does oskie, yes, yes, much love to ask
you by the way.

Speaker 5 (24:04):
Yeah and yeah. And that that's when I go, cool,
can you do some more stuff?

Speaker 7 (24:13):
More things? And so she didn't, and I was surprised
at how easy it was for somebody to do all
that so fast. So at that time, we were actually
talking to managers and our new label at the time,
and the label was looking at some social media people.

(24:34):
They had social media people as well, and I asked
and they said that we needed somebody here in New
Zealand to be you know, taking videos and uploading things
on our side because they're all from Australia and America
and the UK. Okay our management and yeah, so I
mentioned Love and that's been there, like cool, we'll have

(24:55):
a zoom meeting and then she comes on and I've
seen some emails from lower and everyone thought that she
was respectful and uh professional, which is that?

Speaker 6 (25:04):
Which is amazing?

Speaker 7 (25:05):
Yeah, and yeah the Resist history, Wow, she ended up
in the team and she's just smashing it. So really,
all the media, I'll hear.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
It from her first.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
You don't to worry about.

Speaker 5 (25:21):
Now she's like, oh my god, did you see duh
blah blah, And.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Yeah, you guys have been on so many like international
media outlets as well, Like you're getting all the love.
And the thing about love is that she can sang
honey like she some pipes can't wait for her to
hear from. Yeah, she's gonna hear the Sorry Pacific Music

(25:46):
Awards this year. As of time of recording, it's this's Thursday.
So how are you feeling ahead of the ceremony?

Speaker 5 (25:54):
Pumped, yeah, pump, nervous, nervous, yeah, I'm pumped.

Speaker 4 (26:03):
Confidence.

Speaker 7 (26:04):
No, it's I normally don't feel anything until like the
day before yeah cooking, Yeah yeah, so right now it's
just to come come before the storm, and then a
day before and then it was.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
Like, how does it feel to receive recognition from your
PACIFICA community and getting your flowers because y'all have achieved
a lot and broken glass ceilings for Pacific and Metal.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
So leading the nominations at the pm as this.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
Year, absolutely, yeah, you're going to clean it up.

Speaker 6 (26:37):
I think it was crossed. You know, we're really grateful.
It's been a long time coming. You know, we we
have been getting nominations and winning awards in the past,
but for this year, because for this year to lead
the nominations is a huge step because last year it
was it was for me personally. It was my first

(26:58):
time releasing an album, creating the album with the boys
and my first album I've released with them, and to
get recognized where it's like, you know, you feel like
you should Yep.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
That is so cool. Part of our chat today though,
is actually the platform the really epic work of spoke
Free Tongue to Beats, which Joe I understand that you
have been a part.

Speaker 6 (27:26):
Of in the past.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Can you tell us about how Tongue to Beats has
kind of enabled or unlocked some musical passions for you
and like what it's meant to you on your journey.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (27:36):
So the first time I did it, I was year nine,
was back in twenty fourteen, my first year of high school,
and I had no idea about the competition, you know,
and my music teacher at the time, Tim Randall, head
a department for Money to music, and he he was
real pushing for getting as many students to go perform

(27:59):
as he can. And so my first time on stage
this was year ninetewenty fourteen. This was up in the
Mengry Mengry Bridge, the hall.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 6 (28:13):
Yeah, so that that was my first time on like
big stage with you know, all the band boys at
the time, and yeah, and I was so nervous, you know,
but after, you know, year after year, I just kept
doing it, and I think by the time I was
like twenty eighteen, all the nerves had gone. Yeah. So
if anything, it really helped with being confident walking on stage. Yeah,

(28:39):
just just getting through the whole nervous kind of thing. Yeah, Yeah,
so now nowadays, I really get nervous because of it.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, it seems like such a good platform to start
your music journey and to you know, shake off all
those nerves, get rid of all those jitters before you,
like into the real I guess, the real music world.
Why do you think it's so important for our young
best speaking so.

Speaker 6 (29:04):
Engaged with I think speaking from personal, you know, I
think it's very important if especially if you're quite a
shy person, but you really want to get out there,
you know, do explore what you you know, explore what
you're good at, what you're not good at, and if anything,

(29:25):
it's just a confidence builder, you know. And uh, yeah,
I think that that's all I can say about it
the time.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
Yeah, I think I think it really shows with joke because.

Speaker 7 (29:41):
For someone that's eighteen and you just you're about to
play al Friskig, You're about to play with Rain who
we've really got a name and we've got everyone knows
what we can do. And if for this guy to
jump on and you know, with all that confidence and.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
He was just a very like he blended in a
very well he knew what to do. We didn't have
to tell him braid being knew doing so.

Speaker 7 (30:16):
I think that's because I'm not I didn't join the
tongue to pizza and and things like that. But I
think that that's from my knowledge. I reckon that's the
whole that's the whole reason behind it. And kids so
that when they get to the real world, like you're saying,
they're used to it. Yeah, it's easier for them.

Speaker 4 (30:38):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
So we are going to move on to our rapid
fire QM. Now, this is a rapid fire game that
we've come up with. It's called song for a Situation.
So we are going to give you three sorts of
situations and then you just tell us what is the
song that you would play and see the situations.

Speaker 6 (30:52):
So we're going to.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
Start with love song. So love vibes, romance? What are
you putting on? What are you going to put on? Alissa?

Speaker 1 (31:04):
I'm want to try king kick at the moment?

Speaker 7 (31:06):
So true?

Speaker 6 (31:06):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (31:07):
True?

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Love by Tricking's a good one?

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Okay, mine would be. I was listening to it this morning,
Tama and to you, yeah, yea love for me? How
about you, guys?

Speaker 7 (31:19):
I would choose one of my favorite artists. I would
choose Celindian I love you.

Speaker 6 (31:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
Did you feel happy when she performed at the Paris Olympics.

Speaker 5 (31:29):
Yeah, yeah, she came back from yea from the grip
that she was going through. Okay, so good come back.

Speaker 6 (31:38):
How about you? I'd go for Whitney Houston. Run to You?

Speaker 4 (31:45):
I don't think I know Run to You?

Speaker 6 (31:47):
Yeah, excuse me? Run White? How does it go? You
got to wait?

Speaker 7 (31:59):
Run you?

Speaker 5 (32:00):
What do you use the I feel like let's play. Yeah,
it's a great song.

Speaker 6 (32:05):
Run to You.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
I feel like you'll play it and we'll.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
All the bodyguard.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Yeah, do you know what?

Speaker 6 (32:13):
That's it?

Speaker 4 (32:14):
Let's just run to you.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
I love the Bodyguard.

Speaker 6 (32:23):
We know run to you?

Speaker 5 (32:25):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (32:26):
Okay, okay, we're started on. Okay, So second situation, hype song?

Speaker 3 (32:34):
What is the hype song that you played before you
go on stage?

Speaker 4 (32:39):
Hypothetically? A few were performers. If you girl, what's your
hype song?

Speaker 1 (32:45):
It's a song called Getting Started by Sam Finder. He's
like a British artist. One of his songs seventeen Going
Under is quite popular, but getting Started is a really
good song.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
Oh you guys go, I've got to think of one.
But what are your guys?

Speaker 6 (33:00):
So?

Speaker 7 (33:01):
I love listening to my classical music so before but
if I get the chance to before a performance, it
will be there to be Valdi, you know songs, or
or just listen to most nice. But if we're talking
about a party, my hype song is always going to

(33:27):
be by would be by a system of Oh yes.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Would you say classical is like your favorite genre or
still I love not my.

Speaker 5 (33:37):
Favorite but actually yeah, so thinking.

Speaker 6 (33:46):
So many songs on the memory Bang.

Speaker 7 (33:48):
But this guy, yeah, Joe, Joe really does have a
massive range of songs that he listens to. Because I'm
also a huge Kindrid marfan.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
Love Kindred, we love kind track around here. This is
not a Drake House.

Speaker 5 (34:10):
I don't know either of the.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
Mm hmmm, I think I've got one.

Speaker 6 (34:27):
Okay you.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
Janet Jackson, mm hmm, mess you much.

Speaker 6 (34:37):
Yeah, that's a great trick. I'll say you just for
hype hype in general, I'd go Compton by Kendrick Lamar.
Oh that's a great.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Yeah of the Yeah, okay, we've got some solid plicks here.
One more situation here, a song for the road. So
when you're traveling, when you're on the road, what are
you listening to? What's on the playlist.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
What's on the playof us for you on the thong?

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Whoa, I'm trying to think, I'm not. I don't drive,
so I actually usually aim on the ORB.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 6 (35:13):
Drive.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
I would say probably some Malon Williams make Away for Love.
Probably that whole album.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Yes, yes, okay, girl, what's on the playlist?

Speaker 6 (35:31):
Do do do? Do? Do do? What?

Speaker 5 (35:33):
What's specifics for this so so on the road?

Speaker 7 (35:36):
It's a winter summer, I'm thinking summer summer.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Windows are down, went flowing through your hair? Yeah, I
would say.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
Mary J. Blige, anything.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
Yeah, I like the early stuff, the covers, uh real
love sweet thing?

Speaker 5 (35:58):
Yeah? Cool mine? Would I just had it?

Speaker 4 (36:06):
Do you have addressing?

Speaker 6 (36:10):
I'd say Controller by l A b.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Oh, Yeah, that is such summertime.

Speaker 4 (36:17):
Yes, yes, yes, l A b Are summer.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
And you can everyone knows next once you can all
sing along.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
Great.

Speaker 5 (36:26):
Oh, yes, it's Guns and Roses. I'd go Paradise City.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I love that song. I go out listening to a
lot of Guns and Roses.

Speaker 6 (36:40):
I look music, girl, thing.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
And we're bringing it back and what that say? That's
time to say goodbye.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
Thank you guys so much for joining us. We're talking
about the really cool work of Tongue as Beats, but
also just for sharing the shipper's rain energy success story
with us. It's so cool to hear and yeah, we're
so inspired about you guys. So thank you so much
for taking the time to chat with us.

Speaker 7 (37:10):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Sorry, guys, I'm laughing at me. He was saying, Beyonce,
we're talking about a fucking mitche man. Be so for
real right now. My favorite part was making oh you someone.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
And that is the part shout out to the boys.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Feel so proud of them, so excited. I mean, by
the time this episode comes out, we'll know if they
want their pm as or not, but they're just excited to.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
See them at the pm as.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Congratulations guys, incredible, incredible, incredible work.

Speaker 4 (37:48):
Yeah, we'll see you next week.

Speaker 6 (37:49):
Bye.
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