June 7, 2024 • 24 mins
Nick catches up with Regurgitator member; Ben Ely before their Canberra Show.
PS...Ben loves his footy!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I can probably say that they are Australian veterans of
the game. They've been around for a long long time.
Ninety three they formed, of course, their first album ninety
six two playing thirty one years have been together. People
have got habits longer than that. But speaking about great habits,
they've got a great habit of creating great music with
their bran new album, Invader, which is an absolute masterpiece.
I speak with this guy, Ben Eli. Good to talk
(00:22):
to you. Ben.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You go, mate, mate, I'm.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Really really good, excited to talk to you. And I've
really followed you guys through the era. I was a
kid growing up in the nineties and seeing what you
did back then and still still going strong, mates, And
I just gotta ask you that boring musician artist question,
what still triggers and inspires you guys to do your stuff?
Because that new album, Invader some more chilled out tones,
(00:46):
but it's still got the gruntiness and the meat and
potatoes of the gurge.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah. Look, I mean, we just I mean, I think
if we just did one sort of musical style, we
probably would have closed up years ago. But I think
because we just jump around diferent styles, it is kind
of challenging and fun, and the longer we seem to
do it, we feel like it's getting better, and we
seem to have had a bit of a resurgence with
the crowd of people that show up to the gigs
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has been really great.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah. Yeah, and you mentioned you're just multifaceted with the
which direction you go to.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, it kind of keeps it interesting and fun for us. Yeah,
most definitely.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
How do you Incwine do it? Because you too as
well do solo albums You've had a great solo album
you're released, and usually an artist might go, Okay, that's
a good solo rendition for my solo work. More that's
a that's a good rift for the band, And you
kind of decipher between two or three when the goods
are just so wide open and you've got your solo stuff.
How do you decipher Ben well?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Because I think I think with the Regurgitator kind of
I mean, we could do anything, but it kind of
tends to be a bit more cheeky and a bit
more energetic. And when we play live, we try and
create a bit of a party atmosphere and you know,
shake off the day of however terrible it may have been,
so I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, I think it does.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Regrigitated songs do have a bit of a prerequisite when
we write them and we sort of can delineate and
know what is a band song and what's solo.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, most definitely.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
When you finish a record and they get that excitement
of like this is the best we've ever done, it's
it's kind of true because it's because the evolution of
where you are now.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's really weird.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Like when we're doing the album, we're you know, really
focusing on the songs and then.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Going, oh, yeah, like this one, like that one. But
when when we.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Put them together and we sit and listen to it,
that's when we get really kind of spun out because
they are so different. When you put them together, it's
just like mixed bag of lolli's. You know, it's you
don't know what you're going to get, especially if you're
eating in the cinema and it's dark, you can't see.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I don't know, sidetrack, you could be Yesterday's Maltese from
the floor. Driving out from Sydney the other day, clear right.
I was driving out from s Any the other day
on the whllway and I had the album on and
it's just the perfect companion. Man. It starts off really
really mellow and a bit more laid back. But it's
not like you're trying to be mellow and laid back,
(03:12):
which sometimes artists can do that for a great reason.
But it sounds like it's genuinely come for an organic place.
Is that where you are now, especially with being parents
and whatnot?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Oh look, I mean there's you know, we are getting
a bit older, so we're probably less aggressive than we
used to be.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's sort of a bit more content in our old age.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
But I mean we put that song at the start
because we kind of wanted to lure people in with
these kind of sultry eighty sounds and then you know,
ham of them, ham of them in the face a
bit later, I guess. But you know, track listing is
always a tricky, difficult thing to do with us most definitely.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, to con't try and tell that story when it
is a mixed bayre lollies. It's hard to put the
colors together.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah sometimes right, yeah, mate, you just mix them all
up and hopefully it doesn't look brown.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
That triggering though, what triggers you today and what inspires
you today, Ben to put stuff out onto tape to record.
We just ideas in general, you know, to keep ideas
to turn them into songs and what's what's your heart
open to In regards to where you're feeding from it
has anything changed in the last thirty years. Obviously you've
evolved and you've grown, and you've got problems. Now, you've
(04:20):
got your running around after kids and whatnot. You know,
where are we now in regards to your nets of inspiration?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well, I mean, I guess it's just the state of
the world. I guess, you know, it is quite a shocking.
You know, it's pretty it's pretty tough for people at
the moment, and I think I think, you know, sometimes
that can be a bit you can feel a bit
of pressure mentally psychologically, and I think a lot of
the tracks that I made for the record are kind
of a reflection of my sort of mental state in
(04:51):
the world or feeling a bit overwhelmed with, you know,
whether it's a financial crisis or the fact that oh
my god, I've got these kids I really love and
it or but they're in this kind of crazy world
and are they ever going to be able to buy
a house, and all these worries and things I guess
spill into the lyrics sort of unintentionally. I guess a
lot of that stuff just comes out from my subconscious.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
But I mean, as far as.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
The energy goes, I'm more drawn to, you know, stuff
that's a bit sort of fastic guitar kind of driven
stuff as Quan is probably a bit more pop orientated.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I like a bit more of the rock and roll
sort of punky stuff. Yeah, but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
That's great because the girds have always been a bit
of a diary entry with your material, and yeah, yeah,
it's been great stuff to listen to like that.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, it's a little bit a social commentary. I guess,
a little.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Bit of you know, we don't we don't write about
our girlfriends and she broke my heart. You know, there's
never any songs like that. It's all generally like, you know,
a storm of psychic mess.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I love the kind of talk. Do you go back
and listen to some of your old stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I do, and it sounds so weird, like it's something
that just sounds very strange, I feel, and some of
it I completely even forgot doing. You know, some of
the B sides and some of the album tracks. When
I listened to it, I'm like, oh my god, I
don't even remember doing that, you know, because I mean
it is we have been around for so long that
that does happen when you hear it and go oh.
(06:25):
People write to me and say I really like this song,
and I go, oh, what is that song?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I don't even know?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
And then I listened to it and I can't even
remember where I was when I did it. I mean,
that's what happens when you've been around for thirty years,
I guess.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
And the shows you would have played, and the people
you would have met. What triggers been to go and
go listen to a song? I mean, obviously you love music,
you triggered to listen to your favorites and other stuff
to explore, especially in the world we're living today. With Spotify,
you can just easily just pull your pull your phone
out and explore YouTube as well. What goes that? Came? White?
Feel like listening to too? Playing?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
What that? Sorry?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
What expires you to you just sit down and go
might just put two playing on now? And is it
more of a reminiscence?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I think, I know, I think it's probably more of
looking into the future and thinking about what I'm doing next,
Like we did Invader, and I was listening to that
when I made it.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
But when it comes to older stuff, I probably wouldn't
even look at it.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I mean, we did a twenty fifth anniversary of two
playing years ago and I sat down and listened to it,
and it does seem to teleport you back to a
place in time when we made that, and you know,
you remember where you were and how you feel.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
And you know how you felt for the girl you
were with at that time.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
And music's pretty fun like that. It does seem to
be a bit of a time traveling device.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
When it comes to like my own personal stuff I
listened to, it's probably I do a lot of visual art,
so I listened to a lot of kind of psychedelic,
kind of tripped out instrumental music when I'm painting and stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
What kind of stuff it is?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh, you know, like weird stuff like brain tick Get,
you know, sixties kind of psychedelic rock and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Wow, anything you'd recommend for the listeners.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Totally.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Like a band called Arm and Duel too, and I
like Can and yeah, brain Ticket and just sort of
weird kind of jammy stuff. That's kind of yeah, that's
pretty fun, just kind of crazy stuff though.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, So you're.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Kind of immersing yourself in total creativity, you know, doing
the music, and you're painting and around these really good
psychedelic ensembles. You're just roaming around a world war of creativity?
What a what a life band?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Well?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah, I mean I think I've always practiced being creative,
so and you know, playing load rock music is get
a bit smash, so it's kind of hard to do
music all the time. So yeah, I like doing visual
art to still be creative, but it's not as loud
in my ears don't hurt as much, so that's probably
a better way to go about it.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
How does your parents help shape and form your creativity
now and how much do you influence on creativity?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah? Yeah, look, I really love it.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Like a lot most of those songs that were on
our kids album, The Poco Go Show, like with my
daughters who are older now, like twenty two and twenty
when they were young, I wrote a lot of those songs.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Just through play. Like you know, I like to play.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Writing music as a form of you know, communication and
as a form of play with my kids.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
You know, like the Farting song.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Came out from choking around with my daughter, and mister
Butt came around from choking around, and a lot of
those songs did just came out from just interacting and playing.
And that's what I kind of feel like music's for,
is the way to kind of connect with people you
care about.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Really, I've got that same connect with my daughter right
now too. It to five year old doing that too,
and she's actually refigraded my love for music too.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
It's a great little bit of tennis.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, it's like a little fun thing to do with me,
joke around, making up stupid songs, and yeah, I love
doing that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Mate, It's cool.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
What shows me is you mentioned that kids the album,
and you mentioned the free form of there's no one
or right or wrong way of doing a Regurgitator song
or album. For me, you guys just typify freedom in
your art because there's no I mean, you mentioned something
you label what can go on a regurgitator album and whatnot.
It has kind of kind of tick one box, but
(10:24):
it's you know, it's a net wide open. And then
to go, Hey, I'm a dad, I'm loving these stuff
with my kids. Are going to make a whole little
album about it. That for fun, do you guys typify
you know, fun and freedom, the two f's.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, we kind of like and we kind of try
to mess with convention a little bit as well, because
you know, I mean, there is all these conventions with
being in a band, like you know, you have to
do an encore, and sometimes we go, oh, we just
won't do an on core, or like there's a section
in our show where we all take solos, but we
make fun of people who do solos and do.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
A really terrible solo. So I mean we like to
we love I love.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
The form of being in a rock band because you know,
I mean, it's really fun. You can make video, you
can do photos, it's live elements, studio recordings, there's so
many cool facets of it.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
But we we love it.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
But we also like to play with it, play with
in that sort of genre as well, and try and
and anytime anytime we can kind of kick against convention.
We actually kind of find it quite humorous and giggled
to ourselves.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You know, there's always a degree of childishness to us.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I would say, if we do something that makes each
other laugh, we think we're doing a good job.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Well that's that's the whole idea, is not growing after
and staying in touch with the inner child. And that's
a child, right.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, I think everyone takes you know, life is short,
and I kind of feel like, you know, we should
be really celebrating our life because it is a freaking
blessing to you know, to be here and you know,
live and breathe amongst each other.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It's good here now a wonderful manager. We spent on
my ear and said a bit of a fan. You've
adopted a bit of a passion for the Brisbane Broncos,
being a Brisbane boy there.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Now, I have Raiders are you Are you a Raiders fan?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Are you well, I'm a Raiders man. I commentate the
games and I do stuff with the Raiders all the time.
Oh do commentator? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Are you really are?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
They're one of my top teams too, because I've got
a few mates that are into them.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, I've got a few mates I've got I've got
my good guy teams, my bad guy teams.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
And one point, there's a lot of Camber Raiders have
been listening to this. I can say that from Regurgitator
has said that the Camber Raiders are on he's a
good on his good list of teams.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Oh yeah, man, definitely top five. We could I could
probably well, you know, I live in Brisbane, so I
think some number one and then Dolphins, and then I
would say Raiders are sitting at number three. I'd say
I thought they had a good win against Storm. I'm sorry,
against the Cowboys, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
We just beat the Dolphins last week.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Oh Dolphins, that's right, that was a really tight one Redcliff.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, it was a topsy turb a game. We just
beat them in Golden Point. Yeah. But there's a beautiful affiliation.
Oh dude, you're telling me, trying to trying to call
it with all that emotion, there's a great affiliation with
the Canberra and Brisbane of course, Mala Nina you would
have heard a.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Big now, yeah mate.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, he has a bundanboo boy and he's a Brisbane boy.
And that was the first wave before the Broncos entered
the comp in eighty eight. The Raiders were in eighty
three and they just went and bought a bunch of
Queenslanders to come play for them. So all the Queenslanders
the Raiders mate, Yeah right.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, I mate was with Melmourn, Nigger's daughter's husband.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Got a jam with him sometimes and he lives down
the road. He's Amuso.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah yeah, well I had Mail on the show last week.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
There you go, Oh well, there you go.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It's all coming around.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And how they're going this season? I reckon they're going to.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
We are currently sitting in sixth position. We having a
great year. Goods as a story in twals halfway through
the year with yeah, we're always the underdogs. Everyone doesn't.
The experts always write us off, but that true blue
collar came Raider spirit. We just fight and we're brawlers.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
And like last year, we've got a coach as well,
don't you Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, Ricky Sticky Sticky played Who do you love with
the broncos Man? Who's some of your favorite players?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I really like sel I went to a few games
and just watching him carry every time he carries the ball,
He's just got the biggest screen on his face and
I like his energy. He's he seems really cool and
you know, I like Selwyn. I like, you know, Ezra Man.
You know, I mean, Reese is a bit of a show,
but he's he's pretty fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
But he backs it though.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
He's fast. You know, they're all cool, you know as
as a team, they're good.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Thing about reesey do he cops a lot of flak
but he he does. But but but he backs it
up though, and he can he'll win your game though,
you know what I mean. If he wasn't, if he
wasn't winning your games and he was struggling a bit,
you go, Okay, this guy's got to sort himself out.
But he backs himself though, And that's the whole new
he does mentality. But it's like the NBA culture coming
into NRL and they just backed themselves and I'm really
sure of themselves.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah. And he's not a huge guy, Like he doesn't tiny,
he's not that, you know, he's not. And he he
cops smashings all the time. And he seems to bounced
back quite well, doesn't he He does.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Being such a creative man yourself, when you rock up
to a football game, what brings you? What do you
like about it?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Like?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
What is I'm the kind of guy that likes to
really go deep in the more human level of the world.
How why is right? Why you started to draw to
a game that's been around for a long long time?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
And yeah, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I like that same thing about it, the human characters
and the kind of you know, drama on field and
off field, and you know, I guess you get just
like when you go to an energetic, you know, rock
show and the music's asked, and you know, you get
that adrenaline rush.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And I think that's what you get from watching the
footy too, and get that adrenaline surge. You know. It's
like when when you play live.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I get that and then it takes a while, takes
a couple of hours for it to come down and dissipate.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Same same as when you go to the footie.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I get that when I call the game especially.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah mate, And it does it take your hours a
white I.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Sit there and stay at the ceiling for hours?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah mate. They get to bed till like three in
the morning of them.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, well flee from the Chili Peppers, were you guys
with familiar They took us until in the early nineties there. Yeah,
he mentioned it's an art form like when he plays
like in Europe. He'll just finish and go back to
the hotel and just put on a hoodie and just
go for a walk through the empty streets, just to
calm down. And then he would just sleep with the baby.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Ah, that's a pretty cool idea.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Actually, yeah, yeah, yeah, try and child down, Try and
calm down a little bit.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Do you do that after a call?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Well, the things about that for me, it all depends
that I've been doing it for a while, and now
for six years, six years in and at the beginning,
they chance I would, but it was exciting. I'd be
just so excited. I was like I'd live in my dream,
you know't call the footage. So even if we'd lose,
I'd still be so excited. And then you go through
a you go through a period where it you know,
(17:16):
it's okay, like I just call the game and then
I'll just go to it normally. But now for some
reason this year again, that's it started again, and I
just might just sit there and stare at the ceiling.
Whereas now I just I'm a bit of a hippie.
I can do a bit of meditations and stuff like
that too, so I can yeah, yeah, I can switch
my mine off and crash.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah that's great.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, yeah, I just I just kind of think if
you if you do anything that you're passionate about and
you're really into it, enthusiastic, like was stamp collecting, I
just think it's such a great thing if you can
do what you love and throw yourself into it. But
then it's just such a great feeling of satisfaction, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
And I've recently adopted and might I might share this
with you, but I share this with a lot of people,
especially with a lot of listeners. And I've been on
and off for a few years this year, just recently,
in the last couple of months, I've gone a full
on into it, and that's collecting and listening to vinyl.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, me too. Yeah. That's a slope, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I have caught the bark. It used to be just
my greatest I said to myself, I'll have my greatest
albums of all time, and I'll have that vinyl as
a special, almost ceremonial moment where I'll play them. Whereas
now I've lost it and I'm I'm collecting Jimmy Hendrix's
bootlegs and I'm collecting. I can't wait to get to
snag Yat. And then I speaked to Pauly, He's gonna
hook me out with your new one. I'll get your
(18:33):
voices inform me.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah you got a land Speed A bit you in
a land Speed?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah yeah, land Speed is a big one. But just
going to I did a show on here a few
weeks ago with a couple that do own a store
in Barrel and they had like a bit of a
bee fair where they had a Sunday here with music
and a barbecue and beer was flowing and they had
all their carts out and they had new stuff, new pressing's,
old stuff, collectibles and it was great. You know, I
picked up Radiohead. You know you have okay computer with
(19:02):
all the remastered with all the special stuff I'm picked.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Up and it's so fun. It's so fun.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
John lennond album which I loved, you know which one?
I picked out one of John Lennard's greatest hits, but
just like a random one from like, yeah, you know,
eighties and stuff. And I'm a big fan of like
Alice Cooper's sixties and seventies. And I just picked up
a billion dollar Babies Dreenmaster of Billion Dollar Babies, and
it's the big wallet, the big green with the bill
in side, and you.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Know, like it's so fun when you're digging and you
find something you've been looking for forever. It's just such
a you know, maybe it's a bit of an adrenaline
rush too, you know when you find when you're hunting,
and it's just a really satisfying thing of hunting and finding.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
But even sonically, it is a it is a sound
of bath sound. You know, it's a sound of a
musical bath when you're listening to it, especially when all
chestral arrangements. I love soundtracks as well, and I just
listened to soundtracks like this music scores like I'm a
bit of a bit of a meatball from the nineties,
that's where it grew up. So I love like Stallone
and all his films because all those martial arts action
(20:02):
films have got the big storylines of setbacks and having
to come back. Yeah, all the all the orchestral arrangements
for the scores are so emotionally driven.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Man. Yeah that moves me.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Man. I sit in front of the vinyl and it's
just like a bath and I'm out there getting all
these recordings from America sent down to me that cost
a fortune, but when you receive it and it's the
best and blood sport John Claude, I've got the repressing
of the soundtrack, and it's just I just want to
run mountains after I listened to this stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Man, Yeah, I really love the John Carpenter stuff from
the eighties, Like his soundtrack is you know, he's a
film director, but he also made the soundtracks and some
of that stuff's just epic.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I love it, and even like, for example, a bit
more of the mainstream, like I had the illusions from
Guns N' Roses, and I mean on the radio, I
played in Novembrane all the time, so I listened to it.
It's become a little bit like wallpaper. But then listening
to it on vinyl, I heard orchestral and all the
different kinds of stuff that I haven't even heard that's
tucked away in the mix on the you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Like it's just got a really good system with good speakers.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And everything not really that good. And that's the exciting part.
I've just started. So I've got this like a more
of a budget thing that I got buddy through Amazon.
But now when I kind of really start moving forward
with it, I'm going to upgrade as I go. I've
got like really cool speakers for like recording music, because
I do. I record music and stuff as well.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I've got like proper kick ass speakers here which I'll
probably plug it into. Yeah great, but but I can't
wait experiences. You can't wait experiences and getting Invader and
then maybe a bit backtracking and getting two the likes
of two playing and all your guys stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
And yeah, man, we've got all our stuff out on vinyl.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, yeah, I had a look at that stuff too. Yeah,
especially the Australian stuff too. And Ben Lee's playing the
night before in Canberra before you guys and I interviewed
into the show, and I've got some of his stuff
as well that I picked up. But speaking of Canberra, mate,
you've got good memories of coming to our nation's capitol
and playing always we love you down here.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
We always have a really really great show in Canberra.
There's some towns that really stand out. Canbra is definitely
one of them. You know, ever since we used to
come and play the Old A and you all the time,
and yeah, the basement's really great. I really love playing there.
The people that run it are really nice and they've
got that amazing collection of heavy rock pinball machines, which
(22:18):
is always fun to play at sound check, you know,
something to do.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I had the Keis Morris on here at the start
of the year because off played at the base on
a Wednesday night and it went off.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Literally they're good.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yeah, I just broake up though, I think, what's that?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I think they did that Australian too.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
We called it and then obviously you know that through
because poorly sort of Yeah, mate, Camber, you're here on Saturday,
June eighth. Then, of course when this show goes to
it's all about this weekend. I've got to ask you,
like I ask every one of my beautiful musician artists
that come on this show. Ben Eli from Regurgitate It,
if you met the alien, what piece of music would
you play him?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh that is a good question. If I met an alien,
you can.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Pull your phone out on YouTube and.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Going, oh my god, just like one song, just.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Something to just typify what music is to the alien.
It's never heard of the concept.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I'm just playing like Highway to Hell by you see,
I think that would be because it's just.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Such I mean, it just sounds so good. You know,
if you crank that through his speakers, you know, I
guess you would find out pretty quickly if he was
a good.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Alien or a bad alien. You know, if he's a bad.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Alien, Horris Game, you're top five, and that was one
of them as well.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
It's such a good sounding song. You know, we had
a sound engineer. He would always test the PA speakers
with that song, and it just sounds incredible. It's a
great sounding, simple, simple, great lyrics, straight to the point,
you know.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Okay, classic that alien? What urgitate a song would you're playing?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Okay, I would play the alien in Oh God, there's
so many different weird songs to play.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I would play him. I would play the alien. God.
Let me think.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Playing a song called seven foot I'll probably play the
alien a song called seven foot ten off the new EP,
just because I mean I always really like that song
and it still really stands up and it just sounds
really strange, and it's got a quite a kind of
interesting dark energy to it, but I like it.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I think it's good. Yeah, i'd say seven foot ten representation.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yeah, excellent, ben Eli. We can't wait to see you
in camera in a few sleeps. Time to bring your
whole ensemble of regurgitator madness slash fun.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Great to talk to you, nick mate. Thanks a lot.
I can probably say that they are Australian veterans of
the game. They've been around for a long long time.
Ninety three they formed, of course, their first album ninety
six two playing thirty one years have been together. People
have got habits longer than that. But speaking about great habits,
they've got a great habit of creating great music with
their bran new album, Invader, which is an absolute masterpiece.
I speak with this guy, Ben Eli. Good to talk
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to you. Ben.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You go, mate, mate, I'm.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Really really good, excited to talk to you. And I've
really followed you guys through the era. I was a
kid growing up in the nineties and seeing what you
did back then and still still going strong, mates, And
I just gotta ask you that boring musician artist question,
what still triggers and inspires you guys to do your stuff?
Because that new album, Invader some more chilled out tones,
(00:46):
but it's still got the gruntiness and the meat and
potatoes of the gurge.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah. Look, I mean, we just I mean, I think
if we just did one sort of musical style, we
probably would have closed up years ago. But I think
because we just jump around diferent styles, it is kind
of challenging and fun, and the longer we seem to
do it, we feel like it's getting better, and we
seem to have had a bit of a resurgence with
the crowd of people that show up to the gigs
(01:12):
has been really great.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah. Yeah, and you mentioned you're just multifaceted with the
which direction you go to.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, it kind of keeps it interesting and fun for us. Yeah,
most definitely.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
How do you Incwine do it? Because you too as
well do solo albums You've had a great solo album
you're released, and usually an artist might go, Okay, that's
a good solo rendition for my solo work. More that's
a that's a good rift for the band, And you
kind of decipher between two or three when the goods
are just so wide open and you've got your solo stuff.
How do you decipher Ben well?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Because I think I think with the Regurgitator kind of
I mean, we could do anything, but it kind of
tends to be a bit more cheeky and a bit
more energetic. And when we play live, we try and
create a bit of a party atmosphere and you know,
shake off the day of however terrible it may have been,
so I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, I think it does.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Regrigitated songs do have a bit of a prerequisite when
we write them and we sort of can delineate and
know what is a band song and what's solo.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, most definitely.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
When you finish a record and they get that excitement
of like this is the best we've ever done, it's
it's kind of true because it's because the evolution of
where you are now.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's really weird.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Like when we're doing the album, we're you know, really
focusing on the songs and then.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Going, oh, yeah, like this one, like that one. But
when when we.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Put them together and we sit and listen to it,
that's when we get really kind of spun out because
they are so different. When you put them together, it's
just like mixed bag of lolli's. You know, it's you
don't know what you're going to get, especially if you're
eating in the cinema and it's dark, you can't see.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I don't know, sidetrack, you could be Yesterday's Maltese from
the floor. Driving out from Sydney the other day, clear right.
I was driving out from s Any the other day
on the whllway and I had the album on and
it's just the perfect companion. Man. It starts off really
really mellow and a bit more laid back. But it's
not like you're trying to be mellow and laid back,
(03:12):
which sometimes artists can do that for a great reason.
But it sounds like it's genuinely come for an organic place.
Is that where you are now, especially with being parents
and whatnot?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Oh look, I mean there's you know, we are getting
a bit older, so we're probably less aggressive than we
used to be.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's sort of a bit more content in our old age.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
But I mean we put that song at the start
because we kind of wanted to lure people in with
these kind of sultry eighty sounds and then you know,
ham of them, ham of them in the face a
bit later, I guess. But you know, track listing is
always a tricky, difficult thing to do with us most definitely.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, to con't try and tell that story when it
is a mixed bayre lollies. It's hard to put the
colors together.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah sometimes right, yeah, mate, you just mix them all
up and hopefully it doesn't look brown.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
That triggering though, what triggers you today and what inspires
you today, Ben to put stuff out onto tape to record.
We just ideas in general, you know, to keep ideas
to turn them into songs and what's what's your heart
open to In regards to where you're feeding from it
has anything changed in the last thirty years. Obviously you've
evolved and you've grown, and you've got problems. Now, you've
(04:20):
got your running around after kids and whatnot. You know,
where are we now in regards to your nets of inspiration?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well, I mean, I guess it's just the state of
the world. I guess, you know, it is quite a shocking.
You know, it's pretty it's pretty tough for people at
the moment, and I think I think, you know, sometimes
that can be a bit you can feel a bit
of pressure mentally psychologically, and I think a lot of
the tracks that I made for the record are kind
of a reflection of my sort of mental state in
(04:51):
the world or feeling a bit overwhelmed with, you know,
whether it's a financial crisis or the fact that oh
my god, I've got these kids I really love and
it or but they're in this kind of crazy world
and are they ever going to be able to buy
a house, and all these worries and things I guess
spill into the lyrics sort of unintentionally. I guess a
lot of that stuff just comes out from my subconscious.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
But I mean, as far as.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
The energy goes, I'm more drawn to, you know, stuff
that's a bit sort of fastic guitar kind of driven
stuff as Quan is probably a bit more pop orientated.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I like a bit more of the rock and roll
sort of punky stuff. Yeah, but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
That's great because the girds have always been a bit
of a diary entry with your material, and yeah, yeah,
it's been great stuff to listen to like that.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, it's a little bit a social commentary. I guess,
a little.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Bit of you know, we don't we don't write about
our girlfriends and she broke my heart. You know, there's
never any songs like that. It's all generally like, you know,
a storm of psychic mess.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I love the kind of talk. Do you go back
and listen to some of your old stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I do, and it sounds so weird, like it's something
that just sounds very strange, I feel, and some of
it I completely even forgot doing. You know, some of
the B sides and some of the album tracks. When
I listened to it, I'm like, oh my god, I
don't even remember doing that, you know, because I mean
it is we have been around for so long that
that does happen when you hear it and go oh.
(06:25):
People write to me and say I really like this song,
and I go, oh, what is that song?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I don't even know?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
And then I listened to it and I can't even
remember where I was when I did it. I mean,
that's what happens when you've been around for thirty years,
I guess.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
And the shows you would have played, and the people
you would have met. What triggers been to go and
go listen to a song? I mean, obviously you love music,
you triggered to listen to your favorites and other stuff
to explore, especially in the world we're living today. With Spotify,
you can just easily just pull your pull your phone
out and explore YouTube as well. What goes that? Came? White?
Feel like listening to too? Playing?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
What that? Sorry?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
What expires you to you just sit down and go
might just put two playing on now? And is it
more of a reminiscence?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I think, I know, I think it's probably more of
looking into the future and thinking about what I'm doing next,
Like we did Invader, and I was listening to that
when I made it.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
But when it comes to older stuff, I probably wouldn't
even look at it.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I mean, we did a twenty fifth anniversary of two
playing years ago and I sat down and listened to it,
and it does seem to teleport you back to a
place in time when we made that, and you know,
you remember where you were and how you feel.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
And you know how you felt for the girl you
were with at that time.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
And music's pretty fun like that. It does seem to
be a bit of a time traveling device.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
When it comes to like my own personal stuff I
listened to, it's probably I do a lot of visual art,
so I listened to a lot of kind of psychedelic,
kind of tripped out instrumental music when I'm painting and stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
What kind of stuff it is?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh, you know, like weird stuff like brain tick Get,
you know, sixties kind of psychedelic rock and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Wow, anything you'd recommend for the listeners.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Totally.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Like a band called Arm and Duel too, and I
like Can and yeah, brain Ticket and just sort of
weird kind of jammy stuff. That's kind of yeah, that's
pretty fun, just kind of crazy stuff though.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, So you're.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Kind of immersing yourself in total creativity, you know, doing
the music, and you're painting and around these really good
psychedelic ensembles. You're just roaming around a world war of creativity?
What a what a life band?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Well?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah, I mean I think I've always practiced being creative,
so and you know, playing load rock music is get
a bit smash, so it's kind of hard to do
music all the time. So yeah, I like doing visual
art to still be creative, but it's not as loud
in my ears don't hurt as much, so that's probably
a better way to go about it.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
How does your parents help shape and form your creativity
now and how much do you influence on creativity?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah? Yeah, look, I really love it.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Like a lot most of those songs that were on
our kids album, The Poco Go Show, like with my
daughters who are older now, like twenty two and twenty
when they were young, I wrote a lot of those songs.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Just through play. Like you know, I like to play.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Writing music as a form of you know, communication and
as a form of play with my kids.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
You know, like the Farting song.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Came out from choking around with my daughter, and mister
Butt came around from choking around, and a lot of
those songs did just came out from just interacting and playing.
And that's what I kind of feel like music's for,
is the way to kind of connect with people you
care about.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Really, I've got that same connect with my daughter right
now too. It to five year old doing that too,
and she's actually refigraded my love for music too.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
It's a great little bit of tennis.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, it's like a little fun thing to do with me,
joke around, making up stupid songs, and yeah, I love
doing that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Mate, It's cool.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
What shows me is you mentioned that kids the album,
and you mentioned the free form of there's no one
or right or wrong way of doing a Regurgitator song
or album. For me, you guys just typify freedom in
your art because there's no I mean, you mentioned something
you label what can go on a regurgitator album and whatnot.
It has kind of kind of tick one box, but
(10:24):
it's you know, it's a net wide open. And then
to go, Hey, I'm a dad, I'm loving these stuff
with my kids. Are going to make a whole little
album about it. That for fun, do you guys typify
you know, fun and freedom, the two f's.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, we kind of like and we kind of try
to mess with convention a little bit as well, because
you know, I mean, there is all these conventions with
being in a band, like you know, you have to
do an encore, and sometimes we go, oh, we just
won't do an on core, or like there's a section
in our show where we all take solos, but we
make fun of people who do solos and do.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
A really terrible solo. So I mean we like to
we love I love.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
The form of being in a rock band because you know,
I mean, it's really fun. You can make video, you
can do photos, it's live elements, studio recordings, there's so
many cool facets of it.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
But we we love it.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
But we also like to play with it, play with
in that sort of genre as well, and try and
and anytime anytime we can kind of kick against convention.
We actually kind of find it quite humorous and giggled
to ourselves.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You know, there's always a degree of childishness to us.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I would say, if we do something that makes each
other laugh, we think we're doing a good job.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Well that's that's the whole idea, is not growing after
and staying in touch with the inner child. And that's
a child, right.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, I think everyone takes you know, life is short,
and I kind of feel like, you know, we should
be really celebrating our life because it is a freaking
blessing to you know, to be here and you know,
live and breathe amongst each other.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It's good here now a wonderful manager. We spent on
my ear and said a bit of a fan. You've
adopted a bit of a passion for the Brisbane Broncos,
being a Brisbane boy there.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Now, I have Raiders are you Are you a Raiders fan?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Are you well, I'm a Raiders man. I commentate the
games and I do stuff with the Raiders all the time.
Oh do commentator? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Are you really are?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
They're one of my top teams too, because I've got
a few mates that are into them.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, I've got a few mates I've got I've got
my good guy teams, my bad guy teams.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
And one point, there's a lot of Camber Raiders have
been listening to this. I can say that from Regurgitator
has said that the Camber Raiders are on he's a
good on his good list of teams.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Oh yeah, man, definitely top five. We could I could
probably well, you know, I live in Brisbane, so I
think some number one and then Dolphins, and then I
would say Raiders are sitting at number three. I'd say
I thought they had a good win against Storm. I'm sorry,
against the Cowboys, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
We just beat the Dolphins last week.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Oh Dolphins, that's right, that was a really tight one Redcliff.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, it was a topsy turb a game. We just
beat them in Golden Point. Yeah. But there's a beautiful affiliation.
Oh dude, you're telling me, trying to trying to call
it with all that emotion, there's a great affiliation with
the Canberra and Brisbane of course, Mala Nina you would
have heard a.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Big now, yeah mate.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, he has a bundanboo boy and he's a Brisbane boy.
And that was the first wave before the Broncos entered
the comp in eighty eight. The Raiders were in eighty
three and they just went and bought a bunch of
Queenslanders to come play for them. So all the Queenslanders
the Raiders mate, Yeah right.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, I mate was with Melmourn, Nigger's daughter's husband.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Got a jam with him sometimes and he lives down
the road. He's Amuso.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah yeah, well I had Mail on the show last week.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
There you go, Oh well, there you go.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It's all coming around.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And how they're going this season? I reckon they're going to.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
We are currently sitting in sixth position. We having a
great year. Goods as a story in twals halfway through
the year with yeah, we're always the underdogs. Everyone doesn't.
The experts always write us off, but that true blue
collar came Raider spirit. We just fight and we're brawlers.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
And like last year, we've got a coach as well,
don't you Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, Ricky Sticky Sticky played Who do you love with
the broncos Man? Who's some of your favorite players?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I really like sel I went to a few games
and just watching him carry every time he carries the ball,
He's just got the biggest screen on his face and
I like his energy. He's he seems really cool and
you know, I like Selwyn. I like, you know, Ezra Man.
You know, I mean, Reese is a bit of a show,
but he's he's pretty fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
But he backs it though.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
He's fast. You know, they're all cool, you know as
as a team, they're good.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Thing about reesey do he cops a lot of flak
but he he does. But but but he backs it
up though, and he can he'll win your game though,
you know what I mean. If he wasn't, if he
wasn't winning your games and he was struggling a bit,
you go, Okay, this guy's got to sort himself out.
But he backs himself though, And that's the whole new
he does mentality. But it's like the NBA culture coming
into NRL and they just backed themselves and I'm really
sure of themselves.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah. And he's not a huge guy, Like he doesn't tiny,
he's not that, you know, he's not. And he he
cops smashings all the time. And he seems to bounced
back quite well, doesn't he He does.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Being such a creative man yourself, when you rock up
to a football game, what brings you? What do you
like about it?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Like?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
What is I'm the kind of guy that likes to
really go deep in the more human level of the world.
How why is right? Why you started to draw to
a game that's been around for a long long time?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
And yeah, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I like that same thing about it, the human characters
and the kind of you know, drama on field and
off field, and you know, I guess you get just
like when you go to an energetic, you know, rock
show and the music's asked, and you know, you get
that adrenaline rush.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And I think that's what you get from watching the
footy too, and get that adrenaline surge. You know. It's
like when when you play live.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I get that and then it takes a while, takes
a couple of hours for it to come down and dissipate.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Same same as when you go to the footie.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I get that when I call the game especially.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah mate, And it does it take your hours a
white I.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Sit there and stay at the ceiling for hours?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah mate. They get to bed till like three in
the morning of them.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, well flee from the Chili Peppers, were you guys
with familiar They took us until in the early nineties there. Yeah,
he mentioned it's an art form like when he plays
like in Europe. He'll just finish and go back to
the hotel and just put on a hoodie and just
go for a walk through the empty streets, just to
calm down. And then he would just sleep with the baby.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Ah, that's a pretty cool idea.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Actually, yeah, yeah, yeah, try and child down, Try and
calm down a little bit.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Do you do that after a call?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Well, the things about that for me, it all depends
that I've been doing it for a while, and now
for six years, six years in and at the beginning,
they chance I would, but it was exciting. I'd be
just so excited. I was like I'd live in my dream,
you know't call the footage. So even if we'd lose,
I'd still be so excited. And then you go through
a you go through a period where it you know,
(17:16):
it's okay, like I just call the game and then
I'll just go to it normally. But now for some
reason this year again, that's it started again, and I
just might just sit there and stare at the ceiling.
Whereas now I just I'm a bit of a hippie.
I can do a bit of meditations and stuff like
that too, so I can yeah, yeah, I can switch
my mine off and crash.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah that's great.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, yeah, I just I just kind of think if
you if you do anything that you're passionate about and
you're really into it, enthusiastic, like was stamp collecting, I
just think it's such a great thing if you can
do what you love and throw yourself into it. But
then it's just such a great feeling of satisfaction, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
And I've recently adopted and might I might share this
with you, but I share this with a lot of people,
especially with a lot of listeners. And I've been on
and off for a few years this year, just recently,
in the last couple of months, I've gone a full
on into it, and that's collecting and listening to vinyl.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, me too. Yeah. That's a slope, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I have caught the bark. It used to be just
my greatest I said to myself, I'll have my greatest
albums of all time, and I'll have that vinyl as
a special, almost ceremonial moment where I'll play them. Whereas
now I've lost it and I'm I'm collecting Jimmy Hendrix's
bootlegs and I'm collecting. I can't wait to get to
snag Yat. And then I speaked to Pauly, He's gonna
hook me out with your new one. I'll get your
(18:33):
voices inform me.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah you got a land Speed A bit you in
a land Speed?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah yeah, land Speed is a big one. But just
going to I did a show on here a few
weeks ago with a couple that do own a store
in Barrel and they had like a bit of a
bee fair where they had a Sunday here with music
and a barbecue and beer was flowing and they had
all their carts out and they had new stuff, new pressing's,
old stuff, collectibles and it was great. You know, I
picked up Radiohead. You know you have okay computer with
(19:02):
all the remastered with all the special stuff I'm picked.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Up and it's so fun. It's so fun.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
John lennond album which I loved, you know which one?
I picked out one of John Lennard's greatest hits, but
just like a random one from like, yeah, you know,
eighties and stuff. And I'm a big fan of like
Alice Cooper's sixties and seventies. And I just picked up
a billion dollar Babies Dreenmaster of Billion Dollar Babies, and
it's the big wallet, the big green with the bill
in side, and you.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Know, like it's so fun when you're digging and you
find something you've been looking for forever. It's just such
a you know, maybe it's a bit of an adrenaline
rush too, you know when you find when you're hunting,
and it's just a really satisfying thing of hunting and finding.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
But even sonically, it is a it is a sound
of bath sound. You know, it's a sound of a
musical bath when you're listening to it, especially when all
chestral arrangements. I love soundtracks as well, and I just
listened to soundtracks like this music scores like I'm a
bit of a bit of a meatball from the nineties,
that's where it grew up. So I love like Stallone
and all his films because all those martial arts action
(20:02):
films have got the big storylines of setbacks and having
to come back. Yeah, all the all the orchestral arrangements
for the scores are so emotionally driven.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Man. Yeah that moves me.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Man. I sit in front of the vinyl and it's
just like a bath and I'm out there getting all
these recordings from America sent down to me that cost
a fortune, but when you receive it and it's the
best and blood sport John Claude, I've got the repressing
of the soundtrack, and it's just I just want to
run mountains after I listened to this stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Man, Yeah, I really love the John Carpenter stuff from
the eighties, Like his soundtrack is you know, he's a
film director, but he also made the soundtracks and some
of that stuff's just epic.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I love it, and even like, for example, a bit
more of the mainstream, like I had the illusions from
Guns N' Roses, and I mean on the radio, I
played in Novembrane all the time, so I listened to it.
It's become a little bit like wallpaper. But then listening
to it on vinyl, I heard orchestral and all the
different kinds of stuff that I haven't even heard that's
tucked away in the mix on the you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Like it's just got a really good system with good speakers.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And everything not really that good. And that's the exciting part.
I've just started. So I've got this like a more
of a budget thing that I got buddy through Amazon.
But now when I kind of really start moving forward
with it, I'm going to upgrade as I go. I've
got like really cool speakers for like recording music, because
I do. I record music and stuff as well.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I've got like proper kick ass speakers here which I'll
probably plug it into. Yeah great, but but I can't
wait experiences. You can't wait experiences and getting Invader and
then maybe a bit backtracking and getting two the likes
of two playing and all your guys stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
And yeah, man, we've got all our stuff out on vinyl.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, yeah, I had a look at that stuff too. Yeah,
especially the Australian stuff too. And Ben Lee's playing the
night before in Canberra before you guys and I interviewed
into the show, and I've got some of his stuff
as well that I picked up. But speaking of Canberra, mate,
you've got good memories of coming to our nation's capitol
and playing always we love you down here.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
We always have a really really great show in Canberra.
There's some towns that really stand out. Canbra is definitely
one of them. You know, ever since we used to
come and play the Old A and you all the time,
and yeah, the basement's really great. I really love playing there.
The people that run it are really nice and they've
got that amazing collection of heavy rock pinball machines, which
(22:18):
is always fun to play at sound check, you know,
something to do.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I had the Keis Morris on here at the start
of the year because off played at the base on
a Wednesday night and it went off.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Literally they're good.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yeah, I just broake up though, I think, what's that?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I think they did that Australian too.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
We called it and then obviously you know that through
because poorly sort of Yeah, mate, Camber, you're here on Saturday,
June eighth. Then, of course when this show goes to
it's all about this weekend. I've got to ask you,
like I ask every one of my beautiful musician artists
that come on this show. Ben Eli from Regurgitate It,
if you met the alien, what piece of music would
you play him?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh that is a good question. If I met an alien,
you can.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Pull your phone out on YouTube and.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Going, oh my god, just like one song, just.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Something to just typify what music is to the alien.
It's never heard of the concept.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I'm just playing like Highway to Hell by you see,
I think that would be because it's just.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Such I mean, it just sounds so good. You know,
if you crank that through his speakers, you know, I
guess you would find out pretty quickly if he was
a good.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Alien or a bad alien. You know, if he's a bad.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Alien, Horris Game, you're top five, and that was one
of them as well.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
It's such a good sounding song. You know, we had
a sound engineer. He would always test the PA speakers
with that song, and it just sounds incredible. It's a
great sounding, simple, simple, great lyrics, straight to the point,
you know.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Okay, classic that alien? What urgitate a song would you're playing?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Okay, I would play the alien in Oh God, there's
so many different weird songs to play.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I would play him. I would play the alien. God.
Let me think.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Playing a song called seven foot I'll probably play the
alien a song called seven foot ten off the new EP,
just because I mean I always really like that song
and it still really stands up and it just sounds
really strange, and it's got a quite a kind of
interesting dark energy to it, but I like it.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I think it's good. Yeah, i'd say seven foot ten representation.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yeah, excellent, ben Eli. We can't wait to see you
in camera in a few sleeps. Time to bring your
whole ensemble of regurgitator madness slash fun.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Great to talk to you, nick mate. Thanks a lot.
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