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Join me for a chat with three members of hard rock band, local legends AudioReign.
Ever wondered how a band keeps rocking through a decade of changes and challenges?
Jake, Alek, and Dieter spill the secrets behind their enduring success, from their hits like "Relentless" to iconic performances at festivals such as Big Day Out with Pearl Jam. Through lineup shifts and the setback of canceled tours due to COVID-19, their story of grit and resilience is sure to inspire. And you’ll hear how their debut EP “Find Your Way” set them on a path to musical prominence and how they've managed to crack the ARIA charts.
In an episode filled with laughter and insight, get ready for a journey through AudioReign’s eclectic musical influences, quirky backstage must-haves, and their rock-and-roll dreams. From the prog and death metal vibes of Opeth and Whiplash to jazz, discover how these diverse inspirations fuel their creativity and shape their unique sound.
They share the backstory of their newest release, their take on Elton John’s "Rocket Man."
Looking ahead, the band teases exciting plans for new albums and international tours, particularly in Europe, leaving fans eager for what's next.
Stay tuned for a conversation that mixes humor, gratitude, and a whole lot of rock spirit.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So we're ready, ready , ready as we'll ever be, we're
rolling on this one, so I'llgive you a clap.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know what to do.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
All right.
You ready, yep, ready.
Welcome to Writer TV.
You're with Cheryl Lee, thatradio chick, and I'm really
pleased to finally get theseguys into the interview room.
In fact, we're at the hallowedhalls of the Gov at the moment,
and we're at the hallowed hallsof the Gov at the moment and I'd
like to introduce you to ThreeQuarters of Audio Rain.
Thank you for coming in,gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Nice to see you.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Lovely to meet you, you too, I think the first time
we spoke about this was when Isaw you performing at the
Bridgeway I don't know how manyyears ago and I gave you my card
.
Wow, it won't happen overnight,but it will happen.
And here we are.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah, I remember.
Now that was several days ago.
Ring a bell.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
So you guys formed in 2011,.
So that's 13 years ago.
That's more than a lot ofmarriages, so congratulations
for that.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
For starters, We've been for like an old married
couple.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Thanks, yeah like most bands, I reckon yeah,
perhaps you could introduceyourself and let us know your
instrument of choice.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
My name's Jake.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I'm lead vocals and rhythm guitarist Alec lead
guitar and a bit of kazoo Dieter, I play drums and sing a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And then we've got Ashley Lovett, who is on bass.
Who's not here today?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
That's right.
Yeah, you got quite a bit ofwork.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yep no-transcript.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
these guys actually weren't in it, it was just Audio
.
Rain had begun with three otherguys Actually, my cousin was
the original drummer and he waswith us for a little while and
then Dita came in really earlyafter that, you know, we heard
about Dita.
I'd asked around the traps foryou know where's a good drummer
and he came with a great set ofpipes on him too.
He was a good drummer and hecame with a great set of pipes
on him too, so it was ano-brainer and yeah, so Dita
joined the band.
(02:06):
We put out our first EP inabout 2015,.
Was it Alec 2014,?
2015.
We had a line-up change just tomake the band the band it
needed to be.
That's when Alec came in andAsh.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
We just advertised for some auditions and yeah,
these guys Alec and Ash camethrough and they fit the bill
and had the chops and the restis history.
Off we go.
Oh, well done.
As you said, 2014,.
Debut EP Find your Way.
And that coincided with yourfirst festival debut at the Big
Day Out.
Relatively short space of time,really, from 2011 to 2014,.
(02:46):
Playing Big Day Out with PearlJam.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
That's right.
Yes, no, what a?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
What were you like?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
It was pretty awesome .
What a day, wow.
And I remember that day becauseit was like about 40 degrees, I
reckon, and so hot wasn't it.
But it doesn't matter, anyamount of heat wasn't going to
dampen our spirits.
So I'm playing the big day out,and especially with Pearl Jam
headlining Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And the deltones were there and ghost, and I think
you played them for round of.
I think it was the deltones,deltones.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
The deltones Damn.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I think they've been dead for quite some time Cut and
I think the deftones were thereand Ghost and in front of the
crowd of 15,000.
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yeah, it was awesome it was.
It was a nice start to gettingthings rolling, for you know the
rest of what happened and whatis to come.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Exactly, and in three short years.
That's pretty amazing.
Congratulations, well done,thank you.
And then the full length albumcame out, which led to you
supporting Skillet and Pop Evil.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
We recently played Amaranth, but that was after the
new one.
The new album dropped as well,kip.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Winger show at one stage as well.
Yeah, supported Kip.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Winger.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
The whole Australian tour, wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
It was here, here actually, it was, uh, adelaide
one.
Yeah, we got asked to do anacoustic set and we said,
absolutely so awesome um andthen skill it again.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Well, actually we did score the the full australian
support for threshold, but thencovid hit and it got cancelled
covid cancelled damage andthere's a couple other things on
the line and covid sort ofruined a lot.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
So yeah, covid's ruined a lot for a lot of people
.
But you know what, you takethat and you go.
Am I going to let it crush me?
Am I going to let it destroy us?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
No, that's right, make the most of it, and then
had to film the video.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Relentless was actually came back because of
COVID.
That was us, our sort ofmessage to ourselves, saying you
know, this is it.
We're not going to fold like alot of bands, we're going to go
harder.
And so that's a reference toRelentless, because that's what
it was about.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It's all about overcoming the devastation that
you know came to the musicindustry because pretty much
overnight, not just artists butroadies and sound techs and
lighting guys and everybody youknow 18 months worth of future
bookings gone.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Yeah that's right, so well done, made a minor work.
We had a list of about 15, 20acts that we had all lined up
with board tickets and then,just the days leading up to the
full lockdown, it's just like oh, they're cancelled, oh they're
cancelled.
Ah, there goes the whole lotyeah.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, I know it was devastating for everybody, but I
think it's um.
It shows you metal.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
You can either fold or, you know, get stronger,
that's right so well done guysyeah, no, thank you, you're
definitely getting stronger andstronger, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger, makes you
stronger exactly Such a cold one.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
You are listening to Still Rocking it.
The podcast with Cheryl Lee.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I think we should hear that song right now.
Here it is Relentless from thePerfect Sea album.
And then we're back to speaksome more to Audio Rain.
Pull up in the chamber.
Pull up in the chamber.
Pull up in the chamber.
I need a bullet in the chamber.
I need a bullet in the chamber.
And the release of Relentlesshere's another little feather in
(06:17):
your cap meant that you werethe first Australian band to go
on the cover of the US magazineHigh Wire Days.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
High Wire Days.
That's right, we were yeah, andI was on the cover and Slash
was on the cover as well.
I thought first Aussie band.
That magazine goes everywhere,like Whiskey A Go Go and bloody.
It goes to all the places andso that was a cool little one,
of those cool little things youknow.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It is no centrefold, just the cover.
It is no centrefold, just thecover.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Straight to the cover .
Speaker 1 (06:45):
They didn't like my centrefold picture and then
getting closer to now, because Ithink you're on a bit of a
trajectory, would you agree?
Yeah, we've got some plans.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
We've got a line we're looking at.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So last year you signed with X Music, yeah,
released a great album, thePerfect Sea.
Tell us all about the making ofthe Perfect Sea.
Tell us all about the making ofthe Perfect Sea.
And that also led to anothercover, didn't it?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It did, it did yes.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Heavy Mag of oh yeah, we had a cover.
Oh yeah, another cover.
Oh yeah, yeah, I haven't heardit now.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, we've been like great support from media in
general, you know be themagazines and radio stations and
TV Hard Rock Show.
They've been fantastic with usguys.
But yeah, On Channel 44?
.
Yes, big shout out to thoseguys as well.
But yeah, the perfect C was along time coming because
(07:40):
obviously, I suppose throughCOVID and that we had to well,
we're getting things happening,keeping things going, putting
some videos out to get through,and then the perfect C was the
final.
Final.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
We were actually going to do an EP, I think, and
then we decided, nah, it was thesame as the first album was
just going to be a five-track EP.
And then we wrote what?
Another five, six songs?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
It was like oh, I guess we're doing an album album
.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I think, oh, damn it.
We had some interest in, uh,europe, in, you know, countries
like germany and that, but they,they were keen on a full album
rather than just an ep.
Yeah, so that's what we did?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
the writing of the songs.
Is that someone's job?
Is it a collaboration?
How do you guys work?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
it is yeah, yeah, we bring riffs together.
Um, alec will bring some riffs,I'll bring some riffs and we
just work on them.
Sometimes There'll be a lot ofparts of the song there and
we'll just adapt and add it orwe'll build it together.
Yeah, we usually workshop themin the rehearsal room.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, yeah, jake will write the lyrics at home after
we've sorted out some melodiesand whatever.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Yeah, and that's a bit of a thing too, because you
know a song can be however youwant it to be, and it can be a
million ways.
So getting the right melody inplace when there's a lot of
thought that goes into it.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
So there's no sort of .
You don't necessarily have amethodology that you go with.
Everybody brings their ideasand you create magic together.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Oh, you guys.
So you all are into the heavyrock genre, Among other things.
Yeah, Anyone got any secretlike jazz or you know?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Yeah like Sinatra, dean Martin, like Rat Pack, era
stuff.
Really, we've known each otherlike a decade.
Come on now, gee, I thought wewere friends, no secret Taylor
Swift obsessions?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
No, not like that, come on now I like Kate Bush,
yeah, yeah.
I love the Beatles, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I don't have any guilty pleasures, man, if you
like it and it forms who you areand all that stuff you listen
to somehow goes to funnel andeven though we do heavy stuff,
there's little things thatfilter through.
Yeah, yeah, you know I loveHall Oates man.
You know bloody, it's ErwinJohn's.
I like a lot of 80s music, lovethem.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Excellent, yeah, but when you play, you like to play
go hard, go hard or go home toplay go hard, go hard or go home
.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
There's something about heavy music which just
heavy, heavy riffs and harmonies.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Actually, that's right.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I mean me too my favorite bands are mainly
harmony bands, the ones that Igrew up on, where the drummers
sung as well.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Yeah, yeah which is why, obviously, in our music you
hear a lot of uh, a lot ofharmonies, a lot of melodic
stuff, because, uh, yeah, it'sonly you know, you know there's
all the growlers and the, youknow the heavy, heavy, heavy,
but, um, melodics, um, it's justuh.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
That does it for me still rocking that podcast with
that radio chick, cheryl lee.
Let's have a quick one, shallwe from hall and oats?
I can't go for that.
No, can do.
And then we're back to listento more of the tv interview with
Audio Rain at the pub.
You can hear the ambience inthe background, can't you?
The big news, of course, is thefirst time that album has
(10:59):
appeared in the top 20Australian albums on the Ari
chart.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
It did, yay, well done, thanks.
You know our fans how awesome,Just yeah, a lot of hard work
and a lot of support fromeveryone just to get these sold.
And yeah, when we got the news,we hit number 15.
It was like on our first weekof release.
That was incredible, wow, yeah.
I mean we didn't get invited tothe awards or anything, but you
(11:23):
know.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Not this year, Not this year we had our own awards
show.
You know, cracked that bottleof gin.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
We did, we did, that's right.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
The only gin that has actually not tasted like gin
and I was able to drink itwithout you know being sad.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah, that's right.
Well, good on you.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I believe that this is.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I'm going to ask you and we touched on it a little
bit about your favourite artistsand what have you and
inspirations.
But I'm going to ask you what'son your playlist at the moment
when you're in the car orwhatever, and you can listen to
whatever you want.
What are you playing?
What are you listening to?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Well, it'll be a mixture.
Some days I might be out fromthe door and listen to the 80s,
or I'll be uh, listening to, uh,mammoth wolf and haylen um, and
also listen to the releaseradars of my stuff and the heavy
stuff and see all the latesttracks that are coming out, just
the new songs and the hard rocknew songs that come through as
well.
Doing your research, well, justgive a pulse, see what's going
(12:17):
on.
You know, yeah, so, uh, that'swhat I'm doing so quite eclectic
really yeah yeah, from 80s popand bop to the heavy stuff, yeah
, yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Yeah, release right there for sure At the moment.
I think most recently I've beenabsolutely fresh on Opeth's new
album.
Yes, me too.
Yeah, a good mix of prog anddeath metal, maybe more prog
than death metal, but you know,it is what it is, just always
trying to absorb new music.
So there's, I've got a fewplaylists that are several
hundred hours worth of musicthat you just hit, shuffle on
and you know see what happens.
(12:45):
Yeah, yeah, and some jazz.
Yes, actually, soundtrack toWhiplash, probably the main jazz
album.
I know that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
How about you?
Well, could be anything fromDream Theater to Transatlantic,
to Nightwish, to AmaranthAwesome old-style stuff like the
Sweet Queen.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah to Amaranth awesome old-style stuff like the
Suite Queen, all sorts.
Yeah, nice, also on Rider TV.
We also like to ask you areally important question what
is the non-negotiable on yourrider?
What do you just have to havein the green room before the gig
?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
I don't think we've ever been given that option
before.
No.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Oh, you're on the ARIA charts now.
We've ever been given thatoption before.
No, oh, you're on the ariacharts now you've got a.
You know, insist on a rider Ihave to put that on the thing
now.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Now you've said that you're gonna count this list of
yeah, just random stuff, butthere's got to be beer, doesn't
it like?
Yeah, nothing else.
Like that's.
That's bottom line.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Yeah yeah, bad stuff.
A thousand brown m&ms to fillup.
Yeah, no, not, not blue ones.
No, no, brown Brown ones arefine.
I'm not overly picky on thecolours.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
We're not divas.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Well, I do look forward to the day when I can
get some real beer, some Germanor Belgian beer, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I think you need to put your order in he's fussy
with his beers.
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
That sounds like shots, fired you know, because
it's an.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
ARIA award.
You can up the ante now.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So you haven't got any like fancy cheeses and
bottles of red, fancy red wine.
You're pretty easy going.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
I'm pretty sure a lot of the times when we get to the
green room, it's just the stuffis already there and I mean I'm
pretty loud, Although we didhave, was it streaky sounds?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Oh, we were loaded.
Yeah, we did ask for one and wegot it.
Yeah, they came out.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
They got like a little pattern there, like all
right, so just put your namesand what drinks you want on here
and when you get back from thegig it'll be in your room and
yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Four fridge of stocks .
Speaker 5 (14:35):
That was about as rock and roll as it got at the
time.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
I think I'll be asking for Dog.
It's a little elixir I like.
Yeah.
Yeah, I reckon you can up theante now.
What's the really expensiveshower?
I need one bottle of Cristaland a glass made of ice and a
straw, a skull glass, yeah.
And then I won't even drink it.
It's just because they did it.
That's the main thing.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
You are listening to Still Rocking it.
The podcast with Cheryl Lee.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Quick song and then we're back to listen to the rest
of the TV interview with theguys from Audio Rain.
Queen was mentioned in there onone of the fellas' playlists.
I don't need any excuse to playQueen, here we go.
Somebody to Love, Somebody,somebody, somebody somebody, can
anybody find me?
Somebody to love.
How are we going for time Mark?
(15:27):
16 minutes 13 seconds.
Oh, we've got plenty of time,plenty of time, yeah.
Did you guys have anything thatyou particularly would like me
to ask you, any topics that youwould like to discuss, because
I've got a couple up my sleeve,but I thought I'd ask you first.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
You're the interviewer.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I'm not.
Yeah, yeah, good, all right.
What's coming up, or?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, we'll do that at the end.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
You're going to ask about videos, or?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah, all right, our vinyl.
I'm just going to ask a littlebit about.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
I didn't realise that tape got out on the internet.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
DNA, then videos and then what's happening, and that
would probably get us through.
So I just wanted to go back alittle bit again, because I love
asking artists this questionwhen did you discover that music
was your thing, that it wasyour passion?
Is it in your DNA?
Are you from a musical family?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Yeah, I've always loved music, Like from when I
remember.
I remember my first favouriteband being Kissed when I was six
and I wanted to go to theconcert in Adelaide but my
parents wouldn't take me becausewe lived far, far away.
And I was like, yeah, it wasjust six, yeah, it was when I
was six, that's right, and yeah,we can't tell you.
But yeah, all the way throughalways just been into music.
You know, at school I should belistening.
(16:37):
I was drawing Eddie from Iron.
You know pictures in my classmy dad used to be in an album
club vinyls and they'd bringslide vinyls would come in and
he'd keep it on the stand back.
So we were always playingrecords.
First band at 14, as soon as Icould get into a band, you know,
played the drums, schoolmusicals and stuff.
So it was always going to bethat way.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
And when did you find ?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
out Well, I suppose.
Well, you know, it's justsomething you do when you like
music.
You just sort of always pick upan acoustic guitar and play it
here and there.
You know, don't get me wrong,I'm still no bloody wild
guitarist, but I do what I needto do and it's fun.
Everyone wants to.
You know, everyone fizzlesaround guitar.
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, singingwas the main thing.
So I suppose once you've got adream, if you it, you're always
going to.
(17:20):
You know you're not going togive it up, are you?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Was there ever a plan B?
Or once you picked up thatguitar and that mic, that was it
.
Oh, you had to have real jobs.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
You know there's only a handful of million of us that
get to become super rock starsthat can.
You know even some of the bigbands.
These days they're out and youknow their names, but they're
making just the same as a wage,same as anyone else in a normal
job.
So it's hard work being in aband.
You don't do it for the money,you do it for the love.
That's right, passionate, yeah.
And if you just happen to bethat lucky one that gets a good
(17:50):
break and starts a good event,you know that's super cool.
You listening gods.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Rock gods.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yeah, so that's me.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
And Alec, when did you discover music was your
thing.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
I couldn't tell the exact year, but I remember the
exact song I heard when Ifigured it out.
It was Mum and Dad used to havea cassette in the car which was
like super hip to the 60s, andI remember hearing Jumpin' Jack
Flash and I was like the Stones,yeah, 100% and yeah.
Just remember hearing that andbeing like, yep, I can do that,
yep, that's me.
And then I got an acousticguitar in primary school around
that time and I didn't get myfirst electric guitar for a
(18:24):
couple of years, but by thatpoint my brother had showed me
things like Metallica, acdc,iron Maiden, all those bits and
pieces.
I'm like I can do this, thiscould be fun.
And yeah, there we are.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Awesome, I used to be able to play Smoke on the Water
.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
I think that's like.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
British.
You Bring in the guitar, do youneed?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
me.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Bring in the guitar.
Do you need me?
I can fill in.
That can be the next cover wedo.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Dita, what about you?
Well, yeah, is it in your DNA?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, my dad was a keyboard player.
I remember he used to Not forthe Deltones, no, actually, but
he had a Hammond organ and aLeslie box and when Cliff
Richard and Olivia Newton-Johnwere touring together and they
came to play at the Westlands inMoala, they actually hired his
(19:10):
keyboard and Leslie box, hisHammond organ and Leslie box and
so my parents got free tickets.
And, yeah, I remember I used tosee him playing at festivals on
Ben Oval and going the next dayto pick up his gear from the
venue in his big commie van withflowers on it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
So you reckon you absorbed it via osmosis?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well, yeah, I guess.
And then once I saw Sweetplaying Boring Blitz on TV and
saw the drummer spinning hissticks and all that, Like I was
about five or something, Ireckon, and I said that's what I
want to do, and I was supposedto say.
I never looked back.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It's interesting because most of you can just
remember a moment, a song, avideo where you went yep, that's
what I want to do.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
So many musicians have cited seeing the Beatles on
the O'Sullivan show.
Right.
For me it was yeah, seeingSweet on TV, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Still rocking that podcast with that radio chick,
cheryl Lee.
I think I'd like to play thetitle track of the album now the
Perfect Sea.
And then we're back to saygoodbye to the fellas from Audio
Rain.
And you're the perfect sea.
We're gonna sail this ship asfar as you can go.
(20:21):
Let's move up again to currentday.
You guys are not only greatlive shows and great recorded
music, but you're also prettygood video makers.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
I just show up and they point at me.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
We work some good crews that have done our videos.
Yeah, we've been fortunate wehave.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yeah, and they that have done our videos.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Yeah, we've been fortunate we have, yeah, and
they've just done great work.
First one Betrayal that waswith a group of Kaleidoscope
Productions.
That was a lot ofbehind-the-scenes work to find a
church that we could get to usefor what we wanted to do.
That's no easy feat.
None of us are sent to flamesdoing that, yeah, especially if
you're playing hard rock.
It would have been cool for thepeople.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Especially if you want to set fire to the church.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Oh, I don't like that , but yeah, and then we worked
with our good friend EvaGreslach, who came over and she
shot.
What did we do with her?
We done Shining Relentless.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Angel.
Angel Shining Light.
No, it wasn't Shining Light.
Angel Relentless.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And these are all available on your YouTube
channel.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Oh yeah, absolutely on the YouTube channel.
Yeah, that's right, angel wasshot.
Part of him was shot in here.
Really, yeah, yeah In the Gulf,yeah in the Gulf, the hallowed
halls.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
It is, it is, yeah, yeah, Awesome, we've done a
video at the woodshed.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah, which was brief .
Speaker 5 (21:43):
That was shot in someone's backyard.
Jake's mate literally drove theentire night from Melbourne to
Adelaide 10 hours to Kip Rockupwith a full crane and everything
like the whole shebang to setup in our mate's backyard shoot
for the day and then drove rightback to Melbourne afterwards
Wow, that's dedication.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
But he had this crane and this crane was huge and so
when he went to go up up becausethere was a bit of a ceiling
and he just couldn't get highenough so there's this
massive-ass crane just going,but hey, the clip looked pretty
freaky.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, we've done one out at Kaipe Forest.
We've done one at Mikewe.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yeah, a lot of passionate people that have been
involved.
And then Perfect Sea.
A lot of that was.
That was at our album launchwe'd done at Crybaby in the city
and lots of footage we had fromaround.
It was just one with acompilation of stuff, yeah, but
with new music there's going tobe obviously more videos Awesome
.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Love a good video, so get onto the YouTube channel
and track them down, all righty.
So we're moving on.
You've just done a great gig atthe Woodshed.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Yep With some other bands that went off.
That was fantastic.
Yeah, shock our mistress, ourbrothers and triple size.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I'm down a guitar now .
Speaker 4 (22:43):
What's next?
That's right, alex smashed oneof his guitars.
Yeah, he'll keep buying them tostock them up, because he just
keeps breaking them.
I was misbehaving.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I told him you think you're cold chisel on Countdown
yeah, the countdown awards.
So what's next?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
We've got to keep moving.
We've got to keep movingforward.
That trajectory is going.
We just dropped a single threeweeks ago which was our version
of Elton John's Rocketman, whichsurprised a lot of people.
But we had so much love for it.
I suggested it as a joke.
We kept faithful to it, but wehad a few twists, put a bit of a
solo in and just gave it a bitof audio reign to it, and we get
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some big love for that song.
So that's really cool.
I love that.
Yeah, yeah, and obviously nowwe're getting ready to well,
we've been writing the new albumbecause we've got to keep going
, We've got to keep bringingstuff out.
This day and age, you can't sitaround, you'll just drop away
so.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
So get onto the website to check out the music,
the tours yeah, yeah, and wewant to get.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
We're going to go to europe too whether it's 2025 or
26, we're not sure but we aregoing to go overseas as well and
take that out.
There's going to be a lotcoming, but, yeah, all the
socials insta, youtube for ourvideos, spotify, all the
streaming services, all theusual places yeah, you'll find
us there, awesome thank you somuch.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Gentlemen, it is so good to finally sit down and
chat with you and meet you, andI wish you all the best for the
future.
With Audio Rain, I feel likethere's only fabulous things to
come thank you so much, cheryl,thank you, thank you.
Roto TV cut you are listeningto Still Rocking it.
(24:34):
Cut Rider TV socials for thefull TV interview Channel 44 if
you're in Adelaide, Channel 31if you're in Melbourne.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Information also available at thatradiochickcomau
and I think it's gonna be along long time, touchdown brings
me round again to find I'm notthe man they think I am at home.
Oh no, no, no, I'm a rocket man.
So we're ready, ready , ready as we'll ever be, we're
rolling on this one, so I'llgive you a clap.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You know what to do.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
All right.
You ready, yep, ready.
Welcome to Writer TV.
You're with Cheryl Lee, thatradio chick, and I'm really
pleased to finally get theseguys into the interview room.
In fact, we're at the hallowedhalls of the Gov at the moment,
and we're at the hallowed hallsof the Gov at the moment and I'd
like to introduce you to ThreeQuarters of Audio Rain.
Thank you for coming in,gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Nice to see you.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Lovely to meet you, you too, I think the first time
we spoke about this was when Isaw you performing at the
Bridgeway I don't know how manyyears ago and I gave you my card
.
Wow, it won't happen overnight,but it will happen.
And here we are.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah, I remember.
Now that was several days ago.
Ring a bell.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
So you guys formed in 2011,.
So that's 13 years ago.
That's more than a lot ofmarriages, so congratulations
for that.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
For starters, We've been for like an old married
couple.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Thanks, yeah like most bands, I reckon yeah,
perhaps you could introduceyourself and let us know your
instrument of choice.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
My name's Jake.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I'm lead vocals and rhythm guitarist Alec lead
guitar and a bit of kazoo Dieter, I play drums and sing a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And then we've got Ashley Lovett, who is on bass.
Who's not here today?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
That's right.
Yeah, you got quite a bit ofwork.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yep no-transcript.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
these guys actually weren't in it, it was just Audio
.
Rain had begun with three otherguys Actually, my cousin was
the original drummer and he waswith us for a little while and
then Dita came in really earlyafter that, you know, we heard
about Dita.
I'd asked around the traps foryou know where's a good drummer
and he came with a great set ofpipes on him too.
He was a good drummer and hecame with a great set of pipes
on him too, so it was ano-brainer and yeah, so Dita
joined the band.
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We put out our first EP inabout 2015,.
Was it Alec 2014,?
2015.
We had a line-up change just tomake the band the band it
needed to be.
That's when Alec came in andAsh.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
We just advertised for some auditions and yeah,
these guys Alec and Ash camethrough and they fit the bill
and had the chops and the restis history.
Off we go.
Oh, well done.
As you said, 2014,.
Debut EP Find your Way.
And that coincided with yourfirst festival debut at the Big
Day Out.
Relatively short space of time,really, from 2011 to 2014,.
(02:46):
Playing Big Day Out with PearlJam.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
That's right.
Yes, no, what a?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
What were you like?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
It was pretty awesome .
What a day, wow.
And I remember that day becauseit was like about 40 degrees, I
reckon, and so hot wasn't it.
But it doesn't matter, anyamount of heat wasn't going to
dampen our spirits.
So I'm playing the big day out,and especially with Pearl Jam
headlining Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And the deltones were there and ghost, and I think
you played them for round of.
I think it was the deltones,deltones.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
The deltones Damn.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I think they've been dead for quite some time Cut and
I think the deftones were thereand Ghost and in front of the
crowd of 15,000.
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yeah, it was awesome it was.
It was a nice start to gettingthings rolling, for you know the
rest of what happened and whatis to come.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Exactly, and in three short years.
That's pretty amazing.
Congratulations, well done,thank you.
And then the full length albumcame out, which led to you
supporting Skillet and Pop Evil.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
We recently played Amaranth, but that was after the
new one.
The new album dropped as well,kip.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Winger show at one stage as well.
Yeah, supported Kip.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Winger.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
The whole Australian tour, wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
It was here, here actually, it was, uh, adelaide
one.
Yeah, we got asked to do anacoustic set and we said,
absolutely so awesome um andthen skill it again.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Well, actually we did score the the full australian
support for threshold, but thencovid hit and it got cancelled
covid cancelled damage andthere's a couple other things on
the line and covid sort ofruined a lot.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
So yeah, covid's ruined a lot for a lot of people
.
But you know what, you takethat and you go.
Am I going to let it crush me?
Am I going to let it destroy us?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
No, that's right, make the most of it, and then
had to film the video.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Relentless was actually came back because of
COVID.
That was us, our sort ofmessage to ourselves, saying you
know, this is it.
We're not going to fold like alot of bands, we're going to go
harder.
And so that's a reference toRelentless, because that's what
it was about.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It's all about overcoming the devastation that
you know came to the musicindustry because pretty much
overnight, not just artists butroadies and sound techs and
lighting guys and everybody youknow 18 months worth of future
bookings gone.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Yeah that's right, so well done, made a minor work.
We had a list of about 15, 20acts that we had all lined up
with board tickets and then,just the days leading up to the
full lockdown, it's just like oh, they're cancelled, oh they're
cancelled.
Ah, there goes the whole lotyeah.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, I know it was devastating for everybody, but I
think it's um.
It shows you metal.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
You can either fold or, you know, get stronger,
that's right so well done guysyeah, no, thank you, you're
definitely getting stronger andstronger, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger, makes you
stronger exactly Such a cold one.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
You are listening to Still Rocking it.
The podcast with Cheryl Lee.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I think we should hear that song right now.
Here it is Relentless from thePerfect Sea album.
And then we're back to speaksome more to Audio Rain.
Pull up in the chamber.
Pull up in the chamber.
Pull up in the chamber.
I need a bullet in the chamber.
I need a bullet in the chamber.
And the release of Relentlesshere's another little feather in
(06:17):
your cap meant that you werethe first Australian band to go
on the cover of the US magazineHigh Wire Days.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
High Wire Days.
That's right, we were yeah, andI was on the cover and Slash
was on the cover as well.
I thought first Aussie band.
That magazine goes everywhere,like Whiskey A Go Go and bloody.
It goes to all the places andso that was a cool little one,
of those cool little things youknow.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It is no centrefold, just the cover.
It is no centrefold, just thecover.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Straight to the cover .
Speaker 1 (06:45):
They didn't like my centrefold picture and then
getting closer to now, because Ithink you're on a bit of a
trajectory, would you agree?
Yeah, we've got some plans.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
We've got a line we're looking at.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So last year you signed with X Music, yeah,
released a great album, thePerfect Sea.
Tell us all about the making ofthe Perfect Sea.
Tell us all about the making ofthe Perfect Sea.
And that also led to anothercover, didn't it?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It did, it did yes.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Heavy Mag of oh yeah, we had a cover.
Oh yeah, another cover.
Oh yeah, yeah, I haven't heardit now.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, we've been like great support from media in
general, you know be themagazines and radio stations and
TV Hard Rock Show.
They've been fantastic with usguys.
But yeah, On Channel 44?
.
Yes, big shout out to thoseguys as well.
But yeah, the perfect C was along time coming because
(07:40):
obviously, I suppose throughCOVID and that we had to well,
we're getting things happening,keeping things going, putting
some videos out to get through,and then the perfect C was the
final.
Final.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
We were actually going to do an EP, I think, and
then we decided, nah, it was thesame as the first album was
just going to be a five-track EP.
And then we wrote what?
Another five, six songs?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
It was like oh, I guess we're doing an album album
.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I think, oh, damn it.
We had some interest in, uh,europe, in, you know, countries
like germany and that, but they,they were keen on a full album
rather than just an ep.
Yeah, so that's what we did?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
the writing of the songs.
Is that someone's job?
Is it a collaboration?
How do you guys work?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
it is yeah, yeah, we bring riffs together.
Um, alec will bring some riffs,I'll bring some riffs and we
just work on them.
Sometimes There'll be a lot ofparts of the song there and
we'll just adapt and add it orwe'll build it together.
Yeah, we usually workshop themin the rehearsal room.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, yeah, jake will write the lyrics at home after
we've sorted out some melodiesand whatever.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Yeah, and that's a bit of a thing too, because you
know a song can be however youwant it to be, and it can be a
million ways.
So getting the right melody inplace when there's a lot of
thought that goes into it.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
So there's no sort of .
You don't necessarily have amethodology that you go with.
Everybody brings their ideasand you create magic together.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Oh, you guys.
So you all are into the heavyrock genre, Among other things.
Yeah, Anyone got any secretlike jazz or you know?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Yeah like Sinatra, dean Martin, like Rat Pack, era
stuff.
Really, we've known each otherlike a decade.
Come on now, gee, I thought wewere friends, no secret Taylor
Swift obsessions?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
No, not like that, come on now I like Kate Bush,
yeah, yeah.
I love the Beatles, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I don't have any guilty pleasures, man, if you
like it and it forms who you areand all that stuff you listen
to somehow goes to funnel andeven though we do heavy stuff,
there's little things thatfilter through.
Yeah, yeah, you know I loveHall Oates man.
You know bloody, it's ErwinJohn's.
I like a lot of 80s music, lovethem.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Excellent, yeah, but when you play, you like to play
go hard, go hard or go home toplay go hard, go hard or go home
.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
There's something about heavy music which just
heavy, heavy riffs and harmonies.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Actually, that's right.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I mean me too my favorite bands are mainly
harmony bands, the ones that Igrew up on, where the drummers
sung as well.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Yeah, yeah which is why, obviously, in our music you
hear a lot of uh, a lot ofharmonies, a lot of melodic
stuff, because, uh, yeah, it'sonly you know, you know there's
all the growlers and the, youknow the heavy, heavy, heavy,
but, um, melodics, um, it's justuh.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
That does it for me still rocking that podcast with
that radio chick, cheryl lee.
Let's have a quick one, shallwe from hall and oats?
I can't go for that.
No, can do.
And then we're back to listento more of the tv interview with
Audio Rain at the pub.
You can hear the ambience inthe background, can't you?
The big news, of course, is thefirst time that album has
(10:59):
appeared in the top 20Australian albums on the Ari
chart.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
It did, yay, well done, thanks.
You know our fans how awesome,Just yeah, a lot of hard work
and a lot of support fromeveryone just to get these sold.
And yeah, when we got the news,we hit number 15.
It was like on our first weekof release.
That was incredible, wow, yeah.
I mean we didn't get invited tothe awards or anything, but you
(11:23):
know.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Not this year, Not this year we had our own awards
show.
You know, cracked that bottleof gin.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
We did, we did, that's right.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
The only gin that has actually not tasted like gin
and I was able to drink itwithout you know being sad.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah, that's right.
Well, good on you.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I believe that this is.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I'm going to ask you and we touched on it a little
bit about your favourite artistsand what have you and
inspirations.
But I'm going to ask you what'son your playlist at the moment
when you're in the car orwhatever, and you can listen to
whatever you want.
What are you playing?
What are you listening to?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Well, it'll be a mixture.
Some days I might be out fromthe door and listen to the 80s,
or I'll be uh, listening to, uh,mammoth wolf and haylen um, and
also listen to the releaseradars of my stuff and the heavy
stuff and see all the latesttracks that are coming out, just
the new songs and the hard rocknew songs that come through as
well.
Doing your research, well, justgive a pulse, see what's going
(12:17):
on.
You know, yeah, so, uh, that'swhat I'm doing so quite eclectic
really yeah yeah, from 80s popand bop to the heavy stuff, yeah
, yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Yeah, release right there for sure At the moment.
I think most recently I've beenabsolutely fresh on Opeth's new
album.
Yes, me too.
Yeah, a good mix of prog anddeath metal, maybe more prog
than death metal, but you know,it is what it is, just always
trying to absorb new music.
So there's, I've got a fewplaylists that are several
hundred hours worth of musicthat you just hit, shuffle on
and you know see what happens.
(12:45):
Yeah, yeah, and some jazz.
Yes, actually, soundtrack toWhiplash, probably the main jazz
album.
I know that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
How about you?
Well, could be anything fromDream Theater to Transatlantic,
to Nightwish, to AmaranthAwesome old-style stuff like the
Sweet Queen.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah to Amaranth awesome old-style stuff like the
Suite Queen, all sorts.
Yeah, nice, also on Rider TV.
We also like to ask you areally important question what
is the non-negotiable on yourrider?
What do you just have to havein the green room before the gig
?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
I don't think we've ever been given that option
before.
No.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Oh, you're on the ARIA charts now.
We've ever been given thatoption before.
No, oh, you're on the ariacharts now you've got a.
You know, insist on a rider Ihave to put that on the thing
now.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Now you've said that you're gonna count this list of
yeah, just random stuff, butthere's got to be beer, doesn't
it like?
Yeah, nothing else.
Like that's.
That's bottom line.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Yeah yeah, bad stuff.
A thousand brown m&ms to fillup.
Yeah, no, not, not blue ones.
No, no, brown Brown ones arefine.
I'm not overly picky on thecolours.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
We're not divas.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Well, I do look forward to the day when I can
get some real beer, some Germanor Belgian beer, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I think you need to put your order in he's fussy
with his beers.
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
That sounds like shots, fired you know, because
it's an.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
ARIA award.
You can up the ante now.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So you haven't got any like fancy cheeses and
bottles of red, fancy red wine.
You're pretty easy going.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
I'm pretty sure a lot of the times when we get to the
green room, it's just the stuffis already there and I mean I'm
pretty loud, Although we didhave, was it streaky sounds?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Oh, we were loaded.
Yeah, we did ask for one and wegot it.
Yeah, they came out.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
They got like a little pattern there, like all
right, so just put your namesand what drinks you want on here
and when you get back from thegig it'll be in your room and
yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Four fridge of stocks .
Speaker 5 (14:35):
That was about as rock and roll as it got at the
time.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
I think I'll be asking for Dog.
It's a little elixir I like.
Yeah.
Yeah, I reckon you can up theante now.
What's the really expensiveshower?
I need one bottle of Cristaland a glass made of ice and a
straw, a skull glass, yeah.
And then I won't even drink it.
It's just because they did it.
That's the main thing.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
You are listening to Still Rocking it.
The podcast with Cheryl Lee.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Quick song and then we're back to listen to the rest
of the TV interview with theguys from Audio Rain.
Queen was mentioned in there onone of the fellas' playlists.
I don't need any excuse to playQueen, here we go.
Somebody to Love, Somebody,somebody, somebody somebody, can
anybody find me?
Somebody to love.
How are we going for time Mark?
(15:27):
16 minutes 13 seconds.
Oh, we've got plenty of time,plenty of time, yeah.
Did you guys have anything thatyou particularly would like me
to ask you, any topics that youwould like to discuss, because
I've got a couple up my sleeve,but I thought I'd ask you first.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
You're the interviewer.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I'm not.
Yeah, yeah, good, all right.
What's coming up, or?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, we'll do that at the end.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
You're going to ask about videos, or?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah, all right, our vinyl.
I'm just going to ask a littlebit about.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
I didn't realise that tape got out on the internet.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
DNA, then videos and then what's happening, and that
would probably get us through.
So I just wanted to go back alittle bit again, because I love
asking artists this questionwhen did you discover that music
was your thing, that it wasyour passion?
Is it in your DNA?
Are you from a musical family?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Yeah, I've always loved music, Like from when I
remember.
I remember my first favouriteband being Kissed when I was six
and I wanted to go to theconcert in Adelaide but my
parents wouldn't take me becausewe lived far, far away.
And I was like, yeah, it wasjust six, yeah, it was when I
was six, that's right, and yeah,we can't tell you.
But yeah, all the way throughalways just been into music.
You know, at school I should belistening.
(16:37):
I was drawing Eddie from Iron.
You know pictures in my classmy dad used to be in an album
club vinyls and they'd bringslide vinyls would come in and
he'd keep it on the stand back.
So we were always playingrecords.
First band at 14, as soon as Icould get into a band, you know,
played the drums, schoolmusicals and stuff.
So it was always going to bethat way.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
And when did you find ?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
out Well, I suppose.
Well, you know, it's justsomething you do when you like
music.
You just sort of always pick upan acoustic guitar and play it
here and there.
You know, don't get me wrong,I'm still no bloody wild
guitarist, but I do what I needto do and it's fun.
Everyone wants to.
You know, everyone fizzlesaround guitar.
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, singingwas the main thing.
So I suppose once you've got adream, if you it, you're always
going to.
(17:20):
You know you're not going togive it up, are you?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Was there ever a plan B?
Or once you picked up thatguitar and that mic, that was it
.
Oh, you had to have real jobs.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
You know there's only a handful of million of us that
get to become super rock starsthat can.
You know even some of the bigbands.
These days they're out and youknow their names, but they're
making just the same as a wage,same as anyone else in a normal
job.
So it's hard work being in aband.
You don't do it for the money,you do it for the love.
That's right, passionate, yeah.
And if you just happen to bethat lucky one that gets a good
(17:50):
break and starts a good event,you know that's super cool.
You listening gods.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Rock gods.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yeah, so that's me.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
And Alec, when did you discover music was your
thing.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
I couldn't tell the exact year, but I remember the
exact song I heard when Ifigured it out.
It was Mum and Dad used to havea cassette in the car which was
like super hip to the 60s, andI remember hearing Jumpin' Jack
Flash and I was like the Stones,yeah, 100% and yeah.
Just remember hearing that andbeing like, yep, I can do that,
yep, that's me.
And then I got an acousticguitar in primary school around
that time and I didn't get myfirst electric guitar for a
(18:24):
couple of years, but by thatpoint my brother had showed me
things like Metallica, acdc,iron Maiden, all those bits and
pieces.
I'm like I can do this, thiscould be fun.
And yeah, there we are.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Awesome, I used to be able to play Smoke on the Water
.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
I think that's like.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
British.
You Bring in the guitar, do youneed?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
me.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Bring in the guitar.
Do you need me?
I can fill in.
That can be the next cover wedo.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Dita, what about you?
Well, yeah, is it in your DNA?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, my dad was a keyboard player.
I remember he used to Not forthe Deltones, no, actually, but
he had a Hammond organ and aLeslie box and when Cliff
Richard and Olivia Newton-Johnwere touring together and they
came to play at the Westlands inMoala, they actually hired his
(19:10):
keyboard and Leslie box, hisHammond organ and Leslie box and
so my parents got free tickets.
And, yeah, I remember I used tosee him playing at festivals on
Ben Oval and going the next dayto pick up his gear from the
venue in his big commie van withflowers on it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
So you reckon you absorbed it via osmosis?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well, yeah, I guess.
And then once I saw Sweetplaying Boring Blitz on TV and
saw the drummer spinning hissticks and all that, Like I was
about five or something, Ireckon, and I said that's what I
want to do, and I was supposedto say.
I never looked back.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It's interesting because most of you can just
remember a moment, a song, avideo where you went yep, that's
what I want to do.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
So many musicians have cited seeing the Beatles on
the O'Sullivan show.
Right.
For me it was yeah, seeingSweet on TV, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Still rocking that podcast with that radio chick,
cheryl Lee.
I think I'd like to play thetitle track of the album now the
Perfect Sea.
And then we're back to saygoodbye to the fellas from Audio
Rain.
And you're the perfect sea.
We're gonna sail this ship asfar as you can go.
(20:21):
Let's move up again to currentday.
You guys are not only greatlive shows and great recorded
music, but you're also prettygood video makers.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
I just show up and they point at me.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
We work some good crews that have done our videos.
Yeah, we've been fortunate wehave.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yeah, and they that have done our videos.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Yeah, we've been fortunate we have, yeah, and
they've just done great work.
First one Betrayal that waswith a group of Kaleidoscope
Productions.
That was a lot ofbehind-the-scenes work to find a
church that we could get to usefor what we wanted to do.
That's no easy feat.
None of us are sent to flamesdoing that, yeah, especially if
you're playing hard rock.
It would have been cool for thepeople.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Especially if you want to set fire to the church.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Oh, I don't like that , but yeah, and then we worked
with our good friend EvaGreslach, who came over and she
shot.
What did we do with her?
We done Shining Relentless.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Angel.
Angel Shining Light.
No, it wasn't Shining Light.
Angel Relentless.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And these are all available on your YouTube
channel.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Oh yeah, absolutely on the YouTube channel.
Yeah, that's right, angel wasshot.
Part of him was shot in here.
Really, yeah, yeah In the Gulf,yeah in the Gulf, the hallowed
halls.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
It is, it is, yeah, yeah, Awesome, we've done a
video at the woodshed.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah, which was brief .
Speaker 5 (21:43):
That was shot in someone's backyard.
Jake's mate literally drove theentire night from Melbourne to
Adelaide 10 hours to Kip Rockupwith a full crane and everything
like the whole shebang to setup in our mate's backyard shoot
for the day and then drove rightback to Melbourne afterwards
Wow, that's dedication.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
But he had this crane and this crane was huge and so
when he went to go up up becausethere was a bit of a ceiling
and he just couldn't get highenough so there's this
massive-ass crane just going,but hey, the clip looked pretty
freaky.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, we've done one out at Kaipe Forest.
We've done one at Mikewe.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yeah, a lot of passionate people that have been
involved.
And then Perfect Sea.
A lot of that was.
That was at our album launchwe'd done at Crybaby in the city
and lots of footage we had fromaround.
It was just one with acompilation of stuff, yeah, but
with new music there's going tobe obviously more videos Awesome
.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Love a good video, so get onto the YouTube channel
and track them down, all righty.
So we're moving on.
You've just done a great gig atthe Woodshed.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Yep With some other bands that went off.
That was fantastic.
Yeah, shock our mistress, ourbrothers and triple size.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I'm down a guitar now .
Speaker 4 (22:43):
What's next?
That's right, alex smashed oneof his guitars.
Yeah, he'll keep buying them tostock them up, because he just
keeps breaking them.
I was misbehaving.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I told him you think you're cold chisel on Countdown
yeah, the countdown awards.
So what's next?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
We've got to keep moving.
We've got to keep movingforward.
That trajectory is going.
We just dropped a single threeweeks ago which was our version
of Elton John's Rocketman, whichsurprised a lot of people.
But we had so much love for it.
I suggested it as a joke.
We kept faithful to it, but wehad a few twists, put a bit of a
solo in and just gave it a bitof audio reign to it, and we get
(23:20):
some big love for that song.
So that's really cool.
I love that.
Yeah, yeah, and obviously nowwe're getting ready to well,
we've been writing the new albumbecause we've got to keep going
, We've got to keep bringingstuff out.
This day and age, you can't sitaround, you'll just drop away
so.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
So get onto the website to check out the music,
the tours yeah, yeah, and wewant to get.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
We're going to go to europe too whether it's 2025 or
26, we're not sure but we aregoing to go overseas as well and
take that out.
There's going to be a lotcoming, but, yeah, all the
socials insta, youtube for ourvideos, spotify, all the
streaming services, all theusual places yeah, you'll find
us there, awesome thank you somuch.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Gentlemen, it is so good to finally sit down and
chat with you and meet you, andI wish you all the best for the
future.
With Audio Rain, I feel likethere's only fabulous things to
come thank you so much, cheryl,thank you, thank you.
Roto TV cut you are listeningto Still Rocking it.
(24:34):
Cut Rider TV socials for thefull TV interview Channel 44 if
you're in Adelaide, Channel 31if you're in Melbourne.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Information also available at thatradiochickcomau
and I think it's gonna be along long time, touchdown brings
me round again to find I'm notthe man they think I am at home.
Oh no, no, no, I'm a rocket man.
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