April 3, 2025 • 29 mins
Join Cheryl Lee - That Radio Chick on STILL ROCKIN' IT for news, reviews, music and interviews with some of our favourite Australian musicians.
Fergus Linacre of Kingswood takes us behind the scenes of their epic 112-show Australian tour and the raw, unflinching documentary that captured it all. After the pandemic silenced stages across the country, Kingswood made a bold decision to reconnect with audiences everywhere—especially in regional areas starved for live music.
When logistical challenges made traditional touring impossible, they bought their own bus, named her Peggy, and embarked on a six-month journey that would test their endurance, creativity, and relationships. Meanwhile, filmmaker Darcy Newton documented every moment, creating what would become the award-winning documentary "ClapTrap."
What makes this documentary unique is Kingswood's commitment to authenticity. Inspired by Nick Cave's willingness to be vulnerable on camera, they surrendered creative control, allowing Darcy to film everything without interference. "We're quite honest about where we're at," Fergus explains. "It's not a puff piece for the band." The result is a psychological exploration of life on the road—the highs, lows, and everything in between.
The conversation reveals fascinating insights into the band's formation at Melbourne Grammar School, their musical influences (from Aerosmith to Queen), and how they balanced academic pursuits with their passion for music. Fergus shares stories about supporting ACDC and Aerosmith, including a memorable backstage encounter with Steven Tyler.
Looking ahead, Kingswood announces fresh music releases beginning with their Tom Petty cover "You Wreck Me," an upcoming album, and tour dates across Australia and Europe. For fans ready to experience their powerful live performances, tickets for their upcoming shows at Port Lincoln and Whyalla will be available at kingswoodband.com.
Don't miss the rare theatrical screening of "ClapTrap" at the Regal Theatre in Kensington Park on April 9—your chance to witness the untold story behind one of Australia's most ambitious musical journeys.
What has Fergus Linacre and Alex Laska of Kingswood been up to lately? Let's find out!!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
That radio chick, cheryl Lee, here.
Welcome to the Still Rocking itpodcast, where we'll have music
news, reviews and interviewswith some of our favourite
Australian musicians and artists.
It's 2023 and Kingswood takeAustralia by storm with their
longest ever music tour, playinga staggering 112 shows across
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six months to over 60,000 fans.
The hometown tour, though, wasno ordinary road trip.
It was a relentless journeythat redefined the band's power
as a live act, pushing theirendurance, passion and
connection with fans to newheights.
Country Town also.
Right alongside the premiere ofthe music video for you, rest
(00:47):
me.
Today, kingswood have alsoannounced the untold story of
this unforgettable tour has beencaptured in a documentary
claptrap, an intimate and highenergy doco that takes viewers
behind the scenes of the band'slife on the road, from the
adrenaline pumping highs to theraw, unfiltered lows.
(01:10):
This feature film offers afront row seat to kingswood's
wild, emotional ride.
Was like enough to catch upwith fergus linica in the zoom
room yesterday.
To catch up on podcasts fromother favorite artists, simply
go to that radio chickcomau oh,look at the guitars that was
(01:33):
quick I don't, I didn't mean tohave a um, a space background.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Let me try and wow.
I mean, it's not bad, is it?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
but I can hardly see you.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Background, here we go.
None, that's better.
How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Good thanks.
When you guys supported ACDC,did you come to Adelaide?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, we did.
We did two nights in all themajor cities that we played in,
so we certainly did two inAdelaide.
The one funny thing thathappened on that tour was that
on the second night in Perth, sowe went to Adelaide, then we
went to Perth and on the secondnight in Perth we'd already been
there for about four days,played a show and had two days
off, and then we're playing thesecond ACBC show.
(02:14):
I walk out there and said helloAdelaide.
And did the faux pas you're notallowed to do, because it
looked the same in every stadium.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
They'd built the same , you know arena.
So you said that in Perth.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I said it in Perth on the second gig Ba-bong, ba-bong
.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So I was thinking I'm surprised I haven't seen you
before.
And then I worked down a half.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
There you go.
You were at that show and theHives played as well.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah , that's right.
That was a great show, that one.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Awesome fun.
Look at all these guitarsyou've got, and what are these
radios?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
They're biscuit tins.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Oh cool.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
These little ones are , but this one here is a real
radio.
Yeah yeah, yeah, the others arebiscuit tins, that's great,
Because I just liked them andplus I like biscuits.
Great, me too, and the guitarsare pretty much for show.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Well, it looks pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Let's get started, shall we?
You're with that radio chick,cheryl Lee, and I'd like to
welcome into the Zoom room todayfor a chat from Kingswood
Fergus.
Now, how do I say it?
Lineacre.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Lineacre.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Lineacre.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah or Lineacre, if you want to go back to the Irish
pronunciation.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
How do you say it in Irish?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
You just put on an Irish accent and say Lineker, or
I guess, lineker.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Are you actually from Ireland?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
No, I think my family , if you go back far enough, is
from Cork.
But I've never been.
I'd love to, but no, I haven'tI was lucky enough to go last
year.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Wow, I certainly do want to.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Kingswood are a four-piece.
They call you alternative rockband.
You guys formed in Melbourne in2007 Because you all went to
Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Grammar School.
Two of us went to schooltogether and were in bands in
school, and then the third alsosorry did go to the original
drummer, went to school with usas well, and then we've had a
few line-up changes, but Alexand I are running the show.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Founding members.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Founding members and absolutely love it and and have
been doing it for our wholelives.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, 18 years, that's a long time Is that 18?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
No, that can't be right.
Yeah, it is Since 2007.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
2007?
.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, yeah, I suppose the band really properly got
started in 2010, but we wereknocking around in 2007,.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
So there you go, take it Time flies started in 2010,
but we were knocking around in2007.
So there you go, take it timeflies.
That's longer than a lot ofmarriages.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well done, we've got you on lead vocals, ali on lead
guitar and he writes some of thesongs yeah, we write songs
together.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
he writes songs and, um, he sings some of the songs
too.
We're kind of like a I don know.
There's a lot of bands thathave multiple singers Fleetwood,
the Eagles, the Beatles yeah,this goes on.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Multitasking.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, good on you, alex, and I write and record and
then certain people come andplay with us on stage, but it's
the two of us really, yeah, aha.
Yeah, justin and Mango, whowere our original members, got
up on stage with us last yearand played a few songs with us,
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so that was good fun.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
You are listening to Still Rocking it the podcast
with Cheryl.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Lee, I am going to play you some great songs from
the Kingswood's last release,the Tale of GC Towns,
no-transcript Code Red from thePower Up album, and then we're
going to be back to speak toFergus very shortly.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
We'll be right back.
Strike two set your guns ablaze.
Strike three call emergency.
You're gonna play it safe.
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Speeding up the boat, tearingup the highway code Ain't gonna
slow me down, no need tohesitate.
Ain't coming up late, hit thebreakstone.
Mess with fate.
Hard fight, rough night, deadin your sight, thank you.
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Oh, come with Weapons ready.
Come with Fire one, fire two.
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Come with Now, pay attention.
Reputation on your mind, enemywithin your sight.
Fire up, fire, straight, firefree, thank you.
Firelight, fire, bright fire inthe night.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Station to station, yeah, call it Battle station, so
call it Weapons ready.
Call it Fire one, fire two.
Come on in Station to stationUnicorrid.
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Battle station, telecom RedWeapons Red, cold Red, fire 1,
fire 2 Cold Red, cold Red, coldRed.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Hey, come on Red.
Hey, you guys have been busysince 2007.
Is it seven albums released inthat time?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
It depends if you count the charity jazz Christmas
album that we put out in COVID.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I'm counting it I count it.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
yeah, we've been very busy, yeah, and we like to tour
a lot.
And, yeah, there's new musiccoming out very soon as well,
and another tour.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
We're going to talk about that in a minute.
You also were and we chattedabout this earlier were a
support to Akadaka and alsoAerosmith.
That would have been anexperience.
Yeah, I've done that.
And also Aerosmith, that wouldhave been an experience.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
They were great fun.
The Aerosmith one was quitespecial to me because they were
one of my favourite bandsgrowing up, so that was really
good and we did one show withthem.
They invited us to their othershow that they did in Melbourne
and then backstage we hung outwith Stephen and he was really
nice and you know, we got tosort of spend some time and we
had a ball and he was lovely.
(09:47):
And then we did, I think, sevenweeks on the road with Akadaka
and we met them for about fiveminutes in like a meet and greet
.
They were lovely.
I think they just had a lot ontheir plate and then not too
much energy that they can'tdisperse when they're not on
stage.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
They're getting old, like me.
You guys started in schooltogether, you and Alex, so did
you either of you ever have aplan b?
Or once you started on thisroad and realized this was your
passion?
This is it?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
good, it's a good question, I think.
I mean, we both sort of went touni, I think, because that was
the thing to do and, uh, I thinkour parents were sort of like,
we support you doing music, butmaybe just, you know, while you,
while you're honing your craft,you can go to uni.
So we did that.
But, yeah, I feel it feels tome like I always knew this is
(10:38):
what I wanted to do and I feelvery lucky to be able to.
Um, I went to an oils show onceand met rob hurst backstage and
we were talking about music.
Uh, this is when I was about 17or something and you know, he
asked me what I wanted to do andI told him I wanted to be a
musician.
He said, well, do it, leaveschool and do it now.
Why, like, if you know what youwant to do and you're lucky
(11:00):
enough to know what you want todo, just go and do it now.
And I, obviously I didn't dothat.
I finished school and I did uni, uni.
But I kind of like thatmentality.
If you're lucky enough to havea passion, not everyone does,
not everyone knows what theirthing is, that's true.
And you know, you get into asystem.
You try and get a job that'sgoing to, you know, make life,
progress and everything.
But if you're lucky enough tohave something that you love,
(11:23):
then just get straight into it,go for it, yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
So what did you do at uni?
I?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
did.
It was a new course calledProject Management and it was
very broad.
I thought it might apply toanything in the music industry,
from running festivals to whichit does, to making a record, to
managing a tour, which is allthings that I do.
So you could argue that the unicourse actually did come into
play.
Yeah, yeah, it was, was just uh, it was sort of just a project
(11:50):
management course, which meanshow to see through a, any
project, from making a cup ofcoffee to running a, uh, a
festival.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So well, it's good you've been able to use those
skills.
What about alex?
What did he do?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
he did um commerce for a time, I think in marketing
, and then he went over to hedid vca.
So he did victorian college ofthe arts for um piano, jazz
piano.
I believe he's a veryaccomplished pianist.
Yeah, he enjoyed that thatgreatly.
Yeah, a lot of people that playin play in the band and have
(12:25):
played in the band have comethrough VCA.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So do you come from a musical family?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yes, my mum was the singer of the Cut Glass band
that toured around Australiaback in the day.
My dad is a great lover andappreciator of music and
certainly influenced me.
My older brothers they were theones that you know got me onto
Queen and Extreme and Aerosmithand All the good stuff and
(12:54):
Chisel and yeah, yeah I meanwe'd all sort of bounce around
the kitchen singing Les Mis andbeing different characters, and
so it's a very Our Christmases.
We have a big family OurChristmases have.
You know, there's 20 cousinsthere and everyone has a song
and the guitars go around and weplay till the sun comes up.
So, yeah, very musical family.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Still rocking that podcast with that radio chick,
cheryl Lee, going to play someKingswood music shortly.
But first one more of the bandsthat influenced Fergus One of
his favourites and mineAerosmith.
I don't want to miss a thing.
Back to chat more to Fergusafter this.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
I could stay awake just to hear you breathing,
watch you smile while you aresleeping, while you're far away,
dreaming.
I could spend my life in thissweet surrender.
(14:26):
I could stay lost in thismoment forever.
Every moment spent with you isa moment I treasure.
Don't wanna close my eyes, Idon't wanna fall asleep, cause I
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miss you, baby, and I don'twanna miss a thing, cause even
when I dream of you, thesweetest dream would never do
I'd still miss you, baby.
And I don't wanna miss a thing.
I'm close to you, feeling yourheart beating and I'm wondering
(15:24):
what you're dreaming, wonderingif it's me you're seeing.
Then I kiss your eyes and thankGod we're together and I just
wanna stay with you In thosemoments, forever, forever and
(15:46):
ever.
I don't wanna close my eyes.
I don't wanna fall asleep,cause I miss you, baby.
And I don't wanna miss a thing,cause even when I dream of you,
the sweetest dream would neverdo I'd still miss you, baby.
(16:08):
And I don't wanna miss a thing.
I don't wanna miss one smile, Idon't wanna miss one kiss.
I just wanna be with you, righthere, with you, just like this.
I just wanna hold you close Ifeel your heart so close to mine
(16:34):
and just stay here in thismoment For all the rest of time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Don't wanna close my eyes, don'twanna fall asleep, cause I miss
(16:57):
you, baby, and I don't wannamiss a thing, cause, even when I
dream again, the sweetest dreamwill never do.
I still miss you, babe, and Idon't wanna miss a thing.
I don't wanna crawl in the air.
I don't wanna fall asleep,cause I'd miss you, babe.
(17:22):
And I don't wanna miss a thing,cause, even when I try my best,
the sweetest dream will neverdo, but I still miss you, baby,
and I don't wanna miss a thing.
Don't wanna close my eyes.
Ain't no way to face me.
(17:45):
I don't want this old man.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You've got some exciting news.
You have been on asix-month-long nationwide tour.
Is this right?
112 shows in six months.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yes, this is the big thing that's happening at the
moment, in 2023, which is thefirst sort of things opened up
after COVID, and we did sort ofthose small selected seated
shows, and Al and I wereprobably in a bar and came up
with the idea of just doing 100shows around Australia.
That was where the idea started.
Just because we hadn't touredin so long, people in regional
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areas hadn't seen any live music.
You know, the cities were sortof starting to open up, but it
was very difficult for anyone totravel.
So we thought let's just go allaround Australia and do a tour.
And then we sort of had tofigure out the logistics and it
didn't work to fly or hire carsor drive and get hotels.
So we'll do it on a bus, likein Europe or America.
(19:09):
And there were no buses for hire, because any bus that did exist
got turned into like amotorhome during COVID.
Because they couldn't make anymoney.
We bought a bus and built ourown tour bus oh wow, and her
name is Peggy and we did sixmonths around Australia.
I don't know what the totalnumber is because we kept
playing shows after that.
It's just when you stopcounting, but that tour was
(19:30):
about 108 shows, I think.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Can we do 100 shows?
Hold my beer.
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
But it was incredible .
You know, we got to drivearound the entire country.
You know, some people sort ofdream one day is to get in a
caravan and drive aroundAustralia.
So we did it, playing showsevery night, and a young
filmmaker came on the road forthe entire six months and made a
documentary.
That's what leads us to betalking together.
Yeah, exactly the documentaryis.
(19:58):
It was in a film festival, itwon an award and now is doing a
very limited cinema release.
So it's very exciting.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
On Friday you've got your sort of debut release,
isn't it at the Astor inMelbourne?
Yep, You're also showing ithere in Adelaide on April 9.
Yep, Everybody get onto theGoogle-o-meter.
It's called Clap Trap, thedocumentary.
It's at the Regal Theatre inKensington Park.
So grab your tickets.
(20:28):
I love a good music, doco, butwhat?
I don't get is how on earth didDarcy Newton, the director and
cinematographer, fit six monthsin a leaky bus into 90 minutes?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I mean it's a crazy task.
What he's undertaken isincredible.
The amount of footage he got.
You could make 10 differentmovies and not reuse footage.
You know you could make SpinalTap.
You could easily make SpinalTap.
I mean, one of the first thingswe talked about when we started
this venture was giving away anysort of artistic input from us,
(21:07):
because I feel like when bandsmake their own docos, it comes
off as contrived.
It just makes them look goodand it's not really a piece of
art.
It's more a piece ofpromotional material.
I love some of the Nick Cavedocumentaries and I've always
been inspired by his ability to,or willingness to, just give
himself away to the art and bevery vulnerable.
(21:29):
So that was the mentality whenwe started talking about the
doco was that we were going tolet Darcy make his own film.
So it's definitely turned outdifferent than what I thought.
It's kind of like apsychological look inside the
life of you know.
There's sort of two maincharacters in the end, which is
me and Alex, and our differentbrains and way of dealing with
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things.
There's a lot going on in ourlives behind the scenes during
this six months and we're awayfrom home and, yeah, I think
it's quite brilliant really if Istep away from it and forget
that it's me in there.
You really get what it's liketo be a travelling musician on
the road, trying to do somethingreally bold post-COVID and
(22:11):
rejuvenate.
You know some music into thesetowns and I think they did a
great job.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I think I read somewhere that you very, very
quickly managed to forget thatthe cameras were even there, so
it's a real genuinefly-on-the-wall.
Look at what it's like to be aband on tour.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, I think one of the things that allowed us to do
that and relax was we sort ofhad an agreement, rather than
say, oh, darcy, turn the cameraoff, you know we're doing this
or that or I'm having a fight orwhatever.
The understanding that washonoured was film everything,
(22:51):
and if someone doesn't wantsomething in the film, it comes
out.
Yeah.
Yeah, it wasn't really aproblem in the end.
I don't even think thathappened there was that mutual
respect there?
Yeah, oh, they could have putlots of things in there that you
know were more sort ofsensational, but that wasn't
their goal.
So I don't think we had to takeanything out in the end, but
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what it did was allow us to notworry that we were being filmed.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
No one was ever going to see the footage except for
Darcy and the editors, and thenanything that someone didn't
want in was going to come out,so that allowed us to switch off
, let the cameras roll andeventually you kind of forget
that it's there.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And did they edit out all the farts and burps?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Oh, there might be a couple in there.
Actually, you know what?
I don't think there were anyfarts or burps in it.
There might be a burp or two.
Actually, you know a bandliving on a bus for six months
and travelling around thecountry and playing shows.
Yeah, there's a lot in there, alot to unpack, and they did a
really good job.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, it provides whatever charm and pluck can be
found in the brutality of anunrelenting tour across an
entire continent at a time wheremusicianship is a difficult and
unlucrative game.
So you know, it sounds like itis pretty much like warts and
all.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, it really is.
Yeah, it gets into it.
We don't really hold back.
We're quite honest about wherewe're at and, as I said, it's
not a puff piece for the band.
We're in full support of thefilm.
We think it's a great piece ofart and a very interesting look
into what it's like to be amusician.
So, yeah, I certainly encouragepeople to get along and see it.
Honestly, it'll probably justscreen in the cinema in Adelaide
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this one time.
There may be some future runsfrom it, but I wouldn't bank on
that.
If this sounds like somethingyou want to see in the cinema,
I'd get there for April the 9th.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
You are listening to Still Rocking it.
The podcast with Cheryl Lee.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
With seven fabulous albums to choose from, it's hard
to know which songs to choose,so I'm going to take a couple
from the latest album from 2023,the Tale of GC Towns.
I'm going to start by playingyou the single Little Red
Jumpsuit.
Our good friends at the RockPit say the honeyed vocals of
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Alexander Lusker, buoyed by theharmonies of Fergus Lineker and
musicality of band members Joshand Jack, make a song like
Little Red Jumpsuit, one thatcomes wrapped in warmth.
The country lilts andarrangements lend themselves to
nostalgic emotions, even if nodirect memories are attached by
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the listener.
It's music that is easy toimmerse oneself in and, for the
moment, escape in theromanticism that Luxa
establishes on the record.
We'll be back to chat some moreto Fergus Lineker straight
after this.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Please enjoy, oh, that keeps telling me Fall in
love to the bottom Just after weagree On what we're fighting
(26:11):
for.
Sometimes you don't apologize,like some rules are for breaking
.
It all goes up in flames.
I'm still drinking whiskey onthe porch.
Here I am awake while we talk,the dreams exhausted, and all
(26:35):
the while I dream of you In yourlittle red jumpsuit.
In your little red jumpsuit, Idon't really pray in the same
(26:56):
way you do.
Why are words that I do useTill I do them after you Don't
talk to God as often as I shoulddo?
But I still think he'll pick upthe phone when we all come
blazing through.
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Here I am away, falling downbetween the dust, and All the
while I think of you In yourlittle red jumpsuit.
So much for it Doing crappywhile you're open.
So why don't crack it wide open?
So why don't you go ahead, man?
(27:39):
Won't you crack it wide open?
Won't you crack it wide open?
Thank you.
(28:29):
I often sit and think, and thatthinking gives me comfort.
We drank from every vine, hadourselves a healthy pool.
Last night I saw our graves.
The red weed died of adventure.
I pissed all over yours.
(28:51):
And here I am away While wetalk of dreams All day and all
the while, I dream of you Inyour little red jumpsuit.
So much for Do we crack it wideopen?
(29:13):
So why don't you go ahead, man?
Won't you crack it wide open?
So why don't you go ahead, man?
Won't you crack it wide open?
Won't you crack it wide open,won't you crack it wide open,
won't you crack it wide open.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
So you are having some time off after that and
you've got another tour.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
No, after this was 2023 where this was filmed.
We did another tour in Europe.
After that, we ended up doing180 shows in the year.
Last year was less than that,but still plenty of touring and
writing and recording.
And we're at the point nowwhere we're going to release, uh
, on friday, uh, our first song,um, which is a tom petty cover
for the year, and then we'regoing to start releasing music
(30:01):
off our album that'll be willcome out at some stage later in
the year is that a scoop, that's?
a scoop and and we're announcingshows too.
So, um, I can actually, uh,tell you when we're announcing
shows too.
So I can actually tell you whenwe're playing in Adelaide.
Right now, before it's evenannounced, I've got the tour
poster in front of me on thecomputer.
We're going to Port Lincoln on10th of May and Lefties on 11th
(30:26):
of May there you go, that willbe on the Google.
I want to see it, that will beAll.
The tickets will be atkingsofbandcom on Friday.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Get on to it, adelaide people.
Don't be slack.
Don't be tardy in getting yourtickets, like we sometimes can
be.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I know you think that way these days.
It's more by the ticket, sortof later, but when you miss out
it upsets you.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So are you off to Europe again.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Yeah, later in the year we're slated to go.
We're just working out theparticulars.
But yeah, we love going back toEurope every year, so very
excited.
A lot of great friends overthere and the fans are very
lovely and they allow us to keepcoming back.
You know they keep buyingtickets.
So yeah, it's nice to have alittle European trip in the
counter each year.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, if you'd like to keep up with everything
that's going on with Kingswood,get.
Keep up with everything that'sgoing on with Kingswood.
Get onto their website andtheir mailing list.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yes, absolutely, you'll be able to.
On the website you'll be ableto join that.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So you can find out everything that's going on and
keep up with all the gossip Onemore question, of course, since
you've done like a Spinal Tapmovie, have you got any
non-negotiables on your riders?
Is there?
Something you've got to have inthe green room or you're not
going on.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah, that's good.
I'll tell you what.
We watched Spinal Tap on thebus.
The other day we did a show ata winery actually out in South
Australia near Mount Barker, andwe were watching Spinal Tap
because there's a sequel comingout which is exciting.
We love a good bottle ofwhiskey.
Bourbon Eagle Rare is ourfavourite.
So we have a few requests forif you can get this, we have
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this.
If you can't this one, if youcan't this one, all the way down
to Jamison's, which is an Irishwhiskey.
But it's good stuff, to be sure, but nothing crazy.
We've had some funny ones overthe years that we put in.
Sometimes it's a joke, and thenyou get them every now and then
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.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
You know, like we had like you know a 50 dollar
bunnings voucher.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
No, I mean, the bunny is very handy, you can go and
get batteries and all sorts ofthings.
Exactly, we always have, um asurprise, which is an
interesting one and, dependingon the enthusiasm of weber's
putting the rider together, somepeople are a bit over it.
Just ignore the surprise.
A lot of people get us kindersurprises, thinking they're the
first people to ever do that.
But, um, it happens.
Most of the time they go kindersurprises and we go amazing.
(32:43):
Uh, but look, if sometimespeople get creative and create
you know, create things.
We've got framed photos of usand all sorts of all sorts of
funny things, so we get you knowwe've had paintings made and
all sorts of different gifts.
So so we get you know, we'vehad paintings made and all sorts
of different gifts.
So that's one thing we lookforward to is what the surprise
is going to be.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
So not bowls of blue M&Ms.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
No, we don't request it, but if someone did that,
that would be.
Maybe we should do it for thistour that's coming up.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I can't wait to see the doco on the 9th.
Everybody, I'll see you downthe front in the theatre.
Awesome, and all the best forthe launch and all the best for
the upcoming tour.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Thanks, Cheryl, Great to chat to you and yeah, look
forward to meeting you in personwhen we're over there next I'll
see you down the front at a gigsoon.
Awesome, sounds great, thankyou.
Thank you so much, cheryl, seeyou.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Still rocking the podcast with that radio chick,
cheryl Lee.
Today is the day the new singlehas dropped and you are the
first to hear it right here,right now, mixing the high
octane energy of classic rockwith the storytelling magic of
modern country, proving onceagain that they're pushing
musical boundaries, kingswoodare back with this fresh take on
a timeless anthem.
They've taken Tom Petty'siconic track you Wreck Me,
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cranked up the volume and addedtheir own signature touch.
Think soulful harmonies, grittyguitars, pure unfiltered
emotion that makes you feelevery word here.
It is a modern twist on aclassic that'll have you singing
along.
There's also a great video clipon YouTube.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Right or wrong.
Tonight we sail On a radio songRescue me, should I go down?
And if I stay too long Introuble town, oh yeah, you wreck
(34:57):
me, baby.
You break me in two.
But you move me, honey, yes,you do.
Now and again I get the feeling, well, if I don't win, I'm
(35:18):
gonna break even.
Rescue me, should I go wrong.
And if I dig too deep, if Istay too long?
Oh yeah, you wreck me baby long.
Oh yeah, you wreck me, baby.
(35:39):
You break me too, but you moveme, honey.
Yes, you do guitar solo.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
I'll be the boy in the corduroy pants.
You'll be the girl at the highschool dance.
Run with me wherever I go andjust play dumb, whatever you
want.
Oh, yeah, you wreck me, baby.
(36:50):
Yeah, you break me too, but youknow me, honey.
Yes, you break me too, but youknow me, honey.
Yes, you do.
You wreck me, baby.
You break me too, but you knowme, honey.
Yes, you do.
You're with Cheryl Lee, thatradio chick.
(37:26):
Thank you so much for joiningme on the Still Rocking it
podcast.
Hope to catch you again nexttime.
Get out when you can supportAussie music and I'll see you
down the front.
That radio chick, cheryl Lee, here.
Welcome to the Still Rocking itpodcast, where we'll have music
news, reviews and interviewswith some of our favourite
Australian musicians and artists.
It's 2023 and Kingswood takeAustralia by storm with their
longest ever music tour, playinga staggering 112 shows across
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six months to over 60,000 fans.
The hometown tour, though, wasno ordinary road trip.
It was a relentless journeythat redefined the band's power
as a live act, pushing theirendurance, passion and
connection with fans to newheights.
Country Town also.
Right alongside the premiere ofthe music video for you, rest
(00:47):
me.
Today, kingswood have alsoannounced the untold story of
this unforgettable tour has beencaptured in a documentary
claptrap, an intimate and highenergy doco that takes viewers
behind the scenes of the band'slife on the road, from the
adrenaline pumping highs to theraw, unfiltered lows.
(01:10):
This feature film offers afront row seat to kingswood's
wild, emotional ride.
Was like enough to catch upwith fergus linica in the zoom
room yesterday.
To catch up on podcasts fromother favorite artists, simply
go to that radio chickcomau oh,look at the guitars that was
(01:33):
quick I don't, I didn't mean tohave a um, a space background.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Let me try and wow.
I mean, it's not bad, is it?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
but I can hardly see you.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Background, here we go.
None, that's better.
How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Good thanks.
When you guys supported ACDC,did you come to Adelaide?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, we did.
We did two nights in all themajor cities that we played in,
so we certainly did two inAdelaide.
The one funny thing thathappened on that tour was that
on the second night in Perth, sowe went to Adelaide, then we
went to Perth and on the secondnight in Perth we'd already been
there for about four days,played a show and had two days
off, and then we're playing thesecond ACBC show.
(02:14):
I walk out there and said helloAdelaide.
And did the faux pas you're notallowed to do, because it
looked the same in every stadium.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
They'd built the same , you know arena.
So you said that in Perth.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I said it in Perth on the second gig Ba-bong, ba-bong
.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So I was thinking I'm surprised I haven't seen you
before.
And then I worked down a half.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
There you go.
You were at that show and theHives played as well.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah , that's right.
That was a great show, that one.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Awesome fun.
Look at all these guitarsyou've got, and what are these
radios?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
They're biscuit tins.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Oh cool.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
These little ones are , but this one here is a real
radio.
Yeah yeah, yeah, the others arebiscuit tins, that's great,
Because I just liked them andplus I like biscuits.
Great, me too, and the guitarsare pretty much for show.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Well, it looks pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Let's get started, shall we?
You're with that radio chick,cheryl Lee, and I'd like to
welcome into the Zoom room todayfor a chat from Kingswood
Fergus.
Now, how do I say it?
Lineacre.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Lineacre.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Lineacre.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah or Lineacre, if you want to go back to the Irish
pronunciation.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
How do you say it in Irish?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
You just put on an Irish accent and say Lineker, or
I guess, lineker.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Are you actually from Ireland?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
No, I think my family , if you go back far enough, is
from Cork.
But I've never been.
I'd love to, but no, I haven'tI was lucky enough to go last
year.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Wow, I certainly do want to.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Kingswood are a four-piece.
They call you alternative rockband.
You guys formed in Melbourne in2007 Because you all went to
Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Grammar School.
Two of us went to schooltogether and were in bands in
school, and then the third alsosorry did go to the original
drummer, went to school with usas well, and then we've had a
few line-up changes, but Alexand I are running the show.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Founding members.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Founding members and absolutely love it and and have
been doing it for our wholelives.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, 18 years, that's a long time Is that 18?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
No, that can't be right.
Yeah, it is Since 2007.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
2007?
.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, yeah, I suppose the band really properly got
started in 2010, but we wereknocking around in 2007,.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
So there you go, take it Time flies started in 2010,
but we were knocking around in2007.
So there you go, take it timeflies.
That's longer than a lot ofmarriages.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well done, we've got you on lead vocals, ali on lead
guitar and he writes some of thesongs yeah, we write songs
together.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
he writes songs and, um, he sings some of the songs
too.
We're kind of like a I don know.
There's a lot of bands thathave multiple singers Fleetwood,
the Eagles, the Beatles yeah,this goes on.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Multitasking.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, good on you, alex, and I write and record and
then certain people come andplay with us on stage, but it's
the two of us really, yeah, aha.
Yeah, justin and Mango, whowere our original members, got
up on stage with us last yearand played a few songs with us,
(05:09):
so that was good fun.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
You are listening to Still Rocking it the podcast
with Cheryl.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Lee, I am going to play you some great songs from
the Kingswood's last release,the Tale of GC Towns,
no-transcript Code Red from thePower Up album, and then we're
going to be back to speak toFergus very shortly.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
We'll be right back.
Strike two set your guns ablaze.
Strike three call emergency.
You're gonna play it safe.
(06:11):
Speeding up the boat, tearingup the highway code Ain't gonna
slow me down, no need tohesitate.
Ain't coming up late, hit thebreakstone.
Mess with fate.
Hard fight, rough night, deadin your sight, thank you.
(06:33):
Oh, come with Weapons ready.
Come with Fire one, fire two.
(06:53):
Come with Now, pay attention.
Reputation on your mind, enemywithin your sight.
Fire up, fire, straight, firefree, thank you.
Firelight, fire, bright fire inthe night.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Station to station, yeah, call it Battle station, so
call it Weapons ready.
Call it Fire one, fire two.
Come on in Station to stationUnicorrid.
(08:23):
Battle station, telecom RedWeapons Red, cold Red, fire 1,
fire 2 Cold Red, cold Red, coldRed.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Hey, come on Red.
Hey, you guys have been busysince 2007.
Is it seven albums released inthat time?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
It depends if you count the charity jazz Christmas
album that we put out in COVID.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I'm counting it I count it.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
yeah, we've been very busy, yeah, and we like to tour
a lot.
And, yeah, there's new musiccoming out very soon as well,
and another tour.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
We're going to talk about that in a minute.
You also were and we chattedabout this earlier were a
support to Akadaka and alsoAerosmith.
That would have been anexperience.
Yeah, I've done that.
And also Aerosmith, that wouldhave been an experience.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
They were great fun.
The Aerosmith one was quitespecial to me because they were
one of my favourite bandsgrowing up, so that was really
good and we did one show withthem.
They invited us to their othershow that they did in Melbourne
and then backstage we hung outwith Stephen and he was really
nice and you know, we got tosort of spend some time and we
had a ball and he was lovely.
(09:47):
And then we did, I think, sevenweeks on the road with Akadaka
and we met them for about fiveminutes in like a meet and greet
.
They were lovely.
I think they just had a lot ontheir plate and then not too
much energy that they can'tdisperse when they're not on
stage.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
They're getting old, like me.
You guys started in schooltogether, you and Alex, so did
you either of you ever have aplan b?
Or once you started on thisroad and realized this was your
passion?
This is it?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
good, it's a good question, I think.
I mean, we both sort of went touni, I think, because that was
the thing to do and, uh, I thinkour parents were sort of like,
we support you doing music, butmaybe just, you know, while you,
while you're honing your craft,you can go to uni.
So we did that.
But, yeah, I feel it feels tome like I always knew this is
(10:38):
what I wanted to do and I feelvery lucky to be able to.
Um, I went to an oils show onceand met rob hurst backstage and
we were talking about music.
Uh, this is when I was about 17or something and you know, he
asked me what I wanted to do andI told him I wanted to be a
musician.
He said, well, do it, leaveschool and do it now.
Why, like, if you know what youwant to do and you're lucky
(11:00):
enough to know what you want todo, just go and do it now.
And I, obviously I didn't dothat.
I finished school and I did uni, uni.
But I kind of like thatmentality.
If you're lucky enough to havea passion, not everyone does,
not everyone knows what theirthing is, that's true.
And you know, you get into asystem.
You try and get a job that'sgoing to, you know, make life,
progress and everything.
But if you're lucky enough tohave something that you love,
(11:23):
then just get straight into it,go for it, yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
So what did you do at uni?
I?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
did.
It was a new course calledProject Management and it was
very broad.
I thought it might apply toanything in the music industry,
from running festivals to whichit does, to making a record, to
managing a tour, which is allthings that I do.
So you could argue that the unicourse actually did come into
play.
Yeah, yeah, it was, was just uh, it was sort of just a project
(11:50):
management course, which meanshow to see through a, any
project, from making a cup ofcoffee to running a, uh, a
festival.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So well, it's good you've been able to use those
skills.
What about alex?
What did he do?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
he did um commerce for a time, I think in marketing
, and then he went over to hedid vca.
So he did victorian college ofthe arts for um piano, jazz
piano.
I believe he's a veryaccomplished pianist.
Yeah, he enjoyed that thatgreatly.
Yeah, a lot of people that playin play in the band and have
(12:25):
played in the band have comethrough VCA.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So do you come from a musical family?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yes, my mum was the singer of the Cut Glass band
that toured around Australiaback in the day.
My dad is a great lover andappreciator of music and
certainly influenced me.
My older brothers they were theones that you know got me onto
Queen and Extreme and Aerosmithand All the good stuff and
(12:54):
Chisel and yeah, yeah I meanwe'd all sort of bounce around
the kitchen singing Les Mis andbeing different characters, and
so it's a very Our Christmases.
We have a big family OurChristmases have.
You know, there's 20 cousinsthere and everyone has a song
and the guitars go around and weplay till the sun comes up.
So, yeah, very musical family.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Still rocking that podcast with that radio chick,
cheryl Lee, going to play someKingswood music shortly.
But first one more of the bandsthat influenced Fergus One of
his favourites and mineAerosmith.
I don't want to miss a thing.
Back to chat more to Fergusafter this.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
I could stay awake just to hear you breathing,
watch you smile while you aresleeping, while you're far away,
dreaming.
I could spend my life in thissweet surrender.
(14:26):
I could stay lost in thismoment forever.
Every moment spent with you isa moment I treasure.
Don't wanna close my eyes, Idon't wanna fall asleep, cause I
(14:52):
miss you, baby, and I don'twanna miss a thing, cause even
when I dream of you, thesweetest dream would never do
I'd still miss you, baby.
And I don't wanna miss a thing.
I'm close to you, feeling yourheart beating and I'm wondering
(15:24):
what you're dreaming, wonderingif it's me you're seeing.
Then I kiss your eyes and thankGod we're together and I just
wanna stay with you In thosemoments, forever, forever and
(15:46):
ever.
I don't wanna close my eyes.
I don't wanna fall asleep,cause I miss you, baby.
And I don't wanna miss a thing,cause even when I dream of you,
the sweetest dream would neverdo I'd still miss you, baby.
(16:08):
And I don't wanna miss a thing.
I don't wanna miss one smile, Idon't wanna miss one kiss.
I just wanna be with you, righthere, with you, just like this.
I just wanna hold you close Ifeel your heart so close to mine
(16:34):
and just stay here in thismoment For all the rest of time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Don't wanna close my eyes, don'twanna fall asleep, cause I miss
(16:57):
you, baby, and I don't wannamiss a thing, cause, even when I
dream again, the sweetest dreamwill never do.
I still miss you, babe, and Idon't wanna miss a thing.
I don't wanna crawl in the air.
I don't wanna fall asleep,cause I'd miss you, babe.
(17:22):
And I don't wanna miss a thing,cause, even when I try my best,
the sweetest dream will neverdo, but I still miss you, baby,
and I don't wanna miss a thing.
Don't wanna close my eyes.
Ain't no way to face me.
(17:45):
I don't want this old man.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You've got some exciting news.
You have been on asix-month-long nationwide tour.
Is this right?
112 shows in six months.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yes, this is the big thing that's happening at the
moment, in 2023, which is thefirst sort of things opened up
after COVID, and we did sort ofthose small selected seated
shows, and Al and I wereprobably in a bar and came up
with the idea of just doing 100shows around Australia.
That was where the idea started.
Just because we hadn't touredin so long, people in regional
(18:49):
areas hadn't seen any live music.
You know, the cities were sortof starting to open up, but it
was very difficult for anyone totravel.
So we thought let's just go allaround Australia and do a tour.
And then we sort of had tofigure out the logistics and it
didn't work to fly or hire carsor drive and get hotels.
So we'll do it on a bus, likein Europe or America.
(19:09):
And there were no buses for hire, because any bus that did exist
got turned into like amotorhome during COVID.
Because they couldn't make anymoney.
We bought a bus and built ourown tour bus oh wow, and her
name is Peggy and we did sixmonths around Australia.
I don't know what the totalnumber is because we kept
playing shows after that.
It's just when you stopcounting, but that tour was
(19:30):
about 108 shows, I think.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Can we do 100 shows?
Hold my beer.
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
But it was incredible .
You know, we got to drivearound the entire country.
You know, some people sort ofdream one day is to get in a
caravan and drive aroundAustralia.
So we did it, playing showsevery night, and a young
filmmaker came on the road forthe entire six months and made a
documentary.
That's what leads us to betalking together.
Yeah, exactly the documentaryis.
(19:58):
It was in a film festival, itwon an award and now is doing a
very limited cinema release.
So it's very exciting.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
On Friday you've got your sort of debut release,
isn't it at the Astor inMelbourne?
Yep, You're also showing ithere in Adelaide on April 9.
Yep, Everybody get onto theGoogle-o-meter.
It's called Clap Trap, thedocumentary.
It's at the Regal Theatre inKensington Park.
So grab your tickets.
(20:28):
I love a good music, doco, butwhat?
I don't get is how on earth didDarcy Newton, the director and
cinematographer, fit six monthsin a leaky bus into 90 minutes?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I mean it's a crazy task.
What he's undertaken isincredible.
The amount of footage he got.
You could make 10 differentmovies and not reuse footage.
You know you could make SpinalTap.
You could easily make SpinalTap.
I mean, one of the first thingswe talked about when we started
this venture was giving away anysort of artistic input from us,
(21:07):
because I feel like when bandsmake their own docos, it comes
off as contrived.
It just makes them look goodand it's not really a piece of
art.
It's more a piece ofpromotional material.
I love some of the Nick Cavedocumentaries and I've always
been inspired by his ability to,or willingness to, just give
himself away to the art and bevery vulnerable.
(21:29):
So that was the mentality whenwe started talking about the
doco was that we were going tolet Darcy make his own film.
So it's definitely turned outdifferent than what I thought.
It's kind of like apsychological look inside the
life of you know.
There's sort of two maincharacters in the end, which is
me and Alex, and our differentbrains and way of dealing with
(21:50):
things.
There's a lot going on in ourlives behind the scenes during
this six months and we're awayfrom home and, yeah, I think
it's quite brilliant really if Istep away from it and forget
that it's me in there.
You really get what it's liketo be a travelling musician on
the road, trying to do somethingreally bold post-COVID and
(22:11):
rejuvenate.
You know some music into thesetowns and I think they did a
great job.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I think I read somewhere that you very, very
quickly managed to forget thatthe cameras were even there, so
it's a real genuinefly-on-the-wall.
Look at what it's like to be aband on tour.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, I think one of the things that allowed us to do
that and relax was we sort ofhad an agreement, rather than
say, oh, darcy, turn the cameraoff, you know we're doing this
or that or I'm having a fight orwhatever.
The understanding that washonoured was film everything,
(22:51):
and if someone doesn't wantsomething in the film, it comes
out.
Yeah.
Yeah, it wasn't really aproblem in the end.
I don't even think thathappened there was that mutual
respect there?
Yeah, oh, they could have putlots of things in there that you
know were more sort ofsensational, but that wasn't
their goal.
So I don't think we had to takeanything out in the end, but
(23:14):
what it did was allow us to notworry that we were being filmed.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
No one was ever going to see the footage except for
Darcy and the editors, and thenanything that someone didn't
want in was going to come out,so that allowed us to switch off
, let the cameras roll andeventually you kind of forget
that it's there.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And did they edit out all the farts and burps?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Oh, there might be a couple in there.
Actually, you know what?
I don't think there were anyfarts or burps in it.
There might be a burp or two.
Actually, you know a bandliving on a bus for six months
and travelling around thecountry and playing shows.
Yeah, there's a lot in there, alot to unpack, and they did a
really good job.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, it provides whatever charm and pluck can be
found in the brutality of anunrelenting tour across an
entire continent at a time wheremusicianship is a difficult and
unlucrative game.
So you know, it sounds like itis pretty much like warts and
all.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, it really is.
Yeah, it gets into it.
We don't really hold back.
We're quite honest about wherewe're at and, as I said, it's
not a puff piece for the band.
We're in full support of thefilm.
We think it's a great piece ofart and a very interesting look
into what it's like to be amusician.
So, yeah, I certainly encouragepeople to get along and see it.
Honestly, it'll probably justscreen in the cinema in Adelaide
(24:33):
this one time.
There may be some future runsfrom it, but I wouldn't bank on
that.
If this sounds like somethingyou want to see in the cinema,
I'd get there for April the 9th.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
You are listening to Still Rocking it.
The podcast with Cheryl Lee.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
With seven fabulous albums to choose from, it's hard
to know which songs to choose,so I'm going to take a couple
from the latest album from 2023,the Tale of GC Towns.
I'm going to start by playingyou the single Little Red
Jumpsuit.
Our good friends at the RockPit say the honeyed vocals of
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Alexander Lusker, buoyed by theharmonies of Fergus Lineker and
musicality of band members Joshand Jack, make a song like
Little Red Jumpsuit, one thatcomes wrapped in warmth.
The country lilts andarrangements lend themselves to
nostalgic emotions, even if nodirect memories are attached by
(25:31):
the listener.
It's music that is easy toimmerse oneself in and, for the
moment, escape in theromanticism that Luxa
establishes on the record.
We'll be back to chat some moreto Fergus Lineker straight
after this.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Please enjoy, oh, that keeps telling me Fall in
love to the bottom Just after weagree On what we're fighting
(26:11):
for.
Sometimes you don't apologize,like some rules are for breaking
.
It all goes up in flames.
I'm still drinking whiskey onthe porch.
Here I am awake while we talk,the dreams exhausted, and all
(26:35):
the while I dream of you In yourlittle red jumpsuit.
In your little red jumpsuit, Idon't really pray in the same
(26:56):
way you do.
Why are words that I do useTill I do them after you Don't
talk to God as often as I shoulddo?
But I still think he'll pick upthe phone when we all come
blazing through.
(27:16):
Here I am away, falling downbetween the dust, and All the
while I think of you In yourlittle red jumpsuit.
So much for it Doing crappywhile you're open.
So why don't crack it wide open?
So why don't you go ahead, man?
(27:39):
Won't you crack it wide open?
Won't you crack it wide open?
Thank you.
(28:29):
I often sit and think, and thatthinking gives me comfort.
We drank from every vine, hadourselves a healthy pool.
Last night I saw our graves.
The red weed died of adventure.
I pissed all over yours.
(28:51):
And here I am away While wetalk of dreams All day and all
the while, I dream of you Inyour little red jumpsuit.
So much for Do we crack it wideopen?
(29:13):
So why don't you go ahead, man?
Won't you crack it wide open?
So why don't you go ahead, man?
Won't you crack it wide open?
Won't you crack it wide open,won't you crack it wide open,
won't you crack it wide open.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
So you are having some time off after that and
you've got another tour.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
No, after this was 2023 where this was filmed.
We did another tour in Europe.
After that, we ended up doing180 shows in the year.
Last year was less than that,but still plenty of touring and
writing and recording.
And we're at the point nowwhere we're going to release, uh
, on friday, uh, our first song,um, which is a tom petty cover
for the year, and then we'regoing to start releasing music
(30:01):
off our album that'll be willcome out at some stage later in
the year is that a scoop, that's?
a scoop and and we're announcingshows too.
So, um, I can actually, uh,tell you when we're announcing
shows too.
So I can actually tell you whenwe're playing in Adelaide.
Right now, before it's evenannounced, I've got the tour
poster in front of me on thecomputer.
We're going to Port Lincoln on10th of May and Lefties on 11th
(30:26):
of May there you go, that willbe on the Google.
I want to see it, that will beAll.
The tickets will be atkingsofbandcom on Friday.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Get on to it, adelaide people.
Don't be slack.
Don't be tardy in getting yourtickets, like we sometimes can
be.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I know you think that way these days.
It's more by the ticket, sortof later, but when you miss out
it upsets you.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So are you off to Europe again.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Yeah, later in the year we're slated to go.
We're just working out theparticulars.
But yeah, we love going back toEurope every year, so very
excited.
A lot of great friends overthere and the fans are very
lovely and they allow us to keepcoming back.
You know they keep buyingtickets.
So yeah, it's nice to have alittle European trip in the
counter each year.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, if you'd like to keep up with everything
that's going on with Kingswood,get.
Keep up with everything that'sgoing on with Kingswood.
Get onto their website andtheir mailing list.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yes, absolutely, you'll be able to.
On the website you'll be ableto join that.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So you can find out everything that's going on and
keep up with all the gossip Onemore question, of course, since
you've done like a Spinal Tapmovie, have you got any
non-negotiables on your riders?
Is there?
Something you've got to have inthe green room or you're not
going on.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah, that's good.
I'll tell you what.
We watched Spinal Tap on thebus.
The other day we did a show ata winery actually out in South
Australia near Mount Barker, andwe were watching Spinal Tap
because there's a sequel comingout which is exciting.
We love a good bottle ofwhiskey.
Bourbon Eagle Rare is ourfavourite.
So we have a few requests forif you can get this, we have
(31:59):
this.
If you can't this one, if youcan't this one, all the way down
to Jamison's, which is an Irishwhiskey.
But it's good stuff, to be sure, but nothing crazy.
We've had some funny ones overthe years that we put in.
Sometimes it's a joke, and thenyou get them every now and then
(32:21):
.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
You know, like we had like you know a 50 dollar
bunnings voucher.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
No, I mean, the bunny is very handy, you can go and
get batteries and all sorts ofthings.
Exactly, we always have, um asurprise, which is an
interesting one and, dependingon the enthusiasm of weber's
putting the rider together, somepeople are a bit over it.
Just ignore the surprise.
A lot of people get us kindersurprises, thinking they're the
first people to ever do that.
But, um, it happens.
Most of the time they go kindersurprises and we go amazing.
(32:43):
Uh, but look, if sometimespeople get creative and create
you know, create things.
We've got framed photos of usand all sorts of all sorts of
funny things, so we get you knowwe've had paintings made and
all sorts of different gifts.
So so we get you know, we'vehad paintings made and all sorts
of different gifts.
So that's one thing we lookforward to is what the surprise
is going to be.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
So not bowls of blue M&Ms.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
No, we don't request it, but if someone did that,
that would be.
Maybe we should do it for thistour that's coming up.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I can't wait to see the doco on the 9th.
Everybody, I'll see you downthe front in the theatre.
Awesome, and all the best forthe launch and all the best for
the upcoming tour.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Thanks, Cheryl, Great to chat to you and yeah, look
forward to meeting you in personwhen we're over there next I'll
see you down the front at a gigsoon.
Awesome, sounds great, thankyou.
Thank you so much, cheryl, seeyou.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Still rocking the podcast with that radio chick,
cheryl Lee.
Today is the day the new singlehas dropped and you are the
first to hear it right here,right now, mixing the high
octane energy of classic rockwith the storytelling magic of
modern country, proving onceagain that they're pushing
musical boundaries, kingswoodare back with this fresh take on
a timeless anthem.
They've taken Tom Petty'siconic track you Wreck Me,
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cranked up the volume and addedtheir own signature touch.
Think soulful harmonies, grittyguitars, pure unfiltered
emotion that makes you feelevery word here.
It is a modern twist on aclassic that'll have you singing
along.
There's also a great video clipon YouTube.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Right or wrong.
Tonight we sail On a radio songRescue me, should I go down?
And if I stay too long Introuble town, oh yeah, you wreck
(34:57):
me, baby.
You break me in two.
But you move me, honey, yes,you do.
Now and again I get the feeling, well, if I don't win, I'm
(35:18):
gonna break even.
Rescue me, should I go wrong.
And if I dig too deep, if Istay too long?
Oh yeah, you wreck me baby long.
Oh yeah, you wreck me, baby.
(35:39):
You break me too, but you moveme, honey.
Yes, you do guitar solo.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
I'll be the boy in the corduroy pants.
You'll be the girl at the highschool dance.
Run with me wherever I go andjust play dumb, whatever you
want.
Oh, yeah, you wreck me, baby.
(36:50):
Yeah, you break me too, but youknow me, honey.
Yes, you break me too, but youknow me, honey.
Yes, you do.
You wreck me, baby.
You break me too, but you knowme, honey.
Yes, you do.
You're with Cheryl Lee, thatradio chick.
(37:26):
Thank you so much for joiningme on the Still Rocking it
podcast.
Hope to catch you again nexttime.
Get out when you can supportAussie music and I'll see you
down the front.
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