December 19, 2024 • 36 mins
Aurora Evans from the high-energy garage rock band Wine Lips joins us on the Sailor Jerry podcast to talk about the band’s wild ride through the Toronto music scene and beyond. From playing tiny local bars to tearing it up on international stages, we dive into the moments that shaped their journey. We also take a look back at their 2019 album Stressor—the record that kicked off their adventures in the U.S. and Europe—and get the inside scoop on their latest release, Super, Mega, Ultra. Plus, we hop in a Time Machine back to Woodstock, manifest world peace, swap rock ‘n’ roll influences, and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yo, what's up, Aurora , how you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hello yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Can you hear me okay?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yes, I can.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Awesome.
What's up with you, how youdoing.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
How's it going?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's going good.
I'm stoked.
I'm stoked to get to talk toyou.
I didn't know Jazz didn't tellme who I was going to get to
talk to, so it was like Russianroulette.
I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I don't think we knew who you was going to get to
talk to, so it was like Russianroulette.
I'm excited.
I don't think we knew who youwere going to talk to.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Awesome.
Well, I appreciate you, aurorafrom Wine Lips being on the
Sailor Jerry podcast today.
A big fan of the band, we'vebeen trying to make this work
out for a long time, so stokedto have you on.
Are you guys driving across thestates right now?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
uh, no, not well you guys flew.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Did you fly from la?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
yeah, we flew from la .
We just got home on like latelate on sunday night I think,
and then we're leaving tomorrowmorning for the drive oh yeah,
oh that's.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I was looking at that drive going ooh, was it like
Long Beach to South Carolina orsomething?
I was like that doesn't lookfun.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, no, no, no, not doing that, not doing that.
We're driving from Toronto, sooh yeah, yeah, yeah, right on.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So you know, you were just in LA, super bummed, I
missed you guys.
Alex, alex's Bar is one of myfavorite venues.
How were the LA shows?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
They were great.
Alex's Bar was a lot of fun.
Other bands were awesome.
We played with Guan and DeathCult, who are sick, annie Taylor
as well.
They opened.
They were great.
We did the Days of Confused atthis giant warehouse in San
Pedro.
That Space Agency collaboratedwith a brewery out there and
(01:48):
they yeah they put on a greatmakeup show for day or for a
desert days.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Nice Is that, was that at the, that kind of
brewery space that's over theretowards the end of the like.
I just went to the, the last noeffect show out there in San
Pedro.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I don't think it was the exact same spot.
Okay, it was very close fromwhat I know.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Awesome.
Yeah, San Pedro is gettingpretty active with with venues
and shows and stuff.
It's pretty rad.
It's a great place to go hangout and see some music.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, we played there in the past before, I think at
a place called the Sardine.
Oh, I played there in the pastbefore.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I think at a place called the sardine.
Oh, I've heard of the sardine,I think.
Uh, who owns that?
There's like a music dude ownsthat.
Uh, fuck, it's escaping me.
It's like a guy from a punkband that I should fucking know
and I don't know it.
This drives me crazy now.
But that's, that's dope.
Yeah, the sardine is is a goodspot.
Um, you know, super, mega,ultra, okay, dropped in April.
(02:46):
You guys have been, uh, it's anawesome record, congratulations
.
I know you worked hard on it.
Um, you know, you guys havebeen pretty much on the road
since then.
You know you're a touring band,which I love.
Um, how's the vibe of the bandright now?
How's everyone feeling?
Are you guys road weary?
Are you getting your rest whereyou need to get some rest, or
(03:08):
are you just rock and roll allnight?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, we're, we're good, we're good.
We're definitely getting tiredfrom like just a big year, but
it's been good, it's been fun,it's been good to us Like we've
been having a good time and um,yeah, Awesome, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
That that's cool.
And you guys are from toronto,right we are, yeah, we're.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
We started in toronto , like right now we kind of live
all over the place.
Our base players in brantfordme and andrew, are here.
Uh, cam is out in quebec, sowe're a little spread out, but
uh, kind of base here I supposeyeah, and you.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
So the band started as a two piece.
Am I right with that?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
We started as a three piece.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
With our roommate Justin at the time, who also,
like, did a bunch of our art forus.
But he was probably with us formaybe like the first year which
we played maybe like four showsin, and then he moved.
He went to like up to a caluteum for a while and got some like
cool job opportunity out there.
(04:13):
He was like an art guy,obviously he was doing our art.
That's what he wanted to do.
So we did that and we kind ofjust like continued from there,
had a couple bass players,eventually tacked on a second
guitar, and we've sprinkled in alittle more here and there, but
mostly just now we're fourpiece.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Awesome, Cool.
And what about?
What about you?
How did your kind of musicaljourney start?
What's your, what's yourbackground?
Do you have any like musiciansin the family or anything like
that?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
ish.
My background with music waslike I kind of started in church
.
I was like my brother like kindof played like a little guitar,
a little drums and likeeventually I like kind of picked
up from him our parents like usa drum set, um when I was
probably 10.
Um took a while to like pickanything up with it, but
eventually I was like learning abit from my brother, learning a
(05:05):
bit from like eventually likeputting in music and like kind
of playing along to it, and tooka few years for that stage, but
eventually I started gettinginto it a little more and at one
point I was playing drums forlike the church band I was gonna
say you had to be at one point.
At one point it had to happenand and like to tack on to that
(05:26):
the drum set that I have now.
I actually bought off thischurch like probably, uh like,
15 years ago now 15 year olddrum kit, blessed by god, can't
be.
Can't be that bad older thanolder than 15, because the
church probably had it for fiveyears, because I was there when
(05:46):
they bought it, brand new too.
So I kind of like I almost feellike they got it for me.
No, I didn't pay a little bitfor it, but no, yeah, that's the
one I still use every show tothis day.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
That's awesome.
And as you started kind ofbranching out outside of the
church into music and stuff likethat, what did you like?
What were some bands that kindof had an impact on you and your
kind of formative years.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You know what I mean I played a lot of paramore when
I like hell yeah believe it ornot, um, and then like in.
So it wasn't until I got tocollege, which I was like 20
years old, um, that I likestarted playing music with bands
, um, and like going to actuallike live shows and stuff like
(06:33):
that.
So a few of like the bands thatwere like going at the time,
that were like hyping me up,were like dirty nail pup, um,
the mothers, um, and these arelike ontario, sort of like rock
and roll bands that were comingup like back in 2010, 2012, sort
of thing, and that was what waslike getting me excited about,
(06:55):
like doing this yeah, I uh,we've we've toured with 30 nil a
bunch of times and we took outsingle mothers on on a run.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
That was amazing.
Drew is the fucking best andyou know.
Speaking of Toronto, you know,for those who don't know
incredible music scene there.
A lot of great artists comefrom Toronto, toronto area.
As the band was getting started, you know like what were.
If you were to look back onlike the early days of the band
(07:25):
was getting started, if you wereto look back on the early days
of the band, what are somethings you remember about those
times?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, um, when we first started as a band, just
like playing little shows atthis bar called the central um,
that was like that's just liketwo blocks away from where I
still live now and just likewalking gear back and forth from
the bar, so close, and we'dhave our friends come out and
we're at that.
We were still partying aftershows and like we just come back
(07:53):
here and party and have like abrigade of people help load the
gear back.
That's how everything started.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
That's awesome and you know, as the band kind of
progressed, you know, album toalbum, you got four full lengths
out now, which is incredible.
I mean you've got the debut in2017.
Stressor came out 2019, whichwas a big record for you guys.
(08:22):
Um, you know, I guess, if wecan kind of divide the band by
covid, um, you know what was,what was the kind of, what was
the kind of pickup like fromself-titled distresser, because
I know you guys started gettinga lot of press around then were
you just touring pretty heavy.
Uh, was there really any likebig difference in the band album
to album, from self-titled tostressor?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
um.
So from self-titled to stressor, that sort of stressor is where
we first started bookingourselves in the states and
that's sort of like that's a bigthing like breaking over,
breaking over the other side ofthe border.
Um, is was definitely helpfuland I think that was kind of
like the start of it.
(09:01):
And then it kind of jumped fromthere.
With the second album we did,or with the third album, sorry,
from stressor to to mushroom wewere a stomp and then we started
like going to europe as well,which was like a next step and
kind of goes from there hellyeah.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
How's Europe for you guys?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Europe's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, Europe's sick.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, it's great.
It's great.
They're great to us.
Shows are awesome.
Everything's pretty, prettydope.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Awesome.
And then you know, just from alistener standpoint, you know,
one of the things that I hear inyour guys' sound evolution,
album to album is I feel likethe guitars just seem to get
more and more kind of just likecrazier and unhinged like record
to record, and it's somethingthat I really, as a listener,
(09:50):
enjoy.
You know, I know as a singerthere's only real so much you
can do album to album without.
You know.
I mean, your style is yourstyle and I feel like,
instrumentally guitar it's oneof those things that can kind of
really elevate a band sound.
As a drummer, where do you sitwith like your own personal like
(10:12):
music evolution versus bandevolution?
I know sometimes it's tough toexist in a band and kind of get
your own wants and needs out ofit.
From your instrument standpoint, how do you feel about the
band's kind of evolution fromwhere it started to where it is
(10:32):
now and your drumming involvedwith it?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so like with guitars, as you're
saying, there's a reason why weneeded to get that fourth member
thrown in because betweenStressor and Mushroom Best
Ex-Bummer Party.
We started slapping a lot moreguitars onto that record in
comparison to Stressor, andthat's when it was like all
right now, I think we need theextra person to to fill these
(10:58):
parts in, because it's not goingto be.
It won't be the same without ityeah, yeah, absolutely and then,
as for myself, uh, I feel likeI definitely was a little more
raw.
Um, just looked like the firstalbum and like, that being said,
like we recorded that in thisbasement apartment.
(11:19):
Um, it was like super diy,everything was raw.
Like cam probably had like athird of the pedalboard or like
a quarter of the pedalboard he'sgot still using the same drums
but and almost symbols, but uhno, with the sound it just
elevates with or escalates with,like whatever band I'm
listening to heavily like thehive the hives, uh like returned
(11:43):
into my rotation and a lot oflike how they sound is kind of
what I dial into sometimes whenwe're playing and I like that
comparison.
It's sweet.
I love the hives.
Just like new bands that we'velike I've started listening to
over the years, like the OCs orTicey Geller, like Bad Nerves.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, Bad Nerves are so sick.
Yeah, How's your?
How's your?
How's your high hat, How's your?
Yeah, you got a tight high hatwith the nothing, but I'm
working on it yeah, that's.
It's a key to the punk rocksound.
Not a lot of people understandthat the hi-hat is very
important.
Um, you know, I was gonna saythis is your second record with,
(12:34):
is it simon?
How do you say his last name?
simon lever shet yeah yeah,what's, what's, uh, your guys's
relationship to him, and like,how was the like, how's the
recording process going for forsuper mega ultra?
Like how was that kind of walkme through it?
Like, how do you, uh, how doyou guys write a song?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
you know what I mean yeah, so this is, this is, or
super mega ultra was the thirdrecord we actually did with
simon.
The other, the self-titled, wasthe only one we did without him
okay, cool but uh, as for likethe process, we we met simon
because we all went to school inlondon, ontario, um, at
fanshawe college, um, he alsowent to school down there and
(13:15):
sort of opened his own studiodown there and kind of word of
mouth and just like people thatwe knew, sort of using him.
That got good results.
Eventually we tried him outwith Stressor, that first record
and yeah, no, it's a reallygood experience.
Everything's smooth,everything's comfortable.
Like we connect with him likereally well on like a personal
(13:36):
level, um, and then on abusiness level.
Everything is really well doneand really casual but efficient,
you know, and the process islike like he has his studio, um,
typically like we stay there aswell.
There's like a room on board,we're in the kitchen and
everything where we can justkind of make ourselves
comfortable.
It's.
It's nothing like super fancy,but it's like homey, yeah, nice
(14:01):
and cozy.
Um, and yeah, the writingprocess, like a lot of the time
we're pretty much coming in withhaving done some demos for
these songs already.
Cam will uh like record a demoand sometimes I'll have drums
with it, sometimes he won't,depending, but those will get
put together, um, and then we'lljust sort of bring it to the
(14:23):
studio and from there, likesimon kind of helps with some
production as well, like on topof engineering.
Um, him and cam will often justsort of dial everything at the
end and piece it together.
As it turns out kind of been asimilar process for all three
records.
I can't say that they've beenidentical in like the sense of
(14:45):
whatever microphones he's using.
I couldn't speak for that.
But, um, honestly, yeah, thethe process has always kind of
been the same and just the thewriting is just kind of gets a
little bit different every timeand yeah, awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And then, you know, going back to your own kind of
musical journey for a second,you know, was there a moment
like, were you?
Were you always like, okay, as,as you went down the the rabbit
hole with, with, with the drums, were you okay, I want to be a
drummer?
When was the point when youwere like I want to be a drummer
in a band?
(15:20):
And then, when was the pointwhere you're like, okay,
actually, I'm going to do this,I'm going out on the road, I'm
committing myself to being inthis band?
How was that moment for you andis that something you always
wanted to do?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I think like when I was younger, whatever I wanted
to do was always changing um,but definitely I and I never
really considered like drums asa career.
When I went to school, likewhere I said we all met at
fansha, I was going to like seeif I could like be like a sound
engineer kind of thing.
I was like yeah interested inplaying drums.
Maybe this can translate tobeing a sound engineer.
(15:55):
Turns out it doesn't.
I mean it could have.
It could have.
Um, for me it did not.
I'm I'm not a sound engineerexpert by any means.
I know a couple things here andthere, but definitely nothing,
uh, that'll get me anywhere, um,with that career.
But through that we metmusicians and started bands and
(16:19):
that was, like I said, that'swhen my first band was.
So from there I was like, okay,this is cool, this is fun.
Um, but I and then I just sortof started doing small tours,
like um one weeks here and therewith like the bands that I was
playing with.
And then it wasn't until likemaybe when wine lips started and
probably like did our firstEurope tour where we saw like
(16:43):
the audience kind of reallygrowing and coming out of
nowhere also because we've neverbeen here before.
Um, that's when it got cool andreal.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, hell yeah, that's awesome.
That's always such a uh, youknow, such a cool.
Sometimes it's not identifiedby a single moment, but I feel
like there's a time in everymusician's or artist's or band's
life when it goes from, likeyou know, being something that
you're just casually doing, andthen you know you're doing it
full time, it full time.
(17:17):
But then outside of that,there's like an internal moment
where you kind of flip thatswitch and you're like, okay,
like this is it Like?
I'm going to do this, I'm goingto apply myself to my
instrument, I'm going to be, youknow, serious about what we're
doing in the band.
I'm going to show up, make sureI'm this.
You know, I'm here foreverybody who needs me, all that
type of stuff.
And then I feel like thecollective energy of the band
just levels up a little bit aseveryone kind of steps in, and
(17:40):
then it just goes and it buildsand it evolves and it's a cool
thing, man.
I see you guys getting biggeralbum to album and I have a ton
of friends that are music headsthat are coming to me being like
, hey, have you heard, have youheard, wine Lips?
I went and saw them and it'sjust, it's cool, you know, cause
I see you guys over in theStates just kind of leveling up
(18:02):
on that.
So it's rad.
Congrats to everything you guysgot going on.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Hell yeah, a couple of questions from the internet
here.
Okay, the first one is this wegot, we got.
There are a lot of sketchybiopics about musicians coming
out lately.
We got bob dylan, uh, amywinehouse, bob marley, jimmy
hendrix.
No one seems to really enjoythe actor or actress playing the
(18:28):
lead role.
Um, who would you want to playyou in the movie about your life
?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I'm really bad with, like actors and actresses names.
Okay For me.
Um, well, I'm like a redhead,so that I feel like I should
like stick with that, and thatnarrows down my options, which
makes it great.
Um, I'll say, the littleredhead girl from, uh, stranger
things, she could, yeah, shecould probably pull that off.
She was cool.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I like that.
I like that.
She is cool.
All right, here we go On ascale of one to ten.
How sketchy is your algorithm?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
my algorithm.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, like what's your explorer page look like on
Instagram.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
A lot of probably tacos Always looking up.
We were just in like LA andtrying to find tacos every day
and we just ended up at the samespot.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Where'd you guys go?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
There's like a street corner that had like a tent
that was put up.
I got some hives in my uh, myfeed in Dawson's Creek.
Uh reminders.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Are you a Dawson's fan?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Not really, but the pop-ups always come up, do you
remember?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
that meme of him crying that was going around for
a while.
That was such a great one.
It was a really old school meme.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yeah, yeah, I it's not really that's not very
sketchy aurora.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I'm gonna be honest with you.
I feel like that's pretty,that's pretty safe.
It's pretty safe like 182 truck, that's cool oh yeah, yeah,
that is cool yeah no, it's notreally sketchy, sorry.
No, it's all right.
That's good.
That's good, that's a goodthing.
You mentioned Paramore already.
(20:21):
What's a?
What's a band or artist who hashad a big impact on you
personally?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Probably the hives I'll recirculate back to them.
They've been.
They've been pretty, prettyinspiring.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, they're the best.
Have you guys gotten to playwith them yet?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
We haven't got to play with them yet.
I don't know when we will, Idon't know if we will, but we're
trying constantly to make itwork.
Um, but yeah, we saw them withbad nerves, um, like three weeks
ago at history in Toronto,which was dope, great show.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, yeah, bad Nerves is crushing right now as
well.
And yeah, the Hives are goodfriends and one of the best
bands ever.
I mean, just the coolest groupof dudes and just the most
amazing band.
I'm sure what's that?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Show and ship like the music, everything, oh yeah
it's, it's um, and they're, youknow, in.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
You know they're also one of those bands who is still
very interested in like thescene music bands coming up.
You know that's why I'm sure atsome point you guys will end up
playing with them, becausethey're always looking out for,
like, new bands, garage rockbands, punk rock bands, anything
that they can do to kind ofhelp the next generation come up
(21:39):
.
And you know the Hives alsolike to like.
You know they also like toremind the next generation
coming up who they are, that theHives are still the greatest
rock and roll band of all time.
It works both ways for them, youknow.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Awesome.
A couple of hypotheticals hereto finish out the interview.
I don't want to take up toomuch more of your time.
Roy, I appreciate you beinghere on the podcast.
Let's go with the first one.
We're going to go classic.
We're going to go classic timemachine, hypothetical.
Okay, so you step out of yourapartment, condo, house, mansion
(22:19):
, whatever it is that you'recoming live from, and there's a
time machine right outside.
Someone super cool opens thedoor Jimi Hendrix, or something
like that and they say hey,aurora, come on in Anywhere in
the future or not in the future,anywhere in history you want to
go?
Where are you going to go firstand why?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
This is a question I should know the answer to.
Where would I go and whythere's so many?
Obvious?
I'd go to Woodstock becausewouldn't it be like something to
experience?
Woodstock would be cool yeah,um, is there anything else that
I've missed?
So many things, so many.
(23:05):
What good things have I missed?
I think I might just stick withthat like that woodstock.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
You go to what?
Hey, you know what stock is, a.
It's a good answer.
It's a good answer.
What?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
about.
I know it's so generic.
I wish I had something better.
I feel too on the spot.
I need more time.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I mean, you know, in in your defense, no one's ever
said Woodstock before, so it'syou know you're.
You're our first Woodstock, sothat's good.
I feel like sometimes it waslike sending questions out to
people, Like they get so likeI've done it a couple times and
they get so wrapped up in theirown answer that it's like the
(23:41):
most ridiculous, like it's somuch time, I would have like
said something like like onestock yeah, so all right.
So get ready for this one.
Then we're going from.
We're going from a time machine, we're going to a genie in a
bottle.
Okay, I don't know.
You pop open your beverage ofchoice.
(24:03):
Genie comes out, says what's up, aurora, one wish it's all
yours Granted.
What's it going to be?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Oh man, one wish, and this could be on any spectrum.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Any spectrum.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
How could I not wish for world peace?
Come on yeah.
I'd love for you to have onewish.
And not say that, yeah, is thatabout as good as have one wish?
And not say that yeah.
Is that as about as good as ananswer as Woodstock Definitely?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yeah, Well, you know, world peace is one of those
things where you can't I meanyou can not wish for world peace
.
There's people who have not,but I feel like you have to, you
know, and then if anyone everfound out that you got one wish
and you didn't wish for worldpeace, might be a problem yes,
(25:03):
now let's say world peace isalready thank you, yeah let's
say that, let's just say thatlet's just say the world is
peaceful having a better answerand not, um, having a world
worry about, about the status ofthe wellbeing of humanity.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
On top of that, I would say, if I could be granted
one wish, it would be to keepdoing what we're doing, probably
just until I need to retire, Iguess.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I take that like comfortably just keep doing what
we're doing.
Yeah, hell, yeah, I like thatcomfortably just keep doing what
we're doing.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
And yeah, hell, yeah, I like that is there.
Uh, I know you guys got a lotof touring plans coming up this
year.
Is there?
Have you got?
Where haven't you guys been?
Have you done like SouthAmerica and all that stuff?
Yet?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
no, we haven't done South America or Mexico.
We've kind of we've done likeCanada, us, we've randomly done
China and Hong Kong at one point.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, what was that all about?
How was that?
Was it sick?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
It was weird, it was cool.
It was cool.
It was like 10 days of like ajet lag, like confusion, but it
was just an interestingexperience, that kind of we just
decided not to pass up on andplayed some shows.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
How were the shows?
Were the shows like what's theenergy like in hong kong?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
you know what I mean we kind of played like uh,
almost like english pub styleplaces, like it was a very
interesting experience.
Um, yeah, and like some of themwere like, we kind of felt like
we're like maybe eating duringor playing during like dinner
time.
Some were like fun and theenergy was there, but we also,
(26:42):
um, worked a bunch of coversinto our set because that was
kind of oh, what were the covers?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
what were the covers?
What is what's wine lipscovering?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
white rabbit flash by the rolling stones really we
did.
Um devil in disguise uh, we did.
These boots are made forwalking nice I can't I know
those three for sure.
And there was probably what's.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
What's?
Is it a guitar lead?
When it picks up the bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump,
the boots are made for walkingpart.
What's?
Do you guys have someone comeout and play horn or something?
No, no horn I can't remember sothey'd like just paint.
Just paint a little bit of apicture for me and honest, like
(27:29):
are they?
Are they moving around like alike?
Okay, if you had your regularWine Lips crowd moving around,
what was it?
Like?
Hong Kong, china?
Are they just kind of watchingthe band play?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeah, yeah, it was a lot of watching.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Yeah, but still cool as fuck.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Still cool as fuck we're there, that's awesome.
Someone kind of like arrangedlike the transportation and
accommodation kind of stuff forus.
So it was just kind of like usjust trying something new.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Did you see the Great Wall?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
No, we weren't anywhere near that and we were
in, like, southern China, whichis like close to Hong Kong, and
we didn't really venture toomany hours from there, cool, you
guys been to Australia.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I've been but not as a performer.
A performer, oh man, you guyshave got to go.
It's going to be sick when youdo trying.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
We're trying, we've uh, I think we've maybe found
someone that might be able tohelp us out.
Uh, because, yeah, we've dippedour toes into some
conversations about it before,but nothing is uh nothing's
happened yet.
Yeah, yeah so we're just tryingto figure, find the best uh
option for it to happen awesome.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, it's so sick down there, man, they go, they
go crazy for for rock and roll.
It's, it's amazing.
Um cool, aurora, thank you somuch for your time here on the
say the jerry podcast.
We got one last question.
Okay, we got one last questionand it's going to be all right.
I know you got this.
What, to you, is the meaning oflife?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Oh man, what is the meaning of life?
To live happily and generouslyand just be content with the?
Oh gee, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
You were doing so good.
You were doing so good.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I can't answer that question.
What is the meaning of life?
Yeah, live happily.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I like that.
Aurora, thank you so much foryour time.
Really appreciate you beinghere on the Sailor Jerry podcast
.
Everybody go check out WineLips on Tour, super ultra mega
out now.
Go listen to that shit, aurora.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
All right, yeah, you're welcome, thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Awesome Peace.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Take care.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah.
Yo, what's up, Aurora , how you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hello yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Can you hear me okay?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yes, I can.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Awesome.
What's up with you, how youdoing.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
How's it going?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's going good.
I'm stoked.
I'm stoked to get to talk toyou.
I didn't know Jazz didn't tellme who I was going to get to
talk to, so it was like Russianroulette.
I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I don't think we knew who you was going to get to
talk to, so it was like Russianroulette.
I'm excited.
I don't think we knew who youwere going to talk to.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Awesome.
Well, I appreciate you, aurorafrom Wine Lips being on the
Sailor Jerry podcast today.
A big fan of the band, we'vebeen trying to make this work
out for a long time, so stokedto have you on.
Are you guys driving across thestates right now?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
uh, no, not well you guys flew.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Did you fly from la?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
yeah, we flew from la .
We just got home on like latelate on sunday night I think,
and then we're leaving tomorrowmorning for the drive oh yeah,
oh that's.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I was looking at that drive going ooh, was it like
Long Beach to South Carolina orsomething?
I was like that doesn't lookfun.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, no, no, no, not doing that, not doing that.
We're driving from Toronto, sooh yeah, yeah, yeah, right on.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So you know, you were just in LA, super bummed, I
missed you guys.
Alex, alex's Bar is one of myfavorite venues.
How were the LA shows?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
They were great.
Alex's Bar was a lot of fun.
Other bands were awesome.
We played with Guan and DeathCult, who are sick, annie Taylor
as well.
They opened.
They were great.
We did the Days of Confused atthis giant warehouse in San
Pedro.
That Space Agency collaboratedwith a brewery out there and
(01:48):
they yeah they put on a greatmakeup show for day or for a
desert days.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Nice Is that, was that at the, that kind of
brewery space that's over theretowards the end of the like.
I just went to the, the last noeffect show out there in San
Pedro.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I don't think it was the exact same spot.
Okay, it was very close fromwhat I know.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Awesome.
Yeah, San Pedro is gettingpretty active with with venues
and shows and stuff.
It's pretty rad.
It's a great place to go hangout and see some music.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, we played there in the past before, I think at
a place called the Sardine.
Oh, I played there in the pastbefore.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I think at a place called the sardine.
Oh, I've heard of the sardine,I think.
Uh, who owns that?
There's like a music dude ownsthat.
Uh, fuck, it's escaping me.
It's like a guy from a punkband that I should fucking know
and I don't know it.
This drives me crazy now.
But that's, that's dope.
Yeah, the sardine is is a goodspot.
Um, you know, super, mega,ultra, okay, dropped in April.
(02:46):
You guys have been, uh, it's anawesome record, congratulations
.
I know you worked hard on it.
Um, you know, you guys havebeen pretty much on the road
since then.
You know you're a touring band,which I love.
Um, how's the vibe of the bandright now?
How's everyone feeling?
Are you guys road weary?
Are you getting your rest whereyou need to get some rest, or
(03:08):
are you just rock and roll allnight?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, we're, we're good, we're good.
We're definitely getting tiredfrom like just a big year, but
it's been good, it's been fun,it's been good to us Like we've
been having a good time and um,yeah, Awesome, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
That that's cool.
And you guys are from toronto,right we are, yeah, we're.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
We started in toronto , like right now we kind of live
all over the place.
Our base players in brantfordme and andrew, are here.
Uh, cam is out in quebec, sowe're a little spread out, but
uh, kind of base here I supposeyeah, and you.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
So the band started as a two piece.
Am I right with that?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
We started as a three piece.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
With our roommate Justin at the time, who also,
like, did a bunch of our art forus.
But he was probably with us formaybe like the first year which
we played maybe like four showsin, and then he moved.
He went to like up to a caluteum for a while and got some like
cool job opportunity out there.
(04:13):
He was like an art guy,obviously he was doing our art.
That's what he wanted to do.
So we did that and we kind ofjust like continued from there,
had a couple bass players,eventually tacked on a second
guitar, and we've sprinkled in alittle more here and there, but
mostly just now we're fourpiece.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Awesome, Cool.
And what about?
What about you?
How did your kind of musicaljourney start?
What's your, what's yourbackground?
Do you have any like musiciansin the family or anything like
that?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
ish.
My background with music waslike I kind of started in church
.
I was like my brother like kindof played like a little guitar,
a little drums and likeeventually I like kind of picked
up from him our parents like usa drum set, um when I was
probably 10.
Um took a while to like pickanything up with it, but
eventually I was like learning abit from my brother, learning a
(05:05):
bit from like eventually likeputting in music and like kind
of playing along to it, and tooka few years for that stage, but
eventually I started gettinginto it a little more and at one
point I was playing drums forlike the church band I was gonna
say you had to be at one point.
At one point it had to happenand and like to tack on to that
(05:26):
the drum set that I have now.
I actually bought off thischurch like probably, uh like,
15 years ago now 15 year olddrum kit, blessed by god, can't
be.
Can't be that bad older thanolder than 15, because the
church probably had it for fiveyears, because I was there when
(05:46):
they bought it, brand new too.
So I kind of like I almost feellike they got it for me.
No, I didn't pay a little bitfor it, but no, yeah, that's the
one I still use every show tothis day.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
That's awesome.
And as you started kind ofbranching out outside of the
church into music and stuff likethat, what did you like?
What were some bands that kindof had an impact on you and your
kind of formative years.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You know what I mean I played a lot of paramore when
I like hell yeah believe it ornot, um, and then like in.
So it wasn't until I got tocollege, which I was like 20
years old, um, that I likestarted playing music with bands
, um, and like going to actuallike live shows and stuff like
(06:33):
that.
So a few of like the bands thatwere like going at the time,
that were like hyping me up,were like dirty nail pup, um,
the mothers, um, and these arelike ontario, sort of like rock
and roll bands that were comingup like back in 2010, 2012, sort
of thing, and that was what waslike getting me excited about,
(06:55):
like doing this yeah, I uh,we've we've toured with 30 nil a
bunch of times and we took outsingle mothers on on a run.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
That was amazing.
Drew is the fucking best andyou know.
Speaking of Toronto, you know,for those who don't know
incredible music scene there.
A lot of great artists comefrom Toronto, toronto area.
As the band was getting started, you know like what were.
If you were to look back onlike the early days of the band
(07:25):
was getting started, if you wereto look back on the early days
of the band, what are somethings you remember about those
times?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, um, when we first started as a band, just
like playing little shows atthis bar called the central um,
that was like that's just liketwo blocks away from where I
still live now and just likewalking gear back and forth from
the bar, so close, and we'dhave our friends come out and
we're at that.
We were still partying aftershows and like we just come back
(07:53):
here and party and have like abrigade of people help load the
gear back.
That's how everything started.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
That's awesome and you know, as the band kind of
progressed, you know, album toalbum, you got four full lengths
out now, which is incredible.
I mean you've got the debut in2017.
Stressor came out 2019, whichwas a big record for you guys.
(08:22):
Um, you know, I guess, if wecan kind of divide the band by
covid, um, you know what was,what was the kind of, what was
the kind of pickup like fromself-titled distresser, because
I know you guys started gettinga lot of press around then were
you just touring pretty heavy.
Uh, was there really any likebig difference in the band album
to album, from self-titled tostressor?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
um.
So from self-titled to stressor, that sort of stressor is where
we first started bookingourselves in the states and
that's sort of like that's a bigthing like breaking over,
breaking over the other side ofthe border.
Um, is was definitely helpfuland I think that was kind of
like the start of it.
(09:01):
And then it kind of jumped fromthere.
With the second album we did,or with the third album, sorry,
from stressor to to mushroom wewere a stomp and then we started
like going to europe as well,which was like a next step and
kind of goes from there hellyeah.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
How's Europe for you guys?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Europe's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, Europe's sick.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, it's great.
It's great.
They're great to us.
Shows are awesome.
Everything's pretty, prettydope.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Awesome.
And then you know, just from alistener standpoint, you know,
one of the things that I hear inyour guys' sound evolution,
album to album is I feel likethe guitars just seem to get
more and more kind of just likecrazier and unhinged like record
to record, and it's somethingthat I really, as a listener,
(09:50):
enjoy.
You know, I know as a singerthere's only real so much you
can do album to album without.
You know.
I mean, your style is yourstyle and I feel like,
instrumentally guitar it's oneof those things that can kind of
really elevate a band sound.
As a drummer, where do you sitwith like your own personal like
(10:12):
music evolution versus bandevolution?
I know sometimes it's tough toexist in a band and kind of get
your own wants and needs out ofit.
From your instrument standpoint, how do you feel about the
band's kind of evolution fromwhere it started to where it is
(10:32):
now and your drumming involvedwith it?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so like with guitars, as you're
saying, there's a reason why weneeded to get that fourth member
thrown in because betweenStressor and Mushroom Best
Ex-Bummer Party.
We started slapping a lot moreguitars onto that record in
comparison to Stressor, andthat's when it was like all
right now, I think we need theextra person to to fill these
(10:58):
parts in, because it's not goingto be.
It won't be the same without ityeah, yeah, absolutely and then,
as for myself, uh, I feel likeI definitely was a little more
raw.
Um, just looked like the firstalbum and like, that being said,
like we recorded that in thisbasement apartment.
(11:19):
Um, it was like super diy,everything was raw.
Like cam probably had like athird of the pedalboard or like
a quarter of the pedalboard he'sgot still using the same drums
but and almost symbols, but uhno, with the sound it just
elevates with or escalates with,like whatever band I'm
listening to heavily like thehive the hives, uh like returned
(11:43):
into my rotation and a lot oflike how they sound is kind of
what I dial into sometimes whenwe're playing and I like that
comparison.
It's sweet.
I love the hives.
Just like new bands that we'velike I've started listening to
over the years, like the OCs orTicey Geller, like Bad Nerves.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, Bad Nerves are so sick.
Yeah, How's your?
How's your?
How's your high hat, How's your?
Yeah, you got a tight high hatwith the nothing, but I'm
working on it yeah, that's.
It's a key to the punk rocksound.
Not a lot of people understandthat the hi-hat is very
important.
Um, you know, I was gonna saythis is your second record with,
(12:34):
is it simon?
How do you say his last name?
simon lever shet yeah yeah,what's, what's, uh, your guys's
relationship to him, and like,how was the like, how's the
recording process going for forsuper mega ultra?
Like how was that kind of walkme through it?
Like, how do you, uh, how doyou guys write a song?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
you know what I mean yeah, so this is, this is, or
super mega ultra was the thirdrecord we actually did with
simon.
The other, the self-titled, wasthe only one we did without him
okay, cool but uh, as for likethe process, we we met simon
because we all went to school inlondon, ontario, um, at
fanshawe college, um, he alsowent to school down there and
(13:15):
sort of opened his own studiodown there and kind of word of
mouth and just like people thatwe knew, sort of using him.
That got good results.
Eventually we tried him outwith Stressor, that first record
and yeah, no, it's a reallygood experience.
Everything's smooth,everything's comfortable.
Like we connect with him likereally well on like a personal
(13:36):
level, um, and then on abusiness level.
Everything is really well doneand really casual but efficient,
you know, and the process islike like he has his studio, um,
typically like we stay there aswell.
There's like a room on board,we're in the kitchen and
everything where we can justkind of make ourselves
comfortable.
It's.
It's nothing like super fancy,but it's like homey, yeah, nice
(14:01):
and cozy.
Um, and yeah, the writingprocess, like a lot of the time
we're pretty much coming in withhaving done some demos for
these songs already.
Cam will uh like record a demoand sometimes I'll have drums
with it, sometimes he won't,depending, but those will get
put together, um, and then we'lljust sort of bring it to the
(14:23):
studio and from there, likesimon kind of helps with some
production as well, like on topof engineering.
Um, him and cam will often justsort of dial everything at the
end and piece it together.
As it turns out kind of been asimilar process for all three
records.
I can't say that they've beenidentical in like the sense of
(14:45):
whatever microphones he's using.
I couldn't speak for that.
But, um, honestly, yeah, thethe process has always kind of
been the same and just the thewriting is just kind of gets a
little bit different every timeand yeah, awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And then, you know, going back to your own kind of
musical journey for a second,you know, was there a moment
like, were you?
Were you always like, okay, as,as you went down the the rabbit
hole with, with, with the drums, were you okay, I want to be a
drummer?
When was the point when youwere like I want to be a drummer
in a band?
(15:20):
And then, when was the pointwhere you're like, okay,
actually, I'm going to do this,I'm going out on the road, I'm
committing myself to being inthis band?
How was that moment for you andis that something you always
wanted to do?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I think like when I was younger, whatever I wanted
to do was always changing um,but definitely I and I never
really considered like drums asa career.
When I went to school, likewhere I said we all met at
fansha, I was going to like seeif I could like be like a sound
engineer kind of thing.
I was like yeah interested inplaying drums.
Maybe this can translate tobeing a sound engineer.
(15:55):
Turns out it doesn't.
I mean it could have.
It could have.
Um, for me it did not.
I'm I'm not a sound engineerexpert by any means.
I know a couple things here andthere, but definitely nothing,
uh, that'll get me anywhere, um,with that career.
But through that we metmusicians and started bands and
(16:19):
that was, like I said, that'swhen my first band was.
So from there I was like, okay,this is cool, this is fun.
Um, but I and then I just sortof started doing small tours,
like um one weeks here and therewith like the bands that I was
playing with.
And then it wasn't until likemaybe when wine lips started and
probably like did our firstEurope tour where we saw like
(16:43):
the audience kind of reallygrowing and coming out of
nowhere also because we've neverbeen here before.
Um, that's when it got cool andreal.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, hell yeah, that's awesome.
That's always such a uh, youknow, such a cool.
Sometimes it's not identifiedby a single moment, but I feel
like there's a time in everymusician's or artist's or band's
life when it goes from, likeyou know, being something that
you're just casually doing, andthen you know you're doing it
full time, it full time.
(17:17):
But then outside of that,there's like an internal moment
where you kind of flip thatswitch and you're like, okay,
like this is it Like?
I'm going to do this, I'm goingto apply myself to my
instrument, I'm going to be, youknow, serious about what we're
doing in the band.
I'm going to show up, make sureI'm this.
You know, I'm here foreverybody who needs me, all that
type of stuff.
And then I feel like thecollective energy of the band
just levels up a little bit aseveryone kind of steps in, and
(17:40):
then it just goes and it buildsand it evolves and it's a cool
thing, man.
I see you guys getting biggeralbum to album and I have a ton
of friends that are music headsthat are coming to me being like
, hey, have you heard, have youheard, wine Lips?
I went and saw them and it'sjust, it's cool, you know, cause
I see you guys over in theStates just kind of leveling up
(18:02):
on that.
So it's rad.
Congrats to everything you guysgot going on.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Hell yeah, a couple of questions from the internet
here.
Okay, the first one is this wegot, we got.
There are a lot of sketchybiopics about musicians coming
out lately.
We got bob dylan, uh, amywinehouse, bob marley, jimmy
hendrix.
No one seems to really enjoythe actor or actress playing the
(18:28):
lead role.
Um, who would you want to playyou in the movie about your life
?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I'm really bad with, like actors and actresses names.
Okay For me.
Um, well, I'm like a redhead,so that I feel like I should
like stick with that, and thatnarrows down my options, which
makes it great.
Um, I'll say, the littleredhead girl from, uh, stranger
things, she could, yeah, shecould probably pull that off.
She was cool.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I like that.
I like that.
She is cool.
All right, here we go On ascale of one to ten.
How sketchy is your algorithm?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
my algorithm.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, like what's your explorer page look like on
Instagram.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
A lot of probably tacos Always looking up.
We were just in like LA andtrying to find tacos every day
and we just ended up at the samespot.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Where'd you guys go?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
There's like a street corner that had like a tent
that was put up.
I got some hives in my uh, myfeed in Dawson's Creek.
Uh reminders.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Are you a Dawson's fan?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Not really, but the pop-ups always come up, do you
remember?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
that meme of him crying that was going around for
a while.
That was such a great one.
It was a really old school meme.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yeah, yeah, I it's not really that's not very
sketchy aurora.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I'm gonna be honest with you.
I feel like that's pretty,that's pretty safe.
It's pretty safe like 182 truck, that's cool oh yeah, yeah,
that is cool yeah no, it's notreally sketchy, sorry.
No, it's all right.
That's good.
That's good, that's a goodthing.
You mentioned Paramore already.
(20:21):
What's a?
What's a band or artist who hashad a big impact on you
personally?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Probably the hives I'll recirculate back to them.
They've been.
They've been pretty, prettyinspiring.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, they're the best.
Have you guys gotten to playwith them yet?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
We haven't got to play with them yet.
I don't know when we will, Idon't know if we will, but we're
trying constantly to make itwork.
Um, but yeah, we saw them withbad nerves, um, like three weeks
ago at history in Toronto,which was dope, great show.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, yeah, bad Nerves is crushing right now as
well.
And yeah, the Hives are goodfriends and one of the best
bands ever.
I mean, just the coolest groupof dudes and just the most
amazing band.
I'm sure what's that?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Show and ship like the music, everything, oh yeah
it's, it's um, and they're, youknow, in.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
You know they're also one of those bands who is still
very interested in like thescene music bands coming up.
You know that's why I'm sure atsome point you guys will end up
playing with them, becausethey're always looking out for,
like, new bands, garage rockbands, punk rock bands, anything
that they can do to kind ofhelp the next generation come up
(21:39):
.
And you know the Hives alsolike to like.
You know they also like toremind the next generation
coming up who they are, that theHives are still the greatest
rock and roll band of all time.
It works both ways for them, youknow.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Awesome.
A couple of hypotheticals hereto finish out the interview.
I don't want to take up toomuch more of your time.
Roy, I appreciate you beinghere on the podcast.
Let's go with the first one.
We're going to go classic.
We're going to go classic timemachine, hypothetical.
Okay, so you step out of yourapartment, condo, house, mansion
(22:19):
, whatever it is that you'recoming live from, and there's a
time machine right outside.
Someone super cool opens thedoor Jimi Hendrix, or something
like that and they say hey,aurora, come on in Anywhere in
the future or not in the future,anywhere in history you want to
go?
Where are you going to go firstand why?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
This is a question I should know the answer to.
Where would I go and whythere's so many?
Obvious?
I'd go to Woodstock becausewouldn't it be like something to
experience?
Woodstock would be cool yeah,um, is there anything else that
I've missed?
So many things, so many.
(23:05):
What good things have I missed?
I think I might just stick withthat like that woodstock.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
You go to what?
Hey, you know what stock is, a.
It's a good answer.
It's a good answer.
What?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
about.
I know it's so generic.
I wish I had something better.
I feel too on the spot.
I need more time.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I mean, you know, in in your defense, no one's ever
said Woodstock before, so it'syou know you're.
You're our first Woodstock, sothat's good.
I feel like sometimes it waslike sending questions out to
people, Like they get so likeI've done it a couple times and
they get so wrapped up in theirown answer that it's like the
(23:41):
most ridiculous, like it's somuch time, I would have like
said something like like onestock yeah, so all right.
So get ready for this one.
Then we're going from.
We're going from a time machine, we're going to a genie in a
bottle.
Okay, I don't know.
You pop open your beverage ofchoice.
(24:03):
Genie comes out, says what's up, aurora, one wish it's all
yours Granted.
What's it going to be?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Oh man, one wish, and this could be on any spectrum.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Any spectrum.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
How could I not wish for world peace?
Come on yeah.
I'd love for you to have onewish.
And not say that, yeah, is thatabout as good as have one wish?
And not say that yeah.
Is that as about as good as ananswer as Woodstock Definitely?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yeah, Well, you know, world peace is one of those
things where you can't I meanyou can not wish for world peace
.
There's people who have not,but I feel like you have to, you
know, and then if anyone everfound out that you got one wish
and you didn't wish for worldpeace, might be a problem yes,
(25:03):
now let's say world peace isalready thank you, yeah let's
say that, let's just say thatlet's just say the world is
peaceful having a better answerand not, um, having a world
worry about, about the status ofthe wellbeing of humanity.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
On top of that, I would say, if I could be granted
one wish, it would be to keepdoing what we're doing, probably
just until I need to retire, Iguess.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I take that like comfortably just keep doing what
we're doing.
Yeah, hell, yeah, I like thatcomfortably just keep doing what
we're doing.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
And yeah, hell, yeah, I like that is there.
Uh, I know you guys got a lotof touring plans coming up this
year.
Is there?
Have you got?
Where haven't you guys been?
Have you done like SouthAmerica and all that stuff?
Yet?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
no, we haven't done South America or Mexico.
We've kind of we've done likeCanada, us, we've randomly done
China and Hong Kong at one point.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, what was that all about?
How was that?
Was it sick?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
It was weird, it was cool.
It was cool.
It was like 10 days of like ajet lag, like confusion, but it
was just an interestingexperience, that kind of we just
decided not to pass up on andplayed some shows.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
How were the shows?
Were the shows like what's theenergy like in hong kong?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
you know what I mean we kind of played like uh,
almost like english pub styleplaces, like it was a very
interesting experience.
Um, yeah, and like some of themwere like, we kind of felt like
we're like maybe eating duringor playing during like dinner
time.
Some were like fun and theenergy was there, but we also,
(26:42):
um, worked a bunch of coversinto our set because that was
kind of oh, what were the covers?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
what were the covers?
What is what's wine lipscovering?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
white rabbit flash by the rolling stones really we
did.
Um devil in disguise uh, we did.
These boots are made forwalking nice I can't I know
those three for sure.
And there was probably what's.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
What's?
Is it a guitar lead?
When it picks up the bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump,
the boots are made for walkingpart.
What's?
Do you guys have someone comeout and play horn or something?
No, no horn I can't remember sothey'd like just paint.
Just paint a little bit of apicture for me and honest, like
(27:29):
are they?
Are they moving around like alike?
Okay, if you had your regularWine Lips crowd moving around,
what was it?
Like?
Hong Kong, china?
Are they just kind of watchingthe band play?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeah, yeah, it was a lot of watching.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Yeah, but still cool as fuck.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Still cool as fuck we're there, that's awesome.
Someone kind of like arrangedlike the transportation and
accommodation kind of stuff forus.
So it was just kind of like usjust trying something new.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Did you see the Great Wall?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
No, we weren't anywhere near that and we were
in, like, southern China, whichis like close to Hong Kong, and
we didn't really venture toomany hours from there, cool, you
guys been to Australia.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I've been but not as a performer.
A performer, oh man, you guyshave got to go.
It's going to be sick when youdo trying.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
We're trying, we've uh, I think we've maybe found
someone that might be able tohelp us out.
Uh, because, yeah, we've dippedour toes into some
conversations about it before,but nothing is uh nothing's
happened yet.
Yeah, yeah so we're just tryingto figure, find the best uh
option for it to happen awesome.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, it's so sick down there, man, they go, they
go crazy for for rock and roll.
It's, it's amazing.
Um cool, aurora, thank you somuch for your time here on the
say the jerry podcast.
We got one last question.
Okay, we got one last questionand it's going to be all right.
I know you got this.
What, to you, is the meaning oflife?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Oh man, what is the meaning of life?
To live happily and generouslyand just be content with the?
Oh gee, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
You were doing so good.
You were doing so good.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I can't answer that question.
What is the meaning of life?
Yeah, live happily.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I like that.
Aurora, thank you so much foryour time.
Really appreciate you beinghere on the Sailor Jerry podcast
.
Everybody go check out WineLips on Tour, super ultra mega
out now.
Go listen to that shit, aurora.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
All right, yeah, you're welcome, thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Awesome Peace.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Take care.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah.
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