April 20, 2023 • 26 mins
This week on the Garage Rock podcast Cam goes backstage with Frenzal Rhomb, blink-182 make their return to the stage, Melbourne band Private Function taking the piss with their new vinyl album and Steve's story about "The Curse of the Missing Heroin Addict Spider from Brighton. That's a Woman".
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(00:17):
Hello man, Welcome to Gary droppedthe podcast, Season four, episode four,
Ken's touching the buttons already. Iwas going for the applause and it
was just a lot. I wasgoing to say, haven't even said a
joke? Do you want to tryanother button? Can't remember what the but
I think it is. I thinkit's a sea buttons. See there we
go, Thank you, thank you. Yes, sit down, Steve,
(00:44):
Yes, yes, can tell Icould barely hear you over the audience.
Tell everyone to sit down, justsit down, please, thank you.
I've been listening to a lot ofWayne On Woodley lately. Yes, I
could tell how I'm being like,you know, annoying, like Frank Woodley,
and you're like Colin Lane. JustI can barely hear you. I
(01:07):
can see your reflection. Yeah,you can see my reflection in the window.
I was about to come to garageRoar punch on edition. Steve finally
almost punished me. How it's beenpunching cams for the punching cones here?
We are not that we do thatanyway. Well unless behind door number one
(01:27):
friends are wrong. Maybe next time, maybe it explains why there's smoke coming
under the door. How have you'vebeen in cam can mean all my friends
come back for cons? They justwent to number one. Yeah, yes,
yes, sales? How good?How good? Taylor Swift is like
(01:49):
in there four times in the toptwenty or something. And friends will go,
friends will go, friends will go. Oh, I love my friends
will wrong? Did I tell youabout how I saw them? Last year?
Me and my cousin went to thegig. I didn't talk about them
the podcast. I've only done threeepisodes. I don't believe it's come up
yet. Oh mate, guess whatwhat? Well? First of all,
(02:09):
my cousin hadn't seen him before,and he was a big fan of Jay
and the Doctor on Triple J.Yes, I said, I'm mate.
Every time they play, they alwaysgo to the merch team afterwards. You
be able to meet them, andor at least the doctor, he's always
there. Yeah. So we didthat and my cousin was talking to the
(02:29):
Doctor and having a good chat andall that, and the bass player come
up to me and I was wearinga Blink on eight two T shirt and
he just come up to me andhe crossed his arms right next to me,
and he goes, let's talk Blinkone eight two, I'm okay,
yeah, So the chatting to him, chat and to him, and then
I told him about the time howGordi the drummer signed an autograph for me.
(02:50):
My mum got one because she workedwith his auntie or something years ago
when I just started playing drums rightand it said, dear Cameron, don't
play drums as too much shit tocarry. Love Gordy friends are ROM And
I said I'd love to go talkto him about and He's like, oh,
come backstage with us. So Mancausintaken backstage with friends of Rom and
(03:12):
wow, Wow it was backstage withfriends ll ROM. So for the uninitiated,
what is backstage with friends all Rom? Well, if I was to
say backstage with friends or Rom,Steve, what would you expect? Like,
what would you picture cheeseburgers, cheeseburgcheeseburgers thrown by Ronnie McDougall exactly,
Um, I would imagine. Well, I'm pretty sure that Jay would have
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his own sort of hair stylist backstage, just just managed the hair. That
person dreads that job. Yeah,Christ for those for those who don't,
dreadlock all the way down to histoes pretty much I'm expecting a lot of
beers, lots of beers, whichwhich very accommodate, Like they gave us
a couple of beers sitting around chatting. Was it was awesome. Ye,
(04:01):
but yeah, as you would imagine, like a little bit of substances going
around me. My cousin aren't intothat, but which is fine. Let's
just say, Steve, they werepartying. Yeah, And so I was
standing there and there wasn't many peopleback there, and I was standing there
and I finally got to speak toGordy and I was having a great chat
(04:23):
with him, talking about his olddrum kit, Spermy because it was white,
because he sold that. And that'sthe first time I saw him with
the big day ad. He wasplaying that drum kit and I said,
mate, I know it's probably nota real punk thing to ask, can
I get a selfie with you?And he's like, yeah, no worries,
And he come and stood next tome with his back face to the
(04:43):
camera. I'm perfect, perfect,And then yeah, I had had a
great chat with the doctor and Jayas well, and the bass player I
forget his name because he's only justnew, but yeah, all legends and
we had a great night. Jeez, are paid for it. The next
few days had a few too manybeers. Well, I mean, how
often do you get to go backstagewith friends? Although I know. A
(05:06):
few weeks later, me my cousinwent to um We went and saw at
the same place we saw British India. Oh yes, And after they finished
plan I saw the drum around thecrowd and my cousin's like, don't go
speak to him. I can't handleanother four day hangover. And then a
couple of days later we went tosee the Bennies and one thing led to
(05:28):
another. Yes, legalize, butdon't tax exactly, but we do need
to apologize. There was no episodelast week. I did come down with
a bit of the old spicy cough. Yeah it was really, it wasn't
really it was a tapeworm, wasn'tit. It was at the pool,
the tapeworm out of or US systemof Yes, No, it was.
(05:51):
Yeah, just just a bit ofa bit of COVID COVID number two for
you, COVID number two. AndI know because some people will get it
really bad. Yeah, like amade of mine. He was, and
he's a singer and he lost hisvoice something shock, and and he took
him like a couple of months toget it back to singing levels. Did
(06:11):
he die No, well, yeaha little, but then he came back.
Um, but yeah I was.I just had a lot of fatigue
and a bit of a bit ofmuscle lake. But aside from that,
we're back. It's all good.We're all happy. Oh I'm glad.
You're all all fit and healthy,fit again, fighting fit. But you
did just mention Blink one eight twowhen you were chatting with friends all which,
(06:36):
of course you chatted with violent sohoabout blink one eight two? You
were wearing a blink hat? No? Yeah, yeah, I was wearing
the Blink hat. Yeah, andit just inspired more conversation. But you
want to tell me if he hadabout Blink one eight two. Yeah,
I know this become a Blink oneeight two podcast. We just we I
mean, last last podcast we weretalking about Placebo. We're talking about we're
(06:59):
talking about people, the letter A. This this week it's it's blink quite.
There's no there's no ceiling on thisbecause whatever we want exactly right,
we mother flipping wanted Steve. Yes, we're going to call this the Mark
Tom Travis spend and cam show.Oh wow, why not? Yeah?
Why not because on Friday? Yes, it depends when you're listening to this.
Yeah. Um Blink one eight twoannounced late that they will be playing
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at Coachella Music Festival over in California, California A California nine, mother Flipping
A and Steve I know, welove our music, but funk. I
didn't know many people on the onthe lineup, but hey, it's all
right, and I'm like, oh, what have you gone to that?
Well? I mean I saw pennyof people complaining a few years ago about
this electro band that was headlining calledac DC, Like, who's this band?
(07:51):
I know? Alternating Current and DirectCurrent one. Yes, it sounds
like electric music to me. Butyeah. They also announced that it will
be live streamed on YouTube. Livestream Steve, I was so freaking excited.
You were streaming yourself. Yeah,there was a few streamers coming out.
H we Yeah, tuned in andman, I was so excited.
(08:16):
Came on, got everyone to sitaround, Danny and the kids. They
couldn't care less, but I wasexcited. Had the TV pumped up and
yeah, you could you could justsee him side stage. There must have
been some sort of delay, andit was so good to see Tom and
Mark next to each other, juststill doing a bit of banter and stuff
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like that, touching each other,you know, quite sexually. And and
then Travis walks in us just awesome. And then they got up on stage
and do you know what they openedwith? I do not know where they
happened with. And I did sayto the kids before this starts, there
might be some inappropriate swearing and jokesand stuff like that. They started with
(09:00):
ship Pierce, fuck, can't cock, sucker, motherfucker, tits turd and
t what I fucked your mom?Exactly Like, yeah, that's how they
started the set. And you knowI was, I was pumped. Well,
I mean, that is a perfectway to what however many years have
been apart the perfect song to openwith it is. It's like, I
(09:22):
wonder what I'm not Surely they'll openup with Edging, their new song that
they released late last year, butno, they opened with that, and
it was sort of like, hey, everyone, Blink one eight two is
back in their original form. Sothey had all the dick fanny fart jokes
and all that, and I'm gonnabe honest with you when they started the
(09:43):
first couple of songs, I wasworried. Yea, the sound probably the
mix more than anything, wasn't great. But as it went on the sound
was. It got better and better, and could tell they got a bit
more relaxed and just it came toget up freaking awesome. If anyone knows
where I can get it to watchit again, I really want to watch
(10:03):
it again. Well, I meanwe can. We can have a throw
out out to our listeners. Ifanyone knows how to illegally download things,
please get in touch. If theyput it out, I'd buy it,
but yeah, well you've already boughttickets, so you can just experience it
in about three years time when theyget to Australia. Now, of course
they're arriving here in what February nextyear? Oh no, can't wait,
(10:26):
can't come soon enough. After seeingthat, I'm like, yeah, I'm
pumped to go, saying but oneof the jokes was funny. I can't
remember it was Tom or Market saidit's like, you know, they just
finished a song, and he's like, yes, so I like to eat
it from behind. It's like blinksback and he's like, yeah, that
way the balls don't get in theway. Well, that's good advice that
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everyone can really look. You're lookingwhat do you You're looking behind me?
What's looking looking above you? Becausethere's a spider coming down. Shd No,
it's it's coming down and it's goingto land on my microphone. No,
no camp camp right, silly littlespider I have as I just stomp
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on it. How I have threephobias, Ryan, Yeah, one of
them's needles, one of them isone of them is spiders, and one
of them is talking to women.Now I've kind of conquered the needles one.
I'm getting there with women. Um, spiders, No, cannot I
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can't do spiders like them? Areyou like what's his name from Big Bang
Theory? Yeah, well he can'ttalk to women. I mean I can
just not very well. They frightenedme. I always I'm always worried about
saying the wrong thing. I've noticedthat before when we've done it, like
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interviews and stuff and backstage and Iremember saying to you, I don't know,
you put something on the table andthere was some chick there and she
was on the table and You're like, oh, so it was just real
Well, I'm like, Steve,your awkward as fucking I know it's true,
but I'm getting better than that atthat good on however, I think
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spiders, I'm actually getting worse ifI'm going to be completely on really,
for the record, everyone, youcouldn't see this spider. I couldn't see
it. This spider was that small. It was basically transparent, Like if
it wasn't next to the under thelight, you probably wouldn't have seen it.
Yeah. No, So I'm okaywith the small ones. Huntsman scare
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the shit out of me. Ican't deal with Huntsman's at all, Steve,
at all. You know what,that spider it could have come down
and bitten you on the arm yea, and the next day you could have
woken up to be Spider Man.And now you've just missed out on that
opportunity by killing it. I'm willingto risk that not becoming honestly, Steve,
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Mary Jane, don't I do likeredheads. I don't have time for
saving the world. I've got apodcast to wed a cam. I still
like to sling your web though,well I am parcel to a bit of
web sling edge anyway, I dohave to tell you because I was I
was driving once, this was agesago, driving it indoor soccer and it
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was night and wearing shorts because I'mplanning indoor soccer, and I felt this
thing on my leg because I wasyeah, and then I just looked as
I drove under a light. Thishuntsman just crawled up my shorts whilst I
was driving. And then I wasjust smashing the shit out of my leg
to someone in the back seat,just giving you a little bit of um.
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Well, I was all by myFreddo Fredo. Maybe Freddo was giving
me a retround while I was driving, could have been that. But it
does have long brown fairy fingers.Well you don't know where they've been.
That's the problem. He's definitely beeneaten from behind. But I'm going to
tell you a story that I'm embarrassedto say, but we're on a podcast,
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and fuck it, I'll tell you. So many years ago, I
always building speed. Yes, manyyears ago, I had for a brief
period a job throwing newspapers out ofjust delivering newspaper in the bin, in
the bin, just plunk, where'smy cash? Anyway, But I had
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this old rickety van and I wasjust throwing newspapers out around Brighton and so
that's the clientele and everything. SoI was driving around one day and I
noticed there was this huntsman just sittingon the dash, just looking right back
at me, and I was justlap, I was petrified, and I'm
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just it was a female spider twoso that was two phobias in one.
Yeah, and it was holding aneedle. So I was just like,
what am I doing? Just throwingHeroin addict female huntsman staring at out.
That's the world we live in,cam I can't especially in Brighton. You
don't know where these spiders are gettingtheir money for their drugs. Anyway,
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So this this spider was in Brightonthat rich that he had plastic surgery to
get one of his legs cut offand turned into a needle. Yes,
that's how much money these spiders havein Brighton. And one of his other
legs was a spoon, so allhe needed was a lighter and he was
complete. But anyway, so thisspider with the black tail Heroin was just
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staring right back at me, andI'm just shooting myself. I'm like,
I've got to ask someone else tokill this spider. I can't keep going
right. So it was early morning, suns start of coming up, people
sort of starting walk their dogs andriding bikes. Have just given it some
really high quality China white heroin andlet him kill himself herself herself. I
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mean, I don't know how longthat takes to effect a spider. It
might it might live quite longer.Anthony Katis lived through snorting it, so
you never know. But this oneclearly isn't going to snort it. It's
got a hand that's a needle.So so I'm such an idiot, come
on camp. So I'm driving aroundlooking for someone to kill this spider.
And I saw this little old ladywalking her dog. Was it Karen from
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Brighton? It could have been KarlMichael. It could have been Karen's mother.
To be honest, I thought she'ssick of walking around Brighton. Well
maybe because it was an elderly lady. And I'm like, I can't ask
her to do this. I waslike, I can't bring myself to ask
a little old lady to excuse me, could you please kill a spider for
me? So I just kept drivingand this thing's like starting to move around
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and it's still looking at me,and I'm like, fun, looking at
your like it knows. It smeltyour fear. I could see it dripping
down my face. I was petrified. You sure you didn't have a pocketfull
of heroin? Oh I may have. I just came back from a Fenzil
room gig. Anyway, it doesn'tmatter anyway, sort a pocketful of shells.
Anyway. I found this cyclist andhe had gloves on, and I
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was just like, look, excuseme, mate, Can I please get
you too? There's there's a huntsmanor my dash Can you kill it so
I can get back in the carand driving it. It's just like,
yeah, sure, So I getout and he just reaches his hand in
and just starts wailing his hand aroundon the dashboard. And then he pulls
his hand out and claps it around. It's just like I don't know where
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it's gone. Oh oh well,and then he's just ridden off. I'm
like, are you fucking kidding me? So he made the situation worse,
extremely worse. Question about his gloveswere those were they those ones with the
fingers cut off? Yes? Theywere really so fell pointless? Sorry?
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Oh wow? So um so thatwas that. I was petrified for the
rest of the shift. Did youever find it or was gone? No?
I was, well, I don'tknow a curse of the missing heroin
Atic Spider from Brighton that's a woman. Yes, well that's it's a very
specific spider. Yeah, I cansee that on a true crime podcast.
That's true. Now I do wantto bring up something else. This is
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a music podcast. Let's talk aboutsome music, shall we. Yeah,
well, most of it's been aboutmusic so far. Well, we just
did a whole riff about fucking HeroinaticSpider. But do you know the band
Private Function? Private Function? Yeah, it sounds familiar. Did feature them
on our show before? Yeah?Yeah, Now we talked about them because
they had a vinyl. Yeah,a limited edition vinyl was pressed with bags
(18:33):
of white powder in it. Ohyeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. Well they're just released theirnew album Hello Asshole. Well,
I mean that's how it's sort ofit's zero seven seven three h is hello
and an asshole is it's. Yeah, it's like when you spell boobs on
a calculator upside down, love itlove it? Is it going to have?
Like an arshole? Was the littlehole in the middle. Oh god,
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no, well, i'd hope not. I don't know all of the
vinel No, they have released alimited amount of these vinyls that are filled
with urine. Really, yes,real real urine urine. Yes, you're
in for a hell of a show. Well, yeah, I mean they've
they've got I believe it's a worldfirst. It's got to be some sort
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of legalities around that, Like isthat is that hygiene? Like? Well,
I mean if it's if it's encasedin the sea through vinyl, perhaps
it's it's not too bad. Itreminds me of the Simpsons where they've got
the you know those high top whatdo they call the oh yeah, the
disco shoes, disco shoes with thegoldfish in the water and they're in there
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dead. Yeah. I can't replacethose, yeah fi. Yeah, So
a vinyl with WI in it,yes, real human will. It could
be cow wee, it could becatwee for all I know. I don't
know. It's like and it's hallowasshole. I shouldn't it be real poo
in it? Well, well,you've obviously put more thought into this,
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and I have more thorn in itthan they makes sense, But yeah,
no, so they've got a ap field. Maybe it's Molly Meldrum's piss.
I'm not sure that would be likefluorescent probably, So you've you've ordered
your copy? No, I haven't. Well, they sold out immediately.
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I mean it's it's a piss filledvinyl. Of course it will. Maybe.
Was it on Was it on firstof April where they announced this is
a you know, is this apiss take or it's just a prank?
It was announced a few days beforeApril fools. I thought it may have
been a bit of a prep butno, they are fifty limited edition urine
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Field vinyls from private function, justletting you know, how cool, how
cool? Speaking of it'd be warminitially, I believe, yeah, and
then it would go like BACTERIORI apparentlywas very difficult to do. I could
imagine, yes, can't. Yeah, I want to see it. Well,
how many? Because you've you've starteda vinyl collection yourself, I have.
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I've fallen off the bandwagon a littlebit. I haven't bought anything for
a while. Actually I did.I did buy one. I actually I
didn't buy it. I lie.I got it through. I think it
was Christmas Christmas thought I can't rememberChrischini's solo album. Oh nice. Yeah,
and each one, each cover isdefaced by Chrishini himself. Oh yeah,
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little doodles on there as in drawing, drawing, not penis. Yeah,
he hasn't drawn like dicks on itaround. Interesting story about mister Chrishini.
You know, I'm a huge fanof the living in. Of course,
who isn't. If you're not afan of living in, you're not
Australian in my islands. One ofmy best friends in the whole wide world,
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her brother just bought Chrishini's house.Wow. Yeah, so you're definitely
going over there. I'm going tosay, don't do an end of the
least clean. I need to drinksome of the toilet water and all that
before you go in there. Youknow, you know, you go in
the bedroom, maybe find some hairsor something I don't know, only like
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and encase it in a vinyl record. Oh, there we go. It
would sell it would say, well, I mean too creeps. But I
mean you'd enjoy it. I'm sureI would. No, how cool is
that. I'm gonna be able togo to Christine's house one day. He
won't be there, but I knowwhere it is now. Maybe I could
go there before they move in.Oh, maybe I could help him move
(22:37):
out. Maybe maybe I'll just waitout the front of his house till they
move see the moving truck rock up, and just help start loading stuff in
in the truck. And they'll belike, who's this. I'm I'm just
I'm just a big fan. Like, oh, look at this white Folk
guitar. Oh, that's got togo in the special castle. It doesn't
get ruined. And then put itin my car and then I'll take it
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away and then I'll sell it toyou for five hundred dollary dues. I
reckon that. That's a good idea. That's a steel by the way,
it is a steel that isn't intwo ways considering there like a ten thousand
or guitar, and it belongs toChris Chaney, so it's probably worth like
ten thousand, one hundred. Yeah, yeah, fucking family heirloom. That
would be now a family heirloom.Speaking of Chrishini solo, Yes, he's
(23:22):
supporting something for Kate. That istrue. They're doing a couple of shows.
Yeah, yeah, I've bought tickets. I'm going to go to it.
Oh, nice coming Um, well, I haven't got a ticket.
I'm going with my cousin, sowe're going to end up backstage with him
at some point of course. Andyou're you're good mates with Paul Dempsey anyway,
you've just been to your house.I don't be good mates. Yeah,
(23:44):
he's coming to my house a coupleof times. That's about that.
He gave me beers backstage once.Oh how cool? Now cool? We're
just backstage with everyone just drinking beers. We're name dropping, aren't we Steve
name dropping like it is what wedo because we're has beens. But anyway,
we was I reckon that These area bit of teaser shows for something
for Kate. Oh you reckon.So they've been on their socials. They've
(24:07):
been talking about the twentieth anniversary oftheir album, the official fiction Deja Vu
on it Best Weapon. I hada few. Yeah, it was a
really good album. It's the twentiethanniversary. These two shows might be just
testing the waters for a twentieth anniversaryshow or two are coming up. I
don't know, they'll go off,they'll play it there four and with that,
(24:29):
I reckon. Or they've just announcedthat they're releasing twentieth anniversary vinyls for
that album later in the year.It's all coming together, Steve. It
definitely is Cam and so i'd beI might wait for a twentieth anniversary tour
if it happens. If not,why not? What's your favorite color?
Blue? Now? Another band that'salso announced twentieth anniversary of their album,
(24:51):
which is The Darkness's Permission to Land. I Believe in a thing called Love.
Love is only a feeling exactly.Now they've announced that they're going to
do twentieth anniversary tour. Is ita world tour? Steam Well, they
haven't announced dates yet, but itsounds like it's going to be a world
tour. Oh, they're going tobe playing the album in full permissioner Land
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plus other songs presumably, and probablydo a twentieth edition twentieth anniversary vinyl as
well. Now I saw them,was it last year? I think maybe
the year before, playing at theForum, and they were supported by this
really cool rock band called the SouthernRiver Band, And we actually featured them
on our New Music New Music thisweek, so they have moved to our
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Social's New Music. This is normallythe part of the show where we would
be doing our new music that's nowon our socials on Instagram and Facebook,
and we've been getting a lot ofpositive feedback from people who have been checking
them out, learning a few newbands, and clicking links to follow new
bands and like Sharon, what it'sall about Steve, isn't it? And
the love sharing the love. Speakingof I think we might make rock a
(26:03):
baby and head out. It soundslike a good idea to make him Kim,
Kimi Kim or Kim Um, youprefer your own name? Would would
you? Would you rather me callyou something different like spin? Um,
I want you to call me somethingdifferent, something different as in something different,
there's like first name, surname.Okay, well, this has been
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the Garage Rock Podcast. Join meagain next week with my co host Something
Different and Spa and Spin. Butuntil that time, I've been Spin and
I've been something Different. Goodbye everyone. I like that it's something different.
Hello man, Welcome to Gary droppedthe podcast, Season four, episode four,
Ken's touching the buttons already. Iwas going for the applause and it
was just a lot. I wasgoing to say, haven't even said a
joke? Do you want to tryanother button? Can't remember what the but
I think it is. I thinkit's a sea buttons. See there we
go, Thank you, thank you. Yes, sit down, Steve,
(00:44):
Yes, yes, can tell Icould barely hear you over the audience.
Tell everyone to sit down, justsit down, please, thank you.
I've been listening to a lot ofWayne On Woodley lately. Yes, I
could tell how I'm being like,you know, annoying, like Frank Woodley,
and you're like Colin Lane. JustI can barely hear you. I
(01:07):
can see your reflection. Yeah,you can see my reflection in the window.
I was about to come to garageRoar punch on edition. Steve finally
almost punished me. How it's beenpunching cams for the punching cones here?
We are not that we do thatanyway. Well unless behind door number one
(01:27):
friends are wrong. Maybe next time, maybe it explains why there's smoke coming
under the door. How have you'vebeen in cam can mean all my friends
come back for cons? They justwent to number one. Yeah, yes,
yes, sales? How good?How good? Taylor Swift is like
(01:49):
in there four times in the toptwenty or something. And friends will go,
friends will go, friends will go. Oh, I love my friends
will wrong? Did I tell youabout how I saw them? Last year?
Me and my cousin went to thegig. I didn't talk about them
the podcast. I've only done threeepisodes. I don't believe it's come up
yet. Oh mate, guess whatwhat? Well? First of all,
(02:09):
my cousin hadn't seen him before,and he was a big fan of Jay
and the Doctor on Triple J.Yes, I said, I'm mate.
Every time they play, they alwaysgo to the merch team afterwards. You
be able to meet them, andor at least the doctor, he's always
there. Yeah. So we didthat and my cousin was talking to the
(02:29):
Doctor and having a good chat andall that, and the bass player come
up to me and I was wearinga Blink on eight two T shirt and
he just come up to me andhe crossed his arms right next to me,
and he goes, let's talk Blinkone eight two, I'm okay,
yeah, So the chatting to him, chat and to him, and then
I told him about the time howGordi the drummer signed an autograph for me.
(02:50):
My mum got one because she workedwith his auntie or something years ago
when I just started playing drums rightand it said, dear Cameron, don't
play drums as too much shit tocarry. Love Gordy friends are ROM And
I said I'd love to go talkto him about and He's like, oh,
come backstage with us. So Mancausintaken backstage with friends of Rom and
(03:12):
wow, Wow it was backstage withfriends ll ROM. So for the uninitiated,
what is backstage with friends all Rom? Well, if I was to
say backstage with friends or Rom,Steve, what would you expect? Like,
what would you picture cheeseburgers, cheeseburgcheeseburgers thrown by Ronnie McDougall exactly,
Um, I would imagine. Well, I'm pretty sure that Jay would have
(03:38):
his own sort of hair stylist backstage, just just managed the hair. That
person dreads that job. Yeah,Christ for those for those who don't,
dreadlock all the way down to histoes pretty much I'm expecting a lot of
beers, lots of beers, whichwhich very accommodate, Like they gave us
a couple of beers sitting around chatting. Was it was awesome. Ye,
(04:01):
but yeah, as you would imagine, like a little bit of substances going
around me. My cousin aren't intothat, but which is fine. Let's
just say, Steve, they werepartying. Yeah, And so I was
standing there and there wasn't many peopleback there, and I was standing there
and I finally got to speak toGordy and I was having a great chat
(04:23):
with him, talking about his olddrum kit, Spermy because it was white,
because he sold that. And that'sthe first time I saw him with
the big day ad. He wasplaying that drum kit and I said,
mate, I know it's probably nota real punk thing to ask, can
I get a selfie with you?And he's like, yeah, no worries,
And he come and stood next tome with his back face to the
(04:43):
camera. I'm perfect, perfect,And then yeah, I had had a
great chat with the doctor and Jayas well, and the bass player I
forget his name because he's only justnew, but yeah, all legends and
we had a great night. Jeez, are paid for it. The next
few days had a few too manybeers. Well, I mean, how
often do you get to go backstagewith friends? Although I know. A
(05:06):
few weeks later, me my cousinwent to um We went and saw at
the same place we saw British India. Oh yes, And after they finished
plan I saw the drum around thecrowd and my cousin's like, don't go
speak to him. I can't handleanother four day hangover. And then a
couple of days later we went tosee the Bennies and one thing led to
(05:28):
another. Yes, legalize, butdon't tax exactly, but we do need
to apologize. There was no episodelast week. I did come down with
a bit of the old spicy cough. Yeah it was really, it wasn't
really it was a tapeworm, wasn'tit. It was at the pool,
the tapeworm out of or US systemof Yes, No, it was.
(05:51):
Yeah, just just a bit ofa bit of COVID COVID number two for
you, COVID number two. AndI know because some people will get it
really bad. Yeah, like amade of mine. He was, and
he's a singer and he lost hisvoice something shock, and and he took
him like a couple of months toget it back to singing levels. Did
(06:11):
he die No, well, yeaha little, but then he came back.
Um, but yeah I was.I just had a lot of fatigue
and a bit of a bit ofmuscle lake. But aside from that,
we're back. It's all good.We're all happy. Oh I'm glad.
You're all all fit and healthy,fit again, fighting fit. But you
did just mention Blink one eight twowhen you were chatting with friends all which,
(06:36):
of course you chatted with violent sohoabout blink one eight two? You
were wearing a blink hat? No? Yeah, yeah, I was wearing
the Blink hat. Yeah, andit just inspired more conversation. But you
want to tell me if he hadabout Blink one eight two. Yeah,
I know this become a Blink oneeight two podcast. We just we I
mean, last last podcast we weretalking about Placebo. We're talking about we're
(06:59):
talking about people, the letter A. This this week it's it's blink quite.
There's no there's no ceiling on thisbecause whatever we want exactly right,
we mother flipping wanted Steve. Yes, we're going to call this the Mark
Tom Travis spend and cam show.Oh wow, why not? Yeah?
Why not because on Friday? Yes, it depends when you're listening to this.
Yeah. Um Blink one eight twoannounced late that they will be playing
(07:26):
at Coachella Music Festival over in California, California A California nine, mother Flipping
A and Steve I know, welove our music, but funk. I
didn't know many people on the onthe lineup, but hey, it's all
right, and I'm like, oh, what have you gone to that?
Well? I mean I saw pennyof people complaining a few years ago about
this electro band that was headlining calledac DC, Like, who's this band?
(07:51):
I know? Alternating Current and DirectCurrent one. Yes, it sounds
like electric music to me. Butyeah. They also announced that it will
be live streamed on YouTube. Livestream Steve, I was so freaking excited.
You were streaming yourself. Yeah,there was a few streamers coming out.
H we Yeah, tuned in andman, I was so excited.
(08:16):
Came on, got everyone to sitaround, Danny and the kids. They
couldn't care less, but I wasexcited. Had the TV pumped up and
yeah, you could you could justsee him side stage. There must have
been some sort of delay, andit was so good to see Tom and
Mark next to each other, juststill doing a bit of banter and stuff
(08:39):
like that, touching each other,you know, quite sexually. And and
then Travis walks in us just awesome. And then they got up on stage
and do you know what they openedwith? I do not know where they
happened with. And I did sayto the kids before this starts, there
might be some inappropriate swearing and jokesand stuff like that. They started with
(09:00):
ship Pierce, fuck, can't cock, sucker, motherfucker, tits turd and
t what I fucked your mom?Exactly Like, yeah, that's how they
started the set. And you knowI was, I was pumped. Well,
I mean, that is a perfectway to what however many years have
been apart the perfect song to openwith it is. It's like, I
(09:22):
wonder what I'm not Surely they'll openup with Edging, their new song that
they released late last year, butno, they opened with that, and
it was sort of like, hey, everyone, Blink one eight two is
back in their original form. Sothey had all the dick fanny fart jokes
and all that, and I'm gonnabe honest with you when they started the
(09:43):
first couple of songs, I wasworried. Yea, the sound probably the
mix more than anything, wasn't great. But as it went on the sound
was. It got better and better, and could tell they got a bit
more relaxed and just it came toget up freaking awesome. If anyone knows
where I can get it to watchit again, I really want to watch
(10:03):
it again. Well, I meanwe can. We can have a throw
out out to our listeners. Ifanyone knows how to illegally download things,
please get in touch. If theyput it out, I'd buy it,
but yeah, well you've already boughttickets, so you can just experience it
in about three years time when theyget to Australia. Now, of course
they're arriving here in what February nextyear? Oh no, can't wait,
(10:26):
can't come soon enough. After seeingthat, I'm like, yeah, I'm
pumped to go, saying but oneof the jokes was funny. I can't
remember it was Tom or Market saidit's like, you know, they just
finished a song, and he's like, yes, so I like to eat
it from behind. It's like blinksback and he's like, yeah, that
way the balls don't get in theway. Well, that's good advice that
(10:48):
everyone can really look. You're lookingwhat do you You're looking behind me?
What's looking looking above you? Becausethere's a spider coming down. Shd No,
it's it's coming down and it's goingto land on my microphone. No,
no camp camp right, silly littlespider I have as I just stomp
(11:09):
on it. How I have threephobias, Ryan, Yeah, one of
them's needles, one of them isone of them is spiders, and one
of them is talking to women.Now I've kind of conquered the needles one.
I'm getting there with women. Um, spiders, No, cannot I
(11:31):
can't do spiders like them? Areyou like what's his name from Big Bang
Theory? Yeah, well he can'ttalk to women. I mean I can
just not very well. They frightenedme. I always I'm always worried about
saying the wrong thing. I've noticedthat before when we've done it, like
(11:52):
interviews and stuff and backstage and Iremember saying to you, I don't know,
you put something on the table andthere was some chick there and she
was on the table and You're like, oh, so it was just real
Well, I'm like, Steve,your awkward as fucking I know it's true,
but I'm getting better than that atthat good on however, I think
(12:16):
spiders, I'm actually getting worse ifI'm going to be completely on really,
for the record, everyone, youcouldn't see this spider. I couldn't see
it. This spider was that small. It was basically transparent, Like if
it wasn't next to the under thelight, you probably wouldn't have seen it.
Yeah. No, So I'm okaywith the small ones. Huntsman scare
(12:37):
the shit out of me. Ican't deal with Huntsman's at all, Steve,
at all. You know what,that spider it could have come down
and bitten you on the arm yea, and the next day you could have
woken up to be Spider Man.And now you've just missed out on that
opportunity by killing it. I'm willingto risk that not becoming honestly, Steve,
(13:00):
Mary Jane, don't I do likeredheads. I don't have time for
saving the world. I've got apodcast to wed a cam. I still
like to sling your web though,well I am parcel to a bit of
web sling edge anyway, I dohave to tell you because I was I
was driving once, this was agesago, driving it indoor soccer and it
(13:22):
was night and wearing shorts because I'mplanning indoor soccer, and I felt this
thing on my leg because I wasyeah, and then I just looked as
I drove under a light. Thishuntsman just crawled up my shorts whilst I
was driving. And then I wasjust smashing the shit out of my leg
to someone in the back seat,just giving you a little bit of um.
(13:45):
Well, I was all by myFreddo Fredo. Maybe Freddo was giving
me a retround while I was driving, could have been that. But it
does have long brown fairy fingers.Well you don't know where they've been.
That's the problem. He's definitely beeneaten from behind. But I'm going to
tell you a story that I'm embarrassedto say, but we're on a podcast,
(14:05):
and fuck it, I'll tell you. So many years ago, I
always building speed. Yes, manyyears ago, I had for a brief
period a job throwing newspapers out ofjust delivering newspaper in the bin, in
the bin, just plunk, where'smy cash? Anyway, But I had
(14:28):
this old rickety van and I wasjust throwing newspapers out around Brighton and so
that's the clientele and everything. SoI was driving around one day and I
noticed there was this huntsman just sittingon the dash, just looking right back
at me, and I was justlap, I was petrified, and I'm
(14:48):
just it was a female spider twoso that was two phobias in one.
Yeah, and it was holding aneedle. So I was just like,
what am I doing? Just throwingHeroin addict female huntsman staring at out.
That's the world we live in,cam I can't especially in Brighton. You
don't know where these spiders are gettingtheir money for their drugs. Anyway,
(15:09):
So this this spider was in Brightonthat rich that he had plastic surgery to
get one of his legs cut offand turned into a needle. Yes,
that's how much money these spiders havein Brighton. And one of his other
legs was a spoon, so allhe needed was a lighter and he was
complete. But anyway, so thisspider with the black tail Heroin was just
(15:35):
staring right back at me, andI'm just shooting myself. I'm like,
I've got to ask someone else tokill this spider. I can't keep going
right. So it was early morning, suns start of coming up, people
sort of starting walk their dogs andriding bikes. Have just given it some
really high quality China white heroin andlet him kill himself herself herself. I
(15:56):
mean, I don't know how longthat takes to effect a spider. It
might it might live quite longer.Anthony Katis lived through snorting it, so
you never know. But this oneclearly isn't going to snort it. It's
got a hand that's a needle.So so I'm such an idiot, come
on camp. So I'm driving aroundlooking for someone to kill this spider.
And I saw this little old ladywalking her dog. Was it Karen from
(16:18):
Brighton? It could have been KarlMichael. It could have been Karen's mother.
To be honest, I thought she'ssick of walking around Brighton. Well
maybe because it was an elderly lady. And I'm like, I can't ask
her to do this. I waslike, I can't bring myself to ask
a little old lady to excuse me, could you please kill a spider for
me? So I just kept drivingand this thing's like starting to move around
(16:40):
and it's still looking at me,and I'm like, fun, looking at
your like it knows. It smeltyour fear. I could see it dripping
down my face. I was petrified. You sure you didn't have a pocketfull
of heroin? Oh I may have. I just came back from a Fenzil
room gig. Anyway, it doesn'tmatter anyway, sort a pocketful of shells.
Anyway. I found this cyclist andhe had gloves on, and I
(17:02):
was just like, look, excuseme, mate, Can I please get
you too? There's there's a huntsmanor my dash Can you kill it so
I can get back in the carand driving it. It's just like,
yeah, sure, So I getout and he just reaches his hand in
and just starts wailing his hand aroundon the dashboard. And then he pulls
his hand out and claps it around. It's just like I don't know where
(17:23):
it's gone. Oh oh well,and then he's just ridden off. I'm
like, are you fucking kidding me? So he made the situation worse,
extremely worse. Question about his gloveswere those were they those ones with the
fingers cut off? Yes? Theywere really so fell pointless? Sorry?
(17:44):
Oh wow? So um so thatwas that. I was petrified for the
rest of the shift. Did youever find it or was gone? No?
I was, well, I don'tknow a curse of the missing heroin
Atic Spider from Brighton that's a woman. Yes, well that's it's a very
specific spider. Yeah, I cansee that on a true crime podcast.
That's true. Now I do wantto bring up something else. This is
(18:07):
a music podcast. Let's talk aboutsome music, shall we. Yeah,
well, most of it's been aboutmusic so far. Well, we just
did a whole riff about fucking HeroinaticSpider. But do you know the band
Private Function? Private Function? Yeah, it sounds familiar. Did feature them
on our show before? Yeah?Yeah, Now we talked about them because
they had a vinyl. Yeah,a limited edition vinyl was pressed with bags
(18:33):
of white powder in it. Ohyeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. Well they're just released theirnew album Hello Asshole. Well,
I mean that's how it's sort ofit's zero seven seven three h is hello
and an asshole is it's. Yeah, it's like when you spell boobs on
a calculator upside down, love itlove it? Is it going to have?
Like an arshole? Was the littlehole in the middle. Oh god,
(18:56):
no, well, i'd hope not. I don't know all of the
vinel No, they have released alimited amount of these vinyls that are filled
with urine. Really, yes,real real urine urine. Yes, you're
in for a hell of a show. Well, yeah, I mean they've
they've got I believe it's a worldfirst. It's got to be some sort
(19:19):
of legalities around that, Like isthat is that hygiene? Like? Well,
I mean if it's if it's encasedin the sea through vinyl, perhaps
it's it's not too bad. Itreminds me of the Simpsons where they've got
the you know those high top whatdo they call the oh yeah, the
disco shoes, disco shoes with thegoldfish in the water and they're in there
(19:42):
dead. Yeah. I can't replacethose, yeah fi. Yeah, So
a vinyl with WI in it,yes, real human will. It could
be cow wee, it could becatwee for all I know. I don't
know. It's like and it's hallowasshole. I shouldn't it be real poo
in it? Well, well,you've obviously put more thought into this,
(20:06):
and I have more thorn in itthan they makes sense, But yeah,
no, so they've got a ap field. Maybe it's Molly Meldrum's piss.
I'm not sure that would be likefluorescent probably, So you've you've ordered
your copy? No, I haven't. Well, they sold out immediately.
(20:26):
I mean it's it's a piss filledvinyl. Of course it will. Maybe.
Was it on Was it on firstof April where they announced this is
a you know, is this apiss take or it's just a prank?
It was announced a few days beforeApril fools. I thought it may have
been a bit of a prep butno, they are fifty limited edition urine
(20:47):
Field vinyls from private function, justletting you know, how cool, how
cool? Speaking of it'd be warminitially, I believe, yeah, and
then it would go like BACTERIORI apparentlywas very difficult to do. I could
imagine, yes, can't. Yeah, I want to see it. Well,
how many? Because you've you've starteda vinyl collection yourself, I have.
(21:08):
I've fallen off the bandwagon a littlebit. I haven't bought anything for
a while. Actually I did.I did buy one. I actually I
didn't buy it. I lie.I got it through. I think it
was Christmas Christmas thought I can't rememberChrischini's solo album. Oh nice. Yeah,
and each one, each cover isdefaced by Chrishini himself. Oh yeah,
(21:33):
little doodles on there as in drawing, drawing, not penis. Yeah,
he hasn't drawn like dicks on itaround. Interesting story about mister Chrishini.
You know, I'm a huge fanof the living in. Of course,
who isn't. If you're not afan of living in, you're not
Australian in my islands. One ofmy best friends in the whole wide world,
(21:53):
her brother just bought Chrishini's house.Wow. Yeah, so you're definitely
going over there. I'm going tosay, don't do an end of the
least clean. I need to drinksome of the toilet water and all that
before you go in there. Youknow, you know, you go in
the bedroom, maybe find some hairsor something I don't know, only like
(22:17):
and encase it in a vinyl record. Oh, there we go. It
would sell it would say, well, I mean too creeps. But I
mean you'd enjoy it. I'm sureI would. No, how cool is
that. I'm gonna be able togo to Christine's house one day. He
won't be there, but I knowwhere it is now. Maybe I could
go there before they move in.Oh, maybe I could help him move
(22:37):
out. Maybe maybe I'll just waitout the front of his house till they
move see the moving truck rock up, and just help start loading stuff in
in the truck. And they'll belike, who's this. I'm I'm just
I'm just a big fan. Like, oh, look at this white Folk
guitar. Oh, that's got togo in the special castle. It doesn't
get ruined. And then put itin my car and then I'll take it
(22:59):
away and then I'll sell it toyou for five hundred dollary dues. I
reckon that. That's a good idea. That's a steel by the way,
it is a steel that isn't intwo ways considering there like a ten thousand
or guitar, and it belongs toChris Chaney, so it's probably worth like
ten thousand, one hundred. Yeah, yeah, fucking family heirloom. That
would be now a family heirloom.Speaking of Chrishini solo, Yes, he's
(23:22):
supporting something for Kate. That istrue. They're doing a couple of shows.
Yeah, yeah, I've bought tickets. I'm going to go to it.
Oh, nice coming Um, well, I haven't got a ticket.
I'm going with my cousin, sowe're going to end up backstage with him
at some point of course. Andyou're you're good mates with Paul Dempsey anyway,
you've just been to your house.I don't be good mates. Yeah,
(23:44):
he's coming to my house a coupleof times. That's about that.
He gave me beers backstage once.Oh how cool? Now cool? We're
just backstage with everyone just drinking beers. We're name dropping, aren't we Steve
name dropping like it is what wedo because we're has beens. But anyway,
we was I reckon that These area bit of teaser shows for something
for Kate. Oh you reckon.So they've been on their socials. They've
(24:07):
been talking about the twentieth anniversary oftheir album, the official fiction Deja Vu
on it Best Weapon. I hada few. Yeah, it was a
really good album. It's the twentiethanniversary. These two shows might be just
testing the waters for a twentieth anniversaryshow or two are coming up. I
don't know, they'll go off,they'll play it there four and with that,
(24:29):
I reckon. Or they've just announcedthat they're releasing twentieth anniversary vinyls for
that album later in the year.It's all coming together, Steve. It
definitely is Cam and so i'd beI might wait for a twentieth anniversary tour
if it happens. If not,why not? What's your favorite color?
Blue? Now? Another band that'salso announced twentieth anniversary of their album,
(24:51):
which is The Darkness's Permission to Land. I Believe in a thing called Love.
Love is only a feeling exactly.Now they've announced that they're going to
do twentieth anniversary tour. Is ita world tour? Steam Well, they
haven't announced dates yet, but itsounds like it's going to be a world
tour. Oh, they're going tobe playing the album in full permissioner Land
(25:15):
plus other songs presumably, and probablydo a twentieth edition twentieth anniversary vinyl as
well. Now I saw them,was it last year? I think maybe
the year before, playing at theForum, and they were supported by this
really cool rock band called the SouthernRiver Band, And we actually featured them
on our New Music New Music thisweek, so they have moved to our
(25:41):
Social's New Music. This is normallythe part of the show where we would
be doing our new music that's nowon our socials on Instagram and Facebook,
and we've been getting a lot ofpositive feedback from people who have been checking
them out, learning a few newbands, and clicking links to follow new
bands and like Sharon, what it'sall about Steve, isn't it? And
the love sharing the love. Speakingof I think we might make rock a
(26:03):
baby and head out. It soundslike a good idea to make him Kim,
Kimi Kim or Kim Um, youprefer your own name? Would would
you? Would you rather me callyou something different like spin? Um,
I want you to call me somethingdifferent, something different as in something different,
there's like first name, surname.Okay, well, this has been
(26:27):
the Garage Rock Podcast. Join meagain next week with my co host Something
Different and Spa and Spin. Butuntil that time, I've been Spin and
I've been something Different. Goodbye everyone. I like that it's something different.
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