August 7, 2025 • 9 mins
Interview with Joey from The Heizer Monkeys - The Culture News
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ladies and gentlemen, Good afternoon, Welcome on the Culture News.
My name is David Serero and we have the pleasure
to have today on night heartread you on the Culture
News and many other platforms a wonderful, wonderful artist. His
name is Joey Heiser from the band the Heiser Monkeys.
We are so glad to have him to dig you
(00:21):
talk to us about this new track called twenty four
Hours to Heaven. This is such a beautiful track which
will be featuring at the end of this interview. Because yes, indeed,
we are so like you to have Joey Heiser today
on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Joey, how are you today.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, I'm absolutely fantastic. Greetings from Germany. Let me say
to you, David and to all of your listeners, it's
just a pleasure. It's a pleasure to be able to
talk about not just our music, but to communicate to
music listeners and lovers of music around the world. Thank
you much indeed.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Oh and we thank you actually, and also we say
hello to all our German friends.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Who are listening to us. Actually a lot, so thank
you so much. So joe is with us. Joey Heiser
is with us. So can you tell us, Joey, who
are you? Where did you grow up and how did
you stop music?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, you know, I'm actually I'm from the Some of
you may already know that I'm from the greatest musical
city in the world to get Nashville. I'm from Manchester, England,
and I'm a kind of I'm an adopted an adopted son.
I guess of Germany and the music scene, and I
(01:46):
I thought I fell into this band of Heuser Monkeys
about seven years ago with Christian Eigner, the drummer of
Depeche Mode, who some of you may know is Austrian
and the uh and and a couple of fantastic session musicians.
Where where this this chemistry and excitement happened? And having
(02:13):
had something of a career in music, I I guess
I've fallen into this, this kind of regional, cultural, even
national hit in Germany centered around a particular I dare say,
(02:34):
I guess a particular cultural and sporting event.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And indeed, what a beautiful journey you you have.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So tell us a little bit about the band, the
heighs There Monkeys, how was it created and who is
in it?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
So I've mentioned myself and of course I'm awesome. I'm
the singer. I would say that David the some people
may know from the late nineties as the drummer of
Depeche Moor Christian Eigner. Our guitarist is we call him
doctor Ax David. He's he actually holds a PhD In
(03:14):
guitar theory. I didn't know such a thing as possible.
And our bass player is Rue Costume. Ru's just finished
an MTV unplugged tour of Europe and he's I mean,
I would say this, he's the best player in the world.
(03:35):
He's certainly the best player bass player on mainland Europe
right now.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
And thank you for telling sort of that. So now
fast forwarding to your new track twenty four Hours to Heaven,
tell us the story of that song and how was
it created.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Well, there are three kind of great motorsport events in
the world, and of course motorsport is great, passionate, risky,
crazy pursuit. You think of Steve McQueen, Paul Newman. We
will of course have the the f one film with
(04:13):
Brad Pitt coming out right now, risk, danger, excitement. And
there are three major endurance racing races in the world.
People know of Daytona, people know of Lemon and of
course the hardest twenty four hour race in the world
is the twenty four hour race of Noboggring, and the
(04:37):
Noburg Ring is it's a It's a twenty one kilometer track,
thirteen miles long, and the.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
It's kind of the challenge that every person who has
any affinity with petrol and danger and excitement and speed
wants to conquer.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I've been coming here for a few years. I'm an
English guy, I'm from Manchester, and you know, I've experienced
that place, that excitement. It's like the Seventh Wonder of
the modern world, fire petral craziness. But it didn't have
(05:25):
a song. We teamed up together with a guy called Smoodo.
He's the he's the leader of a German hip hop
band called the Fantastician Fear the Fantastic Four. And in
fact he's so well known they've sold eight million albums.
(05:46):
He's so well known and so loved in Gym that
the there is an international I think it's an international
TV show called The Voice. Certainly it's in the UK,
I think it's in Germany. Maybe it's even in America.
And he's one of the judges. He's one of the
judges on the Voice of Germany. All of us we
(06:10):
kind of put this thing together in a very short
space of time to talk about this magical event like Indianapolis,
like Daytona. You know, these these fantastic these fantastic events
that bring people together and try to give it a
(06:30):
musical voice. Excuse me, tried to give it a musical voice.
You hope you can do it, David. The crazy thing
was in four months from writing it in a cellar
in South Manchester. It's it's all of a sudden on
the German national television, strangers are coming up to me
(06:54):
and saying, you know you are my you David Hasselhoff. Now, David,
I'm not sure if that's true. In fact, sometimes I
doubt very much if it is. But it's been one
of the great pleasures of my life to be involved
in this project, bringing rock music how it should be
played and a fantastic cultural not just a cultural event,
(07:18):
something that brings together. You know, it's not plastic, it's
not commercial, it's hard, it's fun.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
We did our best, and indeed you did it, and
thank you for telling us all of that.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Once again, we are so glad to have the wonderful
Joey Heiser from the Heiser Monkeys.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Heiser is spelled h ei z R. For your info
before we say goodbye to each other, Joey, what are
your next projects?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, it's very funny should ask that. So we have
a couple of things on the horizon. We're going to
do a one day festival in Germany to coincide, of
course with the event. To follow up on the good
feeling that we've experienced. We have a new single coming
out n FA. NFA means no further action. You know,
(08:13):
there are other less suitable for radio interpretations of that initialization.
But of course we're good people, you and I David,
So we're not going to go there. We're rocking. We believe.
I just want to say to your listeners tonight and
(08:33):
wherever you're listening around the world, it's still alive. We
still believe.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And we love these beautiful words that you were sharing
with us. Very inspiring. Thank you so much for being
with us, ladies and gentlemen. My name is David So
we had the pleasure to have today. The one in
on name is that Joey Heiser from the band the
Heiser Monkeys. They have released a beautiful and new track
called twenty four Hours to.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Heaven, And indeed it won't take you twenty four hours
to listen to it, but indeed you will listen to
twenty four to seven It is right now playing
Speaker 2 (09:11):
With that any further statue with us, it's a beautiful day.
Ladies and gentlemen, Good afternoon, Welcome on the Culture News.
My name is David Serero and we have the pleasure
to have today on night heartread you on the Culture
News and many other platforms a wonderful, wonderful artist. His
name is Joey Heiser from the band the Heiser Monkeys.
We are so glad to have him to dig you
(00:21):
talk to us about this new track called twenty four
Hours to Heaven. This is such a beautiful track which
will be featuring at the end of this interview. Because yes, indeed,
we are so like you to have Joey Heiser today
on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Joey, how are you today.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, I'm absolutely fantastic. Greetings from Germany. Let me say
to you, David and to all of your listeners, it's
just a pleasure. It's a pleasure to be able to
talk about not just our music, but to communicate to
music listeners and lovers of music around the world. Thank
you much indeed.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Oh and we thank you actually, and also we say
hello to all our German friends.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Who are listening to us. Actually a lot, so thank
you so much. So joe is with us. Joey Heiser
is with us. So can you tell us, Joey, who
are you? Where did you grow up and how did
you stop music?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, you know, I'm actually I'm from the Some of
you may already know that I'm from the greatest musical
city in the world to get Nashville. I'm from Manchester, England,
and I'm a kind of I'm an adopted an adopted son.
I guess of Germany and the music scene, and I
(01:46):
I thought I fell into this band of Heuser Monkeys
about seven years ago with Christian Eigner, the drummer of
Depeche Mode, who some of you may know is Austrian
and the uh and and a couple of fantastic session musicians.
Where where this this chemistry and excitement happened? And having
(02:13):
had something of a career in music, I I guess
I've fallen into this, this kind of regional, cultural, even
national hit in Germany centered around a particular I dare say,
(02:34):
I guess a particular cultural and sporting event.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And indeed, what a beautiful journey you you have.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So tell us a little bit about the band, the
heighs There Monkeys, how was it created and who is
in it?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
So I've mentioned myself and of course I'm awesome. I'm
the singer. I would say that David the some people
may know from the late nineties as the drummer of
Depeche Moor Christian Eigner. Our guitarist is we call him
doctor Ax David. He's he actually holds a PhD In
(03:14):
guitar theory. I didn't know such a thing as possible.
And our bass player is Rue Costume. Ru's just finished
an MTV unplugged tour of Europe and he's I mean,
I would say this, he's the best player in the world.
(03:35):
He's certainly the best player bass player on mainland Europe
right now.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
And thank you for telling sort of that. So now
fast forwarding to your new track twenty four Hours to Heaven,
tell us the story of that song and how was
it created.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Well, there are three kind of great motorsport events in
the world, and of course motorsport is great, passionate, risky,
crazy pursuit. You think of Steve McQueen, Paul Newman. We
will of course have the the f one film with
(04:13):
Brad Pitt coming out right now, risk, danger, excitement. And
there are three major endurance racing races in the world.
People know of Daytona, people know of Lemon and of
course the hardest twenty four hour race in the world
is the twenty four hour race of Noboggring, and the
(04:37):
Noburg Ring is it's a It's a twenty one kilometer track,
thirteen miles long, and the.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
It's kind of the challenge that every person who has
any affinity with petrol and danger and excitement and speed
wants to conquer.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I've been coming here for a few years. I'm an
English guy, I'm from Manchester, and you know, I've experienced
that place, that excitement. It's like the Seventh Wonder of
the modern world, fire petral craziness. But it didn't have
(05:25):
a song. We teamed up together with a guy called Smoodo.
He's the he's the leader of a German hip hop
band called the Fantastician Fear the Fantastic Four. And in
fact he's so well known they've sold eight million albums.
(05:46):
He's so well known and so loved in Gym that
the there is an international I think it's an international
TV show called The Voice. Certainly it's in the UK,
I think it's in Germany. Maybe it's even in America.
And he's one of the judges. He's one of the
judges on the Voice of Germany. All of us we
(06:10):
kind of put this thing together in a very short
space of time to talk about this magical event like Indianapolis,
like Daytona. You know, these these fantastic these fantastic events
that bring people together and try to give it a
(06:30):
musical voice. Excuse me, tried to give it a musical voice.
You hope you can do it, David. The crazy thing
was in four months from writing it in a cellar
in South Manchester. It's it's all of a sudden on
the German national television, strangers are coming up to me
(06:54):
and saying, you know you are my you David Hasselhoff. Now, David,
I'm not sure if that's true. In fact, sometimes I
doubt very much if it is. But it's been one
of the great pleasures of my life to be involved
in this project, bringing rock music how it should be
played and a fantastic cultural not just a cultural event,
(07:18):
something that brings together. You know, it's not plastic, it's
not commercial, it's hard, it's fun.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
We did our best, and indeed you did it, and
thank you for telling us all of that.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Once again, we are so glad to have the wonderful
Joey Heiser from the Heiser Monkeys.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Heiser is spelled h ei z R. For your info
before we say goodbye to each other, Joey, what are
your next projects?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, it's very funny should ask that. So we have
a couple of things on the horizon. We're going to
do a one day festival in Germany to coincide, of
course with the event. To follow up on the good
feeling that we've experienced. We have a new single coming
out n FA. NFA means no further action. You know,
(08:13):
there are other less suitable for radio interpretations of that initialization.
But of course we're good people, you and I David,
So we're not going to go there. We're rocking. We believe.
I just want to say to your listeners tonight and
(08:33):
wherever you're listening around the world, it's still alive. We
still believe.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And we love these beautiful words that you were sharing
with us. Very inspiring. Thank you so much for being
with us, ladies and gentlemen. My name is David So
we had the pleasure to have today. The one in
on name is that Joey Heiser from the band the
Heiser Monkeys. They have released a beautiful and new track
called twenty four Hours to.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Heaven, And indeed it won't take you twenty four hours
to listen to it, but indeed you will listen to
twenty four to seven It is right now playing
Speaker 2 (09:11):
With that any further statue with us, it's a beautiful day.
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