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Speaker 1: How is this lady going in lockdown? We love it

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Speaker 1: at earth Tones and I how are you? Love? You

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Speaker 1: doing all right?

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Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you guys?

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Speaker 1: Where are you right now?

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Speaker 2: I'm in lockdown? Melburn got my house right a Tones?

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Speaker 1: Would you ever think about doing Eurovision and representing the country?

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Speaker 1: I na, Montane did an amazing job this year, but

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Speaker 1: would you think about doing it?

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Speaker 2: I actually had a chat about this because I was

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Speaker 2: asked to help write the Eurovision song from Montane, which

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Speaker 2: is honestly the coolest thing. I couldn't believe it, but

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Speaker 2: I didn't with lockdown a lockdown again, I wasn't able

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Speaker 2: to get to a studio or anything like that. So yes,

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Speaker 2: Then after that, I just spoke to the guys and said, look,

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Speaker 2: I want to be involved in Eurovision. I want to

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Speaker 2: help write the song and the artwork that artists. I

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Speaker 2: love writing the songs, I love doing the film clips.

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Speaker 2: I want to be a part of the artwork and

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Speaker 2: all that. So I said, next year, I don't mind

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Speaker 2: you by seeing I don't care about singing, that's fine,

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Speaker 2: but I want to be a part of the artistic

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Speaker 2: side of Europe year times.

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Speaker 1: With the international success that you've had what artists have

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Speaker 1: come out of the woodwork and said, my god, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to work with you. Who have you been

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Speaker 1: approached by?

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Speaker 2: Did you get an email from Sea's manager and just

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Speaker 2: read so recently Alicia Keys having a conversation soon Macimore

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Speaker 2: and I were in the studio together.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, that would have been great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. He was awesome, honestly, like a big brother. Really

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Speaker 2: helped me through a tough time as well. It was

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Speaker 2: about a year ago, so that was, you know, probably

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Speaker 2: right in the thick of it for me. And then

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Speaker 2: it was a year and alfter, sorry, we're in lockdown

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Speaker 2: year ago. Where's the time.

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Speaker 1: Have you had a conversation with Sea times?

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Speaker 2: Well, no, because it went through our managers, so I'm

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Speaker 2: not really sure what conversation was. And then I just see,

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Speaker 2: it's amazing, phenomenal, but I want to write the track

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Speaker 2: with her. I don't want to be ever given a

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Speaker 2: track ever in my life and be told just to see. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I know she's the same. I know she really takes

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Speaker 2: a songwriting seriously. So yeah, so then it was all good.

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Speaker 2: After that, I just said, I want to release my

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Speaker 2: first album as the only songwriter, and yeah, times.

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Speaker 1: Can you just give put us into perspective for the

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Speaker 1: everyday punter, how much the music industry has been decimated.

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Speaker 1: Now your career has exploded, but you started out busking

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Speaker 1: as well. Tones, can you tell how tough has it

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Speaker 1: been for some of these people that you have that

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Speaker 1: you call very close friends.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean the biggest stroke right now running between

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Speaker 2: me and any other artist friends that I have is

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Speaker 2: as much as we love it too, Chuck a footy

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Speaker 2: in the artist's hands and maybe they'll get some help

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Speaker 2: from the government.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the sport.

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Speaker 2: Yep, we enjoy the footy and when it is open

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Speaker 2: where the we everyone knows. In my house it's puty

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Speaker 2: on whenever it's on. But at the same time, we

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Speaker 2: also support artists in this house where a bit of

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Speaker 2: a fifty to fifty those artists, especially those buskers. You know,

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Speaker 2: busking was not canceled. I guess you've called canceled in

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Speaker 2: Barron baby for quite a long time. I did reach

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Speaker 2: out to my friends and it is their means of

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Speaker 2: making money, and you know they're already one of those

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Speaker 2: you know. I will say. At the same time, when

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Speaker 2: I was busking, I didn't pay tack for a handout

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Speaker 2: for the buskers. A lot of the artists are doing

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Speaker 2: online things. The artists that really need the money, the

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Speaker 2: artists that have worked their us off to get from

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Speaker 2: that point where they kind of don't need a job anymore,

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Speaker 2: but they're just making enough, yes, yes, to go back

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Speaker 2: to get a job.

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Speaker 1: Times. Maybe they could re release some of the theme songs.

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Speaker 2: To the footy clubs. They could record them a little

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Speaker 2: bit of up there, because.

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Speaker 1: It is for I've spoken a lot of people in

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Speaker 1: to see, you know, full stadiums go back to normal.

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Speaker 1: And I know we're in lockdown a majority of Australia now,

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Speaker 1: but you know, full stadiums go back to normal. Yet

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Speaker 1: you can't. You know, people are on the dance floor

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Speaker 1: and are allowed to cheer for someone you know, who

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Speaker 1: are playing a musical gig. Times.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, I know that, I know that. You know,

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Speaker 2: they're like, it's open air. I just went on tour.

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Speaker 2: My tour was open air. I was playing at River

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Speaker 2: Stage in Brisbane and there was just to see if

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Speaker 2: I had to be spread out. I was at the

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Speaker 2: same I was playing in tazzy open air stage on

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Speaker 2: this big field. People weren't even allowed to stand up.

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Speaker 2: So when I was at the footy, even though they're

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Speaker 2: not spreading out, I want to say, oh, we're all

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Speaker 2: spreading out. We're not. They're not spreading out. Half the

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Speaker 2: stadiums empty. The rest were all over here when I

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Speaker 2: went to the toilet, when I went to lineup food,

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Speaker 2: when I got out. I have videos of it. It

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Speaker 2: is mad crazy ness. Which I wanted the foody to

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Speaker 2: come back in Victoria. Hell yeah, But I just wanted

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Speaker 2: to be fair. I understand the government's not making a

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Speaker 2: whole bunch of money from artists. I get it. We're

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Speaker 2: not making any money. It's so well, artists aren't making

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Speaker 2: any money. Like that's if you can, if you can

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Speaker 2: stream well enough, you can make a bit of money

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Speaker 2: in here and there. But these others need to go

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Speaker 2: play their shows. They need to go, you know. And

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Speaker 2: I'm not so much talking about me. I did just

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Speaker 2: I was lucky enough to just go on a tour,

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Speaker 2: which crazily none of it got canceled. It's awesome we

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Speaker 2: all the COVID in each stage as we left. But

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Speaker 2: there's so many artists right now that just need a

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Speaker 2: bit more support, like to go on and buy their

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Speaker 2: vinyls or if you know one of your friends is

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Speaker 2: an artist, or you know someone's working, you know, I'm like,

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Speaker 2: just post some up on my story. Just a bad idea,

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Speaker 2: got said.

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Speaker 1: I got to support them, well said, Well, you know

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Speaker 1: what you keep us saying. Tones, that's for sure your

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Speaker 1: brand new album, Welcome to the Madhouse. It's your debut album.

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Speaker 1: You can go get it now, listen to it in lockdown.

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Speaker 1: We love it. Tones, thank you so much for coming

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Speaker 1: on the show.

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Speaker 2: Thank god it fits in with her