1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fitzi and whipp A podcast. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 2: Very excited about tonight because the Sydney Opera House the 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:09,880 Speaker 2: fore court there if anyone's seen a gig else court, 4 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 2: it's going to be beautiful weather as well, magnificent with 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 2: the sun going down, and this man will be playing. 6 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 2: He's known as the Glove in football terms. 7 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: Fan's joy they glove. Thank you. It's good to be back. 8 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 2: We need to talk about so we've only just you've 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 2: only we've only just revealed him. 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: This is it? 11 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 2: So how we did this the Howie Games, which is 12 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 2: great podcasts, but how he revealed that your nickname back 13 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 2: in his footy days he was the glove. 14 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:42,840 Speaker 1: Wow? Yeah, I think I have to just to Claire. 15 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,279 Speaker 3: There was about two weeks where Craig McCrae, who had 16 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 3: taken over at Coburg Tigers. 17 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: I don't know. 18 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 3: I think he was like, okay, Jimmy's in the back. 19 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 3: Maybe just just be a glove, which means just get 20 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 3: on the opponent and just follow them everywhere, don't let 21 00:00:57,880 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 3: them move, just be fit on them like a glove. 22 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 3: That's what I did, and I guess, yeah, I wasn't 23 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 3: there for my skills or anything else. Is kind of 24 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:06,639 Speaker 3: just to stand next to someone. 25 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 1: Did you ever play any songs down the footy club? 26 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 2: Have you been? Have you been back to the footy club. 27 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: And performed for them? They would have asked you numerous times. Yeah, 28 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 1: should I should make good on that. I haven't. 29 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 3: I did play my first year at Coburg. The coach 30 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 3: was Andy Collins, and he did this thing was like 31 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 3: talent talent show on a football camp. And I got 32 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 3: up and I sang. I think I also feel like 33 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 3: no one knew that I could sing. And I got 34 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 3: up and I sang this thing called love Friend like Queen, 35 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 3: and I think that that all just all the guys 36 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 3: like what happened to this guy, Like we didn't know 37 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 3: he's a white card? 38 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, we knew at the White Boots. 39 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 2: This year, so they had no idea you were musically gifted. 40 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 3: And I did a cappella, a compella and I think 41 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 3: actually some of the guys, I think, no one you 42 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 3: were to think. But then one of the players who 43 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 3: was it was an absolute gun. His name's Fortunato Fortunate. 44 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 3: I was like Jimmy shul get on, get on the 45 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 3: voice or Australian idol or something. I was like, all right, yeah, 46 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 3: I definitely I kept playing. I played covers. I played 47 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 3: Fuel Shimmer, which is a definite, definite like hit the 48 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 3: start of that song. 49 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 1: I mean you can do that a cappella as well. 50 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,399 Speaker 2: The music doesn't kick in for a while, does it, 51 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 2: she calls me from the Yeah. 52 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, rumbling on white paper, shoot to your dream. 53 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: It did help. It did help. 54 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 3: Like I was playing covers, and I would always like 55 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 3: if there was ever a like a function or a 56 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,839 Speaker 3: dress up party or something, I would get my guitar out. 57 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 5: I mean, we share similar backgrounds. You know, we grew 58 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 5: up very close to each other and we're both musically gifted. 59 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 5: And you know, I was playing guitar with a mate, 60 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 5: Eddie Glenn, and we played at s V Bar in 61 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,799 Speaker 5: Smith Street, Collingwood. And also the other one was a 62 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 5: g Bunk Pollo Club of course you know that one. Yeah, yeah, 63 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 5: Jim Bunk Pollow Club. They took acoustic ucks, but we 64 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 5: got paid something like two hundred dollars and then we 65 00:02:58,720 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 5: dried up. 66 00:02:59,240 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 1: That was it. 67 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 5: Crowd turnout wasn't terrific. 68 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: Man, You were cover band as well. 69 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 5: When we were coming we did platinum platinum. 70 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:08,080 Speaker 1: They were called you never heard a platinum in the 71 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: area at all. I didn't hear didn't. I never went 72 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 1: to the g bunks, so I might have missed you 73 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: guys when you're on That. 74 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 2: Is brilliant to think of those days, though, James, and 75 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 2: to go back and to perform, there are a feeling 76 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 2: of if I can impress them, I could actually do 77 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 2: this full time. 78 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:25,079 Speaker 3: Yeah, I felt I didn't know at that point. I 79 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 3: had a couple of songs I'd written, but it was 80 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 3: I always felt like when I got up there and 81 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:30,839 Speaker 3: I played a song and I really loved the song, 82 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 3: if it was someone else's song on my song, I'd 83 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 3: sometimes get a bit of a like a chills. Maybe 84 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 3: you know that from pay Platinum. 85 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 5: I get it a lot. 86 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: This is good, This is doing something. This just feels correct. 87 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 5: About your music too, though, is it tells the story 88 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 5: and you can all you've almost got a visual if 89 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 5: you haven't even seen the film Clap, You've got a 90 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 5: visual from the lyrics of what you do. And I 91 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 5: think that's very powerful because you can picture what's going 92 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 5: on as you hear the music. I guess that's good. 93 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: I agree, I agree. 94 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, just talking about Taylor Swift before, and you performed 95 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 2: with Taylor, You've supported her before. 96 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: You listen to Midnights. What do you think of a 97 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: new album? Oh yeah, I love it. I love I 98 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: listened to Antihiro I reckon. The verses in that song 99 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 1: are just so awesome. 100 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 2: So she's written this whole album, she said when she 101 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 2: can't sleep at night, so she's in a hotel at 102 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 2: three o'clock in the morning and a riff will come 103 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 2: to her or an idea for a song. Has that 104 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 2: happened to you before, like if you had you get 105 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 2: up in the middle of. 106 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 3: The nine I would wake up in the night and 107 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 3: just hum the melody that had been in my dream. 108 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 3: And I listened to it the next day and it 109 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 3: is the worst. 110 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: Like there's no context. It just sounds like honestly and 111 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: I singing quietly. 112 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 2: It's like. 113 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: And it's like and I go. 114 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 3: Through my phone, I try and delete, delete all the 115 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 3: more crap, and I just get to something and it's 116 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 3: like if I see something for fifteen seconds and the 117 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 3: first thing is I just delete it straight away. 118 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 2: Funny, Well, it was is a missing piece as well. 119 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,160 Speaker 2: Been talking about this because it is quite hard. 120 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: It was you. 121 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 2: It was you. 122 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 5: It was you, It was you. 123 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 2: Have you been on to one of those songwriting camps. 124 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 2: I didn't know that this happens quite a bit in 125 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 2: the industry, but these I hate that all get together. 126 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: There's a lot of creatives up. You didn't covers for 127 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:26,279 Speaker 1: not but if you're. 128 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 5: An artist and you've got some ideas and there's the 129 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 5: pressure to contribute in front of the other artists, and 130 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 5: then the awkwardness of saying if someone else is said going, oh, 131 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 5: that's really cool, man, Yeah, I'm feeling that you're med 132 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 5: to extend on that a layer. 133 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 1: That one story. 134 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 3: But I just it was funny story that I rocked 135 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 3: up to a songwriting session and it was like these 136 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 3: guys work with One Direction and stuff. And honestly, I 137 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,479 Speaker 3: got to this house. It was like an hour drive 138 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 3: into like Calabasses, to this giant kind of property and 139 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 3: I got there and I soon realized that they just 140 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 3: must have misplaced the schedule or something and they didn't 141 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 3: know I was coming that day, and so I was. 142 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 1: Like, hey, I'm here, and they're like, oh, hey, who 143 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:04,479 Speaker 1: is that? 144 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 3: There was a songwriting day for One Direction, and it 145 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 3: was like Louis and Liam were there. 146 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: No I was a spare part. I was the absolutely 147 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: spare part. 148 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 3: No one knew I was going to be there, and 149 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 3: I as throughout the day, I was like the even 150 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 3: Monano eight years again through I've I've got to get 151 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 3: out of here, and I was just like at some 152 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 3: point I was like, all right, my uber's coming, guys, 153 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 3: and I just like, oh, yeah, yeah, I just got 154 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 3: out of there. I was so so good contributing like 155 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 3: you were. I was contributing, but I also was like, 156 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:32,720 Speaker 3: I shouldn't be here. They don't the didn't expect me here, 157 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 3: and they kind of had their idea, this is the 158 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 3: one direction songs are going down today. The guys were 159 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 3: super nice, but they were like, I don't think I 160 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,719 Speaker 3: ever figured into their plan of being like that is 161 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 3: so far we got this covered. 162 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: Vance Joy, do you know what? 163 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 2: We're going to give away a double right now if 164 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:49,600 Speaker 2: you want to go see vance Joy at the Opera 165 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 2: House fore Court tonight, give us a call. Thirteen twenty fourteen, 166 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 2: first caller through Make Good Luck Tonight. It's what a 167 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 2: huge honor to play at the Opera House. It's going 168 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 2: to be good and tomorrow and you're talking what ten thousand, 169 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 2: eleven thousand, Yeah yeah, it'd be huge. Yeah mate, well done, 170 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for coming and performing for us, 171 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 2: my pleasure. 172 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fitzi and Whipper podcast.