1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast. 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 2: Brand new album which is out this Friday, called Kate Foresty. 3 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:09,119 Speaker 2: You can catch them on their living Room sessions two 4 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 2: of this August as well. They're going to be playing 5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 2: at the State Theater, the Magnificent State Theater Friday, August ninth. 6 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 2: It is the Magnificent. Angus and Julius start. 7 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 1: Welcome and welcome. 8 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 3: To the studio. Do you know what I love about 9 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:26,799 Speaker 3: you guys? The fact that you do an event like 10 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 3: the State Theater and then you're at the Sony Wharf 11 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 3: for Ward the other day where you were performing, and 12 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:33,520 Speaker 3: then the next thing you know, you're up on stage 13 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 3: with Nile. Also last Wednesday night at Kudos Bank Arena. 14 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 3: As a fair variation of shows happening there isn't there? 15 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 4: Yeah? 16 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 5: I mean we've been playing. We started at the Couldie 17 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 5: Be Open Mike Night, you know, a long time ago. Yeah, 18 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 5: playing to people who were drinking at the bar and 19 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 5: on the poke's not listening. 20 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 3: So we've played every kind. 21 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 5: Of gig you can possibly imagine. 22 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 3: Was it an instant reaction back then? Angus? Did you 23 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 3: guys feel like, hang on a minute, what turned up 24 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 3: your heads? I think people like the sound. 25 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we came up with this thing. If 26 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:08,839 Speaker 1: you play quieter, people sort of it creates a vacuum. 27 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: They get they got the louder, they got quite a 28 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: wee got quite got. Well, you grew tricky. 29 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 2: You grew up in the on the Northern beaches. 30 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 3: And you played. 31 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 2: You did a pop up shout that were ring them 32 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 2: all the other day. Do you have can I ask? 33 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 2: Do you run into any old teachers or schoolmates or 34 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 2: anything like that when you do these shows. 35 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: Everyone comes up and they're like, oh, your dad, you know. 36 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:39,199 Speaker 6: Yeah, our dad's sort of the celebrity wearing the wrong shoes. 37 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: He was a teacher, a music teacher. 38 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, he was our music teacher. Of course. What was 39 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 3: the first instrument he kind of put in front of you? 40 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 5: Or did you not have a choice? 41 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 3: Did you tell we did have a choice. 42 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 5: Her mom took us to see an orchestra and they said, okay, 43 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 5: you all get to pick an instrum. Because at our 44 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 5: primary school, Newport Primary, there wasn't a band at that time, 45 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 5: and so dad wanted to start the first school band. 46 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 5: And so we were the first three members, Catherine Angus 47 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 5: and myself and they said, picked three instruments. So Angus 48 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 5: picked the trombone, I picked the trumpet, and our sister 49 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 5: picked the saxophone. So that was the start of the 50 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 5: school band. 51 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 3: Sounding a bit different. Now, did Dad ever kind of 52 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 3: say I think I should be included as the creator? 53 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 4: Oh? 54 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 3: He says that like every week, has he ever got 55 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 3: up with you? 56 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: Well, Dad's a wedding singer, so we sort of fell 57 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:38,919 Speaker 1: asleep under wedding tables and you know that was our thring. 58 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: So he was always encouraging us to get up on 59 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,519 Speaker 1: stage and you know, sing a Dylan song on Fan 60 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: Morris And. 61 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 3: Is that what he was pumping out of the weddings? 62 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, he did, like Beach Boys beatles Nights they dressed 63 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: up for as blues brothers. Yeah, all sorts. 64 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 3: That's hilarious. 65 00:02:56,919 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 2: Still, your career has been unbelievable, and you know, Angus 66 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 2: and Julius Stone, it was an amazing catalog. But then 67 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 2: you go off and do your solo stuff as well. 68 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 2: Can you tell us the story of one of the 69 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 2: greatest producers of all time? Rick Ruben? Is it true 70 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 2: that you guys were having a bit of a rest 71 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 2: and then he heard you guys at a house party 72 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 2: in La or something and wanted to work with you. 73 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 5: It was like it was Angus and I had had 74 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 5: gone off and we were doing solo projects and we 75 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 5: just finished during down the Way, which was like it 76 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 5: was a big touring cycle, like three years together living 77 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 5: on a bus and oh my god, I don't know 78 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 5: if you guys have siblings at that your lifetime for 79 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 5: a And so we both also we also write a lot, 80 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 5: and we wanted to create these other projects, and so 81 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 5: Angus was off doing his thing and Rick reached out 82 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 5: and it was about a year of hanging out with 83 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 5: him when Angus and I would separately be there on tour, 84 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 5: getting to know him, and then he really he really 85 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 5: wanted us to work together again. And it was really 86 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 5: nice actually for us because he kind of brought us 87 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 5: back together. And it was also the first time that 88 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 5: we really started co writing, and that was a really 89 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 5: special experience because that's now then evolved into how we 90 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 5: write most of our music. 91 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:17,479 Speaker 3: And from his experience, did you learn a lot to 92 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 3: be able to go, oh, I see what he does? 93 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 3: Maybe right, that's why he's successful at what he does. 94 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, Rick was It's interesting looking back at I think 95 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: what Rick is good is leaving bread crumbs along the 96 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 1: way of you'll do You'll do a take, and then 97 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: you'll pull you back out of the studio and he'll 98 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: play his favorite song that matches something that he noticed 99 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: inside of what he's sort of. Yeah, he's leaving bread 100 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: crumbs as to how you could acquat it again. 101 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:49,239 Speaker 5: Rather than telling you what to do. 102 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 3: I'm going to let angus think this was his idea 103 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 3: that like you playing quietly at the Couldie. 104 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: Bay, have you still got? 105 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 2: Is it true that you've got a giant replica Megalodon 106 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 2: jaw in your backyard at home? 107 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 3: Is that true? 108 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 4: Yeah? 109 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 1: I've been hassling this guy at the Nautical museum for 110 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: so long. I collect old old things, and I've been 111 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 1: wanting to put it up because just the ship size 112 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: size of it is incredible. 113 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 3: That's not real. 114 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 1: It Israel. It's it's the jaw over megle Meglodon. 115 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 3: Giant. 116 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 1: It's a it's a prehistoric. 117 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 5: It's like that movie the meg meg Is. And I 118 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 5: didn't know that that fake. 119 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 3: Megaladon. 120 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:49,720 Speaker 1: I don't know what megalador. 121 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 3: Because my little man Jack, he is turning eight, and 122 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,719 Speaker 3: all he wants for his birthday is a maglot on tooth. 123 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: You know what, I'll say, no where to get on? 124 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: I've got. 125 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:15,040 Speaker 3: Ten And she went to Ferrara, Julia. 126 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 2: What else does he have in his backyard in bar 127 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 2: What does angers have in there? O? 128 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 5: Angus has got amazing things. Actually, when we were working 129 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 5: with Rick in California, Angus bought this amazing Mini Cooper, 130 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 5: a teeny tiny, beautiful, pale blue Mini Cooper and got 131 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 5: it shipped back to Australia after we finished recording. And 132 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 5: that was a wild story because we had no seat 133 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 5: belts in it. What was it, nineteen fifty nine Mini 134 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 5: Cooper and we used to drive from Venice Beach up 135 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:47,039 Speaker 5: to Shangula to record and you know, Angus is a 136 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 5: very good driver, but you know, with no seat belts 137 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 5: you just got to be cautious. And one day this 138 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 5: driver pulled out on the Highway one which runs up 139 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 5: the coast and. 140 00:06:57,960 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 7: It was wild. 141 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 5: It was we were so here, it was late at night, 142 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 5: we'd finished at late two in the morning because there 143 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:06,280 Speaker 5: weren't many cars, and we just spum down the freeway. 144 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: We did a into the oncoming traffic. 145 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 3: Is there a song about that now that we should 146 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 3: be looking at it's afying for you guys about to 147 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 3: perform an acoustic in Adele's song, Someone like you will 148 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 3: hand it over to you, guys, take it away. 149 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 7: I so no. 150 00:07:47,240 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 8: Phone jee s game too. Yeah, she gave you things that. 151 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 4: I didn't give you. 152 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 7: Oh friend, why you so shy? Like you hold back 153 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 7: or hide from the light. 154 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 9: I had to turn out body of the new uninvited, 155 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 9: but I couldn't stay awake. 156 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 7: I couldn't fight it. I hope you'd see my face, 157 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 7: you be reminded that for me, it's no. 158 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:50,959 Speaker 4: Never mind. So I wish, Oh. 159 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 7: How fault can be? 160 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:00,439 Speaker 4: Shop? 161 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:06,199 Speaker 10: Sometimes you bash, sometimes it's. 162 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 7: Just you know, time flies only ist. 163 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 4: Today was the time of our lives, n S dinner, summer. 164 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 7: Ball, by surprise of our glory days. 165 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 9: I hate to turn out out of the blue uninvited, 166 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:44,439 Speaker 9: but I couldn't stay away. I couldn't find it out. 167 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 9: You'd see my face, you'd be reminded that for me 168 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 9: it is a. 169 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 4: Home for. 170 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 10: Never line of first I was shoving SAPs for you 171 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 10: to doll fuckemy ha bad. 172 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 8: No God, sometimes it last in love, but sometimes it 173 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 8: hurts gesting. No, nothing compares, no worries, no cares, regrets 174 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 8: and mistakes and memories made. 175 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 7: Who would have known how bittersweet is wood taste. 176 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 4: Am Mi. 177 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 10: Sort I was shoving masabast go. 178 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,959 Speaker 1: To doll fuck having. 179 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 6: Times sometimes hello sometimes. 180 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 3: Oh there it is wow, wow, magical right there. If 181 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 3: you could come in at that time every day. 182 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 2: Thanks guys, we're really excited. Friday, August August ninth, State Theater, Sidney. 183 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 2: If you want to go get tickets, go to ticket Master. 184 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:42,439 Speaker 2: You can get them there. But angus Julia Stone the 185 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 2: new album is out this Friday as well. Cape Forestyre, 186 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 2: thank you so much for coming in this morning. 187 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 3: Loved it just off the back of that too, guys. 188 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 3: Kate Richie, great suggestion. You guys happen to a red room. 189 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 3: No over red room. That's just something special. You can't 190 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 3: say it now. 191 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 4: I love to. 192 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:00,959 Speaker 3: Know each other. I mean a gus, even if we 193 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 3: did it in the backyard. But I apologize if he's 194 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 3: put you on this spot, I'm sorry. Let's keep talking 195 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 3: about that. We'd love to do something special with you. Guys. 196 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 3: Thank you, that's awesome, awesome to see you as Julia 197 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 3: Stone dot com is where we need to go. It's 198 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 3: really nice to be here guy, thanks for coming in. 199 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 3: Take care everyone Sits Whipper with Kate Ritchie is a 200 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 3: Nova podcast walk great shows like this. Download the Nova 201 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 3: Player by the app store or Google playing the player