Speaker 1: Our next guest is it Titan of the Australian music industry.
Speaker 2: Miss The heights of his talents are batched only perhaps
Speaker 2: by the height of his head.
Speaker 1: And he's very told by please welcome to the show's.
Speaker 3: Try Hello, good morning, good morning, thanks for love the intro.
Speaker 4: Welcome joining us.
Speaker 3: It's good to be back in Melbourne.
Speaker 4: Are living in Spain?
Speaker 5: Yeah most of the time? I mean yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 5: do about half and half are a bit more than
Speaker 5: half in Spain, Barcelona, Bona.
Speaker 6: You need someone to house sip for the other part
Speaker 6: of the year you're not there?
Speaker 5: I should, I should, Yeah, I should get someone in
Speaker 5: there and we wouldn't charge too much rent.
Speaker 2: So is there anything that you do when you come
Speaker 2: back to Melbourne that you missed doing? Like what do
Speaker 2: you do? I mean, footy's coming up? But are you
Speaker 2: played footy? To go to footy matches?
Speaker 3: All the rest?
Speaker 5: Just like well, I just I appreciate this, the ability
Speaker 5: to go to any cafe and be understood. And I'm
Speaker 5: kind of like I can speak a little bit of Spanish,
Speaker 5: No not bilingual. I can speak a bit and I
Speaker 5: can kind of get by. But it's just like simple
Speaker 5: things like just community, just like getting an appointment or
Speaker 5: like getting someone, like getting a plumber here is just
Speaker 5: so easy and just you know, I know it's not
Speaker 5: very romantic, but what do I like? I honestly, I
Speaker 5: just love the fresh air. I love the parks. There's
Speaker 5: I feel a bit like locked in in the city.
Speaker 4: And it's a big city, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I met my wife there six years ago and
Speaker 5: so we were I was on tour, I had a
Speaker 5: couple of shows and I met her just kind of,
Speaker 5: you know, for a date, and then she's from there.
Speaker 5: She's actually from Turkey, but she she was living there,
Speaker 5: and then I just kept visiting, going back, and then
Speaker 5: eventually it was like, you know, set up there a
Speaker 5: little bit. And so yeah, that time has gone quickly,
Speaker 5: and but I'm trying slowly to just like show the
Speaker 5: best of Melbourne. And so we're staying in Fitzroy and
Speaker 5: it's a good area to.
Speaker 4: Bring because you were a Melbourne boy.
Speaker 7: And I don't know if you remember this, but once
Speaker 7: upon a time we played in a mixed netball team together.
Speaker 4: You feel here on my team.
Speaker 3: I don't have a cool nickname.
Speaker 4: No, if we had a name, it was all my
Speaker 4: Uni mats.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, and you were really good. I got
Speaker 3: a bit whiteline fever potentially.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Because it was mixed, it's like an even more. It's like, Wow,
Speaker 5: I get to play with all these cute girls, so that.
Speaker 7: I was cute once upon a time. But that was
Speaker 7: a long time ago. When I was at Union. I
Speaker 7: remember then when you took off in the music industry.
Speaker 7: I was like, hang on a second, that's the extra is.
Speaker 3: That wing attack? Yeah? I don't think he's coming back next.
Speaker 7: I think you won the hottest one that year or
Speaker 7: the year after, and I was like, hang on a.
Speaker 3: Second, attack.
Speaker 5: Are you quite competitive? I am a bit competitive? Like, look,
Speaker 5: when I think about playing AFL football, like I think
Speaker 5: there might be a limit to my competitiveness. Like it
Speaker 5: sounds like it's not like a very goo cool that
Speaker 5: I'm going crazy in mixed netball. But just like you know,
Speaker 5: just like basketball, soccer, football, but when it gets really
Speaker 5: hardcore intense football, I just kind of something in me
Speaker 5: is like a little bit not all the way in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, very athletic.
Speaker 2: Now you're a bit of a softy because you're you're
Speaker 2: a girl dad, right, what's it like being a girl, dad,
Speaker 2: And what's it like touring with your daughters.
Speaker 3: It's awesome.
Speaker 5: Like, look, there's a lot of it puts things in perspective,
Speaker 5: being like traveling as a family, like.
Speaker 3: For tour, like how old she's two years old too.
Speaker 5: And so just like everything else is more important than
Speaker 5: the actual show. So it's like the packing the bags,
Speaker 5: sleeping naps and you know, my wife and are we
Speaker 5: rested and whatever, and so by the time I get
Speaker 5: to the show, it's like I'm just hanging with a band.
Speaker 5: It's like the easiest thing in the world. It's like
Speaker 5: we're just this is just a take because it's just
Speaker 5: so it has put that in perspective. I used to like,
Speaker 5: I wouldn't complain, but I would just wouldn't appreciate how
Speaker 5: fun just being a sound checken and just being silly is.
Speaker 4: But you're on too with Ed cheering at the moment.
Speaker 7: And he's also with dad and he's very family orientated,
Speaker 7: so imagine it must be nice being on a tour
Speaker 7: with someone who's like minded when it comes to family first.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I think so he's he's pretty inspiring, and yeah,
Speaker 5: I feel like that's It took me a while to
Speaker 5: get not to get to this point just happened naturally,
Speaker 5: but it just feels like why would I put anything
Speaker 5: in front of that? And also just like at this point,
Speaker 5: I feel pretty content with where I'm at with music,
Speaker 5: so any new music is a bonus. This tour is
Speaker 5: an absolute bonus. Like, what a pleasure to be opening
Speaker 5: big for Ed Sheeran at these big shows.
Speaker 6: So how does something like that come about? Like I
Speaker 6: know Sabrina Rackman for Taylor when she was out here.
Speaker 3: You've opened for Taylor, haven't you. Yeah? Yeah that was
Speaker 3: about ten years ago. Yeah, that was. I mean, these
Speaker 3: things I think. Look, honestly, I'm very I've.
Speaker 5: Got great management and and I have to thank Matt
Speaker 5: Giddinski as well for really putting me in the mix,
Speaker 5: and he's got a great relationship with Ed and so
Speaker 5: you know, it's just I just feel like totally lucky,
Speaker 5: and I'll always just be so down to open for
Speaker 5: any artists like Edits.
Speaker 3: Do you guys?
Speaker 4: Yeah, to get along well much to do with each other. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it is a great block.
Speaker 3: He's a great guy.
Speaker 5: He's and just watching his show, I just keep kind
Speaker 5: of loving more and more, like just like what he
Speaker 5: kind of stands for and all the things he does
Speaker 5: outside of music beyond just like making music that everyone loves.
Speaker 5: It's like he like has you know, made music like
Speaker 5: you know approachable for so many kids in England. And
Speaker 5: we had a nice encounter actually the first show in Auckland,
Speaker 5: I walked out into the hallway. We had a very
Speaker 5: nice spontaneous meeting, which is exactly what you want, Like,
Speaker 5: I don't want to be told on meeting Ed Sheeran.
Speaker 3: In ten minutes.
Speaker 4: First time you met.
Speaker 5: We met like ten years ago at a charity thing,
Speaker 5: but it was like the fresh meeting and it was
Speaker 5: just perfectly spontaneous and I didn't have to think about
Speaker 5: what I'm going to say or get sweaty hands and
Speaker 5: all that stuff.
Speaker 6: You hit him up and go hey, can I have
Speaker 6: the remote for that little electric bridge that comes out.
Speaker 7: I do love in Australian tours when big stars like
Speaker 7: it like great Sure Taylor had Sabrina carp so that's
Speaker 7: one thing, but having an Australian art on that big
Speaker 7: stage in that huge crowd.
Speaker 4: I love it when when Ossie artists are supported.
Speaker 3: Like that totally.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he definitely has done that repeatedly, like I
Speaker 5: think Missy Higgins opened another year you had bug and
Speaker 5: they did a song together. He has a guy named
Speaker 5: Aaron Rowe at the moment who's from Ireland. But I
Speaker 5: think he really looks for artists that he likes and
Speaker 5: wants to support them and give them the States.
Speaker 2: So Marvel Stadium tomorrow night. Do you have family, friends,
Speaker 2: ticket requests, all the rest of it?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I get I get like it's just like you
Speaker 5: know everyone but an all immediate family and friends and
Speaker 5: that pretty much takes everything up. But every now and
Speaker 5: then you get someone you haven't seen for ten years,
Speaker 5: like what's going on?
Speaker 6: Like the reson? The reason Clint's asking is because he
Speaker 6: got a plus one and he's invited.
Speaker 3: To Yeah, next ticket, let's see what we can do.
Speaker 6: Hey, well, you know we're debating this yesterday, Ruth open
Speaker 6: or closed at Marvel.
Speaker 5: I don't know, maybe rufe open. I don't know what
Speaker 5: the what's the best result is? But I think if
Speaker 5: it's not raining, then we go, yeah, we're shooting, We're
Speaker 5: gonna be there's going to be some fireworks and stuff.
Speaker 3: I don't know. If it's better.
Speaker 4: Open'll be doing that and now let's move on. From Dune.
Speaker 4: What's next for you after this tour?
Speaker 5: Honestly, I'm pretty chill, like I think, just head down,
Speaker 5: do some songwriting I've got. The schedule is clear and
Speaker 5: so I'm not going to.
Speaker 3: Put anything in that. Stay for a bit or are
Speaker 3: you back?
Speaker 5: Well, stay stay here for a little while for a
Speaker 5: bit of holiday stuff and then back to Spain.
Speaker 3: Do you back for what? Bombers? Okay, well that's.
Speaker 5: Back to Barcelona, the Barcelona bombers.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 6: It's good to see mate and looking forward to seeing
Speaker 6: it on stage tomorrow night Marble Stadium, supporting it your
Speaker 6: advance joy on the air with us this morning.
Speaker 4: We should get the netball team back together.
Speaker 5: Let's get it back, Douglas, let's get let's call him
Speaker 5: care for what it was?
Speaker 3: Lauren? Wake up feeling good.
Speaker 4: Follow on the socials.