Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma Mia podcast. Hello, I'm Kate Langbrook
Speaker 1: and welcome to No Filter. So this summer we've curated
Speaker 1: a special No Filter playlist, unmissible conversations with extraordinary Australians
Speaker 1: whose stories remind us of what authenticity, or courage or
Speaker 1: love really look like. And today we're bringing you one
Speaker 1: of the most joyful, the most honest, the incredible g flip.
Speaker 1: GE's about to kick off their massive Australian tour in February,
Speaker 1: returning home to play the songs that are taking them
Speaker 1: around the world. But behind the music is a story
Speaker 1: about identity, drive and the kind of love that changes everything.
Speaker 1: G opens up about growing up in Melbourne, losing their
Speaker 1: beloved drum teacher, finding their sound, falling in love with
Speaker 1: this selling Sunset star Krishelle Staus and how the two
Speaker 1: of them are heading into the new year with big
Speaker 1: life changes and even bigger dreams. This is g flip raw, funny,
Speaker 1: beautifully unfiltered g flip.
Speaker 2: The last few years. To be honest, it's an IVF.
Speaker 2: It's been a real struggle and we've had so many
Speaker 2: ups and downs, and for anyone that goes through that
Speaker 2: whole process, like hopeful moments and then sad moments, and
Speaker 2: then there's a little bit of hope, and then it
Speaker 2: all backfires and then it's going starting again.
Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to No Filter. I'm kateline Brook and
Speaker 1: today we're diving into the world of g Flip and
Speaker 1: what a world it is. G Flip is one of
Speaker 1: Australia's most exciting boundary pushing musicians, and from their breakout
Speaker 1: hits to life behind the scenes, g shares the moments
Speaker 1: that shape their journey from the highs of touring and
Speaker 1: performing too very personal stories of love, relationships and family.
Speaker 1: In this episode, we hear about the chance encounter that
Speaker 1: led to meeting Krishelle Staus, how their friendship turned into love,
Speaker 1: and what it's really like navigating life and relationships in
Speaker 1: the very public eye. Plus, g Flip opens up about
Speaker 1: the challenges of IVF, the joy of celebrating love with
Speaker 1: annual weddings, and how they stay true to themselves no
Speaker 1: matter what the world throws at them. This is g
Speaker 1: flip raw unfiltered, and I think you'll find utterly captivating.
Speaker 1: G flip Yell you straddle continents. Do I love a straddle?
Speaker 1: I love estratu. But you're with us now. So you're
Speaker 1: in Sydney. I'm in Melbourne, I'm in your hometown. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was just there yesterday. And what were you doing here?
Speaker 1: I flew in yesterday.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to fly in and have a day
Speaker 2: off in Sydney, so because my family aren't here. So
Speaker 2: sometimes I will fly into Melbourne just for a few
Speaker 2: hours to see my family, then get straight back to
Speaker 2: the airport and fly to Sydney.
Speaker 1: So how was that. What did you do? Were you
Speaker 1: at the house.
Speaker 2: Or Yeah, so just at my place in Melbourne and
Speaker 2: my sister and my brother in law and their little niece.
Speaker 2: My little niece, so their little baby who's one and
Speaker 2: a half and name's Betty Moon.
Speaker 1: She's so cute.
Speaker 2: So just hung out on the couch with them for
Speaker 2: hours until I went straight back to the airport.
Speaker 1: And that's what I do. And how often are you
Speaker 1: getting to do this? Because your life has I'm going
Speaker 1: to say, in the last five years, what does it
Speaker 1: feel like to you where it's kind of just gone stratospheric?
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: Probably after COVID, So before COVID, my career started, like
Speaker 2: I became like a professional musician. I started doing this
Speaker 2: as my day job, and then I tried to move
Speaker 2: over to LA at the start of twenty twenty, had
Speaker 2: my flight booked, my bags packed, and then called then yeah,
Speaker 2: COVID happened, yeah, and then.
Speaker 1: Took me till September twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: Then I went over to the States to live, and
Speaker 2: then from there on it just got a bit more hectic.
Speaker 2: So now I try to visit every three to four
Speaker 2: months come back.
Speaker 1: What was it about LA that was calling you?
Speaker 2: Definitely the music industry, just the industry over there. It's
Speaker 2: like no other It's like nowhere else in the world
Speaker 2: that there's that many producers, that many musicians, that many
Speaker 2: like you know, if I'm in in Australia, it's like
Speaker 2: there's no city that's like LA, Like Hollywood is crazy
Speaker 2: over there, and it's so vibrant, and it's just everyone's
Speaker 2: over there and everyone's doing it. And I wanted to
Speaker 2: take my career to the next level. And I always thought,
Speaker 2: you know, that was going to be the next step
Speaker 2: for me. Is I want to be known as an
Speaker 2: Ossie artist, but also an artist known in other territories
Speaker 2: rather than just in Australia, so the jump.
Speaker 1: And have access to people that you can collaborate with
Speaker 1: and who you yeah, exchange creative juices with exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, my plan was always to move over
Speaker 2: there at some point.
Speaker 1: So and when you say always, so you are little
Speaker 1: Georgia Flipo living in Melbourne, Yep. What was Georgia Flippo
Speaker 1: like a kid? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I was very extroverted and like my older sister, was
Speaker 2: quite shy and would hide behind like mum's legs where
Speaker 2: we were anywhere, and I would be I almost needed
Speaker 2: a leash. I would be like sprinting into every room
Speaker 2: and loud, and I was just not afraid. I had
Speaker 2: no fear as a kid, and I definitely had relentless,
Speaker 2: undiagnosed ADHD.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I was like, there's videos of me as a kid,
Speaker 2: and it's like, oh, yeah, that kid has ADHD.
Speaker 1: Right, so it seems so apparent now.
Speaker 2: Yes, and just so energetic and but I really couldn't focus.
Speaker 2: I didn't do very well in school. I was put
Speaker 2: in special like classes and I would have to stay
Speaker 2: back at like lunchtime and recess to like learn because
Speaker 2: I just I really sucked. I feel like academically, but
Speaker 2: then I had niche things that I knew everything about.
Speaker 2: So I had certain things I was obsessed with as
Speaker 2: a kid that I'd know every little detail about till
Speaker 2: I found music. And then it was music that I
Speaker 2: was obsessed with in drums that I wanted to know
Speaker 2: everything about. And then that took me to where I
Speaker 2: am now.
Speaker 1: And what because your dad was a muso, like amateur muso,
Speaker 1: but enjoyed it enormously.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he always you know, we'd talk about it, and
Speaker 2: he always felt like he was meant to be a
Speaker 2: rock star, but his parents weren't as supportive of that idea.
Speaker 2: So he always, you know, supported me. He always supported
Speaker 2: me so much, you know, growing up and playing music
Speaker 2: and we'd jam in the garage and he drive me
Speaker 2: to all my first gigs as a fourteen year old,
Speaker 2: and he really.
Speaker 1: Backed me with all of it. Which is interesting because
Speaker 1: partly the parental thing. I understand, how many rock stars
Speaker 1: can they be in the world, do you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? And what's the likelihood of our kid being
Speaker 1: the rocks star? So parents always had this overriding oh,
Speaker 1: you need to make a sensible choice. But he saw
Speaker 1: something in you recognized obviously the same thing in himself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and where did the drums come from? The drums?
Speaker 2: So my drums was my first instrument in my first love.
Speaker 2: I got my first drum kit when I was nine
Speaker 2: years old from my auntie and uncle because my cousin
Speaker 2: played drums and as a nine year old or eight
Speaker 2: year old, seven eight year old, I was obsessed with
Speaker 2: his drum kit. So on my ninth birthday, I got
Speaker 2: a little drum kit for my birthday and it was
Speaker 2: one of the greatest days of my life. And I
Speaker 2: remember they hid it in the lounde room of my
Speaker 2: grandma's house and unveiled it to me, and I remember
Speaker 2: my eyes just like popping out of my head.
Speaker 1: I was that excited about it. And because I imagine
Speaker 1: that was the greatest day of your life and maybe
Speaker 1: for a period, the worst day in the neighbour's life. Oh,
Speaker 1: when a drum kit rives in Yanana's house.
Speaker 2: Yes, I've never had a neighbor that likes me until
Speaker 2: I guess the last two years at Chrishelle's moving into
Speaker 2: Krishelle's house. But every other neighbor has hated me with
Speaker 2: a passion.
Speaker 1: Yes, because it's a I mean, it's not it's not
Speaker 1: something that you can do silently, is it. No, it's
Speaker 1: really not.
Speaker 2: And you can get like you get an electric drum kit,
Speaker 2: but it's not the same. So yeah, my neighbor growing up,
Speaker 2: he hated me, like hated me, hate.
Speaker 1: He would still be angry about me. Oh like really,
Speaker 1: And do you see that neighbor even now.
Speaker 2: No, he moved out when I kind of moved out
Speaker 2: of home.
Speaker 1: So yeah, oh that's annoying. That's really annoying because you
Speaker 1: want that kind of you want that redemption arc where
Speaker 1: you come into town on the tray truck that you're
Speaker 1: playing in your new film clip and the neighbors just
Speaker 1: got up suck it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I hope sometimes I think about when my
Speaker 2: tour poster is around on buses or I hope.
Speaker 1: He sees it.
Speaker 2: He's like some people are like, I hope my ex
Speaker 2: sees my face, but I'm like, I hope that neighbor
Speaker 2: growing up sees me.
Speaker 1: It's a very interesting thing because I think things seem
Speaker 1: in retrospect if you look back, you're like, oh, that
Speaker 1: was my pathway, and my pathway was quite clear. It's
Speaker 1: lead you to here. Yes, when you were a kid.
Speaker 1: What did you see for yourself.
Speaker 2: When I was a kid, So my first like, I think,
Speaker 2: it wasn't until I was I got my drums. Before
Speaker 2: I got my drums, I was obsessed with cars and
Speaker 2: I wanted to.
Speaker 1: Be a taxi driver. And then I got my drums.
Speaker 2: And then when I got my drums, everything changed, and
Speaker 2: I wanted to be a rock star or in a band.
Speaker 2: But I also thought maybe I wanted to get into acting.
Speaker 2: And then I also wanted to be a singer. So
Speaker 2: there was all these different things. But I never got
Speaker 2: singing lessons ever. I only ever had drum lesson.
Speaker 1: And so you thought, I mean, when did you let
Speaker 1: the dream of being a taxi driver go?
Speaker 2: Wow? I know, I think when I was when I
Speaker 2: got my drums. I think when I was like nine
Speaker 2: years old, then the taxi driver went away. I just
Speaker 2: was obsessed with cars as a kid. I knew every
Speaker 2: make and model. I'd research, you know, what fuel injection
Speaker 2: each model would have, and what alloy wheels would come
Speaker 2: with each model, and like all I wanted to do
Speaker 2: on a weekend is go to car yards with my dad.
Speaker 1: It was this weird obsession I had.
Speaker 2: Wow, A taxi driver, and then yeah, I got drums,
Speaker 2: and then I think it started to form that I
Speaker 2: wanted to be a musician, which.
Speaker 1: Is just as well because I mean, AI hasn't overtaken
Speaker 1: the skill of a drama yet. But there is a
Speaker 1: thing called Uber that has meant that a lot of
Speaker 1: taxi drivers are not leaving their destiny that they drink
Speaker 1: for themselves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, I still love driving cars. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe later in life I'll become an Uber drum My
Speaker 2: stepdad's an Uber driver, so yeah, you never know.
Speaker 1: And so when you talk to drumming, did you allow
Speaker 1: yourself to project a future in which that was going
Speaker 1: to be your life?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was always in me, and I like really
Speaker 2: fell in love with drums, and I had this passion.
Speaker 2: It was the only thing that I could stay still
Speaker 2: and do. I couldn't really stay still and do anything
Speaker 2: but drums. I would sit there for hours. And then
Speaker 2: it wasn't until I met my drum teacher in year seven,
Speaker 2: Jenny Rose Morrish, who was like, to me, like the
Speaker 2: coolest person, and I wanted to be exactly like them.
Speaker 1: They were like the.
Speaker 2: Coolest chicken played in a band and sang backing vocals
Speaker 2: and then having her my teacher. I feel like when
Speaker 2: your brain is like forming at those like early teenage
Speaker 2: years and you're figuring yourself out and what your dreams
Speaker 2: are going to be and what you want to be
Speaker 2: when you're older, and who you want to look up to.
Speaker 2: She really became my person who I wanted to be
Speaker 2: exactly like. And so she was a drummer in a band,
Speaker 2: so I wanted to be a drummer.
Speaker 1: Those people are so important. And if you're a kid
Speaker 1: that is a little bit different, or probably any kid really,
Speaker 1: but especially if you're a kid that feels a bit different,
Speaker 1: all it takes is one person to see you and
Speaker 1: to see the complete you that you can't even necessarily
Speaker 1: see yourself at the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to change everything. One hundred and definitely. Jenny was
Speaker 2: that for me, and that I think drums took me
Speaker 2: on a path and then Jenny just like solidified that
Speaker 2: path and then it never it never ended, and.
Speaker 1: Then she wanted what for you?
Speaker 2: So she after high school did a Bachelor of Music
Speaker 2: and made it in percussion, and I wanted to do
Speaker 2: the exact same course as her because I wanted to
Speaker 2: do everything she did so I wanted to study music
Speaker 2: and major in drums, and she helped me with my
Speaker 2: auditions to get into you need it to study music,
Speaker 2: and then I got in, and then not too long
Speaker 2: after that, she passed away. And then I kind of
Speaker 2: remember wanting to go on a mission to fulfill everything
Speaker 2: that we talked about growing up and like her us
Speaker 2: in the practice room in high school because she taught
Speaker 2: me for my whole high school. We talk about how
Speaker 2: we're going to tour the world and we're going to
Speaker 2: see America and we're going to live on a tour
Speaker 2: bus and we're going to do this and all the
Speaker 2: coolest things. So when she passed away, it was like really,
Speaker 2: it really hit me, like holy shit, Like I want
Speaker 2: to go do everything that we talked about.
Speaker 1: You know the day that you got into your course,
Speaker 1: which those auditions are intense, Yeah, like many are called,
Speaker 1: but few were chosen. Yes. Who was the first person
Speaker 1: that you called when you got in?
Speaker 2: Ah? I think I got an email. So I remember
Speaker 2: like screaming at home and then yeah, texting Jenny because
Speaker 2: we went through all the drum pieces together and like
Speaker 2: and I knew I was going to get in because
Speaker 2: I practiced so hard, like I was so ready for it,
Speaker 2: but yeah, Jenny and then my family who were home,
Speaker 2: because I just wanted to get into that course because
Speaker 2: it was based not on academics so ye, which I
Speaker 2: wasn't good at. So yeah, I was like, like, I
Speaker 2: really really wanted to get in there and study music.
Speaker 2: And then during that course is when I realized that
Speaker 2: I would always seen backing vocals. But there was this
Speaker 2: one class we had where there was too many drummers
Speaker 2: and not enough singers. So I put my hand up
Speaker 2: to be the lead singer. When I was I think
Speaker 2: I was like at nineteen or twenty, and I sang
Speaker 2: James Brown, and the university thought I was really good
Speaker 2: that they asked me if I wanted to move over
Speaker 2: to the singing course on the drumming course, and that
Speaker 2: was kind of the first taste that I just didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know I could sing well.
Speaker 2: And then that really gave me the confidence because I've
Speaker 2: never had a lesson, so that gave me the confidence
Speaker 2: to be like.
Speaker 1: Oh, maybe I'm an alright singer. I guess that's interesting
Speaker 1: because when I first heard about you, I was living initially,
Speaker 1: and in fact it was our mutual friend Pete Hellier
Speaker 1: who told me about it. Oh, my Collingwood brother. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're Collingwood brother. Boom haha. But I was at the
Speaker 1: time thinking I don't really know many singing drummers. I
Speaker 1: knew Cram from Spider Base. Yes, love Cram, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that because it's not really a very common model. No,
Speaker 1: it's not.
Speaker 2: And growing up, Cram was one of the first people
Speaker 2: I saw drumming and singing.
Speaker 1: Oh really Yeah.
Speaker 2: And now he's a buddy of mine and we've played
Speaker 2: some shows together, but he was kind of the first
Speaker 2: person I ever saw on TV singing and drumming, and
Speaker 2: that really opened up my eyes. And especially because Jenny
Speaker 2: did backing vocals. Then it made me learn and then we.
Speaker 1: Used to practice. Jenny taught me.
Speaker 2: She'd make me drum and then have a conversation with
Speaker 2: her so I could put my body on autopilot. She'd
Speaker 2: asked me questions.
Speaker 1: Right, which means that later on, when you're singing, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can drum and the lyrics will come. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It just puts my body. My body's always on autopilot.
Speaker 2: And basically all I'm thinking about is the singing and
Speaker 2: remembering lyrics. My body is on autopilot. And because Jenny
Speaker 2: taught me that from a young age, I used to
Speaker 2: just drum while my brain's just thinking about answering questions
Speaker 2: that she's asking me.
Speaker 1: So that split my brain kind of into and for
Speaker 1: the ADHD that would actually be really good. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love doing multiple things at once because my brain
Speaker 2: how it works is I've got like a tab open
Speaker 2: of like ten files in my brain that is thinking
Speaker 2: all the time. So yeah it yeah, but cram and
Speaker 2: Yeah inspired me a lot, and then yeah, I just
Speaker 2: started writing my own music.
Speaker 1: Then do you think that Jenny saw you? So she
Speaker 1: saw the musical side of you, But that's a very
Speaker 1: intimate relationship between a teacher who's taught you so much. Yes, and,
Speaker 1: like I said, sees the entirety of you. What did
Speaker 1: she say of you when it comes to gender? Do
Speaker 1: you think.
Speaker 2: I think with gender back then, it wasn't in our vocabulary,
Speaker 2: It wasn't talked about, Like not being non binary wasn't
Speaker 2: really a thing then. But being like queer and like
Speaker 2: being a lesbian. I think she definitely saw me because
Speaker 2: she said I remember her saying something to me when
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm going to say like fourteen or something.
Speaker 1: She's like she said something like, one day when.
Speaker 2: You're older, like you'll figure out like who you truly
Speaker 2: are and it's going to be so magical for you
Speaker 2: said something in like in those words.
Speaker 1: And I always remember it, and I always remember being like,
Speaker 1: what did she mean?
Speaker 2: And then it wasn't until later that, like I first
Speaker 2: got with a woman for the first time, that I
Speaker 2: was like, man, like, Jenny knew me so like she
Speaker 2: and she also said I remember her saying, I don't
Speaker 2: know what you're going to do with your life, but
Speaker 2: it's going to be it's going to be something like
Speaker 2: And it makes me like tear up when I think
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: Because it's like, oh my god. So I really feel
Speaker 1: like she's like a guardian name do it to me
Speaker 1: or something like that. Yeah, well she is, Yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: she is, and she was and she is because I
Speaker 1: think when you have a relationship like that, the energy
Speaker 1: of it stays with you. Yeah, and now you're carrying
Speaker 1: her dreams as well. Yeah, like beyond beyond I would
Speaker 1: think imagining. Did you imagine stuff for yourself?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I always like it's almost like I was delusional,
Speaker 2: like I really thought every everything was possible, I thought,
Speaker 2: like if I wanted a drum for the biggest artists
Speaker 2: in the world, like I can figure out a way
Speaker 2: to make that happen. Like I always thought everything was possible,
Speaker 2: Like there was never anything that I thought wasn't possible.
Speaker 2: And I don't know where I got that from, and
Speaker 2: I don't know how that happened, but that's always how
Speaker 2: my brain operated. So when it came to me deciding
Speaker 2: to stop playing drums for other people, because I did
Speaker 2: that for a while, playing drums for other bands, and
Speaker 2: when I really decided to change gears and that I'm
Speaker 2: going to go for being a solo artist now, because
Speaker 2: it was always kind of knocking at me in the
Speaker 2: back of my head, being like, you should be a
Speaker 2: solo artist, you should be a solo artist. But I
Speaker 2: was always kind of hiding behind the drums and playing
Speaker 2: for other bands.
Speaker 1: And session is session is like dreams for some people
Speaker 1: as well, Like there's no shame in that. No, No,
Speaker 1: you had the calling. What did that feel like? That calling?
Speaker 2: I just remember when I was like fourteen fifteen, so
Speaker 2: I always played drums, but then I started teaching myself
Speaker 2: guitar and piano, and I'd run. I'd run home from
Speaker 2: the school bus and before my family all came home,
Speaker 2: I just want alone time so I could write songs.
Speaker 1: And I'd play on my.
Speaker 2: Little shitty cassio keyboard and my first little guitar, and
Speaker 2: I'd just write songs. And I remember delusionally thinking like,
Speaker 2: these songs are so good, like I am such a
Speaker 2: good songwriter, and they would be horrible songs. But I
Speaker 2: remember the delusionalness in my brain being like encouraging me
Speaker 2: made me thought that I was a really, really talented songwriter,
Speaker 2: and I was like, these are such good songs, They're
Speaker 2: so catchy. And then that kept carrying on, and while
Speaker 2: I was playing drums for other people, I was always
Speaker 2: writing songs and then teaching myself how to produce music
Speaker 2: and record music. So always in my head it was like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's also the band I was playing with, we we
Speaker 2: couldn't share song ideas. It was just his songs, so
Speaker 2: then I couldn't have input.
Speaker 1: With your brilliant songs that you were writing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So yeah, it was always when that band, the
Speaker 2: last band I played for, finish, then it was like,
Speaker 2: I think it's time to do this solo thing, and
Speaker 2: you know, the way that my brain works is like,
Speaker 2: it's always possible, so we'll figure out how to get there.
Speaker 1: It's funny you say delusional, but you weren't delusional.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think it's at the I find a
Speaker 2: lot of people that I've met that have, I don't know,
Speaker 2: become successful musicians. It's this crazy belief we have in
Speaker 2: ourselves when we haven't even sharpened our skills yet. Like
Speaker 2: when those like I used to think then that, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm going to be a super successful artist. But my
Speaker 2: skills like I could barely sing, like could barely rock
Speaker 2: a guitar solo, like, my skills weren't sharpened. And now
Speaker 2: that I'm older, I can identify that and look back
Speaker 2: and be like man like the confidence I had. The
Speaker 2: confidence was insane like, and I was never outwardly arrogant
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: I never told anyone this.
Speaker 2: I always kept it as my little secret that I
Speaker 2: wanted to be a solo artist.
Speaker 1: I never shared it with anyone. Coming up after the break,
Speaker 1: g Flip recalls the moment they went from music teacher
Speaker 1: to music artist overnight. You knew that you were going
Speaker 1: to get into. Was it the conservatorium?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was it was a Bachelor of Music majoring
Speaker 2: in drums.
Speaker 1: Now you said when you were talking about that, you
Speaker 1: knew you were going to get in because you'd worked
Speaker 1: so hard. Yes, Now, I reckon that's a through line,
Speaker 1: and that's the divide between people that might have some
Speaker 1: delulu notion about what what they want for their future, yeah,
Speaker 1: versus what makes that happen. Yeah, and your work ethic
Speaker 1: is phenomenal, thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do work a lot. I don't know how
Speaker 2: to not work. Actually, it's more it's kind of unhealthy.
Speaker 2: But Yeah, even with those auditions, I would practice, rehearse
Speaker 2: everything that they were going to even ask me. So
Speaker 2: I'd thought about every possible question they could ask me.
Speaker 2: So I had rehearsed, sharp, perfected answers. And even when
Speaker 2: i'd audition for bands you'd have to audition three songs,
Speaker 2: I'd learn their entire catalog just in case and backing vocals,
Speaker 2: so that when i'd go into an audition, I could
Speaker 2: be like, Hey, you've played those three songs all day.
Speaker 2: How about we played this song or that song or
Speaker 2: that song. So I think for me, I've always over prepared,
Speaker 2: like so so so much that it's like if I
Speaker 2: did an audition like it'd be really hard to turn
Speaker 2: me down. So even with my career, I did absolutely
Speaker 2: just everything possible. So it felt like I'd open the
Speaker 2: door in so many avenues that at least one of
Speaker 2: the routes is going to work.
Speaker 1: Because I always think there's so many ways to fuck
Speaker 1: yourself up, and there's so many ways that the external
Speaker 1: world can trip you up as well. You don't need
Speaker 1: to trip yourself up through lack of preparation. No, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: And at what point did you go did you start
Speaker 1: to feel the momentum of all of that coming together.
Speaker 1: So you're singing, you're drumming, you've got the call to America.
Speaker 1: Was there a moment where you went, oh, I think,
Speaker 1: I think g Flip's going to do this.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, there was definitely one defining moment.
Speaker 1: So after I.
Speaker 2: Left that last band, I gave myself one year to
Speaker 2: basically find management or a label. And I had no
Speaker 2: connections in the Australian music scene, but I gave myself
Speaker 2: about a year to figure it out. So I made
Speaker 2: Excel spreadsheets of the whole music industry in Australia. I
Speaker 2: had everyone's details from Triple J all the booking agents,
Speaker 2: Spotify playlisters, and I made this insane spreadsheet of the
Speaker 2: whole music industry, and then I would I was just
Speaker 2: I was so relentless. I was just insane, and I
Speaker 2: wanted to write my hit list of who I wanted
Speaker 2: to be, my publicist and my booking agent. And then
Speaker 2: I wrote as many wrote and produced as many songs
Speaker 2: in my bedroom and it's all I thought about.
Speaker 1: For a year.
Speaker 2: I went sober, I didn't really see my friends. All
Speaker 2: my friends would come over on the weekend and help
Speaker 2: me make my spreadsheets.
Speaker 1: Was very cute of them crafting.
Speaker 2: And then it was I started going to all these
Speaker 2: in the Australian music scene. They have like Music Week
Speaker 2: in Melbourne, and they have Music Week in Sydney, and
Speaker 2: you'd go listen to managers and labels talk about the industry.
Speaker 2: And I would go there and my whole plan was
Speaker 2: that I'm going to talk to that manager afterwards and
Speaker 2: give him my demos, and I'm going to talk to
Speaker 2: that booking agent and learn more about the industry.
Speaker 1: And I was just so obsessed with it.
Speaker 2: And then this one manager, I walked up and said, Hey,
Speaker 2: you should listen to my demos. I'm like Dave Grohl
Speaker 2: from Nirvana, played drums in a band, but now I'm
Speaker 2: a lead singer and I write the music. And you're
Speaker 2: going to love my demos if you give me a shot,
Speaker 2: just have a listen. And he looked at me and said,
Speaker 2: your confidence is so crazy. I'm actually going to listen
Speaker 2: to your demos. And then he listened to the demos
Speaker 2: and then sent me a message and said, hey, come
Speaker 2: to my office Monday morning. And then I remember just
Speaker 2: driving my car and calling my dad and being like
Speaker 2: holy shit, like holy shit, and I'd worked the whole
Speaker 2: year to the point and I got my database and
Speaker 2: I was about to blast email everyone but my demos,
Speaker 2: but then that one manager heard it first and then
Speaker 2: he wanted to sign me for management and label.
Speaker 1: So then I took his name.
Speaker 2: And then I messaged as many people as I could
Speaker 2: in the Australian music industry and said he wants to
Speaker 2: sign me, so you should listen to my demos. And
Speaker 2: then everyone that I sent them listened to my demos.
Speaker 2: And then I just got to meet heaps of different
Speaker 2: people in the music industry and kind of.
Speaker 1: Pick my turn yourself into a bidding war.
Speaker 2: I did yeah, Wow, yeah, And then that all happened,
Speaker 2: and at the same time I had my first single
Speaker 2: about You that and I was obsessed with Triple J
Speaker 2: on Earth to this platform, and I was a super user.
Speaker 2: I was so obsessed with that I would write reviews
Speaker 2: because I knew at some stage I'm going to have
Speaker 2: a single and I want to have a direct contact
Speaker 2: that I can give my song to them. Because this
Speaker 2: was about this is how my brain works.
Speaker 1: I wanted every.
Speaker 2: Avenue to work, so even the Triple J thing, I
Speaker 2: was a super user. And then Max Quinn, I had
Speaker 2: his email and this doesn't mean that you get on
Speaker 2: the air, but it means you just have the email
Speaker 2: of the guy that works at Triple Jay on Earth
Speaker 2: for me to just send him and be like, hey,
Speaker 2: I uploaded a song today.
Speaker 1: And then it was this was the day that.
Speaker 2: To answer your question, that I remember everything feeling like,
Speaker 2: holy shit, I think it's going to work. Is that
Speaker 2: song that I uploaded to Triple Jay on Earth blew up?
Speaker 2: And then went on the air on Triple J and
Speaker 2: started going psycho online. And then I remember going to
Speaker 2: bed that night and I've documented all of this, actually
Speaker 2: all of this story, I'm telling.
Speaker 1: You the christ.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's real life videos of me talking about it,
Speaker 2: but I have a video of me going to sleep
Speaker 2: that night and being like, holy shit, I don't think
Speaker 2: I'm going to have to, you know, teach drum lessons anymore.
Speaker 2: And I don't think I'm going to have to hand
Speaker 2: out pamphlets at rod Laver Arena anymore. Like I think
Speaker 2: I'm I think I've made it. Even though it was
Speaker 2: just the first I just got a spin. But it
Speaker 2: just made me think that, oh, I think I'm going
Speaker 2: to be okay here and I'm going to be able
Speaker 2: to do this for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: So did you send a little preyer up to Jenny
Speaker 1: at that time?
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. Obviously Jenny's always in the back of my head.
Speaker 2: And when the song came out, it was actually it
Speaker 2: was on her birthday. Oh really yeah, oh really see
Speaker 2: that I get these two confusis when she passed words
Speaker 2: on her birthday, but those dates vercant. Yeah, that was
Speaker 2: pretty special. And yeah, and then I just woke up
Speaker 2: and then everything changed and I had to message all
Speaker 2: because I was teaching drum students in my bedroom and
Speaker 2: I had to message them all and say I'm so sorry,
Speaker 2: I won't be able to teach all of you anymore.
Speaker 1: Well, you dragged them straight away. Yeah, my life changed
Speaker 1: the next day. Wow, And like when you say changed,
Speaker 1: what did that look like? Gigs or appointments or sessions.
Speaker 2: So my song went viral online and it hadn't even
Speaker 2: been released yet. It was just on Triple J on
Speaker 2: the website, so it wasn't even a release song. I
Speaker 2: just uploaded it to the website platform. But overnight it
Speaker 2: went global and it became Pitchfork's Best New Song, which
Speaker 2: is like a big deal in the US. And then
Speaker 2: I started getting gig offers at south By Southwest in Texas,
Speaker 2: which was in two weeks time, so I had two
Speaker 2: weeks to find a band and then play my first show,
Speaker 2: which luckily, I'm such a freak and I prepared my
Speaker 2: whole entire show already, so I was ready for that
Speaker 2: exact moment, because if I hadn't planned it all out first,
Speaker 2: I would have been in trouble. But I already had
Speaker 2: my show and my band members and thought exactly about
Speaker 2: what my live show would be. So then two weeks
Speaker 2: later from there, I was in the States and playing
Speaker 2: my very first show, and that was that your.
Speaker 1: First time in the States. No, I'd been in the
Speaker 1: States before drumming for other bands, right, but in your
Speaker 1: own right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the first time being g G Flip And then yeah,
Speaker 2: I had my first show as g Flip and yeah.
Speaker 1: Then it began and it never stopped. No, it never stopped.
Speaker 1: And then concurrently with that, because I do believe that
Speaker 1: when as an artist, particularly, the more that you can
Speaker 1: step into yourself, the more everything else blossoms. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: so often those things that you grapple with about yourself
Speaker 1: or that you think you can't share are the very
Speaker 1: things that give you that are the wind in your wings.
Speaker 1: So with your I don't know, do you say self
Speaker 1: discovery or your revelations about yourself or your non binary thing,
Speaker 1: your what was the compulsion then that you went, I
Speaker 1: just need to share this with the famous Hey motherfuckers,
Speaker 1: I'm non binary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I guess. I was overtly queer and I
Speaker 2: had multiple partners that I'd write songs about, and you know,
Speaker 2: my music videos they were very queer leaning. And then
Speaker 2: just as I evolved as a human being, I learned
Speaker 2: about what being and I would see like Sam Smith
Speaker 2: and Demi Levado at the time, and people would come
Speaker 2: out non binary, and I educated myself on what that was,
Speaker 2: and then I remember like really reading and understanding it
Speaker 2: and then being like, oh, oh my god, that's like
Speaker 2: so me to a t. And then when I would
Speaker 2: try to explain being non binary to my friends or
Speaker 2: family members, then I would kind of use myself as
Speaker 2: an example, and it just felt it's just so me.
Speaker 1: I just feel so.
Speaker 2: Non binary, and if you don't get it, it's because
Speaker 2: you're probably not non binary. Like I just feel so
Speaker 2: like a blend of genders. I just feel like the
Speaker 2: most gender smoothie motherfucker ever. And I felt like that
Speaker 2: from a very young age. I'd look at myself in
Speaker 2: the mirror and I'd be like because I went to
Speaker 2: Catholic school, and I'd be like, wow, God, really he
Speaker 2: ran out of girl insides and brain and I think
Speaker 2: he just put a bit of boy brain or insides
Speaker 2: in me, because I'd feel like a mix. And I'm
Speaker 2: like seven years old, eight years old thinking that, and
Speaker 2: then to me like, that's the most non binary thing,
Speaker 2: for most non binary thing for seven year old to think.
Speaker 1: That that God made you that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and obviously then there was no vocabulary for being
Speaker 2: non binary, Like I didn't know that was a thing.
Speaker 2: But I look back on my childhood and it just it.
Speaker 2: Being non binary makes so much sense I've always felt,
Speaker 2: and for every non binary person, it's different where you
Speaker 2: fall on the spectrum. But I feel pretty fifty to
Speaker 2: fifty in the middle of like female male, mix of gender,
Speaker 2: and that's the best way I can describe it. That's
Speaker 2: just who I am, and I don't know how to
Speaker 2: change it. So when people get in my DMS being hectic, it's.
Speaker 1: Yes, can't change this. Yes, when you told your family
Speaker 1: didn't make the same sense to them, or to your mom,
Speaker 1: or to your dad, or to your sister. Who who
Speaker 1: of them was the one that was like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: see that the most, Probably my sister the most.
Speaker 2: I feel like my mom and dad kind of didn't
Speaker 2: understand it because it was quite a while ago. Now
Speaker 2: so I feel like now they're so educated on it
Speaker 2: because I'm their kid, but back then they did struggle
Speaker 2: to understand pronouns and just figure out And I feel
Speaker 2: like for that age group, like they're in their early sixties,
Speaker 2: so it is kind of harder. But for them to
Speaker 2: grapple the idea of it.
Speaker 1: I saw your dad do a cute thing actually on
Speaker 1: Sixty Minutes where he said sometimes I miss GenEd them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I thought that what that is? You just ask
Speaker 1: for people to rise to meet you.
Speaker 2: Really, Yeah, it's you know, and it's kind of a
Speaker 2: respect thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, that's what I go by.
Speaker 2: And like, even if you stuff it up and completely
Speaker 2: fail and stuff up my pronouns, as long as you're like,
Speaker 2: oh fuck, sorry, G and then you correct yourself or
Speaker 2: just correct yourself, like so many of my mates will
Speaker 2: accidentally say she and then be like they and then
Speaker 2: just keep talking and you know, it's it's normal.
Speaker 1: After this short break, g Flip takes us inside their
Speaker 1: relationship with wife Krishelle. Don't go anywhere. How was your
Speaker 1: meeting with Krishelle? Because at that point, so she's a
Speaker 1: massive star in the States. Yes, selling Sunset. She's had
Speaker 1: romantic entanglements on that show. She's been doing it for
Speaker 1: so long. There's no secrets about her life. Really no.
Speaker 1: And then you two meet, you meet at a party.
Speaker 2: Yeah, our first meet was at a Halloween party that
Speaker 2: tones and I.
Speaker 1: Had, Ah, what was your costume?
Speaker 2: I was a skeleton, and so was Chrishelle. Oh really,
Speaker 2: so that's why we have a thing with skeletons, since
Speaker 2: I've got skeletons tattooed on my arms and our wedding
Speaker 2: rings have skeletons on them. Oh so, yeah, we met.
Speaker 2: She was a really hot skeleton. I got my my
Speaker 2: I literally found like some eyeliner pencil and just like
Speaker 2: blacked my eyes out and found like a kid's T
Speaker 2: shirt from Target that had bones on it and run
Speaker 2: it sleeves off. So I was a fifteen buck skeleton.
Speaker 2: She was like, I really put together good looking skeleton.
Speaker 1: Well, she is a very good looking skeleton. She's yeah,
Speaker 1: she's insane looking. And from the moment you met the skeletons, like,
Speaker 1: what was that moment you were introduced to each other,
Speaker 1: or you went up and you talked to her, or
Speaker 1: she came up to you. Can you remember your encounter,
Speaker 1: your skeleton encounter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, first time we met was one of Tone's best mates,
Speaker 2: Talia was at the front of this venue and.
Speaker 1: Was like, oh, gee, come over meet Michelle.
Speaker 2: And then I was like all right, and then I
Speaker 2: just came over and we shook hands and I said hey,
Speaker 2: and she said hey, and then I was like, like,
Speaker 2: you're real, like a really good looking skeleton and I'm
Speaker 2: not so good looking skeleton. But it wasn't like romantic
Speaker 2: or anything. It was just like a friend group meeting
Speaker 2: a friend group. It wasn't till like six months later
Speaker 2: or something that then some barks flu yeah.
Speaker 1: Which is was I mean, probably more straightforward for you
Speaker 1: m at that time than it was for her because
Speaker 1: she didn't think that she was gonna be a lesbian
Speaker 1: or no. Right, she was straight as far as she knew,
Speaker 1: and maybe Stille's but loves who she loves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she doesn't really know what to call herself, Like
Speaker 2: the word is really pan sexual, and when you're pans sexual,
Speaker 2: you're just attracted to energy. It's not really a gender,
Speaker 2: it's the person. But she personally hates the word pansants.
Speaker 1: It is it's sort of hard to casually toss toss
Speaker 1: that in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a kind of ugly word. So she's like, no,
Speaker 2: I don't want to identify as that. So she just
Speaker 2: says like she falls in love with energy and people
Speaker 2: and who they are, and I guess you know that's
Speaker 2: the case with us, And yeah, we've been together now
Speaker 2: over three years.
Speaker 1: And that's amazing because I love I've heard you tell
Speaker 1: the story about when you asked her out after you'd
Speaker 1: had a couple of you know, encounters, and she said,
Speaker 1: I'm really sorry, yeah'm straight.
Speaker 2: Yes she did, but you were like, I just thought, well,
Speaker 2: we haven't been been very straight together recently, That's what
Speaker 2: I thought, Like the last few times we've had little
Speaker 2: kisses here and there that wasn't very straight darling, But yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what I thought.
Speaker 1: But I just said, oh, okay, no worries.
Speaker 2: And then a few like a week after, I sent
Speaker 2: her some houses that I was because she's a real
Speaker 2: estate agent and I was going to try rent a
Speaker 2: house in La after tour my tour finished. So I
Speaker 2: sent her some houses and I was like, is this
Speaker 2: a good price range for where it is and the
Speaker 2: location and whatever? And then she offered to come and
Speaker 2: look at the houses with me. And then that was
Speaker 2: our first date.
Speaker 1: A did you know at the time it was a
Speaker 1: date or it was only in retrospect?
Speaker 2: I think I knew it was a because yeah, in
Speaker 2: my head, she just told me she was straight and
Speaker 2: not interested. And then when I rocked up to the house,
Speaker 2: I was in the car, and I looked out the
Speaker 2: window and saw her walking down the road to the house,
Speaker 2: and she was like adjusting her face makeup or something
Speaker 2: and looking incredible, Like I knew she'd taken time to
Speaker 2: get ready. And she remembers, like in her words, she
Speaker 2: would say like when she was getting ready that day,
Speaker 2: she was getting ready like she was going to meet
Speaker 2: someone that she had a crush on, Like took that
Speaker 2: extra time and tried on different dress. No, not this,
Speaker 2: And so then that's kind of when it clicked in
Speaker 2: her brain. And I think it clicked in mind because
Speaker 2: I was looking at like her walking down the street
Speaker 2: looking like an absolute fox, and then also just like
Speaker 2: she was doing something like putting lip stuff on or something.
Speaker 2: And then we were just at this house showing and
Speaker 2: we were just flirted the whole time, and then it
Speaker 2: never the flirting never.
Speaker 1: Ended, and it still hasn't ended, even though now you're
Speaker 1: an old married couple. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do a wedding once a year. We reknew
Speaker 2: our vows. It kind of started because our first wedding
Speaker 2: was so shotgun. We married after three months kind of dating,
Speaker 2: which I think a lot of the world think we
Speaker 2: got married like a year later when really we.
Speaker 1: Got We kept it a secret.
Speaker 2: Because yeah, we got married like three months after we
Speaker 2: started fully kind of dating. And then obviously we called
Speaker 2: our family and we decided the day of because we
Speaker 2: worked out we both had the day off the next day,
Speaker 2: so then we ended up deciding to go to Vegas
Speaker 2: and get married. Anyway, we called all our friends and
Speaker 2: family and they were all kind of like, what do
Speaker 2: you mean, Like they were very happy for us, but
Speaker 2: they were sad they were missing it. So we said,
Speaker 2: don't worry, we're going to do another one. Like so,
Speaker 2: then we're going to do another one. So then the
Speaker 2: next one was in Palm Springs so that our friends
Speaker 2: in LA could come, and then my family's like, but
Speaker 2: we can't make it, so.
Speaker 1: We're like, yeah, okay, we'll do another one.
Speaker 2: So then we did another one in Australia with all
Speaker 2: my family, and then this year we had other friends
Speaker 2: that missed out, so then we were like, okay, we'll
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 1: And then it just became the Wedding World Tour.
Speaker 2: So now we do a wedding every year, and you know,
Speaker 2: we're covering the base of a big wedding, which we
Speaker 2: probably that most people have with over one hundred guests.
Speaker 1: We're just slowly getting to all one hundred World War
Speaker 1: ten at a time. Yes, and what like your last one?
Speaker 1: Was it it was medieval? Was it then medieval? And
Speaker 1: you aren't? Were you a knight? I don't know, I was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what were you? Was it a costume shop or was it? No?
Speaker 1: So arn't directed?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, So all our weddings are planned one week
Speaker 2: in advance or less because our whole thing with weddings
Speaker 2: is we don't want to be stressed because we hate
Speaker 2: stress for weddings and it should be about love.
Speaker 1: So everything is so last minute planned.
Speaker 2: So really I had to just look on Amazon and
Speaker 2: see what could get delivered in time, and I bought.
Speaker 1: What was the description? What was the description of the costume?
Speaker 2: Some like Renaissance medieval royal coat?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then and then I bought a sort I like
Speaker 2: the thought of having a sword that was called so
Speaker 2: I bought a foam sword and a sword holder. And
Speaker 2: then I wore some of Kroshelle's like leggings from her
Speaker 2: fitness and then I just wore these boots that I'm
Speaker 2: wearing right now.
Speaker 1: It was gorgeous. It was a bit Zelderish too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a bit fantasy, and we're not like
Speaker 2: into that stuff. It was kind of a joke, like
Speaker 2: it was a week out from when we're meant to
Speaker 2: be getting married, because we always have to do it
Speaker 2: in July, and I think it was Kroshelle was just like,
Speaker 2: what was if we did a medieval wedding, and I
Speaker 2: just looked at it. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: that's so funny, like we should get a loop player,
Speaker 2: and then ks like we should get people who fight
Speaker 2: with swords, and we just were making each other laugh.
Speaker 2: And then we happened to look on Airbnb and there
Speaker 2: was a castle around the corner that you could hire
Speaker 2: just as an Airbnb. So then we were like, all right,
Speaker 2: let's book it, and then let's find some people to
Speaker 2: fight with some swords.
Speaker 1: You jousted jousted like you've verally jousted, and in fact,
Speaker 1: the relationship between the two of you is very lovely,
Speaker 1: and the happiness between you is you know, it's when
Speaker 1: you talk before about trolls and stuff, I'm like, partly
Speaker 1: I'm like, who can be bothered trolling in the face
Speaker 1: of what is objectively pure happiness?
Speaker 2: Yeah, still happens still people think, still think that our
Speaker 2: relationships fake, and we find that funny because God, we
Speaker 2: hang out all the time. Imagine having a pr relationship,
Speaker 2: having a hang out with each other all.
Speaker 1: And especially especially in Hollywood, because have you noticed as
Speaker 1: an Australian, I think part of the reason they love
Speaker 1: you is that you've got this really authentic, almost kind
Speaker 1: of old fashioned Australian energy, you know, Alarican and a
Speaker 1: bit relaxed and have alf instead of getting angry and
Speaker 1: being open, instead of closing the doors. So that to
Speaker 1: Hollywood must have been a shock. Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: I think honestly, just Krishelle not being with a man
Speaker 2: was the biggest shock. I think that really took Americans.
Speaker 2: And you know, a lot of the selling Sunset fan
Speaker 2: base isn't you know in states where it's you know,
Speaker 2: really common to have queer relationships, like Middle America's very
Speaker 2: like you know, the tradition. It's yeah, it's trad It's like,
Speaker 2: so it was really shocking to see her in a
Speaker 2: not with like a six foot man, you know, like
Speaker 2: it was it really made people crazy, and especially at
Speaker 2: that time when we came out public in a relationship
Speaker 2: like the dms and just the things that you just
Speaker 2: I just couldn't believe how much it affected people's days. Like,
Speaker 2: you know, there'd be Karen in Middle America just sweeping
Speaker 2: and then they'd be just so angry and then they'd
Speaker 2: have to get on their phone to like message me
Speaker 2: because they're just so furious that I'm with her.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was very eye opening to me about how people
Speaker 2: are homophobic or you know.
Speaker 1: Scared or fearful, fearful of things because I think fear
Speaker 1: and anger live kind of close to each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really interesting, and it still happens, to
Speaker 2: be honest, I'm still getting dms that people are so
Speaker 2: upset with my gender or that I'm with Koshelle, or
Speaker 2: that I'm queer, or you know, people are just they're
Speaker 2: angry at it. But it really just you know, in
Speaker 2: the end, it kind of does amuse me that someone
Speaker 2: is literally driving to the shops to buy some cereal
Speaker 2: and bread and milk and they just have to pull
Speaker 2: the car over to like message me how angry angry
Speaker 2: they are.
Speaker 1: Like what a crazy way to live?
Speaker 2: You know what, that you're just ticked off by someone existing, but.
Speaker 1: What you continue to do in the face of that
Speaker 1: is exist even more fully. Yeah. One, you know, I
Speaker 1: would never dull myself down. And by the way, on
Speaker 1: an unrelated note, I was also doing the project the
Speaker 1: night Krischelle came in, which was not long ago. Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness that the response to her was so beautiful,
Speaker 1: just so beautiful. Yeah, she's she's a great one. I know,
Speaker 1: I've really lucked out. She's an Arab one.
Speaker 2: When my family found out, like we're seriously going to
Speaker 2: be together, it wasn't just like a little fling. They
Speaker 2: all cried. They were like because they just thought she
Speaker 2: was the best person they ever met.
Speaker 1: So, you know, because Chrishelle's just spoken recently and I've
Speaker 1: heard you speak before too about and Krishelle's always been
Speaker 1: really open about the fact that she wants to have babies. Yes,
Speaker 1: and recently she came out and said that that wasn't
Speaker 1: working out so well.
Speaker 2: Yeah the last few years. To be honest, it's an IVF.
Speaker 2: It's been a real struggle and we've had so many gods,
Speaker 2: so many ups and downs, and for anyone that goes
Speaker 2: through that whole process, like it really takes a toll.
Speaker 2: And there's you know, hopeful moments and then sad moments,
Speaker 2: and then there's a little bit of hope and then
Speaker 2: it all backfires and then it's going starting again. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it's definitely been uh and the hormones. The hormones are
Speaker 2: rough hormones. And the amount of needles, like it's crazy.
Speaker 2: And surgeries and she's such a baller though. Whenever Krishelle
Speaker 2: has surgeries or has to go through anything where the
Speaker 2: doctor might give you pain medication, majority of the time
Speaker 2: she doesn't even take the medication. She's just a baller,
Speaker 2: Like her pain tolerance is insane. Like, so she's such
Speaker 2: a tough cookie. And you know, I admire I admire
Speaker 2: just everything and how strong she is and how she's
Speaker 2: taking all, you know, the news that we get, and
Speaker 2: she's just she's so amazing and she's such a brilliant
Speaker 2: and strong human being for everything she's gone through, not
Speaker 2: only with this whole process we're going through, but also
Speaker 2: her whole life, Like her story is pretty amazing. What
Speaker 2: she's got through to get to where she has. Her
Speaker 2: childhood was nothing like you would think and it's completely
Speaker 2: the opposite. So I just admire everything about her and
Speaker 2: where she's come from.
Speaker 1: You're very yin and yang. You know, there's something together
Speaker 1: that's so whole with the two of you together. I
Speaker 1: hope you're I hope your every dream comes true together
Speaker 1: because you're delightful and individually. Thank you for your gift
Speaker 1: of music and really being a great ambassador for Australia,
Speaker 1: which life not every Australian is. But I truly believe
Speaker 1: that your spirit and you get up and go is
Speaker 1: just glorious. That's very sweet. That's going to make me cry.
Speaker 1: The future is a big place. You have to narrow
Speaker 1: it down slightly to what is coming up. It's dream Ride.
Speaker 2: Yes, album's coming out September fifth. It's called dream Ride.
Speaker 2: It's a very eighties esque kind of album. I went
Speaker 2: really hard into the eighties world sonically with like big
Speaker 2: reverb on the drums and you know every drum is
Speaker 2: me playing it and a lot of sax solos and
Speaker 2: synth solos. And yeah, I'm really excited to release this
Speaker 2: record on fifth.
Speaker 1: We look forward to seeing you very much.
Speaker 2: Yes, So I'm coming back to Australia late feb and
Speaker 2: March to play shows in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and
Speaker 2: Perth and I can't wait to come and play shows.
Speaker 2: Playing shows is my favorite part about my job, and
Speaker 2: I spend a lot of time trying to make my
Speaker 2: live show as good as possible, and I've been working
Speaker 2: on it the last week and yeah, it's going to
Speaker 2: be a ripper. So I can't wait and hope hopefully
Speaker 2: some people come out to see me.
Speaker 1: It's going to be good. Oh I think they will.
Speaker 2: Jenny's brother comes to my shows and they have a
Speaker 2: little girl who's a huge g Flip fan, their little daughter,
Speaker 2: so Jenny's niece, so it's very, very cute. And my
Speaker 2: last show I played in Melbourne, Jenny's brow and his
Speaker 2: wife came to that show and they gave me a
Speaker 2: pair of Jenny's last drumsticks, which is really special.
Speaker 1: Sure really yeah, yeah, it was really nice. Ah. Just
Speaker 1: the power of a teacher, I know, And that's what
Speaker 1: made me want to be a drum teacher.
Speaker 2: So then I followed in her, and then when she passed,
Speaker 2: I took over a lot of her drum students as well.
Speaker 1: And then you drop them to be Jefly now, and
Speaker 1: then I became Jeefly. Then I couldn't teach them anymore.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so yeah, Jenny's a big part and I
Speaker 2: have Jenny related tattoos all over my body too.
Speaker 1: You deserve everything good? And also what did you take?
Speaker 1: What do you take to Kara Delvine's party? What was
Speaker 1: in that big box? What was it? What was it?
Speaker 1: Do you want to know?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I was like, I was literally like, this is
Speaker 2: really funny. Kara in bind me the party and I
Speaker 2: texted her and I was like, I'm getting you. I'm
Speaker 2: going to get you a real strange present. She's like,
Speaker 2: I can't wait looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: And then I was.
Speaker 2: Thinking, what do you get a girl that has it all, like,
Speaker 2: she's got everything?
Speaker 1: What do you get her?
Speaker 2: And I was like, I bet she doesn't own bagpipes?
Speaker 2: So that photo were present, there's bagpipes in this Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, I guarantee you something, and that is that
Speaker 1: U G Flip will learn to play them before she does.
Speaker 1: Do you know what?
Speaker 2: When I bought her the bagpipes, I might have bought
Speaker 2: myself some bagpipes too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but she loved them. She thought they were great.
Speaker 1: Oh that's great, that's great. Well, god speed to you.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on No Filter. Thank you for
Speaker 1: showing yourself nah, thank you so much, Kate.
Speaker 2: I remember driving from Dingley Village to Cheltenham to go
Speaker 2: to school every morning and listening to you in the car,
Speaker 2: and your voice has always been such a calming, warm energy.
Speaker 2: So that's why I tear up, because you're like always
Speaker 2: grown up with you at round.
Speaker 1: So I love it. Love you, Kate. Okay, I love
Speaker 1: you too, Kate. I think to know g Flip is
Speaker 1: to love g Flip because, like I said to them
Speaker 1: in our chat, there's something quintessentially Australian about them, a
Speaker 1: sense of mischief, a sense of joy, a sense of
Speaker 1: She'll be right, but also so cool, so themselves, so talented.
Speaker 1: G Flip has really done it all, from chart chopping
Speaker 1: jams to the emotional rollercoaster of IVF. They fell hard
Speaker 1: and fast for Chrishelle along the way and are really
Speaker 1: making it work. And I think there's magic in someone
Speaker 1: who lives their life full volume and flips the script
Speaker 1: at every turn, or should I say the script. Make
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