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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
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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
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Speaker 1: matter what the world throws at them. This is g
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Speaker 1: G flip Yell you straddle continents? Do I love a straddle?
Speaker 1: I love a straddle? But you're with us? 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, sometimes
Speaker 2: I will fly into Melbourne just for a few hours
Speaker 2: to see my family, then get straight back to the
Speaker 2: airport and fly to Sydney.
Speaker 1: So how was that? What did you do? Were you
Speaker 1: at the house or Yeah?
Speaker 2: So just at my place in Melbourne and my sister
Speaker 2: and my brother in law and their little niece. My
Speaker 2: little niece, so, yes, their little baby who's one and
Speaker 2: a half and name's Betty Moon. She's so cute. So
Speaker 2: just hung out on the couch with them for hours
Speaker 2: until I went straight back to the airport and that's
Speaker 2: what I do.
Speaker 1: And how often are you getting to do this? Because
Speaker 1: your life has I'm going to say, in the last
Speaker 1: five years, what does it feel like to you where
Speaker 1: it's kind of just gone stratospheric? I think probably after COVID.
Speaker 2: So before COVID, my career started, like I became like
Speaker 2: a professional musician.
Speaker 1: I started doing this as my day job.
Speaker 2: And then I tried to move over to LA at
Speaker 2: the start of twenty twenty, had my flight booked, my
Speaker 2: bags packed, and then I got called. Then yeah, COVID happened, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then took me till September twenty twenty one. Then
Speaker 2: I went over to the States to live, and then
Speaker 2: 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 UH an artist known in other
Speaker 2: territories rather than just in Australia.
Speaker 1: So the juont and have access to people that you
Speaker 1: can collaborate with and who you yeah, exchange creative juices
Speaker 1: 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 flip O living in Melbourne. Yep. What was Georgia
Speaker 1: Flippo like as a kid? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I was very extra 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 1: I didn't do very well in school.
Speaker 2: I was put in special like classes and I would
Speaker 2: have to stay back at like lunchtime and recess to
Speaker 2: like learn because I just I really sucked, I feel
Speaker 2: like academically. But then I had niche things that I
Speaker 2: knew everything about. So I had certain things I was
Speaker 2: obsessed with as a kid that I'd know every little
Speaker 2: d detail about till I found music. And then it
Speaker 2: was music that I was obsessed with in drums that
Speaker 2: I wanted to know everything about. And then that took
Speaker 2: me to where I 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 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 rock star? So parents always had this overriding, oh
Speaker 1: you need to make a scene, Joys. 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 neighbor's life.
Speaker 1: Oh when a drum kit arise in 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 Chrischelle'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 on the tray truck that you're playing
Speaker 1: in your new film clip and the neighbors just got
Speaker 1: 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 he
Speaker 2: sees it. He's like some people are like, I hope
Speaker 2: my ex sees my face, but I'm like, I hope
Speaker 2: that neighbor 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Lesson And so you thought, I mean, when did you
Speaker 1: let the dream of being a taxi driver go? Wow?
Speaker 2: I know, I think when I was when I got
Speaker 2: my drums. I think when I was like nine years old.
Speaker 2: Then the taxi driver went away. I just was obsessed
Speaker 2: with cars as a kid. I knew every make and model.
Speaker 2: I'd research, you know, what fuel injection each model would have,
Speaker 2: and what alloy wheels would come with each model, and
Speaker 2: like all I wanted to do on a weekend is
Speaker 2: 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 is.
Speaker 1: Just as well, because I mean, AI hasn't overtaken the
Speaker 1: skill of a drama yet, but there is a thing
Speaker 1: called Uber that has meant that a lot of taxi drivers,
Speaker 1: I'm not leaving their destiny that they drink 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 2: They were like the coolest cheek and played in a
Speaker 2: band and sang backing vocals. And then having her as
Speaker 2: my teacher, I feel like when your brain is like
Speaker 2: forming at those like early teenage years and you're figuring
Speaker 2: yourself out and what your dreams are going to be
Speaker 2: and what you want to be when you're older, and
Speaker 2: who you want to look up to. She really became
Speaker 2: my person who I wanted to be exactly like. And
Speaker 2: so she was a drummer in a band, so I
Speaker 2: 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, you know.
Speaker 1: The day that you got into your course, which those
Speaker 1: auditions are intense. Yeah, like many are called, but few
Speaker 1: were chosen. Yes. Who was the first person that you
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: I 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 sing 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 and the drumming course, And that
Speaker 2: was kind of the first taste that I that I
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 1: in Italy, and in fact it was our mutual friend
Speaker 1: Pete Hellier who told me about it. Oh yeah, my
Speaker 1: Collingwood brother. Yeah, you're college Wood brother. Haha. But I
Speaker 1: was at the time thinking I don't really know many
Speaker 1: singing drummers. I knew Cram from Spider Back. Yes, love Cram, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that because it's not really a very common model.
Speaker 1: No 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 her,
Speaker 2: so I could put my body on autopilot and 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.
Speaker 2: Yeah, 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. So that split my brain kind
Speaker 2: of into.
Speaker 1: And for 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,
Speaker 1: and like I said, sees the entire of you. What
Speaker 1: did she say of you? When it comes to gender
Speaker 1: do 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 2: She's like, she said something like, one day when you're older,
Speaker 2: like you'll figure out like who you truly are and
Speaker 2: it's going to be so magical for you. Said something
Speaker 2: in like in those words, and I always remember it,
Speaker 2: and I always remember being like, 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 about.
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 like,
Speaker 2: if I wanted a drum for the biggest artists in
Speaker 2: the world, like I can figure out a way to
Speaker 2: 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.
Speaker 2: My little shitty cassio keyboard and my first little guitar,
Speaker 2: and I'd just write songs. And I remember delusionally thinking
Speaker 2: like these songs are so good, like I am such
Speaker 2: a good songwriter, and they would be horrible songs, but
Speaker 2: I remember the delusionalness in my brain being like encouraging
Speaker 2: me made me thought that I was a really, really
Speaker 2: talented songwriter.
Speaker 1: And I was like, these are such good songs, They're
Speaker 1: so catchy.
Speaker 2: And then that kept carrying on, and while I was
Speaker 2: playing drums for other people, I was always writing songs
Speaker 2: and then teaching myself how to produce music and record music.
Speaker 2: So always in my head it was like, oh, it's
Speaker 2: also the band I was playing with. We couldn't share
Speaker 2: song ideas. It was just his songs, So then I
Speaker 2: couldn't have input with.
Speaker 1: 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 IDENTI to buy that and
Speaker 2: look back and be like man like the confidence I had.
Speaker 2: The confidence was insane, 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? Yeah it was.
Speaker 2: It was a Bachelor of Music majoring 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 they want for their future. Yeah,
Speaker 1: versus what makes that happen. Yeah, and your work ethic
Speaker 1: is phenomenal. Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I do work a lot. I don't know how to
Speaker 2: not work. Actually, it's more it's kind of unhealthy. But Yeah,
Speaker 2: even with those auditions, I would practice, rehearse everything that
Speaker 2: they were going to even ask me. So I'd thought
Speaker 2: about every possible question they could ask me. So I
Speaker 2: had rehearsed, sharp, perfected answers. And even when i'd audition
Speaker 2: for bands, you'd have to audition three songs. I'd learn
Speaker 2: their entire catalog just in case and backing vocals, so
Speaker 2: that when I go into an audition, I could be like, Hey,
Speaker 2: you've played those three songs all day. How about we
Speaker 2: played this song or that song or that song. So
Speaker 2: I think for me, I've always over prepared like so
Speaker 2: so so much that it's like, if I did an audition,
Speaker 2: like it'd be really hard to turn down. So even
Speaker 2: with my career, I did absolutely just everything possible. So
Speaker 2: it felt like I'd open the door in so many
Speaker 2: avenues that at least one of the routes is going
Speaker 2: 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.
Speaker 1: So I made Excel.
Speaker 2: Spreadsheets of the whole music industry in Australia. I had
Speaker 2: everyone's details from Triple J, all the booking agents, Spotify, playlisters,
Speaker 2: and I made this insane spreadsheet of the whole music industry.
Speaker 2: And then I would I was just I was so relentless.
Speaker 2: I was just insane, and I wanted to write my
Speaker 2: hit list of who I wanted to be, my publicist
Speaker 2: and my booking agent. And then I wrote as many
Speaker 2: wrote and produced as many songs in my bedroom and
Speaker 2: 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: I 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 go listen to managers and labels talk about the
Speaker 2: industry and I would go there, and my whole plan
Speaker 2: was that I'm going to talk to that manager afterwards
Speaker 2: and give him my demos, and I'm going to talk
Speaker 2: to 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.
Speaker 1: To my demos.
Speaker 2: I'm like Dave Grohl from Nirvana, played drums in a band,
Speaker 2: but now I'm a lead singer and I write the
Speaker 2: music and you're going to love my demos if you
Speaker 2: give me a shot, just have a listen. And he
Speaker 2: looked at me and said, your confidence is so crazy.
Speaker 2: I'm actually going to listen to your demos. And then
Speaker 2: he listened to the demos and then sent me a
Speaker 2: message and said, hey, come to my office Monday morning.
Speaker 2: And then I remember just driving my car and calling
Speaker 2: my dad and being like holy shit, like holy shit.
Speaker 2: And I'd worked the whole year to the point and
Speaker 2: I got my database and I was about to blast
Speaker 2: email everyone but my demos, but then that one manager
Speaker 2: heard it first, and then he wanted to sign me
Speaker 2: for management and label. 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 pick my.
Speaker 1: 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, this platform, and I was a super yu.
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. I wanted
Speaker 2: every avenue to work, so even the Triple J thing,
Speaker 2: I was a super user. And then Max Quinn I
Speaker 2: had his email and this doesn't mean that you get
Speaker 2: on the air, but it means you just have the
Speaker 2: email of the guy that works at Triple Jay on
Speaker 2: Earth for me to just send him and be like, hey,
Speaker 2: I uploaded a song today. And then it was this
Speaker 2: was the day that to answer your question that I
Speaker 2: remember everything feeling like, holy shit, I think it's going
Speaker 2: to work.
Speaker 1: Is that song.
Speaker 2: 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.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm not surprised. Yeah, there's real.
Speaker 2: Life videos of me talking about it, but I have
Speaker 2: a video of me going to sleep that night and
Speaker 2: being like, holy shit. I don't think I'm going to
Speaker 2: have to, you know, teach drum lessons anymore. And I
Speaker 2: don't think I'm going to have to hand out pamphlets
Speaker 2: at Rod Laver Arena anymore. Like I think I think
Speaker 2: I've made it. Even though it was just the first
Speaker 2: I just got a spin, but it just made me
Speaker 2: think that, oh, I think I'm going to be okay
Speaker 2: here and I'm going to be able to do this
Speaker 2: for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: So did you send a little preyer up to Jenny
Speaker 1: at that time? Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2: Obviously, Jenny's always in the back of my head, and
Speaker 2: when the song came out, it was actually.
Speaker 1: It was on her birthday. Oh really yeah, oh really
Speaker 1: see that.
Speaker 2: I get these two confused when she passed ords on
Speaker 2: her birthday, but those dates, yeah, that was pretty special.
Speaker 2: And yeah, and then I just woke up and then
Speaker 2: everything changed and I had to message all because I
Speaker 2: was teaching drum students in my bedroom and I had
Speaker 2: to message them all and say, I'm so sorry I
Speaker 2: 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 which was in two weeks time, So I
Speaker 2: had two weeks to find a band and then play
Speaker 2: my first show, which luckily I'm such a freak, and
Speaker 2: I prepared my whole entire show already, So I was
Speaker 2: ready for that exact moment, because if I hadn't planned
Speaker 2: it all out first, I would have been in trouble.
Speaker 2: But I already had my show and my band members
Speaker 2: and thought exactly about what my live show would be.
Speaker 2: So then two weeks later from there, I was in
Speaker 2: the States and playing my very first show.
Speaker 1: And that was that, your first time in the States. No,
Speaker 1: I'd been in the States before drumming for other bands, right,
Speaker 1: but in your 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 2: then it began and it never stopped.
Speaker 1: No, it never stopped. And then concurrently with that, because
Speaker 1: I do believe that when as an artist, particularly, the
Speaker 1: more that you can step into yourself, the more everything
Speaker 1: else blossoms. Yeah, and so often those things that you
Speaker 1: grapple with about yourself or that you think you can't
Speaker 1: share are the very things that give you that are
Speaker 1: the wind in your wings. So with your I don't know,
Speaker 1: do you say self discovery or your revelations about yourself
Speaker 1: or your non binary thing, your what was the compulsion
Speaker 1: then that you went, I just need to share this
Speaker 1: with the famous. Hey, motherfuckers, 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 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, yes,
Speaker 2: can't change this.
Speaker 1: Yes, when you told your family didn't make the same
Speaker 1: sense to them, or to your mum, or to your
Speaker 1: dad or to your sister, who who of them was
Speaker 1: the one that was like, yeah, I see that the most.
Speaker 2: Probably my sister the most. I feel like my mom
Speaker 2: and dad kind of didn't understand it because it was
Speaker 2: quite a while ago now, so I feel like now
Speaker 2: they're so educated on it because I'm their kid, But
Speaker 2: back then they did struggle to understand pronouns and just
Speaker 2: figure out. And I feel like for that age group,
Speaker 2: like they're in their early sixties, so it is kind
Speaker 2: of harder, but for them to grapple the idea of it.
Speaker 1: I saw your dad do a kid thing actually on
Speaker 1: sixty Minutes where he said, sometimes I miss gender them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so what that is? You just ask for people to
Speaker 1: rise to meet you. Really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's you know, and it's kind of a respect thing.
Speaker 2: It's like, that's what I go by. And like, even
Speaker 2: if you stuff it up and completely fail and stuff
Speaker 2: up my pronouns, as long as you're like, oh fuck, sorry, ge,
Speaker 2: and then you correct yourself or just correct yourself, like
Speaker 2: so many of my mates will accidentally say she and
Speaker 2: then be like they and then just keep talking and
Speaker 2: 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 Chrishchelle 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 had.
Speaker 1: Ah, what was your costume?
Speaker 2: I was a skeleton and so was Krishelle. Oh really,
Speaker 2: so that's why we have a thing with skeletons. So
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: sleeves off. So I was a fifteen buck skeleton. She
Speaker 2: was like, I really put together good looking skeleton.
Speaker 1: Well she is a very good looking. She's yeah, she's
Speaker 1: 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. Yeah.
Speaker 2: First time we met was one of Tone's best mates.
Speaker 2: Talia was at the front of this venue and was like, oh, gee,
Speaker 2: come over, meet Kroschelle. And then I was like all right,
Speaker 2: and then I just came over and we shook hands
Speaker 2: and I said hey and she said hey, and then
Speaker 2: I was like, like, you're real, like a really good
Speaker 2: looking skeleton and I'm not so good looking skeleton. But
Speaker 2: it wasn't like romantic or anything. It was just like
Speaker 2: a friend group meeting a friend group. It wasn't until
Speaker 2: like six months later or something that then some sparks
Speaker 2: flew yeah.
Speaker 1: Which is was I mean, probably more straightforward for you
Speaker 1: at that time than it was for her because she
Speaker 1: didn't think that she was gonna be a lesbian or no. Right,
Speaker 1: she was straight as far as she knew and maybe
Speaker 1: 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 pans.
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, ye I'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. But I just said, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: no worries. And then a few like a week after,
Speaker 2: I sent her some houses that I was because she's
Speaker 2: a real estate agent and I was going to try
Speaker 2: rent a house in La after tour my tour finished,
Speaker 2: So I sent her some houses and I was like,
Speaker 2: is this a good price range for where it is
Speaker 2: in the location and whatever, And then she offered to
Speaker 2: come and look at the houses with me, and then
Speaker 2: that was our first date. A did you know at
Speaker 2: the time it was a date or it was only
Speaker 2: in retrospect. I think I knew it was a because yeah,
Speaker 2: in my head, she just told me she was straight
Speaker 2: and not interested. And then when I rocked up to
Speaker 2: the house, I was in the car and I looked
Speaker 2: out the window and saw her walking down the road
Speaker 2: to the house and she was like adjusting her face
Speaker 2: makeup or something and looking incredible, Like I knew she'd
Speaker 2: taken time to get ready. And she remembers like in
Speaker 2: her words, she would say like when she was getting
Speaker 2: ready that day, she was getting ready like she was
Speaker 2: going to meet someone that she had a crush on,
Speaker 2: like took that extra time and tried on different dresses
Speaker 2: and no, not this. And so then that's kind of
Speaker 2: when it clicked in her brain. And I think it
Speaker 2: clicked in mind because I was looking at like her
Speaker 2: walking down the street looking like an absolute fox. And
Speaker 2: then also just like she was doing something like putting
Speaker 2: lip stuff on or something. And then we were just
Speaker 2: at this house showing and we were just flirted the
Speaker 2: whole time, and then it 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 because yeah, we got married.
Speaker 2: Like three months after we started fully kind of dating.
Speaker 2: And then obviously we called our family and we decided
Speaker 2: the day of because we worked out we both had
Speaker 2: the day off the next day, so then we ended
Speaker 2: up deciding to go to Vegas and get married. Anyway,
Speaker 2: we called all our friends and family and they were
Speaker 2: all kind of like, what do you mean, Like they
Speaker 2: were very happy for us, but they were sad they
Speaker 2: were missing it. So we said, don't worry, we're going
Speaker 2: to do another one.
Speaker 1: Like so, then we're going to do another one.
Speaker 2: So then the next one was in Palm Springs so
Speaker 2: that our friends in LA could come, and then my
Speaker 2: family's like, but we can't make it, so we're like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: we'll do another one. So then we did another one
Speaker 2: in Australia with all my family, and then this year
Speaker 2: we had other friends that missed out, so then we
Speaker 2: were like, Okay, we'll do it, and then it just became.
Speaker 1: 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 2: We're just slowly getting to all one hundred guests world War.
Speaker 1: Ten at a time. Yes, and what like your last
Speaker 1: one was it? It was medieval? Was it then medieval?
Speaker 1: And you are were you a knight? I don't know
Speaker 1: what I was? Yeah, what were you? Was it a
Speaker 1: costume shop or was it? No? 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 our 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? Yeah, And then and
Speaker 2: then I bought a sort. I like the thought of
Speaker 2: having a sword that was called to me, So I
Speaker 2: bought a foam sword and a a sword holder, and
Speaker 2: then I wore some of Krashelle'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 when I'm 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 H's 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, You jousted like you've barely jousted and in
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 to hang out with each other all day.
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 a laugh instead of getting angry
Speaker 1: and being open instead of close the doors. So that
Speaker 1: to Hollywood must have been a shock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think honestly, just Krishelle not being
Speaker 2: with a man was the biggest shock. I think that
Speaker 2: really took Americans. And you know a lot of the
Speaker 2: selling Sunset fan base isn't you know in states where
Speaker 2: it's you know, really common to have queer relationships like
Speaker 2: Middle America's very like you know, tradition. It's yeah, it's
Speaker 2: trad it's like so it was really shocking to see
Speaker 2: her in a not with like a six foot man, you.
Speaker 1: Know, like it was.
Speaker 2: It really made people crazy, and especially at that time
Speaker 2: when we came out public in a relationship, like the
Speaker 2: dms and just the the things that you just I
Speaker 2: just couldn't believe how much it affected people's days. Like,
Speaker 2: you know, there'd be a Karen in Middle America just
Speaker 2: sweeping and then they'd be just so angry and then
Speaker 2: they'd have to get on their phone to like message
Speaker 2: me because they're just so furious that.
Speaker 1: I'm with her. So yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was very eye opening to me about how people
Speaker 2: are homophobic or you.
Speaker 1: Know, scared or fearful, fearful of things, because I think
Speaker 1: fear 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, Like, what a crazy way to live. You
Speaker 2: know that you're just ticked off by someone exists, But.
Speaker 1: What you continue to do in the face of that
Speaker 1: is exist even more fully.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one, you know, I would never dull myself down.
Speaker 1: And by the way, on an unrelated note, I was
Speaker 1: also doing the project the night Krischelle came in, which
Speaker 1: was not long ago. Oh my goodness that the response
Speaker 1: to her was so beautiful, just so beautiful. Yeah, she's
Speaker 1: she's a great one. I know, I've really lucked out.
Speaker 1: She's an Arab.
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 Chrischelle'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 every everything about her
Speaker 2: and 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 were delightful and individually. Thank you for your
Speaker 1: gift 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 September 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 Perth.
Speaker 2: And I can't wait to come and play shows. Playing
Speaker 2: shows is my favorite part about my job, and I
Speaker 2: spend a lot of time trying to make my live
Speaker 2: show as good as possible. And I've been working on
Speaker 2: it the last week and yeah, it's going to be
Speaker 2: a ripper. So I can't wait and hope hopefully some
Speaker 2: people come out to see me. It's going to be good.
Speaker 2: Oh I think they will. Jenny's brother comes to my
Speaker 2: shows and they have a little girl who's a huge
Speaker 2: G Flip fan, their little daughter, so Jenny's niece.
Speaker 1: So it's very very cute.
Speaker 2: And my last show I played in Melbourne, Jenny's brow
Speaker 2: and his wife came to that show and they gave
Speaker 2: me a pair of Jenny's last drumsticks, which is really special.
Speaker 2: Really yeah, yeah, it was really niceh Just the power
Speaker 2: of a teacher I know, and that's what me beat
Speaker 2: want to be a drum teacher. So then I followed
Speaker 2: in her, and then when she passed, I took over
Speaker 2: 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 Jefly. 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? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I was like, I was literally like, this is really funny.
Speaker 2: I'll Kara in bind me to 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. And then I
Speaker 2: was thinking, what do you get a girl that has
Speaker 2: it all, like 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?
Speaker 1: This yeah, yeah, all right, I guarantee you something and
Speaker 1: that is that you g Flip will learn to play
Speaker 1: them before she does.
Speaker 2: Do you know what when I bought her the bagpipes,
Speaker 2: I might have bought myself some pipes too, Yeah, but
Speaker 2: she loved them.
Speaker 1: She thought they were great. Oh that's great, that's great. Well,
Speaker 1: god speed to you. Thanks for joining us on no Filter.
Speaker 1: Thank you for showing yourself. Ah, thank you so much, Kate.
Speaker 1: I remember driving from Dingley.
Speaker 2: Village to Cheltenham to go to school every morning and
Speaker 2: listening to you in the car and your voice has
Speaker 2: always been such a calming, warm energy. So that's where
Speaker 2: I tear up, because you're like always grown up with
Speaker 2: you at round.
Speaker 1: So I love it. I love you es Kate, Okay,
Speaker 1: I love you two, kre. I think to know g
Speaker 1: Flip is to love g Flip because, like I said
Speaker 1: to them in our chat, there's something quintessentially Australian about them,
Speaker 1: a sense of mischief, a sense of joy, a sense
Speaker 1: of she'll be right, but also so cool, so themselves,
Speaker 1: so talented. G Flip has really done it all, from
Speaker 1: chart topping jams to the emotional rollercoaster of IVF. They
Speaker 1: fell hard and fast for Chrishelle along the way and
Speaker 1: are really making it work. And I think there's magic
Speaker 1: in someone who lives their life full volume and flips
Speaker 1: the script at every turn, or should I say g
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Speaker 1: deserve to hear them. The executive producer of No Filter
Speaker 1: is Nama Brown, the senior producer is bre Player. Audio
Speaker 1: production is by Jacob Brown and video editing is by
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Speaker 1: so much for listening.