1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: Well, when you hear the name John too Good, most 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: people will think she had guitars, drums, lots of noise 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: coming at you, and that'll be fair enough, because that 4 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: obviously was a thing. But John too Good has now 5 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: gone solo properly, with his first day of a solo 6 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: album out next week and a tour off the back 7 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 1: of that, and he's with us in studio right now. 8 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 1: Hey John, good morning morning to you. I'm well man, 9 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: thank you for coming in. How are you finding being solo? 10 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 2: I actually find it thrilling in the same way early 11 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 2: she Hard gigs were because it's like, I don't quite 12 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 2: know what I'm doing. There's nothing to hide behind, no 13 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 2: big pa, no light show, no other members of the band. 14 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:38,959 Speaker 3: It's just me and my guitar are made so. 15 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: You do in the show's acoustic? 16 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 3: Absolutely? 17 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, because that's how all this stuff is written. 18 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 2: And I actually find it thrilling because it's you just 19 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 2: have to sing great and you have to play good, 20 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 2: and you have to explain what the stories are about 21 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 2: and the songs are about, and it's a really human experience. 22 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 3: I love it. 23 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: Do you get any people who turn up thinking they're 24 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: going to get the sort of like loud noise, full effect, 25 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:03,959 Speaker 1: and then you. 26 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 2: Know that shocked, not really because you've got to remember, 27 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 2: I'm fifty three now, so and so what fifty Well, 28 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of our fans of also 29 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 2: that age. So I think you know, they're not crowdsurfing 30 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 2: like they used to because they probably put their back out. 31 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 3: You know. 32 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 2: So yeah, I think, yeah, I think everyone knows what 33 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 2: they're going to do. 34 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: Do you think this is a thing. I mean, this 35 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: is always like a bit of a stereotype, But do 36 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 1: you think it's real that the older you get, the 37 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 1: more you appreciate a bit of gentle music. 38 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know what. My first album was 39 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 2: Bob Marley Legend, The Best of Bob Marley, I mean, 40 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 2: and that has some pretty gentle music. I've always loved Melody, 41 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 2: like even and she hads loudest moments, there's always still 42 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 2: the pop element to it because I love I love melody, 43 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 2: and I think because I've got British parents, I have 44 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 2: a lot of British music as well as American music, 45 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 2: as well as a lot of New Zealand music. Yeah, 46 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 2: as long as the song was good. I mean, my 47 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 2: favorite song is a Day and Life by the Beatles, 48 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 2: you know. So you know, I just happened to meet 49 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 2: my bandmates when I was fifteen and listening to Metallica 50 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 2: and Slash Yeah, and that's where we started serendipity. 51 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, why did you decide to go solo? 52 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 2: It wasn't a decision so much as three years of COVID. 53 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 2: I had a lot of personal carnage. I lost my 54 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 2: mum while I was in lockdown in Melbourne. She died 55 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 2: in Wellington, so I had to say goodbye on a phone, 56 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 2: very traumatic for me. Then I got stuck in New 57 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 2: Zealand on tour when the omicron happened, away from the 58 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 2: wife and children for three and a half months who 59 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 2: were back in Melbourne. That was really tough. Then we 60 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:42,239 Speaker 2: moved back to Altero. My brother in law got aggressive 61 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 2: cancer and died really quickly. And then I caught COVID 62 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,359 Speaker 2: and got a COVID complication which turned my to nightas 63 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,119 Speaker 2: which is ringing in the ears, which I'd had since 64 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:53,679 Speaker 2: I was twenty years old because I was in a 65 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 2: rock band, but it turned it. 66 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 3: Up really last. 67 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 2: Does COVID do that, That's what it can do. So yeah, 68 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 2: so it's a four fifty percent chance if you have 69 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 2: pre existing tonight, if you catch COVID, it can turn 70 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 2: it up. And it's a long COVID thing, so it 71 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 2: doesn't go back down again ever. Ever, So basically I've 72 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 2: had to learn how to live with it. It was 73 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 2: so loud, it was like a car alarm going off 74 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 2: in my head. 75 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 3: You know. 76 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 2: I woke me up out of a dream two weeks 77 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 2: after catching COVID, ended up in a and E and 78 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,959 Speaker 2: howick because I hadn't slept for thirty six hours. 79 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 3: It was nightmarish. 80 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 1: It would be especially Look, that would be terrible for anybody, right, 81 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: but that would be especially terrible for somebody who relies 82 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 1: on their. 83 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 3: Ears for this, right it's my job. 84 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, so and also I mean, but even it was 85 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 2: a distracting you know, reading stories to the kids at night, 86 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 2: you know, like I was trying to be present with 87 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 2: my children and this rings going off in. 88 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 3: My head and you manage it. 89 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 2: So basically, someone said, after I went to the Auckland 90 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 2: to Night's clinic at the Auckland University, that didn't work. 91 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 2: I saw the top of Youano throat specialists in Toomachi, Makoto. 92 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 2: They gave me pre gabling, which is what they give 93 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 2: for people who have seizures. 94 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 3: That didn't work. 95 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 2: And I ended up going to see a cognitive behavioral 96 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 2: therapist and that is what actually got me. 97 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 3: Right. 98 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: How does CBT help that? 99 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 2: Okay, So basically what happens because the sound is not 100 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 2: coming from your ears, it's coming from your brain. So 101 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 2: what happened is I caught COVID. I had pre existing 102 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,279 Speaker 2: damage to the top end of my hearing, which is 103 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 2: the high frequencies or that's an he sounds, but COVID 104 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 2: comes and suppresses your overall level of your hearing. So 105 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 2: my brain thought, oh, he's totally lost that frequency at 106 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 2: the top of his range. I need to attenuate it 107 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 2: up so he doesn't get eaten. 108 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 3: By a lion. 109 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 2: It's a real primal thing, right, So, but so the 110 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 2: whole thing with competitions behavior therapy is to try and 111 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 2: tell my brain it's okay, I'm not going to get 112 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 2: eaten by a lion. 113 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 3: You can relax. 114 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 1: And so you basically have to tell yourself this is 115 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: in your head, you don't need to worry about stuff, 116 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 1: and it actually brings it down. 117 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's basically learning to accept that it's there. 118 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 2: And not catastrophize about it, not to worry about the future, 119 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 2: because if you start, it's a tension based So start 120 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 2: thinking about it. It turns up it's like the whole 121 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 2: thing about you know, if you're scared, show the dog fear. 122 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll buy you. 123 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: And so you've managed to get this thing under control. 124 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: It come back from time to time, but it's not 125 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: bothering you to the same extent. 126 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 2: It's there all the time, but I've learned to live 127 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 2: with it and I can't accept it. 128 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: And so all of the stuff that you're dealing with, 129 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: you think, what this is. I've got to deal with 130 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 1: this by myself as a solo artist, not with the band. 131 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 2: So basically, the cognitive behavioral therapist said, we need to 132 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 2: wind your nervous system back. You can't meditate because silence 133 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 2: is the enemy when you have tonightis but you can 134 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 2: do another mindfulness technique, which is playing your guitar. So 135 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 2: I picked up my acoustic guitar, which is the instrument 136 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:37,479 Speaker 2: I started on when I was seven years old. My 137 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 2: parents bought me a three quarter sized nylon string acoustic guitar. 138 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,600 Speaker 2: It was very nostalgic for me and I just started 139 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 2: playing and I was I just played and played and 140 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 2: all these songs just came and it was really there 141 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 2: to try and help deal with this, you know, the 142 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,599 Speaker 2: panic attacks being caused by tonightis. But then it ended 143 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 2: up being oh that was you know, I lost my mum. 144 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,359 Speaker 2: That was really tough. I had to there was a 145 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 2: way of going through that stuff and working it out. 146 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 2: I've always turned to music to make sense of the world. 147 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:07,480 Speaker 1: Do I call you former frontman if she Had or 148 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: I'm still. 149 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 3: Very much in she Heard? Yeah, yah, very much. This 150 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 3: is just my thing that I'm doing right now. 151 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: I'm glad that you've finally cleared up after decades. For me, 152 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: it's she Hard, Yeah, she had, she Hard, she had. 153 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:21,159 Speaker 2: Yes, we were watching the eighties movie June, which was 154 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 2: made by David Lynch. It's sort of terrible but sort 155 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 2: of cool, and the battle, the name for the battle 156 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 2: at the end was the she Hard and we didn't 157 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 2: realize that Frank Herbert had taken it from the Arabic 158 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 2: term g Hard. We just thought it was a good 159 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 2: name for a spemintal band. 160 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 1: Oh and this is what was the complications. 161 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, So we were basically seventeen year old Bogans 162 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 2: sitting at home watching the science fiction movie, going Wow, 163 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 2: that'd be a great name for a speminal band, not 164 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 2: thinking that that might have ramifications later on. 165 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 3: Who would have thought? 166 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: Who could have predicted? 167 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 3: Who thought? So? 168 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 1: Which is kind of interesting that you chose that because 169 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 1: you've ended up actually converting yourself to haven't you? I 170 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: have which has caused you to grow up? Or is 171 00:06:58,040 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 1: it the marriage that caused you to grow up? 172 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 2: I mean, you know, she's my best mate and she's 173 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 2: the most generous, humane, loving human being that I ever met. 174 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 2: And me and my atheist sort of humanist mates talked 175 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 2: to good game of empathy, but because we were struggling artists, 176 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 2: held on tightly to any money that we ever had. 177 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 2: Whereas watching her giving her last ten dollars away to 178 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 2: the person on the street and knowing that it's not 179 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 2: hers and it's going to come back in its own way, 180 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 2: and trusting in the universe and watching that magic work 181 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 2: for her, I was like, ah, I want a bit 182 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 2: of that. 183 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 3: In my life. 184 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, And so you got a bit of that in 185 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: your life. So you got married. Yep, kids, you converted. 186 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: I mean that's pretty grown up, now, do you it's 187 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 1: a completely different lifestyle i'd imagine from being a hard 188 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: rocker getting boozed and stuff. 189 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I was never a massive boozehead. I 190 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 2: mean basically we were quite nerdy. I mean rock and 191 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 2: roll is actually revenge of the nerds. Basically we're all 192 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 2: the kids that got picked on because we were weirdos 193 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 2: and sensitive and artistic, and this was our way of, 194 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 2: you know, being cool, being cool, you know, and also 195 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 2: it gave us direction, you know, and gave us something 196 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 2: to think about. So we were never that massive party 197 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 2: as we were just interested in the journey of how 198 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 2: do you become as tight as those bands from America 199 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 2: and as you know, from Europe. 200 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: Which actually takes discipline and hardware. 201 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 3: Totally, it's all work. It's all the ten thousand hours. 202 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: So if you're watching, like so, if I'm watching the 203 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: Ozzie Osborne's of the world and the people who make 204 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: a big charade of being absolute, you know, booze heads 205 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: and stuff, is that just all an act? Like in 206 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: order to be as big as they are Yanks, you 207 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 1: have to work, ou't I No. 208 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 2: I think Ozzie definitely punished himself without a doubt, and 209 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:36,320 Speaker 2: you know, and it's paid for it. 210 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 3: You know. 211 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 2: We toured with Black Sabbath a few years back, and 212 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:43,719 Speaker 2: you know, I just before that, I saw Bruce Springsteen 213 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 2: at the rod Lab Arena, same age sixty nine and 214 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 2: he I watched Bruce Springsteen CrowdSurf the whole length of 215 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 2: that arena three times in one night and play a 216 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 2: four hour show or something. And then Ossie shuffling around backstage. 217 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 3: I mean, that's not put on. 218 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 2: No, no, I thought that was now, No, that's no, 219 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 2: that's that's a lot of damage. 220 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 3: But that's you know, there's like. 221 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 2: Going back to what I was saying earlier, the arts 222 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 2: attracts people who are sensitive, and it's a hard business 223 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 2: to be in. So a lot of people self medicate, yeah, 224 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 2: just to get through, you know, and it's not realizing 225 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:20,320 Speaker 2: that it's still pain to deferment and they're going to 226 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 2: have to pay for that later on. And I actually 227 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:28,719 Speaker 2: find that now I'm straight, our shows are much more energetic, 228 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 2: much more intense. When I write, I write more honestly, 229 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 2: and I think the quality of works actually better. 230 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 3: Yeah. 231 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're going to go on tour. You've actually 232 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 1: got quite a few gags a do you take do 233 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:41,960 Speaker 1: you do the whole family thing to take the kids with? 234 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 2: First two weekends, I'll take the whole family because it's 235 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 2: up to Kenny, Keddy. 236 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 3: And Munga Pi and Lee for them. Yeah, it'll be great. 237 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,559 Speaker 2: It's not too far from you know, Tamakimikodo, so it's 238 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 2: it'll it will just jump in the car and because 239 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 2: it's me and the guitar, I've got space, you know. 240 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, and then further afield to do it yourself. 241 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, when we go down south, it'll just be me 242 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 3: in a tour manager. 243 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: Are you still enjoying it? 244 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 3: I love it? Yeah, so much. I love it. 245 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 2: It's like it's like when I was two years old, 246 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 2: I used to watch the Beatles Hard Day's Night record 247 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 2: go around on my parents all in one record player, 248 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 2: and I was just like, that is like magic? How 249 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 2: is that magic happening? I've spent my whole life trying 250 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 2: to find out how they do that, and I still 251 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 2: love that magic trick, you know, And performing live is 252 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 2: like that. It's like, can I conjure up magic with 253 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 2: this room full of people, with just this guitar in 254 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 2: my hand and these stories and these songs, and you 255 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 2: can do it? 256 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 3: You know you can do it? 257 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So name of the album, Last of the 258 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: Lonely Gods, name of the single. 259 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 3: The latest single is called Lost in My Hometown. 260 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: You got another one coming out? 261 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 3: We must do there is, yeah, another one coming. 262 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: Details to emerge obviously, And when does the tour kick off? 263 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 2: On the eleventh October which is the day the album 264 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,680 Speaker 2: releases and it's in Kitty Kitty Yeah. 265 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: Brilliant stuff. I hope it goes very wealthy And it's 266 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:56,199 Speaker 1: very nice to have you in studio, John, thank me 267 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 1: coming in mate, Really appreciate it. John too good heading 268 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: off on tour very shortly. 269 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 3: What's that? 270 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: Eight days? 271 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 2: Time For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live 272 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 2: to news Talks at B from six am weekdays, or 273 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 2: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.