Speaker 1: It's the Flavor podcast Network.
Speaker 2: Island Roots Auckland Ways.
Speaker 3: This one's for the Brown brothers and sisters who want
Speaker 3: to be one with themselves, their culture, their identity, their roots.
Speaker 2: This is Island Roots Auckland Ways.
Speaker 3: Hey everyone, welcome back to Island Roots Bookland Ways. It's
Speaker 3: Alicica and Ma's here.
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 1: Girl? Look very good at time of recording back to
Speaker 1: beem today. Nice a week off?
Speaker 2: Mans looks so toned. Arms girl, those arms.
Speaker 1: I think the arms were giving because we also am
Speaker 1: Seed something Yes, guys.
Speaker 3: And we're AMCs now we're like a doubleheader.
Speaker 2: Basically, it was so cool.
Speaker 3: We m seed some awards and we got to talk
Speaker 3: to like some people afterwards. We got to meet now
Speaker 3: from for shelling. Yes, oh my gosh, I really want
Speaker 3: to miss it and be like, hey you free next
Speaker 3: week's go girl, because it's because alissa'spent on her cover bus.
Speaker 2: I've been on my color journey, my ma langa if
Speaker 2: you will.
Speaker 3: Huge fan of cover Actually, like didn't realize how much
Speaker 3: I liked it until maybe.
Speaker 2: The past few weeks and I have been drinking.
Speaker 3: I'd say a pretty good, like a moderate amount, not
Speaker 3: too much, right Mez no, no, just enough to take
Speaker 3: a little bit of fun, yeah, and explore the ways
Speaker 3: about antists a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Very much so.
Speaker 3: And even after recording this episode with the incredible Maijune.
Speaker 2: We went out for cover.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we went out to cover.
Speaker 3: We went to cover, got that the cover. So yes,
Speaker 3: we have made June on the episode today. So exciting
Speaker 3: because May June is one of I would say like
Speaker 3: my favorite bands to come out of South Auckland in
Speaker 3: the last year or so. They've only been together really
Speaker 3: for like four or five months. Hectic pictic but really
Speaker 3: like Epoch Boys, that's TiVo, Elijah and Jeremiah.
Speaker 2: So cool that we could finally get them in the studio.
Speaker 3: But guys, before the episode starts, we do have to
Speaker 3: preface by saying, I don't know what it was. I
Speaker 3: was just having a really off day and I just
Speaker 3: feel like the recording is not the best.
Speaker 2: But in terms of it happens, and that's.
Speaker 3: Why we kind of want to put it out anyway,
Speaker 3: because you can see that just because we're award winning
Speaker 3: doesn't mean that we don't also sometimes fuck up a recording.
Speaker 2: But I would say a lot of it fell on me.
Speaker 3: And for which I have already apologized to everyone involved,
Speaker 3: but you know what I tell her, don't say sorry.
Speaker 1: If you say sorry one more time, girl, men, you
Speaker 1: will be sorry.
Speaker 2: But I just feel like I really like May June.
Speaker 3: I got really, really nervous. I got a little bit
Speaker 3: too in my head about the whole thing. Normally very confident,
Speaker 3: very good at the Tellna.
Speaker 2: Chick, and I just wasn't really this time.
Speaker 3: So if you would do us the honor of bearing
Speaker 3: with us during this episode, that would be incredible.
Speaker 2: But also go on stream May.
Speaker 3: June on all the streaming platforms possible because their music
Speaker 3: is so cool and they're doing something that's really really
Speaker 3: really I think, like cool and different and interesting and
Speaker 3: and it's great, Like it's genuinely really good music. And
Speaker 3: I've been lucky enough to also hear some of the
Speaker 3: unreleased stuff, so and the unrealy stuff is really really awesome.
Speaker 1: It's so good.
Speaker 3: So I shout out to Tebo, Elijah, and Jeremiah for
Speaker 3: coming on. You also know Jeremiah as Hales of course
Speaker 3: making also fucking incredible music. But yeah, thanks so much
Speaker 3: to these boys for coming on. And we shall leave
Speaker 3: you with the episode now.
Speaker 2: Welcome back.
Speaker 3: To another episode of Island Roots or Conways today. It's
Speaker 3: only taken six months to get these guys on the podcast.
Speaker 3: I reached back and March giving favorite pop rock bands
Speaker 3: my June.
Speaker 1: Who welcome boys Sex Month? Geez yep, it's because of.
Speaker 2: The bus?
Speaker 1: Wow? How far fifty?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Wow, Rod, welcome boys to the podcast. How are we
Speaker 1: feeling today?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 1: Ye're very good? Yeah us Well, every single episode of
Speaker 1: Island Roots Auckland Ways, we like to share what we
Speaker 1: love about home. So what thee our home is to you,
Speaker 1: whether that we physically reside, whether that's a place that
Speaker 1: you go to and seek refuge or anywhere. What is
Speaker 1: home to you and what do you love about it?
Speaker 1: We'll start off first, what do you love about home?
Speaker 1: This week?
Speaker 2: A listen, I'm gonna throw Jerry under the bus here.
Speaker 3: My favorite thing about home is Waymouth Food Bar, which
Speaker 3: is also Jerry's favorite food spat right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, love for me, Yeah, he loves it, it's his
Speaker 2: favorite so good. Yeah. What's your favorite order?
Speaker 4: Jary?
Speaker 1: The one?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah absolutely, let's just go to every time? Yeah,
Speaker 3: Myriad two six seven wewhere we Mouth Feedbar.
Speaker 1: And remind me what you like to eat from the
Speaker 1: way mouth.
Speaker 2: Food, but also happens to be the oh y yeah,
Speaker 2: how much girl? I don't know, you don't know. She's
Speaker 2: read usually plasted when I go there, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: One of those feats. What I love about home this
Speaker 1: week is we used to have like a lemon tree
Speaker 1: growing up, and so this was a lemon tary in
Speaker 1: our front garden and I used to make lemonade from
Speaker 1: that tree and I used to sell it out the front.
Speaker 1: Never made any money, but it's something that remains permanent
Speaker 1: in my mind, good memories. The tree did now ri
Speaker 1: tree a rip, but I think that is where not
Speaker 1: to get deep with it. But that's where a former
Speaker 1: dog of ours is buried. So I lives on forever.
Speaker 1: It will always be a special place. Yikes, Bet, I
Speaker 1: love about home, raised and peace. What do you love
Speaker 1: about home?
Speaker 4: I'll just go with my mum.
Speaker 1: Oh beautiful.
Speaker 4: I'd probably like for grounding. Just go to her. She
Speaker 4: always knows what's up. You don't say anything, and then
Speaker 4: she's like, so.
Speaker 1: What's wrong, and you're like, mom knows that.
Speaker 4: She always knows, So yeah, I'd say I'd see her
Speaker 4: and then just yeah, being able to talk pretty freely
Speaker 4: to it. Yeah, that's what I love about it, and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we love What do you love about home, bro?
Speaker 5: Or something I don't love about home at the moment
Speaker 5: is we got developers like around our house. They're like
Speaker 5: they've taken down everything, so like in a couple of months,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be apartments all around the house and like
Speaker 5: with the last house standing on.
Speaker 1: That little section.
Speaker 5: So like I might have to go do something about it.
Speaker 1: Oh that sucks. It looks so ugly. Can I ask
Speaker 1: were about? Oh? Like, yeah, man, those developers are out
Speaker 1: in full fourth so yep. They take up build like
Speaker 1: four or five six hourses all look the same. It's
Speaker 1: not the one A and they build them so fast.
Speaker 1: I'm very passionate. Yeah, they built their houses so fast
Speaker 1: and they're not bound to last. No, definitely not.
Speaker 5: They're just ugly.
Speaker 1: I hate it.
Speaker 5: But yeah, that's something I love about home and something
Speaker 5: I don't love about home period.
Speaker 1: You say that, your chicks.
Speaker 6: Something I love about home is probably the kitchen table.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, nothing beats like sharing a meal with your
Speaker 6: your friends or your family. And it's probably something I've
Speaker 6: taken for granted. Recently, I sat on the table recently
Speaker 6: and my uncle was cooking in the kitchen and he
Speaker 6: went off on a spiel about his life and some
Speaker 6: more and the world of Catholic and yeah.
Speaker 1: I love that. So I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: will relate to that for sure. And that is what
Speaker 1: we love about Home this week.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 3: Every good band has a name, and Maijune has one
Speaker 3: of the best names that we know of.
Speaker 2: Please tell us how the name Maijrine came today.
Speaker 1: No girl, because UNLESSA just told me, I told you.
Speaker 2: The story, what a story do tell?
Speaker 1: I actually said I wouldn't tell, like tell today.
Speaker 6: On interviews, break it, break it for this, just just
Speaker 6: this once for for Alan Rooms, walking ways, thank you,
Speaker 6: Like man, it's the most anti climax. Went to l
Speaker 6: A last year and when people used to ask when
Speaker 6: we were going in the lead up to.
Speaker 2: It, I was like, oh, like like.
Speaker 6: Ma June and like yeah, that's that's that's essentially it.
Speaker 1: That is exactly how told me the story, Just like
Speaker 1: that May June. Did you guys oblige to that name?
Speaker 1: It was more like that was the name? I think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was really too first in the name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there were no other names of the Max.
Speaker 4: I think they might have been the first one that
Speaker 4: came up other than like you know, the classic just
Speaker 4: molder names together.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yeah, very much. Wow, what a story take
Speaker 1: us through? What inspired May June? So when people hear you, guys,
Speaker 1: what other influences that make up your music or your music?
Speaker 4: I'd say we all kind of bring a slightly different
Speaker 4: angle or perspective. We've all kind of grown up with
Speaker 4: similar they clicked the kind of styles of music that
Speaker 4: we've listened to, But the way we approach it is like,
Speaker 4: you know, slightly different for each of us. So I think, yeah,
Speaker 4: kind of that that molded together makes.
Speaker 3: You kind of all have background as a solo artists
Speaker 3: or working with other artists. What is it about the
Speaker 3: three of you that worked so well together there?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Sometimes it doesn't work like amazing though we still make
Speaker 5: it work at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how did you all get into music?
Speaker 3: So, Elijah with guitar, was it something you've played since
Speaker 3: you were young or did you pick it up in
Speaker 3: like high school or was it Jenny like.
Speaker 4: A little bit. Music kind of runs in my family slightly,
Speaker 4: always kept the generation with my parents, but my granddad.
Speaker 4: He's he's some one on my mom's side, and he
Speaker 4: played yet pretty much his whole life. Ah, and then
Speaker 4: he inspired my older sisters to start learning how to
Speaker 4: teach oh or how to play. And then once I
Speaker 4: saw them playing, I was like, I'm can give it
Speaker 4: a jam, So I asked them to teach me, and
Speaker 4: they taught me for about two weeks and then as
Speaker 4: soon as I got better than them, they started teaching me.
Speaker 4: So yeah, and.
Speaker 1: That was that. And then did you keep that up
Speaker 1: through your childhood? Did you?
Speaker 4: I started when I was like properly, when I was
Speaker 4: like living okay live in twelveish, and then continued into
Speaker 4: high school. Just found a band, which is kind of
Speaker 4: how I found friends as well.
Speaker 1: So yeah, can I ask where you went to high school? Open? Grandma?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: How was Aukland? Grandmar? I mean it's unpack that.
Speaker 4: Grammar like most uh, you know, schools like that are
Speaker 4: kind of in that vein, you know, the grammar schools,
Speaker 4: the private schools, all of that. I think they all,
Speaker 4: you know, give a lot of opportunities that other schools
Speaker 4: might not be able to. But at the end of
Speaker 4: the day. It's like, if you're a student that's willing
Speaker 4: to learn and stuff or like wanting to be taught,
Speaker 4: then I feel like no matter where you go, really
Speaker 4: it's you know, kind of the same. But I think
Speaker 4: I just focused on my school work because they didn't
Speaker 4: really like support all of the music stuff until we
Speaker 4: started winning things and then. Yeah, so that's my take
Speaker 4: on graandmar. Yeah, it's cool, but.
Speaker 1: Not really.
Speaker 2: I can relate. What about you, TV and jams.
Speaker 5: I've been playing drums for like since I was a kid,
Speaker 5: but not proper. I think like everyone's everyone's first memory
Speaker 5: of me on the drums is like me sitting on
Speaker 5: my uncle's lap in church, and then I kind of
Speaker 5: went from there, just like mucking around in church and
Speaker 5: then didn't stop playing properly until high school. Environment that guy,
Speaker 5: So I went to talking grammar as well, but I'm younger.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 5: Starting it seriously in high school mainly because of him.
Speaker 5: He told me to hurry up and like, do talk
Speaker 5: about it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, wasted potential, So I know, hurry up one year
Speaker 4: one year older please.
Speaker 5: Among Definitely, music definitely does run into the family, and
Speaker 5: then I got my voice from my dad from my
Speaker 5: parents anyway.
Speaker 3: And you and my people will know you as hals
Speaker 3: yep yep sing a songwriter. How did you get into
Speaker 3: singing and songwriting?
Speaker 6: I never really wanted to sing, but my brother kind
Speaker 6: of us to sing it his wedding one time, and
Speaker 6: well his only wedding.
Speaker 2: Su.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I enjoyed that, and so I kept singing songwriting.
Speaker 6: I actually have like a like an interesting story. So
Speaker 6: I didn't have a phone in high school, so to
Speaker 6: like find new music, I used to listen to the
Speaker 6: radio a lot, and I used to listen to.
Speaker 1: The Edge.
Speaker 2: Here we listen to.
Speaker 6: And like because it was at night and they weren't
Speaker 6: telling us which song was playing, I had to write
Speaker 6: down all the lyrics to kind of.
Speaker 2: Get what the song was called.
Speaker 6: And so yeah, I think that plays into a part
Speaker 6: of why I enjoy listening to lyrics and writing lyrics.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Another thing you guys speak to a lot is the
Speaker 3: importance of it presentation. And I think it's really important
Speaker 3: that people know that specific people don't just listen to reggae.
Speaker 3: And I know that I grew up listening to types
Speaker 3: of music that wouldn't be considered like brown music as
Speaker 3: such why is it being so important for you to
Speaker 3: start major in and to be part of that kind
Speaker 3: of representation for our people.
Speaker 4: It's every one of those like questions where like we'd
Speaker 4: be hesitant on purely because of the fact that like,
Speaker 4: like say, for example, I'm pretty white passing like Wolly's
Speaker 4: less white passing, and then he's probably the most islander
Speaker 4: looking one of us. And then also the fact that
Speaker 4: we're twenty two, like do we really know anything? Probably not,
Speaker 4: but I mean, you know, we'll still give her like
Speaker 4: opinion on the thing. I think seeing people I think, regardless,
Speaker 4: seeing people that look like you whatever whatever that may
Speaker 4: be doing things is good for the wider community regardless,
Speaker 4: just to be able to like reinforce the idea that
Speaker 4: you can do what whatever you kind of want to
Speaker 4: do if you put your mind to it type of thing,
Speaker 4: and there shouldn't be really any obstacles or like barriers
Speaker 4: in your way based on the way that you look.
Speaker 6: I think, like coming into it, we didn't think that
Speaker 6: that's what we were trying to do, yeah, exactly, And
Speaker 6: it's only after these first couple of releases that we've
Speaker 6: kind of realized that there's something bigger to this. We
Speaker 6: received like a DM recently and he was like, man,
Speaker 6: I like, I really like what you guys are doing
Speaker 6: and keep it up. Like I wish I had something
Speaker 6: like this back in high school, people that look like
Speaker 6: me that I could you know, look to for Yeah,
Speaker 6: just in those spaces.
Speaker 4: It's kind of been thrust upon us in a way
Speaker 4: kind of I don't know now a lot of the time.
Speaker 4: A lot of Yeah, the times it just seems like
Speaker 4: it's almost like validation to these people. They're like, oh no,
Speaker 4: I'm not weird for listening to this stuff, like like
Speaker 4: other people that are like be listened to this, so
Speaker 4: it's like it's actually okay. That's the kind of common
Speaker 4: consensus we see in the comments.
Speaker 1: What has been your favorite part of the May June
Speaker 1: journey so far?
Speaker 5: Our first debut major and show that was that's so good.
Speaker 4: Our major and show was like they were there to like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I think yeah. The thing about our debut, like headline one,
Speaker 4: was that was people that wanted to come see us.
Speaker 4: We did do a showcase beforehand, like Jerry said at
Speaker 4: the Tuning Fork, but that wasn't necessarily people being like, oh,
Speaker 4: majorna playing let's go watch them, but these were like fans,
Speaker 4: and to be able to play for fans for the
Speaker 4: first time properly, it's definitely surreal, at least for me
Speaker 4: and Volley. I guess I guess jerious of it.
Speaker 1: And who are your influencers and music and music I.
Speaker 4: Don't know music wise, like musicality and how we sound,
Speaker 4: but influence and how we act probably like Sam like
Speaker 4: definitely plays a big factor in that and how we move.
Speaker 4: That's just yeah, yeah, sorry sem V, but that's just
Speaker 4: because I guess we've been around of ceram so it's
Speaker 4: kind of like biosmosis, he said. He said too much.
Speaker 1: Any other influences other than Sam, Shipherds Rain, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: love Ship, It's Rain. We're going to have them in
Speaker 1: the studio.
Speaker 6: They're bold approach to kind of doing the rock things.
Speaker 6: It's made it easier for us to kind of be
Speaker 6: more bold in our own music.
Speaker 4: They definitely later certain blueprint that we kind of were
Speaker 4: able to follow because they were there or because they
Speaker 4: preceded us type of thing.
Speaker 1: I've had a read through the comments of these guys
Speaker 1: on social media and there are people there who look
Speaker 1: up these absolutely These people then look up to you.
Speaker 1: Do you not that we do have chets about that?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? How do you respond to comments like that?
Speaker 1: That's all you can do?
Speaker 5: Yeah, when we got like people like all Indian or like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were like, oh yeah, Jerry looks someone the
Speaker 4: other two of Indian?
Speaker 5: Who those guys?
Speaker 4: And like, you know, I'm not I'm not bringing that
Speaker 4: up like it's a bad No, I'm just saying that
Speaker 4: we're not that.
Speaker 1: Like incredibly up the gate?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: Should we move on to our game?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it all?
Speaker 4: Kay?
Speaker 2: So you introduced it because I don't really Okay.
Speaker 1: So boys, we have a game here. How well do
Speaker 1: you know your music? Do you.
Speaker 4: Ish?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: It depends on like the time period.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, let's not giving what is giving? Let's getting
Speaker 1: ninety okay, okay, okay. So I've got three instrumentals here
Speaker 1: you're gonna play amongst yourselves, and so I'll play the
Speaker 1: instrumental and your names are your buzzes, and I want
Speaker 1: you to buzz in with what you think the song
Speaker 1: is to the instrumental that I'm playing out to you. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a game that we're gonna play called in the Ring.
Speaker 1: I have the Ring qualifier. Okay, here we go. We've
Speaker 1: played this before on the podcast. How are you feeling
Speaker 1: feeling a listen.
Speaker 2: If the song's a bad mans chose them.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're commentating a does feel like that? Okay,
Speaker 1: May June playing in the ring? Are you ready for
Speaker 1: your first instrumental? Remember names are your buzzers. Okay, here
Speaker 1: we go, instrumental number one. This is easy.
Speaker 2: You have to get this.
Speaker 1: You have to get this one otherwise I'm going to
Speaker 1: revoke all the cuts. Jeremiah and Jeremiah.
Speaker 6: What is the song getting stronger by Eddie's featuring right now?
Speaker 1: One on the board for Jeremiah. Any thoughts from you?
Speaker 1: Commentator number two?
Speaker 2: No thoughts?
Speaker 1: Okay, let me want one. Okay, I hear a song.
Speaker 1: Number two. Let's get some runs on the board boys, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Come jag those guys, guys.
Speaker 1: One more song, one shout okay, even the board one
Speaker 1: last song just no no answer, So I don't get it.
Speaker 3: This is the song from the spand that mess knows.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, that's a rock song.
Speaker 1: Yeahl wrong. As much as I'm out of the band, guys, Okay,
Speaker 1: we are giving you, like all the chances right here. Bro.
Speaker 4: Surely come on.
Speaker 2: What's it called?
Speaker 4: Get the band, get the bank, get the band, that's easy, Paramel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm stilling to Dan my brothers.
Speaker 4: Good show, good show.
Speaker 2: It's really worried.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, guys, like my my.
Speaker 1: Brain is not working.
Speaker 4: That's okay, you got it there, but I got it.
Speaker 1: You did get it? Three equal one equal girl? What
Speaker 1: do we call this? They were in the recently Paramour.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I went, how was it? It was so
Speaker 2: much fun? It was so good.
Speaker 1: Do you did you guys manage to get along to Paramol?
Speaker 1: I had a show? Just wait?
Speaker 4: What was that that night?
Speaker 1: Performing that night? We always play like with together, play show.
Speaker 1: It was either a hail show or a major show.
Speaker 1: We've made a hall show.
Speaker 4: When was it? Do you know that?
Speaker 6: I think like last year it was the last a
Speaker 6: show and I was like, guys, come on, please.
Speaker 2: Don't go to Paramol, please play the show.
Speaker 6: Two hundred bucks to see to see Paramore or like
Speaker 6: twenty bucks to see me?
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, we had to pay to be.
Speaker 3: So sh well, sorry about that, guys.
Speaker 2: Did you actually go to Parable?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: I wish?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Thanks so much for joining us. Guys.
Speaker 3: You can find may June on all the social media
Speaker 3: platforms that's made June band. You can find the boys individually,
Speaker 3: and you can also find us on TikTok, Instagram, at
Speaker 3: Island Roots, Auckland Ways, go stream their music, Go check
Speaker 3: them out. This ship is so fucking good and uh
Speaker 3: you should also stream us on Night Hot radioat the
Speaker 3: podcast every Thursday.
Speaker 1: We'll catch you next week.
Speaker 2: Bye,