Speaker 1: The Flavor Podcast Network Island Roots Auckland Ways.
Speaker 2: This one's for the Brown brothers and sisters who want
Speaker 2: to be one with themselves, their culture, their identity, their roots.
Speaker 2: This is Island Roots Auckland Ways'll love.
Speaker 1: The man less we who welcome back to Island Roots
Speaker 1: Auckland Ways. How oh this week Mariner?
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, very good, thank you because we had spoken
Speaker 3: with Shepherd's ragin funny as these.
Speaker 1: Guys are funny but also extremely talented. You can tell
Speaker 1: that they really really love their work, very passionate, which
Speaker 1: I feel like it r like sorry, fubbed out, rubbed
Speaker 1: off on me because now I'm like wanting to reflect
Speaker 1: on our journey Mariner, and I'm wanting to like, you know,
Speaker 1: it was just so cool to hear about the individual
Speaker 1: experiences but then also they collective experience. Yeah, what did
Speaker 1: you take from it? Mas?
Speaker 4: Learning more about Middle.
Speaker 1: Literally, because I feel like we have a misconception about
Speaker 1: Middle that it's just like ah, but like the episode,
Speaker 1: the only Middle that I've ever listened to really is
Speaker 1: Shepherd's Rain. Apart from maybe when I was trying to
Speaker 1: be like cool in high school, I think I listened
Speaker 1: to trying to be deaf, you know, like not like
Speaker 1: other girls, but Sheeper's Train and songs like Ainger and
Speaker 1: Afana as such powerful messages about like culture. But I
Speaker 1: think like the tone and intensity of Meddle can sometimes
Speaker 1: put people off. But She's Rain has something really cool,
Speaker 1: like the visuals and the lyrics and the culture like
Speaker 1: middle culture and someone culture coming.
Speaker 3: Together, one of one, one of the only one.
Speaker 4: And listen to that one right now. And welcome back
Speaker 4: to Alan roots Auckland. Why it's joining us now? Joseph
Speaker 4: and Feeley from Shepherd's Rain. Hello, how are we this morning?
Speaker 5: For a good?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Good? Thank you?
Speaker 6: We're We're alive, We're awaken, We're here, Okay.
Speaker 3: We were talking about this off Mike. You guys meet
Speaker 3: to Norway to perform?
Speaker 6: How is that good?
Speaker 7: An amazing experience? Heaps of fun, meeting heaps of cool people.
Speaker 7: The Norwegian people are really kind.
Speaker 6: And really friendly, friendly, very welcoming.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: How long are you guys in Norway for?
Speaker 6: We were there for five days? Yeah yeah, total five days? Short?
Speaker 1: And how does it compare to the paradise that money?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I wouldn't call that a paradise.
Speaker 4: Shot fire. I was waiting for.
Speaker 5: It was nice.
Speaker 7: You know, ice caps on the mountains like mangy.
Speaker 4: And yes.
Speaker 3: Outside and it looks like a painting that's so kind
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 1: Just like, oh, exactly, okay?
Speaker 5: Are you guys live like the worst people?
Speaker 6: Really?
Speaker 4: Boys?
Speaker 3: Every episode we share what we love about home. So
Speaker 3: what is home to you? Whether that's where you currently live,
Speaker 3: where you may fly to or travel to to feel
Speaker 3: like home. It can be somewhere that you don't actually
Speaker 3: physically reside in or have been to, but it feels
Speaker 3: like home.
Speaker 4: What is home and what do you love about it?
Speaker 3: We'll start off first, and what I love about home
Speaker 3: this week is taking my little sister to school.
Speaker 4: I am the.
Speaker 3: Eldest child of our family, so I hold kind of
Speaker 3: like that parental responsibility A and I have always kind
Speaker 3: of felt like because me and my sister we have
Speaker 3: a fourteen year age gap, so I truly do feel
Speaker 3: like her parent. She's nine years old, I'm twenty three,
Speaker 3: and so little things like taking her to school, being
Speaker 3: able to shout us a feed after school, taking her
Speaker 3: to do her errands, it makes me feel closer to home.
Speaker 3: And I don't actually live with her, but whenever I'm
Speaker 3: doing those little things with her.
Speaker 4: It makes me feel like I'm right at home.
Speaker 1: It's lovely nice. Well, I love about home this week.
Speaker 1: Obviously money Doer is home, I would say, I mean
Speaker 1: all the best people from Allegedly. I can't really pinpoint
Speaker 1: like one specific thing, but I've been going on a
Speaker 1: lot of runs around Rewaar and just there's so many
Speaker 1: different spots that just like mean a lot to me,
Speaker 1: like certain dairies where I would go like after school,
Speaker 1: or just certain spots, and I think there's like, really,
Speaker 1: it's such like a cool The fact that I still
Speaker 1: live where I've grown up and can still like attribute
Speaker 1: that those kind of like nostalgic memories and then create
Speaker 1: new ones in those spaces is really cool to me.
Speaker 1: So I just think I just love all of freewe Yep, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you guys love about home?
Speaker 3: Exactly what she said?
Speaker 6: I think, Oh, that's a tough one. I think home.
Speaker 6: Home for me is more of a place where I
Speaker 6: can just go somewhere, somewhere where I can go and
Speaker 6: just relax, you know, somewhere where I don't have to
Speaker 6: worry about anything. I don't have to worry about work,
Speaker 6: I don't have to worry about studying, so somewhere where
Speaker 6: I can just relax, pull my feet up and just
Speaker 6: do nothing, no worries at all.
Speaker 7: Rest home for me is obviously Mangani.
Speaker 5: Mai used to be exist.
Speaker 3: I always make that distinction because Mangoi East is very
Speaker 3: different from Mangedi Central, very different from Mangoi Bridge.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's right.
Speaker 7: So I currently live in Mugiti Central, but I was
Speaker 7: born and raised in among the East on Yates Road,
Speaker 7: and I call that home because that's where I was
Speaker 7: born and raised. But I think on the weekend I
Speaker 7: was really good seeing I took my son over and
Speaker 7: we went to see mom and hung out there for
Speaker 7: the weekend. Had go right, you're there, and so it's
Speaker 7: always good to be back where I grew up, spent
Speaker 7: most of the years of my life, and my father
Speaker 7: recently passed earlier this year, so it was always good
Speaker 7: to be at home where you can remember things they
Speaker 7: used to do with that after that I used to
Speaker 7: do with dead and yeah, all of it, all that
Speaker 7: cool stuff.
Speaker 1: It's so special.
Speaker 3: It's always good going home for cornati because it's soul food.
Speaker 6: M Absolutely I love that.
Speaker 1: Well, you two are from Shepherd's Reign, which is just
Speaker 1: an incredible I think the Shepard's Rain copaper and it
Speaker 1: was just so awesome. It's like the taking of like
Speaker 1: this music that isn't necessarily attributed to someone or brown,
Speaker 1: or music that comes out yeah Pacific music, and then
Speaker 1: putting this stamp on it, like making music and someone
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just so cool. I love the
Speaker 1: co paper. I would love to know how you all
Speaker 1: met and connected and then also what was have you
Speaker 1: always been like Middle fans? Was that initially? What made
Speaker 1: you Kineicks? Please tell us all about Oh.
Speaker 6: I'll start off, I'm the latest member of the group.
Speaker 6: And how I got into the group was Oliver, who's
Speaker 6: our guitarist, and he was my teacher at high school
Speaker 6: at Monday to or Hi and when I was when
Speaker 6: I was about sixteen, he came to me and he
Speaker 6: was like, oh, because sorry, I'll restart. I was in
Speaker 6: one of the practice rooms in Rewa and he was
Speaker 6: just walking by and you heard me playing some metal
Speaker 6: because growing up with Middle I love to play it
Speaker 6: and nice. Yeah, and I'm an original guitarists okay and
Speaker 6: yeah that's foul. And he came through and he was like, oh,
Speaker 6: do you want to come play bass with my band?
Speaker 5: And I was like, bass basis think.
Speaker 6: No bass on about He's like, oh the spots open,
Speaker 6: you know, and yeah and hit. But the thing is
Speaker 6: I was sixteen and he had to wait till I
Speaker 6: was eighteen, so I was legal to play in the
Speaker 6: bars or yeah, and yeah. As soon as I turned eighteen,
Speaker 6: he hit me up again and he goes, oh, we
Speaker 6: haven't practiced tonight. You want to come through? And then yeah,
Speaker 6: he came through with all the boys and yeah, restless history.
Speaker 6: You know. This was back in twenty nineteen, was when
Speaker 6: I first started.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you came around to the idea of playing
Speaker 3: bass and yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Had you had any experience playing bass or only guitar?
Speaker 6: I did in twenty seventeen. I was playing bass for
Speaker 6: Oh sorry, I think it was twenty sixteen. I was
Speaker 6: playing bass for a band and we were in Tongue
Speaker 6: in too beats. Oh yeah, love and yeah that was
Speaker 6: like the only experience I had.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I supposed going into the band. You're eighteen,
Speaker 3: you're part of this group. Yeah, what are you feeling?
Speaker 3: Is it good to get amos?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it always is.
Speaker 6: You know, I've always wanted to be a part of
Speaker 6: a middle band ever since I was young. So yeah,
Speaker 6: going through high school, no one, no one's, no one
Speaker 6: else was into middle you know. Everyone else was playing
Speaker 6: in the reggae, which I absolute absolutely love, but yeah,
Speaker 6: middle was more my kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 6: it was real good up until mid these guys and yeah,
Speaker 6: everything else was. I just felt like a perfect.
Speaker 7: Me and aur guitarist Oliver started in two thousand and eight,
Speaker 7: and then we went through heaps of heaps of different
Speaker 7: musicians to fill in them spots for the band. Later
Speaker 7: on found out drummer. I think it was in that
Speaker 7: same year or maybe two thousand and nine. I asked
Speaker 7: Oliver if he had a drummer, and he said that
Speaker 7: he knows of someone that went to Odahu College with him.
Speaker 5: They both went out who College.
Speaker 7: So that's why I met where I met Shaman, and
Speaker 7: so me, Oliver and Shaman have been together since.
Speaker 5: Two thousand and nine.
Speaker 7: Wow, and he's still our drummer now and Oliver is
Speaker 7: still guitar. Went through a lot of different bass players
Speaker 7: and guitarists and it wasn't until two thousand and fourteen
Speaker 7: fifteen and fifteen twenty fifteen, we met Goody and who's
Speaker 7: our other guitarist who's now a part of the part
Speaker 7: of the band as well. And then yeah, like Joe City,
Speaker 7: he's the newest member of the band. We've all been
Speaker 7: listening to Middle for most of our lives. I started,
Speaker 7: I was the typical someone in South Aakland, listening to
Speaker 7: everything from regae to gangster rapp.
Speaker 5: The church music. So I was I was normal, like
Speaker 5: every other Polynesian.
Speaker 7: But it wasn't. It was maybe I was five years old,
Speaker 7: six years old where I saw Guns and Roses on TV,
Speaker 7: on Juice TV. I can't yes, yes, yeah, that was
Speaker 7: really cool. That's when Juice we're playing genres everything, Yeah,
Speaker 7: playing everything. I think I think we're at two thousands
Speaker 7: or maybe later started being just.
Speaker 4: Pops off top forty songs.
Speaker 7: But back then they were playing everything from rock to
Speaker 7: yeah to pop, all of it, every genre.
Speaker 5: So I fell in love with Guns and Roses.
Speaker 7: And I started playing a classical piano when I was seven,
Speaker 7: and the two pretty much just intertwine. So Middle and
Speaker 7: classical music really similar and in music theory, so if
Speaker 7: you were to play a classical piece, and you just
Speaker 7: added distortion or like you know, on the ap at
Speaker 7: distortion and things like that, it will sound like a middle,
Speaker 7: like a middle idea.
Speaker 5: So it's pretty it's pretty funny how music works. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and yeah, I loved the middle ever since.
Speaker 3: How accommodating was the New Zealand music space to Shepherd's
Speaker 3: Rai when it started? So two thousand and eight, how
Speaker 3: was it for you guys Auckland?
Speaker 2: Ways for the Brown brothers and sisters who want to
Speaker 2: be one with themselves, their culture, their identity, This is
Speaker 2: Island roots Auckland.
Speaker 7: We we did Elvis, but with what you had. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: none of us said any experience. And then the music scene,
Speaker 7: we just knew that we loved the middle and we
Speaker 7: wanted to make middle songs and we wanted to play
Speaker 7: in front of people.
Speaker 5: So the Pacific side.
Speaker 7: Of things, nothing, nothing happened, but there was more of
Speaker 7: the the local bars that play rock and the middle.
Speaker 5: Those guys helped us out.
Speaker 7: So we played at the spark called ding Dong Lounge,
Speaker 7: and we started just a little gigs.
Speaker 5: You know, we were playing in front of like two
Speaker 5: people through.
Speaker 7: But back then as teenagers were you know, we'll go
Speaker 7: to band practice and end up getting wasted. Yeah, typical,
Speaker 7: typical young young men. So we'd go and make songs
Speaker 7: and and get wasted, go to the gigs already hammered.
Speaker 1: Flex spots like seventy years that's like blue kind of.
Speaker 7: So yeah, we yeah, I think every bend starts off
Speaker 7: like that, and it's that cool experience that you get,
Speaker 7: and it's cool to think about it now that we're
Speaker 7: much more professional, and so looking back at it, I
Speaker 7: think I don't regret it. I don't regret everything we did.
Speaker 4: We life experience.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we went.
Speaker 5: Through hell and beck.
Speaker 7: We did. Now we're received. Actually, no, it's about twenty
Speaker 7: eighteen we started getting recognized, especially from the Pacific community,
Speaker 7: and we're grateful. Yeah, yea very grateful that. You know,
Speaker 7: they don't look at us as these guys are just
Speaker 7: middle heads being idiots in the music.
Speaker 5: They actually they love us, and obviously it shows with.
Speaker 7: Awards that we've won, the nominations that we've gotten received.
Speaker 7: So yeah, very proud of it.
Speaker 1: There must be so many misunderstandings or misconceptions about the
Speaker 1: middle genre, though, right, Like, what is it that you guys,
Speaker 1: I just love about it that you think other people
Speaker 1: should know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 6: I think if anything kind, Oh how do you put this?
Speaker 6: It's more of it seems able to like dive deeper
Speaker 6: into the song. You know, it might sound angry, but
Speaker 6: if you really look into how we're writing our music
Speaker 6: and a lot of our lyrics that Philly writes, it's
Speaker 6: really about family, about someone heritage.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know we love that.
Speaker 6: We're trying to split that across the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love nothing. That's one of my favorites. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm not a huge middle head myself. I say the
Speaker 1: only middle as it's right, But when I listen to
Speaker 1: nothing to it, I'm locks just like like feeling within
Speaker 1: me as you know, it's you sound more like the
Speaker 1: sense of strength and like someone, Yeah someone someone as
Speaker 1: well Like that is so special and even songs like
Speaker 1: I Inger are so like powerful lyrically. But I feel
Speaker 1: like maybe the tone and the ta today might not
Speaker 1: necessarily scare people off, But I personally think it's really
Speaker 1: cool that there are just so many ways and iterations
Speaker 1: of what it means to be some war now with
Speaker 1: all this like cool new music coming out. When you
Speaker 1: first started creating music with Shipard's rain. Were you writing
Speaker 1: in Simon then or was that just something that happened
Speaker 1: over time.
Speaker 7: That's something that happened over time. At the very beginning,
Speaker 7: I had an idea to start off our set with
Speaker 7: a someone intro, and I kind of brought up the
Speaker 7: idea but it just vanished, just died sort of thing.
Speaker 7: But it wasn't until It wasn't until twenty sixteen or
Speaker 7: seventeen the making of Lemanu, and I was trying to
Speaker 7: figure out some words to put into it. At that time,
Speaker 7: I was playing the bass, so it wasn't in it.
Speaker 7: So I was recording the bassline and it came time
Speaker 7: to write lyrics and I wanted something real powerful. But
Speaker 7: then writing in English, you couldn't find anything. There's nothing
Speaker 7: that shuits the song or this this rhythm that we
Speaker 7: have and then no ship. This is a true story.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 5: I was sleeping and I woke up.
Speaker 7: For some reason, the Sundone civer toe was in my head.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 7: I was like, man, I don't know why I was
Speaker 7: in my head, but I ended up singing the cever
Speaker 7: towel with that beat and it just went perfect, and
Speaker 7: I was like, boys, I think I got it.
Speaker 4: You must have been dreaming about playing some rugby or.
Speaker 5: No idea.
Speaker 7: But yeah, Oliver was cracking up love. He was like,
Speaker 7: so I go, let's start again, stuff from the top,
Speaker 7: and I'll sing and and and just tell me if
Speaker 7: you guys like this.
Speaker 5: And then I did civer toe and everyone's like, oh man,
Speaker 5: what what was that?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I've got a lyrics So the first
Speaker 7: versus the civ toe and and I just had to
Speaker 7: make an extended vision for the seconds and the chorus,
Speaker 7: and that, man.
Speaker 4: Didn't work. Yeah, that's a begger. I wanted to ask.
Speaker 3: So, when you're performing to your audiences, many of whom
Speaker 3: probably aren't basufical or are aware of the cultural nuance
Speaker 3: and the lyricism of your work, Like, what what is
Speaker 3: the response? What reception are you getting from your audience?
Speaker 3: Are they just hyped that they're hearing like this new thing,
Speaker 3: these new things?
Speaker 6: Definitely?
Speaker 7: M Yeah, you're right. So there's this majority of uh,
Speaker 7: you know, Blongese, majority of Bilongese, and I think it's
Speaker 7: probably one of the most heartwarming feelings when you're you're
Speaker 7: singing and you can actually see them yeah miming your words,
Speaker 7: and these guys I think there was a gig we
Speaker 7: had and it may have been in Wellington and it
Speaker 7: was all these white people and they're also and I
Speaker 7: could hear them over myself that was coming out of
Speaker 7: the fold backs, and I was I was real proud. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I saw some someone flags on the side.
Speaker 6: That's so cool.
Speaker 7: Best feeling feeling.
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite gig that you've played.
Speaker 6: Like, yeah, yeah, I think favorite one would definitely be
Speaker 6: this year would be Sparkling.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was a huge gig.
Speaker 3: I admire that camaraderie and that kind of culture of
Speaker 3: generosity within the middle community.
Speaker 6: That's awesome.
Speaker 4: Oh they're great.
Speaker 5: The middle community is probably one of the kindest, nicest
Speaker 5: people that you'll ever meet. Yeah, it's real funny.
Speaker 7: I'm one of my friends came to l Wellington show
Speaker 7: and she's never been to a middle gig before and
Speaker 7: she goes, oh my god, this what she doesn't sound
Speaker 7: like that.
Speaker 4: But oh my dad, oh my gosh.
Speaker 7: You guys, Oh my god, like your you guys people
Speaker 7: she goes to, your guys people are so kind.
Speaker 5: I thought they were like what, like, I don't know,
Speaker 5: and then it's just like yes, like these people were
Speaker 5: just asking.
Speaker 7: If I was okay someone because there was as there
Speaker 7: was a circle put going on, you know when they
Speaker 7: go crazy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was about to start. And uh one guy
Speaker 5: saw her standing there and then he like quarter back
Speaker 5: and she was like what are you doing?
Speaker 7: And he was like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and sure enough she.
Speaker 7: Was standing there and then she saw everything going on.
Speaker 7: She's like, okay, okay, these people are really kind and
Speaker 7: I like I like them that. She said that middle
Speaker 7: people because a lot of people think, you know, all
Speaker 7: blackdown or gothic looking, and then.
Speaker 5: Ye must be like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Marilyn man, it's.
Speaker 6: Very very man.
Speaker 5: What did David individualists?
Speaker 6: Kind of Yeah, that is so cool.
Speaker 3: Recently you've kind of popped off so like your social
Speaker 3: media on so many views, heaps of interactions.
Speaker 4: Shout out to Queen Loud.
Speaker 3: Mass louw we meet in Uni, so we did our
Speaker 3: business degrees together. And yeah, she's always been one to
Speaker 3: support local music.
Speaker 5: She's good like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she is like hearty for everyone, no matter what
Speaker 3: genre you are, She's going to give you the same
Speaker 3: amount of love. Was it kind of overwhelming getting all
Speaker 3: this interaction on social media because I'm talking Instagram, TikTok
Speaker 3: everywhere YouTube, people like, millions of yous like and pretty
Speaker 3: much all came out one to be honest, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know. Just there you guys going to social media.
Speaker 3: What's the relationship.
Speaker 5: That's why we got That's where wet when we got at.
Speaker 4: Yeah, did you guys get connected?
Speaker 7: I made her last years it's gonna it's gonna with.
Speaker 4: That connection started.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it was real funny. We had
Speaker 5: a we had a nice streak that night, and.
Speaker 3: That was a longs night. Let me tell you what
Speaker 3: they said Ireland time. Yeah, that's what it's gonna be. Like,
Speaker 3: it's gonna go past midnight.
Speaker 6: I just know.
Speaker 7: Midr the after party. And I was I was doing
Speaker 7: social media at that time, so I was on my
Speaker 7: phone and I was like trying to.
Speaker 5: Cook the posts. I know there was a story.
Speaker 4: Really okay, is this a story?
Speaker 7: Ye? So don't knows a lot more than I do.
Speaker 7: But obviously wasn't there at the time, so I was
Speaker 7: trying to quickly do something. But I was taking ages
Speaker 7: and obviously half half twists and then low like comes
Speaker 7: she she had been talking to me and poetic and
Speaker 7: who else is there a good old Wayno, you were
Speaker 7: all talking together and okay, yeah, I had a good
Speaker 7: chair and she was in the mix as well. And
Speaker 7: then she saw what I was doing and she comes along.
Speaker 7: She's like, hey, let me do that for you. What
Speaker 7: are you what are you doing? I gave it to
Speaker 7: her and I was like, I'm just trying to I
Speaker 7: think it was a story you were real, and I'm
Speaker 7: trying to move it from the post on Instagram so
Speaker 7: it comes on Facebook as well, so I don't need
Speaker 7: to go on Facebook and do it. And then she
Speaker 7: was like easy, a couple of swipes and you know, taps.
Speaker 5: On her phone and it was done on my phone
Speaker 5: and it was done.
Speaker 6: I was like, you do this.
Speaker 7: For a living or something, and she goes.
Speaker 4: That she does oskie, yes, yes, much love to ask
Speaker 4: you by the way.
Speaker 5: Yeah and yeah. And that that's when I go, cool,
Speaker 5: can you do some more stuff?
Speaker 7: More things? And so she didn't, and I was surprised
Speaker 7: at how easy it was for somebody to do all
Speaker 7: that so fast. So at that time, we were actually
Speaker 7: talking to managers and our new label at the time,
Speaker 7: and the label was looking at some social media people.
Speaker 7: They had social media people as well, and I asked
Speaker 7: and they said that we needed somebody here in New
Speaker 7: Zealand to be you know, taking videos and uploading things
Speaker 7: on our side because they're all from Australia and America
Speaker 7: and the UK. Okay our management and yeah, so I
Speaker 7: mentioned Love and that's been there, like cool, we'll have
Speaker 7: a zoom meeting and then she comes on and I've
Speaker 7: seen some emails from lower and everyone thought that she
Speaker 7: was respectful and uh professional, which is that?
Speaker 6: Which is amazing?
Speaker 7: Yeah, and yeah the Resist history, Wow, she ended up
Speaker 7: in the team and she's just smashing it. So really,
Speaker 7: all the media, I'll hear.
Speaker 5: It from her first.
Speaker 4: You don't to worry about.
Speaker 5: Now she's like, oh my god, did you see duh
Speaker 5: blah blah, And.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys have been on so many like international
Speaker 3: media outlets as well, Like you're getting all the love.
Speaker 3: And the thing about love is that she can sang
Speaker 3: honey like she some pipes can't wait for her to
Speaker 3: hear from. Yeah, she's gonna hear the Sorry Pacific Music
Speaker 3: Awards this year. As of time of recording, it's this's Thursday.
Speaker 3: So how are you feeling ahead of the ceremony?
Speaker 5: Pumped, yeah, pump, nervous, nervous, yeah, I'm pumped.
Speaker 4: Confidence.
Speaker 7: No, it's I normally don't feel anything until like the
Speaker 7: day before yeah cooking, Yeah yeah, so right now it's
Speaker 7: just to come come before the storm, and then a
Speaker 7: day before and then it was.
Speaker 3: Like, how does it feel to receive recognition from your
Speaker 3: PACIFICA community and getting your flowers because y'all have achieved
Speaker 3: a lot and broken glass ceilings for Pacific and Metal.
Speaker 1: So leading the nominations at the pm as this.
Speaker 3: Year, absolutely, yeah, you're going to clean it up.
Speaker 6: I think it was crossed. You know, we're really grateful.
Speaker 6: It's been a long time coming. You know, we we
Speaker 6: have been getting nominations and winning awards in the past,
Speaker 6: but for this year, because for this year to lead
Speaker 6: the nominations is a huge step because last year it
Speaker 6: was it was for me personally. It was my first
Speaker 6: time releasing an album, creating the album with the boys
Speaker 6: and my first album I've released with them, and to
Speaker 6: get recognized where it's like, you know, you feel like
Speaker 6: you should Yep.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: That is so cool. Part of our chat today though,
Speaker 1: is actually the platform the really epic work of spoke
Speaker 1: Free Tongue to Beats, which Joe I understand that you
Speaker 1: have been a part.
Speaker 6: Of in the past.
Speaker 4: Cool.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us about how Tongue to Beats has
Speaker 1: kind of enabled or unlocked some musical passions for you
Speaker 1: and like what it's meant to you on your journey.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So the first time I did it, I was year nine,
Speaker 6: was back in twenty fourteen, my first year of high school,
Speaker 6: and I had no idea about the competition, you know,
Speaker 6: and my music teacher at the time, Tim Randall, head
Speaker 6: a department for Money to music, and he he was
Speaker 6: real pushing for getting as many students to go perform
Speaker 6: as he can. And so my first time on stage
Speaker 6: this was year ninetewenty fourteen. This was up in the
Speaker 6: Mengry Mengry Bridge, the hall.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so that that was my first time on like
Speaker 6: big stage with you know, all the band boys at
Speaker 6: the time, and yeah, and I was so nervous, you know,
Speaker 6: but after, you know, year after year, I just kept
Speaker 6: doing it, and I think by the time I was
Speaker 6: like twenty eighteen, all the nerves had gone. Yeah. So
Speaker 6: if anything, it really helped with being confident walking on stage. Yeah,
Speaker 6: just just getting through the whole nervous kind of thing. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 6: so now nowadays, I really get nervous because of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like such a good platform to start
Speaker 1: your music journey and to you know, shake off all
Speaker 1: those nerves, get rid of all those jitters before you,
Speaker 1: like into the real I guess, the real music world.
Speaker 1: Why do you think it's so important for our young
Speaker 1: best speaking so.
Speaker 6: Engaged with I think speaking from personal, you know, I
Speaker 6: think it's very important if especially if you're quite a
Speaker 6: shy person, but you really want to get out there,
Speaker 6: you know, do explore what you you know, explore what
Speaker 6: you're good at, what you're not good at, and if anything,
Speaker 6: it's just a confidence builder, you know. And uh, yeah,
Speaker 6: I think that that's all I can say about it
Speaker 6: the time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think it really shows with joke because.
Speaker 7: For someone that's eighteen and you just you're about to
Speaker 7: play al Friskig, You're about to play with Rain who
Speaker 7: we've really got a name and we've got everyone knows
Speaker 7: what we can do. And if for this guy to
Speaker 7: jump on and you know, with all that confidence and.
Speaker 5: He was just a very like he blended in a
Speaker 5: very well he knew what to do. We didn't have
Speaker 5: to tell him braid being knew doing so.
Speaker 7: I think that's because I'm not I didn't join the
Speaker 7: tongue to pizza and and things like that. But I
Speaker 7: think that that's from my knowledge. I reckon that's the
Speaker 7: whole that's the whole reason behind it. And kids so
Speaker 7: that when they get to the real world, like you're saying,
Speaker 7: they're used to it. Yeah, it's easier for them.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: So we are going to move on to our rapid
Speaker 3: fire QM. Now, this is a rapid fire game that
Speaker 3: we've come up with. It's called song for a Situation.
Speaker 3: So we are going to give you three sorts of
Speaker 3: situations and then you just tell us what is the
Speaker 3: song that you would play and see the situations.
Speaker 6: So we're going to.
Speaker 4: Start with love song. So love vibes, romance? What are
Speaker 4: you putting on? What are you going to put on? Alissa?
Speaker 1: I'm want to try king kick at the moment?
Speaker 7: So true?
Speaker 6: Is it?
Speaker 4: True?
Speaker 1: Love by Tricking's a good one?
Speaker 3: Okay, mine would be. I was listening to it this morning,
Speaker 3: Tama and to you, yeah, yea love for me? How
Speaker 3: about you, guys?
Speaker 7: I would choose one of my favorite artists. I would
Speaker 7: choose Celindian I love you.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Did you feel happy when she performed at the Paris Olympics.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, she came back from yea from the grip
Speaker 5: that she was going through. Okay, so good come back.
Speaker 6: How about you? I'd go for Whitney Houston. Run to You?
Speaker 4: I don't think I know Run to You?
Speaker 6: Yeah, excuse me? Run White? How does it go? You
Speaker 6: got to wait?
Speaker 7: Run you?
Speaker 5: What do you use the I feel like let's play. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's a great song.
Speaker 6: Run to You.
Speaker 1: I feel like you'll play it and we'll.
Speaker 4: All the bodyguard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you know what?
Speaker 6: That's it?
Speaker 4: Let's just run to you.
Speaker 1: I love the Bodyguard.
Speaker 6: We know run to you?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, we're started on. Okay, So second situation, hype song?
Speaker 3: What is the hype song that you played before you
Speaker 3: go on stage?
Speaker 4: Hypothetically? A few were performers. If you girl, what's your
Speaker 4: hype song?
Speaker 1: It's a song called Getting Started by Sam Finder. He's
Speaker 1: like a British artist. One of his songs seventeen Going
Speaker 1: Under is quite popular, but getting Started is a really
Speaker 1: good song.
Speaker 4: Oh you guys go, I've got to think of one.
Speaker 4: But what are your guys?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 7: I love listening to my classical music so before but
Speaker 7: if I get the chance to before a performance, it
Speaker 7: will be there to be Valdi, you know songs, or
Speaker 7: or just listen to most nice. But if we're talking
Speaker 7: about a party, my hype song is always going to
Speaker 7: be by would be by a system of Oh yes.
Speaker 1: Would you say classical is like your favorite genre or
Speaker 1: still I love not my.
Speaker 5: Favorite but actually yeah, so thinking.
Speaker 6: So many songs on the memory Bang.
Speaker 7: But this guy, yeah, Joe, Joe really does have a
Speaker 7: massive range of songs that he listens to. Because I'm
Speaker 7: also a huge Kindrid marfan.
Speaker 4: Love Kindred, we love kind track around here. This is
Speaker 4: not a Drake House.
Speaker 5: I don't know either of the.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm, I think I've got one.
Speaker 6: Okay you.
Speaker 4: Janet Jackson, mm hmm, mess you much.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a great trick. I'll say you just for
Speaker 6: hype hype in general, I'd go Compton by Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 6: Oh that's a great.
Speaker 3: Yeah of the Yeah, okay, we've got some solid plicks here.
Speaker 3: One more situation here, a song for the road. So
Speaker 3: when you're traveling, when you're on the road, what are
Speaker 3: you listening to? What's on the playlist.
Speaker 4: What's on the playof us for you on the thong?
Speaker 1: Whoa, I'm trying to think, I'm not. I don't drive,
Speaker 1: so I actually usually aim on the ORB.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 6: Drive.
Speaker 1: I would say probably some Malon Williams make Away for Love.
Speaker 1: Probably that whole album.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, okay, girl, what's on the playlist?
Speaker 6: Do do do? Do? Do do? What?
Speaker 5: What's specifics for this so so on the road?
Speaker 7: It's a winter summer, I'm thinking summer summer.
Speaker 3: Windows are down, went flowing through your hair? Yeah, I
Speaker 3: would say.
Speaker 4: Mary J. Blige, anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like the early stuff, the covers, uh real
Speaker 3: love sweet thing?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Cool mine? Would I just had it?
Speaker 4: Do you have addressing?
Speaker 6: I'd say Controller by l A b.
Speaker 1: Oh, Yeah, that is such summertime.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, l A b Are summer.
Speaker 1: And you can everyone knows next once you can all
Speaker 1: sing along.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, it's Guns and Roses. I'd go Paradise City.
Speaker 1: I love that song. I go out listening to a
Speaker 1: lot of Guns and Roses.
Speaker 6: I look music, girl, thing.
Speaker 4: And we're bringing it back and what that say? That's
Speaker 4: time to say goodbye.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for joining us. We're talking
Speaker 1: about the really cool work of Tongue as Beats, but
Speaker 1: also just for sharing the shipper's rain energy success story
Speaker 1: with us. It's so cool to hear and yeah, we're
Speaker 1: so inspired about you guys. So thank you so much
Speaker 1: for taking the time to chat with us.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Sorry, guys, I'm laughing at me. He was saying, Beyonce,
Speaker 1: we're talking about a fucking mitche man. Be so for
Speaker 1: real right now. My favorite part was making oh you someone.
Speaker 4: And that is the part shout out to the boys.
Speaker 1: Feel so proud of them, so excited. I mean, by
Speaker 1: the time this episode comes out, we'll know if they
Speaker 1: want their pm as or not, but they're just excited to.
Speaker 3: See them at the pm as.
Speaker 1: Congratulations guys, incredible, incredible, incredible work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see you next week.
Speaker 6: Bye.