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Speaker 1: So to Echo are heading to town for their Machine tour.

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Speaker 1: They're going to do shows at the Asta Theater on

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Speaker 1: June twenty eight and Frio Social on June twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: You can get your tickets through Pseudo echo dot net

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Speaker 1: and Brian Canam's joining us right now. Good morning, welcome mate,

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Speaker 1: there you go. Happy happy fortieth, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. That sounds good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, happy fortieth of listening and I mean it's it's amazing. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know where those hes went, but it

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Speaker 2: is pretty amazing. It doesn't feel that long ago, that's

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Speaker 2: for sure. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, But these tour are you going to get people

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Speaker 3: up and dancing, heading back to maybe slightly smaller venues

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Speaker 3: and get them going in the clubs. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So you know, the concert tour was a lot of fun,

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Speaker 2: and it was it was big, big scale, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's not a lot of dancing going on them. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: We think that's sort of feedback from the audience, so

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Speaker 2: it makes sense to alternate the tours and bring it

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Speaker 2: back into the clubs. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We've often got the fun police stopping us from getting up.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: The show is pitching itself as being full of epic

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Speaker 1: light lighting and visuals. Well, can you tell us about that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we usually run a big screen with a

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Speaker 2: whole bunch of sort of high tech looking images as

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Speaker 2: well as some nice nostalgic retro looking images that the

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Speaker 2: crowd love seeing, and we'll often even have dances depending

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Speaker 2: on the state where we are. But yeah, it's a

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Speaker 2: pretty big scale six piece band these days, and you know,

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Speaker 2: we blast through all the hits as people love to

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Speaker 2: hit them.

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Speaker 3: Listening make when you wrote that, did you think this

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Speaker 3: is going to be a hit or do you never know?

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Speaker 2: You never really know, But it was one of our

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Speaker 2: first tracks that we recorded and wrote and only enough.

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Speaker 2: When we first wrote it, it was quite down, but

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Speaker 2: it was halftime and quite dark. We were kind of

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Speaker 2: citing songs like Vienna by Ultravox, and we did it

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Speaker 2: at the show like that for quite a few months

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Speaker 2: until one day we just, I think it was by mistake,

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Speaker 2: we put the role drum pattern on and went double

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Speaker 2: speed and we said that's way better. Yes, we just

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Speaker 2: we left it like that.

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Speaker 1: How did you become the first unsigned band to appear

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Speaker 1: on Countdown back then?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a kind of a crazy, crazy thing

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Speaker 2: that happened. I used to go to this club just

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Speaker 2: to check out the latest tunes, and Molly used to

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Speaker 2: be at the DJ there and I used to go

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Speaker 2: there every week. And he must have known this little

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Speaker 2: kid on the sidelines there just to watch him intently.

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Speaker 2: And then about a year or so later, somebody kicked

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Speaker 2: him off about this new band, so he thought he'd

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Speaker 2: better go check them out. So when he checks us out,

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Speaker 2: he sees it's me. That's a kid that used to

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Speaker 2: come to my club always. I'm talking to me, so

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Speaker 2: you know he was. He was so taken back by

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Speaker 2: the show and the band and didn't expect that at all.

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Speaker 2: And then within a couple of days he invited us

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Speaker 2: to come into Fire on Countdown.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, that's great. Memories of the Jump Club and

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Speaker 3: Molly spinning discs and Larissa have so much influence, mate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the Jump Club was the one where we

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Speaker 2: came in. That was one of us.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, unreal. But I mentioned as that I had

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Speaker 3: that copy of Listening that I said to Lesa just

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Speaker 3: about grooves out. But I also had the twelve inch

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Speaker 3: of a Beat for You, which was on that first

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Speaker 3: Tunnel Park album. Do you keep Stuff? You've got a

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Speaker 3: lot of your own memorabilia and vinyl.

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Speaker 2: I've got a couple of copies of each Thingah, I've

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Speaker 2: never been the best at looking after them. My wife

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Speaker 2: would tell how many. She's much better than me. Catalogs

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Speaker 2: things and archives that I'm a bit slack.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: They're like a doorstop sometimes place Matt. But yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: nice to sort of look through the collection sometimes and

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Speaker 2: go wow and bring back so many memories.

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Speaker 1: A few slight changes to the band the lineup since

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Speaker 1: Autumnal Park came out. Your drummer is nineteen years old.

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Speaker 1: She's not even half but I believe you went through

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Speaker 1: five drummers on the tour. What it's the very spinal

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Speaker 1: tap of you.

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Speaker 2: There was a bit she exploded that is the ultimate rock.

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Speaker 2: It was crazy and she was really pulling at the

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Speaker 2: eleventh baron retell it being to the lobbying to get

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Speaker 2: her in the band. She spotted her online and said,

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Speaker 2: this girl's got such a glow about her. There's something

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Speaker 2: about it that's magical. And I took one look and

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Speaker 2: see she looked about fourteen in the video. She was

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Speaker 2: young given and you know, she just kept saying, I

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Speaker 2: want you to try her out. And then we were

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Speaker 2: two days out from a weekend of shows and drummer

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Speaker 2: pulled out again, as they do, and we gave recall

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Speaker 2: flew her into the show. Her audition was the sound check.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't really an audition. We'd already said you've got

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Speaker 2: the gig, and we just sent her all the stuff.

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Speaker 2: She learned it in those two days and came down

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Speaker 2: to our show with us flawlessly. That's awesome. No rehearsal

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Speaker 2: with the band at all, just that's impressive. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: has been there solid ever since fourteen.

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Speaker 3: That's what Molly thought of you at the Jump Club.

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Speaker 2: First Rights and never never saard an Eye.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. You mentioned the lighting, un less I

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Speaker 3: mentioned the lighting and all the rest of It's a

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Speaker 3: great production. But is there going to be a small

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Speaker 3: stone hinge by any chance on stage spinal tap?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, we've made sure we scaled.

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Speaker 1: Any nothing you can't get out of.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we had had a couple of a couple of

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Speaker 2: close ones.

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Speaker 1: So Brian, it would have been something off autumnal Park.

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Speaker 1: Can you remember the first time you heard yourself on

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Speaker 1: the radio.

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Speaker 2: It was pretty epic. Yes, well, really the first time

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Speaker 2: was the countdown. That was really my first rush. Yes,

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Speaker 2: he's just seeing it broadcast and I think it was

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Speaker 2: at my twenty first birthday and somebody hooked it up

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Speaker 2: and played the recording of it at my party and

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Speaker 2: that was pretty exciting. Yeah, and there was some big

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Speaker 2: cheers from the northern suburbs. Oh, you got to love that.

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Speaker 3: And you worked with a legend called Peter dawkinslad it

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Speaker 3: work with the Dragon and Aussie crawl, so you're in

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Speaker 3: good company.

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Speaker 2: Peter was fair. He was old school, and he was

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Speaker 2: a lot older than us. We have to seem like

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Speaker 2: a headmaster. Really, it wasn't a lot of fun, but

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Speaker 2: he was very, very knowledgeable about music, and we learned

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Speaker 2: so much of him. He might have had his cranky

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Speaker 2: old ways, because you know, we were young rascals and

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Speaker 2: he taught us so much. He really did. He took

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Speaker 2: songs and he arranged and then took top bits out

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Speaker 2: and we'd be saying, no, not that you can't take

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Speaker 2: that bit out, that's our favorite bit. Yeah, he'd be saying, no,

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Speaker 2: that's just ten seconds of board. It was hard looking back,

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Speaker 2: you know, I know exactly what he was doing. He

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Speaker 2: was just getting to the good bits.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, fair enough.

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Speaker 3: And you had a mind for the goal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, do you in addition to the shows that

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Speaker 1: you're doing.

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Speaker 2: Did I hear correctly?

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Speaker 1: You are writing a book.

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Speaker 2: I am, I am. I've been writing it for nearly

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Speaker 2: ten years, though I just held yes. I guess the

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Speaker 2: thing is is when I started the book, I had

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Speaker 2: one thing in mind, and then so many things happened

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Speaker 2: along the way that changed the course of where the

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Speaker 2: book was going to end, and so I had to

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Speaker 2: keep changing the tributory. So story in motion. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: there were so many things, and so you know, I had,

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Speaker 2: you know, heurm oil at some point, and it was

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Speaker 2: like this wasn't part of the book. The book was

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Speaker 2: meant to be a real feel good, happy ending. Yes,

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Speaker 2: you know, there's some dark clouds for here, so I've

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Speaker 2: navigated through a few of those and getting it back

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Speaker 2: on track.

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Speaker 3: I'll look forward to that absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it might be twelve or fifteen years in the making,

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Speaker 3: but look forward to That's right, it'll real loggie.

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Speaker 1: Well, we're also looking forward to the show's Asta Theater

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Speaker 1: on the twenty eighth of next month.

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Speaker 2: Frio Social.

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Speaker 1: The next night, the twenty ninth. Tickets are available through

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Speaker 1: pseudo echo Dot. Lovely to chat to you, Brian.

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Speaker 2: It was a pleasure, but likewise guys always good to

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Speaker 2: chat