Speaker 1: Gooda Peter, Hell are you here? Welcome to you and
Speaker 1: saying nothing yet. In the movie podcast, We're our chack
Speaker 1: to a movie lover. I've been a classic O beloved movie.
Speaker 1: They haven't quite gotten around a scene until now. And
Speaker 1: today's guest comedian Lizzie who.
Speaker 2: Do you really think you have a chance against us?
Speaker 2: Mister cowboy?
Speaker 1: Open the pod bay doors, Hell.
Speaker 3: I'll have what she's happens.
Speaker 1: Happening right now.
Speaker 3: Don't see nothing.
Speaker 1: Lizzie, who has been absolutely storming at on the trained
Speaker 1: comedy scene.
Speaker 4: She came quite late.
Speaker 1: Than most people, to be honest. A lot of people
Speaker 1: start out of school these days. They do raw comedy,
Speaker 1: they do class clowns, and they're into it.
Speaker 4: Where Lizzie she was working, she was.
Speaker 1: Working out in the wild, gaining life experience. And I
Speaker 1: first saw her on stage about five years ago now,
Speaker 1: and you just knew she had some magic about her.
Speaker 1: She is dry, hilarious, really whip smart, and I've done
Speaker 1: many festivals around the country with her.
Speaker 4: I've seen her at the.
Speaker 1: Melbourne National Comedy Festivals, the Fringe Festival where she's been
Speaker 1: killing it with her solo shows, and she's just kind
Speaker 1: of a joy to be around.
Speaker 4: She also was in a.
Speaker 1: Writer's room for the development of seasons two and three
Speaker 1: on How to Say Married, where she was such a
Speaker 1: brilliant presence to have in the room.
Speaker 4: I really love any.
Speaker 1: Chance I get to hang out with Lizzie, and today
Speaker 1: is no exception. I'm bloody stoked to be hanging with Hi.
Speaker 3: I'm Lizzie Who and my three favorite movies are Imitation Game.
Speaker 5: You really think that bend it?
Speaker 3: Like Beckham.
Speaker 6: All I'm saying is there is a reason why Sporty
Speaker 6: Spice is the only one of them without a fella.
Speaker 3: And I think any of this step up franchise and
Speaker 3: that's so lame.
Speaker 7: I told you she was screw with this up.
Speaker 3: But up until last night, I had not seen this
Speaker 3: is spinal tap.
Speaker 2: Hello. My name is Marty de Bergie. I'm a filmmaker.
Speaker 2: I make a lot of commercials.
Speaker 8: That little dog that chases the covered wagon underneath the
Speaker 8: sink that was mine. In nineteen sixty six, I went
Speaker 8: down to Greenwich Village, New York City, to a rock
Speaker 8: club called the Electric Banana. Don't look for it, it's
Speaker 8: not there anymore. But that night I heard a band
Speaker 8: that for me redefined the word rock and roll. I
Speaker 8: remember being knocked out by their exuberance, their raw power
Speaker 8: and their punctuality. That band was Britain's now legendary Spinal Tap.
Speaker 8: Seventeen years and fifteen albums later, Spinal Tap is still
Speaker 8: going strong and they've earned a distinguished place in rock
Speaker 8: history as one of England's loudest bands. So on the
Speaker 8: late fall of nineteen eighty two, when I heard that
Speaker 8: Tap was releasing a new album called Smell the Glove
Speaker 8: and was planning their first tour of the United States
Speaker 8: in almost six years to promote that album, well, needless
Speaker 8: to say, I jumped at the chance to make the
Speaker 8: documentary the if you Will rockumentary that you're about to see.
Speaker 1: It's fair to say there are few comedies that have
Speaker 1: had the cultural impact and influence as nineteen eighty four's
Speaker 1: rock classic This is Spinal Tap. The Rob Rana directed
Speaker 1: documentary Sorry Rockumentary, Sorry Mockumentary was unlike anything that had
Speaker 1: been done before, setting the path for the Office wal Car,
Speaker 1: the Dewey Cox Story, Parks and Recreation, and countless others. This,
Speaker 1: of course, is on top of the Christopher Guest driven
Speaker 1: comedies Waiting for Government, best in Show, A mighty Wind,
Speaker 1: and plenty more. This is spinal Tap, basically invented a
Speaker 1: genre filmmaker Marty de Berghie follows Britain's loudest band, Spinal
Speaker 1: Tap on their fateful North American tour. It begins with
Speaker 1: hopes high, but as the backlash to the cover artwork
Speaker 1: on their new LP Smell the Glove amps up the girlfriend,
Speaker 1: the lead singer, Davidson Huggins played by Michael McLean, arrives.
Speaker 1: The result is rock and roll chaos, rock and roll glory. Lizzie,
Speaker 1: who have you amped yourself up to eleven to be
Speaker 1: here today?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: And should?
Speaker 3: I should be doing all the tongue out the cans.
Speaker 5: I should have worn my hair big. Yeah, I'm amped
Speaker 5: to be here.
Speaker 4: Well, welcome.
Speaker 1: You are one of the busiest working comics in the
Speaker 1: business today, so I appreciate you one watching the movie
Speaker 1: and then coming to talk about it, particularly this movie,
Speaker 1: because this is a movie that comes with an ounce
Speaker 1: of pressure.
Speaker 9: There is.
Speaker 1: This has come up many times as people's you know
Speaker 1: and fellow comics favorite you know three films. It is
Speaker 1: iconic that it has a huge legacy and you know,
Speaker 1: I won't lie, I'm a touch nervous about you know
Speaker 1: how you might react. We don't want, I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear your reaction just yet. But why hadn't you
Speaker 1: seen this is spinal Tap? And what did you know
Speaker 1: of it?
Speaker 3: Well? I definitely heard of it, but yeah, I just
Speaker 3: I don't know why I haven't watched it. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you heard up top, one of my favorite
Speaker 3: movies is the Step Up franchise. Maybe this is spinal
Speaker 3: Tap and my likes don't cross over, but that there
Speaker 3: is a lot of pressure now that I didn't know
Speaker 3: that this movie had come up.
Speaker 5: In your podcast.
Speaker 3: But yeah, maybe I hope I'm the person to do
Speaker 3: this movie.
Speaker 4: Just I'm sure you are.
Speaker 1: I got no doubt, and if not, we'll do an
Speaker 1: edit job on it and we'll come up. Trust me.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about your three favorite films, because we do
Speaker 1: want to get stuck into about this is spinal Tap,
Speaker 1: but imitation game Benedict coming Back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3: And he invents a computer that detects uh, yeah, the Spies, yeah.
Speaker 4: Basically and help end the yeah, the World War two,
Speaker 4: And I just.
Speaker 3: Remember watching it going I had no idea about this
Speaker 3: story and I think now he's on one of the notes, the.
Speaker 4: UK notes, right, the Queen if already have that.
Speaker 5: And it's Benedict Kumberbatch.
Speaker 3: So I just remember watching that movie going wow, that
Speaker 3: was really inspirational and it was like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: sat in her tie, like he was gay and they
Speaker 3: just didn't accept him for who that was he was,
Speaker 3: even though he had all this like smarts and intellect
Speaker 3: and yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And Kieren Knightley was yes, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: Do you love a true story? Oh yeah, lean into
Speaker 4: true stories?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I love.
Speaker 3: A true story. I read a lot of nonfiction. I
Speaker 3: read a lot of biographies and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so my mom, for some reason, as soon as
Speaker 1: you put based on the true story, she obviously isn't
Speaker 1: the only one, because obviously it happens to a lot,
Speaker 1: even when it's like the Coen Brothers famously did it
Speaker 1: with Fargo where they said based on the true story,
Speaker 1: it wasn't.
Speaker 4: Which I love that they did that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but no, that is a that is a cracking
Speaker 1: filmy Uh, well played and bend it like Beckham, Oh.
Speaker 5: No, the Kia Knightley, you put them together.
Speaker 1: You discovery certain something maybe did you know.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I did see it once at a market in London. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I don't know that's a claim to fame. Maybe
Speaker 3: she was buying flowers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I imagine nightly buying flower.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, she was buying flowers.
Speaker 5: Yeah I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't really realize that that I picked.
Speaker 4: Who were the flowers for?
Speaker 1: To get the lean over? As she wrote on the card,
Speaker 1: did you see that?
Speaker 5: Probably just for her house?
Speaker 1: Come about saying thanks for being yea from yeah ination game?
Speaker 3: But yeah, I loved I love Bennette Beckham as a kid.
Speaker 3: I think I must have watched that as a teenager
Speaker 3: because I grew up playing a lot of sport and
Speaker 3: like I grew up, like my first sport that I
Speaker 3: played was rugby union because my brothers played it.
Speaker 5: And but then I wasn't I was the only girl
Speaker 5: in the team.
Speaker 3: No one really accepted, Like my team accepted me and
Speaker 3: the club accepted me. But like any time that I
Speaker 3: would go to a match or anything, they'd be like whispers.
Speaker 5: Like, oh there's a girl on the team. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 5: there's a girl on the team.
Speaker 3: And I just I played one year because I felt
Speaker 3: like sou out of my dab. I loved it, but
Speaker 3: I was like, no, I've got to fight another sport.
Speaker 3: I've got to find a girl sport. But I just
Speaker 3: love Bennett like beckhamcause it's like that whole you know,
Speaker 3: female sport camaraderie. They're winning, like yeah, and then there's
Speaker 3: a cultural element as well. Not that I experienced any
Speaker 3: of that, but I just really enjoyed that film and
Speaker 3: I've watched it, yeah a lot of times.
Speaker 1: Well, we were recording this the night after I had
Speaker 1: quite a fiery debate with my good friend Stephen Price.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah project about the AFLW. So, I mean how
Speaker 1: and the point I made was, I really, my sisters
Speaker 1: are both AFL mad. They able to have loved the unity.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if anything either of them would be
Speaker 1: any good. Yeah, but they never had a chance, Like
Speaker 1: we would go to our our you know, to watch
Speaker 1: for myself and my brother to play, and they would
Speaker 1: go and work camteing basically. Yeah, you know, so this
Speaker 1: whole point of you know, whether the AFL w' is
Speaker 1: up the scratch to AFL men's which is a ridiculous argument. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's fourth or fifth season. It's what it means
Speaker 1: to girls, Yeah, you had to stop playing at a
Speaker 1: certain home. What you mentioned.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I was eight when I played, and then
Speaker 3: I went and played netball because I thought, okay, no,
Speaker 3: I'm not meant to play this, I'm meant to play netball.
Speaker 5: I ended up playing hockey.
Speaker 3: I hated network. I ended up playing hockey for most
Speaker 3: of my life. But when I was seventeen, So girls,
Speaker 3: I think in rugby they had to stop at twelve
Speaker 3: and then they could go back and play in the
Speaker 3: women's league. And I was seventeen and I went with
Speaker 3: a school friend and we wanted to play rugby with
Speaker 3: the women's team, and they said we couldn't play. They're like,
Speaker 3: you can come and train, but you can't legally take
Speaker 3: the field because you're too young. You have to be eighteen.
Speaker 4: So you caught in this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like yeah, and I'm like, I guess
Speaker 3: I'll just play hockey, you know, But yeah, it does. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you just never get the chance. And I watch my
Speaker 3: niece she plays AFL now, and I've watched her from
Speaker 3: when she was like ten years old. She's sixteen now,
Speaker 3: and they are so good, like they've gotten so much better,
Speaker 3: and just watching them, like I shed a tear sometimes
Speaker 3: because I'm watching them thinking, oh, wish this was me.
Speaker 3: I'm seething with jealousy. But they're just playing for each other,
Speaker 3: they're loving it. Watching them sing the song at the end, Oh,
Speaker 3: it's just amazing.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's really hard to not watch those
Speaker 1: games and see what it means to them. I mean,
Speaker 1: and in the I don't want to make it all
Speaker 1: about what happened. Yeah, it is on my mind a
Speaker 1: little bit, But the response I got from people. I
Speaker 1: got a response from a professional, you know, a sports
Speaker 1: person who plays you know, absolutely high level in tennis
Speaker 1: and saying to me, you know, I went to I
Speaker 1: went to AFL with my dad growing up, and I
Speaker 1: just I would have played AFL if I if that
Speaker 1: opportunity is and she's on the professional tennis circuit. From
Speaker 1: people who are broadcasters in the game, women who are
Speaker 1: broadcast in the game, who still have these kind of
Speaker 1: hurdles they are they are trying to jump over. But
Speaker 1: most of it really was if it was there when
Speaker 1: I was there, I would have been playing it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, And some some women who were like, you know,
Speaker 1: this all came up when I was like twenty nine,
Speaker 1: thirty thirty one, where I was probably just said a
Speaker 1: little bit to you know, to other starteah, and so
Speaker 1: it is all about looking forward. So I can imagine
Speaker 1: that playing a role in your love of Bend at
Speaker 1: Light Beckham.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, even though I wasn't a soccer player, I just
Speaker 3: loved like the team camaraderie and and even at school,
Speaker 3: like you know, the sports girls.
Speaker 5: Were sort of like one thing.
Speaker 3: And you get a bit you're like, oh, sport, Like
Speaker 3: why why are you spending your weekends playing sport? Like
Speaker 3: it wasn't something you were like completely proud of like
Speaker 3: the guys were, you know. So I just I just
Speaker 3: related to a lot of that movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now that's your sporting side, theatrical side, your your
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I haven't seen you dance before, but
Speaker 1: take us through to Step Up franchise.
Speaker 5: Now set up cheerleading or no, it's dancing.
Speaker 4: It's more dancing.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, and it's just.
Speaker 4: It's bring it on. The cheerleading one.
Speaker 3: Bring it on is the cheer step Up. I think
Speaker 3: it's going up to like number ten. Yes, it's a
Speaker 3: very popular format.
Speaker 5: The dance movie.
Speaker 1: Are they equally as good or is there a drop
Speaker 1: off at a certain point or is it like fast
Speaker 1: and furious they actually get supposedly better or at least
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: I think there were, like there's a couple of better ones,
Speaker 3: like Step Up to the Streets I think is probably
Speaker 3: my favorite. And I saw that in three D.
Speaker 1: At the cinema when they work at you really really pops.
Speaker 3: It's just one thing my best friend, and we don't
Speaker 3: have you don't have a lot of similarities, but it's
Speaker 3: dance movies is something, and it's funny you run into
Speaker 3: people that grew up watching films, like you know, went
Speaker 3: to high school in the nineties. There was this real
Speaker 3: dance genre thing, like there was a step up Save
Speaker 3: the Last Dance, Yeah, honey, Like there were all these
Speaker 3: dance movies that came out ugly.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, it's just like late nineties, early two thousand yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, we'll step up. He's two thousand and six, actually, yeah, carey, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Time is a weird the.
Speaker 5: Concept in my twenties there so.
Speaker 4: Is this the birth of Channing Tatum?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's in it, And it's like that classic
Speaker 3: format of you know, wrong side of the tracks. These
Speaker 3: kids aren't going to make it. They're taken on the
Speaker 3: proper dance schools and then they blitz it obviously, and
Speaker 3: it's great to watch. It's probably a bit like bend At,
Speaker 3: like Beckham esque.
Speaker 5: At the end they're all winning.
Speaker 3: I love a little sports montage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a bandit for like the movies like Teen
Speaker 1: Wolf and Wildcats. Was a really horn that was a
Speaker 1: really good American high school and that was you know,
Speaker 1: it's worth seeing. Actually it was. You know, she's like
Speaker 1: a single mom who you know, is a obviously a
Speaker 1: woman trying to coach you know, American football and college
Speaker 1: takes it because she's a you know, she's a woman.
Speaker 1: And she finally gets like the worst team in reputation
Speaker 1: wise and their misfits obviously, she whips them in the
Speaker 1: shape and it's it's like I reckon you love.
Speaker 5: Yes, I would love that.
Speaker 1: Check that out, all right. Three films, imitation game, bend
Speaker 1: It like Beckham and step Up. The whole franchise, every single.
Speaker 5: One, everything one, every single minute.
Speaker 1: Imagine Chennington doesn't stay with them the whole way through.
Speaker 1: Does he eventually leaves? Is it a revolving cast or
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is there's some repeat cast. But then yeah,
Speaker 3: I think he eventually leaves, goes on to bigger and
Speaker 3: better things. Obviously, Magic Mike.
Speaker 5: Not a bad movie.
Speaker 1: Well we will forget that sometimes. Magic Mike. You know
Speaker 1: it's a Steven Soderberg film, you know. Yeah, the first
Speaker 1: one was great. I saw the second one. I think
Speaker 1: my wife went without me. But yeah, good film.
Speaker 3: Great film. I actually saw. I don't know if I this, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 3: I did see that, and it was it was the
Speaker 3: night before, although it was the night of that. I
Speaker 3: was living in Sydney at the time, and Gladys said,
Speaker 3: if you don't have to go out, don't go out.
Speaker 3: And I and my friend and I were like, if
Speaker 3: this is the last thing that we.
Speaker 5: Do, we're going to Magic Mike Live.
Speaker 3: And we turned up and we followed this like stream
Speaker 3: of Taffeta and Hen's parties into this and it was
Speaker 3: quite the production, like it was like a Spiegel tent,
Speaker 3: but a lot bigger and higher. It was beautiful and
Speaker 3: then inside, yeah, it was like a round theater and
Speaker 3: honestly there it was like a quarter fall that night
Speaker 3: and it was hilarious.
Speaker 5: It was the best comedy show that i'd seen that year.
Speaker 5: I was laughing the whole time.
Speaker 4: But some people decide, Okay, well I don't need to
Speaker 4: go back Cloud. You're right, and there were.
Speaker 1: Just just the horn dogs.
Speaker 3: I wasn't quite peak horn dogs because I got tickets
Speaker 3: at the back. I got the cheapest tickets, but I
Speaker 3: did pay my respects to the ladies at the front.
Speaker 3: I was like, respect to you. You know who you are.
Speaker 3: I'm going to get a front rower.
Speaker 5: Magic Live.
Speaker 1: This pandemic has been hard on all of us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: whatever gets you through. Yeah, if you double backs, you
Speaker 1: enjoy your magic market. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was really fun.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll tell you what is fun. This movie we're
Speaker 1: about to discuss Lizzie Who. Lizzie Who. It's a movie
Speaker 1: from nine to eighty four Starrying Christopher guest Who. So
Speaker 1: I didn't direct it. Robraina directed it, but he wrote
Speaker 1: it along with Harry Shearer Legend Harry Shearer or Legends,
Speaker 1: Michael McKean and Robraina obviously appears in it. Also cameos
Speaker 1: Willard Frand Dresser, Billy Crystal, Bruna Kirby. I have to
Speaker 1: ask it one of the one of the biggest legacy
Speaker 1: comedies of all time. Lizzy, this is Spinal none eighty four.
Speaker 1: Did you enjoy it?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I loved it? Yeah, I really, I really loved it.
Speaker 3: I see this sense of relief on your face. I
Speaker 3: know when friand Dresser walked out.
Speaker 5: I was like, there's friend Dresser. Yeah, and my.
Speaker 3: Boyfriend was watching it with me and he's like who
Speaker 3: would I like, friend's mine the Nanny and he's from
Speaker 3: the UK. I don't know if they got the Nanny.
Speaker 3: He didn't watch The Nanny growing up.
Speaker 4: I thought mister Sheffield would have been Yeah.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I really enjoyed it. It's so funny. And
Speaker 3: as someone who's done level in Level two improvs I did.
Speaker 3: I was like, this has to be improvised. Yeah, some
Speaker 3: of those scenes You're like, oh, this is just classic
Speaker 3: people topping each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, one of the great things about it which
Speaker 1: I love And this is like again I mentioned it
Speaker 1: in the intro, but nothing like this had been done before.
Speaker 4: We're so used to this now.
Speaker 1: The Office obviously with the probably the biggest example of
Speaker 1: somebody really running with this idea outside of Christopher Guest
Speaker 1: and these guys themselves, but you see it. The influence
Speaker 1: of this movie is so profound. I think I said
Speaker 1: it created its own genre. But what I love about
Speaker 1: the improv and know I'll get you to speak to
Speaker 1: it a bit. It's not about somebody. They're not trying
Speaker 1: to outdo each other with punchlines as such. Is actually
Speaker 1: they are kind of really in the moment. They're not
Speaker 1: they're really helping each other, which is improvs about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a classic yes, and like even in that
Speaker 3: like the drama, the drama scene where they're like, oh,
Speaker 3: how did you drummer die or whatever they do, but
Speaker 3: they're just like going, I think an improv I've done
Speaker 3: a bit of improv. But they have this theory where
Speaker 3: you go from like instead of just going A to B,
Speaker 3: go A to C, T, D E F, like with
Speaker 3: your points, and that.
Speaker 5: Is like a classic situation where they do that.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, yeah, this happens, and then oh he
Speaker 3: spontaneously combus and it's yeah, it's just a classic improv
Speaker 3: scene and they're just like, yeah, yeah, this is this
Speaker 3: is what it is. And I can imagine that they're
Speaker 3: in the scenes they would have said, Okay, we need
Speaker 3: to get here, Yeah, you just do it how you want.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, yeah, and they apparently had no idea what
Speaker 1: questions Marty de Bergi.
Speaker 4: Marty is a Mardy de Bergi.
Speaker 1: The name comes from a combination of Martin Scorsese, Brian Depalmer,
Speaker 1: Steven Spielberg, and I think that another Italian director who
Speaker 1: is less familiar with but then e at the end,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it's Felenial whoever it is, but they had.
Speaker 4: No idea what questions he was going to ask.
Speaker 1: But occasionally they would say to him, as you can imagine,
Speaker 1: I could just ask me, ask me this question and
Speaker 1: they would like, and you know so, and they shot hour,
Speaker 1: like over one hundred hours. This is on film, so
Speaker 1: this is one way they're shooting on video and that's
Speaker 1: it's nice and cheap. They're shooting on film, which is expensive,
Speaker 1: and so to get those sometimes where it's one take
Speaker 1: people in proing is pretty impressive.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I just thought it was really funny, and
Speaker 3: you know, I did inspire a lot of other shows. This,
Speaker 3: I feel is like a very stripped back version, like
Speaker 3: you couldn't spend like I did, spend the first ten
Speaker 3: minutes going what's going on? What's happening here? I'm not
Speaker 3: sure Oh, I get it.
Speaker 4: I get it. Yeah, because it's right.
Speaker 1: It's more subtle in a way, sob and there are
Speaker 1: some classic like in a way set pieces which will
Speaker 1: get to and ideas that they clearly had set up.
Speaker 4: But compared to like.
Speaker 1: An American Office, for example, where they are those talking heads, yeah,
Speaker 1: they are written and they are it's basically they've taken
Speaker 1: the conceit of the mockumentary but written it, you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's improv within those shows as well,
Speaker 1: but they have still kind of written it to the
Speaker 1: end of their lives. You know. They do the talking heads.
Speaker 1: It's a gag. You know, there's a big game and
Speaker 1: it's great. I really like both the UK Office and
Speaker 1: the American Office. Yeah, but it's a different thing there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's definitely like monologues, proper monologues that they're doing
Speaker 3: in those shows.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I just.
Speaker 3: Really enjoyed, Like I don't know how I'd love to
Speaker 3: see the outtakes of this movie because I can imagine
Speaker 3: that they just couldn't hold the laughter in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's one part.
Speaker 1: There's one bit which I've heard Rob Rainer say, it
Speaker 1: was like he was gone and let's maybe have a
Speaker 1: have a listen to. This is Nigel Toughnell, paid by
Speaker 1: Christopher Guest at the piano and he's working on this
Speaker 1: quite a beautiful new song which represents a bit of
Speaker 1: a new direction for him.
Speaker 2: It's pretty Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 10: I've just been feeling about with it for a few
Speaker 10: months now.
Speaker 2: Very delicate. It's a bit of a departure from the
Speaker 2: kind of thing.
Speaker 10: You know, all yeah, Well, it's part of a trilogy, really,
Speaker 10: a musical trilogy that I'm doing in D minor, which
Speaker 10: I always find is really the saddest of all keys. Really,
Speaker 10: I don't know why, but it makes people weep instantly.
Speaker 2: The player.
Speaker 7: It's a hormar.
Speaker 2: It's very pretty, you.
Speaker 10: Know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like
Speaker 10: I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bark and it's sort
Speaker 10: of in between though.
Speaker 7: It's really it's like.
Speaker 2: A mark piece.
Speaker 4: Really, what do you call us?
Speaker 10: Well, this piece is called a lick my love pump.
Speaker 1: Apparently Robina loses it because, if you know, it's a
Speaker 1: pretty hard cut outside off and I've noticed a few
Speaker 1: times they cut hard out of scenes and I reckon
Speaker 1: that's it because they're in browing, like you never know
Speaker 1: when somebody's gonna lose it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that that happens quite a bit, you know.
Speaker 5: Bark Mozart to Lick My Love.
Speaker 1: There are so many little jokes in that, and the
Speaker 1: performance is so lovely, but it's it's a perfect amount
Speaker 1: of misdirect of taking you some of your You're listening
Speaker 1: to the music, going, yeah, this is actually really actually
Speaker 1: quite nice because the music in this is really it's
Speaker 1: really good.
Speaker 3: Yeah they're good, and I read that they're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: they're proper musicians.
Speaker 4: Yeah they know what they're doing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they know what they're doing.
Speaker 3: But it's it's so funny, and.
Speaker 1: The bands of that time like this was like pretty
Speaker 1: like I was. When you listen to it, even outside
Speaker 1: the movie, if you put the soundtrack on, it's you
Speaker 1: can drive around in your car and listen to it,
Speaker 1: and you know, and I should be quite happy driving
Speaker 1: around and and you know, rocking out a little bit
Speaker 1: with it. But then you put the words in it,
Speaker 1: and it just becomes ridiculous. But to be honest, it's not.
Speaker 1: They told a really fine line I think of of
Speaker 1: making it believable but being being funny and silly at
Speaker 1: the same time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because like the genre of the mocking is so ridiculous.
Speaker 5: Like Twisted Sister.
Speaker 1: Kiss One had and this is that famously, so many
Speaker 1: bands had no idea. Well, Ozzi Osborne like thought it
Speaker 1: was a real documentary because a real band like this
Speaker 1: is obviously pre Google. You couldn't like, you know, they
Speaker 1: watching a band that they had never heard of before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, the edge kind of I think
Speaker 1: he weaked watching it because he didn't think it was real,
Speaker 1: but he kind of thought it feels real like this,
Speaker 1: like I've been in these situations oh for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and not just to music too, Like I think
Speaker 3: a lot of I don't know, once people get to
Speaker 3: this like certain level and they just start demanding things,
Speaker 3: they become like philosophers and they start thinking that their
Speaker 3: ideas are like amazing, and this is Yeah, I think
Speaker 3: it could be yet relevant to a lot of different arts.
Speaker 1: And also this you know, we share the same management team, Lizzie,
Speaker 1: but you know, I would never I'm not saying our
Speaker 1: managers are like this. I will say that Tony Hendra,
Speaker 1: who played in Faith, who's the manager.
Speaker 4: I think he almost holds the whole thing together.
Speaker 1: In a way like one I think is really funny,
Speaker 1: so good in it, but I like, you know, he's
Speaker 1: basically playing the manager who's just saying what he needs
Speaker 1: to say to get the band on the bus basically,
Speaker 1: you know, and to get the band to their next thing.
Speaker 1: And the first time he really it kind of starts
Speaker 1: dawning on you that this guy's obviously, don't you he's
Speaker 1: at least lying to the band. Is when he says
Speaker 1: Boston's being canceled, he goes, don't worry, it's not a
Speaker 1: big college town. When I first watched it as a kid,
Speaker 1: that line never really never, you know, popped out at me.
Speaker 1: But knowing that Boston is the biggest college city in
Speaker 1: the world, you know, it's Harvard, it's Cambridge, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's huge. That's you watch it as an a lot,
Speaker 1: you're going to go, oh, yeah, okay, this guy's full
Speaker 1: of ship.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this guy's gas lighting.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: But it falls in with these all the things that
Speaker 1: happen in comedy. Sometimes it's management about naming, your naming
Speaker 1: a show about artwork that goes with the show. In fact,
Speaker 1: let's have a listen to the conversation between fran Dresher.
Speaker 1: She plays Bobby Flackman, the pr agent, And there's being
Speaker 1: some controversy about the cover of the new LPA Smell
Speaker 1: the Glove.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, we feel and it seems to be
Speaker 11: facts that the company is rather down on the cover.
Speaker 2: Is that the case. Yes, you can give it to
Speaker 2: me straight.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 9: Listen, they don't like the cover.
Speaker 2: They don't like it, that's certainly straight.
Speaker 9: They find it very offensive and very sexist.
Speaker 2: But what exactly do you find offensive?
Speaker 9: You've put a greased naked woman on all fours with
Speaker 9: a dog collar around her neck and a leash and
Speaker 9: a man's arm extended out up to here, holding on
Speaker 9: to the leash and pushing a black glove in her
Speaker 9: face to sniff it.
Speaker 2: You don't find that offensive. You don't find that sexy.
Speaker 9: That's right, nineteen eighty to get out of the sixties.
Speaker 9: We don't have this mentality anymore.
Speaker 2: You should have seen the cover they wanted to do.
Speaker 11: I don't care what.
Speaker 2: They want now. This is something and you're going to
Speaker 2: have to talk to your boys about. Certainly not like.
Speaker 9: I don't think that a sexy cover is the answer
Speaker 9: for ye albumselves. It doesn't sell because you'll tell me
Speaker 9: the white album what was that? There was nothing on
Speaker 9: my goddamn cover.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's also it's really funny. There's
Speaker 1: also a bit it's aged really well. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it's the film Ages has aged quite well, like
Speaker 1: this is you know, a strong woman saying noah, fuck.
Speaker 5: This this is Yeah.
Speaker 3: When I watched that scene when they say, oh, this
Speaker 3: is nineteen eighty two, and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: how many times do we say it's twenty twenty two now? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I just that scene is so timeless. And even last
Speaker 3: night I was having a joke a discussion with someone
Speaker 3: who who knew someone who's like saying a joke and there,
Speaker 3: and the other person was like, well, what do you
Speaker 3: find funny in that? And they were like, oh, this
Speaker 3: isn't this And then they said, but don't you find
Speaker 3: that offensive? Like how Like it's it's such a relevant
Speaker 3: conversation that we're having at the moment.
Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely so.
Speaker 1: There's also there's also the actually, did you have a
Speaker 1: favorite song? Let's go back to the music. Do you
Speaker 1: have a favorite song or a favorite album title. One
Speaker 1: of my favorites was the intravenous de Milow I thought,
Speaker 1: was I loved it. I did love the artwork on
Speaker 1: Shark Sandwich.
Speaker 5: What was shark sandwich?
Speaker 1: Shark Sandwich is basically just a sandwich with shark circling.
Speaker 1: It was more cartoony than some of the other titles.
Speaker 1: And they had that's the one we had the two
Speaker 1: word review.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, like shark.
Speaker 1: Sandwich, more like shit sandwich.
Speaker 5: Oh that is awesome.
Speaker 3: I mean the yeah, off the back of that scene
Speaker 3: that was the cover with the black just the.
Speaker 4: Black, the black guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then that coming out and then the manager
Speaker 3: trying to justify it, be like, yeah, it's.
Speaker 4: Great, Yeah, I love it well.
Speaker 1: And to be honest, I mean, did they see DC's
Speaker 1: back in Black was basically that I have.
Speaker 4: It might have had an AC DC.
Speaker 3: On the logo on it, but yeah, I think a
Speaker 3: lot of covers did, like a very minimal There were.
Speaker 1: A few things about this movie that I thought were
Speaker 1: ahead of its time outside of the actual genre, you know,
Speaker 1: birth But like they there's a scene and we'll get
Speaker 1: to the famous eleventh scene, I assume, but he points
Speaker 1: out that he has a wireless guitar like that he
Speaker 1: that has any I don't know. I imagine nine eighty four,
Speaker 1: maybe most people hadn't heard of the idea of a
Speaker 1: wireless thing. I don't know.
Speaker 4: It might be completely incorrect.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Also the Jack the Ripper musical Saucy Jack.
Speaker 1: I reckon that gets made now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I reckon someone's made it.
Speaker 1: I reckon Back then it seems like a ridiculous idea.
Speaker 4: But now I don't know, you.
Speaker 3: Know, I'm sure that's been it, like at Edinburgh Fruge
Speaker 3: something like, someone's done it.
Speaker 1: I think they may have actually played a song, because
Speaker 1: they do kind of get together every now and then
Speaker 1: for a benefit or something and play that. And they
Speaker 1: did release an album in two thousand and nine I think.
Speaker 1: And also there's a part where they talk about he
Speaker 1: wants to play his acoustic songs with the London Philharmonic,
Speaker 1: which happens all the time. The Yeah, well together with
Speaker 1: orchestras and play their music.
Speaker 3: I just saw an ad for Leo you remember that, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: and it was like Leoor with symphony orchestra. But you
Speaker 3: know the Ministry of Sound franchise. Yeah, they do stuff
Speaker 3: with the orchestra now and people love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's completely did you have a favorite character, do
Speaker 1: you so? Obviously we've management obviously added the band. Do
Speaker 1: you have a favorite band? Membay had Nigel Tafnell played
Speaker 1: by Christopher Guess. He had Derek Small's Harry Shearer and
Speaker 1: Davidson Havens played by Michael McKean. Obviously had x amount
Speaker 1: of various drummers who had untimely deaths. Yeah, but did
Speaker 1: you have a favorite.
Speaker 5: One the guy with the dark hair and the muster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very sure, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that
Speaker 3: was that was He was the best.
Speaker 1: He always reminds me. I'm not sure if you've watched
Speaker 1: the Beatles documentary. That was La Peter Jackson's Beatles documentary.
Speaker 1: It's just about the making of Letter B and it
Speaker 1: went for like it's you know, he went for four
Speaker 1: episodes and they all went for two and a half hours each.
Speaker 1: It was you had to be a real music nerd
Speaker 1: to jump in on it. But he reminded me of
Speaker 1: Ringo stars. He basically got Lennon and McCartney, who are
Speaker 1: the geniuses of the band. And then yet you do
Speaker 1: also have George Harrison who's trying to basically get in
Speaker 1: on the songwriting. Yeah, and there's tension between he leaves
Speaker 1: for a few days and they eventually get him back.
Speaker 1: But then you got little ringo star who's just happy
Speaker 1: to be doing his job and contributing to the band.
Speaker 4: As he might.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what Derek Small's feels like that
Speaker 1: to me. He does his job, his great comic relief.
Speaker 1: Let's have it. Listen to him in action when this
Speaker 1: is well, actually, let's play. Let's play. Let's listen to
Speaker 1: the Stonehenge. There's two parts I want to play. This
Speaker 1: is this is when they they want a noise maker,
Speaker 1: something to really you know, get this American tool back
Speaker 1: on tracks. So they decide to get Stonehenge over full
Speaker 1: on Stonehenge on stage. And this is when the artist
Speaker 1: who has put the Stonehenge together takes it to Tony
Speaker 1: sorry Ian, the manager.
Speaker 2: It looks absolutely perfect.
Speaker 11: I mean it's it's all right proportions, it'll be this
Speaker 11: color right, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: That's that's just terrific. I mean it almost looks that's
Speaker 2: like the real thing, got it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, when we get the actual set, when we get
Speaker 11: the piece, it'll it'll follow exactly these specifications.
Speaker 2: I mean, even these contours and everything. I'm don't understanding,
Speaker 2: but I mean the actual piece. Well, I mean when
Speaker 2: when you build the actual piece.
Speaker 6: But this is what you asked for, isn't it what?
Speaker 2: This is the piece? This is the piece?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 6: Are you telling me that this is it? This is scenery.
Speaker 6: Have you ever been to stone Hinge? The triptics are
Speaker 6: twenty feet high. You can stand four men.
Speaker 2: Ye, scenery.
Speaker 5: This is what I was asked to build.
Speaker 9: Eighteen inches right here, it's specified eighteen inches.
Speaker 2: I was given this napkin. I mean, forget this, fuck
Speaker 2: the napkin.
Speaker 1: So then of course they play times they play Stonehenge
Speaker 1: the song, and they love to I only realize as
Speaker 1: their in concert live ye, that which I just love
Speaker 1: it because they It means they probably haven't rehearsed with it,
Speaker 1: which it was fund funny. It comes down it's much
Speaker 1: smaller than expected. They go into a little folk tune
Speaker 1: with the small set of people dancing around.
Speaker 3: Yes, that was the workaround. They're like, okay, we've got this,
Speaker 3: what are we gonna do? This is my favorite part
Speaker 3: of the movie was Yeah, this scene with the stone Edge,
Speaker 3: the whole nap Because I used to work at a
Speaker 3: graphic design studio and the number of briefs I've got
Speaker 3: on a napkin or like scribbled on a piece of paper.
Speaker 3: So I was like, yeah, one hundred percent that happened
Speaker 3: like with someone just being like, yeah, this is what
Speaker 3: I want eighteen inches and then you do it and they're.
Speaker 5: Like what what is this? What do you do?
Speaker 3: Like that was so relatable to me. And then just
Speaker 3: seeing them on the stage with the stone engine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and let's ever listen to their reaction after the show,
Speaker 1: with a beautiful tag from Harry Shearer's Derek Smalls.
Speaker 2: I do not, for one think that the problem was
Speaker 2: that the band was down.
Speaker 6: I think that the problem may have been that there
Speaker 6: was a stone nge monument on the stage that was
Speaker 6: in dangerous being crushed by a dwarf all right, that.
Speaker 2: Tended to understate the hugeness of the object. I really
Speaker 2: think you're just making much two bigger thing out of it.
Speaker 10: Making a big thing out of it would have been
Speaker 10: a good idea.
Speaker 1: It's just a great line, a perfect line to kind
Speaker 1: of represent what I was mentioning before. They're not going
Speaker 1: for huge punch lines. That is great improv where you're
Speaker 1: you're actually listening, as opposed to thinking how can I
Speaker 1: make the best yeah boom tish ever here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just yeah, that would have been the perfect point
Speaker 3: in an improv scene where the person comes across with
Speaker 3: their arm. They were like, yep, nze, that's it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's just so funny.
Speaker 4: Did you.
Speaker 1: I also love the you know, the scene was one
Speaker 1: of my favorite scenes where where they came out of
Speaker 1: the cocoons, which obviously this wouldn't have been the improvised
Speaker 1: this been would have been written. I think the cocoons
Speaker 1: let's call them cocoons or alien kind of eggs, And
Speaker 1: and Nigel and Dave come out of theirs and they
Speaker 1: play the song they're fucking out, but there.
Speaker 4: His traps, he's trapped in it.
Speaker 1: He's still trying to play guitar, but he's also banging
Speaker 1: on the egg. There's the tech guys trying to work
Speaker 1: out the electronics. And then he's got he's got like
Speaker 1: a torch, he's like a flame torch, and he's trying
Speaker 1: to somehow get it open with and they just time
Speaker 1: it perfectly the right At the end of the song,
Speaker 1: they go back in as he comes out with that,
Speaker 1: realizing that they've gone back out, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: it's it's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's perfect. Yeah, there's so many good moments like that.
Speaker 3: And how how how many times does that happen in
Speaker 3: a stage show? You like hear all these things like
Speaker 3: like I went there and then the mic wasn't working
Speaker 3: and I just had to do it a cappella and
Speaker 3: there's just yeah, there's so many funny bits.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure what you're like.
Speaker 1: I've been very reluctant to add too much, like other
Speaker 1: factors to my shirt, my live show, I like to
Speaker 1: keep it pretty much the meet a microphone because if
Speaker 1: the microphone sucks up, they can just bring me another microphone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the idea, and that's I've never done theater because
Speaker 1: I we stand up. If something goes wrong and I'm
Speaker 1: just doing stand up, I can fix it myself. I can, yeah,
Speaker 1: as far as if I forget a routine that I
Speaker 1: was supposed to do, and you know, I can fix it.
Speaker 1: But when other people are relying on me, or if
Speaker 1: I'm relying on cues, then it petrifies me.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I couldn't do it.
Speaker 3: Like anytime I think about adding a que in or
Speaker 3: having a screen or a PowerPoint or something like I'll
Speaker 3: think about it and be passionate about it for about
Speaker 3: a day and then I'm like, nah, don't use your words.
Speaker 1: That said, I am considering using one light for my show,
Speaker 1: upcoming show. Yeah, but I there's every chance I'll listen
Speaker 1: back to this conversation.
Speaker 3: I go, yeah, yeah, I tell you what a funny
Speaker 3: YouTube rabbit Hole is is like amateur theater fails where
Speaker 3: there's a lot of you know, people coming out they
Speaker 3: haven't got the right dress on or like they're falling over.
Speaker 3: It's it's good fun.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm doing that. I'm doing that. The other thing,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure it's struck a quarter or a nerve
Speaker 1: with you, certainly is a stand up.
Speaker 4: But it's that idea of these gigs.
Speaker 1: Getting smaller and smaller, or the you know, the corporate
Speaker 1: the bad corporate gig.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah you ruck.
Speaker 1: Up to because yeah, when they rock up to the
Speaker 1: place and it's the puppets are headlining, yes over them
Speaker 1: is well, very funny, but it's also like you can
Speaker 1: feel good.
Speaker 4: I'm sure you've rocked up the gig where you're going
Speaker 4: to go.
Speaker 1: Either they're set up badly or they haven't been marketing
Speaker 1: or not everybody at the workplace knew this was happening.
Speaker 4: Have you have you had a like a horrific corporate.
Speaker 1: Yet, is that? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've had some. Yeah, I've definitely had a couple
Speaker 3: where I've been I've just been plowing, Like I've got
Speaker 3: to the point I'm like, I'm just going to plow
Speaker 3: and I'm going to get off.
Speaker 4: Think of the money head down there is.
Speaker 1: So they go to a military base and this is
Speaker 1: and we'll get to before we get to the military base,
Speaker 1: this is all happening of course because David's David's girlfriend
Speaker 1: has arrived, which is shades of Yoko. Obviously, there's is,
Speaker 1: you know, probably the biggest influence. I'm sure it's not
Speaker 1: the only one that you know, have a partner destabilizing
Speaker 1: a band, and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: It's it's, it's, it's it's it's one of the very
Speaker 1: few things that drives the storyline forward in the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, her arrival and yeah, her creating tension
Speaker 3: within the group. That's like her job and then end
Speaker 3: up with the manager leaves for a period and then
Speaker 3: comes back and just gives her this look.
Speaker 5: As I told you.
Speaker 1: So well when Nigel leaves the band. He walked off
Speaker 1: stage at one point and he gives her that really
Speaker 1: big look, but you know, and it's you can understand
Speaker 1: how it can disrupt the flow of a tour, but
Speaker 1: you kind of also understand that, well, you know, these
Speaker 1: people's lives and they're entitled to live them. But I
Speaker 1: think when she starts suggesting costumes and then the idea
Speaker 1: of what maybe maybe my girlfriend can manage the band
Speaker 1: as well, you know that you can understand attention, but
Speaker 1: that they go to a military base because gigs are
Speaker 1: getting canceled, and it's where we meet Fred Willard, who
Speaker 1: basically he's one of my favorite people to watch on stage.
Speaker 1: Salely passed away a few years ago, and he does
Speaker 1: some stick that he ends up really doing in so
Speaker 1: many of their productions over the next twenty to thirty years,
Speaker 1: and it's it's glorious anytime you get to watch Fred
Speaker 1: will work.
Speaker 4: But this is him upon arrival talking to the band.
Speaker 12: Ah books Stratt, you are a final target.
Speaker 2: I'm Jeanine, this final spinal.
Speaker 12: Tap I mistake. I'm Lieutenant Bob Hookstratt. Welcome to Lindberg
Speaker 12: Air Force Base. This is your gentlemen's first visit to
Speaker 12: military facility.
Speaker 1: Yes, find me.
Speaker 12: I start by saying, how thrilled we are to have
Speaker 12: you here. We are such fans of your music and
Speaker 12: all of your records. I'm not speaking of yours personally,
Speaker 12: but the whole genre of the rock and roll and something.
Speaker 12: All the exciting things are happening music today, and let
Speaker 12: me explain a bit about what's going on. This is
Speaker 12: our monthly at Ease weekend. It gives us a chance
Speaker 12: of gonna let down our hair. Although I see you
Speaker 12: all have a head start these haircuts a wooden fast
Speaker 12: military must believe me. Although I shouldn't talk. My hair's
Speaker 12: get a little shaggy too. Better not get too close
Speaker 12: to you, They'll think I'm part of the band. I'm Joey.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 12: Shall we go in and I'll show you around.
Speaker 1: You just got so many little throwaways, and I love
Speaker 1: him so much. There's also the one that was a
Speaker 1: bit triggering for me was when they nobody rocks up
Speaker 1: to the LP signing. They finally got the covers going
Speaker 1: and nobody came. Because I remember doing an appearance a signing,
Speaker 1: a DVD signing at at ABC store in the city
Speaker 1: with Pat Brammele and Any Maynard. They were there for
Speaker 1: Upper Middle Bogan and I was there for representing it.
Speaker 1: To date, those both those shows went back to back
Speaker 1: on the ABC for a couple of years, and the
Speaker 1: ABC on the DVD release said, oh, we've got a
Speaker 1: new store in Melbourne Central or somewhere and you know,
Speaker 1: so we're going to you know, if you guys could
Speaker 1: go there for two hours on a Saturday and this,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll set you up signed DVDs and you
Speaker 1: kind of assume that they're going to let people know
Speaker 1: about it, and it was kind of organized. It was
Speaker 1: almost like this week and we're like okay, and we
Speaker 1: rock up and over to two hours, I reckon I
Speaker 1: sign maybe.
Speaker 4: Eight DVDs and I think he probably signed maybe twelve
Speaker 4: Up and Middle Bog.
Speaker 1: And DVDs it was, and it's over two hours. There
Speaker 1: were some points of those two hours where we were
Speaker 1: just walking around the storm and then my one of
Speaker 1: my high school teachers walks, now, thankfully this is at
Speaker 1: a stage where you know, I'm comfortable enough with what
Speaker 1: I've done, and yeah, you know, it was just that
Speaker 1: you kind of go, oh, wow, you really struggling. But
Speaker 1: I've done some other stuff, so it wasn't as awkward
Speaker 1: as it could have been. But whenever I see Pat
Speaker 1: or any it's like a war story. It really is
Speaker 1: like this, And I think they just thought this is
Speaker 1: back in the day. I think it still happens to
Speaker 1: an extent where they thought just put it on your
Speaker 1: socials and then people will come. It's like, that's not
Speaker 1: how it really works that you do need to actually
Speaker 1: let people know sign in the store. Is there a
Speaker 1: database that maybe you can lean into?
Speaker 3: Were you at the back of the store.
Speaker 1: We're inside the store, so thankfully we weren't. But this
Speaker 1: I always find, you know, I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people sell merch after after gigs. I'm not sure it's
Speaker 1: becoming less of a thing or more of a thing.
Speaker 1: Probably less of a maybe more online.
Speaker 3: Even the thing now is like follow me on find
Speaker 3: my socials.
Speaker 4: That's the sort of which is perfect because you just
Speaker 4: put it out there.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, and that's it.
Speaker 1: But the idea of sitting at a trestle table watching
Speaker 1: the audience in this entertainment walked by after a show
Speaker 1: is yeah, that's There's been times I've done and people, yeah, lot,
Speaker 1: there's been plenty of times when people have lined up
Speaker 1: and I've been done DV these signings where I was
Speaker 1: and book signings. You know that I've been overwhelmed with
Speaker 1: the amount of people who have rocked up. But that
Speaker 1: was that was not this. That was a very different thing.
Speaker 1: He really was.
Speaker 3: And just that line to of oh, I love the
Speaker 3: whole genre, like I've had so many people say I
Speaker 3: love comedy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's why we picked you.
Speaker 3: I love comedy. And I'm like, okay, the.
Speaker 1: Famous watched me?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the famous one. I saw it at the Melbourn
Speaker 4: Comedy Festival. Oh well, what show was it?
Speaker 1: Oh, you have the one on TV the Yeah you
Speaker 1: mean you show me on the gala?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's so different thing three and a half minute.
Speaker 1: There's some great lines I do I do love. Also
Speaker 1: the line it's a fine line between stupid and clever.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, which is so true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some truth in that the shows have been
Speaker 1: canceled due to a lack of advertising funds, not even
Speaker 1: of advertising, like of advertising funds. It was lovely. Now
Speaker 1: there's some fun facts that I mean to be actually honest,
Speaker 1: there's not like sometimes I have a whole heap of
Speaker 1: fun facts. This one doesn't have as many because I
Speaker 1: think most of the stuff that comes out of this
Speaker 1: that people knowing that they make a thing of is
Speaker 1: that it was kind of all improvd yeah, which was incredible.
Speaker 4: They shot a whole bunch of.
Speaker 1: It, and that a lot of bands did not realize
Speaker 1: a lot of people did not realize that this was
Speaker 1: actually a fake documentary. The people really believed that this
Speaker 1: was all real.
Speaker 5: And I see that too.
Speaker 3: It took me like a good I knew it was
Speaker 3: a documentary, but in the ten to fifteen minutes at
Speaker 3: the start, I thought, what, it's not obvious enough.
Speaker 1: No, it strikes that balance like not being like I said,
Speaker 1: if it was now, the jokes in a way, they
Speaker 1: would be sharper, but they wouldn't be as good. The
Speaker 1: whole thing wouldn't be as good.
Speaker 3: It would be too brightened. I think, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Actually, before we get into a couple of fun facts
Speaker 1: we got, of course, have to play maybe the most famous. Well,
Speaker 1: there's two scenes that I think for me that maybe
Speaker 1: the most kind of spoken about. One is when I
Speaker 1: can't find the stage. Oh that is a brilliant that
Speaker 1: is so good, and they seem to be able to
Speaker 1: everything goes with the right length. Yes, sometimes you want
Speaker 1: you know, you might feel like you want more, but
Speaker 1: I reckon they've cut hard to get out of somebody
Speaker 1: laughing or something, and I feel like this. They keep
Speaker 1: going back and giving the shackers whatever you call them,
Speaker 1: and this came back and when they go the full
Speaker 1: circle and find themselves back with the janitor, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love it.
Speaker 3: That is and the janitor is just like, yeah, so
Speaker 3: you have to cross through it and do some jogging.
Speaker 3: You got to do some jogging. They're like, oh, we
Speaker 3: don't have time for jogging. Oh, that's a brilliant scene.
Speaker 1: And the other one is, of course when they Nigel
Speaker 1: is taking Marty through his guitars and then the famous
Speaker 1: iconic spinal tap amp.
Speaker 2: This is a top to you know what we use
Speaker 2: on stage.
Speaker 10: But it's very very special because if you can see, yeah,
Speaker 10: the numbers all go to eleven, look right across the board,
Speaker 10: eleven or eleven, mostly eleven ams go up to ten.
Speaker 2: Exactly does that mean it's louder? Is there any louder? Well,
Speaker 2: it's one louder, isn't it. It's not ten? You see,
Speaker 2: most most blokes are going to be playing at ten.
Speaker 6: You're on ten here, all the way up, all the
Speaker 6: way up, all the way up.
Speaker 2: You're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go
Speaker 2: from there? Where? I don't know where exactly. What we
Speaker 2: do is if we need that extra push over the cliff,
Speaker 2: you know what we do, put it up to an
Speaker 2: eleven exactly one loud. Why don't you just.
Speaker 8: Make ten louder and make ten be the top number,
Speaker 8: and make that a little louder.
Speaker 2: These go to eleven.
Speaker 4: It's so good, it's so good. We mentioned the cameo.
Speaker 1: I think you mentioned Frank Dresser was maybe your favorite, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which I think is a good call. Dana Carvey was
Speaker 1: also in there as one of the mind waiters the
Speaker 1: crystal Yeah.
Speaker 5: What did he say?
Speaker 1: Mime is money is money?
Speaker 3: That is brilliant.
Speaker 1: I do love I'm a big fan of Bruno Kirby.
Speaker 1: So Bruno Kirby, Good Morning, Vietnam, Godfather Part two, City Slickers.
Speaker 1: He plays the limo driver. I do love him that
Speaker 1: he can't he can't quite understand he's telling the story
Speaker 1: about Frank Sinacha. He's a New York limo driver. He's
Speaker 1: got these guys from England in his Limo, who are musicians.
Speaker 1: Of course they're going to love this story about Frank Sinatra,
Speaker 1: but they just wind the window up. They don't give
Speaker 1: a shit. And then he's like these guys they don't
Speaker 1: get it. They get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a good and it was like quite
Speaker 3: a good story, like and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: the windows just like no mate.
Speaker 1: But it's also that thing of you know, we always
Speaker 1: think the bands are a fad, you know, and those
Speaker 1: people who you know, it's almost like a generation gap.
Speaker 1: That was probably more of a cultural gap than a
Speaker 1: generation gap. I remember in year eight my teacher, mister
Speaker 1: Wells was a big Beatles fan, and I kind of
Speaker 1: like the Beatles as well. I kind of wasn't somebody
Speaker 1: who would necessarily, you know, trash, you know, like the
Speaker 1: bands that came before me. You know, I probably owned,
Speaker 1: you know, a dodgy copy of bootleg copy of Sergeant Peppers.
Speaker 4: But I was a bon Jovi fan.
Speaker 1: That was yeah, right, And I remember like having arguments
Speaker 1: with mister Wells at bon Jovi were like bigger than
Speaker 1: the Beatles and so they won't be around, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: And I accept that nobody's as big as the balls.
Speaker 1: But Bonjo they're still going. Yeah, still one of the
Speaker 1: biggest steering bands, live bands in the world. And if
Speaker 1: you want to get a party started, you know, put
Speaker 1: some Jovi on as far as your anthemic rock. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I stand by that, but I remember having debates
Speaker 1: with him about it.
Speaker 4: Remember, it's just a fad. It's just a fad.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So when I watched that, I do think back yeah.
Speaker 3: To that, Yeah, oh that yeah, and that comes up
Speaker 3: all the time or not. So I mean now where
Speaker 3: people just get like one song or two songs out.
Speaker 3: But I remember back in the day for my high
Speaker 3: school band thing, it was like you're either Pearl Jam
Speaker 3: or Nirvana. It was that that was the split, and
Speaker 3: I was like, who who was better? And even though
Speaker 3: like Nirvana couldn't go on like, that was still an argument.
Speaker 4: I was never quite.
Speaker 1: Sure whether Nirvana obviously not being able to record anymore,
Speaker 1: what was a disadvantage or an advantage in that debate, Like,
Speaker 1: is the fact that Pearl Jam got to make so
Speaker 1: much more music, and you know, you can only make
Speaker 1: so much great music until maybe there might be you know,
Speaker 1: o igue that the last Pearl Jam album was great.
Speaker 4: I'm a pillow Jam fan.
Speaker 1: I was probably on the pearl Jam side of that debate,
Speaker 1: to be honest, but I do love the Nirvana as well.
Speaker 1: But I wonder if Nirvana had have made Yeah albums,
Speaker 1: at what point do they tip over the other side? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What point do they start playing the army base.
Speaker 5: If Nevada ever.
Speaker 1: Had When did Nevara release sex Farm?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could have happened.
Speaker 1: My favorite title of all the songs was Tonight. I'm
Speaker 1: going to rock You Tonight was one of them.
Speaker 3: Tonight twice in the title is well Tonight Tonight the
Speaker 3: smashing pub kits.
Speaker 1: They actually yeah, Billy Corgan. Yeah, Like I said, there
Speaker 1: went really a whole bunch of fun facts. It was
Speaker 1: slightly sad fact Tony Hendra, who played in Faith, he
Speaker 1: passed away only lessen a year ago or about a
Speaker 1: year ago, which is sad obviously, Uh, and I think so.
Speaker 1: I think he didn't really make a much else after this,
Speaker 1: but he admitted that he read a memoir. He actually
Speaker 1: attempted to take his own life the night before shooting
Speaker 1: began on this spinal tap and he said this is
Speaker 1: obviously with years of no doubt work and hindsight, but
Speaker 1: he said, the joy of making that film saved him
Speaker 1: from his depression.
Speaker 3: Oh that's so nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I said, I really do believe that
Speaker 1: he in a way holds a lot of the film together.
Speaker 1: I'm not necessarily saying he's the best thing in the film,
Speaker 1: but I think he's so important I think to this film.
Speaker 1: There was also you may have noticed there was some
Speaker 1: herpes kind of cold saws. Oh yeah, on some of
Speaker 1: the band. There was a there was a kind of
Speaker 1: abandoned subplot where there was a female's opening band, and
Speaker 1: the running.
Speaker 4: Joke was that they'd all slept with the.
Speaker 1: Lead singer and we're getting purpose along the way, which
Speaker 1: I think we talk about this film aging well. I
Speaker 1: think it's probably best that it was about I'm not
Speaker 1: sure at what point I got to feel like they
Speaker 1: didn't shoot any of it, but maybe they had the
Speaker 1: idea and they were going to shoot that later. So
Speaker 1: we're planting these little cold saws, So.
Speaker 3: That's interesting that they just cut that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I said, I think there's not much
Speaker 1: about this film that kind of I think it's like
Speaker 1: I said, from the Yeah, some good news for spinal
Speaker 1: tap fans, which I must have missed when they announced
Speaker 1: it sequel coming twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: Crazy, it's so good. Do you think it'll be the same.
Speaker 4: Well, it's the same. It's the same.
Speaker 1: They're all still alive, well as far as the main
Speaker 1: three in the bands and Rob Rainer. Rob Rainer by
Speaker 1: the way, like this is his first film, so he's
Speaker 1: an American icon. Even before he starts moving behind the camera.
Speaker 1: He was like in a massive US sitcom called All
Speaker 1: in the Family, and so he was almost like a
Speaker 1: rich you know, Richie canningham Ron Howard style character.
Speaker 4: And then he wants to direct.
Speaker 1: He knows these guys, these guys did they a sketch
Speaker 1: comedy a sketch for him in a comedy show. He
Speaker 1: had a show that he I think director or ran
Speaker 1: called the TV show Yeah think in Canada. These guys
Speaker 1: come on, they do a sketch and this is all
Speaker 1: born from that one sketch.
Speaker 3: And so much stuff happens like that, Like one person
Speaker 3: will do a sketch or a character and then all
Speaker 3: of a sudden there's a movie or they've got a
Speaker 3: running yeah show or something.
Speaker 1: And well, Christopher Guest was checking into a hotel once
Speaker 1: and there was an English band in front of him,
Speaker 1: checking in before him, and they were arguing about where
Speaker 1: they left. The managers with the bass player about where
Speaker 1: his equipment was, and his bass player was saying, I
Speaker 1: don't know, probably it's maybe at the airport. And they
Speaker 1: went on for fifteen minutes and and Christopher Guesser said
Speaker 1: it all came from that and like ten years ten
Speaker 1: years later, that's when he it all happens, but he
Speaker 1: just kept it in his head. He said it was
Speaker 1: the happiest day of his life outside of I think
Speaker 1: marrying his wife Jamie Lee Curtis that yeah, and the
Speaker 1: birth of his kids. He said, the happiest day, Like
Speaker 1: just he just soaked it all in and just knew
Speaker 1: that it was going to come.
Speaker 3: Back seving this idea.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's so good.
Speaker 3: And music. I like to think comedians are quite like
Speaker 3: humble characters, but I think musicians are on another level.
Speaker 3: I used to when I was at Uni, I worked
Speaker 3: at a bar and this bar I worked out was
Speaker 3: contracted to do the bar work at a music festival
Speaker 3: like Stereosnic one of those, and so we had to
Speaker 3: put all the artists writers together, and honestly, they were
Speaker 3: ridiculous they was, Oh, we need to blow up crocodile,
Speaker 3: We'd like ten bottles of Belvedere. It was just can
Speaker 3: you imagine asking for that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the famous, the famous on his van Halen asking
Speaker 1: for Blue Eminem's. Yeah, And it came out later that
Speaker 1: Eddie van Halen said that the reason he asks for
Speaker 1: Blue Eminems is to make sure that the promoters had
Speaker 1: read the contract. Ah, so if there was Blue Eminem's there,
Speaker 1: he knew they'd read the contract. If they weren't, he
Speaker 1: knew they didn't. I'm not sure that's revisionism going on,
Speaker 1: yeah or not. But I like the story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do like Yeah, I do like the story. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I got to look after yourself.
Speaker 1: Well sometimes I mean, yeah, obviously there are ridiculous requests.
Speaker 1: You feel like you're just making somebody's life harder, requesting
Speaker 1: a blow up crocodile, whatever it might be. But sometimes
Speaker 1: it is like I imagine, if you're doing night after
Speaker 1: night and it basically becomes your home away from home,
Speaker 1: these are the things that are going to make me feel,
Speaker 1: so I can be as comfortable as I can. But
Speaker 1: usually usually comedy you rock up and there's a plate
Speaker 1: of sandwiches and the plate fruit, happy with.
Speaker 3: The Carmen's music. But the best thing about the writers
Speaker 3: at this festival. I did it for a couple of years,
Speaker 3: but anything that they didn't.
Speaker 5: Touch we got to keep.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine that university We had a truckload stuff
Speaker 3: going back to a sharehouse. It was like our yearly alcohol. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it was. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: Well, the amount of times even the project, you will
Speaker 1: it will be a request. You know, these are what
Speaker 1: you need to have. And I'm not aware of anything
Speaker 1: completely out of control. But the bigger the entourage is
Speaker 1: the bigger the request because they're not just dealing with
Speaker 1: the artists. They're dealing with they're on and often it's
Speaker 1: more for their own as to be honest, yeah okay,
Speaker 1: but yeah, often that you know, it'll be it'll be touched.
Speaker 1: So you have these, you know, six bottles of wine
Speaker 1: in the green room afterwards, so good. All of a
Speaker 1: sudden carry gets so I can do it and that's it.
Speaker 1: At school, I really can't. Lizzie who this podcast comes
Speaker 1: with homework and you you are, you are as busy
Speaker 1: as anyone. You're running around doing gigs, you're appearing on
Speaker 1: TV shows, so thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Pressure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I hope I did it justice.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Is there anything you missing anything you?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean I just oh the one thing I did
Speaker 3: love the other one thing? What did What did they
Speaker 3: call the girlfriend at one point an.
Speaker 1: Australian Australian nightmare, an Australian night yeahok, like.
Speaker 4: You look like an Australian's nightmare.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I just thought that was so beautiful. I know,
Speaker 3: such a good description.
Speaker 1: Because I kind of looked at that thought I'm not
Speaker 1: exactly sure what it means, but it kind of like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like I didn't I could have. I even thought about it,
Speaker 1: and I thought, Okay, what are they not that like
Speaker 1: not being offended at all, Like, but I was just
Speaker 1: kind of going, what how is that?
Speaker 4: Why does it work? Yeah? It works?
Speaker 1: And I wasn't sure if it was in a Living
Speaker 1: John kind of thing, because she would have been kind
Speaker 1: of Xena do yeah, and she kind of had that
Speaker 1: kind of it was kind of.
Speaker 4: A mixture of Xanadu and maybe and rock you a what.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I did think it might have been in Olivia John
Speaker 3: reference or that they're sort of like speaking down to
Speaker 3: Australians and like an Australian wouldn't even look that bad.
Speaker 3: You know. That's that's what I think. But it took
Speaker 3: me a while, like is she Australian? Is she trying
Speaker 3: to do it? Like what's happening? Yeah? I just thought
Speaker 3: that was another beautiful line.
Speaker 4: It kind of came out of the blue, but it was.
Speaker 1: It was perfect. It was perfect. That's a good one.
Speaker 1: You are not an Australian nightmare. Listen, you are an
Speaker 1: Australian dream. I encourage everyone to go see your shows.
Speaker 1: You've been killing it. Do you have anything coming up
Speaker 1: that you want to shout out?
Speaker 3: Nothing coming up. I'm just I'm definitely starting to work
Speaker 3: on my news show for festival season next year, so yeah,
Speaker 3: look out for that.
Speaker 1: It's that time of year you're just don't to get
Speaker 1: conversations phone call saying what's the show's Yeah, I've got
Speaker 1: this idea about a woman who's been greased up in
Speaker 1: a dog collar. That's where I'm going. Beautiful, Thanks Lizzie,
Speaker 1: it's pretty.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's a beautiful piano there Nigel tough Nol with
Speaker 1: the beautiful ballad Lick my Love Pump, Bring your Tear
Speaker 1: to the Eye. It really does. Really relieved that Lizzie,
Speaker 1: who loved this is spinal tap. I was nervous. I
Speaker 1: was nervous. There's something about comedians being too judgy on
Speaker 1: comedy that is a little bit. Oh, it's a bit
Speaker 1: makes me a bit nervous to be honest, and I
Speaker 1: know comedians don't love doing that. So if Lizzie had
Speaker 1: watched it and not enjoyed it, I was to be honest.
Speaker 4: And this is the only time I've done this.
Speaker 1: I actually said to her management team, if Lizzie wants
Speaker 1: to watch it first and then let me know she
Speaker 1: likes it, and if she doesn't like it, we can
Speaker 1: bail on the episode. They said, nah, she'll love it.
Speaker 1: She'll love it, so I never heard back. Even though
Speaker 1: I gave them a parachute, they refused a parachute. Lizzie
Speaker 1: watched it. I found out that she loved it when
Speaker 1: she said that she loved it, and I was bloody relieved.
Speaker 1: So thanks Lizzie. She is killing it at the moment
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Speaker 1: you had been waiting for for quite a while.
Speaker 7: I've been dying to use a certain button on my
Speaker 7: mixing desk, the Dobbley, And yeah, I've been absolutely hanging
Speaker 7: for this one. There's so many things out of this
Speaker 7: film that are still in my vernacular and way of thinking. Yeah,
Speaker 7: like space, your new friend, like you just have you
Speaker 7: got a special new friend? Obviously that's that's Derek Smalls's
Speaker 7: referencing a new girl he's met who probably doesn't know
Speaker 7: her name. Doubley. Of course. Now I'm a sound engineer.
Speaker 7: I wasn't back then, but now when someone's being a
Speaker 7: bit sort of clearly doesn't know stuff, about the tech,
Speaker 7: but they're still talking about it. I can't help but
Speaker 7: eventually say, yeah, has it got doubley? And that just
Speaker 7: lets him know that I don't. I'm not into what
Speaker 7: they're saying.
Speaker 1: That's a funny little moment, that one, because within it
Speaker 1: they they again they're not looking at trumping it with
Speaker 1: a bigger joke. In a way, they just almost just
Speaker 1: enjoy that moment. I wonder actually if the actress got
Speaker 1: it wrong or or they were just you know, they
Speaker 1: were just in character doing their thing. But yeah, very funny.
Speaker 7: But just what they don't do is what makes it,
Speaker 7: isn't it. Yeah, magic happens, they go it's funny.
Speaker 1: And I'm not comparing Strawy with the guy's in spinal tap.
Speaker 1: But I remember when we went out for the first time.
Speaker 1: We shot Strawy having a kick of the football, and
Speaker 1: my producer said, and I was having shots a goal legitimately,
Speaker 1: and I was actually kicking most of them, but tightish angle,
Speaker 1: and I'd just said, okay, now kicks him on the fall.
Speaker 1: Kicks him on the fall, and I was like, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that because I want people
Speaker 1: to believe that this guy could actually play football, not
Speaker 1: that he's just shaking them, you know. And it was
Speaker 1: the best thing we did for that character was to
Speaker 1: actually give him a sense instead of going for the
Speaker 1: bigger laugh, we gave him a sense of believability. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what And maybe I learned it
Speaker 1: from these legends, because you're absolutely right. It's not that
Speaker 1: they're not going for a thousand jokes. They're listening to
Speaker 1: each other and it's it makes it really believable.
Speaker 7: It really enjoyed Lizzie talking about how people maybe believed
Speaker 7: it was a real thing. We were talking about some
Speaker 7: rock bands. It was a thing, like I was there.
Speaker 7: It was a thing. Remember there was no Internet, yep,
Speaker 7: And there was lots of aging rock bands that you
Speaker 7: just didn't know about. Yeah, Like if you ask me who, okay,
Speaker 7: you know what Judas Priest looked like, I couldn't have
Speaker 7: told you. Yeah, right, And there's so many of those.
Speaker 7: It was a thing. The question did come up, not
Speaker 7: for long. But there was a lot of films you
Speaker 7: heard about a lot before before you saw it. You
Speaker 7: didn't see clips of them anywhere.
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, and I don't remember. I mean I was
Speaker 1: nine when this comes out, but I don't really remember
Speaker 1: it being released, you know, like it's basically the same
Speaker 1: year it was Ghostbusters, like eighty four to eighty six,
Speaker 1: but it's yeah, it wasn't. I don't remember that there
Speaker 1: being a massive It was kind of a cult hit,
Speaker 1: you know. And in fact, again this is seems to
Speaker 1: be we say this every second week on this podcast,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't a hit upon release. It was really
Speaker 1: I found its life on video when when people would
Speaker 1: have to pass literally pass these videos around, And what
Speaker 1: a joy it would have been to watch not knowing
Speaker 1: that this was a documentary.
Speaker 7: Oh it's a.
Speaker 1: Completely different experience, as funny as it is now and
Speaker 1: as well as it has aged to be able to
Speaker 1: go back and watch it unknowingly, it would be such
Speaker 1: a glorious experience.
Speaker 7: Oh there's a there's a documentary called Mad Dogs and
Speaker 7: Englishmen which follows Joe Cocker tour on Russell and you've
Speaker 7: got the piano player in the top, Hatley on Russell,
Speaker 7: who you know made them all stand in a circle
Speaker 7: and chance stuff before going on. And it was it
Speaker 7: was as funny like I used to watch it in
Speaker 7: the sharehouse and we all said, I go, ah, look
Speaker 7: at that and they had the cliched groupies and it
Speaker 7: was really really similar.
Speaker 1: Well, there was I think another doco, Don't Look Back,
Speaker 1: and the Bob Dylan documentary came out I think not
Speaker 1: long before this, around this time, and that was I
Speaker 1: think an influence. And so there was they were dealing
Speaker 1: in a genre that was gathering steme. It just this
Speaker 1: was completely made up, which becomes its own genre.
Speaker 7: It's amazing and it's it's there's another genre maybe not
Speaker 7: a genre, but there's a style of film that in
Speaker 7: your head, it kind of you assume it was released
Speaker 7: when you discovered it. It's so time, yes, But like
Speaker 7: The Blues Brothers, I wouldn't have a clue when The
Speaker 7: Blues Brothers was made. Yeah, it was just when I
Speaker 7: discovered it. It started existing, Yeah, eighty four or whatever
Speaker 7: it was. Yeah, But the same goes with Spinal Tap Yep.
Speaker 7: I had no idea it came out when it did.
Speaker 7: I would have assumed maybe a few years later.
Speaker 4: It's so good and exciting.
Speaker 1: So the idea of the sequel is that there is
Speaker 1: some contractual, a shady contractual obligation that the band still
Speaker 1: have and they've said very little. It's going to be
Speaker 1: improvised again, so I imagine, yeah, it will be new songs,
Speaker 1: and I think it's gonna be like one of those.
Speaker 1: You got to temper your expectations a little bit. Not
Speaker 1: that I have faith in these guys in delivering something
Speaker 1: pretty special, but you know, we've seen with Zoolander two's
Speaker 1: and these things can cannot always hit pay dirt, but
Speaker 1: we'll certainly be lining up for it or booking a
Speaker 1: ticket for it. The Metal Detector was the another one
Speaker 1: we didn't get to, so of course I remember when
Speaker 1: I first watched it that was probably the scene that
Speaker 1: actually maybe laugh the most, you know, because it was
Speaker 1: this bloody funny. Hey, if you want to get in
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Speaker 4: And do we have a quicker email this week?
Speaker 7: There I got a I got a nice one from Patria. Patria,
Speaker 7: and it's it's a nice email suggests it's a suggestion.
Speaker 1: For we love suggestions.
Speaker 7: Yep, suggestion for some possible guests Kate, Tim and.
Speaker 1: Joel oh An over Drive team, Yeah, Kate, Richie and
Speaker 1: Joel Christy and Tim Blackwell Yeah.
Speaker 7: And Patria is confident that they would love to come on,
Speaker 7: and they would. And she's suggesting some Monty Python films.
Speaker 4: Oh well, Mighty Python.
Speaker 1: I feels like Life of Brian is the film, and
Speaker 1: it has been suggested it is certainly on the list. Again,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's hard to find and we largely deal with comedians,
Speaker 1: not not exclusively with our actors and musicians on recently,
Speaker 1: but it's hard to find people who haven't seen a
Speaker 1: film like this is Smile Tap or Life of Brian
Speaker 1: and Life I think is the I think the Life
Speaker 1: of Brian and this is spinal Tap in the conversation
Speaker 1: for the greatest comedies ever. So certainly, if we can
Speaker 1: find somebody who hasn't seen Life of Brian in particular,
Speaker 1: I guesst the Holy Grail I think would have been that
Speaker 1: conversation as well, we would love to do that as well.
Speaker 7: And she finishes with love the show my hobby and
Speaker 7: I listened to them together on our road trips.
Speaker 4: Ah, fantastic.
Speaker 1: Well, if you're listening now, you know, keep your hands
Speaker 1: on ten and two and drive safe. But thanks for
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Speaker 1: the show. It's a live episode. We recorded that the
Speaker 1: Grapes of Mirth Festival run by Merrick Watts at the
Speaker 1: Barossa Valley at Separates Field, in a wine cellar in
Speaker 1: front of an awesome crowd.
Speaker 4: It was packed.
Speaker 1: It was amazing with my good friend Merrick Wats himself
Speaker 1: and our featured guest is Nazim Hussein. Nazim Hussein who
Speaker 1: has never seen a movie, a movie that's in my
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Speaker 1: Madison and the wonderful Sandra O.
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Speaker 1: Yes, we're talking sideways in a wine cellar in the
Speaker 1: Barissa Valley. If I have a live studio audience with
Speaker 1: playing the Zame Hussain next week and you waited nothing
Speaker 1: yet until then, by for now, and so we leave
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