1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 2: Well, is there another Australian album that does put a 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 2: smile on your face quite the way that. 4 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:10,480 Speaker 1: Stone Age Romeo Romeo's has done. 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 2: And as you say, it's forty years since the release 6 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,959 Speaker 2: of that debut album, the Hoodoo Gurus are celebrating this 7 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 2: in a very exciting way. 8 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: Taking the band back on to a front man, Dave 9 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: Faulkner joins us, Now, Hello. 10 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 3: Day, how's it going? Very well? 11 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: Was forty looming and you thought, let's do it in 12 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 1: a year where there's a zero. 13 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 4: We always you know, we had forty starting to happen 14 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 4: a lot now because we celebrated our fortieth anniversary of 15 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 4: forming a couple of years ago, and of course now 16 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 4: they all start to roll around kind of like clockwork. 17 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 4: So this one's a special one though, because this is 18 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 4: the album that put us on the map, and so 19 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 4: many people are still probably their favorite album that we 20 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 4: ever did. I mean, I like other ones as well, 21 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 4: but this is certainly a pretty big album for us. 22 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:51,480 Speaker 1: And you were so young man. 23 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 4: I was. Yeah, I'd been in a punk band in Perth, 24 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 4: so it wasn't exactly a novice. I'd been done some 25 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 4: recording over there in a couple of singles. But yeah, 26 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 4: doing it all and you know in the Huda Guruz 27 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 4: was kind of a strange experience, and certainly the idea 28 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 4: that we'd around talking about it all these years later 29 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 4: was certainly way out of my radar. 30 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 5: Were you guys back then? You know, you're all hair 31 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:14,559 Speaker 5: and paisley, and. 32 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 3: Thank you, I'm not saying the Paisley. 33 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 4: I had some paisy in my wardrobe and my hair's 34 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 4: there too as well. 35 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 5: You didn't toy with the long wigs that kiss. 36 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 4: No, No, I mean I wish I'd done the other 37 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 4: scoopa thing and had makeup in the early days so 38 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 4: I could hide the bags under my eyes or the wrinkles. 39 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,400 Speaker 4: You know, that's a good trick that they didn't realize 40 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 4: was going to be so good for them later on. 41 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 4: But no, we you know, we just as you see us, 42 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 4: and we never we never been beauty plates anyway. We 43 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 4: just kind of hear more for the music than anything else. 44 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 1: And what about the relationships over forty. 45 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 4: Years, Oh yes, they're up and down, you know, like 46 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 4: any you know, close relationship, you find you get on 47 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 4: each other's nerves and you get through that. And of 48 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 4: course underneath it all is a great yet the respect 49 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 4: and you know, affection for each other. 50 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't mind each other. 51 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 4: Time. 52 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 5: As you get older, you just go, I'm just too 53 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 5: tired of that. 54 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: I've got too tired to fight. You mean, we're just 55 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: too tired to fight. 56 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 5: I think as I got when I hit fifty, all 57 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 5: of a sudden, that stuff used to sweat about when 58 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 5: you were thirty, You go, what was wrong with that? Yeah? 59 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 4: I kind of that was for me. Was when I 60 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 4: turned forty. I that was my favorite birthday for that reason. 61 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 4: I suddenly just went switched off all that stuff and 62 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,519 Speaker 4: just didn't care anymore about that stuff. But I was 63 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 4: lucky at that time. The band broke up, and you know, 64 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 4: it's my choice. We decided to quit while we're ahead. 65 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 4: And that six years that we broke up for we 66 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 4: you know, ended up. The music brought us back together again. 67 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 4: But I kind of grew up a little bit. You know. 68 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 4: I'd been in this stupid lifestyle of being you know, 69 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 4: on tour and you know, living out of a suitcase, 70 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 4: and you don't really mature properly that sort of circumstance. 71 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 4: So those six years helped me become a better person. 72 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 4: I think probably for all of us coming back together again. 73 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:50,519 Speaker 4: You know, that's why we're still here after all this time, 74 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 4: because we've now been together as long after the breakup 75 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 4: as we were before. 76 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, and do you find when you hit the stage 77 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 2: you just isn't an endorphin rush and you go, I 78 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:02,239 Speaker 2: just remember now, I love this. 79 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 4: You don't sort of sit back and think of it 80 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 4: like that, But certainly the endorphin rush or whatever you 81 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 4: call it, adrenaline makes you kind of on edge, and 82 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 4: you know beforehand, even like even all day really about 83 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 4: certainly the hours before the show, you you're a bit 84 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 4: distracted and you get that sort of thousand yards stare 85 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 4: they call it, and in the war zones. But yeah, 86 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 4: every gig is just important to us. We want to 87 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 4: go out there and just nail it. And there's nothing nothing, 88 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 4: you know, we don't take it for granted or or 89 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 4: anything for us being on stage as a gift and 90 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 4: you know, for us and the music being inside that 91 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 4: that moment in the music, that's what we live for. 92 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 5: And also you gave us What's My Scene, which became 93 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 5: the most successful NROL campaign next to Tina, is simply 94 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 5: the best I dare say. 95 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 4: It was a we're one year longer than Tina, so 96 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 4: we're happy with that. With Peter, we can get the money, 97 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 4: but we got. 98 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 3: So you don't get any mind. We've got money. Because 99 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 3: I thought that that would be that would be your dream. 100 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 5: Though, if a tea an advertising company comes to you 101 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 5: as a musician, is that like something you go, oh, 102 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 5: that is the greatest thing. 103 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 4: Well, in the early days, people used to frown on 104 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 4: that a lot. You know, that's like this idea that 105 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 4: you're selling out your music and you know, cheapening it. 106 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 4: But these days, but the way people get their music 107 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:17,480 Speaker 4: through so many ways, through games and things like that 108 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,720 Speaker 4: as much as anything else. You know, in fact, advertising's 109 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 4: kind of like another avenue for keeping your name in 110 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 4: the in the mix. 111 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 2: But also, you do love your NRL. It's not like 112 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 2: you're selling the song for your soul or anything totally 113 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 2: and use that another song. 114 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 3: I used that in the lyric in one of my songs. 115 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, that we actually were able to parlay 116 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 4: that little little relationship in the NRL into having lots 117 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 4: of plumb seats for you know, State of Origin and 118 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:46,360 Speaker 4: Grand Finals things like that. 119 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 3: For that whole time, that was happening though. 120 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 4: Yes, we definitely as football fans got the best out 121 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 4: of it. 122 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 2: So as you get older and you just do the 123 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 2: and your solids or think, oh, he needs his an soul, 124 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 2: that's why he's doing it. 125 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 5: If you don't have to write a song about it. 126 00:04:59,600 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 2: I did. 127 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 3: I did. It's called less than a feeling. 128 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 4: Has got the mentions and your sol the lyrics. 129 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 5: It's happening, farmer. Are you listening to Big Farmer Daves. 130 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 5: We won't talk about the sharks because they're doing very 131 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 5: well indeed, but you know, sometimes it's just best not 132 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 5: to say anything. 133 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: He drinks them well, obviously. 134 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 5: Obviously, it's like the bird that's coming from a blaze, 135 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 5: the bird that's heading towards. 136 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 3: I'm very anxious. 137 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 2: We've been looking after a nineteen year old lorikeet for 138 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 2: one of our listeners who's gone to visit his mum 139 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 2: in Broken Hill. It's been at Jones's house for the weekend, 140 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 2: and Jonesy has a history of killing animals, so we're 141 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:38,840 Speaker 2: waiting on tenter hooks for that to arrive back in 142 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 2: the studio. 143 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, fair enough. 144 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 4: They're all around my house. Hopefully we need to replace 145 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 4: the windscreens in the near future. 146 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 1: You can find one under Dave's windscreen wipers if you need. 147 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 5: Tickets are on sale now and selling out fast. Head 148 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 5: to whodoo gurus dot net slash to it to get 149 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 5: yours now. Dave Faulkner, It's always ru.