1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,240 Speaker 1: A Harvard Adventure for the mighty Pseudo Echo. 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 2: It feels like yesterday. Bar that album is turning forty 3 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 2: and to celebrate, you can catch Ptudo Echo tonight at 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:10,639 Speaker 2: the Rosemann Hotel, tomorrow at the Prince of Wales Hotel 5 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 2: in Bumbury, and then Port Beach Brewery in Frio on Sunday. 6 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 2: Tickets for all the shows are through Pseudo Echo dot net. 7 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:21,240 Speaker 2: Briancanum is with us now, good morning. 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:21,600 Speaker 3: Good morning. 9 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 2: So you know does feel like yesterday? 10 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm sure we stopped to think about how 11 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: it was when I. 12 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 3: Hear it, and when I perform it feels like that. 13 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 3: It's only when I said the old video clips that 14 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 3: it feels a little bit longer. 15 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:38,160 Speaker 1: Yes, like your hair. That's right. I feel a little 16 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: bit dated. Maybe we're just talking off here about how 17 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: kids teenagers but living little kids. You can go to 18 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: a big bash game and so kids dancing to funky 19 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: town and a lot of movies and TV have helped that. Yeah, exactly. 20 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 3: I've been lucky with a bit of placement in that 21 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 3: always good. 22 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: Yeah. So I'm sorry, No, they're just going to say 23 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: gigs you must see the multiple multiple generations. 24 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. We It started quite a few back, you know, 25 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 3: we started to see kind of mums with their kids, 26 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 3: dads with their sons, and then and then eventually just 27 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:14,320 Speaker 3: the kids. And so there's this little tribe of youngies 28 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 3: at our gigs now and it's kind of surreal. 29 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 2: It's awesome. So it's the fortieth anniversary of Love and Adventure, 30 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 2: the band's biggest album. How much of the album will 31 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 2: you play at these celebration shows? 32 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 3: We play most of it. We sometimes rotate the songs, right, 33 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 3: if we play sort of the whole album, some just 34 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,840 Speaker 3: don't transcend very well live, and that's probably why we 35 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 3: haven't played them over the years. But we do rotate 36 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 3: it a bit, and we put some in that we 37 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 3: haven't played for forty years. So yeah, you know that 38 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 3: even took us a few shows for us to break 39 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,559 Speaker 3: the cobwebs off and kind of feel comfortable playing them. 40 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 2: When you're doing a show, do you ever sort of 41 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 2: go along and you kind of have a set list 42 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 2: and then but you start to get a feel like, 43 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 2: you know what, I feel that this audience it's going 44 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 2: to love this song. Let's chuck this in. 45 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And sometimes the reverse happens you're all excited, 46 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 3: you go, this one's going to knock them dead. We 47 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 3: haven't played this forever and we are. 48 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: Putting this in. 49 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 3: We put it in and it's kind of like everyone 50 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 3: scratching their head, sure what it is. 51 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,799 Speaker 1: So we learned pretty quickly. The set we have is 52 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: a killer set. 53 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,919 Speaker 3: It's a real cross section of all albums and focused 54 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 3: on the Love and Eventure album and as I said, 55 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 3: you know, pulling out some songs we haven't played for 56 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 3: a long time. So yeah, it's fun. You know, I've 57 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 3: got a couple of girls in the band now in 58 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 3: these days six piece band, so it's a real vibe 59 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:37,639 Speaker 3: on stage, and they really bring it home like it's 60 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 3: quite a young band I have these days, and they 61 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 3: really they really embrace it. They respect that original sound 62 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 3: and you know, we do a lot of work fine 63 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 3: tuning it so it sounds We wanted to really transport 64 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:51,399 Speaker 3: people back. 65 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: Yeah. I always thought with the success of Listening and 66 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: Funky Town and that is the title track from this album, 67 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 1: Love and eventually got a little bit lost, I was 68 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: sort of an underrated It's a great Yeah. 69 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 3: It's one of those it's very popular live and it 70 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 3: did pretty well. You know, but it was maybe it was, 71 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 3: you know, just a positioning of where it was released 72 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 3: on the album, but maybe got in a top twenty 73 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 3: or top ten or something like that. So we weren't 74 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 3: upset about it. But yeah, it's one of those songs 75 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 3: and there it's maybe the most re recorded song of 76 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,399 Speaker 3: Pseudo's that it must have the most versions that we've 77 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 3: done with that song. 78 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: Oh really, you know, we. 79 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 3: Recently did the Machine remix of it, which is pretty crazy. Yeah, 80 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 3: there's an acoustic version of it, there's a chill out 81 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,079 Speaker 3: version of it. There's an unplugged version of it. Oh, 82 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 3: it just goes on whatever your mood. 83 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: There is a love and adventure for it is one 84 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: next time. 85 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 2: Actually, I was going to ask you about the Machine remix. 86 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 2: I believe that has a sort of darker electronic vibe 87 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 2: about us. 88 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, this which which was kind of influenced by how 89 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 3: the band was evolving live. Yeah, I'm hard with remixes. 90 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 3: I'm always a bit touchy with remixes. I don't like 91 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 3: people touching my stuff fair enough, you know, And I 92 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 3: think you know, fans, you know, they like Pseudo worko, 93 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 3: they like our brand, our sound. I just it looks 94 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 3: sometimes they're great and sometimes they're just off the track 95 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 3: and then people are going, what the hell are you doing? 96 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 3: So with the machine remixes, which I've only done the 97 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 3: first two songs of the album due to touring and 98 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 3: limitations in the studio, but we are working through doing 99 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 3: all the old singles as that sort of flavor, just 100 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 3: as another point of view, you know, and it does 101 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 3: retain some of the sort of energy the band has live. 102 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: But how important was Molly Molly Meldren with that the 103 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 1: early days was a legend. 104 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 3: He is such a great guy for us. I mean, look, 105 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 3: you know, as a kid, when I say kid, when 106 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 3: I was barely eighteen, I used to go to a 107 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 3: nightclub in the northern suburbs of Melbourne and. 108 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 1: I'd go there like every Thursday night. 109 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 2: It was. 110 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 3: It was a sort of pumping night and I'd just 111 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 3: go to check out the music and Molly was the 112 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 3: resident DJ there And so I actually met him through 113 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,359 Speaker 3: a friend and he introduced me and you know, Molly, 114 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 3: would you know, he's just some young kid that sort 115 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,280 Speaker 3: of obsessed obsessively listening, listening every week, you know, to 116 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 3: the tunes and making notes and you know, I. 117 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:06,839 Speaker 1: Was pretty peculiar. 118 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 3: I guess everyone else was dancing while I was just 119 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 3: making notes. And then a few years went by and 120 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 3: you know, I started Pseudos and we started, you know, 121 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 3: started getting good crowds, and so somebody tipped him off 122 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:19,559 Speaker 3: and said, you got to see this band. 123 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 1: Now. 124 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 3: He had no idea that I was in that band. 125 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 3: So when he came to see us, he was so 126 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 3: taken back because you know, I was a bit more 127 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 3: animated on stage than when he'd seen me as as 128 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 3: a young teenager. And it was so we had this 129 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 3: very nice, sort of serendipitous meeting again and he just 130 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 3: took us under his wing. He was so sold on 131 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 3: the band and said, you guys are you know, got 132 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 3: so much potential and this and that, and we were 133 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 3: really grateful we'd only been together a year, and yeah, 134 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 3: he pretty much everything. He pretty much called up our 135 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 3: manager within a few days after seeing us and said 136 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:56,279 Speaker 3: I want to have the band on countdown and lit 137 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 3: a bit of a feature. And we were just falling 138 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 3: over because firstly, we didn't have a record to go 139 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 3: on with and say he's our single. We were unsigned, 140 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 3: and so kind of made history, you know, and it 141 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:09,840 Speaker 3: was it was a big deal. But he's just a champ, 142 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 3: you know, he really really believed in the band. There 143 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,919 Speaker 3: was never any sort of superficial stuff with Molly. It 144 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 3: was always the real deal. 145 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 2: I love that he called and said, yeah, absolutely, He's 146 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 2: very passionate question inquiring minds. I wanted to know for 147 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 2: a long time, is it true that you knocked back 148 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 2: going on tour with Madonna? 149 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 1: Brian? I know as soon as the word I know 150 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,039 Speaker 1: where I'm going. Yeah, true, it is true. 151 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 3: It is true. 152 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 1: I should explain. Yes. 153 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 3: So the eighties were choofing along and we'd released you know, 154 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 3: tom La Park Love and Adventure Funky Town, and pressure 155 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 3: was on for this third album and they were saying, guys, 156 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 3: we want to rock it up a bit. You know, 157 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 3: bon Jovia having hit you know, Van Halen and having 158 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 3: a comeback topper in the charts. Hard, all these American 159 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 3: stadium rock bown having careers again, you know, from being 160 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 3: swamped with the electro eighties, all of a sudden we 161 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 3: turned around and went a bit rock. So record company 162 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 3: management guys, we need we need some rock tunes. And 163 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 3: you know, I grew up in the seventies noodles of 164 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 3: rock songs and so it was like, okay, you want 165 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 3: me to go back and then we'll sort of you know, 166 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 3: resuscitate some of those old tunes and so all this 167 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 3: talk about you know, rock rock rock. Then we're touring America, 168 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 3: we're trialing out our news songs for this third album 169 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 3: race and then we get this offer. Guys, we've you know, 170 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 3: managed to procure the opening spot for Madonna. Maybe she'd 171 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 3: heard about us, and so we were sort of requested 172 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 3: in fact, and so we were so mad. Again, we 173 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 3: were so confused because here we are, we just made 174 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 3: this sort of turn. We were going to rock out, 175 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 3: and we're looking for you know, maybe we'll get on 176 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 3: with Love a Boy or you know, Haalen or. 177 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 1: Just grown the HAIRDL long. Yeah, and there we get. 178 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 3: Offered them a Donna support and it was like, nah, 179 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 3: I just didn't sit right. We just knocked it back. 180 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: It wasn't the right thing. It must have been the 181 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: first band. 182 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 3: That's ever rejected her. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, 183 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 3: you've got got to stand your ground. 184 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: She probably took a personally great story. 185 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 2: Better explain, Yeah, tells the story as well, Yeah, just 186 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 2: slightly differently. 187 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 3: Well. 188 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 2: Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Love and Adventure tonight at 189 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 2: the Rosemount, tomorrow at the Prince of Wales in Bumbury, 190 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 2: and then Sunday at Port Beach Brewery. Tickets through sudawayco 191 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,479 Speaker 2: dot net. Lovely to have you come in this morning. 192 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 1: Pleasure, so good to see all those years we've been 193 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: playing things since at fantastic I can remember coming in. 194 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 1: Thank you guys.