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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Sam, let me just.

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Speaker 3: Rattle off some names to give you a clue about

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Speaker 3: our mix guests Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Kent Brockman, Mister Burns,

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Speaker 3: Dirt Simpson's characters, but their voices belong to one man,

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Speaker 3: Spinal Tap star Harry Shearer. As an added bonus, he

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Speaker 3: has brought in his equally talented wife, singer Judith Owen.

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Speaker 3: They are both performing around Australia at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Talk about a power couple. Welcome to you both, Judith.

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Speaker 1: This is the brains of the operation. Well I am

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Speaker 1: you were just saying that.

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Speaker 3: That's what she said to me before.

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Speaker 2: She's the star of the app Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Is this unusual that you can both do stuff at

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Speaker 3: the same time.

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Speaker 4: Well, because I am on tour so much and Harry

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Speaker 4: is always busy working doing some incredible projects, so we

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Speaker 4: look for opportunities where we can actually get together.

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Speaker 1: And your album Rediscovered, so it's got you doing covers

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Speaker 1: of everyone. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I describe it as being deep Purple to Drake and

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Speaker 4: everybody in between. And ultimately it's about songs that are very,

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Speaker 4: very famous that you think you know, but I've actually

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Speaker 4: reimagined and made about my life. You know, the way

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Speaker 4: that we all do with songs. You hear a song

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Speaker 4: and you identify with it and you put your own

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Speaker 4: life on it. And I've just taken it to a

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Speaker 4: much more extreme level. So some of these songs are

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Speaker 4: actually unrecognizable until you hit the chorus. But it's had

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Speaker 4: a resounding success throughout Europe and all over America. It's

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Speaker 4: been an amazing ride. And finally, finally I get to

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Speaker 4: release it in Australia, and Harry, you're in the band

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Speaker 4: as well.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes out I am on this tour judas substitute based player.

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Speaker 4: Really see, the thing is that people think because spinal

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Speaker 4: Tat was a comedy, that they surely can't play properly,

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Speaker 4: but they do, or the three of them. And Harry

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Speaker 4: is a great bass player, and he's the first person

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Speaker 4: that ever actually plays on my songs when I write them.

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Speaker 4: So the fact that he's come over and done this

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Speaker 4: along with a percussionist.

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Speaker 3: There have been so many musicians who have been part

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Speaker 3: of the Simpsons, and I think classically the way you

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Speaker 3: do it, you all sit around, you record it in

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Speaker 3: one hit, don't you wi?

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Speaker 2: We used to we used to. Times have changed.

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Speaker 3: What were some of the personalities from bands like the

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Speaker 3: Rolling Stones exception that you'd see yourself them playing themselves

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Speaker 3: in The Simpsons.

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Speaker 2: The only one that I ever was in the same

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Speaker 2: room with at the same time, and it's not a

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Speaker 2: minor occasion. It was Michael Jackson. He attended to read

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Speaker 2: through and then it came to do the recording session,

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Speaker 2: and there was this moment because we don't get told

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Speaker 2: everything that's going on. So we're reading the script. Michael

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Speaker 2: is sitting one person to my left, and Yardley Smith,

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Speaker 2: who plays lises between us and he's reading this character which,

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Speaker 2: if you remember the episode four hundred Pound Metal Patients

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Speaker 2: thinks he's Michael Jackson and he's reading his lines. And

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Speaker 2: then when he starts to sing this special version of Ben,

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Speaker 2: which new lyrics, he sits back and nods, and there's

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Speaker 2: a white guy sitting across the table who starts singing,

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Speaker 2: sounding like Michael Jackson singing Ben, and I whispered to Yardly,

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Speaker 2: I think we paid enough for the talking Michael Jackson,

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Speaker 2: but not enough for the singing.

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Speaker 3: Well do you think that's what happened? I?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Yeah, that's amazing.

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Speaker 3: Because even after that episode, I thought, was he the

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Speaker 3: whole thing an impersonator.

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Speaker 2: Or was it?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: It was it was him talking, not for the singing. No,

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Speaker 2: because that's where the money is.

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Speaker 1: Judith, what's your favorite voice character that Harry is done

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Speaker 1: throughout the Simpsons?

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Speaker 3: Because you do him at home, I can't afford it.

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Speaker 4: Mister Burns is such a delicious character that we can

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Speaker 4: all relate to. And we all know these people, and

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Speaker 4: we know a few few of them who are living

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Speaker 4: and very famous. It just this, you know, horrible, slimy,

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Speaker 4: wealthy boss.

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Speaker 2: We don't know anybody, We don't know anything about that.

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Speaker 4: And I just find the voice to be magnificent. I

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Speaker 4: love the love affair of one can call it that,

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Speaker 4: the name that you're not, you know, the love that

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Speaker 4: they not be repeated or whatever. With Smithers, I love

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Speaker 4: seeing him and when I used to go early on

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Speaker 4: to see the read throughs, that's what I found magnificent,

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Speaker 4: especially with Harry and and Hank Hank, Yeah, the way

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Speaker 4: that they would go between the similar voices. Harry has

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Speaker 4: conversations with himself constantly between Smithers and Burns, and it's

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Speaker 4: a remarkable thing to see. It's a real gift to

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Speaker 4: be a voice act to in this way. It's an

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Speaker 4: incredible thing.

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Speaker 1: Where the Simpsons at it hasn't finished.

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Speaker 2: That season thirty one is just over and we're doing

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Speaker 2: season it's.

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Speaker 1: Not good because you read reports and that's finishing.

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Speaker 2: And well we're finishing this contract.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: This is the last contract that happened under the good

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Speaker 2: people of Fox. And the next contract, if there is one,

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Speaker 2: will be with the good people of Disney. And you

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Speaker 2: know what I mean, but good people.

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Speaker 1: Good, right, they're great people. Actually they just bought us then, yeah,

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Speaker 1: love love So.

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Speaker 2: Knowing the Disney come neither way I do. They like

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Speaker 2: to get the most out of every piece of intellectual

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Speaker 2: property they have, so I'm sure we're not going away.

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Speaker 1: I hate to Sydney Opera House dot com events for

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Speaker 1: tickets to see Judith Owen live or catch Harry Shera

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Speaker 1: at Comedy Steps Up for the Pushfire Relief. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for joining us in the studio to

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Speaker 4: See you join the and Amanda in the morning on

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Speaker 4: a one point seven Tell You