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Speaker 1: The one and only Brian Cannam joins us, Mate, how

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Speaker 1: are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm well, thank you morning.

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Speaker 3: It's your first national tour in three years, it must be.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's good to get back out there, that's

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Speaker 2: for sure.

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Speaker 4: What have you most missed about being on stage?

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Speaker 2: I guess just the creativity, the outlet of creativity. You know,

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Speaker 2: we it's never exactly the same each showed. There's a

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of spontaneity and you know, we have

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Speaker 2: a lot of fun. We socialize together so that it's

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Speaker 2: a great social event for us as a band as well.

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Speaker 2: We'll catch up and that's fantastic.

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Speaker 5: But as a fan of the band from the very

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Speaker 5: from the very start, there was a I always wanted

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Speaker 5: to ask you your Tomnall park and I love an

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Speaker 5: adventure where you know, absolute hit albums. There was a

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Speaker 5: time when you came back with Funky Town. Was there

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Speaker 5: a deliberate move amongst you guys to change the look

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Speaker 5: because there was less a little less makeup, a little less black,

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Speaker 5: and definitely some genes going on with the big hair.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think that anything was really calculated, to

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Speaker 2: be honest, I think that it was just an evolence,

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Speaker 2: and you know, we're in our early twenties, and like everyone,

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Speaker 2: you have fashions that you follow on trends, or you

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Speaker 2: set trends and follow. So I think we were just

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Speaker 2: evolving and letting go with that. Probably it was I

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Speaker 2: could feel sometimes there was a stigma attached to it

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Speaker 2: at the time, and I felt that it was restricting sometimes,

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Speaker 2: And so I think it was just a natural thing.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't something calculated, that's sure.

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Speaker 4: I think we all had some explaining to do to

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Speaker 4: the id.

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Speaker 2: Better.

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Speaker 3: That hole was fine now ultimate So the two are.

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Speaker 4: Who's with you?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So it's a sixth past lineup this time around.

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Speaker 2: So we've expanded the band, same guys who have been

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Speaker 2: in it for the last several years, but just added

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Speaker 2: some more stuff to ficking out the sound and a

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Speaker 2: bit more vibe on stage. And we've got a big

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Speaker 2: visuals thing happening the big screen that we synchronize all

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Speaker 2: these graphics up with the songs and you know, some

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Speaker 2: nice stuff that gets splashed up, a bit of retro

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Speaker 2: stuff and so on.

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Speaker 5: That sounds exciting, but Lisa and I have a bit

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Speaker 5: of a laugh sometimes people tell drummer jokes. But we

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Speaker 5: have a little bass player joke about Gary Gary bus

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Speaker 5: from it excess Gary Garry for a.

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Speaker 2: While, right, Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 5: You had you had a guy called his up prepre

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Speaker 5: even though his name was Gigliotti, wasn't he was that a.

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Speaker 2: Bass player bass player thing. You know. The funny thing

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Speaker 2: is is when we were first forming as a band

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Speaker 2: and we thought, you know, we're coming up with band names,

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Speaker 2: and then there was the talk of our names, of

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Speaker 2: our names, because there was a slight stigma of anything

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Speaker 2: outside of being all Australian back then, believe it or not,

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Speaker 2: and a lot of Europeans were changing their name to

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Speaker 2: a more Australian sounding. It was just something not so European,

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Speaker 2: which was obviously strange when you look back at it now.

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Speaker 2: So back at the time, Pierre had this great you know,

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Speaker 2: his surnames Jujotti. He pronounced Ji but it looks like

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Speaker 2: it says Gigliott. So he got a lot of you know,

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Speaker 2: he likes to gig a lot nor stuff. So we

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Speaker 2: we thought what about a stage name, and but Tony,

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Speaker 2: our keyboard play who came up with the name. He

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Speaker 2: was going through band names and as he came to

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Speaker 2: Duran Durant. He just sort of looked at it and

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Speaker 2: you got to remember back then they were very unknown that

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Speaker 2: the early days. Yeah, Duran, Duran, he said, p f.

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Speaker 4: That was from Barberrella, wasn't it. Now. I have a

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Speaker 4: random question.

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Speaker 3: I like to ask if you got to create a

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Speaker 3: music festival that you were headlining, which three bands are

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Speaker 3: artists alive or dead would you love to have alongside you?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Wow, stage question I did?

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Speaker 4: That was random?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, can I kind of have Jimmy Hendrix from the building?

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Speaker 4: It's your absolute dream line up?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, oh god, that's a deep question. Then you

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Speaker 2: got me. I think that you know, like obviously for me,

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Speaker 2: it's all those bands that I grew up with in

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Speaker 2: the seventies. So any of those sort of seventies bands,

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Speaker 2: some are still here with gone so I mean, god,

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Speaker 2: even I mean, how can you miss Prince? Oh my god,

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Speaker 2: you know George Michael, David Bowie.

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Speaker 3: Wow, Yes, that's a festival, Okay, I like Hendrix, Prince

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Speaker 3: and Bowie.

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Speaker 4: I would and Brian I'd absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Come to that rocking. Yeah, I'll opt to open the

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Speaker 2: show though.

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Speaker 1: Actually, can we have Hendrix?

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Speaker 4: Of those?

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Speaker 1: Ye?

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Speaker 5: Can we have Prince Jimmy Jimmy Hendrix playing a guitar

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Speaker 5: solo like a guitar. Yeah, and then we'll boom both guitars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll be great.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's in. And you're a well dressed blake and

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Speaker 5: we love the hat these days. But if you could

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Speaker 5: wear any do you wear any band or artist T

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Speaker 5: shirts at all?

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Speaker 2: No? No, I don't wear any branding of any kind.

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Speaker 2: It's one of those things I don't do. I did

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Speaker 2: when I was younger. Yeah, I have some odd ball

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Speaker 2: you know, Thunderbirds girl, I had expect I had some

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Speaker 2: strange T shirts. I decided I wasn't going to be

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Speaker 2: a living billboard anymore, gave it away.

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Speaker 3: That's because we've asked definitely break the rule for Thunderbirds.

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Speaker 2: Definitely so much because the limit.

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Speaker 5: Over the last couple of years, we've asked all the

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Speaker 5: music musical acts the same question. And you and Neil

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Speaker 5: Finner the two who don't do that. You're not walking billboards.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty cool. The others from Tragically.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well, Brian sod Echo playing the Asta Theater.

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Speaker 3: Tickets are through Tiker Tech. That's this Saturday. Thanks so

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Speaker 3: much for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Thanks no worries, a pleasure and you know, let's let's

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Speaker 2: make sure everyone knows what they're going to get at

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Speaker 2: the gig. It's all the early material, first three albums,

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Speaker 2: and most importantly, we are playing the Race album, which

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Speaker 2: we never played Play eight. It was very controversial at

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Speaker 2: the time, so people who are fans of our third

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Speaker 2: album will be delighted to hear the majority of the album.

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Speaker 4: That's awesome, Thanks Brian.

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Speaker 1: Next time we check, we won't call you Brian.

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Speaker 2: Brian, you can say twice. Great guys. Bye,