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Speaker 1: The Angels are at the Perth Concert Hall with their

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Speaker 1: A Symphony of Angels show this Saturday. Tickets through Ticketmaster

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Speaker 1: and joining us now, John Brewster, Good morning, Johnny good?

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Speaker 2: How are you going good now?

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Speaker 3: To this? Is?

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Speaker 1: I mean I love any kind of match up with

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Speaker 1: you know, an orchestra and a rock band. This one

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Speaker 1: is going to be. How did your conversation start off?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: You know the thing this week? And I grew up

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Speaker 2: in a classical musical family. Our grandfather, who we didn't

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Speaker 2: meet unfortunately, died just four months before I was born.

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Speaker 2: He was only sixty two, but he started the first

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Speaker 2: symphony orchestra in South Australia concept Yeah, and the Concertpenacy

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Speaker 2: composed over six hundred works, including a symphony called Australia Felix,

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Speaker 2: which gets played around the country by various orchestras. We

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Speaker 2: actually walk on stage to a little overture that's a

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Speaker 2: part of that symphony, and then we rock out.

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Speaker 1: Of a family crest, but a family overture that's awesome,

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Speaker 1: so good.

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Speaker 2: It is, it's really very exciting. And we have a choir,

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Speaker 2: forty member choir that come in and this after the

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Speaker 2: first in the intermission and you know, you should see them,

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Speaker 2: do am I going to see it facing him? They

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Speaker 2: do the charm.

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Speaker 1: They do it because we've been talking about this because

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Speaker 1: of course we have Wes silly and we can't help it.

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Speaker 4: That's part of the Australian landscape.

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Speaker 1: And Clery suggested that maybe the conductor extends the bat

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Speaker 1: on behind them to the audience, does them and brings

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Speaker 1: them in.

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Speaker 2: I'll suggest that.

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Speaker 4: That sounds like a great picture.

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Speaker 5: I think, John John, this is very exciting, but there

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Speaker 5: must be times when you're working the arrangements and the

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Speaker 5: rest of it. There's a lot of work behind the scenes.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of work behind the scenes. Rob John,

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Speaker 2: who conducts the orchestra, is also the composer of the part.

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Speaker 2: And and he would sort of bounce them back and

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Speaker 2: forth to Rick and Meat, you know, And we didn't

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Speaker 2: have to make any suggestions because he's just he's just

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Speaker 2: so much in body. If we call it sympoedico with

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Speaker 2: and and you know what, it really just hit us

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Speaker 2: that all these songs like you know, you just played

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Speaker 2: shadow box. So that's a good example. Because we grew

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Speaker 2: up in a musical family, a classical musical family, you know,

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Speaker 2: dad was the principal chealousy at Adelaide Symphony and and

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Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, wonderful instrument. Yeah, I've still got a cello.

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Speaker 2: I've actually played it for a while too. And Rick

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Speaker 2: Rick was Rick one the Stanford in South Australia at

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Speaker 2: the age of sixteen on classical piano. So Rick's very

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Speaker 2: steeped and all that. And that's part of part of

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Speaker 2: why his silos are so memorable, because he comes up

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Speaker 2: with melodies and start putting an orchestra with all that stuff,

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Speaker 2: you know, like, for example, take along the line. You know,

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Speaker 2: I mean we sing at in the studio at about

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Speaker 2: four o'clock in the morning. You know, why don't we

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Speaker 2: going to see and then go You just sort of

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Speaker 2: seen that solo and Rick came up with it and

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Speaker 2: and then so the orchestras do that in harmony and

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Speaker 2: it's just beautiful.

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Speaker 1: So now I know, in Rick's doing those solos, he's

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Speaker 1: hearing the whole symphony in his head.

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Speaker 4: Is he doing it?

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Speaker 1: Are there any songs John that you thought, Oh, I

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Speaker 1: just don't see that one working, but it did, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, to be honest, no, no, the answer is no. Well,

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Speaker 2: I mean I remember when we recorded mister Damage, for example,

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Speaker 2: Rick it over in the studio and we were singing

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Speaker 2: orchestral parts to that song, and now we do it

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Speaker 2: with an orchestra and a choir, and that just it's huge,

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Speaker 2: you know. So yeah, no, I mean that's a really

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Speaker 2: good question, because you would think it be some songs

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Speaker 2: that wouldn't work. I'm I might say, with the amazing

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Speaker 2: ex no exit, it sounds like how that sounds that

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Speaker 2: you can see an old cowboy movie with Indians rolling

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Speaker 2: over the hill? You know, it's incredible.

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Speaker 1: In other news, the documentary The Angels Kicking Down the

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Speaker 1: Door is in cinemas now. I'm assuming you've seen it,

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Speaker 1: and how how was that watching yourself back?

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Speaker 2: It's a very interesting experience because I get a bit

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Speaker 2: emotional in the movie. It's it's actually going absolutely great.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, the Universal bought it and I

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Speaker 2: don't know that, by the way, and I didn't. I

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Speaker 2: didn't want to see it until it was done. It

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Speaker 2: opened the Adelaide Film Festival, so which that's a few

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Speaker 2: still's an honor. I'm sitting there seeing it on the

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Speaker 2: opening night for the first time, and I just went, wow,

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Speaker 2: it's getting a terrific response, and we didn't recognized what

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Speaker 2: it's going to contribute to the how the movie was made,

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Speaker 2: because you know, the thing is, we wanted it to

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Speaker 2: be balanced, and so it was all up to the director,

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Speaker 2: Maddy Parry, who's just brilliant, and I believe it is

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Speaker 2: very balanced. I mean obviously reckon I kind of the

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Speaker 2: last men's standing has been still around and you know

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Speaker 2: gued of course, and the movie is dedicated to their memory,

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Speaker 2: you know, to Christian Cock. But it's really great. I mean, look,

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Speaker 2: it's on ninety cinemas around the country, which is you know,

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Speaker 2: the universal rapt I mean that's a that's a big release.

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Speaker 1: You know, you sound like the dream person to work

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Speaker 1: with John. There you are letting the conductor get on

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Speaker 1: with what he knows. You're letting the director getting on with.

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Speaker 3: What people do their jobs they do best.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of people that don't subscribe

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Speaker 1: to that.

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Speaker 4: I think you very wise.

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Speaker 2: Well. I probably used to be more difficult actually, more

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Speaker 2: with Rick than anything else, and the documentary kind of

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Speaker 2: brings that out. I mean, back when Rick and I

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Speaker 2: were really very very you know, you know, full on

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Speaker 2: writing and recording with the angels around the Face to

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Speaker 2: Face No Exit, the Darkroom period, whenever we had a

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Speaker 2: stoush about how a song should go, it almost not personal.

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Speaker 2: These days, I say, no, I think that Metal eight works. Rick,

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Speaker 2: I think, why don't you try this? And Rick goes, oh, okay.

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Speaker 5: Really the creative process needs a bit of anks, John,

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Speaker 5: Have you got any favorite babies amongst the albums? Because

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Speaker 5: I got on the car the other day and Siri goes,

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Speaker 5: what do you want to listen to? And I went

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Speaker 5: Night Attack because it's one of those albums I just love.

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Speaker 5: Have you got favorite albums that you're very very I'm

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Speaker 5: sure you're proud of the body of work, but there's

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Speaker 5: something that pop up and you just go, yeah, that

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Speaker 5: was that was us the best?

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Speaker 3: That was good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Well I've always I would always say No Exit. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I think that No Exit album is fantastic. But then again,

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Speaker 2: Face to Face, you know that was our breakthrough album

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Speaker 2: that was in the chart for seventy nine weeks, and

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Speaker 2: but you know, so No Exit so followed that, and

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Speaker 2: I think we were, you know, developing our songwriting really

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Speaker 2: well on that No Exit album. But you know, just

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Speaker 2: recently we've been doing some shows. We were supposed to

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Speaker 2: do it in twenty twenty, but COVID came along. We

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Speaker 2: we've been celebrating different albums by doing a show and

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Speaker 2: fat and playing the whole album, then taking a break

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Speaker 2: and then playing some other songs. And you know, I

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Speaker 2: think Darkroom is pretty special.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's a mighty album. There's some beauty's out.

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Speaker 2: There and real I mean, you know that's good.

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Speaker 1: This is this might be the next album. A live

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Speaker 1: recording of Saturday Night Show. The Angels are going to

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Speaker 1: be at the Perth Concert Hall, which is one of

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Speaker 1: the most wonderful venues for seeing.

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Speaker 4: An orchestra and a bad a.

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Speaker 1: Symphony of Angels. Tickets are through Ticketmaster. John Brewster, It's

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Speaker 1: always a pleasure to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: I'd lovely to talk to you. And yeah, I've heard

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Speaker 2: about the concert Hall. I'm really excited about it.

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Speaker 1: As a person who knows their way around music, if

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Speaker 1: you are going to love.

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Speaker 3: It one of those nights, John, you'll enjoy it as

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Speaker 3: much as the crowd.

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Speaker 4: I think, Thanks John.

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Speaker 3: You always great to catch up with. John Brewster. So

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Speaker 3: many great bands came into Adelaide at the same time

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Speaker 3: when you had.

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Speaker 4: Chisel wanted to have the you know that movie, the documentary.

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Speaker 5: Open the that's pretty cool and it's doing really well,

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Speaker 5: so it'll be cinemas for a short period of time.

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Speaker 5: But I reckon it's the kind of thing. I'm want

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Speaker 5: to go see it at the movies.

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Speaker 4: You've got to see that on the big trad Yeah.

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Speaker 5: In the big sound system and all those would be

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Speaker 5: great at home, but that'll be the way to see it.

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Speaker 5: And the memory of doc you know, like the members

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Speaker 5: that have fallen since you know the situation.

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Speaker 4: That's Saturday night.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's