1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 2: Nation okay strapping, give me in case people have just 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 2: joined us, give us the backstory to your band, Bad Element. 4 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: Well, I dug up an old tape of a garage 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: band that I was in called Bad Element, and at 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: the time was eighteen. And at the time every pub 7 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: was playing great rock bands in excess midnight, all the angels, 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: you know, a cold chisel, they were all doing. 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 3: And you wanted a point of difference. 10 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: We want. We wanted what those guys had. We don't 11 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,599 Speaker 1: want to work, you know. And the sewers making concrete 12 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 1: and all that joke that we used to do. That's 13 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: not my digestive system. By the way we put concrete 14 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,639 Speaker 1: on the walls and the sewers, we wouldn't go down 15 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: there and make concrete anyway. 16 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 3: You were told it tough enough. 17 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: Our dream, Our dream was just to get paid to play. 18 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 1: And I played drums. 19 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 3: And you there were three of you, there were three 20 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 3: of me. 21 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: Of us. 22 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 3: There's that ego. There were three of me. 23 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: There's me on drums, Omo on guitar and vocals, and 24 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 1: Bizz on bass. And we had a We pulled all 25 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 1: our money together, six hundred dollars back then. 26 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 3: Is this to book some recording. 27 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,479 Speaker 1: Time, recording time to record an EP. 28 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 3: And so you wrote the songs together. 29 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 2: You play drums and occasionally sing years years, yes. 30 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 3: And we've heard so the first song that you unleashed. 31 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: Well, unfortunately, So I have a cassette player at home 32 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: and I was just being nostalgic. I dug up this cassette, 33 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: started playing it and it was working until it didn't 34 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,119 Speaker 1: and that snapped the tape. So I had to re 35 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: splice the tape. So what we had so far was 36 00:01:48,880 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: no lies did sing. 37 00:01:50,320 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 4: It, And then there was Forgetful Nights. 38 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: I was on backups on that one. All right, we've 39 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 1: had those. Then the tape broke, some might say mercifully anyway, 40 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: And now now I'm too excited to speak. This is 41 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: the most recent song from Bad Elements. 42 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 2: So you splice the tape back together to get some 43 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 2: kind of boom box in here. 44 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: Thanks to Jeff and Steve, I've managed to get a 45 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,959 Speaker 1: cassette player put into the studio. But also now it's 46 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: studio quality. It's going straight through the desk. And this 47 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: particular songs is called too Young. 48 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 3: To pre is what's the story. 49 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: The story is about young people, young girls having to 50 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 1: go up to King's Cross to sell their wares for drugs. 51 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 3: I've never heard that genre before of a song. 52 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 1: This is too young, too pretty. This is the way 53 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: I to splice it together. Want yes and rocks. You 54 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:10,119 Speaker 1: have good qualities. 55 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, so it supplies when my meercy applies. 56 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: When you giant like friends, it's like being all nodding 57 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: and din after pipe, just warm, say you're just there 58 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: on drugs. 59 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 4: Whist on the board, pound you dying, take the barn, 60 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 4: little fail in the price. It's real as it's you, old. 61 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 2: Girl, young. 62 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: R what drums? 63 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 2: Tell me? 64 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,119 Speaker 1: Why the jobs always don't. 65 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 3: Bring yady yngs? 66 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: Pretty two yards? That's a rocking air you. 67 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 2: Even you sound bored. I'm intrigued because it doesn't. You 68 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 2: haven't gone with rhymes. Why did you say they don't know, 69 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 2: they don't know that if it's been wrong and right, 70 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 2: why don't you say right and wrong? 71 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 3: Because you weren't rhyming anyway. 72 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 1: We have to talk to about that. That was one 73 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: of his He wrote that bredy and I did more. 74 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: What about this name? 75 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 3: I hear that bit? Agan? What's your nickname? Well? Brandon? 76 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 3: And had you seen the plight of these young girls. 77 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we got across. No, no, they didn't touch it. 78 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 3: Did the flight touch you? 79 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: Yeah? We were thinking these kids are the same age 80 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 1: as that, and they're just wandering the streets. 81 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 2: Not the guys, are just the girls. This is such 82 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,040 Speaker 2: a boy trope, isn't it from teenage boy trope? I 83 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 2: love it? 84 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: You know now you can't do anything King's Cross, it's 85 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:03,719 Speaker 1: all closed down. 86 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 3: No friend, Well that's song number three. 87 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 1: That's song number three. I don't song number We've got 88 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 1: a bit of trouble with the tape tapes. 89 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 3: Because there is one more song, isn't there. 90 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 1: I put one more splicing for the last song. Okay, 91 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: so we've got three so far, three songs. 92 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 3: We're going to get that EP happening. 93 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: On the way too. I'm almost hearing reunion vibes from 94 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 1: the band because we're all tragically alive, so 95 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 3: The rigors of life haven't touched you too hard.