Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms. It's Lex and Frums. We are coming
Speaker 1: to you live on bath Day where we do our
Speaker 1: whole show in baths, and we are with one of
Speaker 1: Australia's most iconic artists. He is a Grammy winner. He's
Speaker 1: won twelve arias. I believe I read that correctly on
Speaker 1: Wikipedia Flex. Can we guess who it is?
Speaker 2: I got my guesses. I don't know. I'm stumped. I
Speaker 2: don't know who could it be? Well?
Speaker 1: He also has a name starting with f okay and
Speaker 1: ending in Me's if you want to put the S
Speaker 1: on the end rooms like Frooms, it's the one, the
Speaker 1: only Flume.
Speaker 3: Hello Flum Hello.
Speaker 2: Well, I think he's a big We do our best
Speaker 2: work together.
Speaker 1: Now this is one of the most exciting days for
Speaker 1: us personally, but it's a big day for you as well.
Speaker 1: It's the release of your third studio album, Palaces. Congratulations.
Speaker 1: Now what does palaces mean?
Speaker 4: I'm here in my house, my palace. This is where
Speaker 4: I wrote most of the record. It's been really nice
Speaker 4: moving back to Australia. Been in LA for four years
Speaker 4: and coming back it was just really felt really easy
Speaker 4: to write.
Speaker 3: Things come together here.
Speaker 1: Palaces and where are you living.
Speaker 2: Are you in bar and Bay? Just drop the address?
Speaker 3: Please, Oh my god, pay percy Per.
Speaker 2: We can definitely be protective.
Speaker 3: Come here.
Speaker 2: It is not subtle, but that is okay.
Speaker 3: Business man is important business.
Speaker 2: We should do our best. Barks. Yeah, okay you ready? Yep?
Speaker 5: Do you want to pick your favorite of those two barks?
Speaker 3: I'm going to go with you think you had you
Speaker 3: had the stronger bark. Yeah, I'll take Yeah.
Speaker 2: What you don't know.
Speaker 5: About that, you can say weak, underdeveloped. Imating.
Speaker 1: Now the most exciting song on the album, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: one that I listened to just before I came here,
Speaker 1: is called Only Fans. Oh yeah, you got to go
Speaker 1: listen to Only Fans now. It is a song I'm
Speaker 1: assuming it's about only fans.
Speaker 3: It's about only fans, and in it.
Speaker 1: Is somebody's voice kind of like starting off the track.
Speaker 1: Whose voice is that?
Speaker 4: Her name is virgin Maria, And my friend showed me
Speaker 4: her Instagram. Basically, I had this this idea and I
Speaker 4: was like, I'm not sure what to do, whether to
Speaker 4: keep it instrumental or kind of get a vocal on it.
Speaker 4: And my friend showed me Virgin Maria's Instagram and she's
Speaker 4: insane and mental, and I thought, you know what, this
Speaker 4: could be perfect, So I hit her up on Instagram
Speaker 4: and we connected.
Speaker 3: And kind of went back and forth, and then she
Speaker 3: came out with this lyric it's only fans idea and
Speaker 3: kind of took it from there. But yeah, really happy
Speaker 3: with how it turned out.
Speaker 5: Can I get a clarification on what insane and mental
Speaker 5: means in the context of this person?
Speaker 2: I'm curious in.
Speaker 3: Like the best possible way, I think.
Speaker 4: Really, Yeah, it's like a really She's does a lot
Speaker 4: of photoshopping of herself and whole dancing stuff, and she's
Speaker 4: got you know, she's in bikinis with huge titties out,
Speaker 4: and but in like a fine.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm sensing a link.
Speaker 3: I think a terrible job of describing it. But if
Speaker 3: you go and check out check it out, you'll see
Speaker 3: what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: How would you say the Pulses different to your first album.
Speaker 3: Flum, I think it's like a lot more thought out.
Speaker 4: The first record was just kind of little bits and
Speaker 4: pieces I was doing around the world, didn't really think
Speaker 4: too much about it.
Speaker 3: Was this one. I wanted to do a lot more songwriting. Yeah,
Speaker 3: just kind of figure out a better balance of instrumentals
Speaker 3: and songs and things.
Speaker 2: Can you hear this blood? Yeah? I can hear that. Yeah?
Speaker 2: Can you hear that? Rubber russells?
Speaker 4: You?
Speaker 2: What can't?
Speaker 5: It would make a great sample. But if you do
Speaker 5: want to use that, I am asking for fifty percent.
Speaker 3: So do you stay in the bath all days? It's
Speaker 3: just this bath day?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I know you feel, but it's completely genuine. It's the
Speaker 5: most comfortable way that we've discovered to do this interview
Speaker 5: in the bath with warm water and SuDS. It feels
Speaker 5: that we've been transformed into I would say, a heavenly environment.
Speaker 1: Well, in my opinion, my ass is really starting to
Speaker 1: hurt alreadily cold.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't have much padding on my bum Yeah, so
Speaker 1: just y bone on the floor, yeah, bone on bone.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So when are you going to be touring in Australia?
Speaker 1: Do we have dates?
Speaker 2: This is a big one. Did you forget about it?
Speaker 2: Of the year?
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, no, No, we're touring I think November?
Speaker 2: Yeah, November right, little Q four, Little Q four Okay.
Speaker 3: I saw a Q four tour because.
Speaker 1: Even me performing at Spilt Milk, is that correct?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Do you or do you not want FRUMI and I
Speaker 2: as your plus.
Speaker 3: Two's I would love that.
Speaker 2: By your plus twos, or you'd love us to be
Speaker 2: your plus two?
Speaker 3: Is just in love you to be there? Who's I'd
Speaker 3: love you to be there? Who if you want to
Speaker 3: bring the bars?
Speaker 2: Okay, great?
Speaker 5: So I just if we can cut that up, everyone
Speaker 5: and production just want to cut that up into one
Speaker 5: fifteen second little little real Slum did say verbatim, I
Speaker 5: would absolutely love flex and Room to be my plus
Speaker 5: twos at Spilt Milk. If that doesn't happen, I'm not
Speaker 5: afraid to call a lawyer.
Speaker 2: I'm not afraid to sue. I've never done it before.
Speaker 2: Today will be the day. I'm ready.
Speaker 5: We are currently sitting in pink inslatable premium bath tubs,
Speaker 5: complete with bath bombs bath bubbles, and we're speaking to Flume,
Speaker 5: which I think, if you think about that in like
Speaker 5: a critical sense, Flume is the ultimate culmination of Flex
Speaker 5: and Froom So often I mispronounced that, actually that I
Speaker 5: just say floom, and so it only makes sense that
Speaker 5: we come together three halves of one hole.
Speaker 1: Now, what we're going to do now is do a
Speaker 1: bit of a portrait moment where we're gonna draw Flume.
Speaker 1: Flumes is going to draw both of us in the baths,
Speaker 1: and then hopefully we can get it mailed to us
Speaker 1: and sell it for far more money than it's worth.
Speaker 2: How much you think we can get for a one
Speaker 2: of one portrait that.
Speaker 1: Forums done of ours?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh at least ok one k at least one ca Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm underst I think we could.
Speaker 2: Get I think we can get fired.
Speaker 5: You spray a little bit of cologne in it, a
Speaker 5: little bit of something at there we go, there we go,
Speaker 5: and even just don't wash your hair for about three
Speaker 5: to six weeks because the grease here is about it.
Speaker 2: I say, in terms of upselling that.
Speaker 4: Premium grease, it's going to be a premium product. You
Speaker 4: can't just be the drawing. What else do you want?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: What else can you give us?
Speaker 3: If I had a bath that include the bath water?
Speaker 2: Okay, there's still I'll take shower water, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. I'll take a little off.
Speaker 5: The floor, Tina, Yes, yes, yes, okay, let's start our drawing.
Speaker 1: Have you got your pen and paper?
Speaker 2: I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I do, I do right here?
Speaker 2: I look Oh yes, okay, all right, let's begin.
Speaker 5: I want to ask you the most important question. Are
Speaker 5: you more of a bath or shower person? I know
Speaker 5: that your house doesn't currently have a shower, but if
Speaker 5: you had to pick one for the rest of your life,
Speaker 5: which one are you doing?
Speaker 3: I guess I'm a shower person, just easy by nature,
Speaker 3: By nature.
Speaker 4: There's nothing, there's nothing quite like a nice, warm, hot bath,
Speaker 4: you know, nothing.
Speaker 3: To wash the day away. Maybe we can sell the
Speaker 3: drawings as a package deal.
Speaker 2: Okay, a little bundle.
Speaker 3: We could get a little bundle.
Speaker 4: We get the bath water from both those bars.
Speaker 2: This is this is quite you know.
Speaker 5: I like that what you just revealed there is by
Speaker 5: adding in portraits of both through me and I in
Speaker 5: addition to portra's of you, we're going to up the
Speaker 5: tell you you've just admitted in so many words that
Speaker 5: we are valuable people.
Speaker 2: And that's really thoughtful and kind.
Speaker 3: I like that a lot, absolutely huge.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite facial feature?
Speaker 1: Yeah, a good one.
Speaker 3: Good nose into the drawing?
Speaker 5: Where has the nose taken you? Where has it taken
Speaker 5: you that you would not have.
Speaker 2: Gone this question? I feel like now I'm just drawing myself.
Speaker 2: I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna like this noiseworks.
Speaker 5: Can I ask you a very simple yet very serious question, Yeah,
Speaker 5: do you believe in aliens?
Speaker 2: I do amazing interesting.
Speaker 3: I mean, surely, surely there's going to be something out there.
Speaker 5: It's good to know we have a fellow tin foiler
Speaker 5: lonely out here sometimes.
Speaker 3: As I would say, yes, tell me your thoughts.
Speaker 2: Okay, to be sorry, you as sorry you are.
Speaker 5: The most glaring evidence that aliens are real is the
Speaker 5: fact that the average human cannot properly articulate what it
Speaker 5: feels like to be human. I asked Frooms the other day,
Speaker 5: what does it feel like to be human? She says,
Speaker 5: to be human is inherently contradictory.
Speaker 1: Wrong, Did I say he did?
Speaker 5: That's just proving to me that we don't actually know,
Speaker 5: because too many of us aren't actually human. I don't
Speaker 5: think we're doing the green green head guys with the
Speaker 5: big eyes. I just think that that we are the alien.
Speaker 4: Maybe the aliens living here with us. We just can't
Speaker 4: see them, you know, or detect them. You know, maybe
Speaker 4: they're not a carbon based platform.
Speaker 2: Do you think that you're an alien. I mean could
Speaker 2: be that's what an alien would.
Speaker 1: Say every time you ask that question. Regardless, that's what.
Speaker 2: It's a set up. It always is a setup.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now I'm going to work on your roots, Harlee.
Speaker 1: Now do you do you hair? Do you do it yourself?
Speaker 3: I don't really do too much, You're not I used to.
Speaker 4: I actually have started doing like shampoo and conditioner, something.
Speaker 3: I didn't used to do. But you know, when you've
Speaker 3: got blonde hair, you got to step.
Speaker 2: It upon me.
Speaker 5: Can I learn a bit more about your maintenance routine?
Speaker 2: Like do you moisturize? You a lit barner?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Lit barner?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: I mean I kind of just maybe every now and
Speaker 4: then do a shampoo and conditioner.
Speaker 3: And I've got I've got a couple of extra products
Speaker 3: in the bathroom these days. The blonde hair, you know,
Speaker 3: you gotta you got to look after it.
Speaker 2: Anyone you let me eat glasses of water a day?
Speaker 3: Or oh no, I just sucked up your eyes. I
Speaker 3: just fu your eye up?
Speaker 2: Is that on purpose?
Speaker 3: I don't know this talking talking and interviewing. It just
Speaker 3: things happen.
Speaker 2: I forgive you. That's okay.
Speaker 1: It's going to be happy with that.
Speaker 2: That looks like someone and I just feel like, is.
Speaker 1: That Chad Michael Murray?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Sorry?
Speaker 1: Sorry?
Speaker 3: Sorry?
Speaker 2: Continue? Can I ask an intrusive question?
Speaker 3: Go ahead?
Speaker 2: What's the last meal you ate?
Speaker 3: I just had some sushi? What kind for a little
Speaker 3: surf and then got some gas station sushi?
Speaker 2: Can I guess?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It was actually kind of dark. It wasn't good. I
Speaker 3: was in a rush. I was like, oh, I need
Speaker 3: to get back to the interview and what.
Speaker 1: You can chariarchy?
Speaker 2: No? Oh yeah, not much.
Speaker 3: It was like an ever, okay, station can go wrong,
Speaker 3: I can go wrong.
Speaker 2: And what's the last meal you cooked for yourself?
Speaker 3: I did a car last night. Whoa little this, a
Speaker 3: little bit of that, A little bit of rice, got
Speaker 3: the rice cooker going. It's delicious.
Speaker 2: I see you're not giving away the secret recipe. And
Speaker 2: I went asked twice.
Speaker 1: We're looking for an exclusive Netflix. Can you show me
Speaker 1: where your drawings at.
Speaker 2: It's at a really good spot.
Speaker 5: But I'm adding flare at the moment, I'm thinking I
Speaker 5: might even go in and add a bit of background.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you thirty more seconds. I don't
Speaker 1: need it because I'm done. I'm giving you ten more seconds.
Speaker 5: Everybody, Well, I'd like to add in a bit, a
Speaker 5: bit of light and shade, a bit of depth.
Speaker 2: You can do what can you speak?
Speaker 3: Three? Quite true?
Speaker 4: Said set the auto novo wound Itchichi, that's it.
Speaker 3: Italian baby nice.
Speaker 1: It was giving Japanese at the end. May but.
Speaker 4: Mister multi lingual son, yeah, rocko, I do actually no,
Speaker 4: Japan I can have ten Japanese and Italian.
Speaker 3: There you go, give us.
Speaker 2: I'm an extra go to the Sultan of Japanese.
Speaker 4: Just so we know, itching a right, let's say itching
Speaker 4: me son, she go rocku nana hotchi coo jew Wow.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 5: I can say a few things in Dutch. I have
Speaker 5: been doing a bit of work on duwelingo. Do you
Speaker 5: want to hear a few words? I love to Okay,
Speaker 5: this is how you say please, I'll shive lift nice.
Speaker 2: It's giving, sins giving.
Speaker 5: I can say sandwich balter ham and I can also
Speaker 5: say good night valta usten.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: It's quite an intricate language.
Speaker 2: It's nice. Right anyway, we're ready for the big reveal.
Speaker 1: All right, everybody, So we have spent minutes, long, labored minutes, yes,
Speaker 1: making a once in a lifetime portrait of Flume. His
Speaker 1: new album is out today. It's called Palaces and to celebrate,
Speaker 1: we thought, we're feeling in a generous mood, of course,
Speaker 1: and Flume has also done the pleasure of doing an
Speaker 1: amazing portrait of of us. We're going to start by
Speaker 1: showing ours. I'll show it to this camera first. We'll
Speaker 1: see here. I've put Flume and the little doggie person
Speaker 1: in there too.
Speaker 5: I do love your your typography, I will say, and
Speaker 5: really nice to add Percy.
Speaker 2: I didn't think that through.
Speaker 1: Are they sweat marks where let's just deep the arms?
Speaker 2: No, that's that's like the arm crease.
Speaker 1: That's a pit crease. Okay, okay, now are we ready
Speaker 1: to show yeah in.
Speaker 2: Three two one?
Speaker 3: Wow, incredible from you. Really slated on this one. I can't,
Speaker 3: I can't. I can't really see. It's a bit small.
Speaker 3: Maybe bringing a bit closer. Oh wow, beautiful. I think
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. I love it and frooms,
Speaker 3: I need to say that a little closer. Beautiful.
Speaker 1: Okay, So now we're ready for our portrait.
Speaker 3: Reeal oh yeah, are you ready? Yeah? Here we go.
Speaker 2: Let's close.
Speaker 3: Went to look three two one open? There you go.
Speaker 3: That is very lively like apologies about.
Speaker 2: It looks like a voodoo doll on my head. I
Speaker 2: don't know what I get to I was just trying.
Speaker 2: It is actually quite sweet.
Speaker 1: Can we hit another zoom in on Fox's face?
Speaker 2: If I wake up tomorrow injured? You know why Slim's
Speaker 2: a witch?
Speaker 5: You lays get that signed at the bottom, signed and dated,
Speaker 5: just for legitimacy.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't want that to be.
Speaker 5: Forward shocked it and forched I do it. I do it,
Speaker 5: but for the sake of content. Yeah, yes, thank you
Speaker 5: for being the best.
Speaker 2: There's no one quite like you.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. I've never done an interview like this.
Speaker 2: Would you say it's you.
Speaker 3: It's a beautiful way to do an interview. It's quite relaxing.
Speaker 3: Actually top three, top three.
Speaker 2: Oh that's quite good.
Speaker 1: I didn't really elaborate trying to hear it's a.
Speaker 2: Live This was the best. Thank you so much. We
Speaker 2: really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Of course, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: I hope a sushi sits well long term.
Speaker 3: Yeah, me too.
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