Speaker 1: Is it just me a podcast by a couple of mitches.
Speaker 2: Mitch, you caught up with Tones and I recently I.
Speaker 3: Did Tones and I and I hung out. It was
Speaker 3: it was real fun. Actually I got a good couple
Speaker 3: of scoops out of her. She went to a celebrity's
Speaker 3: house in LA like a big Hollywood Hills party and
Speaker 3: left midway through because she was over it.
Speaker 2: And when I had fast food. She's a bit of
Speaker 2: an introvert, Yeah, she is.
Speaker 3: It was a good story in that I, speaking of
Speaker 3: fast food, I got out of her what her favorite
Speaker 3: fast food restaurant is.
Speaker 2: And it's gonna get me brownie points.
Speaker 3: You did tell me in our full show that you
Speaker 3: plugged a red Ruther and you spoke about that with her.
Speaker 2: Thank god. She loves a red rooster role for one
Speaker 2: another reason that I now love her.
Speaker 3: And also she talks about a collab but that she's
Speaker 3: never announced, never spoken about, and actually hadn't planned on releasing.
Speaker 3: But I think I think I convinced her to do it.
Speaker 2: With Chappelle Corby, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: It was Palm Trees but released too. I this on
Speaker 3: my night show, Kissed Nights, and we had to cut
Speaker 3: it down a bit, but this is the full unedited
Speaker 3: chat with me.
Speaker 2: Really, yah know where it's at all. And he's swearing, Yeah,
Speaker 2: she fucking swears like a fucking sailor does she.
Speaker 3: I can't remember what she says. We're talking about busking,
Speaker 3: and she's like, let me tell you the thing about
Speaker 3: fucking busking.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh my god, Byron Bay ruts
Speaker 2: are coming out. I feel like I could be friends
Speaker 2: with her.
Speaker 3: Me too, actually, And she was one of those people
Speaker 3: that were really present. She kept referring to me by name,
Speaker 3: like Mitch. That's a good question, you know, when like
Speaker 3: someone does that.
Speaker 2: I don't have that skill. I suck at that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we have the name again, get it here. It is
Speaker 2: mean toimes and and I enjoy Mitch till midnight.
Speaker 1: I need.
Speaker 2: I'm so good. I'm so bloody good. How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good, Michael.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you.
Speaker 3: I'm fangirling for a moment because I'm such a massive
Speaker 3: fan of you and I when they said this is happening,
Speaker 3: They're like, she's going on, Kyle and Jackie. Oh, I'm like,
Speaker 3: okay that my odds are now being halved. And they're
Speaker 3: like and then she'll do your show. I'm like you,
Speaker 3: but you get out of here because I need tones
Speaker 3: and I have been literally saying how much I love you.
Speaker 3: See stay dot and I think it's all come to
Speaker 3: fruition on the show here. If I saw you in
Speaker 3: Baron Bay, I'd throw you a thousand dollars check. I'm
Speaker 3: obsessed with you. I think you're incredible, dead set. I'd stop.
Speaker 3: I'd like fix your hair. I'd be like, you're doing great,
Speaker 3: let me just tune your guitar. I'd be the I'd
Speaker 3: be the mom with a little GoPro filming you on
Speaker 3: the side of the street because I love you and
Speaker 3: I'm so glad you're here.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the girls with the camera and the sew.
Speaker 2: You'd be performing. I'd be like, Tones, you need, what
Speaker 2: do you need? You need? You need me to tune
Speaker 2: your caitar. You need some condoms? What do you need
Speaker 2: to need a drink? What do you need.
Speaker 3: In the middle of a street. I don't know why
Speaker 3: you need them, but I'm supportive. I'll give you what
Speaker 3: you needed.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, no, And I love someone that has
Speaker 1: everything just in case.
Speaker 3: Exactly one of those trench coats just full of anything
Speaker 3: you need, buttle of tequila.
Speaker 2: I got to your bag.
Speaker 3: Oh shit, dude, I honestly have to say congratulations on
Speaker 3: everything that has happened to you. I don't even normally
Speaker 3: when people come on, I can list it because you know,
Speaker 3: there's a there's a ten second list.
Speaker 2: But there's a bloody bible for you. You've done everything.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, I know. I don't even know. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's just all happened so quickly. It's you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's such a crazy thing that has happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is crazy, isn't it. Do you almost think
Speaker 3: like it's not happened? Like do you ever think it's
Speaker 3: a dream or do you ever wake up and go
Speaker 3: it come on? Like it's got to end now, like
Speaker 3: because it just hasn't stopped.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do. I do think that. I think that
Speaker 1: it's you know, I feel like that about the world,
Speaker 1: but not Australia. Like I feel like Australia have supported
Speaker 1: me through Busking, through Johnny run Away, through Dance Monkey,
Speaker 1: through and Neverthing, the Rain, the EP now Bad Child,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like Australia is home and that's the
Speaker 1: place where you know, I'm an artist around me around
Speaker 1: the world. You know what, A lot of people come
Speaker 1: to my shows thinking dance Monkey, Okay, I want to
Speaker 1: hear other stuff and have no idea that I a
Speaker 1: will play an instrument, you know, different over there.
Speaker 2: I think that's the Aussie spirit though. We love an underdog.
Speaker 3: We love watching someone come from nothing, not saying you're
Speaker 3: at nothing, but someone come from the bottom to the top.
Speaker 2: And that's what you've done. Like that is the epitome
Speaker 2: of like an Aussie icon.
Speaker 3: Like we love that in artists, and I think I
Speaker 3: think that's why everyone loves you so much and loves
Speaker 3: your music, because they can see the journey and they
Speaker 3: can hear it in your music. I mean, dance Monkey,
Speaker 3: I could do it whole interview on but I mean
Speaker 3: that's old stuff. Now Bad Child Times is, Oh my god,
Speaker 3: I think it's better than dance Monkey. You must be
Speaker 3: happy with how that's doing, like getting airplay.
Speaker 1: And I'm just happy that. The main thing is that
Speaker 1: that really makes me happy is that, like I finally
Speaker 1: released a song that's vulnerable and it's about me, and
Speaker 1: I've opened myself up more instead of hiding behind other
Speaker 1: names like Jimmy and Johnny and all this stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: Like I think I made the decision to release this song.
Speaker 1: It was very hesitant. I never thought I would, but
Speaker 1: then when I made that decision, I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: going to do it. And I think that the way
Speaker 1: that people take that and support that is huge for
Speaker 1: me because first of all, like I produced that track,
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent was all on my own. I sent
Speaker 1: it to a producer to get it cleaned up and
Speaker 1: ready for radio. But I mean, I'm starting to produce
Speaker 1: my own music from the kids are coming to now
Speaker 1: and can't be happy all the time, and that's so
Speaker 1: huge for me, you know. So I think that, like,
Speaker 1: you know, to see the support when you really put
Speaker 1: extra effort into something and it's very vulnerable for you
Speaker 1: and you're nervous, you know, that's that really matters to someone.
Speaker 2: So like you. How long have you been writing music
Speaker 2: and performing?
Speaker 1: Well, I've always sung in the shower, but I've never
Speaker 1: had a lesson or anything. Like I always played basketball
Speaker 1: growing up. Yeah, I would say I probably. I used
Speaker 1: to play at like pubs and clubs. Some people, like
Speaker 1: say Tones and Eyes completely skipped the pub scene, which
Speaker 1: all Ausius dude, no no, no, no.
Speaker 3: You're like, I've had thrown at me, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: I know the smell of cigarettes and sandy.
Speaker 1: I've had all. I've had all the public pubs experiences.
Speaker 1: But when I realized, which a lot of people either
Speaker 1: do and don't want to do it or just don't realize,
Speaker 1: that that wasn't enough if you really want something, I
Speaker 1: went to busking and I think that's the new Aussie
Speaker 1: experience now anyway, Like we've got so many amazing buskers
Speaker 1: that come from Australia that like get that support and
Speaker 1: blow up. You know how it is when you're in
Speaker 1: other countries they do not care about buskers. When I'm
Speaker 1: in America, they don't even know what bucking is. They
Speaker 1: call it street performing and they think it's like the
Speaker 1: lowest of the low homeless cost. Yeah, so it's like
Speaker 1: like you know, homeless people tapping on the pavement with sticks,
Speaker 1: Like they don't even realize the culture that we have
Speaker 1: in Australia. It's amazing, Like we're so lucky. And I think,
Speaker 1: like I've been doing that probably all up like pubs
Speaker 1: and busting for about four five years maybe my god, see.
Speaker 3: And you're so right the amount of times I've been
Speaker 3: to pitt Street in the middle of Sydney and all
Speaker 3: at Chapel Street down in Melbourne and there's been a.
Speaker 2: Busker that's got me stopped. Like I stopped and I go,
Speaker 2: who is this? I need to know? You're right? We
Speaker 2: have such good quality on our streets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think they were. The mindset behind busker
Speaker 1: is is like I have to get out there and
Speaker 1: I don't know how, so I'm going to put myself
Speaker 1: in the middle of a bunch of people that don't
Speaker 1: know who I am. It's so nerve racking, But this
Speaker 1: is how much I love what I do. And I
Speaker 1: think that no matter even if you don't you don't
Speaker 1: like what they're sharing, it's not your taste, Like that's
Speaker 1: something to be appreciated already before before even deciding that
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, oh well they're really talented as well,
Speaker 1: or whatever you think about busk is you know, just
Speaker 1: to do that. So I remember my first time it
Speaker 1: was so scary, and even up to my almost my
Speaker 1: last time, it's always scary. Actually, I always was nervous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you cringe?
Speaker 3: Like I've seen videos come up in the last couple
Speaker 3: of weeks tones and eye busking tones and I busking
Speaker 3: before she was big.
Speaker 2: Do you cringe looking at that? Or are you like no, man,
Speaker 2: that's what got me here.
Speaker 1: I'm just really proud of myself. I actually look at
Speaker 1: that video. I saw that video, you know the other
Speaker 1: day I popped up on my new speed and I
Speaker 1: thought to myself, like shit, like looking at my youngest self,
Speaker 1: going you actually had no idea, like if I could
Speaker 1: talk to you now, if I could look at you
Speaker 1: right now, and on that video when I'm busking, that
Speaker 1: was the night I wrote dance Monkey about that's so
Speaker 1: strange because that was the night someone knocked over my
Speaker 1: keyboard stole my money. That was the night and looking
Speaker 1: back on the how dislated someone can feel, and then going, fuck,
Speaker 1: I wish I could talk to you now. You have
Speaker 1: no idea. Sometimes I have a look at like I
Speaker 1: try and look back on my past or whatever. I
Speaker 1: printed out a lot of photos from last year just
Speaker 1: to like have some memories of what's been going on,
Speaker 1: and I looked at them and I went, you know,
Speaker 1: I never thought this was going to happen. And when
Speaker 1: I see those busking videos, I'm like, shit, keep going
Speaker 1: because like you know it's gonna work.
Speaker 3: Now, that's what I want to talk about. Like, it
Speaker 3: must just be nuts. I think I read an article
Speaker 3: and it was praising you. It was an Aussie article,
Speaker 3: or you're going to get a lot of love from
Speaker 3: Ozzie prayers. But this article was like tones and I
Speaker 3: invited to this Hollywood Hills mansion party. We took her
Speaker 3: best friend and then like hated it, left and got
Speaker 3: KFC in her apartment.
Speaker 2: If that happened, is that true?
Speaker 1: It's very similar to true. So we went to the party.
Speaker 1: Me and my friend Abs were both pretty bogany, and
Speaker 1: then everyone was just really snooty. We didn't like it,
Speaker 1: so we went back to our hotel room and we
Speaker 1: got Jenny's. I don't even know they have KFC. We
Speaker 1: got Denny's, which is like a diner, and watched Netflix
Speaker 1: and just yeah, we're pretty much the same. So we
Speaker 1: didn't get KFC. Here is like a side note, I
Speaker 1: don't like KFC. No one knows, but really, I guess
Speaker 1: they assume because I'm an Aussie.
Speaker 2: I guess they're all, OK, you're not into Wicked Wings.
Speaker 1: No, I just I don't know why. It's just sometimes
Speaker 1: it's Harry, Yes, what you mean?
Speaker 2: Exactly what you mean? What's your meaning of choice?
Speaker 3: Are you like a snack wrap at macas or like
Speaker 3: a what do you fill of the fish?
Speaker 1: If I had to eat takeaway, okay, i'd probably get
Speaker 1: red rooster.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you're my girl, like your half chicken
Speaker 2: roll or full chicken roll.
Speaker 1: Let's be real, like if you're going to get takeaway,
Speaker 1: like why would you go half? Because I don't get
Speaker 1: takeaway all the time. So if you're gonna do it,
Speaker 1: like you're gotta do it. You know. It's like when
Speaker 1: you're hungover and you're like, right, oh guys ordering Uber Eats.
Speaker 1: Tell all your roommates do breach day today. I'll pay
Speaker 1: for it. Get your order in. You know. One of
Speaker 1: those things you'd be the coolest friend.
Speaker 3: Are your friends like, oh like just loving you at
Speaker 3: the moment or are you getting like old ones out
Speaker 3: of the woodworks and you're like you bullied me in
Speaker 3: your seven Thank you very much, Rebecca Smith, like you
Speaker 3: can piece right off.
Speaker 1: Well, actually it's funny you say that because I think
Speaker 1: my friends are the coolest, so I feel so lucky.
Speaker 1: But no, I think in school like this is the
Speaker 1: way I see it in school. Everyone makes mistakes. We're children,
Speaker 1: we're young, like, you know, I feel like in school,
Speaker 1: I would never harbor anything that happened to me in school.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of people that I knew from
Speaker 1: school that I've known since then that have changed. And
Speaker 1: myself has changed so much since school. So the way
Speaker 1: I see this is like since anything from high school
Speaker 1: and beyond is you know, we're all learning, we're all
Speaker 1: trying to figure out who we are. And I have
Speaker 1: a little brother, and I know what it's like to
Speaker 1: be that age, and I think that it's important to
Speaker 1: remember that people change. Otherwise we're all going to look
Speaker 1: at each other like we're fetuses for the rest of
Speaker 1: our lives because we all.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, now let's talk about new music very quickly.
Speaker 3: So obviously dance Monkey is huge.
Speaker 2: We loved it.
Speaker 3: That's what got That's what got the name Tones and
Speaker 3: I in our minds Bad Child's Out, We love that.
Speaker 3: I love Johnny Runaway, can't be happy all the time
Speaker 3: is around, is all sort of bubbling over all. These
Speaker 3: tracks got a feature on your debut album coming this year.
Speaker 1: Well, I was gonna the first two songs off the
Speaker 1: album was going to be Bad Child and Can't Be
Speaker 1: Happy all the time. But now that I have this
Speaker 1: time off, I was kind of almost going to keep
Speaker 1: them as singles and write new songs for the album. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's just I've got so much more time off
Speaker 1: than I thought I would have, and I was meant
Speaker 1: to be writing this album while I was on tour.
Speaker 1: So now it's hard to me because every time I
Speaker 1: write music, by the time I get to the end
Speaker 1: of the album, I'm like the first few songs I
Speaker 1: wrote that I love, I'm like, nah, I hate him.
Speaker 1: Now I'm used to them, and then I want to
Speaker 1: write new song. He keeps happening, So it's really hard.
Speaker 3: Did you have that feeling with Dance Monkey or Bad
Speaker 3: Child like you Did you ever get over those songs
Speaker 3: or did you know, like, nah, there's something here that
Speaker 3: is special.
Speaker 1: I I Danced Monkey, I didn't because it was doing
Speaker 1: some crazy, crazy, out of this world things without a release,
Speaker 1: like the thing that song did in Byron Bay, a
Speaker 1: town like just to bring people together were crazier. I
Speaker 1: was so excited for that song. But Bad Child Can't
Speaker 1: Be Happy. No, I could still listen to Can't Be
Speaker 1: Happy all the time. I listened to it before before
Speaker 1: the phone call. Actually, it's definitely a song I wrote
Speaker 1: for myself when I never intended to release that, so
Speaker 1: vulnerable of me to write like that that, you know,
Speaker 1: when I did release it, I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: proud when I listened to it, and I do love
Speaker 1: the song. I love performing it. So that's like a
Speaker 1: song that I will listen to you because I wrote
Speaker 1: it for myself when I get down or whatever. So
Speaker 1: I tended to listen to it and sing it all
Speaker 1: the time for myself. And now it's out there in
Speaker 1: the world. I can listen to it, you know, on
Speaker 1: Spotify when I want to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3: What about like when Ozzie artists dropped their albums and
Speaker 3: we love all the artists, but then they often struggle
Speaker 3: to get the big international names to do covers or
Speaker 3: to do features. We live in our little Aussie music
Speaker 3: bubble here and down under. But now you're an international name.
Speaker 3: People know who you are in and out of LA
Speaker 3: I can only imagine are there big names that have
Speaker 3: approached you or you're like trying to approach to get
Speaker 3: on the album?
Speaker 1: Well, I actually had this rule. No Colloud I've been
Speaker 1: offered some collaborations with some amazing artists that I would
Speaker 1: like to collab with, but I really wanted to do
Speaker 1: work on my own first. I wanted to have like
Speaker 1: a big body of work that I've done on my
Speaker 1: own to prove more. Like I just feel like I
Speaker 1: know that, you know, dance Monkey's gone big and stuff,
Speaker 1: but it's so important to me that I still haven't
Speaker 1: figured out really what's going on inside my head sometimes,
Speaker 1: and I just need to figure it out on my
Speaker 1: own before I'm like, okay, I'm ready. Like I met
Speaker 1: up with Maclamore. He's obviously my favorite artist, and we
Speaker 1: wrote two tracks together, and he's the first person I've
Speaker 1: ever collabed with because obviously he's my favorite artist of
Speaker 1: all times. So to get asked. He just surprised me
Speaker 1: at my show backstage and then stayed for the show.
Speaker 1: Wasn't meant to be working on songs, And then the
Speaker 1: next day he called and was like, I want you
Speaker 1: to come work with me on some songs, like he
Speaker 1: really wanted to be on Can't Be Happy All the Time,
Speaker 1: and I was like, that song's about like it's finished,
Speaker 1: it's going to be released soon because that song's been
Speaker 1: obviously finished for a while. But you know, then we
Speaker 1: wrote some songs to again, and I was like, it's
Speaker 1: definitely Macamare, Like I want him to be my first collaboration.
Speaker 1: So we've written through songs together and I feel as though,
Speaker 1: like you know that, that to me is just like
Speaker 1: the biggest goal, Like where do I go from there?
Speaker 1: Like he's my favorite artist.
Speaker 3: Imagine imagine if he wanted to come record at your house.
Speaker 3: You're like, sure, let me take the Macamore posters down,
Speaker 3: give you ten minutes and you can come.
Speaker 2: All the posts of you. That is so cool, Wow.
Speaker 1: Very much. Just a two minute rap.
Speaker 2: Thank you good.
Speaker 3: Sorry goodness, man, get too cold up? No, No, I've
Speaker 3: been talking too much. I mean, where do we end?
Speaker 3: Who's the coorset person you've met that you've got besides Maclamore? Like,
Speaker 3: is I just a standard celebrity or someone that you've
Speaker 3: met that you're like, oh, yeah, I'm cool.
Speaker 1: Now, well I would have to say I have to
Speaker 1: pay the respect to this person. Obviously. I met Sir
Speaker 1: Elton John and he did an interview with me on
Speaker 1: his Rocket Hour BBC radio Apple Yeah, Apple Music, Sorry,
Speaker 1: Rocket Hour show, And you know and the and I
Speaker 1: loved Elton John so much. And something I never knew
Speaker 1: about him until now is he's pretty much based this
Speaker 1: whole radio show around discovering new artists that he's inspired by.
Speaker 1: And not only did he meet up with me and
Speaker 1: you know, Winston surf Shirt, but also like he asked
Speaker 1: us what up and coming artists we like and he
Speaker 1: and obviously I said Adrian Eagle. Everyone knows I love
Speaker 1: Adrian Eagle. He then played Adrian Eagle on his show
Speaker 1: for the whole next week. Oh my god, it's just
Speaker 1: amazing and I just loved that.
Speaker 2: Aar rut.
Speaker 3: Now quickly to and before we go, I'm I'm being
Speaker 3: rushed off the Grammys. People are saying Dance Monkey's pegged
Speaker 3: for a Grammy next year or this year, nomination this
Speaker 3: year for next year. I mean, it's now the high
Speaker 3: stream song ever by a female.
Speaker 2: Artist on Spotify. What would you do if you want
Speaker 2: a Grammy?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: What would literally just be? Like going to Red Rooster.
Speaker 2: I'm getting a Mountain jew and a chicken roll? Like
Speaker 2: what where would you go? What would you do?
Speaker 1: I can't even tell you, but I will say you
Speaker 1: this one that would be amazing. But the first thing
Speaker 1: I think of is, oh my god, I hate dressing
Speaker 1: up and I hate red carpet. That's the first thing
Speaker 1: I think of. I'm like, so, you know, you might
Speaker 1: see tones and attraction at the Grammy and I will
Speaker 1: not be told to dress up.
Speaker 3: You know what, you damn one though, it's going to
Speaker 3: be Gucci, it'll be Balentciaga, and I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I love you so much.
Speaker 3: When all this COVID is over, I've died to meet you.
Speaker 3: I'm here at Kiss with Kyle and Jackie. Oh so
Speaker 3: we'll get you in and we'll do another chat. I
Speaker 3: so proud of you, love your work. Sorry to keep
Speaker 3: you for so long, just fangirling out. Stay safe and
Speaker 3: then and then we'll chat chat soon.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, were so nice to meet you. I will
Speaker 1: see you soon.
Speaker 2: You too, and congratulations on everything, genuine it's so cool.
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 2: Good because it's just me.
Speaker 1: A podcast by a couple of