1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: The Cruelsy are performing at Freo Prison this Saturday. Tickets 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: are available through Ticketmaster. Tax Perkins is joining us now. 3 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, indeed, how are you good? 4 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: Congratulations on the album The Honeymoon is over celebrating its 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: thirtieth birthday. I can't quite believe it because I still 6 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: very clearly remember when it came out. But do you 7 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: I mentioned before that it won five ARIA Awards at 8 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: the ninety four Arias. Do you remember this moment? We 9 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 1: read in the paper yesterday that we're expected to clean 10 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: up at these awards, So if you could help both 11 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: stacking your chairs and pick. 12 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 2: Our bast phrase. 13 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 1: That was that was ken when you accepted the Best 14 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 1: Album award, so clearly not taking it too seriously on 15 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: the night. 16 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think we were well, indeed we were. 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 2: It was predicted that may make her, I mean it was, 18 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 2: I think we we we swept the pool because basically 19 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 2: the Pharnzies and the barn Zi's, and the inexcesses and 20 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 2: the and the crowded houses of that that had their day, 21 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 2: and the silver chairs and the and the look urgitators 22 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,960 Speaker 2: and the new ms and the savage gardens, they yet 23 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,119 Speaker 2: to come yeah, I was gonna say. 24 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 3: So we had we had a gap. 25 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 2: Of about two years which it was sort of was ours. 26 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a touch modest, But anyway, I. 27 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 4: Couldn't do anything wrong though with that album and then 28 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 4: the Three Legged Dog and to strike the number one mode. 29 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,039 Speaker 4: It was a little it was a sweet little purple patch, 30 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 4: wasn't it. 31 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 2: Yes, And they expect the The Three Legged Dog anniversary 32 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 2: too in a couple of. 33 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 3: Years, of course. 34 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 4: It's yeah. 35 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: Look it's been thirty years and I still have yet 36 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: to see a sexier film clip than the Honeymoon's Iver 37 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: text perk. Now it's the brands, it's the bands, I 38 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: should say, first proper tour in a decade. Why has 39 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: it taken so long? And how has it been getting 40 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: back on the road together. It's like riding a bike. 41 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 2: Well, riding a bike with that needed the tires pumped 42 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 2: up and the train had gone, the chain had got 43 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 2: definitely gone rusty. But no, I've taken us a while, well, 44 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 2: I guess mainly because one of our members, James Crookshank. 45 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:30,119 Speaker 3: Passed away eight years ago. 46 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, so I mean that was the biggest hurdle to 47 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 2: get it over and and I don't know. We just 48 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 2: all went on and did other things in them. And 49 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 2: then there's a very very persistent promoter called Dwayne McDonald's. 50 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 2: So you get the cruise, so you're back together and 51 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 2: get to the thirtieth anniversary. And I said, oh, well, 52 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 2: it's not as simple as that. But anyway, we decided 53 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,679 Speaker 2: to ask my very good friend and good friend of 54 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 2: the band, and we've known him since the nineties, Matt Walker. Yeah, 55 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 2: great great musician, great guitar player, great great human being. 56 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 2: He's he's joined the band and and and it's taking 57 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 2: the place well, no one can take. 58 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 3: The place of Crookers. 59 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: Exactly, but. 60 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 3: It's it's it's going well. 61 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 2: We've done four shows now and it's getting better and better, 62 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 2: and I think we'll be peaking by the time we 63 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 2: get to Free. 64 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,519 Speaker 4: That's what we want to hear, Mane. Now, I remember 65 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 4: seeing those two nights with the Stones at Perry Lakes 66 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 4: was nineteen ninety five, so you know a lot has changed. 67 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 4: Lost lost James and lost Charlie Watson, lost Perry Lakes itself. 68 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 4: It's all houses now, but they were. That was a 69 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 4: couple of great nights, Mane. You must have fond memories 70 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 4: of it. 71 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 3: We did two nice did Yeah, there. 72 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 4: Was I remember I was there both nights, just one 73 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 4: big night for he wasn't. 74 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 3: Well well a little while ago. 75 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 2: But I particularly remember about that one because I was 76 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 2: we were being the support man. We were privy to 77 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 2: the stone sound checks and and they'd always play music 78 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 2: that they didn't play in the actual show. They would 79 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 2: play sort of you know, like a obscure more obscure tracks, 80 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,039 Speaker 2: which was like a real treat. And they also just 81 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 2: play the music without putting on a big show and 82 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 2: you know and running around and you know, they actually 83 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 2: play the songs. 84 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 3: And it was I was adored the sound checks, especially. 85 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 4: Way more than the Muddy Waters or something here we go. 86 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, things like fool to Cry, which 87 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 2: they didn't put in. 88 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 3: The show, things like that. It was as a stone 89 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 3: sand it was. It was a real treat. 90 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, I think you just might have wrapped up 91 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: another tour of a Man in Black. I read and 92 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: now you've got the Cruel Sea shows and I'd love 93 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:08,559 Speaker 1: to see some more Lady Boys stuff. Is it keeping 94 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: it mixed up that keeps you so fresh? 95 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 3: Yeah? 96 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 2: Absolutely, as boring as this saying is, but It's true. 97 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 2: It changes as good as a holiday, especially for me, 98 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 2: which I can't afford to take holidays. But actually, any 99 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 2: holidays that I give my family, it's a working holiday. 100 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 2: It's usually done. You know, let's go to Africa. I'm 101 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 2: playing in Africa, and yeah, that's pretty cool. 102 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 3: Yeah. 103 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 2: So, I mean, but I just feel very fortunate and 104 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 2: I'm very grateful that I do have all these things 105 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 2: and this history that I can revisit, and especially with 106 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 2: the Cruel Sea, but all these things that a bit 107 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:56,919 Speaker 2: of time goes by and then I come back to 108 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 2: I get to I get to view it and I 109 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 2: get to participate in it with a completely fresh perspective. 110 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, wonderful. 111 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 4: I sit down. They're doing the same set every night, 112 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 4: with the same line time exactly. 113 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 2: We haven't been channing it out all this time. It's 114 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 2: it's all all this all this stuff is like wow, 115 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 2: And I kind of understand why it worked more now 116 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 2: than than when I was in it. 117 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 3: What's happened? Yeah, I can. 118 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 2: Sort of have an objectivity of the of the work 119 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 2: and our work. Yeah, and I kind of get why 120 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 2: it worked. 121 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 4: Things things text can change pretty quickly, too, So I 122 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 4: was just remembering chatting with you, getting you to sign 123 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 4: a shirt for Lisa here by the Sea at City 124 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 4: Beach two years ago, and we're having a bit of 125 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 4: a chat. And that was the night that Pete Murray 126 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:53,040 Speaker 4: got esco escorted after he said off the stage by 127 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 4: the police because he had COVID or there was. 128 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: A COVID scathing else there was a COVID scare. 129 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 4: And I was remembering how much fear they were backstage 130 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 4: and it was so bizarre. But you must really love 131 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 4: the fact that the fans are just out there and 132 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 4: just can do you know, pretty much whatever right now? 133 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, oh absolutely. 134 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 2: COVID was a big crippler for the for many people, 135 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 2: but especially the music industry. 136 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 3: We're still getting over it really actually. I mean it's. 137 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 2: The landscape is different after COVID. I mean everything's more 138 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 2: expensive as well. But now, yeah, we're very very grateful 139 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 2: to be able to play in front of people, and 140 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 2: lots of people too. 141 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: Well, we're very grateful to have you coming back to 142 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: town for prison this Saturday. It makes me a little 143 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: bit sick to think that the honeymoon is over. Is 144 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: thirty a little. 145 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 2: Bit, well, not a big it's not a large amount 146 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 2: of time as we absolutely. 147 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 3: Realized true true to scare me. 148 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, season. 149 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 4: It wouldn't be funny if we were still here talking 150 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 4: to you on the fight about that text. That would 151 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 4: be right, let's make it out. 152 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: Definitely will be at the show anyway. So tickets through 153 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: Ticketmaster with the cruel say at for a prison This 154 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: saiday night God text Perkins, thank you good to talk. 155 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 3: To you men. That's a pleasure. Looking really looking forward 156 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 3: to getting the. 157 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 4: Yeah we'll see Becky. You're in the prison by someone's 158 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 4: gonnaell prison my way away. 159 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 3: I won't be able to help you. 160 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:43,320 Speaker 4: Catch up with you make texts thank you love text 161 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 4: Perkins oxygen fore Lisa you okay? 162 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 2: Is gone? 163 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:49,839 Speaker 4: Oh actually I didn't hang out. 164 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 3: Sorry still there. 165 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 4: That's embarrassing. 166 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 3: He's flattered 167 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 4: You've changed color.