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Speaker 1: On today's podcast, I have Pete Murray who has just
Speaker 1: had his very obvious reveal on The Mass Singer this week.
Speaker 1: If you had missed any of Murray's performances as Tiny,
Speaker 1: you can check them out on ten play because each
Speaker 1: song was truly quite fantastic. I loved The Beach Boys
Speaker 1: and his post Malone. Actually, who am I kidding? I
Speaker 1: loved all of his performances. Pete Murray is a very
Speaker 1: well known Australian musician who has had three albums reach
Speaker 1: number one on the Australian charts. Murray has received seventeen
Speaker 1: Arian nominations throughout his career. So far, he has sold
Speaker 1: over one point two million albums in Australia, so having
Speaker 1: him on The Mass Singer was a huge win for
Speaker 1: Network ten. I personally am a huge fan of Pete's
Speaker 1: and it is an absolute joy to chat with him. Today.
Speaker 1: Pete will talk about his decision to join the singing
Speaker 1: show and if this is the only reality TV he
Speaker 1: would actually do. We will talk about his song choices
Speaker 1: over the last few weeks and what he had lined
Speaker 1: up next if he'd survived. Plus, we will get plenty
Speaker 1: of exclusives from behind the scenes of The Mass Singer,
Speaker 1: which returns next Monday and Tuesday night on Network ten.
Speaker 1: And if you've fallen just that little bit behind, you
Speaker 1: can catch up on ten Playing. Anyway, let's bring Pete
Speaker 1: Murray into the podcast and guys, I really hope you
Speaker 1: enjoy this very insightful episode of TV Relo. Hi, Pete Murray,
Speaker 1: how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good taking.
Speaker 1: I would love to say that I'm really surprised, but
Speaker 1: I'm not because I picked in the very first performance.
Speaker 1: I just heard, like the tiniest little bit I saw
Speaker 1: Christic Swanseay. That voice is very familiar. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's disappointing to you or whether it just proves
Speaker 1: that I'm a super fan.
Speaker 2: I was surprised, but I was also glad that the
Speaker 2: guys didn't pick me. That was my goal, I did.
Speaker 2: I know, my voice is very unique and very different,
Speaker 2: so I was My concern was that I would be
Speaker 2: on the show and they would gets Pete Murray straight away.
Speaker 2: When they didn't the first night, I was like I
Speaker 2: was punching inside thee yes. You know. I did not
Speaker 2: expect that. And then two nights in a row, I
Speaker 2: was like, Wow, they still haven't got me. I was like, Wow,
Speaker 2: that's great. But look so many other fans on my socials.
Speaker 2: Everyone was straight across it, you know. So I think
Speaker 2: Chrisy was obviously the closest one to it. You know,
Speaker 2: here's here's his husy. He was I don't think he
Speaker 2: got much an idea of much of the who's who's singing,
Speaker 2: and Abby's pretty bit younger, she might really go it there.
Speaker 2: And you know, obviously now was I don't know where
Speaker 2: the mel she s actually knew me, but I wasn't
Speaker 2: too surprised but that that she may not have picked
Speaker 2: me above some other acts. So it was kind of
Speaker 2: worked in my favor, really, But Chrissy was on the money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, your music to me is the
Speaker 1: soundtrack to my life. Like when I first moved out
Speaker 1: of home, your first album came out and I played
Speaker 1: that for the first few weeks, Like while I came
Speaker 1: out of home, I unpacked my boxes and it literally
Speaker 1: is the soundtrack to my life in so many ways.
Speaker 1: So like it was quite obvious to me.
Speaker 2: And I think a lot of people as well. I
Speaker 2: think they picked it up. I can't remember the second
Speaker 2: eye or something. I think Chrissy Mason, Pete Murray vibes
Speaker 2: going on there too, but she stood didn't pick me.
Speaker 2: Then soon as she made their comment, somewhere in the
Speaker 2: crowd went yeah, come on. I was like, okay, can't down,
Speaker 2: don't don't give it away.
Speaker 1: Can you hear the people in the audience, can you
Speaker 1: hear what this is?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I'll give you that comment very clearly when
Speaker 2: they said, oh yeah, come on, But when the judges
Speaker 2: heard I'm not too shoe or the.
Speaker 1: Judges though, like, this is what I have to say.
Speaker 1: Because I was doing a bit of research last night.
Speaker 1: I was reading online because I wanted to see what
Speaker 1: the reactions were to you being revealed. Starting to think
Speaker 1: of this theory. Are the judges guesses and comments designed
Speaker 1: to throw the audiences off? Do you think that there's
Speaker 1: any possibility that's going on.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I know with the clues that the
Speaker 2: producers what they're right, and they you know, they give
Speaker 2: out to the to the public and the judges that
Speaker 2: all the people in the audience as well, is designed
Speaker 2: to throw people off because it's so broad that okay,
Speaker 2: I don't get that, you know, and they're trying to
Speaker 2: work out other things. But I wondered that myself when
Speaker 2: the judges are meant to do that? But I don't
Speaker 2: think so.
Speaker 1: I mean, the clues stuck out to me like dogs balls.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can say dogs on a podcast,
Speaker 1: But anyway, we've done it.
Speaker 2: Oh well we are so that's fine, you know, I mean.
Speaker 1: The feel of being a clue was far too easy.
Speaker 1: As soon as that was said, I was like, this
Speaker 1: is crazy. What were the more obscure clues though that
Speaker 1: you might have enjoyed that the team of people behind
Speaker 1: the show putting together.
Speaker 2: Oh, there were some song references in there. Mentioned the
Speaker 2: opportunity a couple of times. I think there was a
Speaker 2: very code on the ground or something you picked me up.
Speaker 2: There was another song reference and I think that they
Speaker 2: just they won't get in that was it something to
Speaker 2: do with gold and summary Rica. So the few things
Speaker 2: there that were kind of interesting. Look, it is it's
Speaker 2: very broad, and it's meant to be very broad, and
Speaker 2: I think the longer on the show they start to
Speaker 2: narrow in and make it a little bit easier for
Speaker 2: the judges if they're not kidding it. So, I mean,
Speaker 2: probably my biggest concern was, you know, going out in
Speaker 2: the last night is if no one did kick me,
Speaker 2: I'll be going okay.
Speaker 1: So do you try and throw the viewers though? Like
Speaker 1: I mean, did you try and change your voice at
Speaker 1: all to try and stay in the competition a little
Speaker 1: bit longer?
Speaker 2: I did, Well, it doesn't matter it doesn't know about
Speaker 2: your voice. To be honest, I think what I've worked
Speaker 2: out now and look to answer question. Yes, I did
Speaker 2: try to sing a little bit lower and a bit
Speaker 2: deeper than what I normally is. I do sort of
Speaker 2: sing up a bit higher and range when I'm singing
Speaker 2: my songs, so I tried to keep things a bit lower.
Speaker 2: But it's you know, it's kind of my my tana,
Speaker 2: that's my voice, and it's hard not to sort of,
Speaker 2: like I said, people like yourself will pick it straight away.
Speaker 2: But the thing that I found and when we it's
Speaker 2: just song choice. And I feel if you're singing songs,
Speaker 2: especially to that mainstream audience, they want songs they know
Speaker 2: and they can sing a long term. It's almost like
Speaker 2: they get into the song just as much as they
Speaker 2: get into the singer. Yeah, And I think funny when
Speaker 2: I did the songs that I chose, I love doing
Speaker 2: Walking on Sunshine because that for me. My best mate,
Speaker 2: his older sister who's sister to me, she passed away
Speaker 2: for years ago. She's been fighting cancer for thirty five
Speaker 2: years and she had a charity called Walking on Sunshine.
Speaker 2: That was her favorite song.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: So when I joined the show, and the producer said, look,
Speaker 2: we think this would be a great opening song for you.
Speaker 2: Walking on sunshine. I was just like wow, I had
Speaker 2: like these the chills, chills, anything just.
Speaker 1: Way, isn't it?
Speaker 2: I mean, that's I know. And even on the night
Speaker 2: when I was singing that, I was really quite emotion
Speaker 2: and if you listen to my voice at the end,
Speaker 2: is kind of it's literally kind of breaks up a
Speaker 2: little because I'm actually sort of getting it bitterer because
Speaker 2: it was a moment for me where I'm going and
Speaker 2: he's here with me and this is, you know, a song.
Speaker 2: So that was really amazing. And I got text messages
Speaker 2: from her family going, we just heard this song. This
Speaker 2: has got of a you know, and they loved it.
Speaker 2: They loved it so much. And then you know, even
Speaker 2: singing the God Only Knows song, that was beautiful as well.
Speaker 2: The funny thing was, wasn't it You basically going to
Speaker 2: the recording studio there and you work them with the
Speaker 2: guy there, and you sort of do all the backing
Speaker 2: tracks that you need to make the song their work,
Speaker 2: and you sing a version of it too, and the
Speaker 2: vibe was great and all the songs, he's like Pumpy,
Speaker 2: this song's great. That sounds great. The other songs I did,
Speaker 2: were I was about to do was like every Breath
Speaker 2: you Take it by the police.
Speaker 1: And then I would I would pay good money well
Speaker 1: and it was so good pocket I'd give it to you.
Speaker 2: And then we had the other one, which was absolute cracker,
Speaker 2: was give me some loving by give me and I
Speaker 2: was like, I nailed these songs. And then we did
Speaker 2: I did all these songs first, and I was right,
Speaker 2: and the guys were going, you're so far ahead of
Speaker 2: everyone else that you've got on top of these songs.
Speaker 2: And we basically did the recording of post alone song
Speaker 2: and we both did it, and the producer engineer there,
Speaker 2: he was like, this doesn't work as well, and I went,
Speaker 2: it's not working as well, and we're like, shit, what
Speaker 2: do we do? So we changed the key and it
Speaker 2: still just didn't have the same vibe as these other songs,
Speaker 2: like every Breath You Take was just like spot on
Speaker 2: perfect for me, and give Me some Love and the
Speaker 2: same thing. It just was so good. This a little
Speaker 2: bit of grit in my vocal. It just worked so well.
Speaker 2: But this one song and we were both going, oh,
Speaker 2: and I got really nervous going, wow, I don't think
Speaker 2: I'm going to get through tonight because this song's not
Speaker 2: working as well. And when I first chose that song,
Speaker 2: I thought this would be great. It's different, it's different.
Speaker 2: I don't do this sort of thing. But really, when
Speaker 2: it comes down to the mainstream crowd, they don't probably
Speaker 2: know that song as well, and they want something they
Speaker 2: know and sing along to you. So anyway, I did this.
Speaker 2: I did that post my own mind, and I was
Speaker 2: just nervous the whole day, going this is I'm not
Speaker 2: going to make it through because this isn't a strong
Speaker 2: one and I really wanted to do I think give
Speaker 2: Me some Love and was next, and then Every Breath
Speaker 2: Can Take, which was just a great song.
Speaker 1: I Want to Say Something to You, which is just
Speaker 1: a very emotional trat for us all. Really, I'm on
Speaker 1: a weekend away to celebrate the life of my brother
Speaker 1: in law who passed away two years ago, and we're
Speaker 1: in a chuka and all of my partner's family here
Speaker 1: and Daniel who passed away. His favorite singer is post Malone.
Speaker 1: So we watched the show last night. We arrived here
Speaker 1: for this day to day and that was the song
Speaker 1: that came on and I said to my partner when
Speaker 1: everyone left the room, I said, you know, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is soon.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: It was soul, felt very powerful, but again it felt
Speaker 1: very serendipitous. And because I knew that it was your
Speaker 1: voice even when you did the Beach Boys, I thought
Speaker 1: of your dad. I thought, I wonder whether or not
Speaker 1: you were thinking about your dad while that song was happening,
Speaker 1: which again is now making me very emotional.
Speaker 2: Question that was an emotion, such a beautiful song to sing,
Speaker 2: and you know, to see that when I was quite
Speaker 2: emotional that one too. You know, so all these songs
Speaker 2: that were working and nothing as that Postal that song.
Speaker 2: I think it's a cracking song. It's really good. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just don't think out of all the songs that
Speaker 2: I chose, that was probably the least one that was
Speaker 2: that was working the best.
Speaker 1: Basically, sometimes when you try and do something different like that,
Speaker 1: then it resonates like it hits. Because I mean, I
Speaker 1: hope someone sends your version of that song to post
Speaker 1: Alone so that he can hear it, and I'd love
Speaker 1: for him to be able to hand over the rights
Speaker 1: for you to record that yourself with that version, because
Speaker 1: your own spin on that was powerful.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a great song for starters and easy. You
Speaker 2: write some amazing music, that guy. So that was nice,
Speaker 2: But look, you know, I think I felt like my
Speaker 2: time is limited on that, on that show, because even
Speaker 2: though I have a very unique voice, I'm a singer songwriter,
Speaker 2: So I write songs that work for me and work
Speaker 2: for my voice, and that's you know. I had that
Speaker 2: emotional content in the song when people love that, but
Speaker 2: I knew. I went in there and I think it
Speaker 2: was snow Fox, and normally we're shut off from everyone
Speaker 2: else when everyone else is warming up and doing something.
Speaker 2: We can't hear anyone else, we can't see anyone else.
Speaker 2: But the guys accidentally left my ears on while snow
Speaker 2: Fox was warming up, and I was going, wow, yeah,
Speaker 2: this girl can sing, you know, going there's no way
Speaker 2: that I'm going to actually beat her. I'm not, you know,
Speaker 2: and I'm going, she's a singer. I'm a singer songwriter,
Speaker 2: and that's the difference. I remember when when I came
Speaker 2: off the show and people go, oh, are you disappointing,
Speaker 2: I said, look, no, it was great fun, but I
Speaker 2: knew my time was limited because but I also I
Speaker 2: was told that there's a lot of good singers on
Speaker 2: this particular show, which there are happen and not that
Speaker 2: I'm saying. You know, I can sing, but I sing
Speaker 2: my own style, and you know, to compete where guys
Speaker 2: have these massive ranges, it's very hard to go against them,
Speaker 2: of course, and because they are I consider them that
Speaker 2: they are singers. I'm a singer songwriter. So you know,
Speaker 2: a big difference set.
Speaker 1: You know, would have been really clever was if they
Speaker 1: had allowed you to sing one of your songs, Like
Speaker 1: I thought that might have been a good idea, Like
Speaker 1: it was so beautiful, like you know, one of your
Speaker 1: original songs that's so connected to you. Because people would
Speaker 1: be like, well, we can't get peeple. They wouldn't get
Speaker 1: peaking one of the songs.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't think that that. Yeah, who would be that
Speaker 2: fillyness in their own someone to show that it might
Speaker 2: have worked, you know, very interesting concept of trying to do.
Speaker 1: That many incarnations around the world. I'm sure that some
Speaker 1: producer is going to come up with that idea at
Speaker 1: some point.
Speaker 2: Surely, I'm sure they will. But look, you know, it
Speaker 2: was a really a different experience, and that's why I
Speaker 2: did the show to have this different experience. And when
Speaker 2: the first the first show they did, they offered me
Speaker 2: a spot in that. For some reason, I didn't take
Speaker 2: it because I had something on, but I love the idea.
Speaker 2: I thought it was a really cool concept. Geting dressed
Speaker 2: up in this wacky outfit that no one knows you are.
Speaker 2: You're trying to guess who the thing is. It's really
Speaker 2: cool and it's not easy. And you hear these voices
Speaker 2: on there and you go, I know that voice, but
Speaker 2: I cannot pick the person. You know. Once you hear
Speaker 2: it from someone else, you go, oh, of course that's
Speaker 2: who that is, you know. But I didn't pick anyone
Speaker 2: that that was on there at all so so far,
Speaker 2: so I'm looking forward to seeing who who is actually
Speaker 2: behind the mask and the guys that I you know,
Speaker 2: in my group there was snow Fox and an even bouncer,
Speaker 2: and I knew both those guys could sing. They had
Speaker 2: a really great, great range, and I knew that those
Speaker 2: two are as far as singing goes, I wasn't going
Speaker 2: to beat them on the singing. On the singing front,
Speaker 2: probably if I had got a song that was maybe
Speaker 2: a bit more emotional and works for my voice better
Speaker 2: amazed to a chance. But you know the singers, those
Speaker 2: guys are under those masks, so it's going to be
Speaker 2: interesting contest. I think out of that group because I
Speaker 2: don't really know the other group that well, because I
Speaker 2: wasn't involved in that time.
Speaker 1: I mean the fourth performers that I got that I
Speaker 1: that I was a lock for me as soon as
Speaker 1: I heard the first few lines the Grim Reaper. I
Speaker 1: just that's Darren Hayes.
Speaker 2: That has to be Yeah, I agree, that's Daren Hayes.
Speaker 2: He's his voice too good.
Speaker 1: You know these albums much like I have all of
Speaker 1: your albums. Yeah, and I know that sound. And then
Speaker 1: Courtney Actor is clearly the cowgirl kind of come on
Speaker 1: like you know, and Shana Blake. Coincidentally, it was the
Speaker 1: other person I guessed, so did you.
Speaker 2: Well see, I didn't know that, but she could sing,
Speaker 2: and I remember doing the duel against her. I'm thinking, wow,
Speaker 2: this this girl could sing too. I'm thinking I'm off,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to beat her because she was, but
Speaker 2: she did a great job.
Speaker 1: It was still not as good as yours.
Speaker 2: I mean, when it's so funny because even the first
Speaker 2: night I was on there it got down to myself
Speaker 2: and Fawn, which was Sam Selly that's right. And I thought,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, wow, am I going out the first night?
Speaker 2: And I got really nervous, thinking that's it, I'm all over,
Speaker 2: I thought, I know. So I had this really emotional
Speaker 2: thing that I thought I was going and then I
Speaker 2: stayed on for another night and went through and remember
Speaker 2: coming home at the driver and I going, wow, I
Speaker 2: thought I was out that night. That was it? Was it.
Speaker 2: I came back and I was talking to my wife, gud, Wow,
Speaker 2: this emotional rollercoaster. You go to this like hey, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're going. You're kind of nervous. You sing the song
Speaker 2: and you're on a high, and then you're nervous again
Speaker 2: because you might be going off. The second night, I
Speaker 2: had to do the duel and I'm thinking, wow, this
Speaker 2: is like really heavy, and I thought I was going
Speaker 2: to go on again, and I stayed on another night.
Speaker 2: At least it was like really quite exciting, and then
Speaker 2: unfortunately the next night was like I didn't quite make
Speaker 2: it so, but it was like it was good fun,
Speaker 2: you know, just just doing the songs together with everyone
Speaker 2: and and all that stuff, and it's it's a fun show,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean like so, you know, I knew
Speaker 2: that I wasn't going to win it, but the idea
Speaker 2: was trying to get as far as you could along.
Speaker 2: But you know, some pretty tough competition with some good
Speaker 2: voices at it in there.
Speaker 1: People really love you though. I mean, I'm sure people
Speaker 1: would have asked or producers would have asked you to
Speaker 1: do some of these reality shows before. Do you turn
Speaker 1: down a lot of the opportunities to do stuff like
Speaker 1: this and maybe oh yeah, I'd say that, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: That well, I do things that I like, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, I present says I'm I like keeping fit,
Speaker 2: I like doing that stuff. I liked being pushed beyond
Speaker 2: the boundaries of what your comfort zone. And that show
Speaker 2: that's full on, you know, the stuff that we did
Speaker 2: on that show, even though I kind of wasn't really
Speaker 2: I got edited out of the show because I didn't
Speaker 2: really caused much drama. But where I was still at
Speaker 2: that stage, I hadn't failed anything. So for me, I
Speaker 2: was really pumped because I thought I was the oldest male.
Speaker 2: I didn't think I would get through all the things
Speaker 2: that were there, but I did. I kept doing it
Speaker 2: and then I dessicated my elbow, and I came back
Speaker 2: to come back to the to thee the quick off
Speaker 2: that night, came back the next day, and all the
Speaker 2: crew were so disappointed. I said, we were like right
Speaker 2: behind you, how on this one? You know, because you're
Speaker 2: the oldest male and you hadn't failed I think myself
Speaker 2: and Yanna Pittnam and the who hadn't failed anything at
Speaker 2: that stage. So I was really pumped that I was
Speaker 2: actually doing really well. And then when this happened, it
Speaker 2: was the elbow was kind of disappointing.
Speaker 1: They'll do it that and like, considering that I've seen
Speaker 1: that front cover of the Men's Health, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: that no matter how old you are, no one looks
Speaker 1: as good as that. I think that's uh a.
Speaker 2: Idea, thank you. They're going to definitely feel way fitter
Speaker 2: now than what I was on the show when I
Speaker 2: do the show back then. So then I loved it,
Speaker 2: to be honest, I don't think my wife would let
Speaker 2: me do it again, but I loved it.
Speaker 1: Being a very taxing I did something very similar and
Speaker 1: I I remember that there was a producer who sat
Speaker 1: me down at the end of it and she said,
Speaker 1: tell you, She said, have this conversation you know, with
Speaker 1: your partner and with your family that you know, over
Speaker 1: the next few weeks. It's quite taxing, and you might
Speaker 1: be behaving quite differently to how you normally would. And
Speaker 1: I looked at this woman like she was mad. However,
Speaker 1: the month that followed, yeah, it was. It's unexplainable sort
Speaker 1: of how your mood and personality can be shifted by
Speaker 1: challenging yourself something in such a high pressure environment like that.
Speaker 2: It lasts when you're getting tired and hungry and things
Speaker 2: like that. You know. Look, the getting back to original question,
Speaker 2: what would I do? There's another show that's called Hunted,
Speaker 2: and I think that would be really cool, trying to
Speaker 2: avoid being caught. Yeah, well the police they have to
Speaker 2: get you. That would be really cool. I think things
Speaker 2: like that would would interest me because there's a real challenge.
Speaker 2: But I'm not so much into the reality shows other
Speaker 2: than you know, like says, for me, it's just that
Speaker 2: is a real gutsy show. That anyone goes on that
Speaker 2: and tries to last, that's a gutsy on's a tough one.
Speaker 2: And obviously the mustering was just just fun and different.
Speaker 2: So from you know what.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you did it. It was so good. It
Speaker 1: was so good. Yeah, and I think you are probably
Speaker 1: one of my favorite contestants has been on the five
Speaker 1: seasons so far.
Speaker 2: Oh thanks, Yeah, well I think a lot of people
Speaker 2: wouldn't be expecting me to go on there as well.
Speaker 2: So that was the other thing too, that you know,
Speaker 2: it's just just throw us spanning the works and have
Speaker 2: a go at it.
Speaker 1: And you've released seven albums, garnered one point two million
Speaker 1: album sales, received seventeen Arian nominations. You know, what is
Speaker 1: it that you want to do next? At this stage?
Speaker 1: Are you are you going to I mean you're in
Speaker 1: Bayron right now. That's a great place to be writing music.
Speaker 1: Are you looking at releasing a different album? Like? How
Speaker 1: are you wanting to challenge yourself at this point in
Speaker 1: your life?
Speaker 2: Definitely looking at doing some new music. The music that
Speaker 2: I'm writing, the Money has a hint of kind of
Speaker 2: folk country.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: I'm not a massive country fan, but this just some
Speaker 2: of the stuff as a bit of a hint of
Speaker 2: country in the way that I would say some some
Speaker 2: songs have a little bit of say that you know
Speaker 2: the band, yeah, the band flavor to it as a
Speaker 2: song like that, it's a bit you know, and some
Speaker 2: old Neil Young countries kind of flavor to it as well.
Speaker 2: So it's it's just got to hit this and so
Speaker 2: maybe you know, it might be nice to maybe even
Speaker 2: do a duet with the Country or something like that.
Speaker 2: I don't know at this stage, but to trying to
Speaker 2: sort of not move away from it I do. I'm
Speaker 2: still doing what I do, but just adding another element
Speaker 2: into my music, which is gives a little bit of flavor.
Speaker 2: So you know, it's this demos are still coming together,
Speaker 2: of course at the moment, but it all sounds quite good.
Speaker 2: You know. I love doing songs that mean something to
Speaker 2: people and have them singing along, whether they're singing with
Speaker 2: a smile on their face or with a tear in
Speaker 2: their eye, you know, it affects them someway. So but
Speaker 2: I love to sing along.
Speaker 1: You've been affecting your audiences for such a long time.
Speaker 1: You know that that's such a powerful gift. You might
Speaker 1: be remissive me to then let that question go, because
Speaker 1: talking about Country, talk to me about being able to
Speaker 1: collaborate with someone else. Is there is there an artist
Speaker 1: that you think, God, I'd love to collaborate with.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm a big fan of Casey.
Speaker 1: Mustache, obsessed with her. I'm hadsted.
Speaker 2: She's got such a good voice and her first album
Speaker 2: which kills me, it's so good. Do some with her,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's obviously I need some friends of friends
Speaker 2: to try to reach out there. But she's great.
Speaker 1: God, she's so beautiful as well. I saw her that
Speaker 1: the Palais in down and St. Kilda. I went and
Speaker 1: saw her and she was fun phenomenal, but you know
Speaker 1: it was it was funny. I came across her as
Speaker 1: an artist on SNL. You know, she was just doing
Speaker 1: two performances which you should go and check out Pete.
Speaker 1: It's on YouTube if you haven't already seen it. In
Speaker 1: the two performances does slow Burn, which obviously was a
Speaker 1: big part of you know her, you know, kicking off
Speaker 1: as well as it has. But she's an amazing She's
Speaker 1: an amazing artist. Just before where you go, something I
Speaker 1: want to ask you is something to ask everyone who
Speaker 1: joins the Bloe Past, and that is what is something
Speaker 1: from behind the scenes of your experience on the masking it.
Speaker 1: You know, something that may be funny that happened to
Speaker 1: you whilst in the production of it, maybe something we
Speaker 1: didn't see as an audience.
Speaker 2: I was doing the practicing for the duel where and
Speaker 2: I had to sort of, you know, to try and
Speaker 2: everyone's as a dance ball movement, which was really hard
Speaker 2: to do in this in this this big costume. It's
Speaker 2: so big the monster. But as I was dancing around
Speaker 2: jumping my my mask almost came off. I just caught
Speaker 2: it and sort of popped it back on again, so
Speaker 2: I had to kind of hold it so that the guys,
Speaker 2: you know, that actually happened to someone a couple of
Speaker 2: episodes ago, a couple of shows ago. I think where
Speaker 2: it came off might have an actual.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, definitely that it was somebody. I think he
Speaker 1: was dressed as a like a night or something.
Speaker 2: I can't remember what it was, but yeah, his head
Speaker 2: just came off with this. It nearly happened to me too,
Speaker 2: but I just caught it. And it's just such a
Speaker 2: big head. And to try with his arms trying to
Speaker 2: reach up and grab this massive so hard. So that
Speaker 2: was quite funny at time.
Speaker 1: Pete, look ye sorry, keep going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I was always kind of like with all
Speaker 2: the dances in the guys around I was always given
Speaker 2: him high fives and stuff as well, so it was
Speaker 2: kind of like for me, was this this lovely moment
Speaker 2: of acknowledging everyone who's around there playing their part in
Speaker 2: your show as well, which is just really beautiful.
Speaker 1: Well, Pete, honestly, this is like a bucket list for
Speaker 1: me to be able to talk to you. I'll be
Speaker 1: getting off this phone call with you now and playing
Speaker 1: all of your albums at the moment. We've been playing
Speaker 1: them this morning, so we're through Feeler, See the Sun,
Speaker 1: and we're in Summer at Eureka, which we're now calling
Speaker 1: Summer at Chuca. So we're going to be going through
Speaker 1: all of your albums and celebrating you and thank you
Speaker 1: so much for being so generous with your time and
Speaker 1: talking to me today. It's been really lovely.
Speaker 2: I promised Dan. Well, look, one thing I do want
Speaker 2: to do is to record some of my old songs again.
Speaker 2: You sure, so let's trying, So that'll be us to do,
Speaker 2: and you know, just do the I guess the modern
Speaker 2: day versions of those songs what I do now live,
Speaker 2: You know, the live show is way more dynamic than
Speaker 2: than than the old recording, so it's kind of like,
Speaker 2: here's this is what I do. It's where I'm at
Speaker 2: right now. So I'd be nice to do that. But
Speaker 2: if we do, I'll get some get some songs over
Speaker 2: to you, and.
Speaker 1: That would be amazing. I mentioned the gravitas of who
Speaker 1: you are now and the stories that you've collected along
Speaker 1: the way, and what that would do to some of
Speaker 1: those old songs would be amazing. I have to let
Speaker 1: you go because you're very crazy man today, but enjoy
Speaker 1: chaading to the media, and thanks again for taking part
Speaker 1: of the Mark Singer. It was a true joy to
Speaker 1: watch you talking there, buddy,