Backstage Pass- Kody's Avenue

BackStagePass- Ugly Phil's Hot 30

The show is on Australia wide, on the Austero Network, from 7 til 10.30pm, and is a show based around the votes of the listeners.

For at least the past 2 month, Real world had been on it every night, and when the matchbox 20 boys were in town (Sydney) Paul and Adam dropped in for a chat too!!!

Every Wednesday evening, they do a thing called the "Back Stage Pass". This goes for a few minutes and features a different band each week. On 10/6/98 guess who featured in the Back Stage Pass? The one, and only matchbox 20!!!

This is a really cool interview thing, so READ IT!!!!

This Back Stage pass went for about 8 min, and was the best one yet!!

It kicked off with a mix of Long Day, Real World, 3am, and Push. Then (lo and behold) Rob starts speaking!!!

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Reach down you hand on your pocket, pull out some hope for me it been a long day… I wish the real world would just stop hassling me… She say’s baby, it’s 3am I must be lonely…I wanna push you around, well I will, well I will

Rob:

It’s like everything you’d want to do. It’s kind of rolled up into this. You get to go different places, you get to meet different people, you get to feed your creative urges, you get to… you know? It’s like all this wrapped up into one job, and it’s like your lucky you know?

There are celebrities that can’t handle the fame. It’s like "I can’t handle this you know, I can’t handle the people coming around, I can’t handle the long hours, I can’t…". You know, you could quit, I mean you could quit, and you could sit in your house and you could play for your girl, or you could play for your family, or you could play for yourself. You could write these songs you know what I mean? And they could help you.

Kody sat down on the avenue. He tapped his feet, to the humming of the highway. He watched the light sine down on the broken glass…

Rob:

It goes back to doing it for yourself, you know? I mean like you write these songs and you know, my part’s done when I wrote the songs, you know, whatever I had to say was said, and it was like a release for me. And you build up little tensions on the road, and throughout things that are going on. And every night you get rid of them, you scream. It’s like not only are you talking about your personal problems, you’re screaming it. You’re yelling it, and you’re jumping around. You know, you’re getting it out. And when it all clicks together it’s like you feel a release. It’s like "oh man, this is so much better, this is great…"

She says it’s cold outside and she hands me my raincoat. She’s always worried about things like that.

Rob: We love bad reviews. We get bad reviews and we…

Paul: Really good ones we save.

Rob: Yeah, really good and clever ones we save. Like this on that said we were "bland and timid American music." And that’s what we want our t-shirt to say. We want like a dictionary definition, and say: "Matchbox 20; noun. Bland timid American music". You know, and that could be our thing. Because we know that there’s a lot of bands better than us and there’s a lot of bands, you know, that are a lot more things than we are. But we did this. We put these songs together, and we play ‘em, and they’re good for us, and they do it for us, and when we get a bad review, it like rolls off you back really.

(They now play Real World,# 17 on the countdown)

Rob:

I think it has a lot of just me growing into myself, just fitting in to who I am. Just getting that…Like you know that point where you’re old enough to know right from wrong, and you’ve figured out you’re not a total idiot. You know, you might be able to grab on to life and do something, and then you have that little period after that where you’ve got to figure out, okay, so how do I do this. How do I relate to other people. I mean, that was basically the whole record, just different ideas and different stories about people relating to other people. How people relate to each other, and how it make them feel, and how you may, you know sometimes you’re intimidated by other people, and sometimes you’re just totally lost on people. You know, and trying to catch all these emotions and reflections.

And I can’t get my self to go away, oh God I shouldn’t feel this way now. Reach down you hand in your pocket. Pull out some hope for me. It’s been a long day always aint that right…

Paul: Unfortunately, because we’ve been on the road for so long, we’ve been on the road for over a year, we really haven’t had time to work on new material. So everyone writes individually. Everyone in the band, I think, pretty much with the exception of Brian has been writing. (Someone grunts in agreement) So, I don’t think that the way we approach it as a band is going to change, because I think we’re always going to be a band that takes a song, and expands on it, on an all ready written song. We’re never going to be, I don’t think, one of those bands that starts jamming and a song comes out. It’s just not the way we do it.

?: Every body writes individually, and we bring it back to the band

Paul: But it will be different in the way that there will be more writers, influences coming from different parts of the band, instead of just like the, you know, essential one, which is him (Rob).

This old world well don’t it make you wanna think damn

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I reckon that Ugly Phil’s hot Thirty is legend, and they play some really cool music!! At first only us Aussies got the privilage to listen to him, but now any one can between the hours of 7 and 10.30 (GMT). Just go to their site linked at the bottom of my front page, and BTW, you need real player to hear it.(http://www.ugly.com.au) You can also vote for matchbox 20 too… so GO THERE!!!!!