Big thanks to Anna for typing this up

*Darcy introducing Zed, I didn't start the tape till he had finished. *
Nath: Thanks very much Darcy
- This is Unseen
THEY PLAY UNSEEN
Nath: Thanks very much
::A few claps and woohoos in the background::
Nath: Oh there's one person here, that’s all good.
- This is Driver's Side.
THEY PLAY DRIVER'S SIDE
::applause::
Nath (?): Why thankyou…
Ben (?): Cheers…
Ben: Some of you might know this next track, *western accent* The Rock used to play it a looong time back.
It's our first single… second single. Aptly named - I'm Cold.
THEY PLAY I'M COLD
*Veeery nicely, I thought. It sounded awesome*
Nath: Rad
::crazy laughter in the background::
Nath: *laughs* Thanks very much.
- The next song we wanna do is called Come On Down.
Adrian: And it's dedicated to all those Creaming Soda fans out there.
Nath: And it can be purchased at the Big Day Out.
Adrian: Hey, I'm on cold pills so I can't have a beer. But it’s the closest can to Export Gold, that’s the golden sorta thing, yeah…
THEY PLAY COME ON DOWN
Nath: Thanks very much.
-Austro's going for a walk. The drummer… he's wiping his sweaty brow.
Ben: It's pretty damn hot in here…
- This next tracks called Identity Thief. It's the only one not on our album, Silencer. which if you haven't not got *Double negative, Ben. Tsk tsk* you should go out and get.
THEY PLAY IDENTITY THIEF
*I swear I could feel thousands of other Zed fans across the country jump for joy as they did so. That song is DAMN FINE*
::applause::
Nath: Thanks very much y'all. Back over to you Darceeee!
*Darcy talks and there's an ad break. I kinda miss the start of him talking again*
Darcy: I've got Ben and Adrian here from ZED. How did you enjoy that?
Ben: It's good fun. Good fun being on your show Darcy.
Darcy: Oh it's not my show mate, it's Greenman's show.
Ben: It's your show tonight, you're running the show tonight.
Darcy: We’re talking to Ben right now, just so you can get used to the voice. Ben the man with the bass. You've put your shirt back on I see…
Ben: Yeah, I thought I better put it back on.
Darcy: What's with that? I saw that Andy ripped his shirt off as well. I mean we haven't got a big horde of screaming women or anything.
Ben: Yeah but it's a dress rehearsal for tomorrow,Darcy.
Darcy: Or an undress rehearsal if you will.
Ben: Undress rehearsal
Darcy: And for Adrian on the drums, welcome to the show - how are ya?
Age: I'm good, I'm good - I'm feverish too so I took my top off. But um, only cos I've got a fever.
Darcy: Everyone seems to be, there seems to be some kind of lurgy going on. *They keep talking over each other*
Age: Perfect timing isn't it? Big Day Out tomorrow and we're getting sick.
Darcy: It’s the way it goes, isn't it?
Age: Drugs is the only way I think to cure those things.
Darcy: Now we don't condone the use of drugs unless of course they're legal here in the studio.
- Darcy: Now you've had a few changes to your tour, a few amendments.
And I've been at great pains to be told to make sure I tell everyone otherwise there'll be much gnashing of teeth and…
Ben: Plug plug plug…
Darcy: Yeah well that's the general idea. We've had a bit of a mix around. There was a gig at Whangarei's Forum North on the 17th that’s been changed hasn't it now to Friday the 2nd of February.
Ben: That’s kicking off our tour, that’s the very beginning of our…
Darcy: That’s the very first one so that should be a good show, eh?
Ben: It's gonna be a rocking show. It's the furthest North we would have ever played.
Darcy: And the furthest South you’re gonna go?
Ben: Is um, Invercargill.
Darcy: So it's a whole length of the country thing.
Ben: The whole length of the country, yeah.
Age: It'll be the last tour we do for awhile as well, so…
Darcy:: Well and the reason being Age, this is the last tour because…?
Age: Oh, it's the lambing season…
::Ben laughs::
Darcy: I don't believe you for a second. Come on, stop lying to me.  Bust out some truth, come on its ok, its just me and you and a few million thousand listeners.
Age: Uncle Sam beckons I think
Ben: Yeah, we’re buggering off.
Age: We're gonna be heading overseas to do some more rock n roll business in the States and in Aussie.
Darcy: Well that’s the big news really, isn't it?
You've managed to secure yourself a deal in the old U S of A.
Ben: Somehow, yeah.
Darcy: And who exactly is behind that, the man of hour Mr Columbus out there by any chance?
Ben: Mr Columbus has had a pretty vital vole in it all, yeah.  He's important, but the real people behind it are Interscope, America. Who are a bloody huge company. They've got the likes of Nine Inch Nails,
Marilyn Manson, Eminem, Dr Dre, No Doubt, U2, the list goes on… Weezer. They're just absolutely huge.
Darcy: Well you're playing with the big boys them it seems, aren't ya?
Ben: We are.
Age: Quite daunting really.
Darcy: Its only been, well, a very short time since you guys basically started up, started releasing stuff.  It's only been a couple of years really hasn't it?
Ben + Age: Yeah
Darcy: So you've added a 4th member - Andy Lynch, the new guitarist. How long ago was that?
Ben: It was about April this year. We got him in to record the album. Cos we've always been a 3 piece we felt there was something lacking in our sound. We had the textures vocally and rhythmically but never quite the sound scape that we wanted and Andy's a bloody amazing guitarist.
Darcy: It's a little hard to get any form of depth when you're a 3 piece, isn't it?
Ben: Yeah
Age: Unless you're Nirvana, but yeah…
Darcy: So you dragged that in, suddenly you've been signed overseas to America and of course if you break that market you're whole life's gonna be turned upside down, isn't it?
Ben: Hopefully, yeah.
*laugh*
- I mean the pressures on all of a sudden and its time to really kick your heals in and start working hard. Like you were saying, with the big boys.
Darcy: Do you ever consider that? Do you ever sit down in a quiet moment, maybe when the suns going down with a cup of tea and just think "…hold on."
Age: "What's going on here?"
Darcy: Do you actually think about that, is that in your mind at all, do you consider that?
Age: Personally for me it's one day at a time.
Ben: It's on my mind the whole time, *laugh* pretty much. It's motivation, it keeps you driving, ya know?
Darcy: Do you want that? Is that what drives you? Success, money, fame is that what the driving force is behind ZED or is it something else?
Ben: In that order, yeah.
::laugh::
Darcy: That's nice and shallow, that's what I like to hear.
Ben: Hey we're musicians, aye. We're not like - out to save the world or anything.
Darcy: And what else, what if it all falls up? It could work out very well for you but what if suddenly everything turns pear shaped and in 5 years time you're back to your regular old day jobs.
Age: Bit of a problem there, cos…
Darcy: You haven't got any, right?
Age: No, there are no day jobs at the moment. But I'm sure we'll find somewhere to stay within the industry.
Darcy: So you're pretty confident you can carry on - churning out the songs?
Age: Reasonably confident.
Ben: Well that’s the thing, it's only gonna take one song…
Age: You don't wanna have self doubt.
Ben: One song in the States and we don't have to churn out any more.
Darcy: *laughs* So that's it, you can sit and watch the royalties…
Ben: Exactly
Darcy: It should be good.
Age: Not to be complacent or anything…
Darcy: No of course not.
- SO what are your thoughts on the NZ music industry at the moment? There are a lot of bands getting a lot of airplay on radio through people like NZ on Air - they've been pushing hard for a long time. Do you think its gonna carry on or is it just a spark in the dark?
Ben: I think it’s the beginning of something big bold and beautiful. There have been great bands in the past but not to this level…and…oh shoot I dunno. It's just amazing the amount of NZ bands that have come out this
year and the quality of the bands. I reckon it's just a teaser of what's to come. New Zealand is starting to really support its own
products…
Darcy: It's gotta be encouraging… there's no cringe factor. They're actually proud to hear their own…
Adrian: There's 37 bands playing at the Big Day Out - New Zealand bands.
Darcy: 37?
- Well I'm going tomorrow and I gotta say most of the bands I'm going to see are New Zealand acts I haven't quite seen yet.
- We gotta go though these tour dates cos otherwise I'll be hung dried and quartered.  Friday 2nd February kicking off in Whangarei in the
Forum North. Saturday 3rd in Tauranga The next night in Rotorua… god you guys are gonna be working hard.
Age: We're gonna love that car, aren't we?
Darcy: Absolutely - you haven't got a luxury tour bus yet?
Age: No
Darcy: *looks @ Zed's crew* Come on guys what are you doing?! Ah you gotta talk to their management…
- Also playing Wellington Town Hall ah, going to Blenheim the Sunshine capital of the universe.
Age: Wine and Food Festival
Darcy: Ah, back home in Christchurch.
Ben: Yep.
Darcy: Playing the Town Hall - should have a big reception there.
- Invergiggle on Sunday 11th and finishing things off in New Plymouth so it should be a good tour for ya.
Ben: Should be a good tour.
Darcy: Yeah and I did see you've got Eve TV with you as well.
Age: There'll be local bands - regional bands around the place too.
Ben: Yeah we want to have 3 or 4 bands on the bill every night to make it a really full on night. People are gonna remember us - gonna be a bit of rock n roll - a bit of fun.
Darcy: Yeah!
Ben: Not just a matter of going along and listening to some music.
Darcy: And if you're really lucky you'll get to see a few naked ZED boys as well.
Ben: Yeah.
Darcy: Unless of course Age has still got his cold in which case he'll keep his nice woolly stole on.
Age: We're taking a special air conditioning unit around so there's no need.
Darcy: Ok that's nice to hear. We'll let you out of the studio now you've done a bit of yarning, you've worked away your sweat now you can go back in there
and pound some more tracks for us, yeah?
Ben: Yeah, cool, can I put one more plug in…
Darcy: You can do whatever you want.
Ben: If anyone missed those dates you can check them out on our website which is zedquarters.com.
Darcy: Dub dub dub dot zedquarters?
Ben: dot com.
Darcy: If you wanna look at those dates. Get in buy your ticket from Ticketek… Ticketek doing the tickets are they?
Ben: Yeah, Ticketek's doing them all.
Darcy: So you book in advance… cos I expect a lot of them will be sold out cos they're not the biggest venues in the world are they?
Ben: They're moving pretty quickly.
Age: Last tour, a lot of dates sold out 10 days before so… GET IN EARLY!
As you've probably been told many times before.
Darcy: Yeah you gotta be in to win and you've gotta do that cos the boys need money to buy new clothes cos they're looking a little sharp on that.
::AD BREAK::
::Someone says something too quietly… can't hear::
Ben: If you wanna jump around in your living room - feel free.
THEY START PLAYING GOODMAN
*At the start, it was a little out of tune - then Nathan's mic crapped out - leaving Ben to do the backing vocals along to a strange instrumental version
of Goodman. Pretty shoddy - but it was hardly their fault… blame The Rock's crap tech equipment.*
Nath: Cheers y'all.
Ben + Nathan: I think we were experiencing some technical difficulties - yeah.
Nath: But apart from that, it's all good.
Ben: It's all rock n roll
Nath: Now this is Oh! Daisy, it was our first single back in '98.
*This is where I panic cos suddenly I can't hear anything… then I realise the tape ran out so I turn it over - doh. *
THEY PLAY OH! DAISY
*The BV mics were up way too loud + it was kinda out of tune… but hey*
Age: Featuring Mr Andy Lynch GUITARIST OF THE YEAR!
Andy: I'm getting an electric shock off my microphone people I'm sorry.  My lips are going bizz bizz.
Age: All part of the job Andy.
Ben: I do believe, in technical terms, that's calledan earthing (?) problem Andy.
Andy: An earthing problem?
Ben: It's when you sing with your lips *demonstrates*
::laugh::
Age: Sorry about that.
Ben: This next track is called s.p.s. We don't know why… it just is…
THEY PLAY S.P.S
Background: YEEHAA!
Nath: Hehe, thankyou.
- We've got one more track for you.
We're gonna be at the Big Day Out tomorrow, its gonna be awesome. BE THERE!
Ben: 5 'o clock main stage.
Nath: We can come a little bit earlier for you if you like.
Age: If you're really unlucky not to live anywhere close enough to get there, don't worry. We'll come to you in February. I think.
People yelling in the background.
Nath: We gotta be specially tuned for this last track.
Andy: Technical problem.
Ben: Technical problem… Oh! Where's my mic? Ooo.
Andy: Now another technical problem.
Ben: Check check
*It really is a shame if you missed it - cos this gets funny*
Ben: We have lost fall back!
Nath: We - have - lost - fall - back - on - Ben.
Ben: We - have lost - mah fool back.
Ben: Hello?! Technicians? TECHNICIANS?! Can we please have some fall back?
Andy/Adrian (?): You can come share my mic if you like
Ben…
Ben: Aw, can I? Aw, rully?
Andy/Adrian (?): Yep.
Ben: Aw, thanks!
Andy/Adrian (?): Just this once.
Andy: Here take my one.
Nath: Alright lets do dis thang.
Ben: I'm leaping… uh, l-l-le-leaping to action. Ooh. Ooh.
Andy: I do think this next song is somewhat predictable.
Ben: Check check check check one.
Nath: For an ending track?
Andy: yeah.
Nath: We GOTTA play it!
Ben: We gotta…
*Someone tech. guy in the background starts talking to Ben about fallback*
Ben: I do kinda need fall back for this song.
- Check one, one two. WE HAVE FALL BACK!
Nath: Alright!
Ben: This song needs no introduction - but we'll introduce it anyway
RENEGADE FIGHTER STARTS PLAYING
Ben: *laughs* Only kidding.
THEY PLAY RENEGADE FIGHTER
Nath: Thanks very much y'all. Thanks for having us.
 

 Oh. How's it hanging, Death?