Sometimes there might not be a name next to a quote that’s because I didn’t know who said it or there was few people talking at the same time, they were also eating through some of it so it made it hard to hear. It’s also edited a bit because I got sick of stopping and rewinding the cassette tape. So if something doesn’t fit in or doesn’t seem fully explained it’s because I left something out or else it was spoken in the background And I had to have Nathan R for Nathan Rarere and Nathan K for Nathan King
Zed: hi
Nathan R: on the last day
of everything being different
Jon: I think you should
go around and introduce yourselves and say which one you are cause people
might know where you stand on the stage, okay you start
Nathan R: and your favourite
way to romance a lady
Nathan K: right I’m Nathan
and I’m the gimp in the middle usually at the front, oh, um
(background voice) long
walks on the beaches
Nathan K: yeah sounds good
Adrian: I’m Adrian I’m in
the middle too, but I’m at the back playing drums and my favourite way
to romance a lady is to get a big bag of hashbrowns and let them brew for
a while till they get all soggy
Nathan R: yeah yeah
Jon: that’s beautiful Adrian
Nathan R: soul brother number
3
Andy: I hide behind guitar
pedals
what’s your name
Andy: my name is Nathan
hold on
Andy: Andy and um I like
tickling them
Nathan R: oh nice
Jon: yeah that’s nice
(by now Jon and Nathan are
both doing their funk soul brother voices)
Nathan: Andy likes to tickle
the ladies
Jon: nice work brother
Nathan R: soul brother number
4
Ben: soul brother Ben
Ben: I’m normally on camera
right or stage right whatever it is, I play bass and um I’m looking on
any tips on how to pick up women actually
Jon we hear you brother
Nathan R: so far we’ve had
hashbrowns
Jon: a walk in the park
with a hashbrown
Nathan R: that’s a step
up from fish’n’chips but its like an extension
Adrian: yeah, sit on the
gutter and you eat them
Ben: your paying a dollar
a hashbrown rather than a dollar a scoop
Nathan R: oh, so its flasher
aye?
Yeah
Nathan: so its like the
champagne of beach dates
Jon: so you guys are album
virgins for only one more day
yeah
Ben: tomorrow silencer
Andy: tomorrow we get violated
Nathan: have you taken a
copy home yet and just gone YEESSSS!!
Yeah we have
Nathan: cause I put together
a silly compilation but I was stoked! (it was the ICE TV ABLUM for those
who didn’t know) I was like yeaahh
Adrian: someone’s like bothered
to print it and mass produce it and your like cool
Jon: how many do they make
at a time when they make an album?
Adrian: about fifty
Ben: fifty-five
Jon: fifty-five albums!
yeah, but like ten of those
are going to radio stations
Ben: and we’ve got 5 each
Nathan R: so there’s 30
people so you’d better be outside the door of the record store at what
time tomorrow 10.
Yeah or they might want
to line up at 8
Nathan R: or better yet
go down now get a thermos together and a sleeping bag and go down now
Adrian: we’ll watch you
from the hotel and laugh
Jon: no you’ll be in the
shop dressed up in disguise buying one ‘ id like one of these fantastic
zed albums, silencer, oh is it only thirty dollars that’s reasonable’ I’ll
have two
Nathan R: I got scared to
go into record stores when the ICE TV album came out because I didn’t want
people to think I was actually buying it I actually avoided all record
stores fore about 3 months, I went nuts, I missed out on a lot of good
albums.
Nathan K: you do feel pretty
weird going into the shop when its in there.
Nathan R: especially when
you go in there’s like 10 albums of you which is going to happen you tomorrow
Adrian: Andy went in and
listened to it on the listening post
did you
Adrian: in Wellington
then there was a whole heap
of laughter and whatever
Jon: now you guys a lot
of people are saying how come you re-recorded, or remixed them
Nathan R: fatboy slimmed
them
re-recorded
Jon: did you feel like oh
we’ve done this before
yeah, a little bit
Ben: Nathan’s got an analogy
don’t ya Nathan?
Nathan K: oh yeah I do really,
I was just trying to think of one real quick its like um taking snapshots
of your life like the past and a bit closer to the future and the present
and its like this album needs to be more coherent ya know? This is us now
that was us 2 years ago and like ‘oh daisy’ recorded 1998, maybe late 1997
it just wasn’t’ us ya know? Redid it; much better
Andy: I’ve got a good analogy
okay
Andy: I reckon on if we
put all the old songs on an album with the new tracks it would be like
a school ball ya know? So it would be like wearing the same dress twice
there was a lot of agreement
and ahs from the others
Andy: no one wants to wear
the same dress twice
Nathan R: one of my school
balls and I’m a guy and my girlfriend had a blue dress and this other girl
had a green dress and apparently they were the exactly the same dress
oh oh oh
Nathan r: I couldn’t figure
it out and she was like ahhh, and it was her friend and there was like
they were betrayed ‘I thought you said you weren’t’ going to wear that
dress’ but its green and I couldn’t see the problem because one was blue
and the other was green
Adrian: why don’t you just
be a guy and all wear the same
Nathan R: exactly but the
problem was the cut was the same
oh
Nathan R: now Andy you weren’t
there for the initial recording of daisy so how do you fit in with that?
Do you just go along and play the bits that you think will go there
Andy: um yeah I just arrived
like a caged tiger and they let me out and told me what they didn’t like
and just added my stuff to it and pretty much like the song’s still the
same song its just
Nathan R: just extra highlighty
bits and a bit thicker and stuff
Andy: yeah
Nathan: and cause who’s
song was it originally?
Ben: daisy? me
Nathan R: how was it to
sorta you’ve heard it before and then some one goes through and puts a
little ‘dodaloo’ in it. Do you go ‘no, don’t do that’ cause I like the
space in that bit
Ben: yeah I like the contrast
between just having distorted guitar and one single guitar and vocals and
pretty much nothing else throughout the whole song and Andy comes along
and puts delays and effects and trinlows I like the new version a lot better
Nathan K: Andy got the nickname
wobbly man
yeah mr wobbles from our
producer
Jon: Mr wobbles, what was
that for?
Andy: cause he reckoned
I had a lot of wobbly guitar sounds
Nathan K: he also wanted
to call the album tom tom, cause Adrian played tom toms all the time just
like any other drummer
Jon: is the producer a big
part of the standard personality on the album or you just tell them what
to do?
Nathan K: good at capturing
the stamp,
Ben: licking the stamp and
putting it on.
Nathan K: Ooh that’s good
analogy’s been handed over
Nathan R: who was the producer
to do it and how did you get about choosing him?
Nathan K: David nicoloas,
is an older producer and he’s been working for years with INXS, pulp, ash,
all these legendary bands that we were like oh my god
Ben: Elton john
Jon: what did he do with
Elton John
Adrian: Elton John gave
him a $15,000 Rolex.
Andy: and then he lost it
Nathan R: and what did you
guys give him?
Ben: a bottle of gin
Jon: so did you look at
the list of bands and go we want to be like those bands?
Nathan K: no it wasn’t like
that, that he’d make you sound the same way
Adrian: we didn’t want to
be like them, but if they can work with him then he’s got to be good.
Nathan R: don’t talk with
your mouthful
Adrian: its good its got
custard and apricot and pastry
Jon: I want to romance a
lady with my mouth full
Nathan R: and so where did
you get him from, he doesn’t live around here does he?
Nathan K: he was imported
from Australia
Nathan R: so if I’m in a
band, say if Labrador Spearman so far we’re just going for the whole imaging
thing before the music like the T-shirts and stuff.
Ben: yeah its not about
the music
Nathan R: we’ll get out
the merchandise first
Adrian: can we support you
guys up here when you play?
Nathan R: for sure
Nathan R: is there like
a book, like you know the producer book how do you do that?
Adrian: most of them are
with agents who might have a webpage and they’ll get you looking at producers
Nathan K: we got David on
the off chance we’d been looking for a while and having a lot of trouble
it is hard to find a good producer our manager was over in aussie taking
Tim Finn over on a bit of a tour over in aussie and David was doing live
sound at the time and got talking
Ben: he wasn’t even supposed
to do live sound, he got called in like 5 minutes before cause the other
guy couldn’t make it
Jon: so it really was fate
Nathan R: what was some
of the really good advice he gave you when you were playing?
Andy: Hashbrowns. Before
every gig, have a hashbrown.
Nathan K: on a serious note
though he was real big on the feel of the track though, rather than being
exactly technically right it can sterilise the whole song, if everything
is right down to the wire it can lose energy.
Nathan R: do you play with
your eyes closed when you’re recording?
Sometimes
Nathan R: cause on Sunday
evenings they used to have those talent shows and I always thought the
people who sung best had their eyes shut. And I always wondered whether
it was because you went back inside your self or whatever and if you tend
to do that when your recording or do you just look around?
Adrian: I tend to stare
intensely at something when I’m playing the other day when we were on this
TV show and it was this bright light and after wards I was like what the
hell am I doing staring at this bright light
Nathan K: I’d try to close
my eyes when I was singing and I’d find that I was getting quieter and
quieter and I’d open my eyes and the mike would be way over there so its
not a good idea
Nathan R: I saw Ray Charles
at Napier and he was swinging around and I though he’s gonna do it he’s
gonna do it and sure enough, head into the microphone, didn’t miss a beat
he kept on singing and someone had to come on and put the mike back towards
ray’s face cause it was pointing off into the crowd but it was pretty impressive
anyway
Andy: you need some of those
Janet Jackson clip on dancing mikes
Jon: you’ll be getting those
for your stage show wont ya?
Adrian: we’re doing a lot
of dancing and stuff
Nathan R: dancers in cages
oh yeah
Jon: a lot of choreographed
routines you guys?
Oh yeah fireworks and stuff
Nathan R: ain’t nothing
without pyros and hashbrowns
Ben: we’ll sequence all
the guitars and stuff and the vocals
Andy: so that we’re not
committed to actual music, its just dance
Jon: wicked
and that’s where my tape
cut off, not exactly there, but during the ads. It doesn’t have quite the
same effect as a transcript as with Jon and Nathan talking to them.
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