King Nun
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Gallus
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[00:00:14] And welcome to Fandomentals, the podcast that explores pop culture, one conversation at a time. I am your host, Harley. Every episode, I interview different people from around the world to discuss a variety of topics within the world of pop culture.
[00:00:29] Thanks for joining me on this journey and I hope you enjoy the episode. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Fandomentals. And this is episode 2 from my on the stage series with the 2000 Trees Festival.
[00:00:49] As I said in the last episode, I was fortunate enough to go along to the 2000 Trees Festival and interview a number of fans. In this episode, I'm joined by King Nun, Gallus and Kid Bookie.
[00:01:03] And a thing that makes this episode extra unique, extra special, if you will, is that every single one of these bands that I interviewed today are on the Marshall Records Label.
[00:01:13] I don't know about you guys. I had no idea that Marshall amplification had a record label. This was a lovely surprise and I learned a lot more about the label as you'll be hearing in another episode in a couple of days time.
[00:01:27] That episode will feature some people behind the scenes at Marshall Records as part of my off-the-stage episodes from this series. But as I said, this episode is the on the stage episode with the three bands from the Marshall Records Label.
[00:01:42] I want to give a big thank you up top to Harris Ali and Isabelle Swift to help me make these interviews happen. So that's enough from me. Let's get on with the episode. This is on the stage at 2000 Trees with King Nun, Gallus and Kid Bookie.
[00:01:58] Hello, Theo and Kyle and welcome to the Fandomentals podcast. Hello, thank you for having us. Thank you. Thank you. So guys, I want to go right back to the star with bands and their experience at festivals.
[00:02:18] Yeah. So I want to know what was the first festival that you guys went to? You were the big festival. Oh yeah, it would have been, it would have been ready after GCSEs as I know. No, the seven has got to read the north and go to lead.
[00:02:30] And that is everyone has been known that it's carnage and I don't have to go into it anymore. Yeah, this is fun. Nice. Who was headline in that year? I can't remember actually, which says thinks has a lot.
[00:02:44] Maybe M&M was one of the headline as I think it was pretty sick. Yeah, and then he brought a special guest and everyone's like, it's going to be Dr. Drake. It wasn't Dr. Drake. It was Dino. It was Dino. Oh, that's amazing. Awesome.
[00:03:00] I didn't really go to any festivals until we started playing festivals. Right. What was the first one you guys played? It might have been pretty incredible. Wow, it was actually a bit of a little bit tight in here. For those just listening, I tried to squeeze my teeth.
[00:03:24] I was like, I'm a bit of a great festival. Yeah, we played it. And that's why I saw it from stage. Wow, that chaos that you were talking about, but as far as being part of it has turned, I heard about it from you. Secondhand.
[00:03:39] We did let a shoot as a band one year and we stayed for the whole weekend. That was nice. Yeah, yeah. That's awesome. Lovely. Lovely.
[00:03:50] So something I've been getting into with all the bands I've spoken to so far is the appeal of coming to a festival for a band because it most people are listening.
[00:03:58] Can understand, okay, you're in a band you want to play like maybe you've got a tour or you go support a band that you've always loved that kind of thing but playing it a festival is a whole other thing right for bands.
[00:04:07] Yeah, what do you guys sort of enjoy about coming to festivals? I guess there's like, I guess a lot of bands see certain festivals as a riot passage. Yeah, okay. Like it's like every band in this country's life goals do last and bring right.
[00:04:23] Never done it, but it's like, but those are the big things right? When we did wedding festivals, we were very aware of the privilege that it was.
[00:04:31] And as opposed to like with lots of things that happen to as a musician you feel like you're in line with a wider culture. Which is supposed to happen when you're on your own little private tour with your opening act.
[00:04:44] Yeah, when you're with your festival you feel like you're part of your genre, the lineage of musicians that came before you whatever you've felt that part of a wider picture.
[00:04:53] So it's supposed to be a lot of that and then just a lot of pressure I guess because there's a lot of people saying that they probably don't know you so you don't have to excuse them like, oh you know we're a messy. Yeah, yeah.
[00:05:03] That's where it's like when sorry I just minced all my words. It's when you're a you could be a smaller band playing the Spanish smaller venues. The opportunity as a festival is to play much, much bigger stages to many more people. Yeah, that's always a lot of fun.
[00:05:18] Yeah, you're like oh my god, am I, am I, is this a real job? Yeah, which is not. And then it's just nice to be like as Theo said with the kind of, like the cultural part of it because you're like, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
[00:05:31] You may be have heard or maybe you have and then that kind of is social think because everyone sort of in it together. Yeah, do you know that's something that's come up pretty much every single time is this idea of community?
[00:05:42] And I think you're right what you've touched on is really really good. Yeah, there's definitely a different feel of festivals as you say as opposed to like a one off show. Yeah, it's nice to be a part of it.
[00:05:53] It must be nice for you guys to get invited and come and experience that a various different setting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a privilege. It's not a lot of stuff. No, not at all. Not at all good. Very good.
[00:06:15] What's been one of your favorite experiences at the festival in the past? It's podcast right now. I don't know if I've got a favor. Yeah, yeah. Okay, go on. We did wedding festival. Yeah, we were there. The first time we played wedding festival, we were. It's terrible.
[00:06:40] We just. I had the worst story in fact, my entire life. Oh, I was bubbling around in a fever. And then our guitar is guitar broke and he had to run across the entire festival in the middle of the set. Oh, yeah, it's guitar.
[00:06:57] And then so there was like maybe a 15 minute break in the middle of the set. I dated a girl later on in life who was there and told me that someone in the back of the crowd, Chanted get your hat together. You're a red in festival. Wow.
[00:07:11] So next time we went and played it. Fantastic. Imagine they booked us to get second time off. It was the next time when it was the polar opposite. It went down so well.
[00:07:23] Yeah, the entire crowd was on on side and there were people as far as the eye could. Yeah, yeah. At that time we really had a together. The redemption aspect of that. We're doing something. We're walking on stage and we looked at each other and we were just,
[00:07:38] We didn't even say anything. That's true. That's true. Yeah, yeah. So just reminder it is a clean podcast but don't stress. I could have it around that. Clean podcast. That's fine. Sorry. I love that story.
[00:08:00] I love the fact that you got to come back and repair any sort of idea or any reputation. The film I've been damaged because you're right. I don't know how many bends will get that chance. That is the luckiest thing ever to get like, Yeah.
[00:08:13] A to get booked for running in the first place with like, It like three songs out. So that was like, wow, that's insane. And then to like, basically disgrace ourselves. And then be like, you know what I said, career suicide, career, the career.
[00:08:28] I come and you love that. That stuff about that happens to every single band where they do it. It's definitely not plain sailing or is it? That we got the, the, the, the we got kicks about a bit like all we went on and did a fantasy.
[00:08:47] It's so easy. Definitely don't definitely. The bands right now. They're having their first running festival. Well, like, if any novela hope, I hope it's going very well for everybody. I hope so. Not everybody. Not that one band. Which helps I won't name.
[00:09:07] Let's see if you can guess who it is. I'm just talking to the comments. It was strengthening as people as well. I'm just a little bit closer because of that. Of course, yes, it's forced in fire, right?
[00:09:21] If you can survive something like that, you're like, okay, we're definitely in this for the long haul. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Quite a story. I love it. I love it.
[00:09:32] So something I've been asking all the bands and I love to hear your answer for this is, if I would give you your own festival, I would love to know what's the name of the festival. And who would be your three dream headlines? Anyone you like?
[00:09:46] I mean, I feel like just because you have to go on. Like, they're not even my favorite band. I thought one of them's got to be fruit fighters. Because they've grown. That's fair. Yeah, I mean, one of the best life bands. Yeah, they're amazing.
[00:10:00] They've got them years ago as a scrozen. They've got to be like, crazy. So I'm excited to say, she'll win. My wife might have been at that gig actually. She's from Belfast. She's seen in there a few times and we saw them a couple weeks ago.
[00:10:11] Yeah, yeah. She was throwin' stuff. Other ones? Can they be dead or alive? Yeah, dead or alive? Yeah, I know. That's way, I know. I was thinking about mine just calling it dead first and then they... That's a bit of it. I can't actually say anything. Dead first.
[00:10:31] Dead first. Yeah, I don't know. Just a grateful death for her time. That's it. That's it. The great of that food. A way we did breakfast today. He could only play that. That's something first. No breakfast is a Tiffany's first.
[00:10:50] First, and it's literally in the old, it's like in Atlantis. All day breakfast is a Tiffany's. The reason we say that is you to go and I just have a car. I don't anymore. We made a mix tape CD.
[00:11:01] Where the only song on that CD was breakfast at Tiffany's. I don't know why she could be so timid. We can make mix tape CDs like that. Usually it was like... It was more or less the same 15 songs that would be in a different order.
[00:11:16] Dead voice was on there. Rich Hellnavoid or it was on there. There was a bit of hours and chains was on there. And stuff like that. One day we just drove, you pre-picked us all up. And we were stuck in the same neighborhood.
[00:11:31] You were stuck in the same neighborhood. I think I traumatized myself with that song. I think if I hear it, I start like, no, no, no. Yeah, I don't let her kids about. Other two heard lines. Dolly parton? That's... Dolly parton. Dolly parton. Yeah. Like, probably... Us.
[00:12:01] And you can do that. Absolutely. I think that's allowed. That's fine. No hate to those people that don't turn up. A-I-Fest. No one's on that. The craziest thing is that the audience is A-I. You're in this just that's what? Yeah.
[00:12:24] And they're just kind of a floor to random it. Yeah. The A-I-Gerrymix Clarkson version of here. It's the funniest thing ever. And to everyone listening out there, find it and hear it. I will. I will check that out. Why is this?
[00:12:43] Some days you don't want to wake up. I'll live this. Break stuff. I believe that. I believe that. No, but the thing is that I'm fascinated by different genre-blending colours and there's so many. Country-mails seems to be the best one. Yeah, it kind of works. Like, it's weird.
[00:13:04] I can't wait. I have. It's country-res and ACV. That's what it is. Awesome. Thank you so much for taking the podcast. Thank you. Hello Barry and Eman. Thank you for coming onto the Fandermendons podcast. Thank you for having us. Thank you very much for having us.
[00:13:28] Pleasure. So my first question to bands. This festival is, I want to know, what was the first festival that you guys went to? As a band? As a festival goes. I think both of those everyday scholars, best but not well as the first, ever scholars, best,
[00:13:45] and turn it to routine to mark. As a band. I think it's like a starting way. I've been a student. We hope we're still in the country. It's not anymore. Yeah, yeah. What? Same with the alive that was- It's gotten good and be trusted on it.
[00:14:00] Which is fair but we went, when though, I said no. I know, give it back. Who was headline in that year? I've had your got a story about this. It was 2013. I was in the park and one of my biggest regrets in life is patched.
[00:14:18] I patched the colors to go see David Gator. Yeah. And then one year and another year, I made up by patching the colors to go see the particular- Not patching David Gator as we go see the particular. Always stand by that. I always stand by that joys. Nice.
[00:14:37] I like it. That's awesome. I can Calvin Harris. Tony, it was 2014. I think it was Tony and Tony and Tony were well-smithed for something. Yeah, Calvin Harris. The first festival we went to when we first started playing music. It was Kermintrill.
[00:14:57] 2017 and then we went to see Rasko on the midnight slot. I thought a lot of one of that. Really make a go. That's nice. It was very fun. This was the first one I'd had the most fun at. I was even missing Rasko tonight at Flattle.
[00:15:14] It was in my top three gigs of all time. Really? Yeah, it was just a pure, a week and a moment from the end. It was like, it was just an energy of like an unknown Scottish band. Getting such a diseption, getting such an energy.
[00:15:30] Yeah. Everything was got used. It was got to be used. Everything was about it. It just related to me and I waited. It was so like, at the time. It was just so overwhelming. I was the first time I had seen a local band.
[00:15:45] I don't know. The final Rasko band. It made it feel what they were doing. They were doing a chief of it. It was also just so enjoyable. I do remember I was having a conversation. We need to make a Rasko go on music. We want that. Nice. Nice.
[00:16:04] Well, that's something I wanted to explore with you guys as a band. What the appeal of coming to festivals is because I think somebody will listen to it and say, Okay, I understand playing local gigs. I understand maybe going on tour with a band doing all that stuff.
[00:16:18] But coming to festivals, such a big thing for a band. Yeah, I wonder if you guys what's the appeal when you get invited to something like trees? Well, it's a sort of like, if you start a band, you've already been to festivals. Teenage or young adult.
[00:16:32] It's just like, and you've had all these moments that you used for festivals. You think, God, that's the goal. It's such a big achievement. Okay, anything we get wake up at festivals or even just like it. But any festival is like our big achievement to me.
[00:16:47] Yeah. Just because I hope good it felt as a channel. I know that teenager going to them because it just remains here. It's like, right? It's like, good times my family is well. It's just a nice thing to have it. I guess it discovery element as well.
[00:17:05] Because you can just, you can just just wander into anyone and discover someone they absolutely love and we still do that. The festivals that we play, we play the festival in an edelons called Passpot.
[00:17:15] Oh, you're a good band after I was called Wodan Boys, which never had a lot before. You've been absolutely obsessed with them though. And that element is discovery can't end up with who's away, but they are playing them more attended to them.
[00:17:27] So that's our big, sort of universal appeal of festivals I would say, whether you're a performer or a partner. Yeah, brilliant. And I imagine as you go as well, you get to meet more people, we probably get it.
[00:17:41] You get to meet more people, we get more cash and that sort of thing. Yeah, if festivals are amazing, if all I can be festivals, yeah, and hometown children go as well and take that. Until the day we die, yeah, yeah, I love it. I love it.
[00:17:56] So I want to know what's been your favorite experience of a festival so far? I met Fred Dost. Yeah, I was very cool. Yeah, meeting Fred Dost. But met a lot of cool people at festivals.
[00:18:09] And actually, I don't want to be seen as a fan of what it'd be seen as like a... What's the right of time, thank you called? Like a wake-up. I am a contemporary. Yeah, I'm a contemporary.
[00:18:25] And it was an amazing, it's got a thoughtful, that is to me. Justin Hawkins asked you to take your top off for a football with them. That was pretty cool. Wow. I asked him to declude for a pet job. Yeah, he was amazing. He was very curious now.
[00:18:41] Not quite a best of what he supported, Betha Clyde, that was another team just like me. Just like meeting all these people that you want, is I tell you what they're making. Mainboard. How about yourself? Is it the same board? That's his story, yeah? Yeah.
[00:18:59] But it does a lot more get about that I do at festivals. I will quite happily set an address in a moment of fun, but I think we've weaponised our path for the nearest celebrity. I want to play with you a lot.
[00:19:12] I'm just a little bit that clout. It must get in the style. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. There's some pretty cool stories to be fair as well. I feel like if Justin Hawkins asked you to take your top off, it's hard to say no. One of the few people.
[00:19:30] Okay, Justin Hawkins asked me to do that. Yeah, I'll show you after this. Please, there. Yeah, well, that's the story. Absolutely. So something I've been wondering for every person that's broken too, so far is if you were to be given your own festival,
[00:19:47] I want to know what would you call the festival and who would your dream headline as being? Top three. Massive question I know for musicians. It's like, who do you choose? It's kind of not in my usual... It's like a taste bracket, but gone.
[00:20:03] My dream headline would definitely be Oasis. I've kind of read this cover. I used to love when I was 10, 11, 12. Then I went through a decade and I wasn't listening to my toll. I've kind of read this cover then what? I actually don't want the art I'm using.
[00:20:18] I think they would probably be my dream headline. I don't know what I would call it. Probably something really bad. I was gallospheres, I was the best. I'm just thinking, I want to be cold something you need to see. My best is going to get cold shot up.
[00:20:34] So where you go in shock? Shush fest, shush. This is not a shush. Thinking of just like three acts that I would just want to go in that one till like... I'm going to go a Kendrick on my nose. See you, camp. The wolf's eating one day.
[00:20:53] What the hell are those eating at this? Where you going shot up? I don't know what I'm saying. Oh, that's me. I love that. It's been such a fun question to ask. Every time it's such a diverse answer. Everyone has surprised me with their answers. That's a line-up.
[00:21:15] Any of those bands are not for best of all. You're watching it. You are watching it. I mean, it's TV one to still touring. I don't know. I really like that. I'm waiting to get them in the same rooms with me.
[00:21:28] I don't have any very, very, very big festival in this TV. Gallospheres, festival. Gallospheres, festival. Gallospheres, festival. There it is. I love it. I love it. Oh, god. Yeah, what's on the cards for you guys next then, in terms of these festivals?
[00:21:50] What are you got to come up with? I just keep writing and we're also going to keep playing shows. We've got a chance for it in two days. We hate playing the rubber states in the Saturday and then we're done on afterparty in the kills. There's like 100 capt.
[00:22:03] I'm going to have to be very fun. She gets festival and bid the best to start a bogist. Wow. And we are... That's really cool. Yeah, I mean, looking at the calendar more. We've also got a lot of music just coming out in the cell.
[00:22:24] Probably, actually we're going to have to actually also... Lots of music. There's a lot of music. How cool is it to play all these different places internationally as well? That's very cool. That's the best thing about being this band because... We can't wait to go there.
[00:22:42] Yeah, that's how we can afford to go on holidays. But we do get to do this. You know, you get a trade off. You have a good stable job.
[00:22:53] But do you get to do a lot of travel and get tickets all over for people you'd mount as a child? Yes, yes. I got a fair trade. I don't think I'll take out all the long. I think it's the best thing to do.
[00:23:06] It's the best thing to do. We're going to have a fair trade off. So, no, I'll kill fair stuff. But just out of order for me. If we kill fair stuff, it's like, what are you taking to that? Or I just wait to be asked.
[00:23:21] Which is never going to happen. What are you saying? You never know everything. They won 100 fair stuff and we will get it. Absolutely. Well, thank you guys so much for coming on. You're always thanking very much for having us, man.
[00:23:36] Hello, kid bookie and welcome to the fundamentals podcast. It's all good. Lovely to look at you. It's been really cathartic. It's been a very good dopamine field moment. I'm happy to have my silver tone in level spiking. Nice. So I like to hear.
[00:23:56] So I'm going to go back a little bit with everyone I've spoken to. I want to know what the first festival was that you went to. Probably sent to pod race festival, which is some call of people. Most of the festivals I go to is because I'm performing.
[00:24:14] I've never really gone as just a pun to the app. I've quite weird like I'm just always roaming. So that was the first one. I was super-forming but I was still enjoyed and embraced without feeling like the artist. Yeah, there's a car festival you said.
[00:24:31] Yeah, not in the most I'm grabbed there. I can't remember. Yeah, dude that is. Yeah, that's the first time I've had an answer like that. Honestly, usually it's like day festivals or even trees or dinelites. That was me, really. I love it. I love it.
[00:24:45] And what about as a performing artist was that the first festival you played at? All of you done something else before. I think that was 2015. Okay. That was a little bit of a young buck. Yeah, okay. No, we're going to get a f**k. That's fine.
[00:24:58] You know, they still don't kind of button. It was nice. It was nice to have the experience. And I guess nearly ten years later, I come back to festivals. Like a 40-fledged mechanism that runs nice. Yeah, of course. Of course.
[00:25:14] And yet, that's something I've been tapping into actually everyone I've spoken to is the reasons why artists like to play festivals. Because I think most people listening can understand going on the road or like in touring with one of your favorite bands. That kind of thing.
[00:25:26] But festivals are completely different right for artists. So yeah, what is it about festivals that appeal to you? I think it's just a conglomerate space of human beings together and vibing and positivity. You know, as a memory for the Zionist, is a, you know, you see people again.
[00:25:42] You kind of have to get over that, or got a talk of finance stuff. And then you just, you know, you just kind of learn about yourself again. It's nice to be around people without having that pessimistic taste that you just have to like,
[00:25:52] you want to face when you can, you know, to be yourself, make people comfortable and embrace things, you know. I like that. You're the first person to say learn more about yourself. That's quite interesting too. Because sometimes you come in and you just like put on that face.
[00:26:09] Oh, God, yeah, so many people are just like, you just like, no man. It's like it up, you know, most of the time people are scared and you let you just a mammal. So you just have to defend smacking this up and feeling filled with children.
[00:26:18] Put it down, embrace your fellow person that the human condition radio as it should. Yeah, embrace each other properly, man. Love it. Love it. So what have been some of your favorite experiences that all memories are playing festivals? If you want, you could be honest.
[00:26:39] It's just laughing out, but to roll around smoking some weed. I know and given the dam and just letting me be myself and being in this sun. I can't even be in a game to be like, how are you?
[00:26:51] Okay. All right. Yeah, you know, a lot of people have said just the idea of hanging out with festivals has been really hanging out and still works. Yeah, yeah. And I'm sure you catch out with a lot of people while you're here.
[00:27:02] It can be overwhelming, especially when you have to stuff like this but it's nice. It's nice to catch up. It is nice to be in this space. It's nice to people to even give a dam about what you do and be able to support you. So it's nice.
[00:27:21] Good to come number of human experience. Yeah, that's something a lot of people have brought up as well as the idea that you can reach a new audience right because like everyone's here just to enjoy music full stop.
[00:27:32] So you can be playing and like people sort of go and pass the 10 they're like, oh, what's that? And then they come in and suddenly you've got to be a fan. That must be quite an exciting experience.
[00:27:40] Which is nice. We are, you know, I guess in a great spectrum of things I am. You know, I was not a niche.
[00:27:48] But it's just rock music with a bit of, you know, there's a section of rapping which has gained so many people for some reason but we enjoy it. It's like, I've got a new metal. We enjoy it. We enjoy it. So nice.
[00:28:01] Yeah, I had a guy on for a songwriting season that he recently and he was talking about even when you get negative responses is like, it's a reaction. So if you're music gets a reaction.
[00:28:09] You evoke something, I guess, you know, I'm a very melodic, I'm a nerd from music and I'm absolutely stupid with it. So it's like, okay.
[00:28:18] You know, it's speaking with your big, cold and eclectic mixes. You just kind of want to make sure it's new one's enough to not be corny but new one's enough to be special and you know, have its place in the world.
[00:28:30] Yeah, yeah, interesting. What kind of influences we talk in here? From Frank Ocean to Beyonce to slipknot to system of a down to Clint Mansell, recommend for a dream to Edvard Grig in the Hall of the Mountain King.
[00:28:42] Yeah, you know, everything that I love as a soundboard to cool learn from and be humble enough to know that I'm not as good as people and know that as so much to learn and manipulate what I'm influenced by and add it to your own arsenal. Yeah, yeah.
[00:28:58] So it's so is, yeah, as I'm saying, like, doing a songwriting season, blown my mind because of different people I've spoken to like that the guy just quoted a minute ago is a metal head on YouTube and like he writes he's amazing like nasty riffs and you know, chatting to him and so I'll show you what's your influence. He was like, oh pop music.
[00:29:14] And then I love pop music. Yeah, but it was great. It was like, oh okay, we're chatting about Destiny Child for like 20 minutes. You can be on stage catalogs one of the best catalogs in the universe.
[00:29:22] Right, yeah, yeah, it was one of the most slept on you know, hearts you lost me saving from myself that stripped album.
[00:29:28] Yeah, yeah. So much you can learn from pop applying it to what you do and like, you know, my massive like chorus head so I love taking from.
[00:29:35] Right, yeah, well, I said you they get the hook don't they? So you get the catchy stuff. Yeah, a lot of good chorus. That makes sense because I've checked out some of your tracks and yeah, I can definitely hear that in the influence.
[00:29:44] And the chorus is like such an amphemic part of music. Right. It's like, you know, it's such a, it's just beautiful, you know, being alien with it. It's fun. It's fun stuff. You've got to care about what you do or you just another name on the bill.
[00:29:56] Sure. For having people stare at you on some complex stuff. So I'll give a damn about that. No, fair enough. And I guess it must be nice then when you have those moments even like the simple hooks and stuff that you can then see a visual reaction.
[00:30:08] Oh yeah, I like people getting it. I love singing my stuff and he's seeing mouse move. You know, and like, nice. You just have bullets with your name on it or my name that's pretty dope. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:30:20] So it's cool man. It's fun. It's humbling. It's, it makes sense, you know? Yeah, yeah. That's really cool man. I just had a question I've been asking everybody and I love this question because I get so many weird and wonderful answers is brilliant.
[00:30:34] If you had to put your own festival together, I'd love to know what you would call the festival first of all. And who would your three dream headlines be? Can have anyone you want to tell your life?
[00:30:45] It would be cool moonfest on them Friday, it'd be Frank Ocean. Saturday it would be my chemical romance Sunday it'd be paramour. Oh. That is ahead of a line of I love that you had that ready to go.
[00:30:57] Well, that's what I know that I know that I know that festival very well. Yeah, yeah. That's what you've clearly thought a lot about them. I've been that festival. So I'll be that'll be the first headline as for that one.
[00:31:07] I have to say, if it's a success or start bringing it around. I want to, you know, we should have merges like that. You know, cultures are so close to us. So I'll set for having to have separate festivals all the time for good music.
[00:31:21] Jill, that's so true and that's the thing that's been the most common thread through all of the answers I've had is there's always been an eclectic choice of music. But exactly what you just said is because everyone said the same thing of like, it's all good music.
[00:31:34] That's just bringing it all together. Why do we have to have separate festivals for different things? But don't be wrong, it's nice to go to like a heavy metal festival and just mosh for a weekend. But, you know, it's nice to have a bit of variety, right?
[00:31:45] And like, yeah, what you've just picked out would good. I don't know about you. I feel like trees is a good example of a phase. How's that? I don't even know half the pot is on a slain up, but I guess that's kind of nice. Yeah, yeah.
[00:31:57] Is there anyone you've discovered being here or not yet because I have barely looked at the effing flyer by You know, I went and you know, you don't really get a lot of time to sometimes do stuff. Sure.
[00:32:08] Because you just whisked around having to, of course, some sell a lot of things, but Yeah, talk to pesky podcasts and all that. It's a bit which is great because you're going to give a different answer to your time and as you're rehearsing scripted, which is ridiculous anyway.
[00:32:18] But sure. Yeah. It's a, you know, if you get to, if you're here, I'm hearing a lot of music which makes me happy. Yeah. Yeah. And it's stuffed up here, we're not like that. You know, so is there anyone you want to see when you hear like maybe.
[00:32:31] Probably Dom Broko. Yeah, yeah. That would be nice. I think you should because when's your set? Okay. 745. Yeah. They are. So I think they're pretty much. And I actually watched Dom Broko. Probably see you in there, mate. Awesome. Generally, thank you so much for coming all the podcast.
[00:32:49] Keep the kids. A massive thank you there. It's a King Nun, Gallus and Kid Bookie for coming on to the podcast. Absolutely brilliant bands. Wonderful interviews. Couldn't have asked for better. Really a big, big thank you to those guys.
[00:33:03] And again, a massive thank you to the guys at Marshall specifically Harris and Isabelle for helping me organize those interviews.
[00:33:09] I was really happy with those and I really appreciate you guys helping me set that up in what was a very busy time for you guys at the festival. I also want to give a big thank you to the guys at the good as goal group.
[00:33:20] Hailey, Holly and Matt for helping me organize these festival interviews as a whole. And also, big thank you to Mark with Jack Friend of the show helping me out with the festival as well. It really has been a fantastic series of interviews.
[00:33:33] I've absolutely loved putting these together and make sure that you subscribe so you don't miss out on more if this is your first time listening to fundamentals. Thank you for checking it out and trust me you don't want to miss out on what's coming up.
[00:33:45] I've got three more episodes filled with bands and I've got two behind the scenes episodes. As I alluded to earlier, the one coming up in two days time, which is the 19th this Friday, will feature two people from the Marshall Record label.
[00:33:59] Explain to me in more detail what the aim of the Marshall Record label is at a festival, what they were doing there, what they hoped to do in the future. It's some really cool stuff and the episode's going to feature some other really interesting people behind the scenes.
[00:34:13] So make sure you don't miss out on that. Before we get to that though, I do just want to say thank you for listening to this episode
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[00:34:58] Thanks to the good folks at Marshall, they were kind enough to donate some really cool prizes to the podcast, including some miniatr amplifiers and a limited edition vinyl featuring singles from the artists that you would have heard in this episode,
[00:35:11] plus the rest of the artists on the Marshall record labels, including bands like Nova Twins and therapy. There if he has a question mark, hence why I did that, I'm not having a stroke. Anyway, you can find out more about that.
[00:35:23] If you head over to my social media pages that is Instagram and Twitter at hand eventals pod, as well as threads and a loose guide, but again, no one really seems to be on there. But yeah, mainly Twitter and Instagram, I will put some details up to tomorrow,
[00:35:38] actually when this episode comes out, so make sure you go and check that out. Right, that's enough rambling for me. I'll be back in two days time as I said. On Friday, the 19th with my first off-the-stage interviews with some wonderful people behind the scenes at 2000 trees.
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