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Carving Your Niche with CONNOR From NO LIFE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  I'm Connor and I am the vocalist for New Zealand middle core band No Life.
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  We've recently just dropped down and you were a single Obnoxious featuring Freakie over
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  Mule and yeah, so just stoked to be here. Beautiful kind of thanks
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  for joining us today, Thank you, thank you for having me. As
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  you mentioned, No Life recently released your single Obnoxious, Like, how' see
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  the early reception been for it? Oh? Man, it's been crazy.
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  I mean we didn't really expect too much, you know, like we're always
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  trying to manage our expectations as much as we can, so we weren't really
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  expecting too much. But man, it's going off. It's freaking awesome.
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  So yeah, the numbers are racking up, the video is racking up as
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  well. Just super humbled and man it's yeah, it's a great feeling.
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  So yeah, it's been great. Wait, so tell us a bit more
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  about a mock trius from a musical point of view and what you're going for
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  with it. Yeah, so I was actually thinking about this earlier today.
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  How to answer this a question along these lines. Initially, we're obviously big
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  fans of Amure and myself and DJ the guitar guitarist. We both love the
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  song Gucci Prison by Imure, so we're like, oh, we need to
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  write a song like that. And then DJ wrote it so quick and I
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  heard it and I was like, oh, well, we have to get
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  franky on it. So essentially, I just I wrote I wrote the song
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  just to call out dead beats. But the more I think about it,
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  it's probably a bit of a slight at my father and my sort of upbringing,
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  because he's a bit of a alcoholic in a bit of a party you
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  so just you know, being a young kid trying to get sleep and they're
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  just being fucking randoms at the house. So it's kind of taking its own
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  shape. But yeah, it was meant to just be like a a not
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  so tongue in cheek called out of dead beats, And I feel like a
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  lot of people can probably relate to that. So yeah, very sure.
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  How did you actually get like Frankie Palmery from if you were involved in it.
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  I've been obviously been a fan of his for years. I'm thirty years
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  old now, and I think I listened to them when I was like twelve
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  or thirteen. Maybe i've been younger I'm not too sure, and I just
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  looked at them and he slid into his dean and sits on Instagram and just
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  asked if he'd be interested in on jumping on a track and he said to
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  flicking an email sitting through the track and he liked it, I hope,
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  and then yeah, we got it done. He's super lovely to talk to,
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  really professional. Yeah, he must have liked the song. So he
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  did his part and it was pretty pretty simple. Yeah, just put them
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  the message on Instagram and just asking if he wanted to jump on the track,
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  and yeah, he said he was ken. So there we go.
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  So say, from all your point of view, what did he actually bring
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  to the song, Like, how did he how did he enhance the song?
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  Well, I pretty much just so essentially the song you can hear,
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  it's like the first half is me and then the second half is all Franky.
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  So we kind of wanted to do the feature a little bit differently,
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  you know, like some bands will have a big build up and they had
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  the breakdown and then the guest vocals, where we wanted to kind of like
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  get him to be really immersed in the song and make it more than just
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  a feature. We wanted to actually be a part of the song. I
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  wrote the sort of the mumbly sort of talking part and then the hook,
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  and then I just said to go hand and then he did this cool,
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  rappy sort of blow that he has, and then the m part, which
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  is like signature of your so he kind of we were immately, you know,
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  we wanted to em and then your song, and then you know,
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  we got the guy and he just made it fucking ten times cooler. I
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  think it's just like the whole idea of by having Frankie and man, he's
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  he's wicked. So yeah, he just made it. He just elevated it.
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  I feel like it was pretty fun. And then he came in and
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  just he was like the icing on the cake. And how did sorry Dox
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  just follows your previous single identity crisis? So are those two standalone singles or
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  are they part of a bigger picture. He was still trying to figure that
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  out. Initially they were just going to be two standalone singles, but the
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  way that we're kind of working, I think we're just going to keep dropping
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  singles. So maybe take it in together as a full release, either an
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  EP or an LP. But at the moment, we're just yeah, we're
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  just kind of having fun with it and just dropping singles just to keep you
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  know, get people to get a taste of us and atually figure us out.
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  And yes, they're just dropping like a big album and then they're getting
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  lost in the wayside with have social media and people interact and listen to music
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  nowadays. So yeah, just singles at the moment, So we'll keep doing
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  that and then go from there. I guess. Oh, and how to
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  see the new material? You're right now, Giffer, what was on your
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  preview? CP? Delinquent? I feel like we've ready found our sort of
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  niche. We've kind of first because we released Radical Thoughts back in twenty twenty
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  two and then it was just a three track and then we did Your Delinquent
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  and we're still kind of finding our sound for like it's Bassed Dejail. I
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  wild like we should just be a drug and bass band with breakdowns and guitars.
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  So I feel like that's kind of where we've gone to. And everything's
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  still being very like, you know, the lyrics and stuff are still very
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  personal. That that won't I don't think that will change. So it's just
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  yeah, finding our sound. I think we found it with these last two
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  songs and the newer stuff that we're working on at the moment. So it's
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  just yeah, getting a bit more creative and not being shy to try something
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  different, I guess. So, yeah, the last sort of stuff was
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  more I feel like, a bit more you know, what everyone was doing.
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  So now there's stuff that we're doing now. I feel like, you
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  know, we're trying to separate, separate ourselves from the pack, so hopefully
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  we can keep doing that. As a young band mate, like do you
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  sit out and sort of plan things out as you start different writing cycles and
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  say like we want to go in this direction and we want to leave that
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  behind, or there's the music. It just I don't know. Actually that's
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  a good question. I probably DJ should probably be hit up so that one
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  I Sily just give him the theme of how I'm feeling or what I want
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  to talk about, and then he just he's a wizard man. He's just
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  got this ear and yeah, he can write guitars and as really good composers.
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  So we don't really say, oh, we don't want to do that,
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  we don't want to do this, let's try We just basically, I
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  just want to get creative and yells give them the theme and then I think
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  I might send them some drummer bass songs and I'll be like, bro,
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  this is sick. Let's go let's try something like that, and then he'll
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  yeah, he'll put all the different stuff into the into the mixture and it
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  comes out. Yeah. You're part way through a chore supporting the release of
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  Rochester Mate. So how's how the show has been going? Yeah, they'd
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  be pretty fun. So we started in the North Island last week, so
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  we did Wellington on the Friday and then Auckland on the Sad Day and I
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  was pretty rowdy. I think we'll probably drunk too much and got carried away,
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  but it was great fun. The punters were going hard. We just
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  love playing shows, so it's always fun to actually get back on stage and
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  you play the new set at new Song and the two new songs in there,
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  which is cool when everyone seems to be lapping it up. And then
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  we hit the South Island this week. We're doing dneda and on Friday,
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  crush Juts on Sad Day and then filming a chiky video on the Sunday.
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  So it's all go, oh, I know, if anyone's around either of
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  those areas, where can they get tickets for the shows from? Yeah,
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  so they are now link Tree or they can find them on Cosmic ticketing.
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  They're pretty cheap. I think it's like fifteen bucks and then twenty on the
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  door. We just kind of want to we don't want to price ourselves out,
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  and we just want people to come along and have fun and be in
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  a welcoming sort of group and yeah, just leaveing on cut loose. Really.
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  Yeah? Are you completed a headlining tour of Australia last year? So
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  how did you go over here? Did you make some new fans? I
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  think so? Yeah. I mean it was we kind of got Delta pretty
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  shitty hand. I booked the tour book this window and there was no big
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  bands and stuff like that, and I was like, yeah, this is
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  perfect. We're going to have like a really good weekend and not having any
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  clashes and try and get some core people, to get people to come out
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  and actually hear of us because you know, we've never played Australia before,
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  and then ended up clashing with August Bingered and Kopla Khan and Kettle Decap a
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  few other bands, so then there was like six shows on each night.
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  But Brisbane was a bit of a tough one on a Thursday, but we
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  still got about forty people through the door, which is cool because no one
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  knew who we were. And then Sydney was fun Fear. A few people
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  came to that, and then we finished off of Melbourne on a sad day
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  and yeah they're just blasts away. It was fucking awesome. So we had
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  fun. I think a lot of people liked us Kiwis, so that's good.
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  So we're hoping to come back later on this year. So yeah,
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  hopefully we left a good impression last time. Very good Corro, Well thanks
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  for your time. I was just speaking with you. This single Obnoxious is
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  out now. She's a fucking cracker. Boys have got shows in Dunedin this
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  Friday price show She's Saturday, so get yourself along. I'll have a listen.
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  Awesome cheers, guys. Now is a row brother you take care?
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  You say thank you? No, yes, I go fucking here, jang
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