Latest / HEAVY Music Interviews / Hurts So Good With SAM SPADE From THE MIDNIGHT DEVILS
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up everybody.
- 0:01Speaker 2: This is Sam Spade from The Midnight Devils coming to
- 0:03Speaker 2: you on to get laid in the USA summer tour.
- 0:06Speaker 2: But I got business to talk about. I got something
- 0:08Speaker 2: I need to get off my chest. Ladies and gentlemen,
- 0:10Speaker 2: The Midnight Devils are coming back to Australia. We're coming back.
- 0:14Speaker 2: Can you even believe it? We're coming back in November.
- 0:17Speaker 2: But I got more details. But the man that knows more, Chrispy,
- 0:21Speaker 2: has all the details.
- 0:23Speaker 3: Do you want to hype by day broller? Anyway? Thanks
- 0:25Speaker 3: for turning to Sam. Good to talk to you again.
- 0:27Speaker 2: Hey, it's good to see you too. It's great speed back.
- 0:30Speaker 2: We have been on tour since basically we left Australia.
- 0:33Speaker 2: We're on tour right now and we can't wait to
- 0:36Speaker 2: come back and see you guys. This is incredible. It's
- 0:38Speaker 2: like a dream come true, over and over and over again.
- 0:41Speaker 4: It is that in the main time since you Hey,
- 0:42Speaker 4: last you've will say I got married to my friends
- 0:44Speaker 4: on behalf of everyone.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Congratulations, Thank you very much. Yes, beautiful Carrie Carrie Moores.
- 0:49Speaker 2: So there's a new Carrie Spade in the in the
- 0:52Speaker 2: world now and everybody's uh watched yourselves.
- 0:55Speaker 4: A fantasic but they aside from you to getting married,
- 0:59Speaker 4: the big needs, as you say, the Devil's are back,
- 1:02Speaker 4: like after conquering the world. You're headed back here in
- 1:04Speaker 4: November for runner shows with fellow countrymen, Boulevard of Buyers
- 1:07Speaker 4: and Australian outfit Awaken the Hate. So it's our way
- 1:11Speaker 4: of saying Happy Fourth of July. I announcing both US
- 1:14Speaker 4: fans today.
- 1:15Speaker 3: You know.
- 1:16Speaker 2: The funny thing is is that two fourth of July
- 1:19Speaker 2: is America's Independence day, two of them. I'm celebrated with
- 1:22Speaker 2: you in Australia. And guess what happens on the fourth
- 1:25Speaker 2: of July and Australia. Nothing nobody cares pretend to Sometimes
- 1:33Speaker 2: you pretend to but that and I understand, I get it.
- 1:36Speaker 1: But this time we're actually giving rather than taking away. Crispy,
- 1:40Speaker 1: there's no them.
- 1:41Speaker 4: So far, there's only been two shows announced and you're
- 1:44Speaker 4: probably hearing this for the first time as well, Bro.
- 1:46Speaker 4: But the first is on a cruise ship around Sydney
- 1:48Speaker 4: Harbor on Sunday, November twenty third, with Yourselves, Boulevard of Eyes,
- 1:52Speaker 4: Awaken the Hate, Frankie's world famous house band and more
- 1:55Speaker 4: so I hope you can swim.
- 1:58Speaker 2: I'd love it be the coolest thing I have ever heard.
- 2:02Speaker 2: You might have just made my day with that.
- 2:03Speaker 1: Fuck.
- 2:04Speaker 2: The rest of the tour, we're going on a cruise
- 2:06Speaker 2: of Sydney Harbor. Oh yeah, all right behind door number two.
- 2:10Speaker 3: The other one is sorry.
- 2:12Speaker 4: The following Saturday in Brisbane is part of heavy Fest
- 2:14Speaker 4: three at Suit Folks Bare with Boulevard Advised, Waking the Height,
- 2:18Speaker 4: Dream Pillars, Pissed and Fish Kaiosphere Engraved, had a stack
- 2:21Speaker 4: of others.
- 2:22Speaker 3: So I'm pretty sure it's going to be the biggest
- 2:23Speaker 3: skyless try.
- 2:24Speaker 2: And show yet festival show love and festivals in the
- 2:32Speaker 2: States are crazy, but I've been saying it for a
- 2:34Speaker 2: long time. Crazy Australians take everything to a whole other level.
- 2:37Speaker 2: I can only imagine what a festival in Australia's like.
- 2:40Speaker 4: Yeah, and of course there's not just going to be
- 2:42Speaker 4: those two because there's a week and there's a lot
- 2:45Speaker 4: of territory covering between then. But we're gonna keep everyone
- 2:48Speaker 4: in put egos getting a bit longer until we announced
- 2:51Speaker 4: any of them do.
- 2:53Speaker 2: We are so excited, we can't get we can't get
- 2:55Speaker 2: there fast enough. This tour is wrapping up right now
- 2:57Speaker 2: in the USA, and it has been incredible supporting that
- 3:00Speaker 2: same record that we dropped in Australia the last time
- 3:03Speaker 2: we were there so hard it hurts. The brand new
- 3:06Speaker 2: single shock the world. Everything's going great and we can't
- 3:09Speaker 2: wait to come back.
- 3:10Speaker 3: And you've already here last year about this time.
- 3:13Speaker 4: But his national support for Bond but not forgotten to you,
- 3:15Speaker 4: like how did that cho a guy?
- 3:17Speaker 1: That was maybe one of the coolest things.
- 3:19Speaker 2: And we talk about this all the time, still going
- 3:21Speaker 2: to see Bond, Scott's grave jamming with the original drummer
- 3:24Speaker 2: off the Live Wire record, like some of those ACDC things.
- 3:27Speaker 1: Being welcomed into the a.
- 3:29Speaker 2: CDC family and being such big fans of a CDC
- 3:33Speaker 2: and doing it all in Australia, that was like next
- 3:36Speaker 2: level one of the cooler things that you almost can
- 3:39Speaker 2: never duplicate because it's just so unique and so cool.
- 3:43Speaker 4: And then speaking about the DC family like how'd you
- 3:46Speaker 4: guys go with the a CDC bum, But not forgotten
- 3:49Speaker 4: crowds like you know exactly what they would have been
- 3:50Speaker 4: expecting to look at or listen to.
- 3:53Speaker 2: Oh dude, I was so nervous going into the tour
- 3:56Speaker 2: I'm like, but for us in America ACDC is different.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Right.
- 4:00Speaker 2: For us, in America, a C d C is one
- 4:03Speaker 2: of the greats, one of the top time all rock
- 4:05Speaker 2: and roll bands ever, Right, But in Australia they're a
- 4:07Speaker 2: hard working, hard partying, blue collar rock band.
- 4:10Speaker 1: So to have a glam band open.
- 4:12Speaker 2: Up for a blue call, hardworking rock band, I thought,
- 4:15Speaker 2: this is gonna be tough. We're gonna have to work
- 4:17Speaker 2: really hard to get these people, you know, into what
- 4:20Speaker 2: we're doing because we're so unique and so different. But
- 4:23Speaker 2: it was from that beginning, you know, it's like that,
- 4:26Speaker 2: it translates the love, the rock and roll, the energy,
- 4:30Speaker 2: it all translated and it went over like gang Busters
- 4:32Speaker 2: and they go, oh, these guys are exactly like us,
- 4:34Speaker 2: they just wear a little bit more lipstick.
- 4:38Speaker 4: I remember a couple of nights there, like you said,
- 4:40Speaker 4: walking in the crowd, like all the bold paper and
- 4:42Speaker 4: the big guys and tadas on their face to be
- 4:44Speaker 4: looking at you, and I'd be thinking, Hey, we fucking guy,
- 4:47Speaker 4: we didn't find them, fucking your best mine for them,
- 4:51Speaker 4: didn't try long.
- 4:53Speaker 2: And it was always I always felt like goose By
- 4:56Speaker 2: if I could get them by the third song, like
- 4:59Speaker 2: we had it, you'd win. And I think every show
- 5:01Speaker 2: on that tour, by the third song we had them.
- 5:04Speaker 2: We pushed it over the top and set it up
- 5:06Speaker 2: really good for bomb, but not forgotten to just come
- 5:08Speaker 2: in and knock it out of the park.
- 5:09Speaker 1: That's baseball term.
- 5:12Speaker 3: Bro. All over the world seem to love you. What
- 5:18Speaker 3: is it a value that it's so lovable?
- 5:21Speaker 2: It's that where we're we're doing it for all the
- 5:23Speaker 2: right reasons. I think it's that we're here to have fun.
- 5:26Speaker 2: We're here to make this real. It's not it's not
- 5:28Speaker 2: made up. It's not a gimmick, it's not cheesy. It's
- 5:31Speaker 2: all rock and roll realness. And at the end of
- 5:32Speaker 2: the day, we all kind of grew up with our
- 5:35Speaker 2: favorite bands, whether it be whether it be Slipped Now,
- 5:37Speaker 2: whether it be Kiss, whether it be all this with
- 5:40Speaker 2: the Midnight Devils, we get a chance to really go
- 5:42Speaker 2: out there and kind of to live that and do
- 5:44Speaker 2: it and have a blast doing it and.
- 5:46Speaker 1: Make those memories. And really it's about those stories.
- 5:49Speaker 2: And when you come to a Midnight Devil show, lo
- 5:51Speaker 2: and behold somewhere somewhere that you're gonna have some insane
- 5:54Speaker 2: story that you've got to tell your friends the next day.
- 5:57Speaker 2: It's everyone every night, Chrispy, you know for a fact,
- 6:01Speaker 2: for the rest of your life.
- 6:02Speaker 4: Yep, you touched on this briefly before, mate, But last
- 6:07Speaker 4: Team did release your second album So Hot.
- 6:09Speaker 3: It hurts sorry thodod Yeah, you can correct me as
- 6:15Speaker 3: much as you like. But third album, So Hot, how
- 6:18Speaker 3: has it been received?
- 6:20Speaker 1: Awesome?
- 6:21Speaker 2: It's just been It's We weren't setting out to write
- 6:25Speaker 2: the next fucking the Sorry, sorry for straying.
- 6:28Speaker 1: We weren't setting out to.
- 6:29Speaker 2: Write the next incredible uh, you know, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely
- 6:33Speaker 2: Hearts Club band. It wasn't about singles.
- 6:35Speaker 1: It wasn't about this.
- 6:36Speaker 2: It was about continuing the story and how do we
- 6:39Speaker 2: make the Midnight Devils go on for another two years? Like,
- 6:42Speaker 2: where are we going to take this? Okay, we got
- 6:44Speaker 2: our party, we got this. Everything's feeling good. What are
- 6:46Speaker 2: we going to write about? And inevitably what we write
- 6:49Speaker 2: about is being on tour and all this stuff that
- 6:52Speaker 2: we see and all these amazing feelings and even the
- 6:54Speaker 2: good and the bad stuff we write about, so that
- 6:57Speaker 2: the album has just been going over like crazy, that
- 7:00Speaker 2: people love the singles. Get Laid is requested every single show.
- 7:04Speaker 2: The new single, Shot the World. People love it, and
- 7:07Speaker 2: it's just it's just the continuation of the party, and
- 7:10Speaker 2: I think that's just kind of whatever what it is.
- 7:12Speaker 2: It's the forever weekend that never ends.
- 7:15Speaker 4: You mentioned that came out probably about a Waki guy
- 7:18Speaker 4: and asked, how's that one been received.
- 7:21Speaker 2: It's awesome, And we did that at a sold out show,
- 7:24Speaker 2: a sold out festival show in Cincinnati last year. So
- 7:27Speaker 2: we did this this song, Shot the World. We shot
- 7:30Speaker 2: the video completely sold out, and it really is like
- 7:33Speaker 2: it's that glimpse. It's the first time we've kind of
- 7:35Speaker 2: pulled back and done a real live glimpse of the
- 7:38Speaker 2: Midnight Devils live show. A lot of it has been
- 7:41Speaker 2: on the creative side of cartoons and animations, great images,
- 7:45Speaker 2: funny stories, all this. This was kind of the first
- 7:48Speaker 2: video that we've released that shows the entire live show
- 7:51Speaker 2: in its full glory. I think everything dollar bills.
- 7:55Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good point, because you guys are essentially
- 7:58Speaker 4: a live banded captured you live feel in a song
- 8:02Speaker 4: is bloody, I think to do it, but I think
- 8:03Speaker 4: I've captured it with Shocked World, and it actually does
- 8:05Speaker 4: give off a fairest representation.
- 8:07Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so too.
- 8:08Speaker 2: That's our our number one problem as a band is
- 8:10Speaker 2: how do we capture what we do live on record?
- 8:13Speaker 2: And I don't think we've we've gotten there yet. We're
- 8:15Speaker 2: trying our best and like you know, every everything you
- 8:18Speaker 2: can possibly do to make it as live in the
- 8:21Speaker 2: studio as you can. And then when you put it
- 8:24Speaker 2: to that video and people go, oh, I completely get this. Now,
- 8:27Speaker 2: I understand what these guys are going for. It's that
- 8:29Speaker 2: interaction between the crowd and the band that make it
- 8:33Speaker 2: so good.
- 8:34Speaker 4: That's a little bit disappointed when I saw the top
- 8:36Speaker 4: of for Shocked World, because I expect to see if
- 8:38Speaker 4: I o a Jimmy at time Zone holding that electronic thing.
- 8:41Speaker 1: Oh, that would have been good.
- 8:43Speaker 3: That would have been classic.
- 8:45Speaker 1: You're like, I have ten dollars in credits. Do you
- 8:47Speaker 1: want to use them? Yes?
- 8:48Speaker 3: I do. Hey, you to let you kid yourself.
- 8:55Speaker 4: Structor worlds that will stay coming out in typical midnight
- 8:57Speaker 4: devil's fashion on some limited istion bottle teles.
- 9:02Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 9:04Speaker 2: This was for because we are all such music nerds
- 9:07Speaker 2: as it is. It's okay we could readily admit that
- 9:10Speaker 2: we love rock and roll more than anything else, and
- 9:14Speaker 2: love collecting rock and roll more than anything else. So
- 9:17Speaker 2: intrough Midnight Devil's Fashion, we have to make something really
- 9:19Speaker 2: cool and unique and a piece of a piece of
- 9:22Speaker 2: collector's art that everybody goes. That's awesome, that's great. And
- 9:26Speaker 2: so if this is a double a side seven inch
- 9:29Speaker 2: vinyl single and it has brand new artwork cover and back,
- 9:33Speaker 2: and it comes on a pink and green limited three
- 9:36Speaker 2: hundred edition copies worldwide vinyl, so it's like a double
- 9:40Speaker 2: a side single on pink and green splatter vinyl.
- 9:43Speaker 3: Not and where can you put get that? Problem?
- 9:46Speaker 1: You can pre save it.
- 9:47Speaker 2: It's gonna be dropping mid August, but you can go
- 9:50Speaker 2: to the Midnight Devils dot com pre save that record
- 9:54Speaker 2: because it's gonna sell out. I'm telling you, we just
- 9:56Speaker 2: sold out of the first vinyl we did, which was
- 9:59Speaker 2: the Highway sixty nine working for the Weekend Etched vinyl.
- 10:02Speaker 2: That that's officially sold out and that will never be
- 10:04Speaker 2: recreated ever again. So it's like it's one of those
- 10:07Speaker 2: things where ten years from now people are gonna be
- 10:09Speaker 2: asking where do I get this? And if you don't buy,
- 10:11Speaker 2: and now it's just gonna be gone. This is one
- 10:13Speaker 2: of those things. It's only gonna last for a few years.
- 10:15Speaker 2: I'm telling you.
- 10:17Speaker 3: Now, there's what three months till you come? He three
- 10:20Speaker 3: or four months? Right, So what's next for the me?
- 10:22Speaker 3: No devils?
- 10:23Speaker 4: Like you find out egoys, you're not sitting a hind
- 10:24Speaker 4: footing you fade up for the next three months.
- 10:26Speaker 1: Weirdly we are.
- 10:27Speaker 2: We've been on tour since we've been on tour since January.
- 10:30Speaker 2: So once this tour gets done, this the fourth leg
- 10:32Speaker 2: of the US tour. So once this tour gets done,
- 10:35Speaker 2: we have we just have some time off and what
- 10:38Speaker 2: we're really gonna do is start working on the creative side.
- 10:40Speaker 2: And we've been kind of behind the gun because we've
- 10:43Speaker 2: been touring so so hard that I feel like the
- 10:46Speaker 2: creative side has been slightly neglected. So we're gonna start
- 10:49Speaker 2: working on new songs, new images, new artwork, new merch
- 10:52Speaker 2: and kind of get everything set up because I have
- 10:54Speaker 2: a feeling the Australia tour is gonna lead into a
- 10:58Speaker 2: very interesting two thousand twenty six with another US tour
- 11:02Speaker 2: and the Midnight Devil's returning to Europe.
- 11:04Speaker 1: I'll say it.
- 11:05Speaker 2: You want me to say, Chrispy, it's a Heavy Magazine exclusive.
- 11:10Speaker 2: But the Midnight Devils are going to be returning to
- 11:12Speaker 2: Europe in April May of twenty twenty five.
- 11:15Speaker 3: Hello, yeah, hello, friendly friendly liels. Not before that, you guy, bro.
- 11:23Speaker 3: I don't think I've done this with yet, but I've
- 11:25Speaker 3: got an new segment I'll introduced called Fighter Bombs.
- 11:27Speaker 4: Basically, I'm Charlogy social Media and I've come up with
- 11:30Speaker 4: a few fighters that i want to know a little
- 11:31Speaker 4: bit more about.
- 11:33Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, perfect.
- 11:34Speaker 3: First one is who the hell you guys page to
- 11:41Speaker 3: a minor.
- 11:41Speaker 1: Cycle that's in Key West. We rented them Key West.
- 11:47Speaker 2: That's in Key West, Florida, which is the southernmost part
- 11:50Speaker 2: of the USA. And you don't it's like this little island, right,
- 11:54Speaker 2: It's a key and so it's a really small island,
- 11:58Speaker 2: but it's big enough that when the tourists go there,
- 12:01Speaker 2: you just go and you rent these little motorbikes and
- 12:04Speaker 2: you drive around. Instead of driving a car or walking,
- 12:06Speaker 2: you right around on these little scooters all over the place.
- 12:08Speaker 2: So we were at a festival and we rented these
- 12:11Speaker 2: and they probably go thirty miles an hour. Is the
- 12:13Speaker 2: coolest thing we've ever done, just bombing around, just going
- 12:16Speaker 2: crazy on these things.
- 12:19Speaker 3: Nice ass crack. Then from Jimmy too hang it out.
- 12:21Speaker 2: But but yeah, Jimmy doesn't drive, so I had to
- 12:24Speaker 2: get one with two. Well I got to get the
- 12:26Speaker 2: two seater.
- 12:27Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 12:28Speaker 4: No, Now you're looking back through your photos, there's quite
- 12:31Speaker 4: a few of Sniper in this pose.
- 12:34Speaker 3: There's also some of him a little bit closer. But
- 12:37Speaker 3: these guys on the ride, they're they're laughing, they're like
- 12:40Speaker 3: a married couple.
- 12:42Speaker 2: Oh man, Yeah, well, let me tell you. It's like
- 12:46Speaker 2: three brothers with our own language that we only.
- 12:49Speaker 1: It's so weird.
- 12:51Speaker 2: I just say, hey, guys, we need to take a
- 12:53Speaker 2: picture of us on the road, and that's what you get.
- 12:55Speaker 2: And I don't even think they're fighting in this picture.
- 12:57Speaker 4: There's probably about about ten photos of team going for
- 13:01Speaker 4: the Thright, there's a couple of him on the throw,
- 13:03Speaker 4: but there's also fights of other people going for Jimmy's stright, Like,
- 13:06Speaker 4: what is it about Jimmy?
- 13:07Speaker 1: Okay?
- 13:08Speaker 2: The key thing is that if Sniper is going for
- 13:10Speaker 2: Jimmy's throw, that means Sniper is probably in a pretty
- 13:12Speaker 2: good mood. If he's not trying to destroy Jimmy, then
- 13:16Speaker 2: you gotta worry, right then, he might be in a
- 13:18Speaker 2: he might be a little off, but Jimmy's got these
- 13:20Speaker 2: tattoos of hands right here on his throat. And I
- 13:22Speaker 2: think it's subliminally just everybody just kind of gravitates to.
- 13:28Speaker 3: Not now, I know what we gotta do three days.
- 13:30Speaker 4: But I came across one that I've got a I've
- 13:33Speaker 4: got a shy but he goos looking snazzy as fuck.
- 13:37Speaker 3: In Japan.
- 13:38Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the last show of the Japanese debut tour
- 13:44Speaker 2: with Crispy.
- 13:45Speaker 1: And I Do.
- 13:46Speaker 3: It's that good looking raster in the fullground.
- 13:48Speaker 1: That's right, we're in our party kimonos. Wet.
- 13:52Speaker 2: Yeah, we got gifted our party kimonos. That was the
- 13:55Speaker 2: very last night of the tour. And they came backstage
- 13:58Speaker 2: and they said, thank you guys so much for coming
- 13:59Speaker 2: to Japan. As a token of our gratitude. Here are
- 14:03Speaker 2: these beautiful, uh, these beautiful party kimonos, and and it
- 14:07Speaker 2: really kind of capped off what was an incredible run
- 14:10Speaker 2: of shows and just the start of our love affair,
- 14:13Speaker 2: I believe with with Japan and with Asia. I think
- 14:16Speaker 2: it's only the beginning. We got big plans. That's kind
- 14:19Speaker 2: of part of clickle. This guy guys driving lawnmowers across
- 14:23Speaker 2: the road. Here we got we got big, we got
- 14:27Speaker 2: big plans, Chrispy of of And part of the break
- 14:30Speaker 2: is that we're gonna get ready to release a live record.
- 14:32Speaker 2: So this, uh, this live record that we're gonna do
- 14:35Speaker 2: is gonna be live from Japan. And you were there
- 14:37Speaker 2: for it all.
- 14:37Speaker 1: You know.
- 14:38Speaker 2: It was fun and and I listened to it after
- 14:41Speaker 2: after a year of being just sitting there, I listened
- 14:44Speaker 2: to this thing. I go, this is awesome, and this
- 14:47Speaker 2: is gonna sound really cool. So the kind of the
- 14:49Speaker 2: cover of the album is gonna be very similar to
- 14:50Speaker 2: the picture that you just put up The Midnight Devils
- 14:53Speaker 2: live in Japan.
- 14:54Speaker 3: Do you remember that? Do you remember the Kobe van
- 14:56Speaker 3: in the background there? Do you remember the story behind that?
- 14:59Speaker 3: The what the kombe van?
- 15:01Speaker 4: It's sticking like half of the kombe van sticking out
- 15:03Speaker 4: of the actual actual pub.
- 15:06Speaker 1: Oh no, I don't know the story.
- 15:07Speaker 3: I got the story from the boss.
- 15:08Speaker 4: That's actually a real band that crashed into the club,
- 15:11Speaker 4: Like that's the kitchen of the club there, and it
- 15:14Speaker 4: was kind of too fast. It crashed through the wall
- 15:16Speaker 4: and they've left it there and built around it and
- 15:18Speaker 4: that's part of the feature.
- 15:19Speaker 1: There now unbelievable. That's so cool with that. What a
- 15:22Speaker 1: great show to end the tour.
- 15:24Speaker 2: It was just so good and the whole the whole
- 15:26Speaker 2: run through through Japan was just like nothing I've ever
- 15:30Speaker 2: done before. And we we can't wait, and that's always
- 15:33Speaker 2: like goal number one is like how do we get back?
- 15:35Speaker 2: How do we get back? What's it going to take
- 15:36Speaker 2: us to get back?
- 15:38Speaker 3: Very nice, brother, I will let you go. I no,
- 15:39Speaker 3: you got to show to go do now. But Chris
- 15:41Speaker 3: Simble's returning November twenty third. It will be the first date.
- 15:45Speaker 3: Twenty ninth has been announced.
- 15:46Speaker 4: Look at the Midnight Devil's Side look at x music
- 15:48Speaker 4: dot com, follow heavy or shall be revealed.
- 15:52Speaker 1: Thanks for waking up early and doing this. I appreciate it, buddy,