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Manifesting Your Desires With PLINI · HEAVY Music Interviews

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is plenty.
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Speaker 2: I'm going on tour in a few weeks, playing a
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Speaker 2: new album and Unnamable Desire in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide
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Speaker 2: and Perth.
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Speaker 3: Fantastic mate, thanks for joining us today, pleasure. So, as
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Speaker 3: you say, Brad, you have announced some Australian and New
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Speaker 3: Zealand dates as part of your global and Unbelievable Desire chour,
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Speaker 3: starting in Brisbane on August of six, before hitting the
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Speaker 3: Sydney at Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Auckland, then finishing in
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Speaker 3: Wellington on August is fifteenth. So what the lights have
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Speaker 3: you got in store for a fifth time around.
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Speaker 2: Roy playing a lot of the new album and a
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Speaker 2: lot of the oldest stuff that people seem to love. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it just should be really fun. We just did it
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Speaker 2: in Europe for about four or five weeks and it
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Speaker 2: was really fun. All the new stuff was especially fun
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Speaker 2: to play.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Wait, and actually say you started the chur in Europe
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Speaker 3: back in April. So how far through it you may?
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Speaker 3: Can you see see the endiat? Or are you still
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Speaker 3: just service? M?
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Speaker 1: Probably less than halfway?
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Speaker 2: Going to Asia next week and play in Singapore, Thailand, China, India, Japan,
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Speaker 2: and I think that's probably about halfway, and then Australia
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Speaker 2: will be like the second half, and then we go
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Speaker 2: to the States in Canada at.
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Speaker 1: The end of the year.
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Speaker 3: How do you go with the overseas audiences? What Australian crowds?
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Speaker 3: Our music, love and crowds are different pretty much everywhere
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Speaker 3: else in the world. I think that's been proven. So
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Speaker 3: how now different is a playing to other audiences? What
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Speaker 3: do they get what you're doing?
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Speaker 1: Straight up?
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Speaker 2: It depends on the place, I think in general everywhere, yes,
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Speaker 2: but just the way of showing it can be different.
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Speaker 2: I mean, like the music that makes not sometimes some
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Speaker 2: of it's energetic, but it's not always. So there will
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Speaker 2: be a lot of people just standing and watching and
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Speaker 2: they could be having an amazing time, but it's not
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Speaker 2: necessarily the same feedback as seeing like a circle pit
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Speaker 2: or like people mushing. But in general, like it's just yea,
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Speaker 2: all very positive and.
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Speaker 3: I suppose you get a bit of that too, way like,
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Speaker 3: because because what you do is an art form in
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Speaker 3: itself on guitar, like, people would just sit there and
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Speaker 3: watch you a lot. A lot of times people would
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Speaker 3: actually get into it because they'd just be focusing on
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Speaker 3: you and watching you, so it's not even retrofed. Sometimes
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Speaker 3: you wouldn't know if they're getting into it or if
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Speaker 3: they're bored.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, and it's not so interesting to see, like
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Speaker 2: in different cities, what proportion of the audience there are
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Speaker 2: like metal people, because like I love metal, but like
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Speaker 2: some some cities it could be a metal festival. Some
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Speaker 2: cities it could be like being at a music school
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Speaker 2: and like no one would marsh sort of thing. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's just interesting seeing and meeting all the different sorts
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Speaker 2: of fans of this music.
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Speaker 3: So you'd be used to it too, but it's only
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Speaker 3: just dawned on me then though, Like when you're playing,
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Speaker 3: no one's singing the words back like that, So yes,
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Speaker 3: the usual part of the constant experiences here and everyone's
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Speaker 3: seeing it, So it's it would be different in some respects,
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Speaker 3: wasn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's definitely less to go off compared to a
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Speaker 2: lot of the concerts that I go to in terms of.
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Speaker 1: Whether people are enjoying it or not.
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Speaker 2: But then also I go to it every now and
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Speaker 2: then I'll go to like a seated jazz gig or
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Speaker 2: even like more classical and everyone will be completely silent
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Speaker 2: until the very end and then clap politely, and that
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Speaker 2: doesn't mean they enjoyed it any less.
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Speaker 1: So I guess.
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Speaker 2: It's nice to go all around the world and try
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Speaker 2: to not have any expectations of how people will show
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Speaker 2: that they're having a good time.
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Speaker 3: Doesn't ever get difficult for you the record, and I
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Speaker 3: know musicians feed off the crowd. A lot of the
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Speaker 3: crowd energy coming back at the spurs them one. So
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Speaker 3: because you're not actually getting as much as what a
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Speaker 3: normal band would like kind of to be difficult sometimes.
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Speaker 1: A little bit.
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Speaker 2: But I try to just look into the crowd because usually,
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Speaker 2: like most people will smile if they're having a good time,
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Speaker 2: and so just kind of if I if I can
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Speaker 2: see someone smile and that has the same impact on
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Speaker 2: me as someone's like screaming like crazy. It's it's two
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Speaker 2: people enjoying themselves, which should make me equally as happy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, and that's the title of the choice suggests. Mate.
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Speaker 3: You're chrowing on the back of your new album, An
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Speaker 3: Unbelievable Desire, which dropped on April the twenty four, So
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Speaker 3: how's the early reception being made? Is it get the response, yoapt.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been going really well.
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Speaker 2: The first couple of songs were put out before the
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Speaker 2: album came out, everyone seemed to really like. There is
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Speaker 2: thing that I've been especially happy with is the response
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Speaker 2: to the new songs live has been probably the best
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Speaker 2: ever to something so new and like. So it came
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Speaker 2: out on the twenty fourth. The first show we played
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Speaker 2: it was the twenty eighth, and I don't know if
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Speaker 2: people necessarily even knew the songs yet, but it seemed
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Speaker 2: like they were enjoying them as much as any of
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Speaker 2: the older, more popular stuff, which has been really cool.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and one of those lives too. But like you
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Speaker 3: would have been playing a lot of the songs for
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Speaker 3: the first couple of times on that chort, So are
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Speaker 3: there any on there that went over a lot better
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Speaker 3: than you thought they might or neither were not quite
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Speaker 3: as well received as you thought would have been good?
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Speaker 2: Thankfully none that were not as well received. But there
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Speaker 2: is a track called Manala that's like a pretty heavy,
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Speaker 2: intense one that I think kind of quickly became a
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Speaker 2: bit of a favorite, which was really cool.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. The press release says that the album made it
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Speaker 3: It calls it a stunning new chapter in your musical career?
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Speaker 3: Would you agree with that assessment?
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Speaker 1: I would be happy to agree with that.
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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know about the stunning part, but I
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Speaker 2: guess every new sort of release is like a different chapter,
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Speaker 2: and I feel like, I mean, I did my best,
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Speaker 2: and everyone involved did their best, so hopefully it does
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Speaker 2: come across stunning.
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Speaker 3: Studying is a beautiful word, isn't it? So can you
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Speaker 3: talk a bit deeper into the album cross musically? Until
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Speaker 3: I thought you were going call this one around?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, some of my goals when I first started
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Speaker 2: working on it were to make heavy parts that were
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Speaker 2: heavier than anything I'd done, and to have like technical
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Speaker 2: guitar parts that were kind of crazier and harder to play.
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Speaker 2: And then also to make sure it was still like
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Speaker 2: felt like all the parts were there for a reason
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Speaker 2: and telling a story.
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Speaker 1: And then in a like more nerdy way.
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Speaker 2: Just trying to explore things I haven't done, like different
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Speaker 2: time signatures and other guitar techniques and shit like that.
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Speaker 3: I noticed she had a few guest starteds there, like
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Speaker 3: playing other instruments and stuff. So in an album process
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Speaker 3: like that, like do you write all of the music
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Speaker 3: and they just come in and play it, or do
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Speaker 3: they bring their own music to the table.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, a bit of both.
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Speaker 2: I'll write a song pretty much and then have an
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Speaker 2: idea like, oh, this would be interesting if it was
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Speaker 2: played on a harp. And then I met a half
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Speaker 2: player a few years ago, so I sent it to her,
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Speaker 2: not with much instruction, just like, here's the section that
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Speaker 2: I'm thinking, and like, if you can play this melody
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Speaker 2: at the end, like with the guitar, and then just
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Speaker 2: trust her to do a great job. Saying with my
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Speaker 2: friend Yaka, who played the guest guitar solo, I just
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Speaker 2: send him the section and kind of no instruction and
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Speaker 2: just assume that he'll do what's good for the track.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, that's how it worked with everyone.
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Speaker 3: So like you're talking to a non viso here, mates,
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Speaker 3: I've got no idea how this works. But when you
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Speaker 3: send the music to someone to do a guest what like,
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Speaker 3: have you got an idea in your head of where
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Speaker 3: you want it to be going or do you just
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Speaker 3: sort of clear your head and whatever they throw back
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Speaker 3: at you your work.
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Speaker 1: With a bit of both.
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Speaker 2: I think as time's gone on, I prefer to give
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Speaker 2: less instructions and just rely on like my trust and
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Speaker 2: friendship with the person that it will come out good.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you and you talked about the singles released before too, bro,
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Speaker 3: Like you've released three of them to date on Think
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Speaker 3: and you've flirted with music videos. You start around a
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Speaker 3: lot more than what you have in the past. Words,
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Speaker 3: what's what's the reasoning there?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I guess I'd never really done like a
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Speaker 2: narrative music video. And I was talking with Jamie and
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Speaker 2: Decklan who like direct and film that stuff, like what
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Speaker 2: can we do that's not just like me sitting in
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Speaker 2: a room playing guitar, and I came up with this
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Speaker 2: idea to have a series of music videos that are
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Speaker 2: all like telling one story. And then they kind of
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Speaker 2: fleshed it out and went away and did most of
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Speaker 2: the filming of the stuff that doesn't have the band
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Speaker 2: in it, and then we have this the second one
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Speaker 2: the band is in, so it's kind of like this
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Speaker 2: story is happening, and then you go into a room
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Speaker 2: and there's a band playing, and then the story continues.
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Speaker 2: And Yeah, that was a really it was a fun
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Speaker 2: process just to do something different.
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Speaker 3: Would have been as a musician, bro, Like, of course
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Speaker 3: you're always trying to improve and grow as an artist
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Speaker 3: with every release. But when you started May You're a
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Speaker 3: motherfucker all the way back then. So if you're getting
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Speaker 3: better with every album, like, how do you keep up
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Speaker 3: on stage? Man? Like? If you keep chopping what you've
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Speaker 3: done in the past, it's got to be a limit.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure I'll hit the limits soon, but at least
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Speaker 2: for now, I'm going to try my best to keep
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Speaker 2: pushing myself.
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Speaker 3: No, I write another quote from me that said that
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Speaker 3: you're going to be bringing your biggest production to date
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Speaker 3: to these Australian shows. So what do you mean by that?
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Speaker 2: Just lots of lights and some banners and yeah, just
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Speaker 2: trying to put on more of a show. I'm also
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Speaker 2: the Ruins we're playing I think the biggest yet because
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Speaker 2: I guess when I started my inspiration, especially with live shows,
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Speaker 2: were these bigger bands who like playing in a theater
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Speaker 2: and like kind of a mysterious vibe if it's dark
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Speaker 2: on stage, that sort of thing which you don't get
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Speaker 2: in a small like in a pub or in a
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Speaker 2: So trying to put on that sort of show, yeah
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Speaker 2: should be fun.
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Speaker 3: Yeah nice?
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Speaker 1: Nice?
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Speaker 3: And you bring in with you Delta Sleep, Sonobia and
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Speaker 3: might Dive for the Chalk too, man, So tell us
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Speaker 3: a bit more about those guys and why you chose
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Speaker 3: each one to play with you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, every time we do an Aussie tour, I try
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Speaker 2: to put together an interesting bill, like bands people maybe
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Speaker 2: haven't heard of or haven't seen yet. Delta Sleep I
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Speaker 2: came here a couple of years ago and they're fucking awesome,
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Speaker 2: and I've seen them also at a festival in the UK,
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Speaker 2: and they're like extremely musical, like great technical players, but
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Speaker 2: I don't think that's the the focus when you see them.
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Speaker 2: They just are like a really sick band where everyone's
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Speaker 2: charismatic and like they're all singing, and that's quite different
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Speaker 2: I think to my performance, which maybe seems more serious.
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Speaker 1: But still like fun.
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Speaker 2: And then Sonobia is I guess a pretty new artist
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Speaker 2: and still quite mysterious and like vocals obviously very different
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Speaker 2: to me, so it'll be super.
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Speaker 1: Fun to have her.
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Speaker 2: And Night Dive is a band who are pretty much
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Speaker 2: all my band's friends. They're also a new band. They
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Speaker 2: started about a year ago probably, And yeah, I mean
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Speaker 2: it's hard to hear any of their songs. I'll see
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Speaker 2: them and not just enjoy it because they're insanely good
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Speaker 2: and write six songs, and also three bands with vocalists
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Speaker 2: before us will be.
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Speaker 3: Cool yelled their art scale before you get on, and
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Speaker 3: they won'ted to be out to yell at you. So
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Speaker 3: did you remember the first time you ever heard one
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Speaker 3: of your songs on the radio? And what song was it?
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Speaker 3: And where were you?
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Speaker 1: I actually don't remember it all.
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Speaker 3: You're the first one who's sucked me up with that.
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Speaker 2: I can tell you this, though, I guess it's not radio.
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Speaker 2: But one of the funniest experiences was playing in either
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Speaker 2: Tokyo or Osaka and the next day going into a
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Speaker 2: cafe and they were playing my music because they'd been
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Speaker 2: at the show. Oh cool, yeah, buzz yeah, we give
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Speaker 2: you have to translate for everyone they couldn't speak English.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's a good thing about the music.
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Speaker 3: Oh right, man, Well, thank you very much for your time.
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Speaker 3: The tour is kicking off, Augus is sick. Where can
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Speaker 3: people get a hold of tickets and find out more information?
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Speaker 2: Hi, either from the venues of plenty dot coanctasy.
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Speaker 3: Maybe Well, I'm going to read along to the Brisbane
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Speaker 3: show and say good as so We'll see you in
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Speaker 3: the microst
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Speaker 1: Listen, see you then cheers Man