Latest / HEAVY Music Interviews / Rocking Out with HZED: Behind The Music And Future Plans

Transcript

Rocking Out with HZED: Behind The Music And Future Plans · HEAVY Music Interviews

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: So how is it. Has it been?
• 0:02
  Speaker 2: It's been really really good. Yeah.
• 0:03
  Speaker 3: We're back at the rehearsal studios now as we're getting
• 0:06
  Speaker 3: ready for our first.
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: Show this weekend.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: So exciting.
• 0:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so just mind the noise, sorry, Ali, We've just
• 0:12
  Speaker 3: had a few bands performing in here, so.
• 0:14
  Speaker 4: You look like you're in the back rehearsal room. Pretty much,
• 0:18
  Speaker 4: very cool background, that's right. You can just see the
• 0:21
  Speaker 4: heavy sign behind me by much.
• 0:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a very cool background as well. Literally just
• 0:26
  Speaker 3: fine one to match up to yours.
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: Ali, That's why I was around the room.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: So very cool.
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: It's very nice, thank you.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: So, yes, you're about to start some shows yeah.
• 0:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we have the SB this weekend and then
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: we're also doing on the thirty first the Young Tabinet Frankston.
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: So just a short tour for this single, but yeah,
• 0:45
  Speaker 3: really looking forward to this one and what a way
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: to kind of end the end the year off.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. So everyone's got a full roster at
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: the moment. There's yeah everywhere, I'm busy hours between.
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: So it's that time of the year, Alie, isn't it.
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: Most people kind of look forward to holidays and Christmas
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: and for us it's like, no, we've still got another single,
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: launch of music, videos and shows, and you know, it's
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: not the most wonderful time of year.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: It's the most stressful time of year. I find sometimes.
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: Absolutely it is. It is.
• 1:14
  Speaker 4: But you know when you say you're busy, it's it's good.
• 1:16
  Speaker 4: It's like absolutely, it's a good way to spend the summer,
• 1:20
  Speaker 4: that's for sure.
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 1:23
  Speaker 4: Sorry, yeah, your new track which has just come out,
• 1:25
  Speaker 4: and say yourself, it's catching, thank you, very catchy.
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: I did, like I was happy to have a listen
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: to that.
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: No, thanks, Sally.
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:35
  Speaker 4: And so you're lead singer, lead vocals is that yes? Yes, yes,
• 1:40
  Speaker 4: excellent and yeah wow power voice.
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you so much.
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: And so who else is in the band? Tell me
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: a bit about h L give me sit down.
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: So we have so I'm the lead vocalist, and we
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: have Shannon, who is our lead guitarist.
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: We also have Sam who is our drummer.
• 1:57
  Speaker 3: We have Pio who is our bass player, and we
• 1:59
  Speaker 3: all have another female guitar player who is a rhythm
• 2:02
  Speaker 3: guitar is called Hannah.
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: So we're kind of like.
• 2:04
  Speaker 3: A front sort of centered female band. And then we've
• 2:07
  Speaker 3: got the three guys in the background to complete and
• 2:10
  Speaker 3: it's great, perfect, that's a nice blace. Yeah, it's good
• 2:14
  Speaker 3: even just having the addition of the rhythm guitar though
• 2:17
  Speaker 3: it's really sort of amplified and added more onto more
• 2:20
  Speaker 3: to the band.
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: So it's good absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.
• 2:23
  Speaker 4: I'm a female vocalist bass player myself, so it's nice
• 2:26
  Speaker 4: to have a.
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you look like you've got a bit of a
• 2:30
  Speaker 3: musician kind of look there and sounds like you'd be
• 2:32
  Speaker 3: a singer too.
• 2:33
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I I belt them out, so I don't
• 2:37
  Speaker 4: sing like an angel.
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: I sing like courtey long. Yeah. Nice.
• 2:40
  Speaker 3: Why not those big powerhouse ballad singers, that's what it's
• 2:42
  Speaker 3: all about.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they have their stuff and I'll just do this yeah. Yeah,
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: but it does it.
• 2:50
  Speaker 4: It takes a strategy vocals, like when you're singing and
• 2:52
  Speaker 4: especially you're doing like a upset like yeah, it can
• 2:55
  Speaker 4: get yeah, yeah, hectics, so you've got to take care
• 2:58
  Speaker 4: of them. And hell you do that, whether that's through
• 3:01
  Speaker 4: cigarettes and alcohol.
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: Do you know what I actually find, Ellie, to be
• 3:06
  Speaker 3: honest with you, I always help well. I always say,
• 3:08
  Speaker 3: somebody can upset me before a performance, and I feel
• 3:10
  Speaker 3: like that's enough to kind of get me angry and
• 3:12
  Speaker 3: want to do more growls and bolts. So I'm actually
• 3:15
  Speaker 3: looking for reasons now to get upset. I'm like, because
• 3:17
  Speaker 3: I'm more angry or hurt I am, the better my
• 3:20
  Speaker 3: vocals are.
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: That's so funny that that's true.
• 3:23
  Speaker 4: Actually, I had someone say to me on Sunday again, gig, I,
• 3:25
  Speaker 4: did you know.
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: Like what a great voice? Because I didn't. It's quite loud.
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: I did on a cover of out Killing in the
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: Name of Ageist Machine.
• 3:33
  Speaker 4: And I love it because it's and I'm like, all
• 3:36
  Speaker 4: these years yelling at my children is paid off.
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: Like that's probably where all the like graffe comes from.
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: It's like all the vocal and.
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: You're like fish white yelling at them.
• 3:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's it's so it's so exciting to like,
• 3:54
  Speaker 4: you know, see females out there doing it, because you know,
• 3:56
  Speaker 4: we're feel far between these days, aren't we.
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I just I think a lot more females
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: sort of probably gravitate more towards other styles and genres.
• 4:05
  Speaker 3: I think rock and roll is kind of it's not
• 4:07
  Speaker 3: really something that they're that they do, but we're seeming
• 4:09
  Speaker 3: to get a lot of females back into it now,
• 4:11
  Speaker 3: which is why a lot of original rock artists and
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: it's really really good.
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: We're kind of seeing the whole turn around now. So
• 4:17
  Speaker 2: I'm excited for.
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: Sure, because rock and roll is just the best thing ever.
• 4:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we have such a strong representation of females and
• 4:24
  Speaker 3: rock two as well that are so empowering. So I'm
• 4:26
  Speaker 3: really looking forward to even seeing a lot of the
• 4:29
  Speaker 3: underground like Melbourne bands too. We've got so many females
• 4:32
  Speaker 3: in the scene too that are amazing, So yeah, looking
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: forward absolutely.
• 4:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know there's a lot of incredible talent out there,
• 4:39
  Speaker 4: that's for sure.
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: So with Bet, how long are you guys? Have you
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: been with the Patent four?
• 4:44
  Speaker 3: So I've been with the band for about a year,
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: but the band had actually been together for a lot
• 4:49
  Speaker 3: longer than that. Yeah, they had gone through a few
• 4:52
  Speaker 3: other singers. But yeah, so now now that I've joined,
• 4:55
  Speaker 3: I've been with them for a year. And then we
• 4:57
  Speaker 3: also had Hannah join our band. I think she's been
• 4:59
  Speaker 3: a part of it for about six months now.
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: So yeah, kind of a whole new new chapter for hate.
• 5:04
  Speaker 3: Said that, we've been stepping into for this for this year,
• 5:07
  Speaker 3: so you need to kind of grow and build and
• 5:11
  Speaker 3: it's really just the start of us.
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and are you all based in Melbourne or yes
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: we are?
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: Nice? Nice, that's good. It makes it easy for rehearsals
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: and shows and stuff.
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And because we rehearse once a week every week
• 5:23
  Speaker 3: to as well, so it's yeah, it's good that.
• 5:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're very consistent.
• 5:27
  Speaker 3: It's good that everybody's local and nearby and everyone's dedicated
• 5:30
  Speaker 3: to so yeah, they're all need to do a rehearsal now.
• 5:33
  Speaker 2: Which is great.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: Nice And now that's the key to isn't it.
• 5:36
  Speaker 4: The consistency is like when you're in a bandit like
• 5:38
  Speaker 4: it's being a bad marriage with like four other different people.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: Sometimes.
• 5:42
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I think because even though we come into
• 5:46
  Speaker 3: rehearsal and a lot of the times of like, oh
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: we've done this set so many times, it kind of
• 5:50
  Speaker 3: gets a bit boring for us. But it's really important
• 5:52
  Speaker 3: to remember that it's all consistent.
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: We are because it is. That's why we're very tight
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: and on board.
• 5:57
  Speaker 3: And if we make a mistake, we're so quick to
• 5:59
  Speaker 3: catch a was back because we're just so in tune
• 6:01
  Speaker 3: with each other because we rehearse every week.
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's so professional.
• 6:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that's awesome, and it shows when the band's tight,
• 6:09
  Speaker 4: you know that they sound good and they're not messy.
• 6:12
  Speaker 4: And even though like playing live it's raw and it's
• 6:14
  Speaker 4: whatnot and you can make mistakes, you've got that sort
• 6:16
  Speaker 4: of buffer. Yeah, but it's not fine, it's yeah, you
• 6:19
  Speaker 4: can it shows, it comes through it.
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
• 6:23
  Speaker 4: It's good to good to see consistency and just getting
• 6:26
  Speaker 4: on to show up every week.
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: So vans like one day we come on guys.
• 6:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, And so what are the plans for the
• 6:34
  Speaker 4: coming year, like twenty twenty six look like the age there.
• 6:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So we're just we're finishing up with these shows
• 6:39
  Speaker 3: and then we're obviously going to look at continuing doing
• 6:41
  Speaker 3: a few more shows. We're also back into the studio
• 6:45
  Speaker 3: doing some more songwriting for the more single releases that
• 6:48
  Speaker 3: will have coming out. So it's pretty much just yeah,
• 6:50
  Speaker 3: back into the studio, doing some more writing and pretty
• 6:53
  Speaker 3: much planning for what we have next year.
• 6:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and so looking to do like a full album
• 6:59
  Speaker 4: released next year or sometimes.
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: Soon near the pipeline is it?
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: I would love to, but not yet, Ali, not yet.
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: Baby Steps.
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: It's good because we've.
• 7:09
  Speaker 3: We've had a lot of time in preparing a lot
• 7:11
  Speaker 3: of a lot of material, but we're just yeah, at
• 7:14
  Speaker 3: the moment, we're just going to be doing some single
• 7:16
  Speaker 3: releases and building up from there. But who knows, never
• 7:18
  Speaker 3: say never in the future, we've got a lot of
• 7:20
  Speaker 3: you know, great things to look forward to, so.
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
• 7:24
  Speaker 4: And so with your shows that you're doing, are you
• 7:25
  Speaker 4: playing some of the band's old stuff or you're doing some.
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: Like you've obviously got any singles that are out or.
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, absolutely, So the band already had a lot
• 7:32
  Speaker 3: of original material when I joined, which we've still continued
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: carrying on, particularly for a lot of the hat said
• 7:37
  Speaker 3: fans that knew them beforehand. But we've also got a
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: lot of new material as well. So yeah, we've definitely
• 7:43
  Speaker 3: got a lot of new stuff. And yeah, absolutely so
• 7:47
  Speaker 3: we've got we've got a good selection of both for
• 7:49
  Speaker 3: everybody who via all the Fans page said so.
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll watch this space. That sounds like there might
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: be some exciting stuff coming out for you guys next year,
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: thank you.
• 7:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, the new track, it is definitely it's catchy,
• 7:59
  Speaker 4: it's it's got that you know that nice cooking.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good, it stays in your head.
• 8:04
  Speaker 2: No, thanks, Salie, I appreciate it.
• 8:06
  Speaker 3: Appreciate that feedback, and from another musician too as well,
• 8:09
  Speaker 3: from a female means a lot, So thank you.
• 8:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, I think that's okay. And yeah, it's good. And lyrics,
• 8:14
  Speaker 4: you know, as well as the music. It really makes
• 8:16
  Speaker 4: a big difference when they combined. It's not sometimes you
• 8:20
  Speaker 4: hear some things in the music and the lyrics are
• 8:22
  Speaker 4: well depart better.
• 8:24
  Speaker 3: No, absolutely, yeahred percent of the music, in the story
• 8:26
  Speaker 3: behind it and how they come together. It's very, very
• 8:28
  Speaker 3: important because one thing can always let something down, so
• 8:31
  Speaker 3: they've got to match up one hundred percent.
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: I do agree, yeah, absolutely, and so do yourself.
• 8:36
  Speaker 4: Do you involved in the songwriting in terms of music
• 8:39
  Speaker 4: or the lyrics?
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: No. Absolutely.
• 8:41
  Speaker 3: I've actually got a really funny story with this particular
• 8:44
  Speaker 3: single release because the boys had pretty much just given
• 8:47
  Speaker 3: me the music. There was no words, no melody over
• 8:49
  Speaker 3: the top, and Shannon said to me, this is going
• 8:51
  Speaker 3: to be our next single release and I said, what
• 8:53
  Speaker 3: do you mean. There's no words, there's no melodies. We
• 8:56
  Speaker 3: haven't had time to prepare anything, and he goes, don't worry,
• 8:59
  Speaker 3: just go into the studio, we'll get something down. So
• 9:01
  Speaker 3: we've gone into the studio and within the first day
• 9:03
  Speaker 3: we pretty much had that that whole song down. So
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: it was like once we'd just gone and everything just
• 9:09
  Speaker 3: came together and just it pieced together so perfectly, So
• 9:12
  Speaker 3: I think, yeah, it was just kind of it was
• 9:14
  Speaker 3: quick and easy, but that pretty That song, to be honest,
• 9:17
  Speaker 3: was kind of written in the studio on the spot
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: as we were going along and we were kind of
• 9:21
  Speaker 3: constructing it that way. But yeah, we had it done
• 9:24
  Speaker 3: within a day, so it was good or worth it
• 9:26
  Speaker 3: in the end.
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: I think some of the best songs.
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: I was like, why are we releasing this?
• 9:32
  Speaker 3: But it all made sense and it was so worth
• 9:34
  Speaker 3: the challenge too, So it was yeah, and I think
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: some of the best songs ever written you are done
• 9:38
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: You know, when you're not thinking as well, they just
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: naturally flow. And do you know what.
• 9:45
  Speaker 3: It always helps when you're in the studio with a
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: good amount of creative people too, and you're just all
• 9:49
  Speaker 3: bouncing off of each other. That's going to bring the
• 9:52
  Speaker 3: best out of your creativity.
• 9:55
  Speaker 2: Definitely, So yeah, you got a good team behind me
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: for sure.
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: Oh excellent, excellent.
• 9:59
  Speaker 4: So when you play to come Northways visited in that's
• 10:02
  Speaker 4: sunny Sunny Gold Coast, Queensland.
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
• 10:05
  Speaker 3: We've definitely been discussing doing some shows and traveling a
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: little bit more in Australia for sure. Next year we
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: definitely will. So keep a look out for sure, will definitely.
• 10:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And if you want some hot chips on some
• 10:17
  Speaker 4: good venues, I'll send you send you a.
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: List of the good ones.
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's any definitely, Yeah.
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, there's plenty around, that's for sure. And it's
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: and it's great to see, like music isn't dad.
• 10:27
  Speaker 4: You know, there's a lot of venues out there supporting
• 10:29
  Speaker 4: original you know, Austrian music, and yeah, it's great. It's
• 10:34
  Speaker 4: it's so good life blood back into it. So it's encouraging.
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: It is you know, rock music. I think it's going
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: to make it comeback.
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: So we just got to keep keep supporting all the
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: independent artists who want to make it happen.
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: And yeah, we just got to stick together.
• 10:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And I had this conversation with another artist who
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: you know, were back in the day, they were what
• 10:52
  Speaker 4: it was done differently, we were quite well known, and.
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: It's just it's not Music's not dead.
• 10:57
  Speaker 4: It's just different, you know than in how you succeed
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: get ahead these days is you know, everyone's doing it
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: differently as well.
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just you know, the different strategy. It's
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: not about But.
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: That's the thing too though. Ali music's always evolved and
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: so is the industry. And that's the thing. You know.
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: You you learn one thing, it changes the next year
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: or the next day, so you just you have to
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: constantly keep up with and keep challenging yourself and keep
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: thinking differently and outside of the box because that's part
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: of being.
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: A musician as well. Unfortunately, So got to roll with
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: the punches.
• 11:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't resist the machine, Yeah, exactly, exactly.
• 11:28
  Speaker 4: There's plenty of a great new musician and artists that
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: are still stuck in their bedroom or their home studo
• 11:32
  Speaker 4: that will never get out there because they take that
• 11:34
  Speaker 4: punt on themselves.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: And that's yeah.
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you guys definitely have which is good. And
• 11:40
  Speaker 4: you're doing it fairly independently as well, I believe, is
• 11:43
  Speaker 4: that right?
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely we are, Yeah, for sure.
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've formally signed to a label or just been
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: doing the Indian No, we've.
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: Just been keeping everything sort of independent at the moment,
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: and I think just in terms of because we write
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: all of our own songs and materials, and yeah, I
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: think we want to ensure that we have a lot
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: of control over our career activity and the things that
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: we write and keep that protected to us. So yeah,
• 12:05
  Speaker 3: no point, I think it's there's no point of being
• 12:07
  Speaker 3: a musician if you're not going to have that sort
• 12:10
  Speaker 3: of being creative or you know, have that part to protect.
• 12:13
  Speaker 4: So yeah, unless you aren't lucky enough to stumble across
• 12:16
  Speaker 4: a fairly non binding record label, Yeah, that's which they
• 12:20
  Speaker 4: are right there.
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, very hard to find, but you know, one does
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: want to come around.
• 12:25
  Speaker 4: We might look when you're in the know your car's right, Yeah,
• 12:30
  Speaker 4: but no, that's so that's encouraging and it's good time.
• 12:33
  Speaker 4: I good to see you guys doing it. And the
• 12:35
  Speaker 4: band name itself as well? Am I correct in saying
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: that it's from H Holdens?
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: Is that where? I like that? I'm like, where's that
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: come from?
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: So impressive.
• 12:49
  Speaker 4: So does any of the band or yourselves driver holding
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: a H so more specifically, no, I don't.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so Shannon in our band, he used to, so
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: I think that's how he's probably gotten the idea. He
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: actually he's done a whole video on our YouTube page
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: about how he's come up with the whole idea, so
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: he's got a whole story behind it.
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's pretty much how he came
• 13:11
  Speaker 4: Up with it from the car, so that's good and
• 13:13
  Speaker 4: having a story behind it always helps you know, that
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: makes for good memories when you look back exactly