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The Art Of BAD MANNERS With BUSTER BLOODVESSEL · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  My name is Blood Pets and I'm playing a band called Bad Manners and we
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  are coming to tour your lovely country and to eat all your pies. Beautiful
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  mate, how are you doing today? I'm doing really good. Yet it's
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  one of those days. Who's met yet? They seem to become more frequent
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  as the years go by, too, don't They don't know? And this
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  one is becoming very regular at the moment, and the trummed shining and I'm
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  very happy. Well that's the main thing. Row as you say, man
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  like, Bad Manners will hit Australia for your Greatest Hits tour starting October sick
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  in Sydney, before going through Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne and finishing in Perth
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  on October forty eighth. Mate, Like, I know it's a little way
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  off yet, but if you started practice in preparation yet, thank you soon.
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  Yeah you can't talk to me about practicing. Don't swear at me.
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  Man, I was born in bad Manner, yes, uh, yeah,
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  of course I'm ready. I'm ready for the tour now. So aside from
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  your standard like jocks and socks and clothing, like, what is one thing
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  that you're always pack when you're going away on your maid. Humor? What's
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  that? Of course you don't know what that is. I'll explain it.
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  It makes you laugh. Humor, Oh humor. I thought you said,
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  schuma hum Yes he may, yes so ill. Of course you have to
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  have your t shirts that you wear, and you have to add your shoots
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  that you wear, and whatever shoes you're wearing, money and passports, all
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  the essentially need nothing else. It's actually interesting. Do you raise humor?
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  Mate? Like? Do you guys have been around for a while and over
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  the years, like I suppose people's perception of humor and what you can and
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  can't say is change the hell of a light? Like do you find yourself
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  sort of second guess in yourself sometimes? Or do you still just let it,
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  let it blurt out and people take it well or they don't. Well,
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  I'd let it blurt out usually. Yeah, I don't really care if
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  I offended anybody, but I'm not living an offensive person. It can be
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  if it's pointed in my direction. And I'm guessing the Greatest Hits set list
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  is largely made up of fan favorites, but if you've got to personally pick
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  a Greatest Hits set list made, How different would it be your personal greatest
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  hits to what the fans like? What s Yeah, like I said,
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  you've got to play at the set list at the fans one here, I
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  guess in the greatest hits, but the fans greatest hits necessarily yours. Well,
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  not quite but yes, I mean not far from it. I mean
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  that all the real you live are usually my favorite, and it's become I'm
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  the holder of band, but I'm a lad to choose, so I mean
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  songs that made people dance, boys work with me, So that's my yep,
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  that's fair. Also, and it's been a couple of years since you've
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  been a mate. So what can fans expect from the show? Well,
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  the only thing that kept me away was COVID well and and ask bloody promoters,
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  But what can people expect? You're going to expect bad manners, being
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  the same old, bloody crazy party that they always have been. We will
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  certainly have a guest that are from your country, and maybe some guests from
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  New Zealand. Uh that that's that's generally how it goes over there. We're
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  sorry, but most places we nowadays we usually have an Australian or New Zealand
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  members of the band because it made sense going across boulders and of course we
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  haven't got a travel all the way from here, so they'll be about four
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  English manners, and we made up of what the combination of Australian and New
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  Zealand and and Zax, Yeah and Zach. It's a big an Zax.
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  Very care. So you guys celebrate your fiftieth anniversary in just three years time,
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  mate, So they all are appropriate to sort of go back in history
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  of it, mate. So if we can go back to the beginning of
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  Bad Manners, like if Ford while you're still in high school back in ninety
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  seve any six mates, So what was the musical climate like back then they
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  gave birth to the band and where did you fit in initially? Well,
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  now we always wondered, but seven six time we started. And if you
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  think of seventy six the start of punk really, so it was the time
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  when the punk bands were having their first hit. We took another three years
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  before we got a first hit. But you know, it doesn't really matter
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  in the strange things that go on in the world, but we certainly enjoyed
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  ourse in that end days we're playing with a punchers but with a scar field.
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  So it was always very good for us early days. So what was
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  your early vision for the band back then made and then how has it changed
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  over the years? The vision what's never continue as long as we did and
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  we our main ga game at the time was just to gather supporters and get
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  and get the going is what we thought we had to do. And that
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  was our attitude for the good ten years of just starting the party wherever it
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  was and we played clousers. Most observers say that the band peaked in the
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  late nineteen seventies and early eighties. Was you a great Do you think that
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  was the strongest period of band manners? No, I wouldn't three, because
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  throughout there's always been a great live feel to us. Sometimes when we was
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  at our height, as you say, I believed that we had better love
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  bands. Later we learned to play so tatrically and it got better, and
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  you know, no, it did, and it got better than we mastered.
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  The art of playing live one of the one of the biggest draw cards
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  to a bad managed sohow wasn't always has been your good self made there and
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  you're on stage and it so how much of that is rehearsed or thought out
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  and how much is actually just had lived and made up on the spot.
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  I think a lot is made up on the spot. I do a basic
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  thing every gig, but you know, slightly changed here and there. But
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  I'm slowing down. I'm getting holder. I know it's not what I no,
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  it's not what you're supposed to say, but it's true cleaning my age
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  these days on stage and that's still performed and enjoy it. And the cloud.
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  I'm sorry. People around me seemed to say that it's not changed at
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  all, don't but I know it has. I know it blowed down a
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  little. Not the bass elves, they hadn't continued to do it. But
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  I just feel that I'm not moving as much as I used to. Well,
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  she's understandable, broth. You bet you've done your fair shar of moving
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  about over the years. I had indeed done my fair said so nobody really
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  can complain to me. But but I just sort of feel like I'm letting
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  the side down. But I know I'm not. But it is a bit
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  of a a strangeful it would be. But I love, I love what
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  I'm still doing and I wouldn't want to take it away from myself. It
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  just it's just it's just a bit more hard work. And it's ever since
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  COVID and I thought you know that sort of but clear up a bit m
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  so looking back then, mate, Like, what would you say as some
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  of your personal highlights of your career so far? Well, the fact that
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  we tour all over the world and still do that is a real highlight for
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  me. I mean, I do still love playing live and which is quite
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  incredible. Really. There's not many places that we hadn't been, certainly not
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  majors places. And of course two times have we enjoyed looking about in various
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  countries when we're off stage in outside to Rome and the Colosseum's closed. Typical
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  bad manners. Well we believe we can't curse against us on vehicles, any
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  vehicle we ever used seems to mock up. Yeah, it's around the bad
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  manners girls, yea. And in your time in music, mate, like
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  the music scenes changed a lot, to say the least, Like have you
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  ever sort of tried to change with it at all? Or have you sort
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  of more done your own thing the whole way through we have always done our
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  whole thing. Maybe it's a bit selfish, but yeah, we couldn't be
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  bothered to follow fashion or or do with how the bands do. I'm certainly
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  that nobody's going to tell us what to do, so we've done it ourselves.
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  Yeah, thanks all. And looking through a discography, mate, like
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  your last album stupidly came out in two thousand and one, Like you're still
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  giving thoughts that maybe listen anything new in the future or have you done with
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  albums now? You're destroying We have done with albums now. I'm feeling like
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  next year is going to be a new album. Nice, we really deserved,
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  well, the people really deserve a new album. It must be getting
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  a bit bored of the old song. So we've got to do a new
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  album. But I mean, you know, on the inverge of writing stuff.
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  So I've said, so next year we're all sits going to take some
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  time out and write an album. It's because we never had time now.
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  Yeah, it makes it difficult to just keep playing. I should just keep
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  playing. You should never had time to write songs, and songs are really
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  what keep us going. M Now. I don't ask this question to many
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  people maybe you're one of the few people out there who's actually in a position
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  to having aion. So what would you say your top three commandments of punk
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  would be top three coundents of commandments of punk punking scar scar Yeah, yeah,
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  the what my three commandments? What you must do? Yeah, well
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  you need to add a dance of dance is the most important part of scar
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  A great. Learn an instrument and it's fantastic. Then I can bully you,
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  Yeah, I do with all the other bad manners. That's two third
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  one eat healthy Yeah, very cool, very cool. Now, so before
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  we let you go, mate, have you started up doing three different Spotify
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  playlists made up of songs from people that we interview, So you in your
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  own songs? Can you give me one song that to get the party started,
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  a right, one song to one song to save your marriage, and
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  one song that could be so so start again? Okay, So one song
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  to get the one song to get the party started, one song to save
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  your marriage, and one song that could potentially end your marriage. Okay,
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  piloty started. Definitely please some fats h Are you talking about bad manner songs?
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  Yeah, gotta be They've gotta be bad manner songs yet Okay, all
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  right, men will start again, okay to get the marriage broke it up?
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  Yeah, definitely be lip up fatty yeah yeah. The first song would
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  have to be my Girl's Lip yep, and the third one it can't just
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  repeat the question. One one that could save your marriage, Lorraine, Lorraine
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  beautiful. I led those straight away to write mate. But in the meantime,
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  thanks very much for your time. Tonight Bad Manners hit Australia for the
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  Greatest Hits tours starting on October the sixth, So check out all your socials
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  for tickets and we'll see at the Brisbane show. My friend def and Me
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  and made too come and say hello. Well for sure that means everyone no
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  worries at all. I'll make sure the word gets passed around. Yes,
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  straight to anywhere. Now's made. Enjoy your day.