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Tearing Down The System With TIM HENWOOD From PALACE OF THE KING · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Bhi, guys, this is then, would hear from Palace of the King.
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  We've got our brand new single, Tear It Down out right now,
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  and our album's coming out December fourteen, and we're touring in December, so
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  we've got heaps of stuff going on and it's great to be here, beautiful.
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  Thanks for joining us today, brother, Thanks for having me. Chris,
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  my pleasure. So as you say, man POLISI King ever released your
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  new single Chair Down just today, So I know it hasn't been long,
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  mate, but how's the earlier resupposed to been. Yeah, it's been great
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  because it's quite a pretty full on riffy song. So I've been trying to
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  We've been I don't know if you've noticed, You've been putting a new song
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  out pretty much every eight weeks for months now, and I've been trying to
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  mix it up. So the last one was a bit more of a cruisy
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  American black crosy kind of thing, and this one's much more fast, rifty,
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  kind of Stevanies tinged coins of the Stone Age kind of thing. So
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  yeah, I've been trying to mix it up. So every time I put
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  you know, a new post saying here's a new single. The fans of
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  the band are all like, what, I wasn't expecting this a banger.
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  I like to say, she's a very up tempo rock song, mate,
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  So what's it actually about. Well, it's really about you know, sort
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  of looking at a situation or a relationship or a person or you know,
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  it can be sort of directed anyway where you just kind of so frustrating you
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  just want to tear it all down and just go screw this, I need
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  to start again. You know. It's one of those kind of it's that
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  kind of situation. Yeah, And of course the song is taken from your
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  new album Friends in Low Places, which is due out of December four the
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  end. So you said you've sort of released a few different songs made,
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  but is this one of good sonic representation or what do we expect? Yeah,
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  we had I produced album myself, and then it's taken time. We've
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  kind of been going in and out of the studio and then we've had a
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  lot of different mixes, mix mix different songs. So tear It Down was
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  mixed by Steve James, who you probably know from the Screaming Jets. So
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  it's been it's from the screaming jets. You know, he's a producer of
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  most of their records. It's been had different mixes coming every now and then.
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  Ricky Ray mixed most of the album. Ricky Ray, who does a
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  lot of the stuff with the Baby Animals. So it's been we've had a
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  few different mixes actually, but sonically I feel like it's very got a sound
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  about it, because the band's got a sound about it. You know,
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  when I say I produce the records, I'm basically the guy who's the conduit
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  for the band. I record the band live and then I go away and
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  do all the vocals and all that sort of stuff. The new single is
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  a fast up tenpo one. We've got cruisy ones, We've got songs that
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  are more bluesy, but ultimately it all it's sort of like a guitar orientated
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  heavy rock band, you know, that's what we're about. Tell us a
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  bit more about the album from a musical point of view, made like,
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  did you sit down with the focus in mind of where you go or did
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  you let me dictate the direction we knin'd of What we basically do is we
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  get everyone sort of comes to the table with ideas a lot of the musical
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  ideas come from Shawnee Johnson, a keyboard player in Palace. He's been with
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  the band since the start. So but everyone comes to the table with ideas,
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  so some other people get involved as well, Cam Cameron mcglinchy, the
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  drummer who also plays with Skimming Jets. You know, Anthony and I wrote
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  Children of the Evolution. Lee Madden has come back to the band. So
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  ultimately we get together and we record everyone's musical ideas in the studio and then
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  some songs make it and some don't. So work through the songs. We
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  might have twenty songs. We'll start getting things closer to finished, and then
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  someone might put their hand up and say, hey, this fits. You
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  know, I don't know if this sounds like us or things like that.
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  Usually it's Shawne that I'll bounce things off. I trust his instincts, and
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  if he says, look, man, I think it's really good, but
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  I don't think it's a Palace song. So then that's how the album finds.
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  It's found and get sort of honed down. It's like, you know,
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  it's like we're polishing a diamond and sort of slowly but surely things get
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  cut away, and then in the end we usually end up with ten songs
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  that sound like a congruent sort of album, all all of the same kind
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  of of the same time, you know, and then the other songs get
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  put to the side and you never know they something might come with them one
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  day. We've got a lot of stuff on hard drives, live recordings,
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  songs, we've never released songs with guest singers, not There's all sorts of
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  stuff. And you mentioned before, but you produce and record everything on the
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  album. So what are some of the pros and tons to start having someone
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  in house form that role. Well, a big pro is that any money
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  and I've got a great studio space, so we get to use that without
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  having to spend a lot of money as well, and so that's a big
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  pro. I think. Also, we've been in the band since it started.
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  I really know how everyone works, and I know when to give someone
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  some space and when to push someone and when to encourage someone. You know,
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  sometimes I have to encourage some of the quieter guys to bring their ideas.
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  So I think I just know I've got a great relationship with everyone in
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  the band. I really know what I'm after and then as we go along,
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  I have to sort of, you know, cross reference and make sure
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  everyone agrees we're on the same path. So I think there's a lot of
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  pros I don't I think the only negative, mind is that I would love
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  to just sit back, write the songs, sing the songs, and sit
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  back and let someone else do everything else. But I don't know if that
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  would end up being a pro because a lot of times you can end up
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  with a producer who just wants to make their records so they run away with
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  something, you know, and that as we both know, as you know,
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  that that can be a great thing. I mean, look at what
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  mart Lane did was back in Black, you know, so that was he
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  you know, and Bob Rock with the Metallic Black album. You know.
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  Whether you like those albums or not, they basically part of the band,
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  those guys in that situation, and they made two of the biggest rock albums
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  of all time. So who knows. I mean, we got the studio
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  with mart Lang, he might make an amazing record. That's our best record
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  ever. At this point though, I feel like we're cruising along really nicely
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  and we're making great records, and I know, be inner working is better
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  than anyone and I feel really good about it the way we work, and
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  you're hitting the raid in Decembers from the album made, so where's that going
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  to take out? Well, So it's been a bit hard to tour since
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  the pandemic. When we were coming out of the pandemic, Cam and Sewne
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  and myself all got offered really good gigs because everyone suddenly went back out on
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  the road and suddenly started putting new members in their bands and and got really,
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  really busy. So I was asked to play John Stevens, Cam was
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  asked to play drums and join the Screaming Jets. Shawne was asked to play
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  keyboards with James Rain. So of course I said to everyone, you know,
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  they didn't need my permission, but it was we would have been after
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  two years of no work. I think that was. They were great opportunities.
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  So I just said, look, let's just focus on new music and
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  we'll work out touring around these guys, which we've done. So December comes
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  about. It comes about because the Jets, James and John are all off
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  the road and we're going to do an East coast run. So we're going
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  to do. We're going to rehearse infiron. We've got a gig on the
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  December fourteenth at Moe's on the Gold Coast and then or Burly Heads and then
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  Friday at Kingsley in Brisbane and then Saturday at The Duke in Sydney and the
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  Sunday at the Basement in Canberra and Monday at Shopkickers in Melbourne. So it's
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  just an East Coast run at this point because we had to sort of squeeze
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  it in before Christmas. Yeah, and what can fans expect from Palace the
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  King on those shows, mate, Well, it's going to be a whole
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  new thing because we've got a whole new album. So we're trying to learn
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  the new songs as we see and the ones that feel best will put them
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  in the set with a bunch of classics from the olds. I mean,
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  we've got two EPs and three albums to draw from before this new album,
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  so there's a lot of material. So I hope that people you come along
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  and there's a song you want to hear from a classic Palace album over the
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  last ten years, you know, by all means, give me a yell
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  or send us a message and let us know if there's a song you really
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  want to hear, and we'll do our best to do it at the gigs.
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  But what you can expect is a full on, you know, hardcore
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  bluesy rock band playing sort of you know, in a seventies slash current style.
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  You know, it's lots of great musicianship. The boys are all amazing
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  at their at their instruments, and I'll just get up the front and screen
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  good. Thanks very much for your time to I've brot been a pleasure speaking
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  with you. Tear it Down is out Rinds of Low Places out December fourth,
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  the eighth, and the troll kicks off around say Tim saying good amongst
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  it. Yeah, thank you night. Thanks for having us, and thanks
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  for the support. We really appreciate it. I'm sending you that's up your
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  buck. You got the time and the money into the West, you come,
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  Tommy, and you never did come back. Then, don't need to
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  the West again topping the bub and I'm again I'm to try it so mad
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  you're not so to come in through the im not somewhere a man somewhere I
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  s I said to get ou sad. I don't mind. I'm the good
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  of thy don't send you from from you can't not nobody where I don't try.
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  Not tell me though, but doctor, your doctor know. If so
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  loves Harry Fair, if still lives, Harry said, I'll send you up
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  the broad come down the money to do with no Mommy, You never there.
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  Now, I'm don't I get down where you don't say I'm going say
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  that said. Don't that said anything. Don't that said. Don't that said.
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