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Breakfast Bonus: Iva Davies of Icehouse · Toni, Jase & Sam - Breakfast Catchup

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  Speaker 1: The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Sam Do
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  Speaker 1: you love these songs?
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  Speaker 2: And she takes shoes.
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  Speaker 3: Friends, Electric ice House? How good are they?
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  Speaker 2: Are?
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  Speaker 3: They going to be on tour for the Greenstone Summer
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  Speaker 3: Concert Tour with Cold Chisel, Ever Clear and Big Longer
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  Speaker 3: Tee you more about it, just to tick. But the
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  Speaker 3: man behind those songs, the voice behind those songs as
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  Speaker 3: ither Dabies, we're lucky enough to catch up with him.
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  Speaker 3: And so you started out as a band called Flowers, right,
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  Speaker 3: but then there's another Scottish band that kind of made
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  Speaker 3: you change your name. What was that out about?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? And American and English International record Company they had
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  Speaker 2: a competition within the company to rename us when all
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  Speaker 2: of that legal business happened, and they came up with
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  Speaker 2: the fabulous name of Industrial Chile, so you can go there,
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  Speaker 2: which fortunately I said no to, and we adopted the
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  Speaker 2: name of our first album, which had already been released
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  Speaker 2: by then. That album, of course, was called ice House,
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  Speaker 2: and so that's the name that we've had ever since.
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  Speaker 4: I'd love you to talk me through the song electric
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  Speaker 4: Blue and what that was inspired by, because I have
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  Speaker 4: read something and I had no idea it was based
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  Speaker 4: off a woman.
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  Speaker 2: So I wrote this with John Oh's from Hall and Oates,
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  Speaker 2: and he's got a completely different story than I have
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  Speaker 2: about you know where that title came from. And he's
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  Speaker 2: I think he tells the story about going down to
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  Speaker 2: the Australian beach because he was out obviously visiting from
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  Speaker 2: America and seeing some young woman who was topless on
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  Speaker 2: the beach at that particular point of time because that
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  Speaker 2: was a sort of fashion back then, and being mesmerized
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  Speaker 2: by her blue eyes. I don't know whether that's correct
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  Speaker 2: or not.
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  Speaker 3: He's looking at her eyes?
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  Speaker 2: Was he? And my story is completely different. When we
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  Speaker 2: when we were starting out, we started out that had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of bands to it as a covers band,
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  Speaker 2: and one of those very early slightly obscure songs was
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  Speaker 2: a song called Jewel in It and we used to
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  Speaker 2: play this song and in that set of lyrics, her
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  Speaker 2: eyes are electric blue. And that was what I gave
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  Speaker 2: to John Oates when we were kind of scratching our
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  Speaker 2: heads at the point where you know, we've got to
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  Speaker 2: find a title for this thing, and you know, what's
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  Speaker 2: it called? What's it all about? Blah blah blah, And
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  Speaker 2: so that's what I came up with, and that's my
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  Speaker 2: story and I'm sticking to it.
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  Speaker 4: I kind of liked the idea of the whole topless woman,
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  Speaker 4: electric blue white. We might try and hunt her down.
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  Speaker 3: I was saying with Ivor Davies from Icehouse or on
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  Speaker 3: the way soon the Screenstone Summer Concert tour. But you
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  Speaker 3: know you mentioned David Bowie before, Iva, and I know
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  Speaker 3: that you guys have toured with David in the past,
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  Speaker 3: and you think back to those memories there, right and
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  Speaker 3: again you guys have been doing this since the late seventies.
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  Speaker 3: Is there a moment that you can remember you stood
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  Speaker 3: on stage you thought, how you know we've made it?
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  Speaker 3: This is us now, this is our time to be
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  Speaker 3: as big as you are now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we were incredibly lucky because we were invited to
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  Speaker 2: go on tour and we did his European shows and
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  Speaker 2: we arrived in Britain and I've got a photograph of
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  Speaker 2: David Bowie in a canary yellow suit, amazing color and
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  Speaker 2: looking out up this hill at seventy thousand people. Who
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  Speaker 2: but you can't actually see the end of the crowd.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's a massive crowd. And I've got it
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  Speaker 2: up on my kitchen wall, and every time I look
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  Speaker 2: at it, I think, well, I was standing exactly where
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  Speaker 2: he was standing about half an hour ago. Playing these
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  Speaker 2: huge crowds was quite a bluff for us. You can imagine.
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  Speaker 3: Did you turn into each other and say it's got
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  Speaker 3: to be crazy baby?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well it was long long before that song.
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  Speaker 2: It was so massive, it was incredible.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm interested to know, over all these years that
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  Speaker 4: you've been touring, how has what you do changed in
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  Speaker 4: terms of between concerts and what do you do in
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  Speaker 4: your downtime? Has it changed quite a bit over the years.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I've certainly got more time on my hands than
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  Speaker 2: I used to have. But no, no, it's it's it's
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  Speaker 2: interesting because I've in my garage at the moment, I've
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  Speaker 2: got my entire live, duplicate set of exactly what I'm
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  Speaker 2: using at the moment trying to get the guitars sound
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  Speaker 2: better than it's ever outed before.
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  Speaker 3: And this is in your garage. Your poor neighbors have
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  Speaker 3: over Thank you very much. Lucky you're a free con today,
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  Speaker 3: so you come into this great Southern Lands. He did
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