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Taking Out The Garbage With RORY MCDONALD From VOODOO BLOO · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Have a hard time with the bag around, Famous on finding new ways,
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  new achieve as confidences stop, haven't a hard time put it into the blows,
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  war on finally realizing you're on it's your time now. So I'm Rory
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  from Foody Blue and I play the guitar and sing in the band. We're
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  a bit of an alt rock indie rock outfit out of New Zealand and we've
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  just had a new single come out called Hot Garbage, which is more in
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  the punky realm of Fiagra boys and idols. We're super stoked to have it
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  out and yeah, beautiful or thanks for joining us today, brother, Yeah,
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  yeah, thank you for having me. Thank you for having me.
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  It's awesome pleasure, says you. Sam Voodoo Boo recently released this single,
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  Hot Garbage. Like I know, it hasn't been out that long, but
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  how's the earlier reception been. Yeah, the reception, The reception has been
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  great. I think one thing that we've gotten pretty often with this single is
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  that it's quite reminiscent of the stuff we were originally doing about about four years
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  ago. But it's just a level above sort of what we were doing,
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  and it kind of from the people that I've spoken to has sort of shown
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  a bit more maturity in what we're doing, even though I would like to
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  say that the things that we're talking about are probably a lot less mature.
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  But it's I don't know, it's just really cool to here that it's it's
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  more of what people like from us, but it's it's been taken into a
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  completely different direction and it sounds better than it has done before. Well,
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  so let's go into that a bit deeper Musically. May like it's more of
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  a punk song then than the rock song that he's been doing the last couple
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  of years, isn't it. M Yeah, Yeah, absolutely, And I
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  think I think that that comes down to the last to two albums, well,
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  especially the last one that we did, being a lot about like themes
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  and concepts and and and all of that kind of crap, and then I
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  was like, wait a minute, nobody's gonna care. I need, I
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  need. I need to put something out there that I am just having fun
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  with And if if I can't show that I'm having fun on a record,
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  then other people aren't gonna be having fun with it either. So I think
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  that that was a really important part for me. Is I could obviously still
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  write about things that matter. But I think I think there's not been too
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  hard on myself about like, oh, but this song needs to fit with
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  this song in some thematic way, and I need to talk about these things.
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  It's like, no, let's let's let's put down some really cool drums
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  and guitar and bass, and let's just think about what seems relevant at the
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  time. So, yeah, if you say you're sort of gone back to
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  your roots a little bit with the punk Star, like, did you actually
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  sit down to write this song like that or did it just sort of come
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  out by that the song really started how a lot of songs off of what
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  we're doing now has and that is just by getting a drum machine to to
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  just just play along to something really quickly, I'll layer in some bass,
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  a layer and some guitar, and I'll just I'll just keep going like that.
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  I think the drums are a lot more important than they have been on
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  previous records. It's it's really just mean about how the groove and the beat
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  sort of make the song go along, rather than thinking about, Oh,
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  there's this cool riff or there's this cool vocal that I have. It's like
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  it's very much driven by the drums, and you guys actually produced this song,
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  is selves made. So what's what's some of the advantages and disadvantages of
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  keeping that within the band. Yeah, so I think I think time management
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  is probably something that doesn't go too well because we think, ah, the
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  producers, the drummer, we can, we can get him in whenever we
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  want to. You know, we're not We're not paying for his time or
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  anything like that. So I think maybe the song took a little bit longer
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  than it should have to get out there. But I think that the real
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  real positive of it is, you know, a producer leaves their mark on
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  an album quite significantly, and in a way, it becomes even though they're
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  your songs, it becomes their version of the record. It's it's their way
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  of putting pen to paper, I guess, even though everything's being pre made.
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  And I think the advantage, the real advantage of having the producer be
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  us as a band is that we we know what we think we should sound
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  like, and that's and that's what we have to portray, is what's in
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  our heads. We don't have to explain to anybody else what's in our head.
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  It just comes out and we go does this sound right? Does this
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  sound wrong? And we and we go from there. So I definitely think
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  it's a more authentic way of us making making the songs. Now, if
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  you're plan to release two more singles in the lead up to your third album,
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  which comes out in June, so the next two songs sonically similar,
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  like they're more down the punk road? Are they sort of a bit diverse?
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  Ah? So I'm not having to try and think of which. Yes,
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  So each song is I would say, pretty wildly different from each other.
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  Everything. It is also similar in the sense that it's just very very
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  chaotic and hard hitting. All of the songs on this record are like that.
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  It is just continuously full force, very very loud. But I think
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  that we move you through some different different places in these next two singles that
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  are about to come up. Maybe a bit groovyer and maybe a bit more
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  a bit more happy on the one after, but yeah, that's sort of
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  the vibe. Tell us more about the album made. Have you got a
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  title for it? And then release date? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
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  so this we we haven't announced it to everybody yet, so we know that
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  there's more singles coming up, but it'll be it will be called Dead End
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  Rodeo and it will be coming out on June seventh. And yeah, it's,
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  as I said before, very chaotic, very intense, and can't wait
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  to share it with everybody when the time comes. I want to go into
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  the punk side of things a been more mate, Like you said that you've
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  tried your return to your punk roots on the whole of the new EP.
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  Like a lot of people say that punk's more of an attitude than the style
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  of music. So how do you actually embrace that to go back to the
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  punk style? Like is it Is it the attitude that you go into it
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  with? Is it the attitude you write songs with? Ah? Man,
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  I mean I think it's I think I think it's such a tough thing.
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  I mean, I think I think even in it's punkin itself is a bit
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  paradoxical, right because from my understanding, punk is not it's it's just anti
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  anti government and a lot of those sorts of things that it's sort of anti
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  established. But punk it itself has sort of become an establishment. So what
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  is the attitude at the end of the day. So I don't know,
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  And I mean, you look at you look at people like the Sex Pistols
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  and like uh Fugazi, and they are both considered punk deed and they don't
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  really even fit into the same realm. At the same time, they are
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  their own elements. But I guess, I guess our punk roots it definitely
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  comes from the music more than any sort of attitude. It's I think everybody
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  can hear when they hear a punk song. Is sort of sort of my
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  mindset about it. And I heard it for the first time and I was
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  like, Okay, this is a punk song, so we'll go with that.
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  We'll go. Yeah. Very Blue's still a relatively young band. Haven't
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  only started back in twenty twenty, mate, So describe your musical journey as
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  a band to this point. Yeah, absolutely, so a quick on it.
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  The band was originally started out of the death of another band. If
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  you've heard that story a million times before, it's anyway. So yeah,
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  we initially started and at the time, somebody who was pretty close to me
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  passed away, and I just thought that it was pretty relevant to me at
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  that point in time to get an album out. I always wanted to get
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  an album out before I was eighteen, So I managed to do that with
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  our first album, and like said Ghosts two years ago, which you am,
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  I in twenty twenty two as well, pretty much consistently the same lineup
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  up until last year Bassis left to go to New York. We got a
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  new basis then, and then we have recorded this new project that will be
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  coming out soon and it's yeah, it delves into both elements of the first
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  two hours, but I think it builds on it so so much more and
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  I think it's it's Yeah, it's the mest shuit we've ever done. And
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  you've got some live shows planned to sort of break in the album. Yeah,
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  yeah, absolutely so we are. We're planning in New Zealand tour for
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  sure. We're trying to figure out whether Australia is possible again because I'd love
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  to make it back over. It was super fun to do the shows that
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  we did in twenty twenty two to support the last album. So yeah,
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  fingers cross for that. Ye right, well, thanks very much for your
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  time today. The single Hot Garbage is out, now, can you tell
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  us when the next single is going to be out so people can say Nextflox?
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  Absolutely so the next single will be out March fifteenth called Cardboard Box Office.
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  It's a lot Grooviyer definitely takes more inspiration from like early two thousand's sort
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  of indie stuff ala Artic Monkeys or The Strokes, And I yes that that
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  tracks awesome and I cannot wait for people to hear that as well. All
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  right, brother, well you take carry yourself, might have looked forward to
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  hearing the new stuff, and hopefully you do make it back at or even
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  get to catch up for beer. Absolutely that sounds great. Thank you so
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  so much for having me again. Having a hard time with the back around
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  manus or not in your waist, new achieves confidence, So stop having a
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  hard time. Put it into the blows you look more on finally realizing you
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  are a hord. It's your time now, Realize that there's nothing to realize.
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  Can't figure around words at inside, stopping your pod with them, realize
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  it in your mouse, not in any o that course, way still in.
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  I got it, Fix you dong, will fix you, sown.
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  But the one that wore buck don is fix yourself. Lock got its,
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  fix yourself taking through the finser rotting hell the gender now the chance to stay
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  as well fuck done is fixed yourself lock, don is fix your dog,
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  taking through the finser rotting out the Jenner now a chance to stay as well.
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  I don't know love coming, That's not so Jo dot World. Don't
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  tell, that's not say don't, let's not, don't, let's not stop
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  sends you trouble you mother, su You say over, you say what brother?
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  Your son? What trouble your son to your mother? Don't