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Celebrations All Round With CAM BAINES From BODYJAR · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Okay, my name to Camp and are playing a band from album called Buddy
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  Joe. We've been around for a while, played punk rock, and we're
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  doing a tour with one of our favorite bands, Gyroscope, who sort of
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  came up at the same time as us, I guess in early two thousands
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  or whatever, and they're celebrating ten years of their album Breed Obsession, and
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  we're celebrating twenty five years of No Touch Red, which is I guess the
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  album that a lot of people like to hear life. So yeah, So
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  we're doing this big tour in September. We're coming to Cool Coolie and Brisbane
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  and we're Melvin Sidney, Perth, Adelaide, Tazzi. So yeah, should
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  be good, beautiful game. Thanks for joining us today, Buddy, No
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  worries. I'm not sure if you're gonna want to hear this a lot,
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  mate, But I started googled body Jar just before to try and get a
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  few few facts right before we chatted, and you come up under pop music?
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  Was that? Sorry? Have up under pop music? Oh? Really?
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  Yeah? I hope I got the right band, but yeah, it
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  was definitely you. Oh once, I don't know, probably, yeah,
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  I don't know, I guess it's got pop elements to it. It's it's
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  it's got melodies, you know pop though, no way in the world,
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  no, it's weird. Oh well, I guess you get it. As
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  long as he getting mentioned, I guess doesn't matter. True, as he
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  said, road bodyge I hit the road for a dual anniversary chour with Gyroscope,
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  starting in Sydney on September the first, before going through Brisbane, Gold
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  Coast, Perth, Bunbrie, Hobart, Adelaide and finishing in Melbourn on September
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  sixteen. So not far off. Maybe you packed and ready to go?
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  H not quite yet. I usually do my packing the morning that we go,
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  which really freaks out my wife. But yeah, I just but we're
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  all we're jammed up. We've been practicing, We've been like running through the
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  odd songs and making sure we've got a few, you know, a little
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  surprises for the crowds and stuff, and some of the Melbourne shows, some
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  of the ex members and stuff will be getting up to do a few songs
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  and you know, so I feel mentally prepared, musically prepared, and you
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  know, I think the rest of us, I think we're rare and to
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  go. We've been planning this for a while and it's you know a lot
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  of the shows are sold out and everything, so we're, you know,
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  we're we're hoping for a banger, you know. Yeah, And of course
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  you were celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of the album No Touch Red, so
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  you're going to be playing that in fall, I believe. Yeah, we'll
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  do that all for full, in full, start to finish, and then
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  we just do whatever people want to hear or whatever populous songs people want to
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  hear, you know, not the same one in a million, you know,
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  Surrender, all those sort of I guess songs people want to hear.
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  Whatever people yell out, we'll just play it. That was it difficult to
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  actually do that, bro? Like when you wrote the album, I couldn't
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  imagine you ever thought you'd be playing at front to back one day, so
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  you would have done things that maybe, Yeah, yeah it is. It's
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  it's difficult playing an album that you made twenty five years ago because I don't
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  know, you wrote songs differently back then, so you're like, wow,
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  how do we do that bit? And how the hell are we doing?
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  You know, why does that big going to that bit. It's weird,
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  so you do have to practice. It's one of those things like people are
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  like, oh, you can just get out there and play, but nah,
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  it's it's a it's an album that we haven't played much of. We
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  play usually live, we play remote control or you say, so, we
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  maybe play three songs off that album, but now we've got to play all
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  twelve of them, So you've got to You've got to practice it. I
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  got to sit at home. I've created a little space where I can just
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  jam it out. We've got a stereo in an app and I can just
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  sit there and learn it or you know. So it's just like relearning stuff
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  that you actually created, which is kind of weird, but in a way,
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  it makes you sort of realize what your band's all about. You sort
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  of do you sort of do get a new sort of I guess, a
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  new liking for where you came from sort of thing, or you just understand
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  it a little bit better because you've gone back over your past a bit,
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  if you know what I mean. True, Yeah, that album came out
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  in nineteen eighty eight, bro, so I can't add up. So that's
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  what they call your pop music. They have. Yeah, that might be
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  it might be the other pop pop band. But what position was Bodies Are
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  In at that time made? And how did that album impack your career?
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  Well, it was the first album that that sort of got any radio and
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  it was weird it was. That was our third album, so our first
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  two album first album was produced by Bill and Stephen from Descendants and we probably
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  weren't ready for that, and the second album was really fast and technical,
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  and this album, I think we found a good balance, you know,
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  and it got a bit of radio, and we made videos for it,
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  and you know, it really kind of set us on our path. And
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  we also we toured Japan and America and a few other places with it.
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  So it was the first album that got any real kind of success, I
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  guess. So maybe that's why people people like it so much. And it
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  was recorded in Montreal, Canada at the Moron Hype Studio. So back then
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  recording overseas wasn't really that big a thing as it is day. So why
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  did you choose Canada to do that? Because we wanted to use this guy,
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  Jim Munroe, who just produced an album called rig by a band called
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  fast Sight, who we loved and that they were on Revelation, which is
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  like a really really well respected hardcore or label from New York, and that
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  we were on that they released the album before this One Room Shot. So
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  we wanted to record this album with that producer, and he was American,
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  and I think it was easier to get him to go to Canada where we
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  were on tour already doing the snow Jam tour, and to record the album
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  at the end of that tour and get him to fly to Canada and meet
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  us at this studio. So that just seemed like a better plan than getting
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  all of us to America to do it at his place, you know.
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  So, but that studio is rad It's where Cory Hame recorded Sunglasses at Night,
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  I mean Corry Hart, and it's where the Police recorded Synchronicity there and
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  Police recorded a few albums, and it's actually a really famous studio if you
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  google it, and there's a there's a bakery because it's French Canada, so
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  there's a bakery up the road called King of Pain and pain is like bread
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  French for bread, and that's where that's where Sting got the name for the
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  Police song King of Pain. Yea. Yeah, it's cool, and you
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  know it's on the edge of this river. It was winter, so I
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  was snowing. We could row this boat across the river to the studio every
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  morning because we were staying in the stockhouse. It was gnarly. It was
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  our first time we'd ever experienced like world class studio. I mean they had
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  people there that could get you anything. Like every day this girl would come
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  and go, guys, what do you want? And we're like, I
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  can you get me some weed or you know, some buds or something.
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  She could really that's all. You don't want anything else? Or nah,
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  She's like, you could get anything you want. You know, holy shit,
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  this is full. No, just get us, like, you know,
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  some fruit, juice and some weed. You know, that'll be satisfy.
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  I don't believe you. Also drunk out of stings coffee cup and played
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  his taps with tambourine. We paid his tambarine, yeah, I was sitting
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  there, and his coffee cup. Yeah. There was a few like really
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  cool objects that other bands had used in there. I mean, I think
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  the BJ's recorded Saturday Night Fever there. There was a couple of little things
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  that they left behind and we stayed in the same place the Police stayed at
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  and because I was a massive at the time and I still am, I
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  guess I was a big fan of the Police, so it was a big
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  deal to me that they'd recorded there. Yeah, it was just a cool
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  little experience. You know. It nearly didn't happen because when we got there
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  the first day we were loading in Grant, the bass player, he slammed
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  our drummer's hand in the car door. It was like a tarago with the
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  sliding door and he's whacked it and it nearly broke his hand. We thought
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  we were fucked, like we can't record the album, but for some reason
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  it didn't break his hand. It was we got away with it then,
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  So lucky kid. So do you remember what your actual thoughts were on the
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  album once it was finished? So did you think it was going to be
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  a ground breaker? Player? I thought it was definitely rawer and fast because
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  we've just come off to her. We were raw, like we were playing
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  really fast and we were tight, and it was it was a raw sounding
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  album, and I thought that's probably what we need to do, like,
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  let's just keep it super raw. And we didn't finish at all. Our
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  engineer was just on, just doing a lot of coke, and at the
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  end of it he just passed out and we could not wake him up.
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  We had two days left and he just slept the whole time. We had
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  to We had to finish it off in Melbourne. We did the last little
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  bit at Sing Sing like, We did some baselines, did some overdiles,
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  and then we sent it to Bill and Stephen from Descendants to mix it at
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  their studio. And I remember them sending us little mixes on cassettes, like
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  sending us a little mix and then we had to write notes and then give
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  them a call to change little things. And it was it was a different
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  time, you know. Before that, I guess we didn't even really have
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  the Internet to you know, to listen to mixes and stuff. So we
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  just did it all, you know, by mail. So so yeah,
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  very cool. What about now, what are your thoughts on it now?
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  Twenty five years later? I still did it. I mean, obviously there's
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  things I can't work out, there's things that I probably wouldn't do now.
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  But I think it's got its charm. It's got it's got some cool,
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  cool little songs and cool parts like it'll have like a verse chorus and a
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  little extra bit doesn't probably need to be there, but it's there because we
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  could do it, you know, it was it was cool. It didn't
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  have any A and R people from the record company, no one interfered in
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  it. We just did exactly what we wanted to do, you know,
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  so it's really pure. I think it's cool. I dig it. I
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  sort of touched on this before. But every classic Australian band has got that
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  one song they have to do live, like Screaming Jets has got better,
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  Paul has got the vinyls that I touched myself, like which one is yours
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  would be not the same? Or one in a million, Yeah, it's
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  probably not the same. One in a million. And Hazy Shade a winner,
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  you know that seemed like the three but we were lucky. On the
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  last album. We've got this song called Surrender that we've been finishing with and
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  that a lot of people ask for that, which is which is good because
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  it's not often you get to play get your new stuff. But we've got
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  this album called New Rituals and it's got that, and it's got Rain which
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  is a cover from a Dragon cover and so we do those live and they
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  go down pretty good too. But yeah, we're lucky we've got a couples.
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  I guess it's good just to have those, you know what I mean,
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  You've just got to, you know, be grateful that you've you've you've
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  got them, you know, so not the same. Yeah, you're probably
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  right, it's not the same. Do you ever be ever do shows when
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  you just think, fuck it, I'm not going to play it. See
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  what the audience thinks now, because I hate it when bands do that.
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  I hate it when bands, you know, going on, we're not going
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  to play our big single. I was like, well, fuck, you
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  know, like so many people want to hear it, and you know,
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  it probably made you a lot of money and it made you what you are
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  now. So you've got to have a bit of respect to the audience.
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  And I think you've got to play your hits if that if that's what,
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  if that's what you want to call them. You know, remember Dave Gleason
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  tell me once it since Betty came out, they haven't done one show.
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  Oh they haven't played better. That's good. A lot of bat Man I
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  respect that good. He knows people want to hear it and he wants to
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  put it on a good show for him, you know. So yeah that's
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  cool, Yeah, very cool. And your touring partners, guys is a
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  Gyroscope or Gyroscope Gyroscope Ascope celebrate fifteen years of their album Breed Obsession by doing
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  a similar thing. So yeah, the reasoned that album Snake Skin and like
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  it's just it's a corker. I love that band. They're my favorite,
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  probably my favorite Uzzi band. So they've got they've got a couple of really
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  good albums. That album went Gold. It's got some When you see them
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  play love one of those bands where it's like every song you know but you
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  didn't realize you knew it, you know what I mean. So they've probably
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  got six or seven songs you go, oh fuck, yeah, that's that's
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  right, you know. And they just live. They're just super good,
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  super good live band, really good singer, like yeah, just and really
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  funny dudes. I love them and we get along. Well. We did
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  like a little run of shows with them maybe three months ago in your South
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  Wales. We just did three three shows. One was on a boat in
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  Sydney Harbor and one was in Moreland Gold Mom was in Newcastle and they all
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  went really well. I think the crowds because we both came up at the
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  same time. It's a similar kind of crowd. So it just works good.
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  We're just taking it in turn and so they'll headline one night, we'll
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  headline the next night, you know. Yeah, it works out good.
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  Oh so that's all one's up on September sixteen. What's the next for Body's
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  Jar? After that, start doing a new album. So yeah, it's
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  been over it years to tell lust one. So we've got to start,
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  you know, rehearsing, writing songs and you know the usual ship, try
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  and get something up to scratch, you know, which takes a while.
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  Now before I let you go, Cab, we're starting up three news Spotify
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  playlists through heavy and we're getting the artists to select the song, so using
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  your own songs. They give us one song that's going to get you ready
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  to party, yeah, one song that's going to save your marriage, and
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  one one a song that could potentially end your marriage. Shit, well not
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  the same could definitely end your marriage, yeah, because it's it's basically a
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  sour grapes. You know, you're not the person I'm believed in yesterday.
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  Hope Was Leaving is a song I wrote for my then partner is now my
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  wife, So I would say that that could that could be good for your
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  relationship. Hope was Leaving, It's off, It's off role model and probably
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  it's someone wants to get your party and is surrender off. The last album
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  just got a real up to the vibe. It's cool all right. Well,
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  thanks for your time today, brother, Sure with a Gyroscope starts on
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  September first, so you get your tickets now from all the usual outlets,
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  mate, and we'll see you either the Brisbane or the Gold Coach Show.
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  Brother. Awesome mate, thanks for having us my pleasure brother. You take
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  care so seam mate,