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Hello. Oh hey, Joel, how you going?
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Yeah, I'm just on a tram. I'm really hungover.
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Hey you know that, um, band competition we went in - So You Think You Can Copy.
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Yeah, we won man. We got a record contract out of it.
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We're with, like, Independent Records. They're like an offshoot of Sony.
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Ya. We have to make like one overhyped album.
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We get Molly Meldrum kudos, Rage guest programming rights, a memory stick of Myspace Friends
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and we can write the soundtrack of an ad of our choice.
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Na man we haven't sold out, we've still got creative control.
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Oh, our t-shirts, yeah extra smalls have gone.
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We like changed our name too, we're like Rage Against The Sewing Machine,
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we're all about anger and fashion.
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How is your album going?
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Yeah you laid down some tracks?
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Oh, actual tracks, for Connex? Yeah right.
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I guess you've got to pay for the studio hire huh?
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What's it called again? 'Z-sides and Demos.'
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What's a greatest hits concept EP?
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Nothing but secret tracks. Yeah right.
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Are you worried about people burning it?
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I meant in a fire.
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Hey, did I mention we picked up a grant?
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Yeah, Grant Taylor, our bass player.
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We picked him up from the side of the road,
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He was like passed out.
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Ya, we had to deal with an agent and everything.
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Domestos mainly, he was in pretty bad shape.
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Riding around on the 86, So Hungover.
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Gonna go down to JB Hi-Fi, Flick through Indie.
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Ya so um, last night we supported uh, Pose Tattoo,
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like they're fronted by Sad Sanderson down at the Fitzroy anti-social club. Ya.
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It was alright man but you know the mixing was really bad.
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Like, my G & T didn't even have lemon in it.
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You know like the band's really gelling, like our hair,
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it's just like we're going through an 80's thing at the moment.
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anyway man sorry I couldn't come to your gig the other night,
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I just didn't really want to go.
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How was it?
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Ya, you smashed up your gear afterwards, that's pretty rock.
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Oh, in a car accident, yeah right, that's not so good man.
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Hey I had to go to hospital the other day too.
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It's these new jeans man. I just couldn't get my wallet out. Yeah.
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They had to cut me out. A local anesthetic.
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Riding around on the 86, So Hungover.
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Gonna go down to Pony, Pretend I'm in Kings of Leon.
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Ya, I just, I'm really busy you know,
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I've just got so much on my plate.
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I got this uh, tofu salad and it's just going everywhere man.
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You know this whole like record contract and stuff I just,
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I don't want it to go to my head you know
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the last thing I wanna do is become like a cliched character.
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Anyway man I better go I'm like running out of street credit but um,
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ya, it's a shame you can't come to my party.
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I know, I just didn't invite you though. Laterz.