And it wasn't really challenging.
And obviously you were talking earlier about some of the rockier songs and saying one of the more popular ones, Alligator,
has a wicked film clip. I wanted to know just quickly if anybody actually does that dance
that you guys do at your concerts.
I do, yeah. I mean, it's weird that I think actually, not that often, but last night I actually saw people
trying to do it and it was moist and I couldn't tell if they were like rocking us or if they were like
really legitimately into it. And so, yeah, but it's really funny because I love making art and making music
and doing all the things, but videos are like the thing that I like stress out the most about.
And I think it's just that, I think that we have a charisma.
I don't think we're like toads or anything, but I don't feel like an actor in any way
and I generally, when I see myself on film, I just have like a rational repulsion.
Not about Teagan, like completely this is completely about me, you know, but like
there was something really, really about being in snow suits and like letting other people do the dance.
Like we didn't do anything, we just sort of like, now we did the acting roles in the video.
We faked dancing once, we were like hell no, I'm not doing that, no way.
I hope the fans might fall, some of the dance moves out, just basically because you have crazy awesome fans.
Some of my friends, when I told them that I was coming today, one of them, you know, told me to
pronounce their marriage for you, try and grab a look of each of your hair.
But I was going to say, like how did they go when, especially at the concert that you played a while back
with the Jezebels or Gribbon Moe, how is it received, like how are your gigs for you?
For the most part, our last 12 years have been full of amazing gigs and amazing slots
like opening for bands like The Killers and Neil Young and Ryan Adams.
We've had great luck in support acts, like you know, we discovered the Jezebels here
and now they're doing so well and they're so amazing.
We didn't discover them, but we discovered that they were a wicked band.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, we discovered them here, like we were like in Australia when we heard them.
It wasn't like we found, it wasn't like we heard them on the radio, like we actually
literally encountered them here and that was really exciting, like you feel like,
it's like dumb luck, you know, like another Australian band, Ann Horace, we played at a record store
that Kate worked at and that's how we met her and ended up finding about her music.
So there's just all these really amazing kind of, you know, universal moments,
like where you just like discover great music and then you get to play on the same stage as those people
and it becomes part of why you do what you do.
Like at this point, it's not just the audience and it's not just the need to make money,
it actually is just about the experience of being out there sharing your music
and the bond that happens when you tour, like we've been on tour with Jack Johnson for only a week
and yet we're so bonded already because there's something about sharing that experience,
you know, standing up there, there's a lot of energy and power and emotion that comes from that experience.
So I think even the worst gigs on the planet are still pretty interesting
because you're still interacting with the audience in some way, even if it's not positive.
I was going to say one of my favourite gigs, obviously you didn't get to see it,
but it was in our ways of Dallas Green from Sitting Colour and you kind of got up to stage
and sung with you guys. That looked amazing just from looking at the footage,
but did you have one moment that stood out for you over the past ten or so years?
That's really hard, I mean that's really hard.
I think Deegan's right, there's something really special about the accumulation of experience
and all the shows that we've played on our own and opening for people and whatever,
there's just been lots of wonderful concerts and there's little milestones along the way where you,
and they're not always what you think they're going to be, like a lot of attention or focus will be put on
something really big like a big festival or something like that,
but sometimes it's just like the smallest shows that just, for whatever reason,
they just get into your brain and that's what you think about when you think about a great show
and it can be like 200 people, there could be an in-store, a record shop or something like that,
so there's been lots of really cool moments and you mentioned our fans,
they really are so enthusiastic and there's something really wonderful about them
and some of the earlier shows on our record, So Jealous, about 2004-2005,
I can remember that was when I really felt a momentum shift and we started doing a lot more of our own
headline gigs in the US and came over to Australia and toward Europe,
and those nights, maybe we'd be thrilled to get like 50 or 100 kids,
and just that raw power of just those kids singing along to songs,
that was really the first time in our career that I remember thinking,
we're really building something, this is really authentic,
we've been doing this for like five or six years and it's working,
it's taking a long time, it's taking a much longer time than we ever thought that it would,
I can remember thinking, this is really working.
