Glenworth Valley Weekender 99, Sally completely not 'with it', but hey she managed to catch up with Mr Nash and Mr Cranny of the Sydney band, 78 SAAB.
R - um, we've just been in the studio and we've recorded a new single which is entitled "Sunshine", which we played tonight, which features one of the loudest tambourine solos in rock'n'roll today, at least in Australian rock'n'roll. I played the tambourine tonight and took full credit, but in the live domain Nicholai actually played that tambourine and I wouldn't want to take any credit away from him. Nicholai, any comments on your tambourine track on sunshine?
N - it's lovely, two tambourines bashing against each other
R - a symphony of tambourines. We recorded this with Tim Whitten of grunge-rock-Powderfinger-Double Allergic fame and the wonderful wonderful Gaslight Radio album that came out last yeah, 24 minutes of..what was it called again?...i've got a deep affection for Gaslight Radio, Hitch on the Leaves...that was a swaying vote when it came to getting Tim Whitten to record us, we went in and intensively recorded 3 songs over 2 days and we were hoping to possibly win the lotto in the next five months and get Tim Whitten to record the rest of our album
S - no, you can't I have to win it
R - this side of....not this millennium but the next one, Y3K .so the next release from us will be a single that will come out before the end of the year accompanied by a lovely picturesque 16mm video clip featuring the beautiful (ben enters the room) Ben Nash and it's gonna be accompanied by a b-side which is a 4-track recording in his new kitchen which features a backwards synthesised flute/melatron sort of circa 66
B - I reckon it sounds really 'Strawberry Fields' because backwards stuff, you don't know what your playing when you play it forwards
R - so that's gonna be the wonderful b-side to the new single
B - and it's coming out real soon
R - ask Benny a question, he's very interveiwable
B - so where are you from?
S - Newcastle
R - Nashy turns the table on the interviewers by asking them the questions
B - seeing what answers they can come up with
What's your favourite telly show ever?
B - Fawlty Towers, definitely my favourite, like no current affairs, just good old fashioned rib tickling
R - bit of bum, bit of poo, bit of wee, sort of naughty humour
B - nah, it's not really, Benny Hill, it's just like straight out clever...I was actually in love with Polly as well
R - and a bit of racism as well, that Spanish bloke that's always on
B - Manuel
R - back when racism was allowed to be so blatant on television, there's a lot to be said for that era
S - Like in the Goodies, they had like a fake advertisement for the Yellow Pages and it said like..."Where can you find Mr Chong, the grocer and Mr (insert asian name here) the baker,....in the Yellow Pages" (brief laughter)
R - 78 SAAB don't condone this kind of treatment of people from our neighbouring countries
B - back in those days it was just like straight up laughing but these days, if you hear a joke like that, you have to try really hard not to laugh, because you know it's wrong, but it's like...the whole world is racist, but you have to be careful not to cross the line, you don't want to humiliate anyone
R - as long as we're all laughing
B - I had an ex-girlfriend who went to china and she said that racism she copped from those people, like....she knew the language, she'd go and buy something and they'll be just saying between themselves, "ahh, silly fucking westerners, the fucking silly bitch" and they didn't realise and Lucy would just fire back and really put them off
R - Did you enjoy the inclusion of the tambourine tonight?
S - I do like tambourines
B - tambo's are good
R - we were playing with Even at Goldmans and this sort of drunk Ashley Naylor said "You should play in the encore, you should play with us" and I said, "boss, I don't really know the song" and he went, "I'll show you it" and he stood there facing me playing the guitar and I though to myself, the only way I'll ever be able to follow this is to give myself more than enough to think about, and tonight I really took it to another level by approaching the microphone
B - yeah, approaching the microphone
R - if you give yourself too much to think about you know ya gonna play well, it.s the Ainscogh philosophy...if your playing fullback and the ball's bouncing, just run at it, don't worry about the last line of defence, just go for the ball and hope for the best and he scored a try
S - you are football fans I take it?
R - he [ben] actually remembers centuries of rugby league before he was actually born
B - that's what we used to do in the country, I didn't have anything to do except, daydream and look up rugby league scores, then I decided music would be better
S - I'm not a football fan I must say
B - it's funny, a lot of people get offended, the mixer from Shihad was going "Do you like football?!?!?"
R - sport's for losers mate!
S - now soccer, there's a sport for people who actually have skill
B - yeah, the problem with soccer is they spend to much time actually scoring a goal, it's like you play a tape for 6 minutes and you only hear one note, that's what it's like to me. I mean, it's not that harsh, but I'm just trying to get a comparison. Whereas, league, it's like four-on-the-floor (bit of singing), guitar solo's, fire works
How do you Kill the Cod?
B - I'd lure it with some bait
R - but how would you kill it?
B -I'd just kill it by luring it
R - by just raising the adrenalin in it's body
B - just teasing it....it wants that bit of tuna sooo hard and every time it's just about to eat it, I just pull it away, it just dies of a heart attack, just wanting...as opposed to just pulling it out of the water and smashing it over the head with a hammer.
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