Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: Six60 On Rent Prices In Dunedin...

Episode Date: August 18, 2022

It is release day for Six60 and the boys join us in studio to chat about what they have been upto and their Six60 flat in Dunedin!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Now 660, you have brand new music. We're super excited to hear the new song in three minutes time. It's from the new album Castle Street. They're touring the country later in the year, 660 Saturdays. It's all super exciting. It's great to have Jai, Eli and Machu from 660 in the studio. How's it going, boys? Good, man.

Very exciting, new music coming out and the photo shoot too. I mean, high fashion. I mean, Machu, you have a long coat, a sort of puffer vest and a turtleneck. I mean, that's high fashion. Absolutely. Turtleneck's back. Yeah, they are back. They're very fashionable.

It did. Like, I'm not a fashionable guy, but I looked at that and I was like, the colours are exceptional. Yeah. Whoever was in charge of that did a magnificent job. I gather it was none of you guys. We just all showed up randomly the same day like that. Well, you're hot.

What do you mean, man? But it's pretty cool. Your social media too, everything kind of went away. And then it sort of popped back up, the new chapter. Can you get that stuff back? Is that all gone? I mean, what's happening? Fuck.

You're like, damn, we deleted a lot of good content. But, you know, we wanted to kind of hammer down that this was a new, this was something new and, like, people are familiar with us. It was like a new chapter, new sound, new look. Everything's kind of freshened up. You guys have done so well over the years to just kind of realign yourself along the way beautifully. You recorded this album.

Where do you start? Where are you like, we're going to go in a slightly different direction? How do you start that brainstorm're like we're gonna go in a slightly different direction how do you start that brainstorm that's a difficult one we um you know this i guess the album started and here in auckland at our studio that you guys have been to um but then we shifted to la because we basically got stuck there because we were part of that lottery system we couldn't quite get tickets home so we're there for about seven months and at the time we just kind of knuckled down banded back together like it kind of felt So we were there for about seven months. And at the time, we just kind of knuckled down, banded back together. Like, it kind of felt like we were back at 660 Castle Street. So I think that return to that feeling and that innocence,

I kind of really drove the song, as much with the kind of differences that have been happening in our lives, like kids and that kind of stuff. Well, their new album's called Castle Street, which is cool, you know? Like, looking back, what was the rent back in the day for you guys? Do you remember what you were paying back in Castle Street i think it was maybe uh yeah maybe i think i paid

like 80 bucks maybe 80 bucks a week yeah did you miss a few payments yeah i hardly made any but you guys that you own the place now yeah so what are you like not 80 bucks what are you guys like as landlords be paying What are you guys like As landlords Are they ringing up To you know Fix the oven Or anything like that

Or unclog the drains Hands off mate Pretty hands off That's been really cool though You know I think For one It's the first time

We've named a record And it made sense Because it kind of was Where it all started We own the house now So it's really kind of Full circle Feeling

Some people might not know That you went and Purchased 660 Castle Street It kind of was where it all started. We own the house now, so it's really kind of full circle feeling. Some people might not know that you went and purchased 660 Castle Street in Dunedin where you guys all flattered. What are you doing with it? So we started, in conjunction with the university, we started a scholarship where we put four students every year in there, give them rent free for the year, and we go down and help them. These are kids that are aspiring musicians, I guess, and we go down and help them try and build their music.

What a great way of giving back. That's awesome. Yeah. And also great too, you can sign them early. Make some cash. Now you pay your rent, kids. You guys have done so many amazing things. Yeah, obviously the albums, the concerts, the movie.

But Eli, I want to ask you here, you know, the movie, one of the big takeaways from the movie was your teabag trick. Everyone was like, oh, my God, I didn't even know that the teabag. Well, you explain it. Now you do, bro. Yeah, the cord from the teabag, you know, it fits under the cup. That little, like, paper thing at the end of it, you're supposed to jam it under the cup. Under the cup? Yeah, the cord from the teabag, you know, it fits under the cup. That little, like, paper thing at the end of it,

you're just supposed to jam it under the cup. Under the cup? Yeah, bro. Oh, so it holds it in place? Yeah, it holds the teabag, like, halfway up the cup. I was, my mind was blown, you know. But it's funny, yeah, you watch a movie with 50,000 people at Western Springs,

and then I'll go away going, that teabag thing was really awesome. You're single, you're going to play very shortly before you leave. Machi, you were there just after having a baby? Is that correct? Yeah, yeah, I've got a baby now. I've got two, so it's all hands-on.

I don't know, having a kid, I was thinking a lot about what I knew, what I could teach and the kind of wisdom I could pass down and actually realised I didn't know a whole lot. Is Joy not passing on info? Chris not passing on info? I'm trying. Trust me, I'm trying. You're not a good listener.

Yeah, and just thinking about that, putting it into a song where I could give some kind of wisdom, and I guess it's a universal topic. It's universal stories we're trying to draw on in this album, and she was the inspiration for it. But at the same time, you know, all these songs on this album that's coming out October 7th, they're all kind of universal humanistic stories,

big grand stuff, and they're deep. But at the same time, they're jams that you can sing to and you can dance to, and that'll work really well at these gigs coming up. Yeah, well, speaking of the gigs, some amazing sort of people with you as well, like Supergroove, Tones and I, people we know from Dance Monkey, Lime Cordial, it's amazing, the line-up.

Yeah, we've got an epic line-up this year, man. You know, this tour has been postponed a couple of times, I think, through this COVID BS, but it's finally been able to, it gave us some time to dig a little deeper into it. It's going to be a really, really amazing tour. Take it from me. Take it from me. I'm not biased.

With kids, obviously touring, you're away, given your profession, your job, you'll be away for extended periods of time. Do you take the kids on the road? Are they backstage? Have they fathomed where they are and what their dads do? I've definitely tried to take the girls. I don't really stay up late

enough to see the show, but that's actually a really exciting thing like one day they'll actually understand you know who we are and what we're doing and what yeah i reckon they'll be like yeah holy crap look at what dad's doing hey thank you very much 660 always love catching up boys you keep well