Sean & Soph Catchup Podcast - Dillon Francis Joins The Show...

Episode Date: July 13, 2022

International DJ, Tiktoker and comedian Dillon Francis joins the show!

This is a podcast from Rover. It is The Edge Nights. Please welcome to the studio, Dylan Francis. Yeah, baby. It is a pleasure to have you, my dude. I'm back. He's back. Five years, you said.

Five years, five years of being away from one of my favorite places in the world. So much so that I saw on your Instagram today, you're enjoying the selection of New Zealand cuisine, authentically, including McDonald's new... I went to the U.S. Embassy McDonald's, and I checked out that you guys have a McChicken Big Mac sandwich thing, which we don't even have in the States. Wow. Which is kind of disappointing to me. New Zealand leading the fast food. Leading the charge.

Wow. That's amazing. Yeah, the chicken bag mac. Have you had a chance to try it yet? No. I want to. I'm waiting for the night to do it, which will probably be after the show at the shed. So, yeah.

Yeah. You also have a very successful social media game. honest, I've been following your stuff since the Snapchat days. Oh, wow. I'm a fan. Now, obviously, you're on TikTok. You're doing very well. You make some hilarious videos.

I want to play a little game with you, Dylan Francis. It's called, Explain that TikTok. Let's do it. So I'm going to play a TikTok to you. I'm going to check it on this video on the screen here. You're going to quickly give it a watch and explain to me what is happening. For everyone listening at home, what is happening in this TikTok. Tech Talk's number one, Dylan Francis.

Let's do this. So, yeah, there's one video. So I hired seven videographers, and I wanted to make sure that all my videographers had a videographer for their videographer. So it's a videographer train. We want to get a drone next time and then have a drone videoing my drone guy. They were all like, yeah, this is great.

I love this. All right. Explain that. Tech Talk number two. Every day people ask me to play this song. Yeah. Oh, this one. So I got this shirt to avoid it. I made that shirt.

I made a shirt that says, don't ask me to play. Don't, what does it say again? It says like, don't ask me to play Dancing Queen tonight or something like that. yeah, I made that shirt. How many times have you had to play Abba dancing queen? Every set.

Every single set. Every single set. It has now become a record that almost as if it's my record. Abba, are you some royalties for the amount of streams that you've landed them with that one? All right. In the final TikTok video. I need a napkin. So my friend Sean had barbecue sauce, or I think it was ketchup actually.

It was ketchup on his hand. And I was really worried that if he was going to try to grab anything, it would slip out of his hands. and he was going to break something. So I needed to make sure that I got him a napkin. So I ripped the shirt off my videographer and gave him that. Because there wasn't any napkins. It was like a big napkin shortage in Vegas. Really?

Yeah. So you ripped the shirt right off him and then to pay him back for that. Told him you'd get him his own videographer. Yes. And then that video. Yeah, exactly. It's kind of like a circle of life right there. Can we talk about some of your pop remixes first?

Because I know we are a pop station in the edge. You've done remixes, obviously, for some of the music. of our favorite artist, Dua Leaper, who's right behind us, Halsey, Maroon Fy, Maroon Fy, if I was to listen to more, it would take all my interview time. Yep.

Is there any song that you've gone, man, I'd love to, I'd love to remix that song. I mean, that you haven't done. One that comes to mind, Mr. Brightside, The Killers. I'd love to hear someone,

someone remix that. That would be a really fun one. I would even, I just, I would love to work with Brandon Flowers. I think his voice is so good. For the new Panic of the Disco album, I haven't heard all of it,

but I know that I'm going to want to do a remix for Brendan just because I love his voice so much. Yeah, yeah. He's incredible. You work with a variety of different artists. We're working from Panic at the Disco, to know Elenium on this new song.

Do you enjoy that for the variety of it? Is that why you try and jump on a rock song, then you jump on a dance song, then you make a hip-hop track? Yeah, I just, I feel like I work better when I'm collaborating with people. I think it's so fun to have collaborative work, and I feel like that's where the best type of music comes from.

It also lends to me being able to make stuff like Alenium or like Panic, like Duolipa. For sure, I've taken their idea and creating it. Yeah. I want to talk about this track that you've produced with Young Gravy that's going wild here in New Zealand. Yes. This song is going crazy. Obviously, when you made it, you didn't know it was going to do as well as it.

No, I did. You did? Oh, yeah. Really? Was it the Rick Astley sample that was like, this going to take off? Oh, I knew immediately that this was going to be one of the biggest songs. Really? For sure. So you get in a studio with him?

Whose idea was it? Was it your idea to do the rick? Rick Asley sample? So I was working with David Willie, this guy, David Wilson, me and Gravy, we were working on our EP together. The sample was played and I was like, oh, my God, let's let, we have to do this for the EP. Yeah.

And the reason it didn't go on the EP was because there's an original version that we were playing live that Rick Astley's team said, this is not allowed. You're not allowed to say the things that you're saying on this sample. So change the words. So we had to change the words and, you know, you had to keep changing the words and changing the words and the tour was over and then we finally got to a version where it made sense. I knew. I knew. It's Rick Astley. It's Rick rolled. You know, you can't not have a smash hit with that. And also, Gravy's vocals on it sound incredible. I love, I love his voice. It's the perfect mixture of talent between

all you guys and the sample. But obviously there's so many people fighting for these samples right now. You know, there's like old songs being reworked. Stranger Things is helping out with that. Bringing these 80s tracks back. How did you get the sample? I assume so many DJs wanted that. Gravy has a guy that replays stuff really, really well. So that's re-recorded. Yeah, yeah. That's re-recorded. All of it's replayed.

Yeah. I bet there's a lot of people that have tried to do the Rick Astley thing, but with Gravy's catalog, it makes the most sense to be able to go to Rick Astley's team and be like, hey, this is what Gravy does. Yeah. This is what it will probably do for the original. Thank God they said yes. I'm so happy that it was able to see the light of day.

I really do wish the original, because the original instead of get money, it was get something else who was pushing pee. I was gonna say because when I, when I, when I, um, when I, um, when I, when I, um, when I, when I, um, when I, um, when I, um, I listened to the song for the first time. Oh yeah. Had to dial it back.

Yeah. And it was so funny. I want to get a lyric sheet of that original. We'll send it. It's, it's really good. Hey, Dylan, thanks so much for joining me, man. I hope you enjoy your time here in New Zealand. We're stoked to have you back, bro.

I will. Thanks for coming through. Love you.