Sean & Soph Catchup Podcast - Kaylee Bell Joins The Show...

Episode Date: February 2, 2023

Country artist Kaylee Bell joins me to discuss opening for Ed Sheeran on his NZ Tour

This is a podcast from Rover. It is The Edge Nights. Join in studio right now by Kaylee Bell. Welcome, Kaylee, and this will be the first time people have heard this. The song isn't even out yet. Crazy. I know. It's so insane. The song comes out tomorrow. We will be playing it in a little bit and talking about it.

But first, I want to talk about your massive last year you've had open for 660 stadium tour, open for Brad Paisley's New Zealand tour, Coca-Cola Christmas in the Park headliner. You played R&V. and now you're opening for a small up-and-coming artist by the name of Ed Sharon. Yeah, I mean, he tries. I think he'll get there. I think he'll get there. I think he's on the right trajectory. He puts his head down.

Just works that little bit harder. They're a little bit harder and he might make it yet. That is insane. Are you doing every show? Yeah, we're doing all six. Selfish. I know, so greedy. And we actually did the first three last week with Ed in the Opera House in Wellington,

which were like really intimate shows. and he was really vulnerable. Obviously he didn't play for like four months. He was like, look, guys, I'm probably going to muck up. And it was kind of cool. And just to be so close to see all the looping firsthand, like his footwork is artwork in itself. And then he also did this moment of acapella

whereas band came out and they sung in harmony just with no like microphones. And oh my goodness, it was just like you just know when you're watching something really special. An amazing way to start the tour and get to know him and his crew. Did he make any big mistakes? Because he has said that this is his like,

It's his practice run It's his practice run Using New Zealand as like guinea pigs For his tour I mean it's pretty funny Because I actually forgot the words to my own song The other night And then he did it too

And I was like Okay good We're good We both did it on the same night That's fine Like You're an elite company Yeah yeah

If it's good enough for Ed It's good enough for me And what's he like Obviously you've had a chance I know that From people who have opened for him before He's quite good at getting to know you Oh incredible

Forming a relationship Yep We got to hang out with him after the last show for a couple of hours and I absolutely love him. He's just one of those humans you feel like you're a very special human and he makes you feel very comfortable and you feel like you've known him your whole life and he loves Nashville too. So we had a lot to talk about which was really cool and songwriters and we're both kind of geeks

I guess in that sense of like knowing who wrote what song and you know that kind of thing. It was just so awesome to have somebody on that scale just like you're talking to him like your friend, you know? It was really, really cool. So let's go back to your last 10 years of your career. You started off in Canterbury. You are a country artist through and through. One of the few in New Zealand who's kind of done well from your generation,

you know, the older generation country music was quite big. But there's still a rabbit audience for it in New Zealand, right? It's insane. And I think it's been very underground. And I think in the next year or two, we're going to see it explode. You know, with artists like Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs starting to tour over here. It's pretty exciting. But you're right.

Like, for me, I think the last 20 years have been kind of like it's just been missing from our you know from our radio and from our media and just it just hasn't really been a thing and to do the country pop lane which i run um you know i think there's a lot of incredible country artists in new zealand like marlon and tammy and but to do what i do is different to that it's kind of like that shenaya thing you know i want to do like that country rock pop thing that shenaya did and be able to play stadiums and it translate you know so it's so cool to now have these chances to put on our show in a stadium, which is how I always imagined my show to be. Like, I always wrote songs one day dreaming that I'd be able to play them in arenas and

stadium. So I think in this country, it's going to be a really cool thing to try and just bring back country music a little bit more in the next few years on that mainstream level. I love how you mentioned the Shania thing because I, when I heard your new song, Boots and all, it sounds Shania. It's so Shania. It's so Shania, big band, live stadium. Dancing around the stage.

For sure. And we played it at the opera house. And I think you know if a song's connecting because it was the first time we played it and it got the biggest probably applause. So you're like, okay, this song is definitely something special. It comes out tomorrow. You've been very gracious and let us premiere it. Yeah, no. I'm stoked. Thank you.

A night early. So you can stream it on all platforms, download it tomorrow. And you can catch Kaylee Bell on her final three shows opening for Ed Shearron. Yay! So exciting. It's nuts.