Oct 25, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 16 segments
It's been a while but today I'm interviewing a band who became the soundtrack to my summer: Getdown Services. They credit ZZ Top as an inspiration and count Walton Goggins and Harry Styles as fans…
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And so you have like a comedic bent to some of the lyricisms and so on, and perhaps in some of your performance style.
Do you think that when you have humour, you... and obviously I'm speaking from my own experience here, do you feel like you risk the accusations of being somehow less legit or less for real or something?
You might be seen as a novelty act or something
Yeah, I mean, I don't even mind the word novelty, to be honest, because I think novelty just means new, really.
It's an interesting thing, isn't it? Because it's like music sort of like the only art form where it's like if you try and introduce some other element to it, like theatrics or comedy, for some reason, it sort of stops it being music in some people's eyes.
It's like, you know, there's like in comedy or in film, music is used extensively to set the mood and provide context of time, place or mood or whatever.
In music, if you try and sort of do something a bit funny or make some...
You know, for some reason, in some people's minds, it reduces its value.
It becomes something else.
Like, it doesn't have...
For it to be worth something, why does it have to be this, like, bottomed-up, clear, really intense, sincere thing for it to be worth emotional value? I don't know.
Yeah, it's something we talk about a lot is, like...
In other art forms, this mixing of comedy and more earnest stuff is just part and parcel of the thing.
Have you ever seen it? I haven't seen it.
but yeah film it's like it's like a coming of age like film at this teenage girl and so it's and it's funny but it's also really heartbreaking no one is looking at that going like how this is such a foreign concept to me but in music when you mix comedy and they're like so are you a comedian it's like why why do we have that's
isn't it i wonder why that is yeah
Did you ever find that?
All the time, you know, it's like, I feel like, I don't know, music's just one of those things where...
And so you have like a comedic bent to some of the lyricisms and so on, and perhaps in some of your performance style.
Do you think that when you have humour, you... and obviously I'm speaking from my own experience here, do you feel like you risk the accusations of being somehow less legit or less for real or something?
You might be seen as a novelty act or something
Yeah, I mean, I don't even mind the word novelty, to be honest, because I think novelty just means new, really.
It's an interesting thing, isn't it? Because it's like music sort of like the only art form where it's like if you try and introduce some other element to it, like theatrics or comedy, for some reason, it sort of stops it being music in some people's eyes.
It's like, you know, there's like in comedy or in film, music is used extensively to set the mood and provide context of time, place or mood or whatever.
In music, if you try and sort of do something a bit funny or make some...
You know, for some reason, in some people's minds, it reduces its value.
It becomes something else.
Like, it doesn't have...
For it to be worth something, why does it have to be this, like, bottomed-up, clear, really intense, sincere thing for it to be worth emotional value? I don't know.
Yeah, it's something we talk about a lot is, like...
In other art forms, this mixing of comedy and more earnest stuff is just part and parcel of the thing.
Have you ever seen it? I haven't seen it.
but yeah film it's like it's like a coming of age like film at this teenage girl and so it's and it's funny but it's also really heartbreaking no one is looking at that going like how this is such a foreign concept to me but in music when you mix comedy and they're like so are you a comedian it's like why why do we have that's
isn't it i wonder why that is yeah
Did you ever find that?
All the time, you know, it's like, I feel like, I don't know, music's just one of those things where...
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