Nova 96.9
Sydney, Australia
18 November 2004RABBIT: If this wasn't one of the most interesting interviews ever. Mr Steve, who nearly got thrown through a window one minute into the interview.
MR STEVE: The three boys wanted to take me one on one and just throw me through the window.
RABBIT: I think one of them wanted to take me one on one a little differently…
MR STEVE: I know, all sorts of weird…
RABBIT: We talk R Kelly and Michael Jackson and all sorts of weirdness coming up in this interview. But we start with this little bit here with Hanson, hello.
ALL: Hello.
TAYLOR: How's it going?
RABBIT: Good to be back?
ZAC: Being back in Australia after four years of not having a record out, of not touring, feels really good.
TAYLOR: In a few months we're coming back to actually do a full tour.
RABBIT: We don't mind you doing, like, the short shows. It's very Australian.
TAYLOR: Is it very? Really? Lot of excitement and not much after the build up?
RABBIT: Well, you guys just like coming out here now so Zac can go drinking, don't ya?
ZAC: Well, I can go drinking in a lot of European countries too.
RABBIT: You've changed, Zac.
ZAC: If this was the 1980s I could drink in America also.
ISAAC: Or, for that matter, if you were in high school. Last time I checked, everyone in high school can get a hold of pretty much everything.
RABBIT: Dole out the Gold Coast. Oh that's alright, I just have to check my notes here, is this Hanson we've got in here?
MR STEVE: You guys look really different though, than you do on that TV show Dancing With Stars.
TAYLOR: Oooh, oooh, fist to cuffs man, we're taking you to-see that window right there? You're going through it.
ZAC: And it's triple paned.
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RABBIT: So Steve was just talking to Hanson about them being on Dancing With The Stars. Did you even get what he was saying there, Dancing With The Stars?
ZAC: No, no idea. You know… it sounds offensive.
RABBIT: No, it's not.
MR STEVE: Well, it kind of is. We have a lady out here who's a politician and they have a show Dancing With Stars, where celebrities get together and ballroom dance and her name is Pauline Hanson, so…
ISAAC: Yeah, we heard about that about seven years ago.
RABBIT: Well she's still going!
ISAAC: Yeah, exactly. We heard that she's very--
ZAC: You know the other strange thing about us on that show versus us on the radio and in person? When we're on the show we're one person, and we're a woman. When we play music, we're three men. It's incredible.
MR STEVE: It's crazy.
ISAAC: It's kind of complicated.
TAYLOR: Surgery in the…
RABBIT: Things you do to get yourselves on TV! Your new record label is 3CG, yeah?
ZAC: Yes, 3CG, which stands for Three Car Garage. You know, we're a garage band and that's how we started, just playing in our garage…
TAYLOR: Just like most bands, just playing wherever you can.
MR STEVE: And just means a garage.
ISAAC: Garage, garage.
TAYLOR: "Gar-aghe" just makes it sound like--
ZAC: It sounds like Garrison or something.
RABBIT: It sounds like a garage, that's what I know it as. What are you saying? Cos I'm not even from Australia, what are you saying Steve, have I got it wrong again?
MR STEVE: It's a shed!
RABBIT: You're a shed band!
ZAC: We're a hut band! I don't know what it's called, but it's where I put my yoot (?).
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RABBIT: Taylor, how is it being a dad?
TAYLOR: It's really good.
RABBIT: And a child?
TAYLOR: Yes.
RABBIT: On tour with you?
TAYLOR: Not now, but they had been touring with us when we were in the States. It's definitely a hard, tiring thing to be on the road, especially with a two year old.
RABBIT: And we bet you put your kids into quarantine when you bring them to this country.
MR STEVE: Don't muck with it.
TAYLOR: They don't let them in.
MR STEVE: We've actually got Steve Irwin in the airport, did you see him there? He stops people from bringing in babies.
RABBIT: You know that kid, that wasn't even his, it was some American that brought a baby into this country and…
ZAC: And oh, I'll show you what happens when you bring a baby into this country!
ISAAC: He made the Michael Jackson thing look like nothing. It's a little bit different.
ZAC: At least he wasn't suffocating the kid with a diaper over his face at the same time.
TAYLOR: And he knows whether he's a man or a woman.
ZAC: And black or white.
ISAAC: *sings* "it doesn't matter if you're black or white!" He wrote that song for a reason.
ZAC: And he doesn't think he's a figure in a fiction book written for children. *pause* Peter Pan.
RABBIT: That was a blank look you just caught.
ZAC: I guess I know a little more about Michael Jackson than the others.
MR STEVE: Can I just get straight to the next question then? Did you share the bed with him when you stayed there?
TAYLOR: He was looking for the wet spot where you were sleeping.
RABBIT: What are you doing?! You guys have changed, man!
MR STEVE: Next when Hanson comes to Australia you'll be touring with R Kelly, won't ya? (laughs)
COMMERCIAL
RABBIT: Let's wrap things up with Hanson. We were just talking about R Kelly just before.
ISAAC: Actually, I heard a bunch of stories about him before that whole thing went down. Like we had a security guard who worked for us who went to an R Kelly show and was like, "dude, I took my daughter and she was like, 12 and we were in the third row and all the sudden he's like, 'baby giiirl, uh huh' and WHOP-BOOM! His whole pants just fell to his ankles." He's like, "yeaah!" and starts humping the air and crap.
RABBIT: Did he really make that noise as well, when he dropped---"WHOP-BOOM!"
ZAC: I believe the actual sound is, "shwing!"
RABBIT: That's a little high pitched. I'd much rather go with WHOP-BOOM!
ZAC: I want to note that I don't think we've referenced anything musical at all.
TAYLOR: You guys pumping something in the air in here?
ISAAC: It's laughing gas or something, I don't know. Whatever it is, it's hot and I want more of it!
RABBIT: Well, it's been good fun, Hanson, thanks very much.
ISAAC: Back at ya.