Dave Letele

Who remembers Decca?

You know Decca?

Geez, we're showing our age, brother.

It's interesting because you've got a similar background to myself, just sitting here, being shipped off to Australia, shipped off to Samoa, trying to find different places.

When I was sent to Samoa, I thought it was a holiday until I got enrolled in school.

But my family, again, my aunties, were trying to find a place, trying to look out for me, I guess.

But you definitely had that displacement and...

Distrust, but really like that void inside, eh?

There's like a, you know, you know something's missing.

Yeah.

And then that develops into chips on your shoulder.

Yeah.

You know, as you get older.

Yeah.

And we still haven't repaired, really fully repaired these relationships with my father.

It's an up and down rollercoaster of a thing, but I get that feeling that you talk about.

Mine sort of came about a little bit later in my life in terms of falling down into the rock bottom.

But how did you go from there?

Where did it start going really wrong for you?

Was that the rock bottom, going to prison?