SPECIAL GUEST - Jon Toogood πΈπ
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John Tugger joins us. Hey, good morning, guys. Frontman from the band She Had. How are you going? Good, mate. Lead singer, obviously, and author as well. Yeah. Yeah. So for those who don't know, and we didn't really know until a few days ago, you've got a book out August 25 called Home Again. Yeah, man.
And it's basically just like Hatchet and Moa Publishing sort of approached me a couple of years back, and I was like, what? You want to do a book on my life? That's bizarre. And then I thought, actually there's so many stories.
There are.
And there's so many things we've been through. I reckon it might actually be a cool project. And getting into it was like, whoa.
So when's it out?
What is Jon Toogood's upcoming book 'Home Again' about?
When are we looking? August?
August 25. Yeah. And I'm going to do a special sort of show with Charlotte Ryan at the Cues Theatre. She rules. Yeah, she rules. She knows her music inside out.
Great.
So it'll be sort of talking about that and also maybe throw a few songs in there as well.
Now, is that because Bryce is too close to you? Bryce loves She-Hard. He's seen She-Hard more than you perform for She-Hard. Which is weird, but cool.
Once I even covered for John.
Oh, Bryce.
No one else was there.
You've got the book out. And yes, you did say Charlotte Ryan is doing this bit of a Q&A with you, which is taking place on the 25th of August. But tickets on sale for this today, actually. Event's going to be in Tauranga, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown and more. So that's all going on. So is the book finished? You're just waiting for it to come out? Yeah, it's finished. It's all done and dusted.
It's finished. It's weird. It's sort of like doing a...
an album in a way because you sort of do a first draft and you go back and you refine it and then you refine it and refine it and it's like sort of like doing a mix on a song really yeah yeah it's i bet so how did you how do you structure the book like do you start from like early john too good as a kid do you like is it sort of chronological yeah
Yeah, yeah. It literally starts on my first memory, which is basically my parents' lolly jar. And that being the source of all joy.
So what were those first albums for you that got you to where you were, you know, starting a band with Tom at Wellington High?
So my first albums, the first album I ever bought was Kiss Alive 1. And then my second two was Bob Marley Legend.
Which every New Zealand family owned.
And still I can listen to any day. And Human League Dare, which is pretty weird. But I was lucky enough to have an older brother and sister that were so into music. So I was pilfering their records more than anything else. Yeah. From my brother's side, it was like Queen Live Killers and the early Led Zeppelin stuff. And from my sister, she was more of a punk, so I had Stiff Little Fingers, Public Image Limited, early U2. But it was like, I think the first records, I go into it in the book, it's like... Apart from the lolly jar, my parents all in one turntable with a speaker built in the front. And their big collection of 7-inch records, like in one of those folders. And I loved things like Any Old Iron by Peter Sellers from The Goons.
The Laughing Gnome, David Bowie. Yeah. Because they were sort of like stories, you know? But yeah, I just fell in love with music way early and went, oh man, how does that needle going onto a bit of plastic spinning around make a sound coming out of the speakers, you know? It's like...
The process of playing a record is still so cool. I know obviously it's had a massive resurgence in the numbers of records sold around the world, as high as at one point what they were, and it's had this really cool revival story. But even on a personal note, I've got an eight-year-old and four-year-old, but my eight-year-old Tyson loves music, and I've got him a little record player, a self-record player for his room, and he'll ask, can I go play records? And it's really cool watching him take it out of the sleeve and put it on and I'll be like, you've got to be careful with the stylus.
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