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Most underrated track on feedback? If this post gets enough love I might do an acoustic version of the stand out track?? Shouts to Dylan for the tat. Very humbled xo #tattoo #feedbackloop #hiphop #ausrap #australianmusic (at The Tivoli Brisbane) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxy9zoHgjiG/?igshid=1pumdduyyrb7k
Out of ten how much do I need to cut my hair right now? 😂 Also, just some house keeping. I’m NOT appearing on TOWNSVILLE leg of the @booseeka #millenniumtour sorry that wasn’t specified on the poster. My bad. Let me know if you are from the ville and would like me to do a solo show up there at some stage?! Also, I’ll be going live on @instagram tonight at 8:15 in the pm to answer questions you guys have asked me regarding the music industry. This is the 2nd offical “QnA” I’ll be doing around the subject so plz let your up and coming musical mates know about it!! Tag in the homies?! Hit me with more questions? I’ll be accepting requests to chat with peeps also, get at me 🙏 📸 by @marcus_milostic #Music #musicindustry #songwriter #songwriting #rap #HipHop (at Love The Animals) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxo0nkwFLrT/?igshid=190ncajrufoat
Video for our brand new single “Eyes On Me”is now live via our YouTube channel. Big thank you to @marcuscoblyn & @madeinkatana for the amazing work on this one 😍😍😍 https://www.instagram.com/p/Btg9nU2nf2r/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pjxgjwxpely8
Appreciation rant. Just wanted to take a moment to let you all know how much I appreciate your support of my music. Literally everyday you guys contact me to tell me your stories of how my music somehow plays a roll in your life. This has been going on for years now and it still blows me away. Sometimes they’re novel or absurd other times they’re extremely touching. It’s surreal and so humbling. I often feel very isolated from the world while I’m writing music, self imposed mostly. I find that touring takes a lot of socialising so I need time on my own to recharge. That and the fact I am known to suffer episodes of depression fairly often and I prefer to deal with it on my own when it happens, which means isolating my self. I’ve always been that way and to be honest it’s actually part of my process, sadness is a natural emotional state, i’ve learnt to sit with it and let it pass in time. I see a shrink and that helps also. Anyway, my point is that I can go weeks on end without talking to anymore in a meaningful way so these little stories you guys share with me really do bring some magic to my mood, and can help me reconnect with the higher purpose of why I write music. Side note; Never stop asking yourself why you do things, to kick goals harsh truths need to be addressed and to know why is the little carrot that can keep you motivated when things feel overwhelming. Ask. I’m forever grateful of this opportunity to create and I truly believe in art for art sake, the fact you guys allow me to have that platform truly means the world to me. Again, big love to everyone that’s voted for mine and Thundas music in the hottest100, if we get in this year it will be my 7th year in a row to make this list. Wtf, I never thought I’d ever land anything so 7 years in a row Is actually unbelievable. You guys are the best boss I could ever ask for. Just to be clear it’s not money I’m talking about when I say “support”, thank you for paying me your attention. These days your attention is your most powerful asset and the fact that I have yours is important to me, It will never be taken for granted. I just want to make you feel something. I love yo❤️🙏 📸 by @chris_frape_photo https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs7zvFWHVWo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xkwdz040bwye
Some unbelievable facts about my 2018, thundas have been going from strength to strength this year and my mind is consistency blown away. ok... 3 of our songs went @aria_official gold one went platinum 🙏 Sally landed in the top ten on the #Hottest100. Thundas sold close to 30,000 tickets to our headline shows nationally. That heaps. I got to collaborate with @unrealaltj (one of my all time favourite bands), I was the only Aussie that made it on that project and my song sits along side of artists like #PusherT & #DannyBrown?!? Surreal. Also, this year marks the release of my tenth studio album in ten years. That was a life goal! Something I’ve literally been working towards fir a decade lol. Shouts to anyone that has managed to get there hands on every release🙏 I hate to brag ( sorry bout dat) but I just wanted to thank you all for the support this year. Not gonna lie regardless of the wins this year had on a more personal side note I took a lot of L’s along the way as well. That’s life, respect the balance and ride the wave. I’m in a great headspace and I promise that next year brings new music and projects that I can’t wait to release and share with you. I’m on blast at the moment, not gonna take my situation for granted. Opportunity doesn’t like being ignored so I’mma pay attention to the doors that have been opening for me. What a trip #DecadeOfTheThundakat (at Fremantle, Western Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrKUE5FHxO1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=v916bwv6te6i
Sydney last night was the best night of my life. I was so overwhelmed when you guys walked out I literally just burst into tears. Thanks man 🤪💗
Aw shucks that’s too kind, we had a great time, wveryone singing the words is surreal 🙏
So do you purposely link lyrics between songs or is it just coincidental? I’ve been noticing it a lot more lately.
Yeah, if it makes sense too I will reference other songs
Experienced heartbreak recently?
Yep. I thought I found the love of my life but it didn’t work out. I’m bummed about it but I’ll be fine. Everybody But You is pretty telling lol
Universal truth: If you go out into the world with the intention to be a good person and help in some way, chances are very high that people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. The trick is to be a good person anyway. Happy Friday you gorgeous amazing humans. 🐨🌿 📸 by @siipola https://www.instagram.com/p/BpXvL4xh-uR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1sip9hf5cn1f6
Sitting around listening to the rain hit the roof on a Sunday night. Thinking about how in less than a month we’ll be on the road again touring with our biggest production ever, with 10 years worth of music to choose from. It’s times like this that make me feel like it really is about the process of doing something meaningful rather than just fulfilling a goal or ticking a box. The end game of achieving things is becoming less important to me. Achieving things never really gave me the kick I was after. I think the act of living it out is better than looking back on it. Celebrating as it happens, owning that magic feeling, being conscious that “right now” is enough. To anyone out there that is grinding towards something, please take a second to appreciate the process. Here in the flesh, enjoy it. People think you’ll be content once you find what you are “looking for”. I’m beginning to think that if you are inspired enough to be looking for something at all, to be on the quest to make something cool or create things that benefit others in a small or large way, that’s a beautiful thing. Passion is one of those things that will never stop working for you if you invest in it. Right now is enough. See you guys soon! #DecadeOfTheThundakat This will be one for the books. Tickets still available (link in bio) #ILoveSongs. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo6NXQGhxmN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8e5nq0o19yvb
*New solo music dropping soon!! I’ve been busy this year, and it’s not stopping. As well as ‘I Love Songs’ dropping the 21st of this month! I’ve also got a new solo song coming out on @unrealaltj new project #Reduxer on the 28th. It’s basically a remix of a cover they did of #HouseOfTheRisingSun. The project in general is pretty epic, as well as your truly @kingpush @xdannyxbrownx @goldlink @littlesimz and many more all feature on the album, pretty surreal to be alongside sone of my favourite artists. Can’t wait to share it. #DecadeOfTheThundakat https://www.instagram.com/p/BnlGsWxhEmD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=q0h2qi6fv2et
Under two weeks before ‘I Love Songs’ is released into the world. Fly my pretty. Link in bio. 📽 by @ebflow / @adamscarfphotography #DecadeOfTheThundakat https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnie_XGhKCP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16x2rmr8j439i
RANT TIME
I Miss You, what happened to all of my friends?
It’s actually so ironic. Here we are, releasing a song about the isolating nature of social media while at the same time we’re basically spamming our various social media platforms with content and sales pitches about the very same song in an attempt to twist your arm into listening to our music. The hypocrisy of the modern world. It’s strange what we have become/ what we are becoming, nor good or bad per say. Just different. The internet has its pros and cons and the future is unclear. I guess it always has been, it’s truly amazing that we’ve come so far yet in some respects I really do miss somethings that we have left behind. I miss real connection with people, the need to actually build solid relations in the real world not just “staying connected” online. This feeling of disconnection is real for me when I scroll endlessly down a newsfeed for the tenth time that day. Some “friends” are people I once knew years ago, others are long lost childhood mates I met in kindergarten, an old crush I may of had, old work colleagues or someone that still has a Facebook and instagram account but has now passed away and a “memory” pops up… Heavy. You name it, unless you are the type of person that ruthlessly edits your “friendlist” (I ain’t got time for that) overtime you’re going to end up with a vast social network of people you may or may not really know or understand yet you can still form some kind of opinion about them purely based on who they portray themselves to be online.
Despite ’I Miss You’ having a somewhat melancholy undertone, when Thundas were putting this song together we really were having the time of our lives (shouts to Carl Dimataga, you fam too my g). Thundamentals is a band but first and foremost we are close friends. Personally I regard Jess & Morgs more so as family members, my brothers. We have always been a tight unit that was never really affected by the social media/information revolution so we’ve never relied on the internet to make sure we stay in touch, rather as a band we stayed in touch with the revolution itself.
The tune was more or less written in one night and as it was coming together I think all of us felt an instant connection to it. I love songs, and I love when they can alter my mood, ‘I Miss You’ (or “Kodak” which was it’s working title) immediately felt emotionally moving to me. Musicians in my opinion are mood artist, within 3-5 minutes I am aiming to change or alter your mood. I want you to feel something when you listen to it. I don’t care about technique or what cutting edge art can be, unless you feel it I didn’t do my job. I am striving to communicate to you as a person, a mind, a body and a spirit. If you aren’t engaged in the music I create all that means is that I’ve not made a song that’s worth listening too.
Going back a little further, the first idea behind ‘I Miss You’ came when one day on the bus I looked up an noticed that every single passenger had their necks tilted, staring deeply into the blue screen aka the black mirror. The portal to our 2nd life, and also the gateway to the avatar of the concept of our digital selves in general. The digital imprint of who we are online.
Once I realised I was the only one not on my phone, I asked myself to make an effort to stay off my phone for the rest of the trip. Easier said then done apparently, inevitably I got a notification like 5 minutes later and there I am back again staring at my phone. As I scroll down the feed I see my best friend from year 7, an ex-girlfriend that is traveling the world with her partner, a sound tech I met at a gig that is getting married, a member of old band that doesn’t even play music these days and is now forging a new career. Change is the only consent and these days we can watch manicured versions each other all play out in front of our eyes.
For so many of us it’s the only plug we have into the outside world and its current affairs. Both to update ourselves and to voice our own “truths”. Yet at the same time we can’t always trust the information it provides us with and in turn we ourselves can’t always be 100% certain that the opinions we form are correct. Facts. The internet is an endless altered reality with ever changing narratives and opinions, trolls, trends, humour and false truths. On the other side of the screen are real humans but inside the phone, if you want, you can be anybody you wish. If I meet you in the real world you have a lot less to hide behind. No photoshop, no off the cuff brilliant quote you had been toying around with for hours before you tweeted it. Just the real you, vulnerable and unique.
I guess the thing that hits closest to home for me is not the clickbait or the memes or the conspiracy theories. It’s more so watching long lost friends grow up and out of my life…They all post videos and photos of their lives even though we haven’t even spoken or hung out for years. Not because we aren’t still mates per say. Nothing happened to affect the friendship in particular it’s just that sometimes people drift apart over time. Sometimes it’s geographic, sometimes it’s because everyone is sooo busy these days. Whatever reason we all can relate to having a lurk through an old friends profile, a ex-loved one perhaps…We are all ghost of somebodies past. We all miss someone, at least one. The worst thing about it for me is that it’s never quiet enough… Sometimes a photo seems posed and status updates can seem manufactured.
Sometimes I stare at a captured moment and remember who they are in real life, my real memories of them as living and breathing people and I miss that connection we had. True, at least I can watch a version of them online but what’s really going on in their lives. I myself know that there are things I keep hidden from the internet, aspects of who I am and my actual reality. I really do believe everyone to some extent doesn’t “share” everything and furthermore I believe the majority of us only post about the wins not the losses… We are social animals that are feeding off a social feed. No one is really out here actively trying to make themselves look bad unless they are taking the piss or their lives have come to a point where all fucks given are totally forgotten in an attempt to actually express a pure “self” online, I’d say that type of person sits at about 1% of the population to be fair lol. The game is rigged, the way it is up to you though, gathering friends and likes and love hearts and followers and tags, the list goes on… These digital gestures, that’s what has become a type of currency in this world. The more interaction I get on my posts the greater likely hood that I’ll be noticed for my “talents” whatever they may be. Social value plays a massive roll in our lives, social media is a way to keep count. what happened to us and just existing without having to put our own spin on everything we see and do?
Sometimes I think about when I’m an old man, I’ll be able to scroll down my “Timeline”, each post a warped relic of my past… When that day comes will I admit to myself that it’s an accurate portrayal of who I really was as a person. The answer is pure and simply put… NO. Especially as an entertainer in the music industry, but even on my personal accounts. I do not show the real me to the web. For the most part I leave out the juicy bits, I’ve got no real skeletons in the closet? I’m not saying that. I’m just trying to explain that most people, including myself, only share things about ourselves on online that we are comfortable with sharing. We expose some of our personal characteristics but not all of them. We still hold what’s truly sacred close and only share that with a select few.
So I guess, if I could ask for anything it would be that when people listen to this song they appreciate, respect and honour their true friends and family. The ones that you can wholeheartedly share everything with. Maintain those real connections you have, that is the real you, that is the human you. These people are the ones that understand elements of yourself that perhaps you don’t even see.
Support the homies.
I left the keys in the door if it makes you feel better, I’m never gonna run away. Instead I’ll take a seat on the porch and wait here forever, pretend you never run away, again. 📷 by @chris_frape_photo
Oi what’s up, turn up on a Wednesday?? Thundamentals are doing DJ set tonight in Newtown at the Marley Bar. Roll through and give me a hi five if you’re in the hood!
Adelaide round 2 tonight 🙏 #DecadeOfTheThundakat
Do you think social media is making us anti-social?
Yes.