Chords for Iva Davies - The Project Interview - 28 November 2016
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She's in town, get together
[B]
We'll be right back with the fun facts.
[A] Our next guest formed one of the most iconic Aussie bands ever.
[E] Icehouse gave us [B] an Aussie anthem like no [Abm] other.
Next [Dbm] summer, man
H-C-E-N
[Eb] They dominated from the late 70s right through to the 90s, with global smash hits.
[F] I just need to prove it's all over you Electric boog
[Bb] And some seriously sexy mullets.
Yeah, you've got to feel good
[F] [C] [G] Next year, the band celebrates 40 years of performing live.
That saxophone is sounding as [Em] good as ever.
I don't know where to [C] begin, don't want to hear [G] it again
[D]
[Em] Ladies and [C] gentlemen, would you please welcome none other than Icehouse [G] frontman himself, Ivor Davies.
[D]
[N]
Farnsley gets a lot of credit for his mullet over the years, but I mean, you know, there hasn't been a stronger mullet than that one.
[F]
My headmaster forbade us to [C] grow long hair and I've been paying ever since.
[N] Is that what it was?
That was, yeah yeah yeah yeah
40 years of performing live is quite a feat.
Did you ever sort of imagine that you'd be going that long?
Well, I certainly couldn't imagine that, you know, next year we'll be playing to something in the order of 110, 120, 130, 140,000 people.
This is just sales [Gb] so far of this little tour that we're doing, so I couldn't have dreamt that.
[Ab]
Amazing.
I mean, just listening to the songs today, we were playing them over and over again, some [E] amazing ones.
We were just listening to you sing them.
We were listening to you play them on your phone.
You're a team [Abm] player.
Don't make me sing them now, whatever you do.
Great Southern Land has to be one of the best songs ever and I hear it and I think of Australia Day, I think of barbecues.
I mean, did you ever imagine that it would be sort of immortalised in that way?
I had absolutely not.
It's such a mystery that song and it was, I can kind of get the fact that we went on our first international tour.
I got incredibly homesick and the first song I wrote when I came home [Db] was that song.
And I thought, okay, this is one of 10 songs I've got to write and I took it to the managers and the managers' eyes lit [Dbm] up and record company's eyes lit up and people reacted in a way that I didn't see coming at all.
Where did the Southern Land line come [N] from?
Well, I wanted to, I truly believe that I invented that expression.
I know the Dutch used to refer to it as the Great South Land.
And I wanted to, if I was going to take on this song about this country, I wanted to find a new way to describe it.
And I thought I invented, I'd never heard those three words put together.
You talked about touring internationally, you toured with David Bowie at one point.
What was that like?
It was massive [Eb] for a start.
It was certainly his biggest tour by far.
He'd finally cracked North America, had a number one record all over the world.
[C]
And we were playing to on average [F] 70,000 people each show.
And when you play on a hill to 70,000 people, you actually can't see where they [Ab] finish.
It's quite amazing.
And of course, got to spend a little bit of time with him.
But he was, you know, it was such a big tour that he couldn't go anywhere without being absolutely mobbed.
And there was a time we went out to a little tiny bar in Rotterdam and within, it seemed like minutes, the place was full of people, so full it was dangerous.
And we actually had to be passed out over people's heads to get out of there in one piece.
It was actually quite terrifying.
In 1986, 87, I was in like grade five and grade six.
And the albums that came out, the Australian albums were like In Excess Kick, Blow You Cool by Huda Groose, Crowded Houses debut album, Man of Colours.
Diesel and Dust, Midnight Oil.
Diesel and Dust, Midnight Oil.
That was a golden time for Australian music.
But it had been a long time in the kind of development, I think, because we started playing in the very late, late 70s, I guess, around about the same time as most of those bands did.
And so we'd been kind of banging away at all these live performing and all of these, every beer bar in Australia and whatever.
And by then, [E] each of those bands were up to about their fourth album.
So they'd finally worked out how to get it right.
So it was kind of not really an accident.
Did you take some pleasure seeing Credit, did you see the Credit House concert last night?
I think you were playing your own concert probably.
No, actually, I did come back and have a bit of a look.
Yeah, it's pretty amazing, isn't it?
Well, it's the songs.
That's what it is.
There's so many hits.
Well, [Gb] those songs, Credit, Electric Blue and [D] Great Southern Land, there is a timelessness [E] to those songs from that era.
I think I was always really conscious to try to do [N] things that wouldn't date.
Even when it came to choosing certain synthesizer sounds, I remember hearing this particular synthesizer and going, you know what, in 10 years that's going to be really on the nose.
Obviously, you never thought that way about the mullet though.
Well, tickets to Icehouse's 40 Years Live Tour are on sale now.
For more info, head to the links page on our website.
Would you please thank Ivor Davies.
[C] I'm sorry.
[Am]
[B]
We'll be right back with the fun facts.
[A] Our next guest formed one of the most iconic Aussie bands ever.
[E] Icehouse gave us [B] an Aussie anthem like no [Abm] other.
Next [Dbm] summer, man
H-C-E-N
[Eb] They dominated from the late 70s right through to the 90s, with global smash hits.
[F] I just need to prove it's all over you Electric boog
[Bb] And some seriously sexy mullets.
Yeah, you've got to feel good
[F] [C] [G] Next year, the band celebrates 40 years of performing live.
That saxophone is sounding as [Em] good as ever.
I don't know where to [C] begin, don't want to hear [G] it again
[D]
[Em] Ladies and [C] gentlemen, would you please welcome none other than Icehouse [G] frontman himself, Ivor Davies.
[D]
[N]
Farnsley gets a lot of credit for his mullet over the years, but I mean, you know, there hasn't been a stronger mullet than that one.
[F]
My headmaster forbade us to [C] grow long hair and I've been paying ever since.
[N] Is that what it was?
That was, yeah yeah yeah yeah
40 years of performing live is quite a feat.
Did you ever sort of imagine that you'd be going that long?
Well, I certainly couldn't imagine that, you know, next year we'll be playing to something in the order of 110, 120, 130, 140,000 people.
This is just sales [Gb] so far of this little tour that we're doing, so I couldn't have dreamt that.
[Ab]
Amazing.
I mean, just listening to the songs today, we were playing them over and over again, some [E] amazing ones.
We were just listening to you sing them.
We were listening to you play them on your phone.
You're a team [Abm] player.
Don't make me sing them now, whatever you do.
Great Southern Land has to be one of the best songs ever and I hear it and I think of Australia Day, I think of barbecues.
I mean, did you ever imagine that it would be sort of immortalised in that way?
I had absolutely not.
It's such a mystery that song and it was, I can kind of get the fact that we went on our first international tour.
I got incredibly homesick and the first song I wrote when I came home [Db] was that song.
And I thought, okay, this is one of 10 songs I've got to write and I took it to the managers and the managers' eyes lit [Dbm] up and record company's eyes lit up and people reacted in a way that I didn't see coming at all.
Where did the Southern Land line come [N] from?
Well, I wanted to, I truly believe that I invented that expression.
I know the Dutch used to refer to it as the Great South Land.
And I wanted to, if I was going to take on this song about this country, I wanted to find a new way to describe it.
And I thought I invented, I'd never heard those three words put together.
You talked about touring internationally, you toured with David Bowie at one point.
What was that like?
It was massive [Eb] for a start.
It was certainly his biggest tour by far.
He'd finally cracked North America, had a number one record all over the world.
[C]
And we were playing to on average [F] 70,000 people each show.
And when you play on a hill to 70,000 people, you actually can't see where they [Ab] finish.
It's quite amazing.
And of course, got to spend a little bit of time with him.
But he was, you know, it was such a big tour that he couldn't go anywhere without being absolutely mobbed.
And there was a time we went out to a little tiny bar in Rotterdam and within, it seemed like minutes, the place was full of people, so full it was dangerous.
And we actually had to be passed out over people's heads to get out of there in one piece.
It was actually quite terrifying.
In 1986, 87, I was in like grade five and grade six.
And the albums that came out, the Australian albums were like In Excess Kick, Blow You Cool by Huda Groose, Crowded Houses debut album, Man of Colours.
Diesel and Dust, Midnight Oil.
Diesel and Dust, Midnight Oil.
That was a golden time for Australian music.
But it had been a long time in the kind of development, I think, because we started playing in the very late, late 70s, I guess, around about the same time as most of those bands did.
And so we'd been kind of banging away at all these live performing and all of these, every beer bar in Australia and whatever.
And by then, [E] each of those bands were up to about their fourth album.
So they'd finally worked out how to get it right.
So it was kind of not really an accident.
Did you take some pleasure seeing Credit, did you see the Credit House concert last night?
I think you were playing your own concert probably.
No, actually, I did come back and have a bit of a look.
Yeah, it's pretty amazing, isn't it?
Well, it's the songs.
That's what it is.
There's so many hits.
Well, [Gb] those songs, Credit, Electric Blue and [D] Great Southern Land, there is a timelessness [E] to those songs from that era.
I think I was always really conscious to try to do [N] things that wouldn't date.
Even when it came to choosing certain synthesizer sounds, I remember hearing this particular synthesizer and going, you know what, in 10 years that's going to be really on the nose.
Obviously, you never thought that way about the mullet though.
Well, tickets to Icehouse's 40 Years Live Tour are on sale now.
For more info, head to the links page on our website.
Would you please thank Ivor Davies.
[C] I'm sorry.
[Am]
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_ She's in town, get together
_ [B]
We'll be right back with the fun facts.
[A] Our next guest formed one of the most iconic Aussie bands ever.
_ [E] Icehouse gave us [B] an Aussie anthem like no [Abm] other.
Next [Dbm] summer, _ man
_ H-C-E-N
[Eb] They dominated from the late 70s right through to the 90s, with global smash hits.
[F] I just need to _ prove it's all over you Electric boog
[Bb] And some seriously sexy mullets.
Yeah, you've got to feel good
_ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] Next year, the band celebrates 40 years of performing live.
That saxophone is sounding as [Em] good as ever.
I don't know where to [C] begin, don't want to hear [G] it again
_ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ Ladies and [C] gentlemen, would you please welcome none other than Icehouse [G] frontman himself, Ivor Davies.
[D] _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Farnsley gets a lot of credit for his mullet over the years, but I mean, you know, there hasn't been a stronger mullet than that one.
[F] _
_ My headmaster forbade us to [C] grow long hair and I've been paying ever since.
[N] Is that what it was?
That was, yeah yeah yeah yeah
40 years of performing live is quite a feat.
Did you ever sort of imagine that you'd be going that long?
_ Well, I certainly couldn't imagine that, you know, next year we'll be playing to something in the order of 110, 120, 130, 140,000 people.
This is just sales [Gb] so far of this little tour that we're doing, so I couldn't have dreamt that.
[Ab]
Amazing.
I mean, just listening to the songs today, we were playing them over and over again, some [E] amazing ones.
We were just listening to you sing them.
We were listening to you play them on your phone.
You're a team [Abm] player.
Don't make me sing them now, whatever you do.
Great Southern Land has to be one of the best songs ever and I hear it and I think of Australia Day, I think of barbecues.
I mean, did you ever imagine that it would be sort of immortalised in that way?
I had absolutely not.
It's such a mystery that song and it was, I can kind of get the fact that we went on our first international tour.
_ I got incredibly homesick and the first song I wrote when I came home [Db] was that song.
And I thought, okay, this is one of 10 songs I've got to write and I took it to the managers and the managers' eyes lit [Dbm] up and record company's eyes lit up and people reacted in a way that I didn't see coming at all.
Where did the Southern Land line come [N] from?
Well, I wanted to, I truly believe that I invented that expression.
I know the Dutch used to refer to it as the Great South Land.
And I wanted to, if I was going to take on this song about this country, I wanted to find a new way to describe it.
And I thought I invented, I'd never heard those three words put together.
You talked about touring internationally, you toured with David Bowie at one point.
What was that like?
It was massive [Eb] for a start.
It was certainly his biggest tour by far.
He'd finally cracked North America, had a number one record all over the world.
[C]
And we were playing to on average [F] 70,000 people each show.
And when you play on a hill to 70,000 people, you actually can't see where they [Ab] finish.
It's quite amazing.
And of course, got to spend a little bit of time with him.
But he was, you know, it was such a big tour that he couldn't go anywhere without being absolutely mobbed.
And there was a time we went out to a little tiny bar in Rotterdam and within, it seemed like minutes, the place was full of people, so full it was dangerous.
And we actually had to be passed out over people's heads to get out of there in one piece.
It was actually quite terrifying.
In 1986, 87, I was in like grade five and grade six.
And the albums that came out, the Australian albums were like In Excess Kick, Blow You Cool by Huda Groose, Crowded Houses debut album, Man of Colours.
Diesel and Dust, Midnight Oil.
Diesel and Dust, Midnight Oil.
That was a golden time for Australian music.
But it had been a long time in the kind of development, I think, because we started playing in the very late, late 70s, I guess, around about the same time as most of those bands did.
And so we'd been kind of banging away at all these live performing and all of these, every beer bar in Australia and whatever.
And by then, [E] each of those bands were up to about their fourth album.
So they'd finally worked out how to get it right.
So it was kind of not really an accident.
Did you take some pleasure seeing Credit, did you see the Credit House concert last night?
I think you were playing your own concert probably.
No, actually, I did come back and have a bit of a look.
Yeah, it's pretty amazing, isn't it?
Well, it's the songs.
That's what it is.
There's so many hits.
Well, [Gb] those songs, Credit, Electric Blue and [D] Great Southern Land, there is a timelessness [E] to those songs from that era.
I think I was always really conscious to try to do [N] things that wouldn't date.
Even when it came to choosing _ certain synthesizer sounds, I remember hearing this particular synthesizer and going, you know what, in 10 years that's going to be really _ _ _ on the nose.
Obviously, you never thought that way about the mullet though. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Well, tickets to Icehouse's 40 Years Live Tour are on sale now.
For more info, head to the links page on our website.
Would you please thank Ivor Davies. _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ I'm sorry.
_ [Am] _
_ [B]
We'll be right back with the fun facts.
[A] Our next guest formed one of the most iconic Aussie bands ever.
_ [E] Icehouse gave us [B] an Aussie anthem like no [Abm] other.
Next [Dbm] summer, _ man
_ H-C-E-N
[Eb] They dominated from the late 70s right through to the 90s, with global smash hits.
[F] I just need to _ prove it's all over you Electric boog
[Bb] And some seriously sexy mullets.
Yeah, you've got to feel good
_ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] Next year, the band celebrates 40 years of performing live.
That saxophone is sounding as [Em] good as ever.
I don't know where to [C] begin, don't want to hear [G] it again
_ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ Ladies and [C] gentlemen, would you please welcome none other than Icehouse [G] frontman himself, Ivor Davies.
[D] _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Farnsley gets a lot of credit for his mullet over the years, but I mean, you know, there hasn't been a stronger mullet than that one.
[F] _
_ My headmaster forbade us to [C] grow long hair and I've been paying ever since.
[N] Is that what it was?
That was, yeah yeah yeah yeah
40 years of performing live is quite a feat.
Did you ever sort of imagine that you'd be going that long?
_ Well, I certainly couldn't imagine that, you know, next year we'll be playing to something in the order of 110, 120, 130, 140,000 people.
This is just sales [Gb] so far of this little tour that we're doing, so I couldn't have dreamt that.
[Ab]
Amazing.
I mean, just listening to the songs today, we were playing them over and over again, some [E] amazing ones.
We were just listening to you sing them.
We were listening to you play them on your phone.
You're a team [Abm] player.
Don't make me sing them now, whatever you do.
Great Southern Land has to be one of the best songs ever and I hear it and I think of Australia Day, I think of barbecues.
I mean, did you ever imagine that it would be sort of immortalised in that way?
I had absolutely not.
It's such a mystery that song and it was, I can kind of get the fact that we went on our first international tour.
_ I got incredibly homesick and the first song I wrote when I came home [Db] was that song.
And I thought, okay, this is one of 10 songs I've got to write and I took it to the managers and the managers' eyes lit [Dbm] up and record company's eyes lit up and people reacted in a way that I didn't see coming at all.
Where did the Southern Land line come [N] from?
Well, I wanted to, I truly believe that I invented that expression.
I know the Dutch used to refer to it as the Great South Land.
And I wanted to, if I was going to take on this song about this country, I wanted to find a new way to describe it.
And I thought I invented, I'd never heard those three words put together.
You talked about touring internationally, you toured with David Bowie at one point.
What was that like?
It was massive [Eb] for a start.
It was certainly his biggest tour by far.
He'd finally cracked North America, had a number one record all over the world.
[C]
And we were playing to on average [F] 70,000 people each show.
And when you play on a hill to 70,000 people, you actually can't see where they [Ab] finish.
It's quite amazing.
And of course, got to spend a little bit of time with him.
But he was, you know, it was such a big tour that he couldn't go anywhere without being absolutely mobbed.
And there was a time we went out to a little tiny bar in Rotterdam and within, it seemed like minutes, the place was full of people, so full it was dangerous.
And we actually had to be passed out over people's heads to get out of there in one piece.
It was actually quite terrifying.
In 1986, 87, I was in like grade five and grade six.
And the albums that came out, the Australian albums were like In Excess Kick, Blow You Cool by Huda Groose, Crowded Houses debut album, Man of Colours.
Diesel and Dust, Midnight Oil.
Diesel and Dust, Midnight Oil.
That was a golden time for Australian music.
But it had been a long time in the kind of development, I think, because we started playing in the very late, late 70s, I guess, around about the same time as most of those bands did.
And so we'd been kind of banging away at all these live performing and all of these, every beer bar in Australia and whatever.
And by then, [E] each of those bands were up to about their fourth album.
So they'd finally worked out how to get it right.
So it was kind of not really an accident.
Did you take some pleasure seeing Credit, did you see the Credit House concert last night?
I think you were playing your own concert probably.
No, actually, I did come back and have a bit of a look.
Yeah, it's pretty amazing, isn't it?
Well, it's the songs.
That's what it is.
There's so many hits.
Well, [Gb] those songs, Credit, Electric Blue and [D] Great Southern Land, there is a timelessness [E] to those songs from that era.
I think I was always really conscious to try to do [N] things that wouldn't date.
Even when it came to choosing _ certain synthesizer sounds, I remember hearing this particular synthesizer and going, you know what, in 10 years that's going to be really _ _ _ on the nose.
Obviously, you never thought that way about the mullet though. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Well, tickets to Icehouse's 40 Years Live Tour are on sale now.
For more info, head to the links page on our website.
Would you please thank Ivor Davies. _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ I'm sorry.
_ [Am] _