April 3, 2025 • 7 mins
Steve Kilbey from the Church called Clairsy & Lisa for a chat, the band have just announced a show at the Astor Theatre in November. He also told Clairsy & Lisa how Under The Milky Way made it onto the Donnie Darko soundtrack without his knowledge.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well the Church. The Singles Tour A Career Retrospective is
going to be at the Asta Theater in November. It's
November thirteen. Pre sale tickets gone seal on Wednesday, April
nine through Metropolis Touring and Steve Kilby's joining us now
to tell us all about the tour. Good morning, good.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Morning, well the morning. It's very early there. I forgot about.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
No, you're well, there certainly are some singles to get through.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, sure are.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yes, hard to believe forty five years.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Do you have a favorite child amongst those? Stupid Does
it change over times and tours?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, changing, changing all the time. I guess. Yeah, Well
one of them we discover, we discover some and go,
well that wasn't so bad, and another one thought, you're like,
they go out of you.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well one of the I mean, one of the big
singles of course, is Unguarded Moment. But is I believe
that you said once that that song just doesn't appeal
to you, It doesn't give you any pleasure. Maybe it
was exciting for people who thought the country was going
to be bogged down with the Human League for the decade,
but you didn't care for it. Do you still feel
(01:19):
that way?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Sell ticket? I don't like I love that song, love it,
it's a favorite.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
You put extra love into it on stage in third Look.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I think that I think that's a conspiracy by the
du to say that I didn't like Hunguarded moment.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, you're saying that we were going to be bogged
down with the Human League for the decade.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Wasn't it just say?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
So many songs? Have you playing the singles this time?
But so many songs over the years of this prolific output.
But do they come in waves and the odd block
or is it pretty constant for you over the years.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Oh, pretty constant. It's on tap and it has been
my creativity you're talking about. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, No, it's
it's always on topic. It's always there as long as
I try and misuse it. If I try and do it,
if I try and do something really awful, it won't
(02:31):
show up. But if I believe in it, I treat
it the right way, it always ficks out a song
in the end.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Always respect for the gift. That's unreal.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Another one of the particularly huge singles we just played Underneath,
under Underneath, under the Milky Way under just under the
Milky Way. How did that end up in Johnny Darko?
Such a great scene.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I have no idea believe it. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
You didn't get to say yes or no.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You it was just you don't.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Say yes or no. Anybody on the planet can do
your song as long as they pay the royalties and
as long as they don't mess with it. You don't
mess with it. Ye, great movie, So that's all right? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
if you use it, you can use it, but you
just got to play the royalty for using it.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Like someone doing a live gig in Berlin or something.
They're playing a cover get through.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, but you don't want to see your song pop
up in some really dumb movie. I mean, it's good
when it's something like Donnie Darko and it's a good scene.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Any any dumb movie can muse it, but not any
dumb advertisement. An advertisement and advertisement used that song without
asking me. My lawyer was Yeah, my lawyer was able
to reuse a bit of money out of them for
not asking. And in movies and stuff, they sort of
(03:58):
negotiate with the publishing company, you know, and then the
publishing company back you know. You're going to make you know,
five bucks out of here.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And I expect you can't have Polgy's just using it
either on a whim.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Which one I'm Tony Albanize you can have it. Peter
Dutton can't unless he comes up, unless you know, we
can negotiate. Certainly not trumpet a patriots.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Unguarded moment when the stages today?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Trump the Patriots?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I can't keep up with that, you.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Know what? You know what, why didn't they come to
me and say, you know, like I'm a master works
with if they were starting a new political party, see
what do you think of trumpet the Patriots? That you
will not get crickenal if you just bring Abraham Lincoln
back from the dead and Robert Menzies, you won't get
elected if you call it the trumpet.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
A patriot, They are going to the wrong people for
their words.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah. I would have come up with a great cutting edge.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Come up with something clever.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What what was the last time you painted something?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And what was it?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
How long ago?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Painted? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You know you paint you.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, no, I painted. I paint. I paint these for
my own places. So I paint a lot of permissions
and I enjoy that, and people go, can you paint
me and and my cat? And can you paint me
and my son? And you paint my car? I enjoyed that.
But just a couple of days ago I painted. I
paint these kind of underwater scenes that are kind of
(05:39):
like across between reptiles and fish and plants. And I
painted one the other day and put it. I just
put it up on Facebook for the front of it.
Were immediately sold. Beautiful. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was a
really good result.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
There is a there is a question I like to ask,
and that is to remember the first time you heard
yourself on the radio. Now, were you too cool to
react or did you just quietly jump out of your skin?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
O way. I the band was driving along and Unguarded
Moments came off, and there's something about Unguarded Moment. It
was really mastered, roud and it jumped out of the
radio like three times rouder than any other song when
we were like probably narrowly averted. Yeah, yeah, it would
(06:35):
be a real thrill.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, whether you liked it or not.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, I've always loved that song.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Heard it is yeah by tickets.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Steve's going to be at the ASTA on November thirteen,
with an Unguarded Moment T shirt on you can you
can catch the singles to a career retrospective, with early
pre sale tickets going on sale on Wednesday. We'll see
you there in November, Steve.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It was a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Beautiful, See ye
Well the Church. The Singles Tour A Career Retrospective is
going to be at the Asta Theater in November. It's
November thirteen. Pre sale tickets gone seal on Wednesday, April
nine through Metropolis Touring and Steve Kilby's joining us now
to tell us all about the tour. Good morning, good.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Morning, well the morning. It's very early there. I forgot about.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
No, you're well, there certainly are some singles to get through.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, sure are.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yes, hard to believe forty five years.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Do you have a favorite child amongst those? Stupid Does
it change over times and tours?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, changing, changing all the time. I guess. Yeah, Well
one of them we discover, we discover some and go,
well that wasn't so bad, and another one thought, you're like,
they go out of you.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well one of the I mean, one of the big
singles of course, is Unguarded Moment. But is I believe
that you said once that that song just doesn't appeal
to you, It doesn't give you any pleasure. Maybe it
was exciting for people who thought the country was going
to be bogged down with the Human League for the decade,
but you didn't care for it. Do you still feel
(01:19):
that way?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Sell ticket? I don't like I love that song, love it,
it's a favorite.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
You put extra love into it on stage in third Look.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I think that I think that's a conspiracy by the
du to say that I didn't like Hunguarded moment.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, you're saying that we were going to be bogged
down with the Human League for the decade.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Wasn't it just say?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
So many songs? Have you playing the singles this time?
But so many songs over the years of this prolific output.
But do they come in waves and the odd block
or is it pretty constant for you over the years.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Oh, pretty constant. It's on tap and it has been
my creativity you're talking about. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, No, it's
it's always on topic. It's always there as long as
I try and misuse it. If I try and do it,
if I try and do something really awful, it won't
(02:31):
show up. But if I believe in it, I treat
it the right way, it always ficks out a song
in the end.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Always respect for the gift. That's unreal.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Another one of the particularly huge singles we just played Underneath,
under Underneath, under the Milky Way under just under the
Milky Way. How did that end up in Johnny Darko?
Such a great scene.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I have no idea believe it. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
You didn't get to say yes or no.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You it was just you don't.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Say yes or no. Anybody on the planet can do
your song as long as they pay the royalties and
as long as they don't mess with it. You don't
mess with it. Ye, great movie, So that's all right? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
if you use it, you can use it, but you
just got to play the royalty for using it.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Like someone doing a live gig in Berlin or something.
They're playing a cover get through.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, but you don't want to see your song pop
up in some really dumb movie. I mean, it's good
when it's something like Donnie Darko and it's a good scene.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Any any dumb movie can muse it, but not any
dumb advertisement. An advertisement and advertisement used that song without
asking me. My lawyer was Yeah, my lawyer was able
to reuse a bit of money out of them for
not asking. And in movies and stuff, they sort of
(03:58):
negotiate with the publishing company, you know, and then the
publishing company back you know. You're going to make you know,
five bucks out of here.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And I expect you can't have Polgy's just using it
either on a whim.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Which one I'm Tony Albanize you can have it. Peter
Dutton can't unless he comes up, unless you know, we
can negotiate. Certainly not trumpet a patriots.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Unguarded moment when the stages today?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Trump the Patriots?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I can't keep up with that, you.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Know what? You know what, why didn't they come to
me and say, you know, like I'm a master works
with if they were starting a new political party, see
what do you think of trumpet the Patriots? That you
will not get crickenal if you just bring Abraham Lincoln
back from the dead and Robert Menzies, you won't get
elected if you call it the trumpet.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
A patriot, They are going to the wrong people for
their words.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah. I would have come up with a great cutting edge.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Come up with something clever.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What what was the last time you painted something?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And what was it?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
How long ago?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Painted? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You know you paint you.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, no, I painted. I paint. I paint these for
my own places. So I paint a lot of permissions
and I enjoy that, and people go, can you paint
me and and my cat? And can you paint me
and my son? And you paint my car? I enjoyed that.
But just a couple of days ago I painted. I
paint these kind of underwater scenes that are kind of
(05:39):
like across between reptiles and fish and plants. And I
painted one the other day and put it. I just
put it up on Facebook for the front of it.
Were immediately sold. Beautiful. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was a
really good result.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
There is a there is a question I like to ask,
and that is to remember the first time you heard
yourself on the radio. Now, were you too cool to
react or did you just quietly jump out of your skin?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
O way. I the band was driving along and Unguarded
Moments came off, and there's something about Unguarded Moment. It
was really mastered, roud and it jumped out of the
radio like three times rouder than any other song when
we were like probably narrowly averted. Yeah, yeah, it would
(06:35):
be a real thrill.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, whether you liked it or not.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, I've always loved that song.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Heard it is yeah by tickets.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Steve's going to be at the ASTA on November thirteen,
with an Unguarded Moment T shirt on you can you
can catch the singles to a career retrospective, with early
pre sale tickets going on sale on Wednesday. We'll see
you there in November, Steve.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It was a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Beautiful, See ye
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