October 24, 2024 • 5 mins
The super talented Googoorewon Knox who plays George Washington in the Hamilton production joins Jonesy & Amanda for an amazing chat!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, it's possibly one of the biggest musicals in the world.
Hamilton has taken the world by storm, selling out night
after night, London, New York and now of course in Sydney,
cleaning up a ward after a Water along the Way.
Starring in the Australian run is the super talented Gury
Knox in the role of George Washington, one of.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
The big lead roles. Huri, Hello, how did you get
this role? Did you know of the did you know
of the musical? How did the process happen for you?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
So?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I had tried out for it o the year, even.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It was for the previous income.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Yeah, yeah, the previous So like just before they went
on tour around the world, I missed that one. I
guess they had their eye on me. Yeah, they just
they just kept me on their mind and come back
around again and try it for it. But they gave
me a bigger role because I tried out for Madison
Mulligan yep, which is one of the sons of lib
and I expected to be called back for that one
(01:01):
when I come back to try again and they called
me for George Washington. Okay, he's got the big numbs.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I've heard of him.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
He's got big numbers.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Did you know a lot about George Washington? Not really?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I knew he was the first one I started reading
his book. He was an interesting fellaw, yeah, he was
an interesting guy.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
I gotta admit.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
All I know about Georgie Washington's jumping down a tree
that's the cherry tree.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And then he also had wooden teeth is all I
don't even know? Is that true?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I wouldn't know it. You can use that anytime you like.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Don't encourage you, please, This is just a man as
pun humor.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
But this is also your first role in a musical,
which takes so much, this one in particular, all the
stamina that it takes.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Is it what you thought it would be?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
It's yeah, and it's everything I expected and more. Honestly,
I've never been. I feel I feel really kind of content,
you know, because you work hard enough, sing the big songs,
and everyone's so cool, everyone's so cool, and cinema and
then go outside there's some fans waiting around, and I mean,
I'm just a small town country boy.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
So yeah, this is big for me. Well, a big
deal when you look at it. At First Nations person
playing George Washington. Well, do you think that's a big deal?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
It's all right.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
You also come from a very musical family. Your grandfather,
Roger Knox was known as Australia's Black Elvis, the couri
King of Country. Your grandmother, or Andrew, she was also
a country performer.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yes, she was first ever woman on television. My grandfather
traveled the world. My nana she did all this stuff.
But all that entertaining and the the stuff that requires
you know, what is required for musicals. I'd say that
comes from my nana. None was the one where this
type of side of things came from the stagecraft in
(02:49):
terms of musical and theatrics. That's that's from None side.
From my mom's side, I should say.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
From your point of view playing your character, there's a
lot of dialogue. You've got a lot of dialogue and
like you know, the whole all of Hamilton.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I was when I saw it when it came out.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
He just I think it was mid pandemic and had
a largely American cast.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
First time around.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, but I just couldn't get out of the dialogue.
How the hell do you remember all that.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Great effort, great effort. And I mean also being a
musician like you, You've got so many songs in your
mind anyway, so it's a skill that you develop other times.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, because I look at Barnsy. I was watching coultures
of performing, and I've been watching cultures for a thousand
years and they just get better and better. But I
was watching Barnsy just performing. How does he remember all
these songs?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Like?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
How does how does he do it? I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I've always I've always said I wish I was in
that era. I wish I could have like watched them
perform at their pick. They would have been the best.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, so you're a Chisel fan.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Only only new fan. Yeah, we didn't grow up listening
to him at home.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Well, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
And for me, I got into cultures in nineteen ninety
when I started in commercial radio because and by that stage,
cultures have been broken up for about six years. But
commercial radio loved them all of a sudden, they went
crazy and started just playing them a lot. So I
really missed the boat on Cold Chisel, And then I
got into them because I was playing them every half
(04:18):
hour on the radio. So the songs like Forever Now
or flame trees. They all got a new they got
a new audience from people like me, and then again
with yourself and people.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I took it up later because I love the poetry.
The Don Walker lyrics are just so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
But you know forever now that that particular song just
the more I listened to it, and that was originally
written by Steve Press, which the drama of the band
passed away in twenty eleven, but he was that song,
you know, just to you know, taking a seat at
the bar, you don't talk to you know, the lyrics
of that they just become.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
It's just it's so simple. It's two separate verses of
a couple and simply written. But the imagery is just striking.
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I regon what you play it, where you play forever now,
once you get it, once you get it on.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I mean I could, but you could play it. I reckon,
I could have a little hit.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I'd love that.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I'd love that he's gonna play it.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
But I'm going to be in charge of the radio station.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
I think, well, okay, we need what do you need
for this?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Guitars?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Two guitars. Well, you've got an Dargell in the green room.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
And there real comfortable. Let's let's bring them out.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Okay, Well, let's we'll take a break, we'll get some
ads on and then we'll set up and you'll play forever.
Now I love that, Okay, Let's it's spontaneous, it's happening.
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, it's possibly one of the biggest musicals in the world.
Hamilton has taken the world by storm, selling out night
after night, London, New York and now of course in Sydney,
cleaning up a ward after a Water along the Way.
Starring in the Australian run is the super talented Gury
Knox in the role of George Washington, one of.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
The big lead roles. Huri, Hello, how did you get
this role? Did you know of the did you know
of the musical? How did the process happen for you?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
So?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I had tried out for it o the year, even.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It was for the previous income.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Yeah, yeah, the previous So like just before they went
on tour around the world, I missed that one. I
guess they had their eye on me. Yeah, they just
they just kept me on their mind and come back
around again and try it for it. But they gave
me a bigger role because I tried out for Madison
Mulligan yep, which is one of the sons of lib
and I expected to be called back for that one
(01:01):
when I come back to try again and they called
me for George Washington. Okay, he's got the big numbs.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I've heard of him.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
He's got big numbers.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Did you know a lot about George Washington? Not really?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I knew he was the first one I started reading
his book. He was an interesting fellaw, yeah, he was
an interesting guy.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
I gotta admit.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
All I know about Georgie Washington's jumping down a tree
that's the cherry tree.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And then he also had wooden teeth is all I
don't even know? Is that true?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I wouldn't know it. You can use that anytime you like.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Don't encourage you, please, This is just a man as
pun humor.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
But this is also your first role in a musical,
which takes so much, this one in particular, all the
stamina that it takes.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Is it what you thought it would be?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
It's yeah, and it's everything I expected and more. Honestly,
I've never been. I feel I feel really kind of content,
you know, because you work hard enough, sing the big songs,
and everyone's so cool, everyone's so cool, and cinema and
then go outside there's some fans waiting around, and I mean,
I'm just a small town country boy.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
So yeah, this is big for me. Well, a big
deal when you look at it. At First Nations person
playing George Washington. Well, do you think that's a big deal?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
It's all right.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
You also come from a very musical family. Your grandfather,
Roger Knox was known as Australia's Black Elvis, the couri
King of Country. Your grandmother, or Andrew, she was also
a country performer.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yes, she was first ever woman on television. My grandfather
traveled the world. My nana she did all this stuff.
But all that entertaining and the the stuff that requires
you know, what is required for musicals. I'd say that
comes from my nana. None was the one where this
type of side of things came from the stagecraft in
(02:49):
terms of musical and theatrics. That's that's from None side.
From my mom's side, I should say.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
From your point of view playing your character, there's a
lot of dialogue. You've got a lot of dialogue and
like you know, the whole all of Hamilton.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I was when I saw it when it came out.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
He just I think it was mid pandemic and had
a largely American cast.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
First time around.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, but I just couldn't get out of the dialogue.
How the hell do you remember all that.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Great effort, great effort. And I mean also being a
musician like you, You've got so many songs in your
mind anyway, so it's a skill that you develop other times.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, because I look at Barnsy. I was watching coultures
of performing, and I've been watching cultures for a thousand
years and they just get better and better. But I
was watching Barnsy just performing. How does he remember all
these songs?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Like?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
How does how does he do it? I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I've always I've always said I wish I was in
that era. I wish I could have like watched them
perform at their pick. They would have been the best.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, so you're a Chisel fan.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Only only new fan. Yeah, we didn't grow up listening
to him at home.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Well, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
And for me, I got into cultures in nineteen ninety
when I started in commercial radio because and by that stage,
cultures have been broken up for about six years. But
commercial radio loved them all of a sudden, they went
crazy and started just playing them a lot. So I
really missed the boat on Cold Chisel, And then I
got into them because I was playing them every half
(04:18):
hour on the radio. So the songs like Forever Now
or flame trees. They all got a new they got
a new audience from people like me, and then again
with yourself and people.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I took it up later because I love the poetry.
The Don Walker lyrics are just so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
But you know forever now that that particular song just
the more I listened to it, and that was originally
written by Steve Press, which the drama of the band
passed away in twenty eleven, but he was that song,
you know, just to you know, taking a seat at
the bar, you don't talk to you know, the lyrics
of that they just become.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
It's just it's so simple. It's two separate verses of
a couple and simply written. But the imagery is just striking.
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I regon what you play it, where you play forever now,
once you get it, once you get it on.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I mean I could, but you could play it. I reckon,
I could have a little hit.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I'd love that.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I'd love that he's gonna play it.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
But I'm going to be in charge of the radio station.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
I think, well, okay, we need what do you need
for this?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Guitars?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Two guitars. Well, you've got an Dargell in the green room.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
And there real comfortable. Let's let's bring them out.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Okay, Well, let's we'll take a break, we'll get some
ads on and then we'll set up and you'll play forever.
Now I love that, Okay, Let's it's spontaneous, it's happening.
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