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Royel Otis join Klein and Ally in the Helpful Honda Sound Space to talk about their new album and perform for a room full of fans.
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00:00Well, hello.
00:01What's up, everybody?
00:02Look at you beautiful people.
00:04Thank you for being here and starting your Labor Day weekend with us right here in the
00:08Helpful Honda Sound Space at K-Rock.
00:10That's right.
00:11Summer never has to end when you have tequila and free barbecue, am I right?
00:16Welcome to the Helpful Honda Sound Space.
00:18We've got, obviously, a great day lined up for you.
00:21You've already got some food in your belly, some alcohol in your stomachs, and you're
00:24going to get some great live music courtesy of Royal Otis.
00:30Before we can start the show, we want to thank you for being here.
00:32Let's just take a moment of silence and remember what Labor Day is all about.
00:37Old, shitty mattresses.
00:40So you should probably get a new mattress.
00:43That's something.
00:43Thanks, Jake.
00:44Jake wrote that joke.
00:45That's a Jake joke.
00:48Boo that man.
00:50Boo that man.
00:53We got a heckler.
00:55Are you guys ready to meet the guys behind the music?
01:00They have a brand new album that just came out, by the way, last week, and this is very
01:04exciting.
01:04Yeah, Hickey.
01:05I have been listening nonstop, so please welcome to the stage, everybody, Royal Otis.
01:09Well, gentlemen, say hi to your fans, Royal Otis, please.
01:30Listen, this is very exciting.
01:32We got to talk about new music.
01:33We got to talk about this tour.
01:34This is technically an off day for you guys.
01:36You've had a grueling run, 100 shows over the past year, sold-out shows, plus a bunch
01:41of extra ones.
01:42Today's your off day.
01:42You're spending it with us.
01:43So first of all, much appreciation for these guys right here, Royal Otis.
01:49Over the past year, have you reached that point yet where you woke up and you didn't
01:54know what city you were in?
01:55Yes.
01:56Do you remember what city eventually, like when was that in your tour?
02:00Never found out.
02:00I don't know.
02:01It happens most days.
02:02Sometimes we land in a different country and I'm like, where are we?
02:06But you know where you are right now?
02:07Pardon?
02:08You know where you are now?
02:09Yeah.
02:09New York.
02:09Okay, good.
02:10New York.
02:10That's right.
02:11They got it.
02:11Nailed it.
02:13You know, LA should be special for you guys because this is where you made your album,
02:17Hickey, which by the way, out for a week now, guys.
02:19Make some noise for Hickey.
02:22Before we talk about the album and the music and your time in LA, let's just talk about the
02:26Hickey in general.
02:27Is that still popular in Australia?
02:28People still giving each other hickeys?
02:31Down under?
02:31Yeah.
02:32I don't know.
02:34Did you do that thing when you were a kid where you practiced a hickey on your arm or
02:37is that just in America?
02:38Because I did that when I was a kid.
02:40I practiced on my arm.
02:41I think this is a little bit too much information, but I'm just going to give it to you anyway.
02:45Probably did something like that.
02:46You did something like that?
02:46Allie was a real slut with her arm.
02:48Real slut.
02:49Just her and her arm.
02:50Yeah.
02:51When you decided to make the album in LA, is that because you found this city to be inspirational
02:55for you guys?
02:56Was this just more convenient?
02:58Convenience, for sure.
02:59But it's a good city, you know?
03:00Yeah.
03:00Yeah.
03:01Yeah.
03:03Now it's convenience and just like the producers and people we were working with, they all
03:07live here.
03:08There's a lot of talent here.
03:09Yeah.
03:09A lot of talented people.
03:11A lot.
03:12Did you have a first impression of LA versus what your impression is now?
03:16Because like when I moved here, I had a first impression and now, you know, now that
03:19I live here, it's kind of like you have this love-hate relationship, but I want to know
03:23what you first thought versus what you think now.
03:25I don't have my license, so that sucks.
03:29It's a tough city to not have a license.
03:32Yeah.
03:32I usually walk everywhere, so it's, yeah.
03:35That sucks a bit.
03:36But other than that, I love it.
03:40It's also a great city for skating.
03:42Obviously, you skateboarded through our local airport.
03:45Now, was that a sanctioned skateboard through the airport, or is that the one where you have
03:49to worry the whole time they're going to tackle you and tase you?
03:51I'm kind of always worrying someone's going to tackle me or tase me, but it was all right.
03:56It's a good form of transport, having a skateboard in an airport.
03:59You kind of just glide through everyone.
04:02Hickey has 13 songs on it, which means there's probably other songs you guys worked on that
04:05will never see the light of day, at least not with this album.
04:07How do you guys decide what makes it, what doesn't, especially if you have differing opinions?
04:12Do you arm wrestle?
04:12How do you figure that out?
04:13We get bullied into it.
04:15Oh, nice.
04:16Higher powers.
04:18Where's the higher powers?
04:19You here somewhere?
04:20They're everywhere, always.
04:23No, we get bullied into it.
04:28No, we just kind of pick, I don't know, whichever one's kind of, you know, I want it to feel
04:32cohesive, so there's songs that didn't really, like solo, they feel okay, but they don't
04:37really feel like they fit into the album, and I guess Hickey's just like, all those songs
04:41feel somewhat cohesive, so.
04:43Well, the whole album to me has a great Sound of the Summer vibe, but it's kind of like
04:48we're getting the Song of the Summer.
04:50I mean, yeah, Moody has already been out, but to me, Say Something, Car, all those kind
04:55of have this summer sound, even though it's the end of the summer.
04:58When you were making it, did it, was there kind of an intention to have that sound, like
05:06you want people to be listening in their car on a nice day, do you have any of that in
05:09mind, or you don't think about that when you're making music?
05:11I think we always subconsciously do that, because everyone says that.
05:15I thought this one was like a bit darker, like Prats and Pain, I thought was like super
05:19dark, but everyone's like, it's so summery and Australian beach sounding.
05:24I'm like, fuck, didn't mean to do that, but.
05:28The last time we chatted, which was just about a year ago, we talked about growing up in Australia
05:32and how everything there is trying to kill you, and you explained that you almost got
05:35killed, I think, by a jellyfish.
05:36I believe jellyfish almost took you out.
05:38Any almost near-death experiences in the last year that we should know about?
05:41This is for insurance, the band asked me, yeah.
05:44The only things that will kill you in Australia are the humans, I think.
05:47Same.
05:48Yeah.
05:49Yeah, same in America.
05:50True, true, true.
05:50Same thing, right.
05:53When you're, I mean, you've been on tour now, you've been doing shows everywhere, you have
05:57another tour that you're kicking off soon.
05:59Your fans are rabid.
06:01I mean, people all week were dying to get into this show that you're about to experience.
06:05Have you had anyone that's gotten a little too close, maybe gotten a little baby reindeer
06:09on you?
06:11I don't know.
06:13You're in a safe space.
06:14Yeah, but like, in a nice way, they're kind of, yes.
06:19Yeah.
06:20I don't want to, they would be sweet.
06:21You get it, though, you know, when people are excited and you're just like, everyone's
06:24like, oh yeah, and you're like, oh yeah.
06:29Unrelated to that question, can I smell your hair?
06:32Yeah, man.
06:32No, I'm just kidding.
06:32That's cool.
06:34But I'm sure it's great.
06:35I want to talk because I know you guys have favorites when it comes to the new album,
06:38songs that are on there.
06:40And Moody, obviously, congratulations, by the way.
06:42That's a number one hit for these guys.
06:44Well deserved.
06:47And to have a number one song maybe doesn't matter to you as a band, maybe it does, but
06:50is there one that you believe is the number one song that you'll be either playing today
06:54or on the album that people should spend some time with?
06:57I think Jazz Burger for me is the, we're not playing it today, but.
07:03Just eating it, man.
07:04You've got to come to a show to hear that one.
07:07I hate this tune.
07:08I like I hate this tune.
07:10We are playing that.
07:10We're playing that today, yeah.
07:11Oh, great.
07:12Nice.
07:13Just from like kind of a mental health perspective, you guys have been on the road, you're going
07:16to be kicking off another tour.
07:17I think you have a little bit of downtime now.
07:19Do you use that to re-center yourself?
07:22What are you going to do in this little patch of time that you have to kind of recharge?
07:27Just be horizontal.
07:28Yeah.
07:29Eat well.
07:30Yeah, sleep.
07:31Drink a lot of water.
07:33Yeah.
07:33We've got, I think we've got like seven or maybe eight or nine days coming up.
07:38Do you get to go back home at least?
07:39We're not going to go back home.
07:41I'm still trying to figure out what we're going to do, but yeah.
07:43Plane ride's too long.
07:44Some of the other boys in the band are going to head back home.
07:46We've got some questions here from your fans.
07:49We don't want to hog all your time, so we like to wrap up all of our chats before these
07:53guys play some songs.
07:54Who's ready to hear them play some music here?
07:56Before we get to that, though, we give your fans a chance to ask questions.
08:01We've collected a bunch of these from people that are here.
08:03Some of them are drunk, so please answer them appropriately.
08:06All right, here's a go.
08:06Questions from your fans, Allie.
08:07What do you got?
08:09All right, this comes from Christy in Norwalk.
08:12What is the best character choice in Mortal Kombat?
08:16Oh, I mean, it depends if you want an easy win, then you go Baraka.
08:20Baraka's all there.
08:21He's a broken character.
08:23Scorpion, he's classic, you know.
08:25Sub-Zero, you guys need to fight because that's it.
08:30I don't know.
08:31I like the Ermac.
08:34I like Ermac.
08:36Gentlemen, this question from Steve, who listens to your music.
08:39Found you guys on K-Rock.
08:40Thanks for introducing me to Royal Otis.
08:41Great band.
08:41What has been your favorite slash hardest to avoid fast food in America while on the road?
08:47Is there something that draws you in?
08:49Favorite?
08:50McDonald's every time hits, I think.
08:52McDonald's, like a cheeseburger with nuggets.
08:55Sometimes we get like 40 nuggets on the bus after a show.
08:58Sweet and sour sauce.
09:01He likes barbecue.
09:02This question is for Otis.
09:05Otis, your dad is also in a band.
09:07If your dad's band asked to open for your band, would you say yes?
09:13Yeah.
09:15If he asked.
09:17He's being a nice dad.
09:19He's too proud.
09:20He's being polite.
09:21But yeah.
09:22He's in a punk band.
09:25That's kind of crazy, though.
09:28It's good.
09:28The conversation where you're like, I have a number one hit, dad.
09:31And so do you.
09:34No, he's supportive.
09:36Guys, not that I would ever hope this happens, but if you two would ever fight to the death,
09:39who would win?
09:43I feel like.
09:44I'm hard to kill.
09:45That's what I was going to say.
09:46I feel like he wouldn't die.
09:48You know, it's so amazing to see just in the course of the last year how, you know,
09:54you guys were, at that time, at least according to me, a smaller band that was making a lot
09:57of noise, covering songs, but also had great originals.
10:00And now this album is out.
10:02And I think everyone is really going to appreciate Royal Otis for what you have become.
10:05And a band that's been really grinding it out now.
10:07Seems like an overnight success.
10:08But you've been grinding it out since 2019.
10:10So it's been five, six years.
10:12Congratulations on everything you've accomplished.
10:14Congratulations on your album.
10:16Hell yeah.
10:17This is one of the buzziest bands going right now, and no one's more excited for this show
10:21than the people that are here today.
10:22So thank you for doing this.
10:24Once again, give it up for Royal Otis.
10:25Thank you, guys.
10:26Cheers.
10:26Thank you so much.
10:29Enjoy that tequila.
10:30Hello.
10:31It's still you.
10:32It's still us.
10:32Welcome back.
10:34Remember this?
10:35We're going to do that whole interview again, in case you guys missed any of the jokes.
10:38Are you ready for some fucking music?
10:44Make some noise if you're loving the new album Hickey.
10:46Allie is going to be giving hickeys to everyone after the show today in that parking lot right
10:54now.
10:56You are officially guests of K-Rock here in the Helpful On to Sound Space.
10:59And now the band you're here to see, please make some noise for Royal Otis.
11:03Yeah!
11:03Yeah!
11:04Yeah!
11:14Yeah!
11:18All right,é”»ers!
11:21Woo-hoo!
11:22Thank you very much.
11:23One, two, three, four.
11:52You know I hate this tune, cause I think of you I do And the telescreens blue with pictures of you For the love of your face I can never erase You know I hate this tune, cause I think of you I do, I do, I do And it pains me that used to get me up And it pains me that used to get me up
12:22So please, please, pretend we're so far No need to stand so far away, away, away So please, no matter where you are If only we could start again, again, again
12:52You know I hate this tune, cause I think of you All the places we went, I don't wanna forget You know I hate this tune, cause I think of you I do Every sunset tune makes me think of you I could get off this pain, I don't wanna complain Every sunset tune makes me think of you I do, I do, I do
13:21And it pains me that used to get me up And it pains me that used to get me up So please, please, pretend we're so far No need to stand so far away, away, away
13:44So please, no matter where you are If only we could start again, again, again
14:14Again, again, again, again
14:16So please, please
14:20You're tearing us apart
14:22No need to stand so far
14:25Away, away, away
14:28So please
14:31No matter where you are
14:34If only we could start
14:37Again, again, again
14:46Thank you
14:58Oh yeah
14:59Welcome back to LA!
15:05I've got good intentions
15:18She don't see love at all
15:20She'd rather mention
15:23That I miss her call
15:25I'm in the dark house again
15:29Staring at the wall
15:31She's always giving it to me
15:39But you thought she was always in tears
15:41And the last time she said she would kill me
15:44But my girl's a bitch that she's the beast
15:47But she's my everything
15:49She's all that I need
15:52Sometimes more than I want
15:56Questions are loaded
16:12Her face is a lie
16:15She's cryptically coded
16:17And she's home and I'm not
16:20It's just the emotions
16:23It's like jealousy
16:25Most days of the week
16:28She's always giving it to me
16:33Late night she's always in tears
16:35And the last time she said she would kill me
16:38And my girl's a bitch that she's the beast
16:41But she's my everything
16:44She's all that I need
16:47Sometimes more than I want
16:50When she keeps on
16:51Oh
16:54Making love I know
16:59On her past time
17:02So
17:05It's been all I know
17:08But I can't wait to go, I can't wait to go
17:13She's always giving up to me
17:16Late night she's always a beauty
17:19Last time she said she would kill me
17:22My girl's a
17:23She's always giving up to me
17:27Late night she's always a beauty
17:29Last time she said she would kill me
17:32My girl's a bitch but she's pretty
17:35But she's my everything
17:38She's all that I need
17:41So tell more than I want
17:44Oh, oh, oh, oh
17:46How we doing?
18:08This one's called Car
18:15Wouldn't wanna waste your time
18:27Call you if I changed my mind
18:30Try not to be unkind
18:32So wanted you back on my side
18:35Never wanna make you cry
18:38Pretending everything's alright
18:41Couldn't have you on my doorstep
18:45I wouldn't wanna waste your time
18:47Yeah, I'll meet you in the car on the corner
18:50But we know it's gotta change sometime
18:53You know I love the taste of your water
18:56But I think it's time to say goodbye
18:59But I think it's time to say goodbye
18:59Yeah, I'll meet you in the car on the corner
19:02But you're never gonna change my mind
19:04You know I wanna stay but you gotta
19:07Leave it cause it don't feel right this time
19:11Slippin' through the streets of high
19:25Still bruising from your jobs, skip bites
19:28I'll meet you in the car for five
19:31I'm sleeping at your place tonight
19:33Monday's always on my mind
19:36Pretending everything's alright
19:39Couldn't have you on my doorstep
19:43I wouldn't wanna waste your time
19:45Yeah, I'll meet you in the car on the corner
19:48But we know it's gotta change sometime
19:51You know I love the taste of your water
19:54But I think it's time to say goodbye
19:57Yeah, I'll meet you in the car on the corner
20:00But you're never gonna change my mind
20:03You know I wanna stay but you gotta
20:05Leave it cause it don't feel right this time
20:09But I should've let you stay
20:13You've taken this too far
20:16It's tearing me apart, apart
20:20It's time
20:22I could've let you stay
20:25You know I've hit this game
20:27It's tearing me apart, apart
20:32Yeah, I'll meet you in the car on the corner
20:35But we know it's gotta change sometime
20:37You know I love the taste of your water
20:41But I think it's time to say goodbye
20:43Yeah, I'll meet you in the car on the corner
20:46But you're never gonna change my mind
20:49You know I wanna stay but you gotta
20:52Leave it cause it don't feel right this time
20:56You know I wanna change my mind
20:56You know I love the taste of your water
21:31That's a fuckin' awesome thing, thank you so much.
21:38Bonus, fall for the camera!
22:01I don't wanna call you out, said you wanna be alone.
22:06Feel like driving, overthinking everything.
22:11Socks will stress me out, I'm not gonna let this go.
22:17So what do you want from me, what do you need?
22:21Can you say something, say something?
22:27I'm trying to work it out, with what you need.
22:31Can you say something, say something?
22:39Stay up drinking anything, maybe you should take a nap.
22:44Maybe you should slip it off, before deciding.
22:49Suck in all my energy, and even though you wear me out.
22:55I'm not gonna let this go.
22:58So what do you want from me, what do you need?
23:02Can you say something, say something?
23:08I'm trying to work it out, with what you need.
23:13Can you say something, say something?
23:18What do you want from me, what do you need?
23:20Can you say something, say something?
23:21I'm trying to work it out, with what you need.
23:22Can you say something, say something?
23:24I'm trying to work it out, with what you need.
23:25Can you say something?
23:26Can you say something?
23:27Can you say something?
23:28Can you say something?
23:29Can you say something?
23:30Can you say something?
23:31Can you say something?
23:32Can you say something?
23:33Can you say something?
23:34Can you say something?
23:35Can you say something?
23:36Not enough time, not enough time that I'm lost
23:39So what do you want from me?
23:43What do you need?
23:45Can you say something?
23:47Say something?
23:50You know I'm trying to work it out
23:53Before you leave
23:55Can you say something?
23:58Say something?
24:06Thank you guys
24:09We've got one more for you
24:14Thank you so much
24:15Thanks for drinking this early too
24:20That's right
24:21One, two, three, four
24:36Keep on choosing
24:52To forget it
24:55Why do I have a pet name?
25:00We're just friends
25:01I could break you
25:05Probably not
25:08But
25:08You better run your birthday
25:12And you're calling me up
25:14So baby
25:16Who's your boyfriend now?
25:22Is he the one that's me thinking about?
25:29You
25:29Never say his name out loud
25:33If you honestly suffer just a second
25:38No question
25:40Cause you're welcome now
25:42I can't want you
25:56And I won't ghost you
26:00And I can't make sense of
26:03What's in your head
26:06Cause I've been hanging out with your dolls and your friends
26:10So tell me what message are you trying to send
26:13And I'm armed and not disturbed
26:15So I guess that he's in town
26:18Right now
26:20Who's the one that's me thinking about?
26:25Who's the boyfriend now?
26:26Who is the one that's me thinking about?
26:28But it's me you thinkin' bout
26:33Ooh, now the settings may not flow
26:39If you honestly suffer just a second
26:43Really no question, lose the word for now
26:58Thank you so much
27:28Keep it going, keep it going for Royal Otis
27:30Lay it around, Royal Otis
27:34And thank you for coming here
27:36Yeah, because out the low goes great with Derry
27:38Thank you so much for coming
27:40And listen all next week for more chances to win great stuff
27:43We love you guys, have fun!
27:58Should've let you stay
28:01You've taken this too far
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