00:00Ellis was like scaffolding when we started touring, Henry was a delivery
00:05driver, Joshie was working at a cafe, Hester was making like jewelry for the
00:11family business, I was working on like mainly like commercial shoots like doing
00:19like wardrobe assistant stuff. It's so, so random that we are where we are now.
00:30Hi, I'm Yossi Solek, host of the podcast Bandsplain. I'm here with Rhianne Teasdale, the icon for a woman.
00:42Hi.
00:43I was in your wet dream driving in my car, saw you at the side of the road, there's no one else.
00:50I'm so excited to talk to you. I'm so excited to talk to you.
00:54This is like self-serving, but it just recently started lifting weights and I was like gorgeous.
00:59I'm going to need to talk to Rhianne and get some tips, some tips and tricks. I'm like,
01:04I need to talk to her about protein intake and need to know like where she's landing
01:08on creatine. Like these are important questions. And I was like, you seem a bit of an expert.
01:14I don't know. I do my best. It's really hard on tour with like the whole protein
01:18intake thing. Like you do kind of get a bit crazy about it. And like, it is just so hard
01:25to eat while on tour. I just recently did a very deep dive into the life and career
01:32of Alanis Morissette. Her ascent was so fast, right? It was like zero to 60 in like two seconds
01:39with that first album. You guys had a pretty psychotic also like overnight blow up.
01:46Yeah, it's been crazy. Like it's like completely changed the trajectory of like everyone's lives.
01:56It's so, so random that we are where we are now. But I do feel like lucky that I have the perspective
02:07of working a lot of jobs before getting to do this. Otherwise, I think I would find it
02:14quite overwhelming. If I'm having like a bad day and then like I have to like get on stage and like,
02:22you know, entertain. I just feel having the perspective of working, having worked like so
02:29many shitty jobs. Well, actually, it's really not that bad, is it? And whilst it's like my like fifth
02:37gig in a row, like it's, you know, it's people in the audience. It's their first time seeing these
02:44songs. And I think that's really special to get to sap all of their energy. What kind of shows were
02:50on the Isle of Wight? What was going down? Yeah, there weren't many shows on the Isle of Wight. Some
02:57friends started this thing called Vendor Fringe Festival. And so every summer they'd like bring
03:04over artists and like curate their own like little festival lineup. Of course, growing up, I had
03:11the Isle of Wight Festival and Best of All. So I was more of like a festival goer from the age of like
03:2014, 15 festivals kind of just really solidified in my brain. This like needs to to be around music.
03:32Are there some buried photos of you wearing a flower crown? No, I was too cool for that. Okay, excuse me.
03:39Me. Just trying. Apparently like flower crown was too far, but there are there are definitely um
03:47photos of me and like sequins. Moisture is incredible. I'm not just saying that because
03:52I'm interviewing you. I genuinely pretty obsessed with I've been listening to it a lot.
03:57I'm most struck on this album by the self-possession and the confidence in in the delivery of the music,
04:13but especially in the lyrics. Do you feel like that's something that you've noticed too that
04:19like you've gained more of since the last album? Like yes and no. Definitely when I
04:28look back at the first album and I listened to the first album, I'm just like taken back to,
04:34you know, just how it felt to walk into, you know, like a studio environment for the first time
04:42and just how how out of place I felt there. I've definitely like come a long way from,
04:48you know, that moment in time. It's a very different experience making a second album
04:54when now, you know, suddenly, you know, people are expecting something. People have like got a
05:00relationship with the first album and like, you know, so there's those kind of pressures.
05:07The cover of the album, might I say super creepy. Was this sort of like the intention of the cover and
05:15was there like artwork before this maybe that didn't make the cut that was like even creepier?
05:22I don't know. It's so funny. I feel like a lot of our visual stuff kind of comes out of having
05:28the time and space to just like be together and try things out with the cover that started out from
05:39from us just going away together on a kind of like residential trip to take photos.
05:48So we're like cool. We'll like go away. We'll have a play. We'll like rent this like holiday home.
05:56And from that I can show you like the original idea, literally like the spawn of the album cover.
06:05I don't know. It just came from this one kind of pose and yeah, just kind of expanded from there and
06:16morphed into, you know, like what it is.
06:20Well, okay. Kind of in that same vein, I heard through the gossip grapevine that you guys watched
06:27loads of horror movies together when you were making this album. I'm not a horror movie,
06:33girl. Okay. I'm going to be honest with you. I'm a little scared and it's a bit difficult for me.
06:37What were the best ones you watched? I'm going to take your advice on what to watch and like
06:41did any of them inform like the feeling and tone of the music you were making?
06:52We watched Jennifer's Body. It's the title of the track on the album.
06:57I like how that has had like a full cycle, Jennifer's Body,
07:00in the fact that it was originally a song title that informed the title of the movie because it's
07:05a whole song off of Live Through This. I don't know. It's that way round.
07:10Yeah, because that because Live Through This came out in 94. So that's way predates the film. And I
07:16I'm sure Diablo Cody was probably a fan. And then Jennifer's Body became the film. And then now
07:22it's the song title again via the film. It's gone like kind of full circle.
07:33I'm like very obsessed with the visual language of rock music, just in general. It's two parts,
07:39right? It's the music, but it's, it's the presentation. It's, you know, we think about it
07:44as one and it, it's so important. And I'm really interested in your self presentation as of, you
07:51know, this recent album cycle and stuff, because with the way you dress and your fashion background,
07:57I'm sure it comes into play there. And the str the strength and the presentation of your body
08:02is so fresh and new. There's something about it that makes me feel so good that there's young girls
08:10that get to look and see you look like that on stage and feel inspired by that or see it as something
08:19very amazing. I guess I was wondering about if it, if you think about what it might mean to
08:26younger girls who see a very strong woman like you in a position of like adulation, like they look up,
08:37they might look up to you, right? You're a musician that they love and how that might change their
08:43lives. I've like always been like quite like naturally, like quite a muscly, like athletic
08:51kind of like, I've always kind of like had that physique, but I've always really like shied away
08:55from it because it's like, yeah, I didn't have anyone. Yeah, it wasn't part of popular culture.
09:06I feel like really hopeful for the younger generation now that, you know, it's there's so
09:15much more representation out there. I think what's interesting about like how I'm presenting myself
09:22now as compared to like how I was presenting myself before. I really hope that also it just
09:28like inspires people to just be whoever they want to be and like you're allowed to explore
09:35different characters and like different personalities and
09:38and you're allowed to grow and don't get stuck.
09:47All right, you guys have done, from what I understand, a ton of touring, a lot of touring,
09:53so much touring between like the last album just blowing up and you touring probably way more than
09:57you thought you were going to and now you're on tour again for Moisturizer. What have you learned
10:04from all this touring about like how to do it best for you? So we're on this current block of touring,
10:13America and Canada. It was supposed to be a six-week tour and right away we were like no,
10:20three weeks is the maximum but we can do because it should to be really fun and I think after three
10:27weeks it does get a little bit like oh maybe a break would be nice, you know? I need my protein
10:35shit, I need my creatines at all. Literally, that was something that we kind of like put in place.
10:43We had like a week off in between the two three-week blocks which is just so, you know, nobody wants
10:53the wheels to fall off of the cart, so you've got to take care of the cart. Yeah sure, take it to the
10:59Jiffy Lube, get a little oil change, give it a rest in a non-beige hotel, yeah. What do you guys do
11:06to recharge on in that week in between? My partner flew out to LA and we just like hung out there and
11:16did not much really and just, yeah, just enjoyed being together again and they brought me out.
11:25I ran out of contact lenses so they brought me out contact lenses. I was like babe, I really need
11:31Marmite, I'm missing it and they brought out Marmite and baked beans and then the surprise item was
11:38crumpets. You're aggressively British babe. Do you eat before you go on stage or is
11:46there like a swimming type policy where you're like no eating for one hour prior to stage
11:51performance? Yeah, I think I've learned now that I need to order food before soundcheck,
11:59eat food after soundcheck, so that's at like 4 30 and then I'll eat like after the gig at like
12:0811. What are we eating at 11 pm? Anything. I feel like I'm starving, I've burned a lot. Anything that's
12:15going. Many types of crisps, many different types of beige food. Quick left turn, where do you keep
12:23your grammy babe? I have this cabinet that I bought on Portobello Road. It's like this like old art deco
12:35drinks cabinet. I've got a collection of like, oh what are they called? They're like these little
12:42Japanese dolls, just like a cabinet full of dolls and then there's like a couple Grammys. Just a few
12:50just like a few dolls from Japan, just a few Grammys. Do you have any big plans for Grammy week 2026?
13:02I don't know if we get to go. We've been a couple times now which I just think is just so
13:07wild and it's just, we're from like this little island in the south of England. The Isle of Wight is
13:16very very far away from Hollywood and Grammy town so it's, I think we were just really like going and
13:25like looking at all the celebrities. Yeah, it's good fun. What is Eddie Vedder like? He's really nice. He seems so nice.
13:35He's really chill and like really like into music which I just think is so admirable
13:44for like someone that's, you know, been in the business so long. I love to hear it. I'm a big Pearl
13:51Jam fan so I'm just curious. Speaking of famous male celebrities, did you have an extremely memorable,
14:02you're like, where are you going with this? I could go anywhere, isn't it? It's so scary. I could like,
14:07this could be the biggest jump scare ever. Like I could truly just pull something really out of my
14:11pocket that is frightening but it's not. It's, it's, did you have any really memorable moments
14:15opening for Harry Styles? No, just like, I don't know, that tour was so, so eye-opening and so mad.
14:23I think before that, I like, I'd never been to a stadium gig so like never had really experienced
14:32an audience like that. You know, like a lot of, a lot of young girls and a lot of queer people
14:38and just you'd think, oh like because it's a stadium show it's going to be really like impersonal and
14:44like there's so many people there and the sense of community like between all of the fans was just so
14:51sweet to see and I really like, I really wish I had that when I was younger.
14:55Did he give you any advice? Was he like, hey, try this, move your hips like this,
15:02eat this beef jerky before you go on stage, a little protein tip for you.
15:07No, no, I feel, I feel cheated. No, he never tried to give me any unsolicited advice.
15:15Safe male celebrity, babe. Safe male celebrity. He's not going to mansplain to you how to do your show.
15:20Yeah. We stand, we stand hairstyles. You played piano from a young age.
15:28Not from a young age. Oh, okay. That was the question. See, I didn't know.
15:34When did you, you went to a couple festivals and you were like, you know what would be so sick
15:38if I play piano? Yeah, I think, I think it just seemed easier to pick up and I was like 17, 17 or 18
15:56when I decided, right, I'm going to start writing songs on piano. Like didn't really like,
16:02know anything about music, but just kind of like muddled my way through it. And then people would be
16:09like, wow, like the chords are like so abstract. And I was just like, I would just like sing like
16:18really loudly and like make sure that like the vocal was like very busy. Like, so you're like,
16:26whatever's going on down here, babe, with the piano, don't you worry about that. This singing.
16:34Yeah, I should have, but like now in hindsight, I'm like, damn, I should have like picked up guitar
16:39earlier. I'm sorry if there's a few holes being poked and you're like, I was too cool to go to
16:43stadiums. And one is the sequence. And the second is that you were like, I need to learn piano first.
16:48These are just, it's not adding up, you know, but I respect it. You have, you have many layers as a
16:54person, as we all do.
17:02What is the wildest thing you've seen on this U S tour so far? And what is the best place to party
17:09in America? I went to a high this show in LA. They're so good. I'm so sad I missed it. They're
17:18so good. I feel like I like live under a rock. I only just discovered turnstile this summer.
17:24I just kind of like wandered over to their show at Primavera. I was like, oh, so this is hardcore.
17:31And so yeah, I'd never like been to an actual hardcore show. And it was just really cool. There
17:41were like three bands supporting just like the, like the culture, like in the crowd is just really
17:51cute and fun. And like just people jumping on stage and like diving off is just so silly. And like,
18:00that's just, it's just like an unspoken rule that like, that's what you do at these shows. And I just
18:06really, I loved to see it. Hardcore shows have the same energy in a way as like a Harry Styles
18:12show, like kind of like what you're talking about. There's like a real community and camaraderie there,
18:17you know? I mean, plus the stage diving. Yeah. And then your favorite or the best place to party
18:24in the United States? I don't know. The only place that we've kind of like had the chance to go out for
18:29like a bit of a party is in Nashville. It was one of our crew members' birthdays and we made sure to
18:40get her drunk on loads of like weird vodka jelly shots. We went out and we hit the strip.
18:45Oh, you went down to like where all the honky-tonks are on Broadway.
18:48Yeah. We did that. We did it.
18:51My two last questions are about, since you just mentioned that you recently
18:55just discovered Hardcore and I welcome you and Hi-Viz is wonderful. There's many other bands.
18:59Military Gun is very good. There's so many. What songs are like on your like top rotation right
19:07now? Like what are you bumping these days as the kids say in the parlance of young people?
19:11There's a band called Water From Your Eyes.
19:14So good. I've been listening to a lot. The song Life Signs is my particular favorite.
19:29Oh, what else?
19:31You can take your time.
19:31Cuntology 101 by Lambrini Girls and Peaches. Have you heard that?
19:36I love it so much. I love Lambrini Girls. They're so good.
19:39I love Lambrini Girls. Yeah, that's what was good about the Eddie Vedder Festival as well,
19:45was like Lambrini Girls were there. Yeah.
19:48And also Hi-Viz were there too. We got to hang out backstage and it was awesome.
19:55Okay. All right. All right, Rhea. I'm gonna have to rub it in and miss that one too.
19:59This was super fun. I hope it wasn't too painful. I didn't learn anything about protein,
20:05so that was sad for me, but otherwise I had a great time.
20:09Thank you so much for making it very unpainful.
20:13Thank you so much for making it very unpainful.
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