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Speaker 1: Welcome to Radio hodarchis Off the Record podcast.
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Speaker 2: With Let's have a Chat with office Dog Curda Kane Kyoda.
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Speaker 3: How's it going?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, really well, thanks mate? What're abouts in the country are you this evening?
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Speaker 4: Just come up to Auckland from Dunedin where I've been based on myself the last year or so. Again that's where I'm from, so yeah, it's just been nice seeing the fan and stuff. But yeah, before we take off to the stats, I've been just doing some rehearsing the rest of the band.
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Speaker 3: Who is still up here?
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Speaker 2: You mentioned that you're from Dunedin. You're well known as Caine String, but now you're in this new band.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Well, I made music under my own name for probably a decade actually, which sounds crazy to me now, but I mean I had some amazing experiences doing that.
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Speaker 3: I got to tour a lot overseas.
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Speaker 2: Where'd you go.
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Speaker 4: America for a headline tour, which was, yeah, a very surreal experience. It was actually before my second record came out, so yeah, the shows were pretty inconsistent to say the least in terms of crowd sizes and things like that, but it was unreal. It's just me and three of my friends in a van. We played about, yeah, twenty nine shows and thirty one days or something like that. It was a real grind. Yeah, I definitely learned a lot. And after that we went to Europe twice that year and got to play some really cool festivals and that was a really special time. But yeah, after a while, I just I definitely got a bit burnt out of doing the solo thing. I really wanted to try something that was a bit more collaborative and yeah, just making music with friends and having a bit more fun with it. I think I started taking it all very seriously and often. When I look back at those tours now, I realized I was kind of more than I should have been. Like, I wish I sucked it up a bit more at the time, if you know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do. There's a chapter about that sort of thing in Matt Heath's Laders book, A Lifeliest posture about just making the most of the moment. And you might get angry about things, but actually, yeah, like you say, take a look at what's going on around you and actually think, you know, this is actually pretty cool.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, that's it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So you mentioned that you wanted to go back to the high school days where you were jamming with friends. The other people in office, dog, are they mates from way back or new acquaintances.
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Speaker 4: Rosanni Tolliver, he's a really old friend of mine. We had a band way back in the day. See we've been just friends and playing together a long time. We lived in Germany together when we were like twenty one.
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Speaker 2: I think so you and Rosanni from having lived in Germany together, do you guys still speak a little bit? Do you have your own little in house German jokes?
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Speaker 4: Going on to To be honest, we were shockers.
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Speaker 3: We barely learned the language.
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Speaker 4: While we would I think like we actually lived in a really small industrial town. Everyone just wanted to speak English to us. So we like almost the practice, if you know what I mean, because they actually get taught.
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Speaker 3: They have to learn that, I think in high school and things like that.
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Speaker 4: So our friend's mum was an English teacher and we like went to a class and I don't know, Brun just asked us about Lord of the Rings and stuff, you know.
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Speaker 2: And so you got mitch on drums.
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Speaker 3: That's it.
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Speaker 4: It's just a three piece. So that's been another really fun part of it. There's not a lot to hide behind. We really just try to let each instrument shine. That's been really nice for me because I in the past I've been a shaker for spending months and months recording and endlessly layering things. And with this all about recordings lately start with just us three in a room playing live together.
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Speaker 2: And was it the case for the new song Intact.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it started just us through in a room and Intact I think. I mean our first record was very it was quite dark sounding and pretty angular and a bit sad, I guess, And with this one I kind of sat down and I wanted to write something back was a bit more uplifting sounding.
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Speaker 2: Let's check it out.
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Speaker 4: This is Kine Strang from Office Dog and you're listening to Intact on radio.
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Speaker 5: How that wo so well? No way?
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Speaker 2: So were.
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Speaker 6: The drinking about run so well?
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Speaker 2: So it's already a heard arch. That's Bran new from Office Dog. It's called Intact and we're lucky enough to have the singer of that song on a zoom with us now cured it Kane String, thanks for bringing us that tune cure.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, happy to be here and thanks for playing.
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Speaker 2: That's part of a new EP.
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Speaker 4: There's seven tracks on it, which is a little bit long for an EP. It's not even called an EP on Spotify. I've just noticed because it doesn't like fit their rules for that or whatever. But we sort of had these seven songs and felt like they just worked as a group, and anything we worked on after that just didn't seem to fit. So yeah, we kind of just committed to the EP thing, which has actually been kind of a blessing now. But it's called Doggerland, which is maybe a bit of a strange title, but yeah, dogger Land is this area sort of off the coast of the UK between the UK and Europe that used to be inhabited by people way back, a long long time ago. It was eventually submerged by the ocean. And yeah, I just thought it kind of worked because of those themes and all the lyrics about feeling a bit submerged and surfacing and that sort of thing.
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Speaker 2: So it's got nothing to do with dogs, no, not at all, which.
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Speaker 3: Is kind of funny.
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Speaker 4: I actually had that title before Office Zog was even a band, so and just a coincidence.
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Speaker 2: You didn't want to call it Atlantis.
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Speaker 3: That could maybe the next one. You know, if I keep this going. The water thing, Yeah nice.
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Speaker 2: And you're taking these songs on the road, not just around New Zealand, but you're about to go overseas.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Two days from now, I'll be on the plane through New York, which is pretty surreal. As I was saying, I did a bit of that in twenty seventeen, and to be honest, in a lot of ways, I didn't think it was something that would happen again. It wasn't even something that we set out to do. Yeah, things have really snowballed to this point, and yeah, I feel very lucky. Definitely nervous, but yeah, excited.
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Speaker 2: So when you say they have snowballed, do you mean there's been an increase in interest in what you're doing and people want you to come over.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, exactly. It's just sort of one thing's led to another. We were just going to chuck it out and then Flying None Records got involved, and then New West Records are label got involved in the band. We're supporting Nada Surf there on New Wes. So it all just kind of yeah, worked out.
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Speaker 2: Not a Surf I remember that song from the nineties. Yeah, what was it called a popular popular?
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Speaker 3: Maybe? Yeah that's the one.
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Speaker 2: What a tune? Oh well you get to play with those guys, so yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: It'd be very cool.
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Speaker 4: We're playing some amazing legendary kind of venues like the Troubadour in LA and things like that. So yeah, incredibly grateful.
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Speaker 2: Wow, So you'll be packing your bags at the moment, or they already packed.
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Speaker 3: They're all packed. I got that out of the waderned you.
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Speaker 4: I've just been lugging them around various friends houses and airbnbs and stuff now that I'm up in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, and how are the rest of the band? They experienced in international travel.
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Speaker 4: Res came with me in twenty seventeen, so he was in that band then, Mitch I don't think has ever played overseas, so it's gonna be yeah, new thing for him.
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Speaker 2: And he's the drummer as well, so he's got the most amount of gear to be lugging around exactly.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we might have to give him a hand, I guess. Yeah. No, he's stoked.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's cool that you've got that previous experience to call back on. You've got contacts over there, you've got a record label. It sounds like things are going to sort of fall into place quite quickly.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, now we just need some money.
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Speaker 2: It's true. How ticket sales going pretty good.
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Speaker 4: I think actually the first night of the tour we're playing two sets because the first show sold out and they've added an early show now, so yeah, we're going to be thrown off the deep end a little.
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Speaker 2: Bit, so touring America and then back home for summer YEP, back.
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Speaker 4: Home for summer and hopefully play a few shows around the country and then yeah, really start to work on our next OLP.
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Speaker 2: So if we want to keep an eye on those tour dates as they get announced, or even just go through the EP that you've just released. Where's the best place to find some information on you.
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Speaker 4: Guys, Office Dog band on social media Instagram and all that. And then yeah, there is a pretty limited vinyl that people can get. I mean hopefully it's in most stores around here. Otherwise you can order it through Flying None or band camp.
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Speaker 2: Actually, kin from Office Dog, thanks for your time on hidarchy and all the best for the US tour.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: Radio hold Aches off the Record podcast. Why not subscribe so they download automatically? And don't forget to rate us five stars.
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Speaker 2: Thanks mate.
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Speaker 1: Find out more about this podcast and the people who make it at hodache dot co dot nz.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Radio hodarchis Off the Record podcast.
00:00:06
Speaker 2: With Let's have a Chat with office Dog Curda Kane Kyoda.
00:00:11
Speaker 3: How's it going?
00:00:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, really well, thanks mate? What're abouts in the country are you this evening?
00:00:15
Speaker 4: Just come up to Auckland from Dunedin where I've been based on myself the last year or so. Again that's where I'm from, so yeah, it's just been nice seeing the fan and stuff. But yeah, before we take off to the stats, I've been just doing some rehearsing the rest of the band.
00:00:31
Speaker 3: Who is still up here?
00:00:33
Speaker 2: You mentioned that you're from Dunedin. You're well known as Caine String, but now you're in this new band.
00:00:40
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:00:40
Speaker 4: Well, I made music under my own name for probably a decade actually, which sounds crazy to me now, but I mean I had some amazing experiences doing that.
00:00:53
Speaker 3: I got to tour a lot overseas.
00:00:56
Speaker 2: Where'd you go.
00:00:57
Speaker 4: America for a headline tour, which was, yeah, a very surreal experience. It was actually before my second record came out, so yeah, the shows were pretty inconsistent to say the least in terms of crowd sizes and things like that, but it was unreal. It's just me and three of my friends in a van. We played about, yeah, twenty nine shows and thirty one days or something like that. It was a real grind. Yeah, I definitely learned a lot. And after that we went to Europe twice that year and got to play some really cool festivals and that was a really special time. But yeah, after a while, I just I definitely got a bit burnt out of doing the solo thing. I really wanted to try something that was a bit more collaborative and yeah, just making music with friends and having a bit more fun with it. I think I started taking it all very seriously and often. When I look back at those tours now, I realized I was kind of more than I should have been. Like, I wish I sucked it up a bit more at the time, if you know what I mean.
00:02:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do. There's a chapter about that sort of thing in Matt Heath's Laders book, A Lifeliest posture about just making the most of the moment. And you might get angry about things, but actually, yeah, like you say, take a look at what's going on around you and actually think, you know, this is actually pretty cool.
00:02:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, that's it.
00:02:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you mentioned that you wanted to go back to the high school days where you were jamming with friends. The other people in office, dog, are they mates from way back or new acquaintances.
00:02:33
Speaker 4: Rosanni Tolliver, he's a really old friend of mine. We had a band way back in the day. See we've been just friends and playing together a long time. We lived in Germany together when we were like twenty one.
00:02:48
Speaker 2: I think so you and Rosanni from having lived in Germany together, do you guys still speak a little bit? Do you have your own little in house German jokes?
00:02:56
Speaker 4: Going on to To be honest, we were shockers.
00:02:59
Speaker 3: We barely learned the language.
00:03:01
Speaker 4: While we would I think like we actually lived in a really small industrial town. Everyone just wanted to speak English to us. So we like almost the practice, if you know what I mean, because they actually get taught.
00:03:15
Speaker 3: They have to learn that, I think in high school and things like that.
00:03:17
Speaker 4: So our friend's mum was an English teacher and we like went to a class and I don't know, Brun just asked us about Lord of the Rings and stuff, you know.
00:03:27
Speaker 2: And so you got mitch on drums.
00:03:29
Speaker 3: That's it.
00:03:30
Speaker 4: It's just a three piece. So that's been another really fun part of it. There's not a lot to hide behind. We really just try to let each instrument shine. That's been really nice for me because I in the past I've been a shaker for spending months and months recording and endlessly layering things. And with this all about recordings lately start with just us three in a room playing live together.
00:03:57
Speaker 2: And was it the case for the new song Intact.
00:04:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, it started just us through in a room and Intact I think. I mean our first record was very it was quite dark sounding and pretty angular and a bit sad, I guess, And with this one I kind of sat down and I wanted to write something back was a bit more uplifting sounding.
00:04:21
Speaker 2: Let's check it out.
00:04:22
Speaker 4: This is Kine Strang from Office Dog and you're listening to Intact on radio.
00:04:28
Speaker 5: How that wo so well? No way?
00:05:05
Speaker 2: So were.
00:05:18
Speaker 6: The drinking about run so well?
00:05:50
Speaker 2: So it's already a heard arch. That's Bran new from Office Dog. It's called Intact and we're lucky enough to have the singer of that song on a zoom with us now cured it Kane String, thanks for bringing us that tune cure.
00:06:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, happy to be here and thanks for playing.
00:06:51
Speaker 2: That's part of a new EP.
00:06:54
Speaker 4: There's seven tracks on it, which is a little bit long for an EP. It's not even called an EP on Spotify. I've just noticed because it doesn't like fit their rules for that or whatever. But we sort of had these seven songs and felt like they just worked as a group, and anything we worked on after that just didn't seem to fit. So yeah, we kind of just committed to the EP thing, which has actually been kind of a blessing now. But it's called Doggerland, which is maybe a bit of a strange title, but yeah, dogger Land is this area sort of off the coast of the UK between the UK and Europe that used to be inhabited by people way back, a long long time ago. It was eventually submerged by the ocean. And yeah, I just thought it kind of worked because of those themes and all the lyrics about feeling a bit submerged and surfacing and that sort of thing.
00:07:48
Speaker 2: So it's got nothing to do with dogs, no, not at all, which.
00:07:52
Speaker 3: Is kind of funny.
00:07:52
Speaker 4: I actually had that title before Office Zog was even a band, so and just a coincidence.
00:07:58
Speaker 2: You didn't want to call it Atlantis.
00:08:01
Speaker 3: That could maybe the next one. You know, if I keep this going. The water thing, Yeah nice.
00:08:07
Speaker 2: And you're taking these songs on the road, not just around New Zealand, but you're about to go overseas.
00:08:13
Speaker 6: Yeah.
00:08:14
Speaker 4: Two days from now, I'll be on the plane through New York, which is pretty surreal. As I was saying, I did a bit of that in twenty seventeen, and to be honest, in a lot of ways, I didn't think it was something that would happen again. It wasn't even something that we set out to do. Yeah, things have really snowballed to this point, and yeah, I feel very lucky. Definitely nervous, but yeah, excited.
00:08:42
Speaker 2: So when you say they have snowballed, do you mean there's been an increase in interest in what you're doing and people want you to come over.
00:08:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, exactly. It's just sort of one thing's led to another. We were just going to chuck it out and then Flying None Records got involved, and then New West Records are label got involved in the band. We're supporting Nada Surf there on New Wes. So it all just kind of yeah, worked out.
00:09:09
Speaker 2: Not a Surf I remember that song from the nineties. Yeah, what was it called a popular popular?
00:09:14
Speaker 3: Maybe? Yeah that's the one.
00:09:16
Speaker 2: What a tune? Oh well you get to play with those guys, so yeah, yeah.
00:09:19
Speaker 3: It'd be very cool.
00:09:20
Speaker 4: We're playing some amazing legendary kind of venues like the Troubadour in LA and things like that. So yeah, incredibly grateful.
00:09:28
Speaker 2: Wow, So you'll be packing your bags at the moment, or they already packed.
00:09:32
Speaker 3: They're all packed. I got that out of the waderned you.
00:09:36
Speaker 4: I've just been lugging them around various friends houses and airbnbs and stuff now that I'm up in Auckland.
00:09:43
Speaker 2: But yeah, and how are the rest of the band? They experienced in international travel.
00:09:50
Speaker 4: Res came with me in twenty seventeen, so he was in that band then, Mitch I don't think has ever played overseas, so it's gonna be yeah, new thing for him.
00:10:01
Speaker 2: And he's the drummer as well, so he's got the most amount of gear to be lugging around exactly.
00:10:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, we might have to give him a hand, I guess. Yeah. No, he's stoked.
00:10:10
Speaker 2: Oh that's cool that you've got that previous experience to call back on. You've got contacts over there, you've got a record label. It sounds like things are going to sort of fall into place quite quickly.
00:10:20
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, now we just need some money.
00:10:23
Speaker 2: It's true. How ticket sales going pretty good.
00:10:26
Speaker 4: I think actually the first night of the tour we're playing two sets because the first show sold out and they've added an early show now, so yeah, we're going to be thrown off the deep end a little.
00:10:39
Speaker 2: Bit, so touring America and then back home for summer YEP, back.
00:10:44
Speaker 4: Home for summer and hopefully play a few shows around the country and then yeah, really start to work on our next OLP.
00:10:54
Speaker 2: So if we want to keep an eye on those tour dates as they get announced, or even just go through the EP that you've just released. Where's the best place to find some information on you.
00:11:02
Speaker 4: Guys, Office Dog band on social media Instagram and all that. And then yeah, there is a pretty limited vinyl that people can get. I mean hopefully it's in most stores around here. Otherwise you can order it through Flying None or band camp.
00:11:20
Speaker 2: Actually, kin from Office Dog, thanks for your time on hidarchy and all the best for the US tour.
00:11:28
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
00:11:31
Speaker 1: Radio hold Aches off the Record podcast. Why not subscribe so they download automatically? And don't forget to rate us five stars.
00:11:38
Speaker 2: Thanks mate.
00:11:39
Speaker 1: Find out more about this podcast and the people who make it at hodache dot co dot nz.
