The Unmade Podcast - The Sofa Shop Reunion

Episode Date: December 25, 2020

Tim and Brady get the band back together... Featuring Quentin Eyres and Carmine Scalzi, the original Sofa Shop jingle performers. And a special guest guitarist. Support us on Patreon so we can make more quality digital content like this - https://www.patreon.com/unmadeFM Join the discussion of this episode on our subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/Unmade_Podcast/ USEFUL LINKS Check out many of our Sofa Shop Covers here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRNeH_Kpl1ZgpeiNeJ-oiAQ Here's the Sofa Shop interviews episode with Carmine and Quentin - https://www.unmade.fm/episodes/sofa-shop-interviews Quentin's business - Q the Music - http://qthemusic.com.au/About.html Here's a retro video of Carmine singing Tears in Heaven - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gan107Q7s2c

so tim at the time of recording right now in the night sky there's this incredible conjunction of jupiter and saturn the planets are aligning it's this rare once in hundreds of years event wow can you see that from your room or you know that because of you've read no no you'd actually be able to see them in the sky. Jupiter and Saturn are very close together in the sky. But, yeah, anyway, sorry, I didn't mean to throw that curveball at you. The reason I bring it up is because we have got an even more incredible aligning of the stars to bring people.

I didn't think you'd be so distracted by my piece of space trivia. Tell me more about it. Tim's hanging out the window looking now. Anyway, let's move away from the astronomy. We have got the band back together. We've done what everyone wanted. We've done what everyone was expecting. A little while ago, you heard us do interviews with Quentin Ayres and Carmen Scalzi,

the people that made the Sofa shop jingle back in the 80s the singer and the composer we've got them back in the studio for this episode as promised incredible incredible amazing you could cut the atmosphere with a knife right now that's how excited we are so imagine if the Beatles got back together which would which would be quite remarkable yes today um yeah but not even as remarkable I think at coming together a reunion as uh as we've managed to engineer I mean if you got the Beatles back together now it would be two guys and that's what we've got so it kind of is like got the Beatles back together now, it would be two guys. And that's what we've got. So it kind of is like getting the Beatles back together. Yeah, well, that's true. Yeah, yeah.

Tiny bit of background for if this happens to be your first ever Unmade podcast, we should probably fill you in. There was a TV commercial for The Sofa Shop back in the 1980s in Adelaide. It was on TV all the time until quite recently, actually. And it had this jingle that lodges in your head if you've never heard it before you're about to hate us because we're going to play it to you and we're going to play you the original version with the halifax street line here it is the sofa shop is your only stop for the sofa you need. Sofa shop, yeah, come and drop in on Halifax Street. We have a sofa designed for you. Choose your fabric, match your curtains too. The sofa shop ain't gonna cost what you think it will.

Don't you do a thing until you see the sofa shop Tim, does it still send chills down your spine? Oh, well, I was just listening to it earlier just for fun on the way to my office. Get in the mood. That's right. That's the third time I've heard it today. And it's only seven o'clock in the morning. There you go. So singing that was a young Carmen Scalzi and it was written by and performed by Quentin Ayres. Now I tracked them down on a recent visit to Adelaide and you can hear our interviews with them in a previous episode. would you perform at one last time and they both agreed and with a little bit of work on the diaries we did get them on my last day in Adelaide we got them into the studio Tim came along as well and

well Tim what were your feelings as we were driving to the studio knowing what was coming oh I was um I couldn't I was pinching myself really thinking is is this gonna happen and and and and it did I mean it was driving along and thinking well i was looking for this studio and wondering why we weren't heading to abbey road and it turns out we were we were going to quinton studio which is the the abbey road of adelaide yes yes in fact we should have found a crossing nearby to sort of to pose and walk over that would have been brilliant now you think of it that would have been great yeah so we so we went in i'd been in before i'm not gonna lie i'd already been into this magical cavern but it was tim's first time and we opened the door

and there they were appropriately enough sitting on a leather sofa ready for us. And well, let's just share what happened next. Here we are. By the way, people, there is a lot of video that was taken as well. And this is one of the few episodes of the Unmade Podcast where maybe you want to go and watch the video on YouTube so you can see what's happening as well. For that reason as well, the podcast is edited a bit more loosely than usual so that it can sync up with the video if i make lots of cuts and changes like you know it messes up the video so it might be a different listening experience but it has been made to be a podcast so do enjoy it as a podcast but if you want to go to the youtube channel that would be great too

and i'll have links in the notes all right let's so so i bought a little camera I can put in the studio with you guys to catch it for posterity as well, so let me get that. So what are you going to do? Are you going to like... We're just going to play live. Yeah, that's what I want to hear. What do you reckon? Yep.

Tim, you up for that? Well, I've spent my life in the studio. Carmen and I are both essentially at heart live musicians. Yeah. So where are you going to be standing so I know where to put this thing? We might just sit on the couch, what do you think about that? How are we going to record it though? Are you not going to... This is going to be the good stuff that happens now. Yeah, this is like the, this is the stuff that the fans want, you know, this is for the aficionados.

This is, we're going back in time, we're going on, I'll leave that there. This is Carmen Scalzi and Quentin Ayers doing some, getting the band back together. We're here in Quentin's studio at Cue the Music in Norwood. Whoever thought this day would come again? Incredible. Amazing. Let me put that there to get some sound.

All right, you guys, you guys go. One, two, three. The sofa shop is your only stop for the sofa you need. The sofa shop, yeah, come and drop in on Halifax Street. We have a sofa designed for you. that's awesome that's no bad until you see the sofa shop. That's awesome. That's no bad. That's amazing.

Is it choose your fabric, match your curtains too? What is it? What's the lyric? Choose your fabric, then match your curtains too. See, that's not what you said that time. So that's a special... It's a remix, yeah.

But I like the change of lyrics. So it's choose your fabric, match your curtains match your curtains too oh that makes sense you choose something then you match something alright

go again we do actually have the right here you're the only one not saying anything do we do it just like the same or do we change the melody a little bit

up to you what do you think guys I'd love to hear a few different versions I think you want to experiment a little bit yeah Up to you. What do you think guys? I'd love to hear a few different versions. I think you want to experiment a little bit. Yeah, yeah. We're all about it. Shut up. We're working here. Ah, see what happened? The Sofa Shop is your only stop for the sofa you need The Sofa Shop, yeah, come a-dropping on Halifax Street. We have a sofa designed for you. Match your fabrics and your currents to the sofa shop.

And gonna cost what you think it will. Don't you do a thing until you see the sofa shop. That's got a lovely... Is it a minor chord? It's got a lovely lament to it, hasn't it? Well, it wasn't in a minor key. No. Have you taken it down a key?

No, that's the original key, yeah. What's it in? D. Wow, okay. You're still getting that line wrong, though. You're still not saying it right. When you get to it you just say match. I think it's just been rewritten.

Match your curtains and your... It's supposed to be choose your fabric. Choose your fabric. You say match your something. What is it? Choose your fabric. And your curtains too. No, choose your fabric.

Match your curtains too. Ask the writer. Oh, we actually have the original recording as well. And he wouldn't know. There you go. This tape contains mixes of the 30-second A oblique. It's a choose, then a match. for you Choose your fabric, match your curtains too It's a choose then a match. Yeah.

Choose your fabric. He's been doing match and and. Yeah, I think I did choose your fabrics and your... You say match your fabrics. You've been saying match one, match the other. It's choose and then match. Okay. That's right.

That's right. You don't care, do you? You don't really care that much. It's like, I don't care. do you? You don't really care that much. It's like, I don't care. Who cares? All right. Would you pick Carmen's voice out? If you'd heard that sent in, would you have said,

that's the original singer? I reckon it sounds pretty distinctive. Hearing it live is like, oh, that's it. And then when you played it again then, it's just like, oh, my goodness, that is him. And it's beautiful. It's yours, yeah. Probably a tad worn out nowadays as opposed to a tad young

in those days. 35 years ago, I mean. A couple of cigarettes, is it? A few gigs since then. A few gigs, yeah. Quentin, you've got the musical here. How do you think Carmen's voice has changed hearing him sing it a few times now?

No? No. Yeah? No? No. Yeah? Same? No. Mind you, we're only hearing him sing for a few minutes. Come back at the end of the gig and remind me of a different story. It's the stamina. There's your stamina now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we both used to play in places in a street called Hindley Street, which is... I'm from Adelaide. I don't know. Oh, yeah. What a throw he's thinking. It's as seedy as Adelaide gets. Yeah.

And Carmen and I, we didn't actually work together there, but Carmen worked with a guy called Joe James. They were the James brothers, which is weird because they weren't brothers and none of them were called James. The James middle name is James. Right. And I, so it is. And I was working in a duo called Wayne and Quentin.

Funnily enough, Wayne and Quentin. And we both played in places like the Black Rose where you'd start at midnight. Absolutely. And Monday night, midnight, as in Tuesday morning. No one's out at that time anymore. Oh, you'd be surprised. Yeah.

And they were still pouring in at 4am. Yeah. All right. And how often would you play the sofa shop? Like every week? That's why they're out. Would you put it late in the gig, you know, to be the favourite, you know? They're all like, we're here for the sofa shop. It's only become the favourite

because of you guys. Oh no, because of the fans, the civilians. So, let's see if we can get one with the lyrics right yep i'm not um we make no guarantees choose your fabrics natural curtains choose your fabric matches we'll go hard this time oh this is it this is the real deal now. Alright. Alright. On Halifax Street When the sun is out for you I knew that was coming. Let's write it down for you. Back in the day, it would all be written out. Where's the scrap of paper I can use? I'll write it down.

Do you want a glass of water? Yeah. I've definitely heard the old... Can I have a one and a two? Choose your fabric. Match your curtains to... Match your curtains to... Yeah.

There we go. Because, you know, on the day, some of the lyric would change a little bit to try and fit. It wasn't always written in stone when we first got it. I've so rarely heard it with the Halifax Street line. It's like, that sounds like... Halifax Street must have lasted for, what, 10 years? No, because these guys found a YouTube in 93. That's in 93, is it?

93. Right. And West Terrace then. Yeah, and Halifax Street was missing by then. I've got an idea they moved somewhere else before West Terrace. Really? They've definitely moved around a few times. All right.

All right. Let's see how we do this time. Oh, he's standing up. Oh, he's getting serious now. Carmen's standing up. Oh, he's standing up. Oh, he's getting serious now. Carmen's standing up. Oh, they're both up. They're both up. We're getting closer to the studio.

You can tell. Alright. Ah! The Sofa Shop is your only stop for the sofa you need The Sofa Shop, yeah, come and drop in on Halifax Street We have a sofa designed for you Cheesy fabric magic curtains too The Sofa Shop ain't gonna cost what you think it will you Choose your favourite magic cards too The sofa shop ain't gonna cost what you think

it will Don't you do a thing until you see the sofa shop Nice! Nice! I promise I won't do a thing until I see the sofa shop Oh that's great.

Right off the top, Brady, this is a dream for me on two levels. One is I am absolutely addicted to in-the-studio documentaries, you know what I mean, with raw data of albums being made. Oh, yeah. And so just even watching this is fantastic fantastic and listening to it is just like, oh, this is like a great documentary about, you know, Nick Cave or the Beatles or someone. But being there was amazing as well, just being there

and actually being part of history was, oh, it's like, wow, can we record an album while we're here? Part of history. I like it. Oh, yeah. There was something a bit magical like did carbon sound like the same guy that you'd heard in the ad for all those years to you could you hear his voice in there yeah yeah i could i could i mean he obviously it's matured

there's a deeper rounder sound it's a bit like when you listen to those early elton john albums and it's all really high you know and then you hear Elton John now and it's he's like beautiful and deep like Lion King Elton John you know like it's Lion King Elton John yeah yeah yeah when the circle of life you know it's like it's a different kind of and I think that's how it was with Carmen as well I think it was uh it was Lion King Carmen Lion King Carmen that's right that's right that's why I lifted him up over that rock that time. Fantastic. Fantastic. And I love that he's got that blind spot for the lyrics.

Like, he's heard it a billion times on TV. And, like, it's the song he's famous for. And he just kept getting that lyric wrong. He keeps saying, match your curtains and your whatever. Like, he's... And I had to literally write it down on a piece of paper for him so he could keep looking at it. Yeah, that's a classic.

That's a classic. I love that there are thousands of civilians who can now, like, sing this song word perfect. And yet the guy who actually sang it gets the words wrong. That's fantastic. And the guy who wrote it who was sitting next to him had no idea we had to play it's like getting paul mccartney him and him going tomorrow when all my dreams and hang on a second it's yesterday it's yesterday Hey, June. What's it? June?

June? Fruit? You're the perfect person to ask this. Do, like, famous singers forget the lyrics of their songs very often? They must because it's become almost ubiquitous now for them to have lyrics on stage when they're touring. Like, they have a little computer screen scrolling through, just like karaoke, just scrolling through lyrics. And the first person I saw do this was Axl Rose from Guns N' Roses.

And I thought that was astonishing because I knew, you know, all these Guns N' Roses lyrics and it's like I'm just Tim and I know these songs. Why the heck? Like I can sling along. But everyone does it now. And I saw Bruce Springsteen a sling along but everyone does it now and i saw bruce springsteen a few years ago and he does it and in fact he even has written out the banter between the songs like

he made some statement about you know refugee policy which was really inspiring and i'm like hang on you're reading this it sounds like it's coming straight from your heart but it comes straight from his heart into a keyboard and then presented back on stage. I want everyone to know that the banter you're hearing between Quentin, Carmen, me and Tim is completely real. None of it was written down. It's the real deal, people. Man, I think that's perfectly obvious. Like all the Unmade podcasts.

Speaking of things that are unplanned now we wanted to get carmen into like the soundproof booth because i wanted that iconic shot of him with the headphones on next to the microphone you know that kind of band-aid type shot but before i could get him in the booth uh there was a bit of spontaneous have we got another guitar going down yes because tim tim was just feeling the magic and he and he wanted to be part of the documentary so we we tried to rustle up a guitar it took there were a few difficulties we encountered you'll hear uh but the next section you're going to hear is tim learning and then playing the sofa shop along with the guys. The twosome became a trio.

Here it is. Joe could have brought two guitars. Oh, just like, just anything with strings. Have you got a, yeah, there's a guitar here. Oh, they're bass. Yeah. Well, I like those. So, um.

Just a prop, really. Do you actually play? I do. I'm like a bedroom guitarist. So it's got a drop D string. That means anything to you? I know what that is but I don't know if I adapt my playing to do that. Oh, in that case. There you go.

That's what alternative rock bands do to sound grungier. Your top E is a D, is it? The bottom. Oh, the bottom, yeah. Yeah. Wow. And so you don't... But presumably you need Quentin with you,

just so the music will make sense. You won't be able to play that. Hang on, I do have another guitar. No, no, no, no. He needs to play it. No, I'd need the chords too. I don't know what it is. Yeah.

That's not bad. What are you playing there? That sounds like it. That's B minor right there. But that sounded like it! B minor playing it, he told me the chords. That's not bad! That's good. Oh, Tim, I take it all back.

I'm quite impressed playing your sofa trap there. It's all in the guitar. I'm quite impressed by your sofa shot there. It's all in the guitar. Sofa shot ain't gonna cost much, thank you. Get out. Matcha curtain, oh damn it. Shoes.

Alternate take. So it goes A then B minor there. That's B flat. Oh rather. Yes. E minor, now E minor. Now A. Now back to the top. Lessons from the sofa shop man himself. A, B minor, D. Hang on, hang on, hang on. What part of the song? No, no, no. It's so, so special. I can't switch it off. Don't do a thing about it.

It goes to D there. So that's the end. So from the start, one, two, three, four. He calls them out. D, A, G. four call them out d a g d a g a b minor e minor a d

g A, G, A, B minor, D. Alright, so you end on D, don't you? Yeah. So can we do a version? I'll play along. Yeah, cool. That's the whole idea, mate. Do play along. The more you stuff it up, the more I'm going to give you a hard time later. Choose your fabric. One, two, one, two, three, four. The sofa shop is your only stop for the sofa you need.

The sofa shop, yeah, come and drop in on Halifax Street. Actually, you are right. You're correct, yeah. You're correct. But we've done double check. Normally there'd be an extra couple of beats there, so there's four beats in every bar, but because it's a jingle one, it can only last 30 seconds. Any spare beats get snipped out.

Yeah, right. So it feels right to wait there, but in fact, that's not how the jingle goes. So you were doing the correct version. Let's go again. So should we do the correct version? That's one for Tim. We'll do the correct version. Okay, Tim, you're too good a musician.

It's hard to undo all this classical training. Here we go. Two, one, two, three, four. The sofa shop is your only stop for the sofa you need. The sofa shop, yeah, come and drop in on Halifax Street. We have a sofa designed for you. Choose your fabric, let your curtains do. The Sofa Shop ain't gonna cost what you think it will.

Don't you do a thing until you see this overshot Not bad, it's not bad Was Quentin playing over the top of you or was Tim contributing? He was absolutely contributing I take it, I take it And that was me singing too, Carmen was just lip-syncing That's brilliant. Can we do one studio one where at least Carmen's at the posh mic?

Can I say, rarely are the greatest moments of your life captured on film. I mean, sure, maybe a wedding yeah yeah but apart from that apart from that you know what i mean there's not a single frame of video footage of your swimming carnival triumph for example exactly well this is right that's right yeah yep and yet and yet yeah we have this complete footage and i tell you I'm proud I couldn't be prouder I also have to say Like I had to eat a bit of humble pie Because it's well known that I think

You can't play guitar worth a lick And you just like to pick it up and pretend But this was the first time I ever saw you pick up a guitar And actually make something That sounded a little bit like music. And like, I watched you learn to do it and you seem to be contributing something to the song. Adding something new to the sofa shop. I don't know about adding something new, but you kind of like, you know, you seem to kind of know what you were doing.

And I was genuinely astonished I have to say, can I say Yesterday I was in a cafe Having a meeting with someone and they Asked me if I could play with them At a friend's wedding that's coming up in a few months And well I I just teared up, I said no one's ever

Asked me to do that before Amazing They obviously haven't heard your Money for Nothing riff. I don't think we'll be playing Money for Nothing and the chicks for free at their wedding. No, fair enough. Only because I can't play it. That's why we won't be playing it.

Otherwise we would have. Mark Knopfler will come in and just guest play that song and then leave. That's right. Yeah, yeah. You'll play all the rest. I'll do all the standing there the cool standing there but yeah i was nice to have a moment of indication to actually to actually strum i think it's like four chords in the song and for you to be like genuinely impressed like well you can play four chords but do you know what i love and this

this isn't the part you did but quinton played this bit and it's like it's the trait it's one of my favorite parts of the jingle itself is after that first line i don't know what you call it in musical parlance that little bit where he goes but you know that little like little what do you call that little thing he does what's that called it's a little lead fill yeah yeah he's a lead feel is it yeah yeah it's a lead guitar he's playing a lead guitar rather than the rhythm which is the chords and stuff but it's like a little fill it's like a little it's not the riff it's just like a little fill yeah i love it it's so it's so cool like that's that that's the that's the really cool part i really like that as long as as long as you don't stuff it up and your friend repeats it

on a popular podcast over and over and over again. Yeah, yeah. That'd be bad. But, yeah. What did it feel like to be playing and to be part of it and to hear Carmen singing and think, he's singing to my guitar playing? Oh, it felt great.

Yes, yes, it did and i i sort of thought well well you know this will be a bit of a run through and then we'll do it but he was like yep that's it well done and i'm like hang on hang on i was a bit slow on a couple of changes there and so forth but he didn't seem to want to hear me play it again no he seemed satisfied with that one there was that bit as well where you mucked it up But you mucked it up like in a way that wasn't your fault Like you know What does that feel like getting like told by the masters Like you know that you'd done that thing with the beat and the bars and stuff

You know you know that happened That's happened once before to me The last time when I was about like 12 years old At an organ lesson right Learning the organ from this lovely little old lady in tralgon yeah and i played a little tune and at the end i went you know down at the end like onto a note and she goes aha she says that's not what's written on the page but that's how the melody sounds like it should go she says you've got a good ear for music and i went oh

hello so it was one of those times i made a mistake, but it was an understandable and a correct mistake. Is this for real though, Tim, or is this a bit like when a bird poos on you and people say it's good luck? Oh, you made a good mistake. Oh, don't worry about stuffing up the music. It's good luck. a good mistake oh don't worry about stuffing up the music it's good luck it's like like when a kid gets into the mayonnaise jar and makes a mess all over the kitchen and the parents go he's really creative like it's nice i it's good to see that i've taken I've taken that um good ear for music and and and what have I done with that potential I've basically just bought hundreds of cds and that's it read lots of rock biographies that's that's like you've got a good ear for music and sure enough all I've used are my ears like that's

it I haven't never got around to making I have to say, in hindsight, I'm a little bit jealous that you got to play with the guys. I wish they'd given me, like, some maracas or a triangle or something so I could just be part of it. But instead, I was filming it on the GoPro and the iPhone. The videographer training just took over. Yeah, you were on the tech that day. It was good behind the...

Like Quincy Jones, you know, like George Martin, just fiddling the knobs that's right i was a i was a roadie you you were you were you may have even had a black t-shirt on yeah i'm sure i did i did have a black t-shirt on full roadie look all right anyway here comes the final segment we got carmen into the the soundproof booth and we also, Quentin took his usual place at the console, you know, doing all the levers and the knobs and the buttons, getting the music right. And we got Carmen to sing along with the pre-recorded music. And that's what happens in this final section. Remember, Carmen, choose your fabric. Yes, choose. happens in this final section. Remember Carmen, choose your fabric. Yes, choose.

If you put your foot on there, you can talk to him. I'll start that. Hello, hello, hello, hello. Hello, hello. You're not hearing that? Yep, yep. I'm only hearing it on one side. Is that all right? So we've got a full count, have we?

The sofa shop is your only stop for the... Okay, here we go. The sofa shop is your only stop for the sofa you need. The sofa shop, yeah. Come and drop in on Halifax Street. We have a sofa designed for you. Choose your fabric, match your curtains too. The Sofa Shop ain't gonna cost what you think it will. Don't you do a thing until you see the Sofa Shop.

Yeah, now I've got the level sorted. Good dodgy on the entry, I think. That's pretty good. Easy, easy. Okay, let's go one more. Here we go. The sofa shop is your only stop for the sofa you need. The sofa shop, yeah. Come and drop in on Halifax Street. We have a sofa

designed for you. Choose your fabric, match your curtains too. The Sofa Shop ain't gonna cost what you think it will. Don't you do a thing until you see the sofa shop Oh yeah Very good There we go You still got it Can there be some more heart? Still got it mate, still got it

Do it for the sofas Yeah, I thought the bagpipes can come in at that point Tell him to rack off What's it like singing again after all these years? The jingle? Yeah, yeah. Oh, look, it's always stuck because it was played for so long. Yes, it was thrashed to death.

So it was played for so long, so it always stuck. And I actually had a bunch of people found out that I was singing it. They'd always remind you of it, you know. Yeah. The Sofa Shop, yeah, come and drop in on Halifax Street. We have a sofa designed for you. Choose your fabric, match your curtains too. The Sofa Shop ain't gonna cost what you think it will. Don't you do a thing until you see the Sofa Shop.

You happy with that? I can hear maturity in the voice. A tiredness, possibly. A man who's seen many sofas. He's sat on many sofas. Yes. Quentin, how do you feel about it after all this time? You happy with that?

It was in my early days of electronica, if you can believe that. So I'm hearing those ancient dx7 synthesizers going in there um and i'm trying to uh disguise that by the sweet acoustic guitar but to my ear now it's not really working but we've had a great run it good. And it's made us famous at least. In the unmade podcast world. Correct. It was the technology of the time too. It was. Yeah.

Tim, I haven't prepared. I hadn't prepared anything, Tim, but I think we actually have a rare honour that we can bestow on people from the podcast. You can be made an unmade colonel and we have a certificate we send you for people who go above and beyond the call of duty for our podcast. If Tim approves it as well, I think Quentin and Carmen... Tim's looking pretty grim.

He doesn't give these things out lightly. Are these two worthy of being made unmade colonels? I think automatic entry. I have to agree. I mean, really. Yes. These folks have made their way to be unmade kernels some 35 years ago. Even before the Unmade podcast, they were guaranteed entry

because of their beautiful work of art that they've created here. It's a Brady's memory of the ad. Well, when I get back, I'll get them all made up and stamped and sealed and send them to you guys. So this is like yet another honour for your trophy cabinets and your award cabinets. Thank you so much. You are officially unmade colonels now.

Have you been to Government House before? Because they will be. That's their reminder. Thanks again, guys. Thank you so much for having us. This is amazing. This was a very special day. Thank you very much.

Yeah, great. Bringing it to our attention. All right. Fantastic. All right. Fantastic. All right. Forget the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, we have two new unmade colonels. We do. Yes, what an honour.

What an honour for them, really. Yeah. What an honour for them to be in our presence, even. Indeed. Indeed. I don't think when they got up that morning, they thought they were going to be colonels by the end of the day. No.

No. I don't think we thought of that. I only thought of it two seconds before. I was surprised how quickly you bestowed it. But, you know. I mean, I think it's pretty obvious I was swept away by the emotion of the day. You were. swept away by the emotion of the day i was pretty susceptible to any kind of persuasion they could have asked for my pin number and my credit card i would have given it to him it was it was good to

see uh carmen in the booth standing up because he did those other renditions i sitting down and i have to say i was amazed how he was able to hit those notes sitting down but then when he stood up in the booth you could see you know he was using his diaphragm and you know the whole the whole body got into it of course he did he did stand up for his final sofa one in section one because you know even sitting down for those first couple he eventually had to get up but you are right i agree he mostly was sitting down for those first couple he eventually had to get up. But you are right. I agree. He mostly was sitting down and you knew he meant business when he put the headphones on and stood up. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And the passion.

It takes you to your feet. I always stand up when the sofa shop theme comes on. I think it's part of the Australian constitution, isn't it? You have to. It is. It is. How ironic now that as colonels people will be standing up for them. Yes.

Whenever they walk in the room. Yep. I mean, that was something special. A reminder again, if you've been listening to this as a podcast, thank you very much. Why not go and listen again on the YouTube channel and you can watch the video of most of this stuff happening. And, you know, really put some faces and bodies and to the voices. Faces to the voices? Bodies to the...

I don't know. I don't even know what I'm saying. Help me out here, Tim. Well, that's right. Yes. No. Why should people watch the video? I'll tell you why you should watch the video.

If there's one reason you should watch the video, it's so that you can watch the little thing Tim does with the neck of the guitar at the end of his performance. The little wiggle. The unnecessary wiggle. with the neck of the guitar at the end of his performance. The little wiggle. The unnecessary wiggle.

I don't remember what that is. An unnecessary wiggle. Like at the end you do this little shimmy wiggle of the neck of the guitar just to see the song out. Oh, just to let the sound ring out. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, right. Yeah, that's a bit of an old pro habit.

Yeah. Keith Richards taught me to do that. Right. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. It looks the business. So, that is one reason to go and watch the video. If you are in the mood for going to YouTube channels, by the way, I don't know if everyone

realises this, but I have started a separate YouTube channel of all the sofa shop covers that people have been sending in. You know, the bagpipes, the rock and roll, the techno versions, all those ones you've been hearing over the course of the year. I'm gradually putting them all onto this YouTube channel individually so you can sort of listen to them in their entirety in isolation. So I'll also include some links to that in all the usual places nice nice i think you know over the festive period people may want to just put it on loop just loop through the playlist and have them playing in the background that's right that's a nice thing to nice thing to have we are still taking submissions by the way unmadefm at gmail.com if you want to record your own Sofa Shop cover and send it in because, you know, we can't get enough of it.

That's right. What better song to bring in the new year? At midnight, wouldn't it be wonderful if all around the world, civilians at the stroke of midnight as 2021 comes in, the first song that comes on is an Auld Lang Syne, is the Sofa Shop. Your favourite version. Booming from massive speakers hanging under the Sydney Harbour Bridge

as the fireworks go off. Just reverberating off the shell of the Opera House. In the middle of New York is that big ball. What is it? Falls down or comes down Times Square. Yeah. Yeah. Big Ben has Big Ben Strikes Midnight. You could read, you could change the song that the bell makes. Can someone please send us,

can someone send us a cover of The Sofa Shop done with giant bells? We haven't got one of those yet. With Big Ben bells. That's great. Bong, bong, bong. Bong, bong, bong. Bong, bong, bong. What if I played that every on the air? Oh, jeez.

And do you know what it should be? It should be, you know, bong, bong, bong, bong, bong, bong. And then when Quentin does his little, what did you call it? Little lead fill. That could be with a little tingy bell. Little tingy bell. We're doing all the hard work here. This is the creative process. I can tell you're a producer

You were designed to be on those knobs man Behind the desk Thank you so much everyone For listening To this latest chapter Of the sofa shop journey I mean we've surely peaked now I don't know where to go from here we have

reached this the summit and wept for there are no more jingles left to conquer that's right that's right but keep them coming in if you want to keep coming in keep sending in different versions of the sofa shop we will enjoy them but that my goodness it's um it really is a movement a movement a sofa shop jingle movement it's been a renaissance it is i don't think that's too big a word i mean that also sounds like it could be a good name for a sofa at the sofa shop oh the renaissance the renaissance it sounds like you'd like to uh get renaissance, try the renaissance. Oh, yeah. Nice. And finally, to finish it off, thank you, Carmen and Quentin.

You guys are legends. And what great sports. What great sports to have a couple of strangers like us call them up and within days they're in a studio doing that just for the fun of it. Thanks, guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They absolutely are magnificent. Not just maestros, but good guys too. Thanks, guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They absolutely are magnificent. Not just maestros, but good guys too.

Thanks, guys. The Sofa Shop, yeah, come and drop in on Halifax Street We have a sofa designed for you Choose your fabric, match your curtains too The Sofa Shop ain't gonna cost what you think it will Don't you do a thing until you see The Sofa Shop