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Here's one for the titos and the titas of Manila. Get ready to party like it's the 80s with a concert happening this weekend.   To tell us more about the New Wave Invasion concert, we have Steve Kilbey, lead singer and bassist of The Church and Frank Kearns, founder and guitarist of Cactus World News.  Visit our website for more #NewsYouCanTrust: https://www.cnnphilippines.com/  Follow our social media pages:  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CNNPhilippines • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cnnphilippines/ • Twitter: https://twitter.com/cnnphilippines

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00:00 Here's one for all the titos and the titas of Manila.

00:03 Get ready to party like it is the 80s with a concert taking place this weekend.

00:09 It's called New Wave Invasion.

00:11 To tell us more, we have on the final word, Steve Kilby, lead singer and bassist of The

00:16 Church and Frank Kearns, founder and guitarist of Cactus World News.

00:23 Steve, Frank.

00:25 Yeah!

00:26 Welcome to the Philippines.

00:28 Thank you.

00:29 It's natural to be in Cactus World News to be in CNN.

00:33 Yes, absolutely.

00:35 And how are you finding it so far, your first two or three days here in the country?

00:40 People are very friendly.

00:42 They speak really good English.

00:44 They're very helpful.

00:46 It's very hot outside and very cold inside, like in your waiting room.

00:50 Freezing cold.

00:53 But you will feel the love and all the heat of Filipino New Wave fans this coming Saturday.

00:59 Yeah, we've met loads of people so far.

01:01 We've been signing albums and talking to people.

01:05 People have come up to me and said, you know, I wrote to you 10 years ago.

01:08 Oh my goodness.

01:09 Did you receive their notes?

01:11 Yeah.

01:12 Did you receive their snail mail?

01:13 Yeah.

01:14 Yeah, we did.

01:15 We had them all in letters and stuff, but we didn't know.

01:18 We had no idea.

01:19 So Steve, tell me, what makes New Wave music of the 80s still so relevant in this generation?

01:28 I don't know.

01:31 I can't answer that question.

01:34 I don't really like the 80s much.

01:36 I still like the 60s and 70s, but I was stuck with the 80s because I was too young for the

01:41 60s and 70s.

01:42 But did you have any influence in the music of the church in the 80s, the 60s and the

01:48 70s?

01:49 Yeah, the church is the Beatles and Bowie and Bob Dylan and T-Rex.

01:55 So that's what I brought into the church.

01:57 All the things I really like.

01:58 But I don't really like the 80s much.

02:00 You brought the Paisley shirts.

02:03 That's why we had Paisley shirts, because we're from the 60s.

02:08 I didn't like the look of the 80s.

02:10 Remember those haircuts?

02:11 Yeah.

02:12 All those guys dancing like that.

02:13 What's wrong with those haircuts?

02:15 Did you have one of those?

02:16 I had a great mullet.

02:17 I had a brilliant mullet.

02:18 What about you, Frank?

02:19 What about you, Frank?

02:20 Did you love the 80s?

02:21 Yes.

02:22 Yes.

02:23 The 80s, too.

02:24 Don't mind.

02:25 I won't mind him.

02:26 I won't mind.

02:27 What do you love?

02:28 And what was the major influence of Cactus World News?

02:33 I think when we were growing up in Ireland, we had Thin Lizzy.

02:38 We had U2, obviously.

02:39 And we had a lot of bands mixed in together with different kind of cultures.

02:47 We had Irish music as well.

02:51 Was that you?

02:52 No, that was him.

02:53 That's you today.

02:54 No, no, no.

02:55 That's you today.

02:56 That's you in the 80s.

02:57 There he is.

02:58 There he is.

02:59 Look at that hair.

03:00 Look at the hair on that.

03:01 That was a great day.

03:03 That was kind of an Irish live aid back in 1986.

03:08 And tell me, Steve, the church's big hits in the 80s were Unguarded Moment and Under

03:14 the Milky Way.

03:16 What were the inspirations of those two songs?

03:21 I don't really know.

03:22 No, I just sit down with a guitar and just write some words.

03:28 I don't know.

03:29 I don't know where it all comes from.

03:30 I've never tried to make it anything.

03:32 I just sort of like whatever would come, would come.

03:35 But remember, I've written thousands and thousands of songs.

03:39 So it's strange for me that people keep talking about-

03:41 Going back.

03:42 Yeah, to those ones.

03:43 Unguarded Moment and Under the Milky Way.

03:44 Up until today, Filipinos love those two songs.

03:48 Look, I keep meeting Filipino guys in America.

03:53 They're at all our shows and they go, "Oh, everybody in the Philippines loves the 80s."

03:58 And that's what we love.

03:59 And I'm like, "What happened to the 90s and the 2000s?"

04:03 You know what?

04:04 I'm one of those guys who was stuck in the 80s.

04:07 I have not outgrown 80s music.

04:10 And I just continue to listen to 80s music until today.

04:13 So for you, Frank, Cactus World News, the big hits, Worlds Apart.

04:17 Years later, The Bridge.

04:19 Yes.

04:20 Inspiration behind these three big hits.

04:22 Well, if you listen to those songs, when I listen back to them now, they seem really

04:28 fast.

04:29 There's like an energy of trying to escape our situation.

04:32 Because when we grew up in Ireland, it was kind of like black and white, and then it

04:37 became color when we got into a band, basically.

04:40 It was just an escape.

04:42 And it's kind of like liberation, rock and roll liberation.

04:46 And you mentioned, Steve, that you have written thousands of songs.

04:50 Thousands of songs.

04:51 Thousands of songs.

04:52 Thousands.

04:53 So up until today, you're writing songs and recording songs.

04:57 Yeah.

04:58 I just did a tour of America.

05:00 We've got a brand new album out.

05:02 Yeah, I'm writing all the time.

05:04 All the time.

05:05 And where do you get your inspiration?

05:09 And do you think that the bands and musicians of today are still influenced by the music

05:17 of the 80s?

05:18 I think so, yeah.

05:20 I think, yeah.

05:21 You can hear it.

05:22 Definitely.

05:23 You can hear it.

05:24 Yeah.

05:25 Where can you hear it, Frank?

05:26 You can hear it with young bands, in particular.

05:29 Are they the British bands?

05:30 Are they the American bands?

05:32 Irish, British, Australian.

05:34 When I work with young people a lot, and when they listen to music, they don't have any

05:38 kind of filter.

05:40 They just listen to the music.

05:42 When it moves them, they don't care where it's come from.

05:46 If it's a great piece of music, they absolutely love it.

05:50 I suppose in the past, where I came from, in the 70s with punk rock, we had these kind

05:55 of silos.

05:58 We just listened to only that type of music.

06:01 And for you, Steve, when young musicians, the Gen Zs and the millennials come up to

06:06 you and ask you, "What advice can you give us in terms of making music?"

06:12 They never want to hear it.

06:13 I always go, the same old stuff people said to me, "Practice."

06:18 What can I do?

06:19 "Practice."

06:20 They say, "No, no, it must be something else."

06:21 "Practice."

06:22 That's all there is.

06:23 Just keep on doing it.

06:24 Just keep on practicing.

06:25 And come up with your own type of music.

06:28 Do your own thing, yeah.

06:31 Like your music, your songs, have they evolved since the 80s?

06:37 What has changed in your music from the 80s to today?

06:41 I'm trying to keep a continuity going.

06:44 So it's a sort of contradiction.

06:46 I want to be the way I was when I started, but I want to be better than that.

06:51 So somebody who hears our first record would still hear our latest records 43 years later

06:56 and could see that it's still the same train of thought.

07:00 And what about for you, Frank?

07:01 Yeah, myself and Steve have done a collaboration, Speed of the Stars.

07:05 So the collaboration's been really good because we've kind of been able to complement each

07:10 other's talents and views.

07:14 It's been really good.

07:15 The album's brilliant.

07:16 We just made one in Italy there this year.

07:18 It's really good.

07:19 Okay, collaboration, working together, working with other bands.

07:26 New Wave Invasion taking place this coming weekend.

07:29 Yeah.

07:30 What can Filipino New Wave enthusiasts and fans expect from The Church and Steve Kilby?

07:38 Okay, I'll tell you one thing.

07:41 The Filipino drummer we've got, he's amazing.

07:44 We just played with him today, Paolo.

07:46 Jet, he's a Filipino on guitar.

07:48 He's amazing.

07:49 I think we're just going to...

07:51 We're going to jam.

07:52 Yeah.

07:53 We're going to jam.

07:54 Yeah.

07:55 So what do you like from what you've observed about Filipino musicians?

08:00 Passion.

08:01 Passion.

08:02 Yeah.

08:03 And honesty, trustworthiness, and openness.

08:07 It's just no agenda.

08:09 It's just like, "We're here to do the music.

08:11 Let's do it."

08:12 And they know your music.

08:14 Yeah.

08:15 They know your music from the '80s.

08:17 A lot of millennials and Gen Zs also have picked up New Wave songs.

08:24 And it has been revived over and over again.

08:27 It lives on.

08:29 Well, this is going to be a special show because both of the shows are going to be special

08:33 because we're going to completely work with new people and have a different perspective

08:42 on the songs when working through them.

08:44 We're going to make a few different changes.

08:46 That's going to make the event a special event.

08:49 I don't have to tell our viewers the songs that you're going to sing,

08:52 but can you at least tell them which songs of Cactus World News will be sung this coming Saturday?

08:58 If I was into Cactus World News, I'd want to hear "Worlds Apart," "The Bridge," "Years Later," "The Promise."

09:09 I want to hear those songs, and I can guarantee you're going to hear those songs.

09:13 What about from the church, Steve?

09:14 All the hits.

09:15 Okay.

09:16 All the hits.

09:17 What are these hits?

09:18 Our Filipino viewers want to hear them straight from Steve.

09:21 Should you really tell?

09:22 It's like someone telling the end of a story.

09:25 You're going to hear all the hits.

09:26 I promise that.

09:27 "Unguarded Moment."

09:28 Yes.

09:29 "Under the Milky Way."

09:30 Yes.

09:31 "Reptile."

09:32 Definitely.

09:33 "Reptile."

09:34 Yeah.

09:35 Okay.

09:36 All right.

09:37 So please.

09:38 So why not be playing guitar with Steve as well?

09:39 He's playing with me.

09:40 And of course, also in that concert, "Lotus Eaters" and "Flock of Seagulls."

09:45 "Flock of Seagulls."

09:46 "Lotus Eaters" and "Flock of Seagulls" will be here tomorrow on the show.

09:49 So please invite our Filipino New Wave fans to your concert this coming weekend.

09:55 Well, do you want to...

09:57 Now you do it.

09:58 Well, we'd like to invite you to a special show in the Illinois...

10:03 A keynote.

10:04 ...Keynote Stadium, and it's on Saturday.

10:07 And the wonderful DMC promotions are promoted, so it's going to be rocking.

10:12 Jesse Cambose is here, the producer.

10:13 Jesse's here.

10:14 Great.

10:15 And then in Angeles the following day, in the casino, we have another show coming on,

10:22 which is going to be brilliant.

10:24 So to have two shows in the Philippines, absolutely fantastic.

10:27 And we can expect all the big hits.

10:29 All the big hits.

10:30 All of them.

10:31 All the big hits.

10:32 Yeah, all of them.

10:33 So the venue will be rocking with New Wave music.

10:35 Wow, you really got the lingo, haven't you?

10:39 Well, gentlemen, thank you so much.

10:41 Thanks for having us on.

10:42 Thank you.

10:43 For joining us on "The Final Word."

10:44 Thank you.

10:45 Steve Kilby from the church, and Frank Kearns from Cactus World News.

10:50 And you know some Tagalog words, right, Steve?

10:53 Well, we've got...

10:55 [laughter]

10:56 Mahay Filipino.

10:58 [laughter]

10:59 Okay, I'm sure you will know them...

11:01 We will know the words.

11:02 ...during your performance.

11:03 Yes, we will.

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