So there might be 20 people that night that would otherwise never know who I was.” “When did it hit you that your busking was becoming a thing, that you were an attraction?” “I know that there was a point where I realized if I posted on my social media, and said I was busking somewhere people would come. It was about, no matter what, being able to get more fans. In the rain, when no one else would be busking, I would be busking. I was busking day, day, day, day - in the winter, when no one else would busk. She came in, and lived with me and my family for a while after there, and worked out of my studio a lot in that first year while she was busking.” “I’d go up every Monday, Tuesday and stay there, write music, go busk for the week. And I said to him, ‘I don’t have any legal issues.’” “Tones was my first management client.
That was pretty cool.’” “He gave me his card - said ‘entertainment lawyer’ on it. I heard that, and I said to my wife like, ‘Whoa. It was the very first time she’d tried busking. So probably the first time anyone’s pulled out a keyboard on the street, let alone, like, the drum pad, the synthesizers, and the loop pedal and the harmonizers.” “I stumbled across her when she was busking in Byron, in September 2017. So I bought a van, moved to Byron Bay and started living in my van.” “What was your impression of Byron Bay when you first got there?” “I said, ‘I don’t think I’m going to fit in here.’ There’s a lot of buskers in Byron, but very acoustic guitar. One of my friends was like, you should come to Byron because you can literally just park up and busk out of the side of your van. I couldn’t even play an instrument at this point. And there was like, you could busk on Bourke Street. I used to work at a surf shop on Bourke Street, which is really the busiest part of Melbourne. “‘Dance Monkey.’” “‘Dance Monkey.’” “‘Dance Monkey.’” “For anyone that thinks that I’m, like, an overnight success just doesn’t know about, like, the hard yards I’ve already put in. It’s going number one in so many countries. I can’t even believe that this is my life sometimes. “Hello.” “Hello.” “Do I call you Tones or Toni?” “Tones. 1 in 20 countries and topping 1 billion plays on Spotify.
Transcript What Is ‘Dance Monkey,’ and How Did It Take Over the World? The hit song by Tones and I started as a sensation on the streets of Australia before reaching No.
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