We Got Hockey Dad To Interview Skegss And It Was Hilarious

During BIGSOUND 2015 Byron boys Skegss decided to "start a beef" with another band during an interview. Toby Cregan looked down the barrel of the camera, stuck up the finger and said "Fuck you Hockey Dad". Billy Fleming of said spurned band (who toured with Skegss last year) decided it was high time to get their own back, and, unbeknownst to Skegss' singer Benny Reed, wrote The Music a series of questions for our interview.

"Waddya wanna talk about?" a slightly groggy Reed asks. The situation is explained. "Alright sweet," he laughs. First question from Fleming: "How was our mattress we leant ya in Moruya?" "Umm, it was put to good use, and it was comfortable. Like, for sleeping on," he evades. "It doesn't mattress."

"Fleming's eloquent phrasing "What was the rudest feed you copped in the States?" baffles Reed."

Next up: "Does being a chippy make you heaps more sick at guitar?" "I dunno why he thinks I'm a chippy. I probably told him I did some labouring once or something," Reed laughs. Well, Fleming isn't getting a job as an interviewer any time soon! "He hasn't been a very good listener," Reed agrees.  

He's stumped by the next question, which asks him to title a song about Hockey Dad. "I dunno, the list is kinda endless, they're such characters. Probably just like, Phlegm. Cuz Billy's last name's Fleming. I'd write it about Billy's phlegm he gets when he gets the flu." Maybe we'll circle back around to that one later. There's the classic 'shag one, marry one, kill one' — "I'll kill Pauline Hanson, straight up. Who's the other two?" Paul Hogan and Pauly Shore's fates are left to decide. "I'd probably marry Paul Hogan because then we'd be cutting around like, surviving. And I'd fuck the funny dude. Why wasn't there two girls in that?!"

Fleming's eloquent phrasing "What was the rudest feed you copped in the States?" baffles Reed — "The rudest, what? Billy's coming up with his own slang these days," he berates. "Um, the rudest feed, I still don't understand what he means. We kept having sketchy hotdogs in New York. As soon as you'd see [a hot dog stand] the rule is you just go have one, and we'd all have to do it every time… If you go down, it's with your buddies."

Then something changes Reed's mind about the Hockey Dad song. "[Your] new EP is bullshit good…" a question starts. "Oh what? He's a good dude. I'm over the beef, I'll write a really nice song about him." This question is actually music related, so FYI, Reed's favourite song on their EP Everyone Is Good At Something is Slayer: "It's about eating cakes." Also FYI, they're "literal and metaphorical... space cakes." There's a question that prompts a rough retelling of the time Toby got arrested at Splendour In The Grass: "I think he just like, did a wee somewhere. He got crash tackled and stuff," and we figure out that their manager Girgis is "not good at heaps of things... he never wants to take care of the merch stand, so he suck at that," but good at "being The Girgis."

With the ball in Skegss' court at last, Reed agrees to pen a "rap battle" style song about Hockey Dad. Over to you, Fleming.