Ep. 62 - Murray Cook (The Wiggles)
Murray Cook is one of the founding members of Australian children’s music group The Wiggles. Easily recognisable in his red skivvy with a guitar around his neck, Murray played in the band for 20 years and recorded an enormous amount of records (an album every year and sometimes more!). At their peak they were known to play up to 40 shows a month and on average were playing to a million people every year, that definitely makes them one of the hardest working bands in showbiz. Guitar Magazine once speculated that since Cook was one of the first guitarists children were exposed to, he might be the most influential guitarist in the world, nice one Murray! Since leaving the Wiggles in 2012 Murray has been focusing on his new project The Soul Movers which just released a new record entitled ‘Evolution’.
Murray and I caught up in Sydney to talk about infinite Wiggledom, American stalkers, The Soul Movers, touring like a madman, what makes a children’s hit single and a bunch more.
All music on the podcast by Joshua Moriarty & All The Colours.
The Soul Movers single ‘Hot Sauce’- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRXb9_wFFZs&ab_channel=TheSoulMovers
The Wiggles cover Tame Impala’s ‘Elephant’- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a13WnqsRc5g&ab_channel=triplej
Murray in the DZ Deathrays video for ‘Like People’- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DstIlngjlw4&ab_channel=IOHYOUMUSIC
The Wiggles song ‘Play Your Guitar With Murray’- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxg8qHUaxQY&ab_channel=AllieWiggle
'The Bottom Of It' with Joshua Moriarty
At a time when music is at its most ubiquitous and supply is everywhere, what is it that drives artists to continue to create and do what they do?
‘The Bottom Of It’ is a podcast hosted by New Zealander Joshua Moriarty who is a musician, songwriter and performer for both Miami Horror & All The Colours. These candid conversations philosophise and muse over the music industry, the meaning of life, what art offers to the world, what being a creative gives back to the people of this planet and how to try and keep yourself sane in a world of entropy!
It’s also just a relaxed one-on-one chat between musicians with a host that has plenty of years experience and isn’t afraid to tackle any issue no matter how niche or ridiculous and have a laugh about it.
Where can you listen?
