Quan Yeomans: Working in the cracks // Regurgitator's Pogogo Show
We’re so excited about our guest today, Quan Yeomans. Quan is a creative powerhouse. You know him through his work with the band Regurgitator, which if you’re a child of the 90’s were impossible to miss.
More recently, he has been leading regurgitator’s pogogo show, an album of pop-punk for kids, which as a father to two, is the best bloody thing that has happened to me. So, instead of badly rapping ‘the song formerly know as’, or ‘i will lick your asshole’, Nic gets to bang out with my daughters to ‘The Box’, a song about how boxes are the better presents than what comes inside them.
What drew us to this conversation was the confidence to change and move with age and audience and embrace fun, play, and silliness. All while still maintaining the same sense of quality and deep musical creativity.
Discover:
- That it’s normal (and ok) to work in the cracks as a creative parent.
- "If there's one thing that defines me it's when I meet adults and see they're buried under a rubble of adulthood, I just want to dig them out"
- "Art is time condensed"
- Touching on recollecting and respect of First People's knowledge and science
Links
Shoutouts:
- Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh Classic teachings from the world's most revered meditation master
- Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
- “Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Austrian artist & architect Hundertwasser
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer