Please Enjoy The Chats’ Excruciatingly Awkward ‘Today’ Show Appearance
"That's a good haircut," said Karl Stefanovic.
The Chats aren’t your average Australian band.
While other groups maintain a level of professional, music industry polish, The Chats have always eschewed all that nonsense. First emerging thanks to an extremely viral music video for their debut single ‘Smoko’, the band do what they want, when they want to, whether that involves supporting Queens of the Stone Age or writing a song about how great it would be if Scott Morrison’s house burnt down.
So, combine a force of chaos like that with the dead-eyed respectability of Australian morning television and what do you get? Complete and utter confusion.
Yep, The Chats’ appearance on Today began with a chaotic interview, and ended with an even more chaotic performance. When prompted to explain the title of their new album, High Risk Behaviour, the band launched into an antic, stiff explanation of their history with the police force, mostly involving getting done for reckless skating.
“What else were you doing while skating?” asked Today host Karl Stefanovic, before his co-host Allison Langdon saw the glimmer in the bandmembers’ eyes, and immediately shut things down.
“That’s a good haircut,” Stefanovic told lead singer Eamon Sandwith a little later, after multiple attempts at patter that went nowhere. “Where’d you get it?”
“Do it myself,” Sandwith said to awkward laughter, staring off into middle distance. So yep. Chaos.
Anyway, just to top off the sheer lunacy of everything that was happening, the band then launched into a particularly raucous version of their song ‘Pub Feed’, a Hottest 100 banger. Morning television might never be the same again.