Hello we’re The Wombats
and we just covered Kate Bush
'Running Up That Hill' on Like A Version.
It's such a great song.
We're all big Kate Bush fans.
And then obviously recently
it's had a real resurgence
from Stranger Things.
So it made us think
oh, maybe we could give that a go?
First heard Kate Bush driving in a van
like on a cassette tape
across the south of Spain
to my cousin's wedding when I was like
I don't know, ten or something.
And it was 'Don't Give Up' with Peter Gabriel.
But like, that was on my mum's cassettes.
And I was like, 'Oh I really like this.'
I love her voice.
So that's how I used to discover music.
And now it's kind of
you can sit there on the bus
with your phone
and you've just got all this
amazing music across history
that's just there
at the touch of a button.
Those amazing songs
will rear their heads again
because they’re fucking great.
If you're a bit too close to it
then it sounds just like a worse
version of her version.
Which, when you’re doing a cover
is kind of not exactly what
well, what we want to do.
And we were doing this whole thing
with all the electric instruments
didn't sort of work out
because it was almost too
close to the original.
And then we kind of picked up an acoustic.
We suddenly thought maybe we should take it
in a completely different direction
and make it feel more
kind of like dreamy and floaty
and because it does
have that ethereal quality
to it as a song anyway.
But it's obviously got that pounding kind of beat.
And yeah, once we got away from
the full band set up
it suddenly just seemed to click into place
and we kind of knew
what the version was all of a sudden.
Yeah with ‘Greek Tragedy’
and there was a remix that kind of
appeared on a TikTok video
that kind of went viral.
All these amazing kind of songs that
in a completely new generation
never heard of
and then they get to
discover all this amazing music.
It's nice seeing them
have their own little life
and you can leave them dormant
and then suddenly they're back again.
Massive Stranger Things fan.
But because we've been away
I haven't actually started
watching the new season.
So I'm looking forward to bingeing that
when we get back.
I watched half of one episode
but my wife thought it was too scary.
Have you not seen any of the seasons?
No.
Oh wow.
But I've really wanted to
but it’s a hard no.
The Mind Flayer, you’re gonna love him.
We've done Like A Version three times prior to this.
Jessie J’s ‘Price Tag’ on the first one.
And then we did
Jarryd James ‘Do You Remember?’
The second one.
What was it?
‘White Christmas’
With a load of strings.
Yeah they always keep us on our toes
and it's usually a jet-lagged
dreamy kind of experience
but always one we look back on fondly.
Jaguar Jonze and Hermitude.
That Nirvana cover was really cool.
Arctic Monkeys 'Tame Impala' was really good.
It was so simple as well.
Wolf Alice did one recently.
I saw that.
They did a King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard song.
Which was awesome.
It always feels amazing when it’s like
‘Yeah you’re doing Like A Version.’
Obviously it feels like it comes
with a little bit of pressure.
I feel like it can be quite frisky
for like ‘international bands’.
Especially a band
where none of us live
in the same country.
So it's not like we can go
well let's go to a practice room
for three days.
So it's always
Last minute.
It's always last minute and quite freaky.
That’s probably just us.
Yeah actually that might just be us.
When you’re pretty exhausted
from touring and jet lag and stuff
it takes you to strange
but kind of interesting
places in the mind.
Which I've felt at the shows as well.
And doing the cover today was a similar thing
because it was like
woah how's this going to go?
You know, the unexpected.
And then when it finally kind of
works out and you're in the moment
you don't think about anything else.
So all those thoughts and feelings
kind of disappear
for that little window of time.
Which is probably why
we all got into music in the first place.
So yeah, it was great.