🎤 FULL INTERVIEW | Amy Shark Reveals Her Biggest Icks

**Luttsy** (0:05)
And her fourth studio album, Soft Pop, is out now. Friend of the show, Amy Shark, she joins us. Hello, Amy.

**Amy Shark** (0:12)
Hey guys, how you doing?

**Nick** (0:13)
Good, it was nice to see you, Bob, and I longed to hear your own song there, because I like when artists do that, because I used to be the biggest Ick to JC from Powderfinger and always play his songs when he was with us, like socially.

**Amy Shark** (0:26)
Oh, yeah.

**Nick** (0:28)
But he would, interestingly, if he did like his song, he would think because he was the bass guitarist, he would be doing the bass thing, but he would play the drums to his own songs.

**Luttsy** (0:37)
He played the air drums.

**Nick** (0:39)
He loves that. Yeah, the beat.

**Amy Shark** (0:40)
I did that too. Yeah.

**Nick** (0:42)
That's interesting.

**Susie O'Neill** (0:43)
I was going to ask you actually, that song is called The Biggest Ick. What is it? Because I have a lot of Icks with people.

**Luttsy** (0:50)
Just people talking.

**Susie O'Neill** (0:51)
I'll tell you my, I'll tell you my biggest Ick and then, can you tell me your biggest Ick? My biggest Ick is chewing, people chewing food.

**Luttsy** (1:01)
You're one of those people.

**Amy Shark** (1:02)
Yeah. Yeah. No, that annoys me too, a lot.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:08)
And when they eat bananas and you can hear the teeth touch. Do you find that weird? This is just her, yeah, her husband.

**Luttsy** (1:16)
What's your Ick, Amy?

**Amy Shark** (1:18)
I won't roll my husband completely, but I hate when people walk too close to me. Yes.

**Luttsy** (1:25)
As in like when they're right next to you, say you're in a shopping center and you can't like, kind of veer into you and you're like, just.

**Amy Shark** (1:30)
Yeah, just like, you're like, bro, like why are you walking on an angle? Also, if someone's behind me and I feel them like on my heels, I'm just like, hey, you go, you go.

**Nick** (1:40)
You're more of a hurry than I am. Just get, go, go, get to wherever you got to get to.

**Luttsy** (1:44)
Spatial awareness.

**Nick** (1:45)
Speaking, people that speak too close to you as well.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:47)
Yeah.

**Nick** (1:48)
Yeah.

**Luttsy** (1:48)
Bad breath. Bad breath.
This is what the song's about, isn't it, Amy?

**Susie O'Neill** (1:53)
Always X.

**Amy Shark** (1:55)
Yeah, it's actually nothing about that, but yeah. It's just, I think I've had to pivot a little bit, just making it fine for radio, but yeah, it works.

**Nick** (2:07)
Did you do a pop-up show in Brissy on the weekend? I wasn't here, but I heard you were in, someone told me you were in Queen Street Mall on Saturday.

**Amy Shark** (2:13)
I've been everywhere, babe. Yes, when was I there? Not yesterday, the day before.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:18)
Well, last time I saw you, Amy, and I was telling them, I might have put a bit of mail on it for the radio. I said you, Julia Morris and myself were all naked in a room at Kirribilli.

**Luttsy** (2:31)
At the Prime Minister's house.

**Amy Shark** (2:32)
That's what I said.

**Luttsy** (2:33)
That was the tease.

**Amy Shark** (2:38)
That's ketchup, mustard, and the backyard creek.

**Luttsy** (2:41)
Yeah.

**Amy Shark** (2:42)
She made it sound pretty sass.

**Nick** (2:44)
At Albany's house, she said.

**Amy Shark** (2:46)
Well, we were like, look, we're here, the backyard creek house.

**Nick** (2:50)
May as well. We're not.

**Luttsy** (2:54)
So it wasn't like that.

**Nick** (2:57)
Good on you, I'd say. Well done.

**Luttsy** (2:59)
How was the backyard creek at the Prime Minister's house? How did you find it, Amy?

**Amy Shark** (3:03)
We got a little bit burnt, didn't we, Susie? Yes.

**Susie O'Neill** (3:06)
My face got burnt. I didn't put any sunscreen on. Oh dear.

**Amy Shark** (3:09)
Yeah. I didn't realize. Yeah, I didn't realize how I forgot because I'd done it before.
But yeah, I forgot how long I was out there on the field for. So it was fun. Yeah. It's always, I mean, so weird. It's the weirdest experience. It's like, you kind of know.

**Susie O'Neill** (3:25)
Yes.

**Amy Shark** (3:25)
And like, you're just like, oh God. And I was so lucky you were there, Susie, because like, I know you, but like, there's so many people, like, I know your face. I just don't know. Yes.

**Susie O'Neill** (3:36)
It's like that, isn't it? What do you do?

**Luttsy** (3:39)
No, you can say that.

**Amy Shark** (3:41)
Nah, I'm joking.