Shut Up & Kiss Me - Reece Mastin

🎙️ Shut Up Month Continues on 1001 Songs That Make You Want To Die 🎙️
All month long, we're celebrating songs that open with attitude and close with confusion — all united by one shared desire: that someone, somewhere, would just shut up. This week, we swerve into the spray-tanned heart of Australian Idol aftermath with a rock-pop anthem that asks, “What if a leather wristband wrote a love song?”

Today’s offender: Shut Up & Kiss Me by Reece Mastin — a track that smells faintly of Lynx Africa and underage drinking in a council skate park.

Reece Mastin – “Shut Up & Kiss Me”
Sony Music Australia / 2012
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2)

By Scarlett Varnish

At some point in the early 2010s, a committee of sleeveless denim jackets convened to ask the question: “What if Green Day had a concussion and a crush at the same time?” The answer, apparently, was Reece Mastin’s Shut Up & Kiss Me — a hormonal three-minute tantrum that sounds like it was recorded during a sugar crash in the back of a P-plated Commodore.

Let’s begin with Mastin himself, a man-boy hybrid engineered in a lab to appeal to girls who shop exclusively at Jay Jays. His voice, perpetually caught between a raspy snarl and a GCSE drama audition, pushes through every lyric like he's trying to impress a crowd of mums at Westfield.

The song opens like it’s late for its own music video. “Shut up and kiss me / No more messing around,” he commands, firmly establishing that this is not a track about emotional maturity. No, this is 2000s pop-rock seduction — where communication is for cowards and the best foreplay is shouting.

Musically, it’s what happens when you microwave a Simple Plan song and forget to take the foil off. Overproduced guitars buzz like someone angrily mowing a lawn next to a trampoline party. The chorus lands with all the subtlety of a Monster energy drink to the face, and by the second verse, you’re genuinely concerned that your headphones might start secreting hair gel.

There’s a bridge. Of course there’s a bridge. It sounds like it was written while standing outside a girl’s house with a boombox and a restraining order. The production tries to slow down, but only so it can pretend there's a sensitive heart beneath the leather wrist cuff. There isn’t.

What’s most impressive is how aggressively Australian this whole thing feels without ever mentioning the word. It’s in the attitude. The fake swagger. The unwavering belief that a school talent show can lead to a record deal and a face tattoo. This isn’t just a song — it’s a rite of passage for anyone w

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Transcript

00:58.78
Chibbs
Ah, not at all. This is a thousand and one songs that make you want to die the podcast.

00:59.81
Bevo
fades.

01:02.30
Chibbs
We're talking about songs so bad that make you want to walk out of a concert before the first verse finishes.

01:09.23
gav
Have you ever done it?

01:11.05
Chibbs
ah Yeah.

01:11.87
Bevo
First verse finishes, I'm trying to think.

01:13.30
Chibbs
Yeah. Like, you know, at a youth centre.

01:14.10
Bevo
I

01:15.79
Chibbs
You know what I mean?

01:16.04
Bevo
i

01:16.28
gav
Okay, yeah, fair enough.

01:17.09
Chibbs
Nothing amazing.

01:17.17
Bevo
um went to that download festival and I was heaps keen to see Anthrax because I was a bit of a fan.

01:22.11
Chibbs
Okay.

01:22.75
Bevo
i don't think I made it through like two songs.

01:25.30
Chibbs
Just not into it?

01:26.35
Bevo
Yeah, just disappointing and just not worth my energy.

01:30.11
Chibbs
Oh, wow.

01:30.95
Bevo
Yeah, yeah.

01:31.12
gav
There go.

01:32.19
Chibbs
Okay.

01:32.86
Bevo
Sorry, Anthrax, I tried.

01:33.16
gav
Fighting words, fighting words from Beva. We were talking just before yeah before the episode. not about um having that exact experience with watching Slash um perform live and how that was very difficult to make it through any amount of...

01:43.27
Bevo
Mm-hmm.

01:43.44
Chibbs
Yeah. If only there'd been a verse that you could have walked out on. Yeah.

01:49.44
gav
Yeah, not not a good not a good solo artist.

01:49.52
Chibbs
Well, speaking of not having enough energy to put up with it, we are doing Shut Up and Kiss Me by Rhys Maston-Baten.

02:26.15
Chibbs
I like that we're getting into this, that, you know, the Elvis funnel of the, um you know, what was Elvis's one?

02:27.31
gav
well

02:33.00
Chibbs
The littlest conversation.

02:33.92
Bevo
A little less conversation.

02:35.72
gav
yeah yeah we did that right we did that one yeah was that the inspiration for shut up mom

02:35.85
Chibbs
Just, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah Shut your mouth. Yeah, we've done it.

02:39.31
Bevo
We did do that one. That's another one that.

02:40.21
Chibbs
Yeah.

02:45.16
Bevo
No, it was black eyed bees.

02:48.09
gav
which one shut up shut up yeah okay

02:48.96
Chibbs
Blackout Bees always come back here.

02:49.07
Bevo
pretty sure. Shut up. Just shut up. Shut up.

02:51.42
Chibbs
Yeah. um ah Okay. Fucking Bevo's here.

02:58.42
Bevo
Yep.

02:59.28
Chibbs
Gavin's here.

03:00.56
gav
Yep.

03:01.25
Chibbs
We got Rhys Mastin.

03:03.06
Bevo
He's not here.

03:04.12
gav
He's not here.

03:04.10
Chibbs
Talk of it.

03:04.91
Bevo
He could be.

03:05.78
gav
He invented something.

03:06.62
Bevo
He might be listening.

03:06.95
Chibbs
Sure. He's not busy, um but he came out with this little doozy. And when it comes to shut up month, then you know, there's actually another song called shut up and kiss me. That came out in 1994 by some chick.

03:20.40
Chibbs
They kept coming up with,

03:20.99
Bevo
and Yeah, it makes sense. It's a pretty obvious title, isn't it?

03:24.26
Chibbs
Is it?

03:24.34
gav
Yeah.

03:24.38
Chibbs
it

03:25.26
Bevo
Shut up and kiss me.

03:25.36
Chibbs
It's aggressive.

03:28.15
Chibbs
Real aggressive. um It was like Harvey Weinstein's favourite scene.

03:31.97
Bevo
I like to imagine just someone's like, yep, yep, yep, yep. yep yep yep Shut up and kiss me.

03:37.21
Chibbs
got lyrics.

03:37.41
gav
Ha ha ha ha.

03:40.77
Chibbs
They Out in the crowd, it's the middle of the night. Everybody's looking at you. Familiar faces, but nothing seems to faze me.

03:51.53
Chibbs
It's all about me and you. Yeah, the night is still young. We've got to have some fun. We'll leave it all behind now. I'm not saying I'm Mr. Right, but leave without a fight.

04:04.76
Chibbs
I've got to make a move somehow.

04:07.12
gav
well

04:07.91
Bevo
A

04:09.00
gav
I didn't know that it got that dark that quickly, to be honest.

04:12.67
Chibbs
No, it's the middle of the night and it's early still.

04:12.84
Bevo
bit contradiction here too. It's the middle of the night, but it's still young. Yeah.

04:17.94
Chibbs
It's not young. Who the fuck are you telling me the night's young at midnight?

04:21.39
Bevo
Yeah. It was over three hours ago me running on fumes here.

04:26.29
Chibbs
Yeah.

04:29.07
gav
oh

04:30.08
Chibbs
The night is young.

04:31.13
gav
um

04:31.35
Chibbs
Jesus. Tomorrow night.

04:32.38
gav
we We only record this at 3 a.m. That's that's our start time.

04:36.29
Chibbs
Oh, Jesus Christ. It is like a bit gaslighting, this whole thing. It's like everyone's looking at you, familiar faces. Nothing phases me.

04:45.06
gav
Yeah.

04:45.03
Chibbs
you're like, well, why would it phase you? now' They're looking at another person.

04:49.08
Bevo
Also, like what besides a nightclub, what crowds are there at the in the middle of the night?

04:49.13
gav
Yeah.

04:53.48
gav
ah

04:54.03
Chibbs
Yeah, I don't know. don't know. um yeah and then the whole thing.

04:59.11
Bevo
Midnight launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 or something.

05:00.13
gav
Sorry for context here. Reece Maston, think was 17, 16. He was 16 or 17 when this came out.

05:03.70
Chibbs
I think 16 or something.

05:04.75
gav
sixteen he was sixty seventeen when this came yeah

05:05.58
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah. um

05:09.58
Bevo
Midnight launch of Nintendo Switch, then just the first one.

05:09.56
Chibbs
Very confusing.

05:15.61
Chibbs
um I'm not saying I'm Mr. Right, but leave without a fight. It's like, again, very aggressive.

05:20.19
gav
oh

05:22.73
gav
Yeah.

05:23.38
Bevo
Mr. Left-Right-Goodnight.

05:25.13
Chibbs
Yeah.

05:26.22
Bevo
Mr. Right-and-the-Kisser.

05:28.93
gav
Reese Slugger Mastin.

05:30.44
Chibbs
king hitter Mastin. Ha ha ha ha

05:35.29
Bevo
mr wright and the kisser

05:38.00
gav
ah

05:38.87
Chibbs
from

05:39.38
gav
some you Next time you're putting the dukes up, it's Reese and Mastin. i I got Reese and Mastin right here for you.

05:47.25
Chibbs
it preachs invest in when it's on the same at

05:50.06
Bevo
and

05:51.95
gav
I

05:55.13
gav
will use that.

05:55.49
Chibbs
ah you f

05:57.60
gav
Oh, fuck. Hmm. i will use that

06:04.14
gav
yeah

06:06.84
Bevo
it's It's part of a podcast I listen to, you see.

06:07.49
gav
ah oh fuck

06:10.87
Bevo
it You can listen to like 400 episodes to understand why that's funny.

06:12.77
Chibbs
so yeah

06:15.71
Bevo
Hmm.

06:16.84
Chibbs
I've got to make a move somehow.

06:19.49
gav
make a move somehow oh god

06:21.91
Chibbs
I'm just like, I'll either knock her out or politely ask if she wants to leave.

06:27.44
gav
oh

06:28.80
Chibbs
But somehow I've got to do it. I've got to do something. It then says, because I don't want to waste tonight. Let's turn out all the lights now.

06:39.78
Chibbs
Make out on your bedroom floor. No, I don't want to say goodbye. Wishing for the spotlight missing on your bedroom floor.

06:50.89
gav
oh

06:51.06
Bevo
Is the spotlight missing on her bedroom floor?

06:52.93
gav
I think she's gone missing from her bedroom floor.

06:53.35
Chibbs
Like he's, I think, I think she's got one good fucking, she's, she's given him a mast into the, to the chin.

07:01.37
gav
what and She landed one right on the old Rhys Maston.

07:02.26
Chibbs
And he's, yeah. And, and the, but you know, he had one of those real fucking heavy flashlight, like, so the cop uses like that.

07:10.58
gav
Yeah, the big like black mag light.

07:10.84
Chibbs
He he probably KO'd her with it. And now as she's come, she's woken up on the bedroom floor. She's like fucking whack. He's dropped the light. It's missing somewhere on the bedroom floor. Yeah.

07:20.51
Bevo
He's giving her old race

07:22.13
Chibbs
It's pitch black and now the hunter has become the hunted.

07:24.99
Bevo
lightning. race lightning

07:31.45
gav
You sly thing. Fuck.

07:33.66
Chibbs
The old canicky.

07:41.01
Chibbs
um Okay.

07:41.58
gav
Oh, God. um

07:42.50
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah.

07:43.75
gav
I don't know. i don't know if there's like, I don't want to say goodbye. Is is she saying leave and he's not leaving?

07:50.37
Chibbs
Leave, leave. And also he's got this light in her eyes so he can't see the face.

07:52.27
gav
That's him.

07:54.87
gav
No, no. I don't want to say goodbye is a bit.

07:56.05
Chibbs
well

07:57.94
gav
Ah.

07:58.07
Chibbs
I don't want to though. And it's like also, it's a bedroom, right?

08:03.17
Bevo
You get on the bed.

08:04.27
Chibbs
Yeah, I assume there's a bed in there.

08:06.50
gav
Yeah. Yeah, that tracks.

08:07.55
Chibbs
Yeah. This is why it's sinister because it's like she's been tackled or dragged.

08:08.62
gav
Yep.

08:13.09
Bevo
turn the lights off so they can't see as well.

08:16.63
gav
ah

08:17.79
Chibbs
Yeah. than they Yeah. um Yeah. I just think she's, she's got, he's got his comeuppance and dropped his flashlight and he's fucking clambering around in the dark to find it.

08:27.62
gav
what is The other thing is, why is it saying, let's turn out all the lights now, and then just after that, wishing for the spotlight on your bedroom floor?

08:33.15
Chibbs
Hmm.

08:37.12
Bevo
Yeah, you just turned the lights off, mate.

08:37.28
gav
It's like you had the yeah had the lights on, then you've turned them off, and you're like, fuck, I wish we had some light in here.

08:39.54
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

08:42.23
Bevo
I wish I didn't do that.

08:42.28
Chibbs
No, I think that's like, I think that's her light.

08:46.09
gav
Turn the lights. Yeah.

08:47.09
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah.

08:52.29
Bevo
Violence against women is not funny, but you a in a fictional situation.

08:54.30
Chibbs
It's not funny, but Rhys is a fucking horned up 16 year old. He doesn't know what he's doing.

09:01.50
gav
he's like a bull in a china shop.

09:02.76
Chibbs
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

09:03.49
Bevo
Yeah.

09:05.37
Chibbs
um Okay, i'm sure i'm sure it gets I'm sure it gets better.

09:07.04
gav
Chorus. Why does the... g Genius here doesn't say what's chorus, what's verse, what's anything.

09:11.83
Chibbs
It doesn't, hasn't it's put no effort.

09:12.38
gav
It just kind of rolls straight through.

09:12.70
Bevo
No, I don't think too many people are searching for this particular one.

09:13.79
Chibbs
It's put no effort into this.

09:18.22
Chibbs
All right. So yeah yeah, it's cool.

09:19.75
gav
Chorus. Chorus.

09:21.12
Chibbs
It all calms down. So shut up and kiss me. No need to tease me. You don't need to say no more. Shut up and kiss me. I know you're going to miss me.

09:32.92
Chibbs
Kissing on your bedroom floor.

09:35.73
Bevo
really on that floor, isn't he?

09:35.75
gav
oh

09:37.29
Chibbs
boy Filthy fuck.

09:38.30
gav
Why? yeah You fucking animal.

09:41.64
Chibbs
Dog shit.

09:41.87
Bevo
Do you think it's lino or carpet?

09:42.72
Chibbs
Fucking. Yeah.

09:44.13
gav
ah

09:45.19
Chibbs
Yeah.

09:46.32
Bevo
Tiles.

09:47.31
Chibbs
Oh, tiles.

09:48.22
gav
Making it on tiles is so rough. of no need No need to tease me is such a fucking funny line.

09:51.40
Chibbs
Tiles is rough. Yeah.

09:56.29
Chibbs
It is funny. and What sort of tease do you think she's doing?

09:57.33
gav
i ah i

09:59.56
Chibbs
Like, oh, you can't rape me.

10:00.33
Bevo
Like a little feather on the end of a...

10:00.40
gav
yeah

10:02.53
Bevo
little feather on the end of a wand.

10:02.95
Chibbs
You're not good at it.

10:03.08
gav
I thought it was more like calling him names and stuff.

10:07.04
Chibbs
You're not strong.

10:07.51
Bevo
I am...

10:09.46
gav
Reminds me, I saw a meme recently. It was like, yeah, exactly.

10:11.63
Bevo
I need dick lips.

10:13.71
Chibbs
Hey, cartoon character face.

10:15.29
gav
I saw a meme recently. It was like, don't bully me, I'll come.

10:23.21
gav
This has <unk> really similar vibes, I think.

10:25.51
Chibbs
No need to tease me. Tease me is just like, yeah, it's like, yeah.

10:27.52
gav
don't Don't tease me. Don't tease me, I'll come.

10:33.22
Bevo
What's that bumper sticker that's like, don't ram into me. All my piss jugs have no lids on us.

10:44.35
Chibbs
That's a good one

10:46.63
gav
I feel like that's such that can't be how it's worded, but that's how it should be worded.

10:50.05
Bevo
No, it's not.

10:50.94
Chibbs
good one.

10:51.84
gav
That's funnier than whatever it actually, don't, don't, don't,

10:53.74
Chibbs
Don't read him into me. All my piss chunks don't have lids. It's a wordy bumper sticker.

11:05.09
gav
And it' have to start it'd have to start at like size 48 font and then like slowly like each line that you go down it gets smaller and smaller.

11:05.29
Bevo
I'm going to look that up now.

11:12.29
Chibbs
Yeah, it's an eye test.

11:13.03
gav
Oh, fuck.

11:15.98
Chibbs
Read this for me.

11:18.00
gav
yeah

11:18.53
Chibbs
Close your left eye and read this.

11:18.65
Bevo
okay no Okay, well, it says, don't hit me in big font. My piss jugs are full in medium font. And no, they do not have lids in small font.

11:27.54
Chibbs
Great.

11:28.12
gav
See, yours is way funnier than that.

11:28.52
Chibbs
right Yours is better, Bebbit.

11:29.86
gav
that That's cringy. Yours was fucking hilarious.

11:31.45
Chibbs
Yours is better. Yeah, yeah. Get in there.

11:34.67
gav
Don't ram into me.

11:34.81
Chibbs
Compete. Compete.

11:36.61
gav
piss lids.

11:38.35
Chibbs
Don't have lids on them.

11:39.17
gav
My piss jars.

11:39.20
Bevo
I don't remember.

11:41.40
gav
My piss jars have lids on them. Jesus Christ.

11:47.34
Chibbs
All right, the the mad ramblings of Rhys Maston continue. it says, so what you think ah so you think are we on the same page?

12:00.04
Chibbs
Because I don't want...

12:00.26
Bevo
It should be, so what? You think we are on the same page?

12:02.00
Chibbs
So what you think are we on the same page? Fucking Yoda over here. What the fuck is talking about? When Luke's asked so many dumb questions, he just died.

12:13.63
Chibbs
LAUGHTER

12:14.45
gav
yeah

12:16.74
Chibbs
um because i don't want to play the same game so roll a dice we don't need to think twice you're gonna beat me every time we play this is bondage

12:17.00
gav
Oh.

12:28.17
gav
Oh.

12:28.24
Bevo
Oh, the turns have tabled.

12:29.13
gav
I think she's, she's, yeah, she might be wailing on him now.

12:33.07
Chibbs
ah i said i called it i said the hunter has become the hunter this is uh yeah he's he's he's

12:36.38
gav
Yeah.

12:38.24
Bevo
i Alien versus predator.

12:40.09
Chibbs
Tackled her through a front door onto the bedroom floor and now she's fucking whacked him and tied him up.

12:45.05
Bevo
With dice, metal dice that you hang off a car.

12:46.51
gav
Mm.

12:46.53
Chibbs
Yeah. Roll the dice. She rolls it into his scrotum. Just fucking heaps hard. Just... Doubles. I go again. Okay.

12:54.14
gav
yeah and he's

12:54.51
Bevo
Neutral 20.

12:55.20
Chibbs
ah ah doubles i go again

12:56.92
gav
yeah ah

13:00.91
gav
um I'm once again confused.

13:01.71
Bevo
Snake eyes.

13:02.74
gav
it's It's similar to when he turned off the lights and then complained about it being dark. He says that he doesn't want to play the same game and then he immediately introduces a game of dice.

13:13.38
Chibbs
Yeah, no games here except for Dice.

13:13.62
gav
It's like, I don't want to play the game.

13:14.55
Bevo
but yeah She's playing ice and he's playing cards or something.

13:15.92
Chibbs
Dice games.

13:18.38
Bevo
Hmm.

13:18.75
gav
Yeah, it's ah it's a weird one.

13:20.68
Chibbs
He smashes out another pre-chorus chorus. He's still on the floor. They have not got off the floor yet.

13:27.36
Bevo
Hmm.

13:27.65
Chibbs
Scrambling around on this floor. Still screaming, shut up, kiss me. She whacks him. whole thing. He gets to ah bridge. It says, let's save the best for the darkness.

13:41.28
gav
Oh, God.

13:42.02
Chibbs
Give me just a little bit more. Don't say that you can't resist me. What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for?

13:52.04
Bevo
say the darkness of the band don't not say that you can't don't resist me what don't can't not

13:52.17
gav
Don't say that you can't resist me. That double negative is throwing me off a bit.

13:55.26
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah. yeah Yeah. Grammar is confusing.

14:01.70
gav
yeah

14:06.09
Chibbs
I'm saying no, don't, don't. yeah

14:09.50
gav
Don't say you can't.

14:09.54
Chibbs
but yeah

14:12.21
gav
So she's saying that she can resist him?

14:16.50
gav
i can resist you.

14:16.58
Bevo
and

14:17.73
Chibbs
Just can I go? Yeah.

14:19.02
Bevo
what are you waiting for she's trying to figure what is the edge

14:22.21
Chibbs
Can you go? think this is my room. Can you go?

14:25.98
gav
are we on my floor?

14:27.07
Chibbs
don't want to say goodbye.

14:30.95
Chibbs
I'm confused about everything that's happened tonight. Can you go?

14:33.48
gav
Oh, God.

14:34.27
Chibbs
Please.

14:36.86
gav
Oh,

14:36.99
Chibbs
Yeah. ah fucking hell. Yeah. um That's it. He just keeps screaming, shut up and kiss me over and over and over again.

14:42.95
gav
Oh, there's so many choruses at the end, isn't it?

14:48.54
Chibbs
So many choruses. Yeah.

14:50.11
gav
And yeah.

14:50.21
Chibbs
Shut up and kiss me. need to tease me. Still getting teased.

14:53.78
gav
Lots of teasing.

14:54.41
Chibbs
Yeah.

14:55.48
gav
Lots of teasing.

14:55.56
Chibbs
I'll tell you what, though. It is hard to, like, if someone's teasing you, maybe that is the ultimate power move to just be like, shut up and kiss me.

15:03.01
gav
That'll work.

15:03.28
Chibbs
but You're fat. Shut up and kiss me. <unk> okay Yeah, might.

15:06.72
gav
ah ah work

15:09.57
Chibbs
Yeah. Try that, kids.

15:12.60
Chibbs
Yeah.

15:12.85
gav
Actually, most of our listeners are kids.

15:14.75
Bevo
yeah um

15:16.17
Chibbs
There'd be some bad parents out there that have this on the car.

15:19.30
gav
Yeah.

15:20.45
Bevo
Are you guys on the Genius website? And there's the ah single cover for the song, Shut Up and Kiss Me.

15:23.09
gav
Yeah.

15:26.29
gav
yeah

15:26.33
Bevo
And Rhys Mastin is in Sega Mega Drive font.

15:29.34
Chibbs
Oh, really?

15:30.37
gav
Oh, it is too.

15:31.51
Bevo
Yeah, just a nice little touch there, Rhys.

15:31.87
gav
Yeah.

15:33.14
Chibbs
Rad.

15:35.10
gav
I wonder if they, yeah.

15:35.07
Chibbs
ah

15:35.96
Bevo
Nostalgic.

15:37.25
gav
yeah

15:37.81
Chibbs
They paid Mr. Seager for it.

15:40.50
Bevo
should

15:40.62
gav
to see

15:41.16
Chibbs
Bob Seger.

15:41.62
gav
Sega! Rr- go

15:42.17
Bevo
Yuji Naka.

15:45.37
Chibbs
It's released on the 20th of March, 2012. That is 3,845 days after the towers fell. It's written by Rhys Mastin, Brian Howes, and Rune Westberg.

15:59.13
Bevo
What?

16:02.58
Chibbs
What?

16:03.02
Bevo
It's different on Genius, the writers.

16:05.31
Chibbs
is it? Really?

16:06.49
Bevo
Hayley Warner and Anthony Eggersley.

16:10.42
Chibbs
Really?

16:11.41
Bevo
Yeah.

16:12.04
Chibbs
Oh, okay.

16:12.16
Bevo
And Rhys Mastin.

16:14.09
Chibbs
I don't know. This is, maybe but maybe this is wrong.

16:14.98
Bevo
A bit of conjecture. yeah

16:19.40
Chibbs
I don't know.

16:21.64
Bevo
Right in, Rhys.

16:21.73
Chibbs
It says, yeah, right in.

16:22.36
Bevo
Let us know.

16:23.52
gav
But it's not.

16:24.24
Chibbs
Well, um apparently racist he so he won X Factor in 2011. He's actually born in Scunthorpe, England, but moved to South Australia.

16:33.35
Bevo
said Scum Thorpe?

16:35.29
Chibbs
gunor

16:36.30
Bevo
Scam thought.

16:37.47
Chibbs
um but moved to South Australia as a child so yeah he won X Factor at 16 then had a number one single this was the back it's just like you win one of those things you just get a number one single that's I guess every sanity bought the CD yeah

16:50.77
Bevo
Yeah. The golden age. Hmm.

16:55.59
Chibbs
yeah Well, was always that thing, like the ARIA charts aren't based on the sales from the stores, it's the ordering from the stores.

17:02.43
Bevo
How many of the store bought it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

17:04.47
Chibbs
Yeah, so how many copies of the stores order is what the charts are based on, not how many sold.

17:05.20
Bevo
How many units? Yeah.

17:10.72
Bevo
Isn't that, that's such an interesting thing, isn't it?

17:13.00
Chibbs
yeah so that's why you get just shit in bargain bins eventually like yeah yeah um uh yeah so and then he just follow he followed up apparently with like he had a bunch of chart toppers like two or three um

17:13.83
Bevo
You could.

17:16.33
gav
Yeah, yep.

17:17.04
Bevo
Yeah. Yeah.

17:28.46
gav
Oh, sorry. Oh, no. Yeah, carry on. That's legacy. We'll get to legacy.

17:31.95
Chibbs
yeah he he then recorded yeah he recorded two albums

17:36.80
Chibbs
and then got cut from Sony Music. That was that was it. um um ah Honestly, there isn't heaps of information.

17:47.04
Chibbs
if yeah

17:47.65
gav
yeah Yeah, this was a niche pick.

17:49.35
Chibbs
It's like it's...

17:50.35
gav
How did this...

17:50.58
Chibbs
yeah

17:50.79
gav
would I mean, this is purely for shut up month, I'm guessing.

17:51.84
Bevo
I was just shut up it does like

17:53.51
gav
That's...

17:53.94
Chibbs
Yeah, it's just a real aggressive, it's a real aggressive thing. But it's just one of those, you know, like the X Factor production churn of like, we don't credit a producer, we don't credit the director of the video. It's just an industry fucking thing. Just...

18:11.06
gav
Yeah, yep.

18:12.61
Bevo
If we're getting into criticising the music, it's very like rock preset.

18:19.05
Chibbs
Yeah, it's session players that have gone and been told, give us a fucking three-chord rock song.

18:22.49
Bevo
Rock. Yeah.

18:24.52
Chibbs
Yeah.

18:24.95
Bevo
Yeah.

18:25.70
Chibbs
Yeah. And they have.

18:27.69
Bevo
My thought was like, Rhys Maston is to rock music as laser tag is to trench warfare.

18:28.08
Chibbs
Exactly.

18:33.96
Chibbs
War.

18:34.90
Bevo
Yeah.

18:35.69
gav
Ha ha!

18:35.79
Chibbs
ah Yeah, yeah, yeah.

18:37.63
gav
Warfare!

18:38.08
Chibbs
Yeah, it is. um Is there video, Gav?

18:41.48
gav
There is...

18:42.36
Chibbs
Woo!

18:56.52
gav
That's me. um Just a whole bunch of 17-year-olds who will inevitably get really into heroin.

19:04.64
Chibbs
ah Yeah, that's true. It's actually, it looks like it's some film that ah there's a place up in the Southern Highlands called Fairground fairground Follies.

19:11.36
Bevo
Yeah. was just thinking that. I've been there. I've recorded some stuff there myself.

19:15.66
Chibbs
Yeah, it looks like that.

19:16.47
gav
Oh, there you go.

19:17.31
Bevo
Yeah. it's

19:18.10
Chibbs
reckon it is.

19:19.04
Bevo
It's the spookiest fucking place.

19:21.18
Chibbs
I've done weddings there.

19:22.38
Bevo
Yeah. There was like a Christmas thing and they invited my band to come and do some Christmas music like in the atmosphere of it. And um they let us ride the old carousel and everything.

19:31.90
Chibbs
Yeah.

19:33.34
Bevo
And it was just very creepy, but very cool.

19:36.31
Chibbs
It is weird. Yeah.

19:37.45
Bevo
Yeah.

19:38.17
Chibbs
um It looks like that's where it is, though. Yeah. So that's cool.

19:42.57
Bevo
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

19:43.33
gav
what's the

19:43.69
Bevo
It fully is. It fully is.

19:44.99
Chibbs
Yeah.

19:45.65
Bevo
Yeah.

19:46.33
Chibbs
Yeah.

19:46.68
Bevo
hundred percent.

19:46.99
gav
What's it called?

19:48.01
Chibbs
Fairground Follies.

19:49.16
Bevo
Follies. That's right.

19:49.75
gav
Fairground Follies.

19:50.20
Bevo
No, I

19:51.11
Chibbs
Yeah, it's up in Beryl. And um you met Rhys Maston once, did you remember, or...?

19:56.85
Bevo
no i was offered to meet him, but I i declined politely.

20:01.34
Chibbs
How does that?

20:01.69
gav
he he asked He asked if he could meet Bevo and Bevo said

20:01.90
Chibbs
Can you explain? Sorry? Explain. Explain.

20:05.67
gav
bevo said no

20:06.03
Chibbs
No. Explain how they offer the meat.

20:09.56
Bevo
i worked I worked at a shopping center and they he was doing like a but meet and greet or something.

20:09.54
Chibbs
Like, is it like...

20:14.99
Bevo
I don't know, like an in-store thing. and they were like, do you want meet him?

20:16.96
Chibbs
Okay.

20:18.03
Bevo
And I was like, no, that's all Thanks.

20:20.32
gav
i'm I'm good. I'm

20:21.68
Bevo
Nothing.

20:21.94
Chibbs
Rhys.

20:22.21
Bevo
I have a feeling Rhys will be listening to this. I've got nothing against you personally, Rhys. It's not my ah my bag, baby.

20:31.70
gav
good. God.

20:33.20
Chibbs
um ah ah got a good youtube I got a good YouTube comment.

20:33.96
gav
Yeah, no, I hope if he's listening, he he enjoys the enjoys the show.

20:36.93
Bevo
I wish you well, mate.

20:38.24
gav
Yeah, hope he's doing well.

20:38.76
Chibbs
yeah i get Come on the pod.

20:38.90
Bevo
Yeah.

20:41.08
Chibbs
um

20:41.54
gav
Oh, can we get him on the...

20:43.66
Bevo
Nah.

20:43.67
gav
Let's not... We've fucked this up.

20:44.54
Bevo
Let's not bait him into this.

20:44.62
Chibbs
Don't you do a fucking...

20:45.41
gav
We've axled...

20:45.86
Chibbs
Don't you don't you do another Axel Whitehead on us, Gavin.

20:48.58
gav
No, fuck off. Axel Whitehead didn't Axel Whitehead on us. That was not my fault.

20:53.66
Chibbs
Yeah, he did. He delayed too long before the episode where we bragged on him.

20:56.07
Bevo
i had written aong if I had written a song and then I found out some guys on the podcast were talking about me beating women in it, I don't think I would appear on that podcast.

20:57.13
Chibbs
Yeah.

21:05.42
Chibbs
Well, just come on come on and explain yourself, for re um There's a good YouTube comment. It's from David Lee Eskenazi 8992 11 months ago.

21:16.74
Chibbs
says, what the hell?

21:18.01
gav
Oh, God.

21:18.72
Chibbs
What hell?

21:20.54
Bevo
tread carefully.

21:21.50
gav
Yeah, that's

21:23.17
Chibbs
but says what the hell

21:27.74
gav
a hell of a name.

21:29.85
Chibbs
ah

21:34.14
Chibbs
And it tickled me.

21:35.82
gav
That's pretty good. That's pretty good.

21:37.50
Chibbs
Because it's this. It shut up gives me a response.

21:40.72
gav
Oh, fuck.

21:41.02
Chibbs
It's like, what the hell?

21:46.75
gav
oh fuck

21:47.94
Chibbs
That's a funny thing to

21:48.45
Bevo
about this one? Damn, I'm here in 2024? Just me or is someone else just bringing back memories?

21:54.85
Chibbs
write. Yeah.

21:57.53
gav
yeah

21:58.17
Bevo
Oh, here's a good one. I still remember all the worlds.

22:03.07
gav
a

22:03.79
Bevo
Yeah.

22:06.61
gav
So this song's 13 years old and this comment says, oh, I remember my Reese phase, but that comment itself is from eight years ago.

22:06.74
Chibbs
Alright.

22:15.49
Chibbs
Yeah, right.

22:15.54
gav
So that was like just after the, ah just, yeah, not...

22:16.61
Chibbs
Okay. A few months ago. Yeah. It is.

22:20.27
Bevo
What about this one? How can this guy only have 28,994 subscribers?

22:25.28
Chibbs
Uh...

22:26.47
Bevo
and so specific

22:27.99
Chibbs
it is

22:28.44
gav
e And he's he's upped that number.

22:30.39
Chibbs
ah

22:31.73
gav
Is it 44.2 now? Do

22:32.81
Chibbs
ah good on good youngn Good on your ace. um Is there a set list? you have a Mastin set list?

22:37.98
Bevo
yeah there is um

22:39.30
Chibbs
Fuck off!

22:40.13
gav
you have the mass and sellies from the mall, from the shopping center you were at?

22:43.12
Chibbs
When you met him?

22:43.54
Bevo
like

22:43.78
Chibbs
you

22:44.32
Bevo
I could have a look, ah <unk> but now now don't know if it was Reece Mastin or that other one that's liked Reece Mastin, but is it?

22:44.65
Chibbs
You declined meeting him?

22:53.95
Bevo
No, pretty sure it was.

22:54.89
Chibbs
LAUGHTER

22:55.00
Bevo
Anyway, ah May

23:02.90
gav
so ah A recent set. LAUGHTER

23:04.63
Bevo
that's two for two that i've fuck

23:09.21
Bevo
um Yeah, recent. he's He's on tour.

23:13.29
Chibbs
Alright.

23:13.45
Bevo
is it just a show? May 30th, 2025 the Gershwin the Esplanade Hotel in Melbourne.

23:15.39
Chibbs
ah don't I don't know. Or is it the Mastin Tribute Okay.

23:21.26
Bevo
may thirtieth twenty twenty five at the gershwin room at the esplanade hotel in melbourne

23:28.74
Chibbs
The ESPY.

23:29.39
Bevo
15 songs um and two of them are an encore. And there's a couple of interesting covers that, yeah.

23:35.41
Chibbs
Alright. Oh yeah?

23:39.58
Bevo
Do you want to know them now or after? 15.

23:41.10
gav
how many How many tracks? Sorry.

23:42.47
Bevo
fifteen

23:43.44
Chibbs
Okay. I'm going to say yeah it is last.

23:49.20
gav
Fuck. I was going to go last. I'm confident and it's last.

23:51.26
Chibbs
ah

23:51.36
gav
So I'll go first.

23:51.56
Chibbs
Fuck! Fuck!

23:52.53
gav
I'll go first.

23:53.96
Bevo
Well, if you'd said cover of paradise city last, you would have been correct.

23:58.23
gav
Oh, shit.

23:58.99
Chibbs
Oh!

23:59.23
Bevo
like Guns and roses.

23:59.23
Chibbs
Oh!

24:00.11
Bevo
He opens with it.

24:01.79
gav
Oh, fucking hell. Yeah.

24:05.67
Bevo
And then the covers he does are UFO by sneaky sound system, Joker and the thief teenagers by my chemical romance.

24:06.22
gav
Yeah.

24:13.16
gav
Ooh, that is a good song.

24:13.24
Chibbs
That's good song.

24:13.93
Bevo
ah If I had some help ah post Malone and Morgan Wallen and paradise city.

24:19.88
Chibbs
Fuck, Reese Mastershow would be rocking.

24:23.93
gav
Yeah, that's...

24:24.18
Chibbs
Opens with Shut Up and Kiss Me.

24:24.61
gav
some And finishes on a fucking cover.

24:25.70
Chibbs
Fuck. Let's go. Take me down to a paradise city.

24:29.35
gav
That's a wild card move.

24:30.38
Bevo
Yeah, in the area.

24:33.19
Chibbs
Yeah. Cool. Good on you, Reese.

24:41.21
Chibbs
It debuted and peaked at number two on the ARIA singles charts with certified gold in Australia. Yeah,

24:49.16
Chibbs
yeah it was included on his debut studio album, Beautiful Nightmare, which reached number three on the ARIA charts. o Not too shabby.

24:59.84
gav
odd they Hey, hey, hey, hey. I had Legacy.

25:05.80
Bevo
Oh.

25:09.86
gav
Okay, so i did have Legacy on the New Zealand single charts that debuted at number one and was his second consecutive number one single in the country.

25:15.88
Chibbs
Good on him. He's big in the fucking NZ.

25:20.94
gav
It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand, which denotes 7,500 sales.

25:29.33
Chibbs
Fuck, can we get gold record in New Zealand?

25:31.91
gav
That's what I mean. I'm like, that that's not high. That's a low number.

25:36.24
Bevo
Yeah, there's not many people in New Zealand.

25:36.68
gav
If we... 7,500 copies though, shit.

25:40.94
Chibbs
Yeah, come on.

25:42.93
gav
There's more than that.

25:43.00
Chibbs
Come on. Shit.

25:46.67
gav
Got your ass.

25:49.23
Chibbs
What's Reece Maston worth in 2025, Bevo? on, go on. Great.

25:52.09
gav
Oh, fuck.

25:52.53
Bevo
Can I just notice something that's in this room that I thought you might be interested in? It's one of those lips that you blow.

25:59.05
gav
Go on, just do the...

25:59.68
Chibbs
go on go

25:59.78
Bevo
You ready? Yeah.

26:00.29
gav
whoa

26:07.29
Chibbs
right

26:08.19
Bevo
Sorry, just a little side hustle there.

26:10.22
gav
very very fair ground

26:15.63
Bevo
900 million. meant to say 900,000.

26:18.20
Chibbs
Scent of Gav.

26:18.93
Bevo
Sorry, I'm going to go with 900 million. sorry i'm going to go with hundred million yeah

26:26.53
gav
um i mean fucking number one oh shit

26:31.49
Chibbs
He sold at least 7,500 copies in New Zealand. All right.

26:35.71
gav
yeah how much how much was each copy worth um ah fuck this one's hard I i don't know if um ah I'm going 750,000 okay I was halfway there living on a prayer

26:47.81
Chibbs
1.5 mil. Yeah.

26:51.75
Chibbs
Maybe he bought some real estate or something when he, you know, was getting good.

26:55.23
Bevo
Maybe they pay him well to do, um, I know, I actually know a few people who, I know a few people that, um, were on the shows cause I went to uni with them and stuff.

26:57.48
gav
good on him that's fucking ah much much higher net worth than me

26:58.41
Chibbs
Yeah. Yeah. Good on him.

27:02.97
Chibbs
Yeah.

27:07.88
Chibbs
Yeah.

27:08.43
Bevo
And, um, I think they end up getting some pretty good, like corporate gigs and stuff or management.

27:14.57
Chibbs
Yeah. Okay.

27:16.41
Bevo
I don't know. Maybe that, that helps, but yeah.

27:19.16
gav
Yep.

27:19.64
Chibbs
Yeah, good on him. I think you just got to fucking be real smart with the money that you're going to make for that six months.

27:24.76
Bevo
Oh, totally. Well, i yeah my only frame of reference is because I know Dom and I know how much he got paid to film something at the Queen Victoria building is like how much money these companies just have to throw at people.

27:25.99
Chibbs
Yeah.

27:33.52
Chibbs
Yeah.

27:37.02
Chibbs
Just have to throw away. Yeah.

27:38.69
Bevo
It's crazy. It's nuts.

27:39.63
Chibbs
It is crazy. Yeah. You can make some coin.

27:40.69
Bevo
Yeah.

27:41.82
Chibbs
Yeah. Got some Instagram followers. um Let's write this shit.

28:00.73
Chibbs
Now, keep in mind that he can't help looking like a cartoon character. You can't bring that into the writing. It's just a song. Okay?

28:10.14
gav
Okay.

28:10.39
Chibbs
right? He looks like anime.

28:16.43
Bevo
this Something we did very early in the pod a lot was like get very personal about people.

28:16.72
gav
And a mate.

28:22.96
Bevo
And then it stopped for a long, long time.

28:23.23
gav
it

28:24.64
Bevo
But yeah.

28:25.15
gav
That's probably for the best.

28:25.99
Chibbs
It's coming roaring back in shut up month.

28:29.03
Bevo
Yeah, you did Brianna too, actually.

28:29.27
Chibbs
ah Yeah, I did, yeah.

28:31.73
gav
Yeah, true.

28:33.42
Chibbs
um Gavin said she had a mong head.

28:35.93
gav
I did not say that.

28:37.39
Chibbs
ah What do you give this out of 10?

28:38.14
gav
ah You

28:39.73
Chibbs
10, you would rather die than ever hear this song ever again. and one is it's going to be in your Spotify rap. What do you give it, Gav?

28:48.09
gav
I'm going to be a wheat gutter dog because I don't think I've ever... I'll let it play out.

28:57.55
Chibbs
Okay.

28:58.49
gav
Because, I mean, it's got to be a five for me. It's not... i I don't know if I... I assume I must have heard it, but I don't remember ever hearing it.

29:06.06
Chibbs
okay

29:06.38
gav
And if if it's one of those ones where you ask in a month's time what what the song's...

29:10.55
Bevo
Let's see it. Sing it.

29:11.44
gav
said I will not be able to tell you if I've heard it.

29:12.91
Chibbs
these are the ones that if you pull up our spotify like all the episodes and you scroll and you just go what the fuck song is that like i spoke about that for an hour like i don't remember that song and i don't even know that song yeah yeah so many in there like i don't know that song at all

29:19.98
Bevo
Yeah.

29:20.28
gav
Yeah. Yeah.

29:22.20
Bevo
Yeah. Hate to them.

29:23.66
gav
yeah with This is not an hour-long episode.

29:25.36
Bevo
thank to them

29:28.69
gav
Though I will say, as far as like legacy from this episode goes, giving someone the old recent mast and it's going to be...

29:35.50
Chibbs
oh yeah yeah yeah that's a shirt beer monster soul soul v maston that's a fucking yeah that'd be it's like beast wars

29:38.30
gav
That's a shirt.

29:38.72
Bevo
that Conrad Sewell beer monster thing that's so deep. yeah um

29:51.94
gav
Fuck.

29:53.19
Bevo
Storage walls.

29:54.07
Chibbs
yeah

29:57.97
Chibbs
that We pitched that.

29:59.29
gav
if

29:59.37
Chibbs
We pitched that to Channel 10. We have Reece Weston and Conrad Sewell. They go to fucking storage shed auctions. You don't answer. You just do that.

30:08.10
gav
Have you asked either of them if they want to be involved? Oh, they'll be involved. have we? Oh, have we?

30:13.80
Chibbs
oh you don't answer you just do that

30:16.68
gav
just go oh have we oh have we

30:21.53
Bevo
You've got to watch...

30:21.55
Chibbs
oh for oh oh

30:22.45
Bevo
You've got to listen to 400 episodes of this podcast and understand what's going on.

30:31.25
gav
Oh, God damn.

30:33.71
Chibbs
storage was. Wait, wait. Yeah, you were

30:40.18
Bevo
ah You didn't ask me yet, but... um

30:42.19
gav
What do you give it, Bevan?

30:44.86
Bevo
it's

30:48.96
Bevo
It annoyed me a lot because it's like, I'm trying to think of a good like metaphor for like what what I don't like about corporate rock music.

30:51.16
Chibbs
of a... Yeah. Yeah.

31:03.22
Bevo
You know what I mean? Like rock music made for ah a singing talent show winner.

31:09.35
Chibbs
Okay.

31:10.16
Bevo
But, yeah, it's not like a 10 either. It's like, yeah, let's say seven, seven out of 10.

31:17.22
Chibbs
Okay.

31:18.35
Bevo
Yeah, have not collected my thoughts yet on it.

31:18.74
gav
I love that you were trying to find the way yeah you would try to find a way to say it, then you ended up saying nothing at all.

31:23.04
Chibbs
He's bamboozled by Mastin.

31:24.44
Bevo
Yeah.

31:26.62
Chibbs
so

31:27.27
Bevo
Yeah, that's the second beer.

31:28.47
Chibbs
I can't tell if he's the best or the worst.

31:28.89
Bevo
Yeah.

31:32.82
gav
I give it a one and a ten.

31:33.12
Bevo
ah No, honestly, I'll tell you the truth is that I feel like he's probably going to listen to this episode and I don't want to be mean like I was with the guy from Savage Garden.

31:33.97
Chibbs
Okay.

31:39.13
Chibbs
You don't want bully him like you did with the guy from Savage Garden. um Honestly, didn't think it was that fucking bad.

31:46.11
gav
yeah

31:46.85
Chibbs
I was like, this is pretty good. It's better than fucking Wasabi by Lee Harding. And, you know, when they went, ah no, it's just like, I think this is better.

31:53.09
Bevo
I think I liked Wasabi.

31:55.65
gav
think I think liked wasabi more than this, I reckon.

32:00.84
Chibbs
think this was fine. This was fine. I'm going to give it four. Ring-a-ding-ding.

32:08.97
Bevo
Ring-a-ding. Ring-a-ding.

32:10.61
Chibbs
Bam-bam. The crazy frog.

32:13.47
Bevo
This thing's shit.

32:13.73
Chibbs
That didn't work at all.

32:14.63
gav
That did not make the sound you wanted it

32:15.26
Bevo
What is the hate? and

32:18.38
Chibbs
Play your lips better.

32:18.66
gav
I give...

32:21.08
gav
Oh, God, it sounds bad.

32:21.85
Chibbs
mean, it's fine, I guess.

32:24.70
gav
I'm giving Bevo a five.

32:26.64
Chibbs
Yeah, Bevo.

32:32.02
Chibbs
All right that is episode two of Shut Up Month. There's more shutting up coming your way, so shut the fuck soka

32:38.82
Bevo
Shut up and listen to this.

32:57.98
Bevo
I didn't talk about his Australian accent.

33:01.61
gav
He's one

33:02.38
Bevo
The pop punk Australian accent. um

33:05.75
Chibbs
He's a confused little kid.

33:05.98
gav
He was... thought he was English...

33:06.91
Chibbs
Leave him alone. Stop bullying rich bastards.