He also talks about revisiting Transatlanticism and Plans on their anniversary tours, why \u201cthe records are for us and the shows are for the fans,\u201d and an overdue return to Australia this November<\/a>.<\/p>\n Watch below or listen to the full episode on\u00a0Apple Music<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0(subscribe and follow!).<\/p>\n On leaving Atlantic Records after 20 years<\/p>\n \u201cWe had a 20-year great working relationship with Atlantic Records. Never once did anybody interfere with us creatively. Never once were we put in a situation where we felt uncomfortable with our choice. The idea of going to another major label \u2014 I don\u2019t think it was feasible. There are three major labels in the world. I don\u2019t know why the other two would want a bunch of guys in their late 40s and early 50s who play guitar music when they seem to be investing a lot of money in AI music. We found ourselves talking to some labels, and Anti- was just perfect. I\u2019m so thrilled to be with them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not dissimilar from when Radiohead went independent. A major label pumped millions of dollars into promoting this band for two decades. We\u2019re able to take all of that work that\u2019s been done on our behalf and exist away from the major label format with all of that name recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n Love Music?<\/p>\n \n Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally. <\/p>\n On getting famous \u2014 from The OC to Twilight to streaming<\/p>\n \u201cThe OC was wild. One day we just got a licence request for a song off [2001 record] The Photo Album. At the time, we were pretty broke, so that was a considerable amount of money. We had a watch party \u2014 it was the first time we\u2019d ever had a song in a TV show. And then all of a sudden they\u2019re talking about our band on the show. We were as flabbergasted as anybody. It just kept happening. The band became a character in the show.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c[For Twilight] Radiohead was on the first soundtrack, or close to it. So we were in good company. A lot of the artists we were seeing on these soundtracks were people we really admired. I felt like we were in good company.\u201d<\/p>\n On the Dua Lipa collaboration<\/p>\n \u201cI got a text from this producer Andrew Watt, and he was like, \u2018Dua Lipa wants your number. She\u2019s having people up on stage in different cities.\u2019 And I\u2019m just sitting at home watching sports or something. I was like, what? And I get this text from a British number: \u2018Hey Ben, it\u2019s Dua Lipa. I hope you don\u2019t mind that I\u2019m texting you.’\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI had asked if she wouldn\u2019t mind doing a brief meet-and-greet with two of my friends who had daughters between eight and 10, who were huge Dua Lipa fans. And as I\u2019m firing this text off, I\u2019m like, I totally get it that this person\u2019s really busy \u2014 they\u2019re putting on an arena show. This might not work. And she was like, no problem. She came in the room, hung out with these kids for like 10 or 15 minutes, asked them their names, took photographs, got down on one knee with them so she was the same height as them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy bandmate Nick Harmer was just like, we\u2019ve never in our careers seen anybody do this before. I came out of that experience just a huge fan of her \u2014 not only musically, but just as a person. 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