And now here they are, Nick and Sue on Chatterbox. When the stars talk, they talk to Nick and Sue. Welcome back to the Chatterbox Redux Podcast with Sue and Nick and today our special guest is Jess Motta Luke. This is Nick and Sue with Chatterbox giving you all you need to know about musical entertainment. Oh yeah! Chatterbox, the best interviews with Nick and Sue. Chatterbox, the best news Down Chatterbox UK, we're just lucky enough to welcome Jess Moskaluk. Jess,
welcome. How are you? Welcome. I'm doing well. How are you? Well, good. Thank you. Well, good. Thank you. Hopefully things are warming up over where you are now because you're Canada, aren't you? So you've just been through that. No, still bad? Minus 12? What is it today? I'm not sure what the temperature is today, but it is snowing currently. So we're trying to get in our second or third winter. Usually there's not just one,
there's several. Oh, there's me thinking you're coming out of it because I saw like a minus 12 the other day. Yeah, that's how it that's how it gets you through the long winters is all the snow will go away and then it will come back. Well, we got a 12 degrees over here. We've had two 12 degrees plus 12 this week and we've been running around in shorts down here on the South Coast. So that's quite warming. We get to 20. We're doing well here in the height of the summer.
Can't wait for that. Oh, bring it on for you. Yeah. Right. We're at 2026. It's gonna be an amazing year for years. They're all rounds many ways Let's start first of all Last rodeo obviously we've listened to it. We think it's great. We're gonna give it some airplay as well on our live shows It was released back on the 27th of February Tell us about it. And why specifically do you
think this is all right for? Specifically for a British audience because obviously you do because we're here doing interviews about it So is this the one that's that's gonna do it for you in the UK? I have no idea. You're the UK expert, not me. I don't really think about releasing songs quite in that way, if I'm being totally honest. I make music that I want to listen to and that I think that my fan base would listen
to. I don't necessarily target one specific region of the world and be like... so -and -so is gonna love this or so -and -so. I think that that's really tricky territory. But Last Rodeo is a love song, and I haven't released a lot of love songs in the past. They just have to be really, really special and just right for me to feel confident enough to put it out in the world.
And I write lots of love songs, but... This one this one was special enough and it's it's a love song about just finding your person and Loving them so much and treating every day like it's your last day on earth When you write a song yourself, whether it be a love song or whatever the song might be Is there any elements of your life in that song? Oh, yeah, like almost almost every time Yeah, that's the that's the beauty
of being a songwriter. I say almost every time because sometimes it's fun to just make things up as you go that's the that's the beauty of it is you know being a creative person you can you can make it up you can embellish if you want but um usually more often than not it comes from a place of honesty and experience okay and i think when we talk about the territories uh i mean obviously different things work in different territories and you say about me the uk i do
you know i don't actually know the uk audience i like to think i do but then again i hear things like this song and i'd like them to hear it i'd like them to like it do you know what i mean and uh i think that's more more what my job is it's not just playing uh oldies on oldie stations it is also introducing good new music to people do you think oh well they like that they should like this and that that's sort of the way it goes so i like to introduce them to what i call
good music because i can find good music in all genres even punk it could can be yeah totally it's a great guitar and stuff in it you know so uh i could appreciate all genres even if it's going to classical uh there is good there's bad in everything as well but so yeah when it comes to me i like to introduce them and play them stuff i think they're going to enjoy and i think it's good so you know good i hope so i hope you're right i'll take your word for it uh have you
ever been to the uk and done any any any gigs or anything like here Yeah, a couple of times we've done a few little tours around the UK. I'm trying to think of when the last one was. It's been maybe a couple years now, two years maybe, but we have. Now, you've been quite prolific. I mean, I've done some homework and when I say that's your promoters over here, we work with
a great deal. as I said you would come out for interviews you had this song coming out and I did the Wikipedia bit the fact is you've got a full -on Wikipedia page but of course what I know it can be very wrong Wikipedia it's only as good as what the person's put on Wikipedia of course it's not as correct as that but what I did really take note of is the amount of hits that you've had in the Canadian country charts.
I think it was 24 country hits, you've had Christmas hits with somebody else and you've done this and you've been very popular in Australia, but I think the fact that I think it was 24 or 25 country hits, including number one and number one in Australia and stuff, that's pretty well established really in my book. Yeah, I've been around for a minute. So what's it like when you when you go to when you actually do a concert in Canada? I mean, what's I mean, are they big
venues? Because I mean, that's that shows signs of huge success that that shows you should be able to pack out venues with thousands, you know, couple thousand, three thousand, whatever. Is that happening? Not necessarily. It depends on the event. Canada is a little bit different and we have a really strong country music scene here as well. full of incredible artists. So, yeah, I can play venues. I just did a Cross Canada headline tour in the fall, and those venues were
around 500 or so. Some a little more, some a little less, because Canada's a big place. It's a country, not a city, right? it's a big place and it's split up into provinces and some provinces, you know, you do really well in some provinces need a little more work. But yeah, we can do around that and then but I also fest like festivals are a big thing here in Canada in the summer
as well. So when I play those, that's a little bit different because you're playing to a crowd that's there for multiple different artists and that can be tens of thousands of people so i've really quite done it all from tiny little venues small acoustic shows to massive massive stadiums and um it's it's pretty cool festivals was of course the thing i was going to move on to next you must have known that that's where i was going next now are these festivals that you've been
playing and i mean are they just all country ones is it a mixture is it like like big full -on things and they got all genres or a bit of everything are they or what sort of no they're primarily country I also know what you mean about the size of Canada. I've not been to Canada. I've not been that side to the waterfall. So the tour you were talking about in the fall, was that the life for me tour that I've got here?
Yeah. Yes. Yeah, it was. Right. We move on to something really big in your life in a second, because this could sort of lead to what the answer to this question is going to be. Is there any tours for this summer? Well, yes, but no so Not in the I think we're understanding this question differently So let me explain a tour a proper tour Like I just did on the life for me tour here in Canada is usually you hop on a tour bus And you play every night for a month or whatever
in my case. It was two months. We did a tour But in Canada in the summer we do summer festival season. It's not a tour It's a couple shows a week that you're flying in and out for And usually a tour, as I've described, it happens every couple of years. Though Canada is big, it's also far between each kind of city. So if you're there often, you're exhausting the market. So you really can't tour like that every single year. So to tour just a couple of months apart is out of
the question. But that being said, I will be doing summer festival season. Oh, brilliant. To tangle and to to present a radio show So here's Nick and Sue Your musical duo This is Nick and Sue with Cheddar Box giving you all you need to know about musical entertainment Cheddar Box Cheddar Box Cheddar Box Cheddar Box Cheddar Box Cheddar Box Shut the box! Now, you're about to become a mum, so... Exciting times, so hopefully... When? There could be some songs opening up there,
I can see, but... Does the young lady know what she's having? Ah, do you know if you're having a boy or a girl yet? No, we don't. We're keeping it a surprise. Okay, am I allowed to pry that little bit further on your list of names? Have you got any favourites for both boys and girls, or can't I go there yet? I'm not gonna tell you what they are. We haven't told anyone not even our parents, but but we do have our names locked
in for I wouldn't be doing my job. I mean, we're not nothing tabloid here, but I wouldn't be doing my job Because people at home will be like you know, they would So, how do you think you're gonna be able to handle motherhood in your career I mean Don't know. Is this your first one? This is my first one. Exactly. So you don't know? So I don't know exactly. It's venturing into the unknown. I think that all I can do is be
as prepared and well read as I can. And I think it's really important to be able to learn and adjust and grow as you go. And, you know, I've got a really great support system, but we'll see how it goes. I've never met the person that I'm about to spend the rest of my life with, so I don't know what their tendencies are or what they need from me as a mother. So those are all things that we're going to have to learn along the way. That's a great way of putting
it. I've never heard it put that way before in my life, but how wonderful. I've never met the person. That is amazing. It is absolutely true. I have to work together to figure it out. That's good. I like it. Yeah. Okay, now you've also been acting as an artist manager for a couple of your friends or your colleagues or whatever on the label. So how's that been working out?
Yeah, that's been really great. It's been the last two years of managing two other artists by the name of Josh Stumpf and Savannah Jade who, as you mentioned, we've had her on twice. We love Savannah Jade. She writes some great songs. Yeah, she really does. And she's in the studio right now working on some more. And so I'm sure you'll be hearing from her very shortly smashes. But it's been going really well. And it's really cool because, you know, I am their
manager. But I'm also an artist that is still actively working and promoting herself as an artist. So It's really cool to be in the trenches with them and be their peers. And I think that I'm able to kind of offer a unique experience to what other people on our team can offer because I'm the only one that's really been through it and going through it with them still. So it's been a lot of fun. And I'm really happy to watch their stars rise. And every success for them
is such a success for me too. So it's really
cool to see and to be a part of. Yeah, yeah, I mean I must admit I mean the first time we interviewed him was to do with I only have X's and I thought what clever title, what a clever title, I only have Y's, what clever lyrics, it really is, you're never going to forget that, you're never going to forget that, you know, you're just not, ever, just great lyrics, so yeah cool, so you keep that, so you're going to keep that going as well, so I think we basically
almost covered the markets outside. How do you go down into the USA? Have you pushed yourself down there at all? How do you get on with the country market there? Because that's quite wide and different sorts of country there, isn't it? It's quite diverse. And I would say Canada is the same. We also have different sorts of country here. But I spend a lot of time in the States.
That's primarily where I do my songwriting. I love writing there in a place that feels inspired with, you know, some of the best writers in the world. I think it's so fun to be collaborative and I can learn a lot there. But we haven't done... much in the US market. It's just a massive thing.
It's expensive. It's daunting. I'm already touring so much that to add, you know, another country that would be, you know, about the like size and workload of the three territories, I'll say that I already released music and is like, I can't I can't double my workload right now. So it's just it's not really been for me. It's for a lot of other people. And I, you know, I have tons of artists, friends who are over in the
States crushing it. And I'm so proud of everything they've accomplished and really happy that they chased something that meant something to them. But it just wasn't the path for me. Well, absolutely. And it is another very big place with lots and lots and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of massive cities all around the place. Yeah, exactly.
Which to us here. Well, if we were to go from where we are on the south coast to Glasgow, which is almost the top of, well, halfway in Scotland, to us, that's, yeah, that's over a day traveling to us, you know, and that's massive. Of course, too, in terms of a state, you're only part way across some of the states and 700 miles. Yeah. So it's a different world to us, we just can't
relate to it, you know? Yeah. Or a thousand miles, we could be in the south of Spain, you know, it's a sort of totally different a different ballgame yeah it totally is totally is but yeah so um very exciting times all around for you i would normally ask this question if you would come back on in six savannah's had this but uh i'm going to change it slightly for you uh normally it's if you were to come back in six months time what would you like to tell me you've achieved
because you've got so much going on let's say yeah let's say a year a year to 18 months we were to have a chat then what would you like to be coming onto chatterbox and telling the people all the listeners in the uk that you've achieved well hopefully motherhood successfully that would be nice hopefully we've got into a rhythm but um yeah my year is going to look different this year um I don't know that it's going to be a big groundbreaking achievement year for
me this year because I'm making the biggest change I've ever made in my life. So I don't know. I think it would be mostly personal life things in a year and not. I'll still be releasing music. I'll still be playing shows. I'll still be doing all of that. But it's going to, you know, just consistency is going to be the achievement, I think, for me this year. Oh, brilliant. Okay, let's do some social media for you, Jess. So, yeah, websites, whatever you got, so chuck it
at them now so they can take a look at you. Yeah, totally. I'm on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube. My website is just www .jessmoscaluke .com and you should be able to find all those links right on there. Moscaluke, M -O -S -K -A -L -U -K -E. We've got it. Perfect. Jess, it's been great meeting you at last and I love the chat and I'm sure we can do it again sometimes. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you so much. Who's wishing you all the luck with the little one, of course.
Thanks Sue. And yeah, we'll catch up sometime soon. So all the best for that and every success with Last Rodeo, which is already available. So yeah, brilliant. And Jess, Oscar Luke, thank you so much for coming on Chatterbox. Thank you. Take care. Bye bye now. Bye bye. Awesome. Thank you. Have a good day. Bye bye now. Bye. You've been listening to the Chatterbox Redux podcast with Sue and Nick and today our special guest
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