And I said to him, ‘I don’t have any legal issues.’” “Tones was my first management client. That was pretty cool.’” “He gave me his card - said ‘entertainment lawyer’ on it. I heard that, and I said to my wife like, ‘Whoa. It was the very first time she’d tried busking. So probably the first time anyone’s pulled out a keyboard on the street, let alone, like, the drum pad, the synthesizers, and the loop pedal and the harmonizers.” “I stumbled across her when she was busking in Byron, in September 2017. So I bought a van, moved to Byron Bay and started living in my van.” “What was your impression of Byron Bay when you first got there?” “I said, ‘I don’t think I’m going to fit in here.’ There’s a lot of buskers in Byron, but very acoustic guitar. One of my friends was like, you should come to Byron because you can literally just park up and busk out of the side of your van. I couldn’t even play an instrument at this point. And there was like, you could busk on Bourke Street. I used to work at a surf shop on Bourke Street, which is really the busiest part of Melbourne. “‘Dance Monkey.’” “‘Dance Monkey.’” “‘Dance Monkey.’” “For anyone that thinks that I’m, like, an overnight success just doesn’t know about, like, the hard yards I’ve already put in. It’s going number one in so many countries.
I can’t even believe that this is my life sometimes. “Hello.” “Hello.” “Do I call you Tones or Toni?” “Tones. 1 in 20 countries and topping 1 billion plays on Spotify. Transcript What Is ‘Dance Monkey,’ and How Did It Take Over the World? The hit song by Tones and I started as a sensation on the streets of Australia before reaching No.