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The Art Of Survival With DELLACOMA RIO From DELLACOMA · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I am Delacoma Rio and I'm the frontman for the
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  Speaker 1: band Delacoma and I'm super excited to be releasing brand
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  Speaker 1: new single more Than Survival through Heavy Magazine.
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  Speaker 2: And Sational Dell hell things, brother, thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me on.
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  Speaker 4: Chris, I absolutely plays are the last time you spoke
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  Speaker 4: like this, we were rocking out on a boat. It
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  Speaker 4: was a whole different environment, completely wonted it.
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  Speaker 3: It was a completely different environment.
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  Speaker 1: And it's so wild because I used to do a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the cruise ships like pre COVID, and that
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  Speaker 1: was the first time that we've been back back on
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  Speaker 1: on the boats and it was so wild, like running
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  Speaker 1: into you as well, because like ran into you and
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  Speaker 1: then so many other people that I knew, and then
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  Speaker 1: having that converge with the cruising world was pretty pretty weird.
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  Speaker 3: But cool at the same time.
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  Speaker 4: Few day you look like you're having a ball, though,
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  Speaker 4: made like one minute you'd be there and then you'd
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  Speaker 4: be over there and we've thinking.
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  Speaker 2: You were socializing, but you're having a ball.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely So.
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  Speaker 4: As you mentioned before, brother, Della Coma released your new
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  Speaker 4: single war Than Survive. We're actually not releasing it so
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  Speaker 4: last week we released a song. This week we're releasing
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  Speaker 4: the music video.
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  Speaker 2: Is that correct?
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  Speaker 3: That is absolutely correct?
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  Speaker 1: Ye?
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  Speaker 2: So run it running through the process of why you
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  Speaker 2: do something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we decided we get the single out first.
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  Speaker 1: It's the first single from a new album, so people
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  Speaker 1: can actually listen to the single, and then we'll drop
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  Speaker 1: the music video a week later so people can actually
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  Speaker 1: see the I guess the visual side of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, can you give it a bit of a
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  Speaker 2: sneak preview? What do we expect from the video? Like,
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  Speaker 2: we've been waiting waiting a week and half of it, mate,
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  Speaker 2: So it's gonna have to be special.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, yes.
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  Speaker 1: So we we've actually filmed it at the abandoned butter
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  Speaker 1: factory in Your Monday So it's owned by the guy
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  Speaker 1: that owns Your Monday Market, so we had to get
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  Speaker 1: special permission to go in there. It's one hundred year
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  Speaker 1: old building, so we've gone in there and we've filmed
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  Speaker 1: in there. It was a fairly early shoot and it
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  Speaker 1: was I directed this music video. It was the largest
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  Speaker 1: film crew that I've actually ever been in charge of,
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  Speaker 1: So it was a little bit scary kind of going
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  Speaker 1: into it because I had a lot of deadlines.
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  Speaker 3: You know this person on this site.
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  Speaker 1: We had a guitarist flying in from Melbourne and he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get there until noon, so I had to send
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  Speaker 1: somebody out to get him from.
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  Speaker 3: The airport and then line up all the shots and everything.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm super excited with how it came out.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, the song itself is I wrote this song.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time that I wrote the last song
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  Speaker 1: of the last album, so even though they're very different
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  Speaker 1: songs that were written within a day of each other,
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  Speaker 1: and we thought about putting this on the last record
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  Speaker 1: and decided it didn't quite fit. So I felt like
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  Speaker 1: it's a good entry into this new record.
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  Speaker 4: Well along those lines, bro tell us a bit more
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  Speaker 4: about more than survival from a musical point of view.
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  Speaker 2: Then what you're unfolded the song.
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  Speaker 1: So this song, it's a fairly heavy song. It's I
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  Speaker 1: guess it's probably it's quite sludgy. I guess, in a way,
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  Speaker 1: quite grungy. It's a song that I wrote it during
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  Speaker 1: lockdowns in Melbourne, and observationally i'd been through the years
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  Speaker 1: prior to COVID had been quite difficult for me personally,
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  Speaker 1: and then we kind of hit like twenty twenty. In
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  Speaker 1: my head leading into twenty twenty, I thought was going
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  Speaker 1: to be where I'd start kind of going up and
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  Speaker 1: so to kind of like land in a lockdown felt
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  Speaker 1: it was quite depressing for a lot of people, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: But the song itself is about kind of sitting there
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  Speaker 1: with feeling like you've been just keeping your nose above
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  Speaker 1: water for a while, and when you do that, you
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  Speaker 1: kind of get stuck in that routine of just getting
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  Speaker 1: by and having the opportunity to kind of think, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, I want to do more. You go, I
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  Speaker 1: want to do more than just survive. I want I
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  Speaker 1: want to thrive. You know, So that this this song
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  Speaker 1: is yeah, I think you'll you'll see that through the
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  Speaker 1: music video, probably even more so than than than the
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  Speaker 1: music itself.
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  Speaker 3: You'll you'll you'll hear it in the music and then you'll.
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  Speaker 1: See it with the music video, just that the concept
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  Speaker 1: of is, yeah, I I believe we're.
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  Speaker 3: Here for more than just survival.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of those lines probably like the song.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of those songs that's got a really familiar
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  Speaker 4: feel to it, but it's still raw and fresh as fuck.
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  Speaker 2: So how difficult is.
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  Speaker 4: It to sort of bringing that sense of life. I
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  Speaker 4: guess to a style of music that has been around
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  Speaker 4: for a while and people sort of grew up with.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting question.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, I think I when I first went solo almost
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  Speaker 1: ten years ago now, my vision, I guess, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: was that I love this style of music. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: also very aware that, you know, you can't reinvent the wheel.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's you know, it's it's kind of all
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  Speaker 1: been done in a way before.
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  Speaker 3: But we're speaking off air about how what you have as.
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  Speaker 1: An artist is your perspective and no one can take
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  Speaker 1: that away from you. No one can see the world
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  Speaker 1: the way that you do. No one can see through
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  Speaker 1: your eyes. You're the only one that can do that.
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  Speaker 1: So my I guess, I try to say things in
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  Speaker 1: the way that I think makes sense, and I write
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  Speaker 1: music that I.
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  Speaker 3: Want to listen to, and.
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  Speaker 1: If it's if it appeals, if it appeals to people,
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  Speaker 1: and it sounds, you know, like it's a style that's
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  Speaker 1: been done before, that's cool.
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time, we're.
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  Speaker 1: Living in twenty twenty four dealing with things that people
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  Speaker 1: have been dealing with for centuries.
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  Speaker 3: You know, everybody deals with the same problems.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody deals with the same joys, just at a different
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  Speaker 1: point in history. So I guess, to sum it up,
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  Speaker 1: how do you bring your life to it?
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  Speaker 3: I guess you just live now.
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  Speaker 4: One for you, But I don't think I've ever asked
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  Speaker 4: this one before. But like, as an artist, when are
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  Speaker 4: you writing a song? Like do you ever sort of
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  Speaker 4: stop and listen back to it and sort of go
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  Speaker 4: I don't think people are like that and you change it?
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  Speaker 4: Or do you just sort of stick with your convictions
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  Speaker 4: and if you like it, everyone else should come along
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  Speaker 4: to the right g.
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  Speaker 1: That is a really good question. I only do music
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  Speaker 1: that I like, So I if I couldn't put out
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  Speaker 1: a song that I couldn't see myself playing still in
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  Speaker 1: thirty years, you know, because I don't think that's fair
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  Speaker 1: on myself, and it's also not fair on my audience.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe if I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's a magic formula for this song
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  Speaker 1: is definitely going to be a hit song.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a difference between.
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  Speaker 1: I think you know as a songwriter when something is
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  Speaker 1: a good song, when something is well written, you know that,
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  Speaker 1: but you don't know.
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  Speaker 3: How it's going to be received.
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  Speaker 1: From a global standpoint, because there's plenty of songs that
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely adore that are not really global hits, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but they've connected with me and they've connected with other people.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't put my finger on why they haven't become
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  Speaker 1: a global hit. You know.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Is Don't Stop Believing a bigger song by Journey than
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  Speaker 1: Stone in Love.
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  Speaker 3: By the same band.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, because personally I like Stone in Love
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  Speaker 1: more than I like Don't Stop Believing. Don't Stop Believing
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  Speaker 1: is a good song in my opinion, but I like
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  Speaker 1: Stone in Love more. And I think when you were
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  Speaker 1: writing a song, I think you have an opportunity to against.
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  Speaker 3: Show how you see the world. And I'll give you
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  Speaker 3: an example.
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  Speaker 1: So the last song of the last record is a
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  Speaker 1: song called Stay, which I wrote at the same time
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  Speaker 1: as More Than Survival, and the chorus says, if you
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  Speaker 1: want to stay, I will make some tea.
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  Speaker 3: If you're going to stay, maybe I will maybe I
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  Speaker 3: will too.
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  Speaker 1: And when I first wrote it and I just put
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  Speaker 1: it like, it just kind of came out, and I
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  Speaker 1: wrote it down and I was like, that's kind of weird.
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  Speaker 3: I'll make if you're going to stay, I'll make some tea.
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  Speaker 1: And then I thought about it and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, it's kind of it's quite an adzy
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  Speaker 1: thing to do. I guess if you're gonna, you know,
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  Speaker 1: would you like a couppa? You know it's and I
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  Speaker 1: showed it to my drum and he was like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I love the song. He goes, but that lie, did
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  Speaker 1: you say you're going to make some tea? Like I said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: is I don't know about that line? Well, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: appreciate your input that line. I think I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: keep it because really I don't know. And it's.
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  Speaker 3: The more the time goes on, the more I actually
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  Speaker 3: am really glad that I stuck to my convictions on there, because.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of I kind of like song in a
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  Speaker 1: way thematically that you know, actually sitting with your own
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  Speaker 1: dark emotions and choosing which ones you want to keep
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  Speaker 1: and which ones you want to say no, you can't
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  Speaker 1: stay right, So I kind of like the tongue in
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  Speaker 1: cheek element of do you want.
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  Speaker 3: Me to put the kill on? Stick around for a while?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, is this is this cup of tea or
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  Speaker 1: is this just you know, hide by.
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  Speaker 4: The fact that the drama actually remembered that line though,
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  Speaker 4: so it's an impact, do you know, Like it stood
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  Speaker 4: out to him and he remembered it, so it's done
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  Speaker 4: his job.
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  Speaker 1: And I will I will say, I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: no offense to any drummers out there, but I was
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  Speaker 1: just very impressed.
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  Speaker 3: That a drummer actually knew a lyric.
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  Speaker 4: I remember, I didn't be still panther once, I didn't
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  Speaker 4: beat sticks. And I said to him, I said, mane,
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  Speaker 4: I reckon. Probably two percent of the people that I
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  Speaker 4: chat to were drummers. I said, what do you think
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  Speaker 4: that is? You said, because we're all fucking stupid. Mate,
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  Speaker 4: sums it up.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to go that far, but I will
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  Speaker 3: say I remember being absolutely flabbergasted the drummer that I
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  Speaker 3: had on the South of Everything record, my first touring
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  Speaker 3: puring drummer in Della coma mad led Zeppelin fan, and
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  Speaker 3: and he.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, there was one time he wanted to do a
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  Speaker 1: cover of one of their deep tracks and he said
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  Speaker 1: the name of it and I didn't recognize the name,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, which one is that? And he,
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  Speaker 1: kind of true drummer fashion, he's like, oh, it's one
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  Speaker 1: that goes, you know whatever, you know, and then I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, I think I know that one. Is
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  Speaker 1: that the one where the chorus goes and I sang
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  Speaker 1: the chorus and he goes, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, how can you not know? And he's like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you know. It's got the drum, Like how did you
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  Speaker 3: not know the lyrics? I'm like, come on.
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  Speaker 4: It blames the wide completely different to the rest of
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  Speaker 4: the world. That's all you can say. So more than
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  Speaker 4: Survival is the first single taken from your third album,
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  Speaker 4: which will be released next year.
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  Speaker 2: Bro, So what else can you tell us about the album?
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  Speaker 1: Well, the album is I'm not going to reveal the
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  Speaker 1: title just yet. It's going to be for future interviews,
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  Speaker 1: but it's.
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  Speaker 3: Going to be a progression from the last record. It's
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  Speaker 3: going to be.
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  Speaker 1: This will be the first time that I've actually got
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  Speaker 1: a five piece, so that's exciting for me. I've always
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  Speaker 1: wanted to have two guitars, and I've got the added
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  Speaker 1: blessing of adding my little brother to the lineup. And
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  Speaker 1: he is a multi instrumentalist, so he plays keys and guitar,
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  Speaker 1: so I can actually have that versatility when I'm playing
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  Speaker 1: live about either having one guitar and keys or having
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  Speaker 1: two guitars, So I think we're going to take the
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  Speaker 1: last record. I feel like I took more risks than
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  Speaker 1: the first one, and I'm definitely going to continue that
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  Speaker 1: on this one takes some more risks. I think there's
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  Speaker 1: going to be some heavier stuff on here, but there's
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  Speaker 1: probably also going to be some lighter stuff, So probably
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  Speaker 1: a bit more scope on this record.
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  Speaker 4: So why more than Survival as the lead single? It
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  Speaker 4: bro because that song is pretty much representing your next
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  Speaker 4: body of work, So why did you choose that particular song.
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  Speaker 1: I think coming out of I mean, it's four years
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  Speaker 1: in our rearview mirror, I guess, if you will. But
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  Speaker 1: in many ways, the world is still kind of recovering
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  Speaker 1: from the lockdowns and the shutdowns and all that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff, and I think that there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people out there that are doing it really tough, and
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of people are still in that survival mode, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, it's a I guess it's an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to acknowledge that it's okay to just be getting by
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  Speaker 1: but also be hopeful for the future. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that that probably encapsulates this next body of songs that
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be some darkness in this this body
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  Speaker 1: of work. I think where we've been as a nation
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  Speaker 1: and as a as a society and as a as
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  Speaker 1: a world, there's been a lot of darkness.
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  Speaker 3: In the last four years.
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  Speaker 1: In my own life, there's been there's been a lot
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  Speaker 1: of struggle in the last four years, but there's also
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of hope to come. And I think this song it
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  Speaker 3: offers both. So I think it's a good It's a
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  Speaker 3: good doorway, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: Because this next record is going to have some dark
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  Speaker 1: times and it's also going to have some hope and
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be holding hands.
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  Speaker 2: Just gave me warm, fuzzy feeling.
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  Speaker 4: Then, Delacoma has been around for a while as a
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  Speaker 4: band made but you only settled on the current lineup last.
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  Speaker 2: Year with the addition of Rob Moody and John Justice.
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  Speaker 4: So tell us about those two guys and what they
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  Speaker 4: bring to Della Coma.
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  Speaker 2: In your sound, they bring a lot.
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  Speaker 1: So I I came back. I didn't do any live
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  Speaker 1: Delacoma shows for basically three years, and when I was
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  Speaker 1: putting back together a live lineup, that was when I
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  Speaker 1: got Bailey on drums and Caleb on bass, and I
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  Speaker 1: had a couple of guitarists go through and my brother
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  Speaker 1: John Justice.
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  Speaker 3: He has been a musician in.
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  Speaker 1: His own right for several years at the time, so
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  Speaker 1: I asked him if you'd like to join the lineup
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  Speaker 1: for the US tour and Rob.
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  Speaker 3: Rob plays with me in the Inaccess show in excess
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  Speaker 3: tribute show that I.
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  Speaker 1: Do, and so we've been doing that together for six
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  Speaker 1: or seven years now, so we know each other really well.
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  Speaker 1: And he'd never been to the US, so it was
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  Speaker 1: kind of an opportunity for him to come over.
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  Speaker 3: So it was really cool for me to be able
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  Speaker 3: to bring I guess all of that together.
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  Speaker 1: Was the first time I'd ever played music with my
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  Speaker 1: little brother, and it was the first time that Rob
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  Speaker 1: had ever been to the US. A bass player is
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  Speaker 1: like he had his twenty four birthday in the US
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  Speaker 1: on tour, his first time in the US, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So in terms of what they bring, they all bring excitement,
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  Speaker 1: I think in their own way, and they.
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  Speaker 3: All bring I guess, exuberance. I can. I've been doing
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  Speaker 3: it a while now, so sometimes I can get a
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  Speaker 3: little bit jaded, and.
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  Speaker 1: I feel very blessed to have people around me that
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  Speaker 1: are excited about about this next chapter of Della Coma,
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  Speaker 1: because sometimes it can feel like, oh man, I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: back on the horse again because I've gone through a
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  Speaker 1: few lineups and all that kind of stuff, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So they they really do bring a lot of encouragement.
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  Speaker 4: Now you mentioned the US too, Brolight. I was your
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  Speaker 4: first trip back there for five years. Mate, So did
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  Speaker 4: you find that your base that you had before was
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  Speaker 4: still with you when you went back or were you
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  Speaker 4: more or let's starting over again.
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  Speaker 3: I've been both.
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  Speaker 1: I think there was my uh, you never know where
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna blow up, and I guess my heartland, if
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  Speaker 1: you will, in the US has become Wisconsin and Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't get to Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: This last time, but I did get to Wisconsin, and
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  Speaker 1: it was it was really humbling to see people that like, legitimately,
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  Speaker 1: they they've missed me being on tour and I used
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  Speaker 1: to go. I used to tour the US at least
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  Speaker 1: once a year, and so there were people that literally
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  Speaker 1: I think I did six or seven shows in Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 1: And there were some people, you know, took a week
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  Speaker 1: off work so they could hit you know, a bunch
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  Speaker 1: in a row and all that kind of stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: it was it was really humbling from the aspect of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you never know how you've connected with with
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  Speaker 1: people with your music, you know, and until you actually
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: meet them, until you actually hear the stories. And and
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I got the opportunity to do that a little bit,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: having having taken some time away from touring, I guess
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: if you will. So that was that was that was
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: pretty cool. And there were some spots, you know, that
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: were a little bit disappointing, not in Wisconsin, but that
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I was hoping that the fan base would still be
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: there and it just wasn't quite what I was expecting.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: But it happens.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just say someone stumbled upon this interview by chance,
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: mate and they don't know too much about it, but
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: they reckon you sound like you're an interesting guy. Give
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: us three dither Coma songs that they should listen to
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: get to know the band.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Well, you should listen to. Moving on to something new,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Adrenaline and.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, I have to say more than survival, right
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: because that's but if I wasn't saying that when I'd
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: say vampires, because I think I think the three probably
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: show the scope of what I'm about now.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: I know we're here today to talk about your original stuff, Robert.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: You also do front of the.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Australian and Excess Tribute show as well, so you've got
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: a couple of different hats on.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Robert. How's that being gone that band? You keep it busy?
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: He's been very busy man. That's that. That was a
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: real blessing as.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Well in my life because I'd only gone original music
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: before I joined the show. And then, as I mentioned before,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: we did a bit of cruising sort of pre twenty
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: twenty and got to go across the South Pacific and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Asia and Hawaii and play a lot of really cool places.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: And then the last couple of.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Years we've we've moved into theaters and entertainment centers, which
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: has been really cool for me because my music has
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: been better received in the US and Europe historically than Australia,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: and that's always been a little bit hard, I guess
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: in a way, because you're always having to go away
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: from home, Whereas it's been kind of cool to be
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: able to play stages in Australia consistently, and we've been
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: on tour now pretty consistently across the countries since February
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: last year and we're booked right through till June next year,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: so I'm slotting in my Delacoma dates in between those
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: when we had like little.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Breaks here and there.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, I could book a few tour dates
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: there and a few tour dates there.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: I know those people out there because I've spoken to
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: a heap of and brow and there's people out there
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: that think real musicians shouldn't be in tribute bands. But
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: at the end of the day, it's like it's financing
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: your original music, Like you're getting paid good money for
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: doing that, which I'm sure a lot of that goes
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: straight back into Dela Comas. So at the end of
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: the day, you enjoy it. But it justifies it means
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: as well, don't it.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it does.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: And I really I had a bit of a chip
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: on my shoulder when I was younger about doing tributes
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: to the current show, and one of the things that
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: changed my mind was touring a lot in the US
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: and Europe and a lot of the musicians over there. Man,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: there isn't a differentiation between original music and it's just music,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: you know, So you just you play music, and sometimes
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: you know, you might play your own music, and sometimes
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: you might play somebody else's music, but a lot of
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the full time musicians and you may not even know
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: that they might play in, you know, a Nirvana tribute
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: on the Friday, and then they're playing in a Brian
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Adams tribute on the Saturday, and then the Sunday they're
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: on tour with their own band. It's like supporting some
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: big band on a big tour. And I kind of
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: came back from one of the tours that I'd done
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: overseas and I got asked to do this show, and
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I thought, you know what.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna give it a.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Crack because I like the music and if I can,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: if I can actually gain an income, I guess and
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: also do something that I really enjoy.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: And it is open my eyes, I.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Guess to how big an excess actually is in this
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: country because I knew they were big, but I had
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: no concept of how big they really were until I
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: started doing the show and people start unloading their stories
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: to you and how it's impacted them and all that.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, as a musician,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: right I feel like you're you want to write songs
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: that people can create memories to right and leave you remark.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: If you will.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: And the cool thing about a tribute, I think if
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: it's done right, you can help people access memories that
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: they created to yes, somebody else's music, but you get
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: to help them do that, you know, which is which
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: is pretty cool.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I know if you're actually aware of this or not brave.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: But last time we interviewed.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: Him was for the Inaccess show and this one's with
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Della Coma, and it's not massively different, but you're two
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: different people. Like when on an excess one you had
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: a bit more swagger about you and it was not
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: a bad thing at all, But it's actually like interviewing
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: two different people.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: It's cool.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Well that's I could just be tired from the day,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: but you never know, but that's actually interesting.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: But it's like, i'd say, more of a swagger, like
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: you had more of a swagger. Maybe it's because the
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: boat was rocking like a motherfucker and there's a couple
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: of subtle differences. A big bit of music news for
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Della Camera is you signed recently with emerging Australian label
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: X Music. So tell us about that and what sorts
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: of things that's going to open up for the band.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Ex music is super exciting.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I I'd run across him a couple of times, and
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I reached out to him because I saw some of
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the work that he was doing with other Australian artists,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and I was signed to an American label and I'm
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: not touring over there as much and still have really
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: close ties with them, but I just I felt like
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I needed a bit more of a presence here on
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the ground in Australia. And so we've come up with
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: a plan for this for this next record, and you'll
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: see it sort of unfolding, I guess across the next year.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure if you actually remember or not, but
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: your first meeting with him, when I was there anyway,
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: it was a little bit awkward because you brought me
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: in a T shirt and a Vinyl album and Stuggy
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Caller and he was there too, and you had nothing
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: for him. He said can I have something? And You're like, sorry, bro,
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: I haven't really got anything. And I'm thinking, maybe, well,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: What you're speaking off air like, it speaks volumes to
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: who Tim is, because he is he is so down
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: to earth and his is.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: He is so straight.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Down the line, but so cool that when I when
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I messaged.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Him about like, I said, oh, you know, can I
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: send you some stuff? And he brought that up.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: He was like, we've actually met before, and I was like, oh, man,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: so sorry, dude.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: I've still got I'm looking at the album now, mate,
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: so I've still got it.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: So it didn't go to waste.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Well, that's good, that's good. I still well, I probably
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: owe him multiple albums. Now, I'll give him a new one.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: How's that nothing to give him the new one?
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Before I let you go, Mane, I'm going to put
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: you on the spot a little bit because I've started
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: a new segment up called photo Bomb, which basically, before
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: I speak to you, guys, I troll through your social
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: media and I find a couple of photos that need
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: a little bit of explaining. Yeah, I'm going to chuck
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: this in the back here, and I want to know
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: how far this relationship went.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Well, look, Caleb, Caleb and I have a very special bond.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: We both love coffee, and I took him to the
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: US for his twenty first So.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: All right, I've got one more for you too.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: This is the typical Aussie out of water overseas bro
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: like you are the only one there I with no
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: shirt on and be with jeans on.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Ha ha.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, can I tell you a really quick story about
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: this one. So a tornado had just gone through this
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: fact and so there was a mud pit in front
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: of the days, right, and I was like, you know
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna jump off stage and
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: go to her people.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: So I jumped off stage and ran all the way
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: out there, and there was a security guy that followed
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: me to make sure that I was okay and everything,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: and and I was like, and I saw him and
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I was like, can you just take a photo? And
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, cool man, So that's security take that's
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: that photo.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Security taking a photo.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: I gets bashed.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Exactly festival that would have been rack Blahoma in Oklahoma.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Very fucking good.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: All right, bro, Well that is all I've got for
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: you tonight. But the song more Than Survival is out now.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: The video comes out October eight, eighth premier and through heavy.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: There's lots of more to comes from Dellakova.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: You guys a no where near finished there, bro, So
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: jump on the train and have a crack.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having me in and I look
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: forward to getting you more new music very soon.