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Tapping Into Your Devilish Side With ADALITA From MAGIC DIRT · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hey, this is Adelida from Magic Dirt and I'm kidding anyway. Awesome,
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  So, yeah, you guys have just celebrated twenty five years of your album
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  Young and Full of the Devil and decided to re release, which has the
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  most beautiful vinyl color by the way, I've seen it, and I just
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  went, oh, that is awesome. I love it. And you're in
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  the midst of touring the album and it's a monster, So how is the
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  tour going at the moment. Yeah, it is a bit of a monster,
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  bib of a beast this record. Yeah, thanks for saying about the
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  vinyl cart were really agonized about every single component of this release. So yeah,
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  like I remember, yeah, looking through the cam organ so this nice
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  translucent purple which kind of matches a bit of the color and the cover because
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  it's quite a colorful looking record, Like the photos are really saturated and there's
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  an artwork means a lot to us. We take great care with that sort
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  of stuff. But yeah, the records, you know, great, Like
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  we love this record. It's when Raoul first joined the band back in ninety
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  ninety eight, so he was like our third guitarist and like our he's the
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  one that stayed. And yeah, like we had a great time recording the
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  album in the studio back in the late nineties. You know we were be
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  young and you know, still evolving our songwriting and craft and just our studio
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  time. We remember it very well. There was just one big party,
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  like we were really partying a lot. But we worked really hard too,
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  Like it was so much fun. And yeah, it's training glove years since
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  it came out. It's on a double LP. It's like a high gloss
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  finish on the artwork. It's great, great photos by a guy called Andy
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  Mack, who's this really great photographer, and it's there's you know, there's
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  a lot of attachment to the record from fans, and the songs are really
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  huge, really heavy, and we're really loving playing the record. It's great
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  to be great to be playing it to the fans. They're very excited.
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  Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. I can't say. I got to see
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  you guys play at Spring Loaded this year and just the energy, like you're
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  absolute animals. I just I felt so excited watching you guys. Is that
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  something that you typically expect to see from one of your shows and what people
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  see on tour? Yeah, pretty much never animals. Yeah, all right,
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  yeah, you know we love playing loud, love the roofs, you
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  know, and just rocking out. You know, We've always been like that.
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  And yeah, just the energy off the crowds awesome. And we love
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  getting out on stage and just giving an arrow and the music really makes us,
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  you know, sort of like really feel it and move around. And
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  yeah, we just love it. So it's it's in our blood, you
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  know. And yeah, the shows are pretty my energy. Yeah, thankfully
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  we're still able to get the energy out now. Yeah, that was it's
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  definitely still there. I was thoroughly impressed. I was like, holy shit,
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  all right, just kicked it up and not so its space here,
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  You're welcome. So it's setting the scene. It's spring of nineteen ninety seven.
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  You've just walked into the recording studio and you see where you guys sitting
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  there making this album. What advice would you give yourself or what would you
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  say to yourself in that moment? Oh? Look, I think you know,
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  it wouldn't change anything. I'd just say, do what are you're doing
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  and have fun, just milk it and just get into it. And you
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  know, just being in the moment you know, I think we were always
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  you know, in the moment. Whenever we did anything, we didn't look
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  back and we didn't think fault was it's about the future. We were just
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  living fuggy in the moment. So we walked up to the studio. There
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  was a pizza joint. No, it was a Turkish bread joint downstairs made
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  the most amazing Like we'd get hot Turkish bed with like you know whatever on
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  it that we all wanted and oh it was so and there's a bottle on
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  its door as well. Get yeah, exactly, and least had the best
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  time because like we were living in Melbourne for the first time when we were
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  from the country, most of us, so living in the big smoke was
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  cool and just discovering everything and being in your sort of men to late trainees
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  and sort of being smack baby in the middle of this live music capital of
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  Australia. You know, it was just an unreal time and we were we
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  were just like maintaining it out with each other and we really we loved each
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  other and still doing like a lot. So it was just the best scenario
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  you could imagine, you know. So the advice would be there's probably no
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  advice to give because we'd just be like to do your thing, and maybe
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  I can give some advice from my youngest self and now saying thank you that
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  you're worry about and being to be yourself, do what you want to do.
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  Yeah, You're gonna re release this in twenty five years and people are
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  still going to fucking love you. That's the hope. Yeah. Do you
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  still resonate with the lyrics and the content to the album or do you sit
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  back and listen to it together and go what was I saying? Well,
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  what was I thinking in that moment? A bit of Bob guys. Definitely
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  some of the lyrics about growing the sentiment as in I understand where it was
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  coming from, whereas in them at the time, I was just very emotional
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  and coming from a certain place. But now sort of, you know,
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  in my early fifties, you know, mature and growing up a bit.
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  So I feel like I'm looking back as a younger self and kind of,
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  you know, it just it. You know, I get where I was
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  coming from, and I totally it's totally valid. But I can like be
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  the mother now, I can be that sort of nurturing ternally's sort of person
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  that's sort of you know, just going, hey, this is cool then,
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  so I feel I'm coming from it from a maturer perspective and holding space
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  for it now, which is great. But suddenly lyrics I'm like, wow,
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  I wouldn't have written that now they're pretty serial. I still write dark
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  lyrics now. It's like, yeah, very a little bit different. It's
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  from that space, but it's really good. Like I'm lovely playing the song.
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  It's like, you know, because I can I'm older and wise,
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  or I can take it on the board so much more. But it's really
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  fun. I thought it. I didn't think it would be this fun,
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  Like it's really it's actually really uplifting, even though it's very dark and heavy,
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  but it's really fucking fun to place it would be. It would be
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  so cool to have that as a tool reflection as well. It's like that's
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  kind of like your heart and soul and your diary from that time. Then
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  to be able to relive it all these years later through a different lens but
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  you're still the same person. Like that's just got to be such an amazing
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  thing. Yeah, it's it's good. It's unexpected in a way, you
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  know, it's smoked really nice and yeah, you say, where you're going
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  to grow alfable, what's going to happen? But here I am and it
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  feels really good. It's like you just feels right, you know, Yeah,
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  that's so cool. But mind me and my cat just jumped on my
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  lap. So you guys are still very capable of pulling crowds these days.
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  Im wi goodness? Sorry, no, so sorry. If that's known Eddie
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  Eddie van Coombs after Eddie van Halen, Yeah, thinks he's pretty cool.
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  I should have put him outside. I knew he was going to do this.
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  Steals the show every time you guys have are you capable of like pulling
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  crowds these days? At your gigs? Do you find that the crowd's kind
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  of different to what it was in the nineties and naughties or is it much
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  the same people just different shows. It's it's it feels like it's most of
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  the same crowd. And we do know a few of the fans from way
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  back who we've got, you know, we always see them and kind of
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  become friends. So there's a lot of the people that we know in the
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  same basis, which is awesome because I think we'd still be playing nouns.
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  It's even awesome just to play and get a crowd. Yeah, but it's
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  like it's pretty same crew, just old. We're like us. So when
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  we would be out and then would ask, we're all just like relag going
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  yea, it's been on a bit, you know, we've been through a
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  fair bit in our lives. A lot of us, you know, but
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  really young people to shows, like we get as certain as a certain continuous
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  and they're in their early twenties, Like it's just you know, over the
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  you know, because it's not under eighteens, but just as soon as eighteen
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  eighteen they come to the show. So it's really awesome to see really a
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  lot of younger faces and then new faces like the all different ages that the
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  sprinkling they will come shows. I'm like, oh, I'm aout brand new
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  fans. So yeah, we're still getting like brand new fans have never heard
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  of us, and suddenly they're like, we've got these two guys. They're
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  awesome, Pete and Craig, and they've just discovered the jive dirt and they're
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  from Sunshine Coast and they've traveled to like so many shows of ours, like
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  down to Victoria, Tasi, like New South Wales and they pop up nowhere
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  there at the plant and they're awesome and they they yeah, so they only
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  came on board like not that long ago. So we get screeny awesome fans.
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  That's great, so cool. I love that. I'd live for that.
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  But they are, Yeah, that's really cool. I love it.
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  Oh so looking back over your career, you really did get that golden era
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  of music in Australia, which is really cool. Like, what's a story
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  that really stands back that you can share from back in the day? Oh,
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  choir, so many story I'd love to pick your brain, but there's
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  a caveat so many lost rain sales. This is very hard to recall.
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  It's all this blur of wars. Yeah, being in the road like you
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  know, well, yeah, being on the road a lot, traveling a
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  lot, like the Golden Age was we were out on the road like most
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  of the year, whereas it's different now it's a bit more strategic and not
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  as hectic and just doing only festivals and then our shows. And it's just
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  always blur of just the most amazing, incredible time to be alive and to
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  be in a band with your mates trailing around. But you know, I
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  think the classic I always go. I always go to the Big Day Out
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  sort of memories, because it's pretty impressive, you know, a huge festival.
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  You know, we met a lot of famous USOS artists, like Iggy
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  Pop. You never meeting Iggy Pop. Briefly. He was sitting next to
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  Texts Perkins, and I just went because I know text really well, and
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  the text was like as and I came over, And as I came over,
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  I was like, oh, fucking's Iggy Pops sitting right Texts like cool,
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  like cool, like I think I just said hey Iggy, like do
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  I call you egg? I don't know, while I said hey, lovely.
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  And then one time backstage with Big Day Out, like we have these
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  spar bars, like these big outdoors spars. H so you finish your show
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  and you jump in the spars and I remember being in one with like grinspoons.
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  You have a diametic dirt as a whole bunch of us made a ship
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  you had. We were just sitting there and drinking whatever we were And then
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  Joe Strummer from the Clash Walls class and ralgos Jo, how are you doing?
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  And then Joe Strummer comes over and it just puts his elbow on the
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  spar and goes, hey, guys, it's so nice. He was the
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  nicest guys, dulous like that. Getting Shelley Man from Garbage and having a
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  chat in her about here day Harvey, and it's like but it was more
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  wow. It's kind of like you freak out because they are huge stars.
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  But then when you it always happens. You meet them and they're so lovely
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  and you just have a chat and you're like, hey, Sherley, you
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  know, hey, hey, you know, just like what's the guy from
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  the White Strub Snowe Jack White White? Yeah? You know. I remember
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  once I met the lead sing of him cold Play, Chris Martin, and
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  he was in a trailer and I got introduced to him and he was so
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  nice. He's like, you know a lot of I don't want to say
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  a lot of the stars because I just want to bother them, but I
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  get introduced so much, you know, high and he was like, oh
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  I had I had a chat with me. Yeah. So, and just
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  a lot of funny shit like practical drugs we used to pull and you know,
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  like Rizpuron at the Big Day out and round and our drama decided to
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  go out completely naked. They would that would so not fly today, out
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  there like that and it was funny. So it was great, So so
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  many stories like have you got you know hours, really it was too good
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  and it would just all blow into one and you're like, did that happen
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  then all there or did that happen together? Yeah? Exactly, exactly.
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  Yeah, so cool and just you know, lots of memory music, just
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  hanging with fans, you know, some great off show parties and area shows
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  and fans coming back to our poem and just some of the best parties you
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  know. Yeah, yeah, that's so cool. Yeah. I couldn't even
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  imagine, like you have just had a ball and there wasn't social media around,
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  so you really could get away with some doing some shit. Oh my
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  god. Yeah, like we shit, I'm so glad I went through the
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  day of no phones, no social media. We used to drive around and
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  guess where the venues were. We didn't even have Yeah, we didn't have
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  maps, like, we didn't even have the street maps. We just guessed
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  some you know, pre bats even we drew around. But it was so
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  much more relaxed back then and yeah, we weren't living life rather than sort
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  of you know, virtually a lot of the time. Yeah, yeah,
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  yeah, but I think you know, we left no stone unturned in terms
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  of doing what we love and giving it out all, like absolutely hundred thousand
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  percent everything we have had personally, you know, privately, you know,
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  and artistically you know, all our energy yep. And I can see you
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  still do that to this day. So it's yeah, it's really cool.
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  That's amazing we lived for Yeah. Do you indulge in year old like Channel
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  Ving Recovery clips? I dived into them like last week. I had to
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  look through them as soon as I got the email from you guys. I
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  was like, oh, went back, had look. I was like,
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  fuck, that's just so cool, isn't it. Do you sit there and
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  go through someone N I don't know, but somehows I do when I have
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  to do out for something. So I do come across that stuff. And
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  I'm really proud when I see those things, like for sure, really grateful
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  age and it's great to have those documents, especially Channel V we were really
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  close with, like say, just really loved this, so then always is
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  why list of things and we do their national toolers and things like that.
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  So we do have a lot of goodish that they've got of us, which
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  were really thankful for. Yeah, it looks really good, but yeah,
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  I mean that was that was kind of smack bang in the middle of our
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  major label time with so we looked really good. We had all clothes,
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  we had a good haircrata. It was very glossy and it just but now,
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  that's a really great time with that Channel B time that there was a
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  real teak you know, real rold in age music team at Think and Channel
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  B were a massive part of that. Are massive and that were such great
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  people. Yeah, was like jabbered from Channel bab was a really good made
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  and we used to do a lot of live interviews and things like that with
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  him, and then of course Uni and Andrew Ye Fall crew. You know,
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  so great, that's a great time. Yeah, but's so cool.
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  It's so good to go back and look at it all. Just just even
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  that the camera work everything, like it's just I don't know, it's such
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  a time stay. Yeah, and then he's loved us. They'd be like,
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  oh, we love you guys. Could you move around a lot?
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  Like they love action shots? Yeah, We're like cool, that's what we
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  do. Yeah. Do you have any Aussie bands that have caught your attention
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  these days that you're kind of rooting for? Yeah, oh there's Yeah,
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  there's a band called Loose Content from Byron. They're like a three peaks with
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  a girl singer, bassed player and the guitarist is immaculate, the drummer is
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  great, like Miller is the name of the girl. But yeah, it's
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  Loose Content checker Man. Yeah, yeah, and I just love the folk.
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  There's a folk duo in Melbourne. They're not heavy good so it might
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  not suit this what he is, but they called the Charm of Finches.
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  They're Manchu Pincher sisters. They're doing really big things at the moment. But
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  there's a Sydney band also. Keith Hamlin who used to play Midget Get three
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  piece really heavy band from Brisbane back in the day. Keith, the bass
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  player from Bidget, is in a new band called No Cake. Okay,
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  like like No Cake doing awesome stuff. They just started to come up down.
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  They're releasing stuff and they're incredible. Grinding Eyes from Sydney or Gray Brisbane
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  always churns out awesome music as well, Like and I like a bit of
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  the Poppyer side of what's coming out of Brisbane, Like, oh, maybe
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  we're not together anymore. I've got old brains that takes and they just rattled
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  off five I'm depressed. There's also Kelly Lloyd from Scrapfeata Yeah, like screen
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  food put out. I mean they're not new, but the Frisbee actually from
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  spret London. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so they put out their record
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  five Rings in the World, at which I love. And yeah, Kelly
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  Lloyd does solar stuff. She's and miss but yeah, there's always good stuff
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  pulling out open. I don't know what's in the water up there, but
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  always something good. Yeah, that's why I've moved down here to get into
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  it and immerse myself into it. It's not much going on in Cans,
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  so it's yeah, it's been eye opening to say the least. Yeah,
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  Cans it's its own little world up there, I'll tell you. Yeah,
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  we've had to get up there. Actually we haven't got Cans on there too
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  at the moment, but it is one place to go on now. We
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  usually used to go up north yea, and thank you. I get up
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  for Cans because we do get some requests from people out there. Then god,
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  yeah, but yeah, don't go in summer, not the way you
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  guys perform. It is hot. You know, I'm there, don't worry.
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  Yeah, thank you. All right. So you guys have got Byron
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  Bay coming up this coming weekend, so next week at the Northern and then
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  you're heading up to Brisbane to play the second at the Zoo and then you're
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  heading back down to the coast. So it's kind of chopping and changeing.
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  Are you getting to do any of the nice coastal drives or you're doing flights
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  all the way. We're driving some of the way. I make flyings,
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  so I'm always putting my hand up to drive with you. Then it's the
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  group. Yep. Yeah, there's a bit of flying and driving. Obviously
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  we're not driving up to Brazzy in the Queensland. We'll get to drive to
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  Byron will be nice and driving back there and we do a few little drivers
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  as much as we can to see at the countryside and see the coast,
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  so it will be nice. We're doing a long drive to Adelaide, so
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  it was fun. It's pretty interesting terrain. Yeah, we're there. Really
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  will be board to Byron because we haven't played there since the two thousands.
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  Oh wow, like being over nearly Yeah, like definitely a decade since we've
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  been there. And the well it used to be called the Great Northern but
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  now it's called the Northern. Ye that was how that was our place.
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  We've played there all the time. So I can't I cannot wait to get
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  back there. Yeah, all of the stuff, get to stay upstairs,
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  just play the gig and just run into bed perfect after a few drinks.
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  You know, can't wait. And the Zoo is our spiritual home, like
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  we pretty much they've always played the Zoo, you know, love it.
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  We just cannot play like Queensland for me is one of my favorite places to
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  play, especially Brizzy also that's good. Yeah there Zoo's a bloody good spot
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  smack bang in the middle of everything as well. It's just yeah, it's
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  a it's a great venue the first of time, yeah, I know.
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  Yeah, it holds so many memories. And we've got our mate six foot
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  here, who are kind of you know, doing a special gig support for
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  us for this show because you know, they played much at the at the
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  moment, so they're getting together for this and these contents are actually supporting us
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  in Brisbane as well as Virons. Oh cool, so yeah said that's that's
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  that's yeah, we love it. They're going to be great and also blushed
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  just supporting us seen viron to all girl absolute that's awesome. I love that.
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  So this is a silly one. I've obviously been watching you for quite
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  a long time and I'm convinced that you're part vampire. I don't know if
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  you age, and I need to know is there some secret that I need
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  to know about or what is this? I just get I don't get it.
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  Every time I say, I'm like, what that's very nice in you
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  said I shortly. Don't worry. I think I've got a little bit left
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  in the team. But I just got to the girl. But it can't
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  be helped, and it's something that yeah, I don't know, like getting
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  older and aging. It can be tough on the body and the mind.
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  But I have to try and stay as positive as I can because it's all
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  down hell from here, like there's no, there's no, it's not going
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  to get any better like this is it. But you know, I'm interesting
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  to see how things are going to go with how I look as I age
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  and I do what I do because I can sometimes feel self conscious about you
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  know, who looks and you know, everyone's God. But thanks for saying
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  that. I would say it's a combination of maker good angle, but I
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  don't. I don't some days I look, you know, like you know,
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  we all have bandas. I reckon, you look bloody great if I
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  can. If I get to your age and I'm still kicking and looking like
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  that, I'll be happy. You're very fine. I love it all right.
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  So I think that's pretty much all I've got. That people can jump
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  onto magic dirt dot com to order a copy of your beautiful vinyl or CD,
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  and you've got heaps of march on there as well, and grab some
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  tickets and come see some of your shows. Yeah awesome. Oh it was
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  so nice to me. Sure, I've been really looking forward to this.
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  It's been awesome. YouTube qu alright,