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Celebrating The Year Metal Style With MICK BREW From BREWHOUSE PRODUCTIONS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Name's Mick from brue House Productions, Dirty Brew. We've got big gig on
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  December thirty at the back room. Twenty bands, two stages, two hundred
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  beers, all that sort of shenanigans. It's going to be a big day.
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  Forty dollars pre sale available tickets all from all the bands, and yeah,
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  we just came for a big day. Gooda met, Thanks for joining
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  us, brother, thanks for having me, Mate, Pleasure, Pleasure saves
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  your same man, your promotion company. Blue House Productions are putting on a
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  monster show in the backroom and atalie on December thirty, Feature and counterfeit,
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  limp biscuit show like we're the Hollow, dirty Breue, Snake, Mountain Crave
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  and heap them all. Sounds like a massive Nightmate, It's going to be
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  a big day. Yeah. Doors are a twelve first band. I think
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  it's going to be starting about one o'clock. I need to finalize those set
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  times this week. And yeah, it should be good already. Fifth few
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  tickets sold, so it'shaping up to be a pearlo if it's anything like last
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  year. We sold nearly four hundred tickets, so hopefully we can do that
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  again. Shit So let's run through a couple of the bands on the lineup
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  made it and tell us more about him and why they were on the show.
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  So we'll start with a Limp Biscuit counterfeit show. Well, olymp Biscuit.
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  We've got to give a shout out to Andy there made He's been doing
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  it, doing it hard for the scene for a long time. And I
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  mean, obviously they've just played good things lymp Biscuits, so everyone to be
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  on a bit of a limp rolling on a little bit of olymp Biscuit bandwagon,
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  so to speak. So it's kind of ideal to have them on.
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  I actually booked them before Limp Biscuit got announced, so I kind of really
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  just worked in my favor. And you know, I'm good mates with Andy
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  and they were actually going to play Brufest for me last year, which actually
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  had to end up getting canceled because of the floods last year, so I
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  owed him the show anyway, So what better one to do than an end
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  of year party. Yeah, and you also got fuc for a sunder construction,
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  or commonly known as tell us about going oh yeah, fucking Toddy and
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  fucking bands with the mankinis I mean leave nothing to the imagination. And man,
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  they're just genuine Ossie thrash metal and it's Toddy. Who doesn't love Toddy
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  in a man with a flow and dreadlineskinis made. There's not a bigger section.
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  That's it. We'll run through a few of the local ones now in
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  case people don't know about these guys. So we got we're the hollow one
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  there, So we're the hollow. They've been kicking around for a little little
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  bit now, I've I've had them on a few of my shows and they
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  just but personally I like them. I think their music is great. They're
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  really good guys and I'm really good mates for Scotty as well. And it's
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  just and they do the job. They sell the tickets that they're supposed to
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  sell. They do everything right, you know. And and that's a good
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  part of why I like to rebook bands, is you know, bands that
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  do the right thing and bens that don't do the right thing. Obviously you
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  don't get booked to get yeah, fair cool. Have we got the Legends
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  and the gold Snake Mountain Snake Mountain. Yeah. So I've known nev for
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  a few years now and he's helped me with a couple of promo things and
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  that, and I needed to sort of I wanted someone sort of from the
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  Gold Coast that was sort of a little bit established. And we played with
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  them down at Wallapalooza back in November, one of Andy shows, and they
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  were just great. And I didn't they were already on the show before that,
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  but it was just it was good to catch up with the boys and
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  they're just genuinely nice dudes and they're well worth the slot for sure. Yeah,
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  and then you got the band who recently just done a massive chour with
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  Suicidal Tendencies in Crave. Yes, they I have been on the Crave bandwagon
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  for a long time. I had them on my New Year's last year as
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  well. They absolutely wailed and they supported Avatar. I saw them at Avatar,
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  and I think that's when I asked them. Actually at Avatar they played
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  because I've been meaning to message Sianna and I'd forgotten, and because I'm pretty
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  slack sometimes, but would have been mate. They're young, and they work
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  hard. They work hard, so they they're playing all the time, they're
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  doing regional stuff. They just they don't stop their workhorses and their music is
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  fucking sick. Sure we'll finish up the local round up with some band called
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  Gertie Brew. Have you heard of those fuckings? Nah, I heard the
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  shout. I don't know about them. We're we're actually playing this with our
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  bass players had shoulder surgery, so we played Wallapalooza with a fill in bass
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  player. And I've actually got a mate from Melbourne coming up for this show,
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  which I believe you know, he's a bit of an acquaintance of yours,
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  of Mick Jones. He's going to play bass for us at this show.
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  Well, I'll let you in a little sob I'll be telling telling the
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  rest of the world. This is the first time too. But I'm a
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  little bit of a with old me. I'm a hat. You know,
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  the latest heavy shirt bunch it up on the back. I stole that off.
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  I stole that off here. Yeah, I know that I know you,
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  but not many other people doing to you now. So I said,
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  yeah, good, people love that. He mess with me the other day.
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  Actually, he's learnt all the songs. He's ready to go, he's
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  keen, he's got the dates, he's coming and we're just gonna have a
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  rip of time. Yeah, good blake and it should be good, good
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  fit for the bend or I know he says, punch enough to me in
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  your beand so that's one thing. He's got too much gray hair. We'll
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  keep him from one or two and see how he goes there. This is
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  regularly a New Year's gig, has been promoters the New Year's Gig by a
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  lot of people, but this year is actually the day before New Years,
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  which is a Saturday night. Like it's an awesome idea, what did you
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  do? Well? It's still to be honest, New Year's Eve was on
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  a Sunday and everyone had the Monday off or whatever. But last year when
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  it was on the Saturday and the Monday was the holiday, it just gives
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  you that extra couple of days. And not so much a New Years Eve
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  party anymore. It's more of just an end of the year party, just
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  for everyone to just tell the whole year to get fucked and start again.
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  Essentully welcome. I promise the kids New Year's Eve with them this year,
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  And when they've just got announced, I've looked in the lineup, I've gone
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  like, how do I break it to the kids. It was the day
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  before, so I did to do both. Yeah, and then yeah,
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  it freeze everyone up to do family things or have other plans. New Year's
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  Eve and it freezes everybody up to to do whatever they want. And then
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  on just the last Saturday of every year, this is what we're doing.
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  Good. Yeah, Now, I know you're touching this before me, but
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  I want to give it a bit more emphasis because it helps the bands out
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  as well. But tickets to forty dollars pre style or there's sixty bucks on
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  the door, but you can buy them three, you guys. But every
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  band playing it's got their own tickets that they can sell too to help out.
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  Is that right, Yeah, every band's got their own physical pre sale
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  tickets, so buy them directly through the bands. That's how the bands get
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  paid. So basically it's I have a bit of a fair deal where I
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  give bands a cut of every ticket they sell, and it's a generous amount.
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  It's not one or two dollars, it's quite a lot more than that.
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  But obviously I need promoters, need cuts from tickets to pay for shit.
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  But I want bands to be rewarded for their hard work. So no
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  other bands get a cut of tickets. So say if I sell ten tickets,
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  no other band gets a cut of the tickets that I sell, I
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  get that whole cut for myself. And that's why we push people. It's
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  the brew House ways. What we've always done is you push people to the
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  bands to buy tickets from the bands directly, because then the bands essentially get
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  more money. Oh goody. The back roommate where it's being held, it's
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  I think it's one of the best venues in Brisbane and it's so underrated,
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  but he doesn't get the intention it deserves one hundred percent. I think it
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  is the it's a prestige venue. You can have international acts there and they're
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  they're doing a few renovations and things and next year it's just going to be
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  turned up quite substantially. I'm actually going in there tonight to supply a writer
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  for one of the bands on the weekend. But they're doing so much work
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  in there to bring the international acts into that room. It's an eight hundred
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  capacity room and not many people think of that. I mean Phil Enselmo played
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  there and it's sold out, you know, and it's if it's good enough
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  for Phil and Selmo. It should be fucking good enough for anybody said,
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  And then there's a bit of a breaking or like a misconception that it's too
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  far out. But it's only really five minutes from the city. It's like
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  it's not that far out at all. But yeah, people will drive forty
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  five minutes to go to Eaton's Hill. You work that one out exactly.
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  Where's agree with you? You've got this company, brew House Productions, Mate,
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  how many people know about that? I so tell us a bit more
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  about that. Uh, well, basically, I started it up because I
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  just wanted to play gigs, really and I just went, well, i'll
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  just do it myself and put on my own gigs. And I just started
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  doing it that way. I didn't have an intention to get it anywhere.
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  But it's been growing and things like that. And I should have taken a
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  break this year, but I didn't because I needed to keep my mind occupied
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  with a lot of personal shit going on. But next year after this,
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  I'm taking a break for a little bit. But I have an international tour
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  on the horizon for Brewhouse Productions. I'm bringing an international artist over at the
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  end of next year. Why is this the first time hearing of it because
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  I haven't told anyone. I'll let you get away. We'll talk more about
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  that. Actually, no, Lauren knows about it, of course she does.
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  Yeah, well she's forgiven. But we'll talk more later, all right.
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  So we've mentioned also that you're in a Dirty Brewmate like, tell us
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  a bit more about you guys and what us it up to in the near
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  future. So basically we're, yeah, we're rolling into the year. We're
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  going to write a little bit more, try and actually record a few more
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  songs because we haven't recorded anything for a while. Our singer has applied to
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  be a firefighter. Actually he's fit as fuck. He's it's a funny roster.
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  They give you a twelve month roster, so we're not committing to anything
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  until we find out what's going on with him, and then we're going to
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  work around his roster and hid weekends with separated parents and shit, so you
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  know, you know, we all know what that's like. Yeah, sure
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  do all right, met, Well, thanks very much for your time and
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  I made The show is on December thirtieth at the back Room in Adelie.
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  Got Outfit Left Biscuit, Mike, We the Hollow, Dirty Bruce Snake,
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  Mountain Craze, heeds More, twenty bands, two stages, forty bucks pre
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  sale off the bands, or you get it from brue househouldn't say I missed
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  anything. It's sponsored by New Said Brewing and Jack Daniels and Jack Daniels is
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  the best in the business. So you've got me airline on that runner.
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  They sure do. Mate. Thanks for your Tom Brad. We'll catch up
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  soon. Awesome, Mad, I'll talk to you. I thank you.