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Hitting Where It Hurts With JACOB BINZER From D-A-D · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: This is Jacob Binzer and from Dad, the Danish rock
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  Speaker 1: band Dad.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking to me live.
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  Speaker 1: From Predicksparre Gardens in the middle of Copenhagen, which is
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  Speaker 1: like a park that was founded here three hundred years
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  Speaker 1: ago by Frederick the sixth, one of the Kings, one
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  Speaker 1: of the infamous Danish crazy Kings. But anyway, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to Australia with Dad to play some greatest greatest
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  Speaker 1: hits as we call them, at least we think so.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to play some tracks from the new
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  Speaker 2: album as well, and.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, and it's gonna be it was. It's such
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  Speaker 1: a blast. Last time we went to Australia, which is
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  Speaker 1: two years ago.
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  Speaker 2: And before that it we were it was even longer ago.
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  Speaker 2: It was like years and years ago before.
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  Speaker 1: That, and so we really really appreciate that the Australian
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  Speaker 1: fans that they hang on and they show up and
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  Speaker 1: they sing along.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's such a pleasure. So we are looking forward.
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  Speaker 3: That's mel I have to say, that's probably one of
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  Speaker 3: the best introductions I've ever seved.
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  Speaker 4: We had a bit of a history lesson there.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a beautiful pictures park we're walking through that's
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  Speaker 3: just top the cake for all of them.
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  Speaker 2: May well done, great, You're welcome.
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  Speaker 3: As you mentioned, Dad returned to Australia shortly for a
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  Speaker 3: run of shows studying, made the twentieth in Perth, and
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  Speaker 3: then you hit Brisbane and Sydney before finishing in Melbourne
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  Speaker 3: and made the twenty fourth. Like, it's not that long yet, mate,
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  Speaker 3: So are you packed and ready to go?
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  Speaker 2: I'm packing, ready to go, and it's a well. I
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  Speaker 2: wish I could.
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  Speaker 1: Spend more time down there, but you know, it's just
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  Speaker 1: started the festinal season in Europe, so unfortunately we have
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  Speaker 1: to head back after. Like I think I can spend
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days in Melbourne after the last show,
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  Speaker 1: which I will enjoy, but then we are back to Europe.
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  Speaker 1: But Australia. You know what what the first time back
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  Speaker 1: in the early nineties when we went to promote and
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  Speaker 1: play for the albums back then, then I went to
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  Speaker 1: after the tour, I went to Cairns up north and
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  Speaker 1: I went on a motorcycle the Safari on with a
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  Speaker 1: local guide of there. And I want to do that again,
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  Speaker 1: so please join in any one of you down there
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  Speaker 1: sometime motorcycle Safarian Cairns.
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  Speaker 2: How about that I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Hearing that ro Remember I went to Cans for holiday
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  Speaker 3: the day I finished high school when I was about sixteen,
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  Speaker 3: and I never left for about twenty twenty eight years later.
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  Speaker 4: I left the places. It was that good.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah it was great. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, Now this has been builders the greatest hits, so right,
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  Speaker 3: but you guys have got so many songs that it
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  Speaker 3: considered greatest hits by your fans, Like, it will always
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  Speaker 3: be harder for you to put together a greatest hits
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  Speaker 3: to a sett list.
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  Speaker 4: So what if you just played off a new album cycle,
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  Speaker 4: isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a yeah, it's it's hard to to
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  Speaker 1: you want to play so many songs and it's really
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  Speaker 1: hard to leave some out, but you have to. But
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  Speaker 1: in the case of Australia, it's a little easier because
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  Speaker 1: some of the albums that in the meantime that.
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  Speaker 2: We released in Denmark.
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  Speaker 1: Might not be that relevant to Australian agen But so
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  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna put emphasis on like no Few
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  Speaker 1: leftl the Pilgrims album and the new one, and then
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna have like tracks from in between. Also, So
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  Speaker 1: I think I don't know how long we're allowed to play,
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  Speaker 1: but we should at least play line ninety minutes ninety
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  Speaker 1: minutes of rock and roll.
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  Speaker 4: I guess nice, nice, Now that's not the right.
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  Speaker 3: Is a good point, mate, Like when you're doing greatest
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  Speaker 3: hit shows, like do you change it? Certainly stop from
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  Speaker 3: country to country because some countries, I can imagine some
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  Speaker 3: songs will be more popular than others and they'd be
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  Speaker 3: less popular in other countries. So do you chop and
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  Speaker 3: change it to do with that? Or does everyone just
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  Speaker 3: get the same experience.
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  Speaker 2: We changed in a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Some songs are very popular in some countries and we
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  Speaker 1: we just have to play it. And and but as
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  Speaker 1: as the years go by, it it it.
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  Speaker 2: Gets to be more and more the same because it's
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  Speaker 2: like the whole thing it's distilled is like the Rolling Stones.
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  Speaker 1: You want to hear jumping Jeck, Flash and satisfaction, and
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of.
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  Speaker 2: All over the world.
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  Speaker 1: And it gets that it gets concentrated down to the
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  Speaker 1: so the real to the real classics.
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  Speaker 2: Right. And but in terms of the new album, you
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  Speaker 2: never know which ones are.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, you know, the album is still so new, so
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  Speaker 1: we don't know if any of those songs is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be part of like.
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  Speaker 2: The Greatest Hits Collie collection in the future.
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  Speaker 1: Mh. But like you know a song, we have songs
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  Speaker 1: that we have to play in Portugal, we have songs
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  Speaker 1: that we have to play Sweden, and uh so we
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  Speaker 1: just changed it a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you guys have been around for a long while,
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  Speaker 3: so you spread up demographic of your fan base comes
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  Speaker 3: a few generations, right, So just say Dad's dragging his
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  Speaker 3: son along to watch you guys for the first time
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  Speaker 3: and says, you got to see these guys.
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  Speaker 4: Boy, they're fucking all sudden.
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  Speaker 3: Like, what three songs would you tell that people listen
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  Speaker 3: to get ready for a Dad live show.
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  Speaker 1: I would start off with the first song of the
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  Speaker 1: new album called God Praise to Man, which is like
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  Speaker 1: a modern rock anthem.
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  Speaker 2: Well it's not modern, it's just new, but.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's the newest Dad rock anthem. And I think
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  Speaker 1: then you have you would have to listen to. You
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  Speaker 1: would have to listen to nineteen hundred Yesterday, a track
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  Speaker 1: from the album called Everything Close, which is from the
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  Speaker 1: year two thousand, which is man like the poppy sound
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  Speaker 1: sound of Dad. And then you have to listen to
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  Speaker 1: Sleeping My Day Away, which is our hit single from
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  Speaker 1: back in the day that that's that's the song that
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  Speaker 1: made the whole difference.
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  Speaker 2: So you need to listen to that, bro.
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  Speaker 3: So if you got yourself a bottle of water or
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  Speaker 3: is there a water fountain, handy because it looks pretty
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  Speaker 3: bloody hot where you are.
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  Speaker 2: It is kind of hot.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the first hot I would say it's the
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  Speaker 1: first hot day in Denmark.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, I think it's almost like twenty degrees here.
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  Speaker 2: What's it like a membrane?
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  Speaker 4: Now, Melbourne, you can go through four different seasons in
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  Speaker 4: one day.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you can wake up and it'll be forty degrees
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  Speaker 3: and half an hour later it'll be raining, And so
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't really gauge it by Melbourne. I'll probably take
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  Speaker 3: a jumper for Melbourne. But the rest of Australia is
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  Speaker 3: pretty pretty.
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  Speaker 4: Warm right now.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, very good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I read it quite from Jasper where he said that
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  Speaker 3: a dad show is a party and it always will be,
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  Speaker 3: which is a pretty big call coming over to Australia, mate,
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  Speaker 3: because US guys are well known for.
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  Speaker 4: Our love of a party, so you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 4: bring it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we know, we know, what Australians are
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  Speaker 1: all about when they go to a show, and we
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  Speaker 1: want The first time we were in Australia, we watched
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  Speaker 1: one of the local reps from the record community took
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  Speaker 1: us to a show with the Angels. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 1: like this huge club kind of feeling and it was
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  Speaker 1: like there was really a night out with the guys
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  Speaker 1: and the beers. We know what that feeling is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we know what that is in Denmark. So don't you worry.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that it's it's more than a party.
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  Speaker 1: You get to get to take something home also something
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  Speaker 1: to think about.
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  Speaker 2: And we have I like to believe that some of our.
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  Speaker 1: Strongs ah something you want to want to listen to
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  Speaker 1: with your headphones.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, also when you're home in your room and femalelancholic.
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  Speaker 1: So I think we come home on into just the party,
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  Speaker 1: but we know what the party is a problem.
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  Speaker 3: It's actually funny that you mentioned the Angels made because
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  Speaker 3: I haven't heard all that much of Dad's music, but
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  Speaker 3: I checked a couple of songs on while I was
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  Speaker 3: doing the questions up and the first band I thought
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  Speaker 3: of that he's reminded me of was the Angels and
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  Speaker 3: it's like it's just quite uncanny that you mentioned them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty good. Yes, So you.
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  Speaker 3: Guys are well known for your live shows, mate like,
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  Speaker 3: and he's been doing this for a long time. So
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  Speaker 3: do you still have to practice and do you still
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  Speaker 3: put a lot of work into your live shows or
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  Speaker 3: as are all pretty much second nature by now.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to make a new uh stage shit every
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  Speaker 1: time we go out for a new round, and we
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  Speaker 1: try to change it and keep ourselves excited in the audience.
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  Speaker 1: Who tries to surprise the audience. And we although we
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  Speaker 1: don't have to rehearse the songs, we have to rehearse
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  Speaker 1: the set list. We have to if we want to
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  Speaker 1: make a set list that you know, not with.
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  Speaker 2: Too many breaks. We have to keep the energy up.
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  Speaker 2: And so we we spent some time.
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  Speaker 1: Playing playing the setlist from start to finish to get
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  Speaker 1: you know, to get get the feeling of the whole show.
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  Speaker 2: So we we we do that some paces.
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  Speaker 1: In a row before we go into it, and then
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  Speaker 1: we designed. We work on the setlist for quite a
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  Speaker 1: while actually, and playing the songs that way.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So it's like, you know, you have to get
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  Speaker 5: it into your backbone, the feel of the settings, so
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  Speaker 5: don't have to think once you're there that it gives
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  Speaker 5: a better bad experience for the audience audience as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's got to touch on this before my but
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  Speaker 4: it was actually his second album. I feel left to
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  Speaker 4: the Pilgrims.
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  Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety nine that the world was a whole
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  Speaker 3: pretty much caught up with the ideas. So what was
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  Speaker 3: it do you think about that album and that time
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  Speaker 3: period that made people actually get what you were doing.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was a combination of we we kind
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  Speaker 2: of hit the.
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  Speaker 1: We hit the right nerve in terms of what the
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  Speaker 1: rock feeling was like at the time, and at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, we brought something different which was like some
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  Speaker 1: sort of melodic sense that we have in Scandinavia and
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  Speaker 1: it's just a little bit different sound, uh, and we
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  Speaker 1: brought and also the lyrics it's not your the usual
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  Speaker 1: boy meets girl lyrics or or it was like the
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  Speaker 1: lyrics are quite unusual. So all those combinations I think
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  Speaker 1: made the difference.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, benefit of the time, I like the whole whole stadiography.
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  Speaker 3: I guess you think that's your best party of a
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  Speaker 3: work or do you think other albums better?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think you can never tell how you rank
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  Speaker 2: an album until some time has passed.
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  Speaker 1: But if I'd say that, yeah, no few level albums,
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely be one of the the best albums. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that the song slip my Dair Away and
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  Speaker 1: the song point of.
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  Speaker 2: View and that kind of sound is what is most maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Most unique about the A D when you when you
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  Speaker 1: really have to to distill it down.
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  Speaker 3: To so.
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  Speaker 2: To be as concise as possible.
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  Speaker 1: But and so that album and the album Everything Closed
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  Speaker 1: from two thousand is also uh one of the better ones.
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  Speaker 2: And but I would leave it, I would leave it to.
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  Speaker 1: Someone else to to make that distinction, I think, because yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but time with Yeah, you can see over time which
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  Speaker 1: albums uh has uh what what quality? How they rank?
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  Speaker 1: You never know where to do it, and you shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: really worry too much. Yeah, you actually just do what
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  Speaker 1: you can in the moment and then then you must
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  Speaker 1: see how it lies. Actually, that was my opinion right now.
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  Speaker 3: You also recently celebrated forty years as a band mate,
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  Speaker 3: which is a massive achievement. But does that molestone actually sucky? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Like if you just taking a step back and just
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  Speaker 3: go on like we're pretty fucking cool.
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  Speaker 4: You know how many people have done this?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's and it's a I'm I'm.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's surreal that that forty years has gone
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  Speaker 1: by because I feel like it's the same, It's still
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  Speaker 1: the same. I just you know, the way our work
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  Speaker 1: is just like you work on the next project and
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  Speaker 1: you don't look too much further than that. If you
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  Speaker 1: work on the next, next project and you think about
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  Speaker 1: the next tour, and I don't know, how would it
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  Speaker 1: would feel if if I woke up one morning and
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  Speaker 1: we didn't have a kick in the calendar, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: have some project in the future.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that remains to be seen. But you know
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  Speaker 2: what that.
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  Speaker 1: When you when you think of a rock paint that
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  Speaker 1: existed for forty years, it's like it's like somehow it's
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  Speaker 1: unnatural because one role is all about being in the
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  Speaker 1: moment and the immediate feeling. But the immediate feeling has
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  Speaker 1: lasted forty years now, and the immediate feeling is what
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  Speaker 1: you get when you go to the show, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what you appreciate. That's what I appreciate when I go
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  Speaker 1: see one of my favorite paints. I don't care if
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  Speaker 1: the songs they play.
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  Speaker 2: Is a new or thirty years old. If they played.
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  Speaker 1: With enthusiasm and respect, then it's that moment I want,
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  Speaker 1: so I try to do that.
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  Speaker 4: And fantastic JAS. Thanks very much for your time, Bro,
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  Speaker 4: it's been absolutely pleasure chat. Really, I'll come along to
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  Speaker 4: the Brisbane show and I think you can have a
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  Speaker 4: ber okay