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Freshly Squeezed And Home-Grown; FAILSAFE Fly The Flag For The Future Of Aussie Rock · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Where fail safe. This is Anna.
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  Speaker 2: Anna plays the bass guitar, This is Theophia plays the drums.
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  Speaker 1: And my name's Liam.
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  Speaker 2: I played the guitar and I sing most of our
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  Speaker 2: songs typically about just like teenage plight and all the
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  Speaker 2: problems that teenagers face, these little minimal, minimalistic problems that
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  Speaker 2: don't matter in the future, but it's fun to write
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  Speaker 2: songs about. And yeah, we we just taught we We
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  Speaker 2: we gig around Sydney any venue that we can get really,
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  Speaker 2: just all all venues in the Interwest. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: that are popping off right now, so that's what how
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  Speaker 2: we do it. But we're also very.
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  Speaker 1: Di y big time. We play lots of shows just
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  Speaker 1: out and about. Like our music video we did Bakville.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna pop in here now and say this
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  Speaker 3: is how I discovered you, guys, is through that Medio
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  Speaker 3: music video because my daughter was actually in it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll show you a.
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  Speaker 3: Quick photo and she loved you guys, and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: she showed me the music and I'm like, oh, here
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  Speaker 3: we go, what's this van going to sound like? And
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  Speaker 3: then she put it on and I'm like, actually, really good?
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  Speaker 3: How old are you guys?
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  Speaker 1: So I'm eighteen, Liam's eighteen, and Anna is sixteen.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, so much talent and am I right
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  Speaker 3: in that? You guys met? Was it at school drama camp?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so we met through me and Liam met through
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  Speaker 4: a drama program, so we're all from different schools. But
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  Speaker 4: we met through that and we sort of, you know,
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  Speaker 4: lost contact, and then around a year later, just at
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  Speaker 4: again a local music jam session, we met again.
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  Speaker 3: We met THEO and through a jam.
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  Speaker 4: Session we got together and we've been together ever since
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  Speaker 4: for two years.
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  Speaker 1: And it was rock and roll, rock and roll ever since.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's insane. You guys are so young and so talented.
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  Speaker 3: Like I don't know what I was doing at eighteen,
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  Speaker 3: but it wasn't creating a successful rock band. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this is my daughter Maddy. Oh yes, yes, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: not focusing very well. But anyway, yeah, no, she met
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  Speaker 3: you guys and she said you guys were lovely and
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  Speaker 3: thank you. It's really great to see you know, you
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  Speaker 3: guys are a young band, up and coming and that
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  Speaker 3: you've already involved your community so much. Have you felt
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  Speaker 3: that love from the community back?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, I got too excited I cut
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  Speaker 2: you off.
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  Speaker 5: We started this by building the community because when we
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  Speaker 5: all started, we're like under eighteen, tried to getting like
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  Speaker 5: pubs and bowlo gigs where we could, but.
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  Speaker 1: They don't like that. They don't like our rock music
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  Speaker 1: and our underage crowd.
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  Speaker 5: And even now we try and play eighteen plus shows
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  Speaker 5: and they get a bit pussy. But we kind of
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  Speaker 5: turned towards like DIY shows, playing in the skate park,
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  Speaker 5: always playing more ages shows, and that's a big part
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  Speaker 5: of our ethoughts now is keeping the community alive.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we were in that position where we
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  Speaker 1: needed something to.
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  Speaker 5: Do on a Saturday night and we wanted to space
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  Speaker 5: where we can jam out with our friends and we
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  Speaker 5: just love music and want to be able to provide
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  Speaker 5: that platform for everyone else.
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  Speaker 4: I think from a broader perspective as well, we sort
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  Speaker 4: of are the you know, the COVID generation. When we
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  Speaker 4: started making music together, we had been and almost lockdown
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  Speaker 4: for like two years, and we had been so isolated
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  Speaker 4: from that big communal setting live music that when we
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  Speaker 4: came together, we felt like we had to sort of,
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  Speaker 4: you know, make something where there was an empty space
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  Speaker 4: for two whole years and That's why community is such
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  Speaker 4: a big thing, because we really only have this music
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  Speaker 4: scene thanks to a lot of young people actively fighting.
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  Speaker 1: Just wanting to listen to music and I don't have fun.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that COVID thing is really important because for me
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  Speaker 5: and Liam, COVID was year seven and eight, so our
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  Speaker 5: first years of high school, those formative years where you
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  Speaker 5: meet people was kind of taken away from us.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we were in this position where we.
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  Speaker 5: Were at homes by ourselves, you know, avoiding zoom meetings
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  Speaker 5: and homewives, but not thinking about like who we're friends
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  Speaker 5: with or how even like thinking about the future.
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  Speaker 1: Think we're so daunting at that point.
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  Speaker 5: But being able to come together and like provide a
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  Speaker 5: platform where people get to meet new people and create
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  Speaker 5: friends and stuff. It's like trying to bring back what
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  Speaker 5: we didn't have.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, you definitely made something of that COVID
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  Speaker 3: time period.
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  Speaker 1: Then I was playing video games all day.
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  Speaker 3: Venues you've played, you have actually played, like Liberty Hall
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  Speaker 3: and a few other pretty big venues. Has that does
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  Speaker 3: that still like spin you out that you've gotten that far?
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  Speaker 5: It's always I don't know if you guys want me
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  Speaker 5: to take this thing but it's always kind of like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, it seemed unreal in the moment, and
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  Speaker 5: now we look back on it and we're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that was great.
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  Speaker 1: But what's next.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we got the privilege of playing Metro Social because
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  Speaker 5: of our friend Isha, who me and Liam at the
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  Speaker 5: time were very close with, and then Liberty Hall we
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  Speaker 5: got the opportunity to play there through this program and
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  Speaker 5: it wasn't like we were opening for like a huge show,
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  Speaker 5: like sold out crowds kind of thing, but it was
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  Speaker 5: nice to have still kind of an intimate field such
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  Speaker 5: a large venue like that, And looking back on those
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  Speaker 5: we're kind of just like, ye, that was.
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  Speaker 1: So amazing and such a privilege so early on.
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  Speaker 5: We just want to be able to use those opportunities
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  Speaker 5: and build off it now because those those amazing shows
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  Speaker 5: and like big opportunities weren't for nothing.
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  Speaker 1: And we don't want amazement.
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  Speaker 4: And I think for me, and I think a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people, I guess in the sort of community people
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  Speaker 4: who listen to us, I think our biggest moments, while
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  Speaker 4: we've done those shows, which have been amazing, like we
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  Speaker 4: were so stoked to the biggest moments as a community
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  Speaker 4: were the skate park gigs because there were no barriers
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  Speaker 4: to entry. And while you know, it doesn't sound as impressive,
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  Speaker 4: that's where we sort of, I think, hit our stride
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  Speaker 4: and we realized that this is something that we can
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  Speaker 4: be doing, and this is something we're doing for us
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  Speaker 4: and other people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think I think whilst you said, like
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  Speaker 3: it's not as impressive, say a skate park or but
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  Speaker 3: in a way you get to connect with fans doing
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  Speaker 3: gigs like that, you know what I mean as well
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  Speaker 3: and really getting your sound and your music heard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's the best part of it all. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I remember after the first time we played the skate
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  Speaker 2: park show, the first time we did our skate park show,
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  Speaker 2: because we've done two. The first time we did it,
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  Speaker 2: it was sort of like a big thing because people
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  Speaker 2: have been playing in skate parks for ages, like that's
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  Speaker 2: always been a thing. Yeah, but we just hadn't seen
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  Speaker 2: in our little scene, no one had really done it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so we were like, let's just do it, and we
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  Speaker 2: tried to keep it super low key just in case
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  Speaker 2: of like police shutting it down.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, like you're not allowed to do that. But it
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  Speaker 1: was all like word of mouth.
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  Speaker 2: But I remember I was so shocked at seeing like
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  Speaker 2: I think it was like two hundred, yeah, like over
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  Speaker 2: two hundred people that came.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember seeing all the people there and like
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  Speaker 1: the band of for Us.
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  Speaker 2: I called up my dad and I was like, I
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  Speaker 2: call him Papa because we're Swedish, and I said it
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  Speaker 2: really loud, was like Papa, and everyone at me and
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  Speaker 2: they were like saying, I'm on the phone, like Papa.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many people are like oh, then, you wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: even believe it. And it was crazy and it was
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  Speaker 2: such a fun gig. And I remember after that show,
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  Speaker 2: like this sense of community was extremely strong because so
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  Speaker 2: many people come up to you and they're asking you
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  Speaker 2: for advice, and they're asking you for I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: like how you do like things with your guitar, with
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  Speaker 2: your drums, any anything that can help them really and
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  Speaker 2: it's like it's really beautiful to be that person that
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  Speaker 2: can sort of help people out.
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  Speaker 1: And there's people that like we look up to like.
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  Speaker 2: That, like, yeah, so many bands in our scene, like
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  Speaker 2: like no one knows this, but I look up so
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  Speaker 2: many bands like in our scene, and like I'm friends
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  Speaker 2: with a lot of people and I ask them how
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  Speaker 2: to do things, and I think this whole community thing
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  Speaker 2: around music is what we need to keep going.
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  Speaker 1: So that's right.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely, we definitely need experienced startists to lift up those
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  Speaker 3: new up and comers and vice versa. And you guys
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  Speaker 3: already as well have quite a backing behind you, Like
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  Speaker 3: your YouTube has quite a few followers, quite a few
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  Speaker 3: views on your videos, your Spotify, your Instagram. How has
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  Speaker 3: it been building all of that up yourselves? I imagine,
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  Speaker 3: especially still being like school age in the past.
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  Speaker 1: Daunting and scary.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, everything we do, we're kind of like we have
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  Speaker 5: that moment before we're at least where we're like, fuck,
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  Speaker 5: well if no one listens.
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  Speaker 1: What if no one watches? And we're lucky that we've got.
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  Speaker 5: This community because you know, we kind of don't need
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  Speaker 5: to worry about that anymore, you know it it's we've
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  Speaker 5: kind of learned to that it doesn't matter if we're
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  Speaker 5: not getting tens of thousands of views because it's the
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  Speaker 5: same vibe that are coming back. Yeah, and those skate
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  Speaker 5: park shows are really a step off point for us
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  Speaker 5: because that's where we started to like see the familiar
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  Speaker 5: faces stuff that people like your daughter, you know, we
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  Speaker 5: love to see the people that come back and the
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  Speaker 5: people that come back and bring friends. Yeah, And the
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  Speaker 5: next time they're there, they're wearing the merch and like yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and the lyrics to our songs and the opening.
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  Speaker 1: Band songs, and it's like it's crazy heartwarming to see.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember that. I remember that moment the first time.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was the first time that ever clicked
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  Speaker 2: for me. Were playing at this place called Lazy Thinking
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  Speaker 2: and Dulage Hell, just the record store.
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  Speaker 1: So many bands play there. It's a really good spot.
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  Speaker 2: But I remember we played a set there and this
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  Speaker 2: is before our first EP came out, and we have
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  Speaker 2: a song called Crash and for some reason, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people really liked that song. That was like a
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  Speaker 2: song that people wanted to hear. And I remember us
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  Speaker 2: playing that that song at this set, and during the chorus,
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  Speaker 2: I remember seeing so many people in the front singing
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  Speaker 2: the lyrics.
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  Speaker 1: No, the song wasn't released.
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  Speaker 2: Yet, and it was just we played so many times
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  Speaker 2: and all these people, all these people that came to
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  Speaker 2: that show. I'd been to shows previously, and they really
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  Speaker 2: liked it. And it was like, damn, look I can
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  Speaker 2: go home, and like that makes you cry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it might have. Actually, it's such.
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  Speaker 3: An experience that, like many as artists don't get until
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  Speaker 3: you know they've reached some kind of level. It's just
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  Speaker 3: so impressive you guys like, sorry, I will get over
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  Speaker 3: it soon, but just how young you are and how
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  Speaker 3: successful you guys are already. Do you think that there'll
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  Speaker 3: be more pop up skate park shows in the future
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  Speaker 3: or what's next to you guys?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So we're we're about to announce a couple of shows.
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  Speaker 5: We just announced a show in on Pride Center in
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  Speaker 5: Newtown that's got a bit of a DIY field talk,
• 9:58
  Speaker 5: but it's still a room and that raising money for charity.
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  Speaker 5: And then we're also about to announce our second acoustic show,
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  Speaker 5: which we do at camperdown Rest Memorial Park.
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  Speaker 1: So that's another DIY thing.
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  Speaker 5: And the last time we did that, it was one
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  Speaker 5: day's notice and we had maybe like fifty people there
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  Speaker 5: and they bought their picnic blankets, and so our plan
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  Speaker 5: is to do that and it's going to be on
• 10:18
  Speaker 5: the fifteenth, so it's going to be a bit of
• 10:20
  Speaker 5: a Valentine's theme, Valentine's.
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  Speaker 1: In the Park.
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  Speaker 3: How did the name fail Safe come about?
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  Speaker 1: That's like, that's the.
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  Speaker 5: Worst question to a sorry, one of those things where
• 10:30
  Speaker 5: we're like, oh, we kind of just chose it. I
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  Speaker 5: read a lot of comic books and there's a Batman
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  Speaker 5: field called fail Say, which he made to kill himself
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  Speaker 5: if he ever turned to evil kind of thing, and
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  Speaker 5: I just remember that.
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  Speaker 1: I remember that, like reading that comic and being like
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: so sick. Name that what happened? I remember what happened
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  Speaker 1: it was.
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  Speaker 2: I remember one time we were all jamming before we
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  Speaker 2: had a name, and I think I think you left.
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  Speaker 2: I think you went home Anna, and I think I
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: was I was about to leave Theo's house as well,
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  Speaker 2: because we all we all practic, so the Theo's.
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: House in my bedroom. Yeah, it's pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 3: It's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I remember theore you were sitting like on your desk.
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  Speaker 2: I think we were watching UFC or sign we're doing something,
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  Speaker 2: and we were thinking of band names and then you
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  Speaker 2: just said fail safe and I was like that sounds
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  Speaker 2: pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and like sixteen, Wow, we were freshly sixteen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know what.
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  Speaker 3: I like the like the story behind it as well, though,
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  Speaker 3: the like the actual law the Batman. That's awesome. That
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  Speaker 3: is like Yeah, And how would you guys describe your
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: sound to someone that's never listened to you before.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll give it a go.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's really interesting because we've had so many
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  Speaker 4: different sounds over the course of our journey. We started
• 11:49
  Speaker 4: off very much like brunch punk influence. I think that's
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: still very present in our first EP, but slowly we've
• 11:55
  Speaker 4: been moving to more I guess, elements of post hardcore
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  Speaker 4: and really melodic. I think this next epich Williams Sr.
• 12:03
  Speaker 4: Story about, it's going to have a lot more pop
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: punk influences. In fact, it's about two thousands a teenage.
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  Speaker 3: Dirt bag the best era.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Also, I think with this new kind of stuff we're writing,
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  Speaker 5: it's a lot more emotional, and when we're performing it,
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  Speaker 5: it feels a lot more personal, regardless of whether me
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  Speaker 5: and Anna had like direct contact.
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  Speaker 1: With the lyrics or not. You know, we can all
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  Speaker 1: feel it through the music.
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  Speaker 5: And we kind of have this confidence behind it because
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  Speaker 5: we know if that we feel it purely from performing it, Yeah,
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: someone else has to resonate with.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Good answer.
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  Speaker 3: And when did you guys realize the band was actually working?
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  Speaker 2: I would say I could answer this one. I think
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: the ram and I realized the band was actually working.
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: Before the successful shows, it would have just been like
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: us showing up to practice, like like scheduling, having a
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: schedule and being like, wow, this is our thing, Like
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  Speaker 2: we can make music together and like reads a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of musicians that want to play.
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  Speaker 1: We're a band. Now. I think that's your first like
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  Speaker 1: the indication of you being in a band.
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  Speaker 2: It's like when you guys are actually practicing and writing yourselves,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if you're releasing them.
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  Speaker 1: Or like playing shows.
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  Speaker 2: Like if you're doing you're making music, you're making music,
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  Speaker 2: and I guess if you're doing that with other people,
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  Speaker 2: you're in a band.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I also kind of think there's like to a degree,
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  Speaker 5: there's never a point where you're like this is working,
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  Speaker 5: you know. Yeah, I think all three of us are
• 13:30
  Speaker 5: just so passionate. Like I don't know about everyone else,
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  Speaker 5: but there's just nothing but music in my future.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 5: I can't do a job where I'm not behind a
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  Speaker 5: drum fit. And yeah, we just like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: we love it so much that it has to work.
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  Speaker 1: I was just talking about that literally before we opened
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  Speaker 1: up this call.
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  Speaker 2: We were sitting through his backyard and I was like, dude,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a plan being it's all just television.
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  Speaker 5: It's all just like it's right there and there is
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  Speaker 5: no plan B. And it's not about being successful. It's
• 13:56
  Speaker 5: about share, share exactly what we have in the world
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  Speaker 5: and doing what we love and hoping that that pays off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: You guys are so mature it freaks me out.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that's wonderful too.
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  Speaker 3: If you can keep like saying, Okay, what's the next goal,
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: what's the next goal?
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  Speaker 1: You know, and keep breaching for that.
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  Speaker 3: And where do you guys realistically want fail Safe to
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  Speaker 3: be in about two years?
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  Speaker 1: Ye well, we always says next stop and more theater. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: directly next that is that is my dream venue to play.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to play and More Theater.
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  Speaker 2: And we played at Factory Theater Courtyard at the end
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  Speaker 2: of November two or it was November yeh to release
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: our second EP, Chrysalis, which is where we filmed the
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: which is the EP that we filmed the music video for.
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  Speaker 1: But we played this really cool show Factory Theater Courtyard, and.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: The owner of Factory Theater owns and more, and he
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: came up to us and he said, we'll call him
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: one of us back, and I.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: Was like, oh, how wonderful. That's like a perfect venue
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: for you guys in a West, Like you know, they
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: do put on a lot of shows that vary from
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: rock to everything else. I've been there times.
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: I've grown up going to and more with my mom,
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: like which my mom's one that I got all my
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: music tastes from.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: And she she show me all these gigs at end
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Moore and since I was like, like, in your eight
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: it's a staple.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: It is a staple. You have to play there, and
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: that's the dream.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: But that's I just want to keep releasing music because
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: it's just if I can get the music out there
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: and people can hear it and like it and play
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: it live. Like that's that's the only steps I really
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: want to take. There's nothing else.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: I have an honorable mention though, yes I adore the
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Opera House fore Court.
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: I think a band, a band like from Sydney too,
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: just like such a beautiful like over the sunsets and
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: the stage perfectly blocks off.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: All the high rise bullshit, like all the smoke.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: You don't want to see in all your attentions, just
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: over the water and a bridge, not even headlining a
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: show there, but just having the opportunity to play is
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: like a support something.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Would be well, I mean something we're looking for where
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: we're actually really we're looking for bigger bands to support
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: very actively, Like we've been messaging a bunch of bands
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: and I haven't any luck yet, but we're crowd.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: It'll happen.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: It'll happen. Who would be your dream sort of bands
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: to share a stage with? All support you.
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: And I, oh, it's a great one. You are my
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: All of us kind of have our own different intet.
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: We're actually our music cases completely. Yeah, well we all
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: have very and I think that's what works for us
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: so well is because when we get to get together
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: and blend our music, it also becomes a big mush
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: of something like and it's a whole new thing.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: And that's why we subscribe O genre because I think
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: a synthesis of the three of us and we're all
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: so different.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely dream support. I love Queens of the Stone Age.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: How good are they?
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: My mom?
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Oh you can't see?
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: Me and my sister all have matching queens and the
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: storage tattoos because she used to sing us songs as
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: like lullabys.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: When we were little.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that's so awesome. Well lyrics do you have.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: It's not lyrics. I have the pitchfork from the songs
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: for the Oh yeah, that's awesome.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: No, I can see it.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: We all we all love them, like, I don't know,
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: I feel like we're pretty happy to open for anyone.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like, I mean, we've already talked about
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: this and it's not like two out of the realm
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: of possibility, but opening for Antenna would be so impersive.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: They're great.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, such a big inspiration, especially because they're from Sydney,
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Like it's.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: In their lyrics.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, separate their music from where they come from, which I.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Think is like, Yeah, Antenna's great.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I should have worn my Antenna shirt. I
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: have an Antenna shirt. Yeah, you would be huge.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I adore Gang of Youths so much, so violent
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: they came.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Will Will Manifest.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: It's good too, that's it. Man like, and if Nirvana
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: was still around anyone and everyone much. We just love
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: playing shows, yeah, just we just we just want a
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: stage man title flight they can get. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: just just listing broken up there.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And why does Falesa feel like the right outlet
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: for you guys at this point.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: In time that you can answer that one? That's a
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: great question. I think.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: I think as a songwriter, that's the only sort of
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: outlet you have, Like you feel all these things. And
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: I don't work out as much as I should, Like
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I don't go to the general so I don't really
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: have anything else. I sort of just sit in my
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: room and I try and pour everything out of my
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: head onto a page and that works all the time
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: for me. And I guess showing showing those songs like
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: you guys, is always really exciting because you get a
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: whole you get. You go from an acoustic demo of something.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: That I've written to bring it to new life and
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: song and it's just better every single time. So I
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: think that is I don't know.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I think I think music is the only outlet that
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: I feel personally, what about you guys, Like, I don't,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: It's also just like creative expression is like ingrained in
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: our bloods. Yeah, Like both my parents work in film
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: and TV, so does and his dad, Like, I don't know,
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: it's something we've been grown up.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I've grown up listening to so much music. It's just
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: what I know, and it's just what it's like. It's
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: my safe space.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: It's most comfortable for me, and like I don't know,
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: it's really easy to get lost in music.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, I think like I come from it,
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: like I think more of my child like more of
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: my childhood and my interests like earlier, more around like
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: acting and like literature and stuff. It was very verbal,
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: and I felt like I could really do better understanding
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: other stuff that other people have put out, but not
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: really expressing myself verbally and being able to do that
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: through music, just through like you know, expressing yourself through
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: notes and rhythm and stuff like that.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: It's an entirely different skill that I think offers so
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: much more. And I mean it's even when.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: You say chare like your songs with us, that's being
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: really vulnerable and that's safe and also incredibly dangerous and exciting.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, relatable to everybody. It's universal language.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: You know, you don't need to understand how to speak
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: music speak Swedish and we'd be like traumas.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so right, so right, people like hear our lyrics
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: and recite them back to us, or like, come up
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: to us and tell us why this song is like
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: the most meaningful thing in their life is if they're
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: bopping their.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Heads thoughts as you were saying before, and like to music,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: letting the music do the talking rather than and you
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: know it's going through you obviously, But yeah, really, well put,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: that's so beautiful and THEO I know you have played
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: with a few other bands, That's right. What feels different
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: though about fail Safe? Playing with fail Safe?
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Fail Safe is my family. You know, there's a there's
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: a line between session. As much as I like, I
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: don't know. I love being behind the drum kit. I
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: love playing shows of having new things to learn, writing
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: in different styles. But Failsafe has always kind of felt
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: special to me because I've known these guys since I
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: was a child, and I've grown up with you guys.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: Whereas all the other bands I've been in, I've joined
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: for the sake of joining the band. Yeah, and that's
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: great in and of itself, and it doesn't take away
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: from my passion of the music or how well.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I get along with these people. But fail Safe just
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: feels like home.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Oh you must have learned so much as well through
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: experience with those other bands that you've wore.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: I always say this that I became way more confident
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: in my own ability of drumming after I stopped taking
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: drum lessons, because I think you can learn so much
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: from just like creating with other people. And this is
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: a w I'll die on because I always think that
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: the best way to learn, especially a musical instrument, is
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: to just collaborate, and because there's no right way of
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: doing it, like something you know, it's a lot easier
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: in like high school, when you're focusing on your academics
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: to say this is wrong and this is right. And
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: what's special about music is that you can make it
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: yourself and it really shows you know, personality through it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: What kind of audience are you guys hoping to reach next?
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: The audiences?
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: We definitely have like plans to play a lot more
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: eighteen plus shows this year because we've noticed very much
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: that we've played like one or two eighteen plus shows
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: and the ones we have there's like it hasn't been
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: a big room at all, but that we've always seen
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: crossover to our other shows where there's like three or
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: four adults that are like, we love you to see you,
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: and we just like if that happens for those people,
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: who's to say it won't happen for more.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: There was a lady who I think was about like fifty.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is my favorite story. No, no, okay,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: there's some I've forgotten her name, but there's this. There's
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: this one older lady. She reminded me a lot of
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: my grandma actually, and she used to comment on our
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: fail save reels, like wondering where our next show will be,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: and she I think she she'd always send like multiple comments.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I don't think she realized, and we'd be able to
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: see the first one cut yeah, and then we'd respond.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: And I remember when we played that Factory Courtyard show,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I saw her sitting there on her own and I
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: was like, oh, my goodness, that's you from the profile picture.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: He looked at me, she said hi, and then I
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: went up to her and we were talking.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: But I think that was so like surreal to see
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: that the age range of like yeah, yeah, fans goes
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: from like like thirteen to like sixty. It's crazy, and
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: that's just what we want to that's what we want
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: to do, Like what theo said, is more eighteen plus
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: shows that we play. That's more crowds, more people that
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: we can you know, share the love with show reach.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: It also harder for people like over eighteen to feel
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: comfortable going to shows where there's a lot of kids.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: And we're like so accustomed to playing to like younger
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: audiences that now that we're eighteen, we're kind of like, look,
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: we can keep that, and we're always going to keep
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: all edge of shows being so important to it, expand
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: and kind of create a new audience as well.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: We just want to bring them together exactly.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: That's what I was going to ask you. Actually, I'm like,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: you're kind of in a tough position of you've built
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: up such a fan base with the under eighteens. Now
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: if you're going to move away from that, it's like
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: it's great because you'll accumulate audiences of all ages, but
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: it's like you can't. I'm so glad you said that
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: you won't be forgetting about your younger audience as well.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: No, we're taking them with us. We're taking them all
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: the way to the top. Like I think you know,
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: that's where we came from. Without underage shows, we would
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: be banned and why would we ever participate in taking
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: that away from people? I mean formed, you know, just
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: by people talking to each other at shows, and the
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: more shows there are, the more bands there are. It's just, yeah,
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: such a thing that we've worked so hard to create
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: while we're under eighteen, and we're going to keep it
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: going on.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's how we form. Yeah.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just to end, is there anything you want to
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: say to your fans or anything else you'd just like
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: to say?
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you?
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we love every single one of our fans, everybody
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: that streams our music, everybody that comes to our shows,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: buys our merch, Like, there's nothing that we can do
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: to express our gratitude to you guys, and especially like
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: people like your daughter, like showing showing you our band,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: people that bring friends and you know, really network for
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: us in a way like that's it's really heartwarming to
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: see that our music.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Can like make a community. Yeah, you know, and people
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: like our music.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: That's the biggest thing, I guess, And thank you to
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: everybody that that really helps us out.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: It's really fun than you people that.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Also just like even if they're not coming to our shows,
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: liking the Instagram pots Yeah, and like putting it in
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: their story or sharing it to a group chat. You know,
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: all the little things really matter to us. And that's like,
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: the little things are what we thrive off of. Yeah,
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: that's our community give back like ridiculous amounts.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Shit. That's so so lovely and.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: I know we'll be keeping a close eye on you guys.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: I just see like huge things on the horizon for
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: you all. Thank you so much for your time today.