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Coming Of Age With SAMANTHA FAUL From FIFTH DAWN · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Yeah. Yeah, So I'm Sam. I'm the i'd say vocalist, the
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  vocalist TV I will say to the metal band Storm. Yeah beautiful. Thanks
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  for joining us today, Sam, thank you, thanks for having me.
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  No what's a fifth one? And peering up for a three day East Coast
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  tour in February twenty twenty four, starting in Sydney on February second and then
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  heading to Brisbane on the third and finishing in Melbourne on the tenth. So
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  not a bad way to start a year off. Yeah, yeah, we're
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  all very excited. Yeah, it'll be good. We haven't yet played a
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  show in Brisbane before, so yeah, that'll be very fun. Now,
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  looking at the name of the tour, is it the Closer Tour or the
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  Closer Tour? Like if you read it as closer, it'll definitely give the
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  wrong impression. Oh No, closer as in yeah, getting closer to something.
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  It's kind of like foreshadowing our album, So just a bit of a
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  hint there. So yeah, that'll all be revealed in good time. So
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  for those that are unfamiliar with Fifthorn, tell us a bit more about the
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  band. Yeah, so we formed in twenty fifteen. We were all quite
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  young when we first start, so's be quite the journey the beginning with pretty
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  much humps and this sounds that we're still being We're very out of it.
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  The kind of music that we're playing is definitely kind of what we want to
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  be projecting into the world. We get a lot of comparison to you know,
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  uh, would you say eminescence just with my sort of style of singing,
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  So it's very like kind of like the powerhouse kind of quality of vocals,
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  which we love. And yeah, we're blending more kind of heavy elements
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  to our music as well, which is cool. So yeah, for those
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  who are into that kind of thing, Yeah, check us out. It's
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  right on the back of your most recent single, The Day Bringing. So
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  if that's all that someone has said of the band, would say, it's
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  a good representation of what do you expect. Yeah, definitely, that's The
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  Day Brings is channeling that. That sounds that what I said for about incorporating
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  incorporating the heavy elements. Yeah, so that's pretty much what to expect and
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  from our next record, which will be dropping some this year. Sorry I
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  should say, yeah, sure, So describe for us a typical Fifth Drawn
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  live show. What do people expect them when they come to see ye,
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  yeah, just real big energy. I'm as a performer, I'm very kind
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  of theatric with my stage presence. I really like to engage the audience through
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  the music. Yeah, hopefully they'll they'll have a good time when they're there.
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  Like I said, the music that we're releasing now is a bit heavier,
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  so it's a bit more to kind of pop your head around two.
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  But yeah, you know, we're really excited to be playing Stringer shows in
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  February. I've never asked anyone this before, but as a band, what
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  do you expect from you frous when they come to see Yeah, well,
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  what do I expect? Just to be immersed really in the performance. So
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  we we generally get a lot of good feedback after the show, but we
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  do It's it's hard to kind of maintain a kind of high energy kind of
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  crowd when when you're not just like playing breakdowns right and center. So our
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  music is a bit more yeah, like kind of far away from that,
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  but it's kind of heavy, like a lot of stuff like that. So
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  yeah, I would expect that they are just enjoying themselves and immersing themselves and
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  just kind of embodying the music and the experience really that's all. That's what
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  it's all about. You'll be taking a tech with you for the whole run
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  of shows, so why choose them to be your touring partner? What is
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  it or a tech? Yeah? I just think they're incredible, Like she's
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  an incredible front woman, especially with a heavy vocals. We admire them greatly,
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  so when we pitched them to support us to the tour, they jumped
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  on board, which were really happy with. Yeah. I definitely think that
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  they're making some waves in the local heavy space in Sydney at the moment.
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  They're definitely going places, Yeah, for sure. And luckily you've got Anarctica
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  and Bridge lect to Burn in Sydney, to Rise on the Atomic Boat Project
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  in Brisbane, New Million and fifty fifty in Melbourne. So run us through
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  those bands briefly and tell us why you chose them to support each city.
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  Yeah. So we did get some help with Kona Creative, so they're the
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  mob that's running that the booking agent that we've borne through. So a couple
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  of the bands we were aware of just from going to shows and just kind
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  of seeing what's going on online with the music industry, but there are a
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  couple there that all genuinely quite surprised at how great they were, and they
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  were pitched for the field. And yeah, as you probably can tell,
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  there's a lot of female representation as well on this tour, which I'm really
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  supportive of. And yeah, I just think it's great to have females more
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  involved in the heavy music space. Definitely. Now reading through your Prince release,
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  it points out of the band cinematic orchestral arrangements in your music. So
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  how difficult is that to replicate live? And how much of a presence I
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  guess is that God in your live show? Yeah, so we recently decided
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  to have a synth, so that only there's a problem. Yeah, it's
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  that sort of like we don't actually have anyone I can kind of replicate those
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  sounds live, so we just have it through the back track. Obviously you've
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  got the organic instruments, Yeah, because a lot of a lot of our
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  music is very synth heavy and have like electronic parts that I feel without it,
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  it was really yeah, change the experience, it would Yeah, it
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  wouldn't be received very well. I think just if you took all of those
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  elements out of the music. Now, you've mentioned the new album you're working
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  on a couple of times. Now. I know you can't tell us too
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  much about it because it hasn't really been announced yet, But how would you
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  say the music on that differs to what you put out on your debut album,
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  Duality in twenty eighteen. Yeah, it's probably a more refined sound.
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  It's definitely heavier. When we were in this writing process, we decided that
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  although we love what we're doing and we love what we did with Duality,
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  we were all very influenced heavily by heavy music, and we love it and
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  we want to see how far we can kind of, you know, sort
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  of test the boundaries with that with our own music, and so far it's
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  it's been received really really well. We just love it. We just want
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  to kind of take it up a notch with our music and especially with the
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  energy and the engagement. Yeah. So, but there's but there's definitely still
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  a balance of more powerful, kind of slower moving songs as well. Will
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  you be playing any new songs from that on the tour. Yes. We
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  have one song that we're that we've introduced in the set that which will be
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  our next single, not we've got a single coming out in line with our
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  tour, but the single after that. Yeah, we played it for the
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  first time on our on our most recent show in Sydney, and yeah we
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  we're definitely going to be playing that one before we go. Where can people
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  get tickets from for these shows? I was tick so yes, if you
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  just head to a page. He's in the bar, so the excessive there.
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  And yeah, there'll also be tickets at the floor as well for those
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  that like to buy tickets at the last minute, which seems to be everyone.
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  And I'm guilt, certainly guilty. Yeah, yeah, We're all you
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  know, we're all part of the problem. All right, Thanks very much
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  for your time and the Closer tour kicks off on February two and Sydney so
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  best some likely that I'll probably pop along in the Brisbane show and s fixing
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