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Backstage Chats With BAD NERVES At GOOD THINGS 2025 · HEAVY Music Interviews

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Hi, guys, we're here with bad nerves.
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  Speaker 2: How you guys going hot?
• 0:11
  Speaker 3: Sweaty? Yes, it's a bit like that.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to hold that time if you like, I
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: can hold it.
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  Speaker 4: Trusted.
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  Speaker 3: What would you say something and you give it to me?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful?
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  Speaker 3: And how has the good things to treated you guys
• 0:31
  Speaker 3: so far?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Pretty good.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, just to be out here doing this is
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  Speaker 6: it's kind of a We never expected to be playing
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  Speaker 6: in Australia on a festival in this heat.
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  Speaker 3: So it's the other side of the world, you know this.
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  Speaker 1: We used to sort of dream about America, Australia, Japan.
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  Speaker 3: We thought, well that that definitely won't ever happen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and here we are. Yeah, it's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And is there any Aussie bend from this line up
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  Speaker 1: that you're living with?
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  Speaker 7: Civic Civic big time? Yeah, second time on we've heard
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  Speaker 7: yeah from Civic. Really any other Ossie bands?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know other bands, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I know other Rossie bands, but not on the line
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  Speaker 1: on the Othersie bands on the lineup ship Yeah, I
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: saw them on the main stage.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know them though, but I saw them.
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  Speaker 7: Now George saw them.
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  Speaker 3: And then there's.
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  Speaker 2: We've put you on the spot. Now we're allowed to
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  Speaker 2: not know yours truly.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, God, you've got a track that I really
• 1:42
  Speaker 5: really did.
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  Speaker 2: It's the one minute track.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's when we go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 5: Like, what was that just a jam session that it happened?
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  Speaker 6: Did we got We got given some free studio type
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  Speaker 6: and a renae studio and that's the best we can
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  Speaker 6: come up with.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: We basically didn't have anything that was like a demo
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  Speaker 1: sort of that was knocking around.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, don't let's just do this.
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  Speaker 6: And well, originally we were going to do like a
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  Speaker 6: kind of more of a song song or like a
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  Speaker 6: punk kind of seven inch idea was there. There's lots
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  Speaker 6: of short songs. Yeah, they didn't really fit on the album.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was it because we had we had
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  Speaker 1: a couple of leftover We're not leftover, a couple of
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  Speaker 1: like short tracks like that that were like in the
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: maybe list for the second album, but then the second
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  Speaker 1: album they ended up sort of not making sense, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because because of the nature of how short and fifty seconds.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't make sense anyway.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like you know, when you got I love
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  Speaker 1: some music like that, but when all the other songs
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  Speaker 1: on the album are a bit more like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: longer operatic.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, I really like it.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite ones to play because it's like,
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  Speaker 1: because it is just pure punk rock, I don't really
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  Speaker 1: have to think too much about technical playing. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: can just sort of do it, you know, to think
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  Speaker 1: about it constantly a drama. Yeah, for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: us could just vo.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have to.
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  Speaker 1: Worry about singing in tune really, because even if you
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  Speaker 1: sing out of tune, it'll.
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  Speaker 4: Sound exactly That's the rule of punk.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we're next Avenings just be all that
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  Speaker 1: really take the preasure off.
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  Speaker 2: So where where do you like to tour? Where's Where's
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: the Australia?
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  Speaker 5: You have to say that, but like you've got places
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  Speaker 5: your tour obviously you've been touring.
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  Speaker 4: You know, existent.
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  Speaker 2: Everywhere is different and everywhere it's cool.
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  Speaker 6: Like the only place that we kind of struggle a
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  Speaker 6: little bit is the UK just because the crowds are great.
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  Speaker 3: But tours is where it's the most nice. Warning.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it just feels like the English scene that they
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  Speaker 6: don't really like the promotion and that they don't really care,
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  Speaker 6: you know, over here, people like generally care about. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: and there is kind of like a rotating door of
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  Speaker 6: like coming if you if you haven't packed your stuff
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  Speaker 6: down by eleven o'clock in their club life, it starts
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  Speaker 6: and go to help you.
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  Speaker 2: You know, is there a goal tour goals? Place to
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  Speaker 2: tour that you haven't toured yet?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 3: Well, what I say? Else?
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  Speaker 6: Is it?
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  Speaker 3: Because we got to Japan after.
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  Speaker 4: This mother split up, we've reached.
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  Speaker 1: The don't know, Saudi Arabia, the gi I don't know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like punk rocket, Yeah, that's another planet though. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're doing a good god idea for a gig.
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  Speaker 4: Blast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And what's the.
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  Speaker 3: Most busy moment you've had on this.
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  Speaker 1: Trip so long?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a pretty good question.
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  Speaker 1: Can have we done a showy?
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  Speaker 3: What's that showy? Is it sounds it's astral isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Take your shoe off? Phil the follow beer?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god?
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  Speaker 3: On stage?
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  Speaker 4: That's an like all Aussie families do.
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  Speaker 2: That's like it's a it's a bad thing. It's an
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  Speaker 2: on stage.
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  Speaker 4: You know, are we getting troll.
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  Speaker 2: They've done it.
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  Speaker 3: It's a real thing.
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  Speaker 2: Both poems have done it.
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  Speaker 1: Someone in the crowds.
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  Speaker 4: It is your own shoe and then that's straight.
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  Speaker 3: And then well then you've got to put it back on,
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  Speaker 3: and it's called a showy. That's very imagine.
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  Speaker 4: It's not the worst part of that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And then you never gets you've got to put
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  Speaker 3: your shoe back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And when you know, if somebody used to say do
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  Speaker 5: a showy and you go no, that's when the crowd
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  Speaker 5: goes shoe.
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  Speaker 4: Not it is we buckle the bitter pressure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we do anything to look cool all tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure shoey makes you.
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  Speaker 3: Look now, you're right to look cool and rock and
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: roll anyway, cringing. And anyone that's listen to you guys
• 5:55
  Speaker 3: knows that your songs are fused. What some of yours
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  Speaker 3: has been the most to write.
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: I would say they're playing them live is the most.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, Like there's a few on
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  Speaker 1: the second album that were kind of hard to write,
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  Speaker 1: some of the ones who were a bit like sort
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  Speaker 1: of more out there, like Television. There's a song called
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  Speaker 1: Television and.
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  Speaker 6: Was the hardest ones to learn to play play, Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: because that was the fastest one up to a point.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really hard on the guitar as well, because
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  Speaker 1: like the was rubbish, but yeah, i'd say, yeah, television antidote.
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  Speaker 3: Because of the speed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, playing them live, I think it's kind of it's
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: more of a challenge of playing the student in the studio.
• 6:38
  Speaker 3: You get to you get a second go.
• 6:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah as well, it's like you can't take like big
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  Speaker 6: gaps in between because fast music.
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  Speaker 4: Is that's not allowed. That's against you. Care man.
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  Speaker 1: You take a big gap, it's you know, a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a snow fast. We can't do it as quick
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  Speaker 1: as Ramones did. They did, they were like instant. I
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: was just like, yeah, some of them are really quick.
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: Some of them are like, you know, I'm not really
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  Speaker 1: look around the drummers having some sort of problem and
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: the meltdown or something.
• 7:08
  Speaker 3: You know, shut up, I'm going on with it.
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  Speaker 2: You're you've played some side shows.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, from what I've seen, they look really well great
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  Speaker 5: and you've heard some run really cool support as well
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  Speaker 5: on them was they're a standout support and show.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we've been playing with Dead Poets Society, who are
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  Speaker 1: an amazing band, co headline a co headline thing.
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  Speaker 3: They're hard.
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  Speaker 6: Go after them because they're very very good, really tight band,
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  Speaker 6: really nice as well, really nice, which is annoying, really melodic.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're nice.
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  Speaker 3: This is all pretend.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah we're diabolical, but they're they're.
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  Speaker 3: They're really great. Playing with them has been awesome because
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  Speaker 3: there's such a good band. You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's nice when you play with good bands that make
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  Speaker 1: you sort of go, okay, we need to be good.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was not like it's like friendly competition.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose it's good for you.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a band to be in by another
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: man playing wise, but we've done when do we do
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  Speaker 1: something in Sydney and uh Melbourne? Yeah, I played for
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  Speaker 1: my great honestly, I think, yeah, I really liked Melbourne.
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  Speaker 3: I did.
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed Sydney too, but Sydney was on the first one,
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  Speaker 1: so he sort of shaking off a bit.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, just to be we've been jet for like
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  Speaker 4: a four weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Until about now.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's pretty weak, to be honest. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: we had like a couple of days to get used
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  Speaker 6: to it. Like some bands played straight away and we're
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  Speaker 6: like poor.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we had a couple of days. We're still that.
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  Speaker 1: Good, but it's it's it's just to be here, I think,
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  Speaker 1: and having people know the songs is really in describe
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: and it's it's pretty crazy and yeah, it's just cooling it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a new thing.
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  Speaker 5: I had a friend of mine, actually, go, you're doing
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  Speaker 5: good things.
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  Speaker 3: You're interviewing bands.
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  Speaker 5: Check these guys out and I was sold straight away.
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  Speaker 5: So really cool man, appreciate it proper punk rock and
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  Speaker 5: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: It's not my thing at all.
• 9:01
  Speaker 3: While correct, And so.
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  Speaker 1: Are you guys happy or sad that today's last staple?
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  Speaker 3: Sad?
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  Speaker 2: Sad? Yeah, really happy?
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  Speaker 6: We hate it please, Like it's weird because like festival
• 9:21
  Speaker 6: shows are like very different like normal shows.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's like a lot more kind of chaotic.
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  Speaker 6: Then you don't get much chance when you're like swapping
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  Speaker 6: stuff over them when things break, so it's like a
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  Speaker 6: little bit.
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  Speaker 3: More stressful and crazy.
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  Speaker 4: So like, but otherwise it's it's amazing being.
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  Speaker 1: A totally different type of show, isn't it a festival show?
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  Speaker 1: I mean we're playing obviously like two pm as well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's pretty early.
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  Speaker 3: It's just in your broad daylight, totally different.
• 9:43
  Speaker 4: That's the weird thing.
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  Speaker 6: When you're like jumping around there's no lights and you
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  Speaker 6: just feel like a guy just jumping around in the.
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  Speaker 1: Front room because the pageantry of it is already a
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: little bit like oh, and then when you take away
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  Speaker 1: all the cool lights, it's like, look at these guys
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  Speaker 1: in their clothes.
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: Just jumping around.
• 9:59
  Speaker 2: It's the they're cools a little bit lame. Was there
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: any issues with the heat that happened really not really No,
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  Speaker 2: I think we've been all right.
• 10:11
  Speaker 6: Like we had, we kind of like tested the water.
• 10:13
  Speaker 6: We played in the summer, we played in a frenzy
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  Speaker 6: in Italy. We did like our first Green Day and
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  Speaker 6: we were on like two o'clock in the afternoon and
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  Speaker 6: it was it was insane direct, felt like dangerous.
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  Speaker 4: So everything since then it's kind of been like, oh,
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: you know, we can handle it.
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think just not being in the direct sunlight.
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Love.
• 10:33
  Speaker 4: These have been under cover, so it's.
• 10:34
  Speaker 3: Like it's still like you definitely feel it.
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: Towards the end of the set, there was like, I
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: think the second to last song tonight or today Today, Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I was, I really had to kind of stand still,
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: you know, because it's like I think I've got a
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: bit too great in the same energy the last song,
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: you know, it does get to you a bit, but
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: but yeah, just being undercover is actually not too bad,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So it's a shame that shorts just there
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  Speaker 1: are no go for us because that would.
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  Speaker 2: Probably you wear shorts on stage.
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: On the stage.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, then then you've got the green light to wear shorts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For us knobally British knees. It's not the one on
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  Speaker 1: the moon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, shorts.
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  Speaker 3: He gets a pass.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, rat way, isn't it this wrap Raw Raw Reynolds,
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  Speaker 1: it's Row I think yeah. I remember for them from
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: two thousand and five, and he hated people saying rue Yes.
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: I think my second ever live gig was supporting Into
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  Speaker 1: at the Harlow Square. I didn't Wind. I don't think
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: they ever signed to a major AB. I think they
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: always did them themselves some of those early Ship. That
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  Speaker 1: was one of the craziest shows I ever support in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and five. Then the whole crowd had little
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: finger lights and then like the whole thing was up with that.
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  Speaker 1: They sold at the Merchant and Business, true shrewd business,
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: and they played the show and it was fucking awesome too.
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, I wasn't there.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway. Yeah, a little bit of it was the British boy.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't they gotta shout them out?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, left them.
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  Speaker 3: Up a bit, yeah yeah, give them a little booster.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Finished.
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  Speaker 3: One word to describe your time here at the Things
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  Speaker 3: for me?
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  Speaker 1: One word to describe our time here at Good Things Festival.
• 12:38
  Speaker 6: One word I like the thought.
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: That the word. Yeah, photosynthesis, outrageous, outrageous. Yeah that's tarentula.
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: Kangaroo, kangaroo somehow, that's brilliant. I'm still not a huge spider.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: Oh ship right, Brady, and let me thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: We reappreciate you.
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: Got turn in the roto.
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  Speaker 3: Well can see no more from.
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  Speaker 6: Line A lord.
• 13:28
  Speaker 5: Ton no what so much Tory, you'll miss you, dang.
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  Speaker 3: I want to feel that my soul, my toil, my time.
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  Speaker 4: That's wind your mile tweet I never
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  Speaker 5: Found mister roll miss