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Prepare For Invasion With DANI FILTH From CRADLE OF FILTH · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Greetings. Is Danny Filth from Cradle of Filth and we'll be coming to Australia
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  in September. That's your well, my friend, thanks for joining us this
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  evening, Daddy, no problem. So Cradle of Field had just announced the
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  run of shows in Australia this September, starting the twenty fourth in Perth,
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  then going to Adelaide at Melbourne and Sydney and finishing in Brisbane on September twenty
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  ninth. So it's been a while since you been here, mate, We've
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  missed you. Yeah, pre pandemic, wasn't it. Yeah it was fair
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  Well back here there'll be the main trux of the reason. Then we'll let
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  you off on that one. So what's actually changed with Cradle of Field since
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  you were last out here. Well, we've got a different lineup. Well,
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  we've toured everywhere. We toured America during the pandemic actually right on the
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  tail end. Aside from that, we're in the progress of writing a new
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  album. We've already done our Trap with Ed Sheeran as well, although that
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  won't be coming That would be probably coming out in the special edition of the
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  new album. But I can't really talk much more about that, all legalities
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  and what have you. So a new album should be out, well,
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  we should be dropping a new single actually around the time of the Australian tour,
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  maybe a little bit later, but now you mentioned the dates, now
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  that I know that, it should be about the same time, with the
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  outlook for the album being dropped around March next year. So I'm not today.
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  A few days I've had off. I've been running around like a headless
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  chicken or chuck as you said. And yeah, yeah, so that's almost
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  finished. And yeah, just been super busy with the band. Lots of
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  gigs. The album. We started last July and our record company was like,
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  why are you taking so long. It's like, well, because we're
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  on tour. Like we were started the album. We literally went off on
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  tour for two months so and so yeah, so we've been very, very
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  busy. It's still good, very good. And you're going to be coming
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  out with Infected Rain. And we've never actually played in Australia before, mate,
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  But have you ever played with them before? They look like they'd be
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  a pretty good band. No, we haven't played them before. I know
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  their music. They also share the same management company, the Oracle Management,
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  which is managed by Des Fafara and his wife Anastasia. So yeah, no,
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  looking forward to it very much, looking forward to it. Hell yeah.
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  And you're going to be touring on the back of the new live album
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  called Trouble and they're double I Live, so it must must be weird lives
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  double double lives right here Records. It must be a bit weird announcing a
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  live tour to promote a live album and it's not normally. Don't like that,
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  Well, it's all ready to promote a live album. Live album came
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  out last year. We're just touring because we haven't been back to Australia for
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  a while. Yeah, I could say, yeah, how many people want
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  to see it as promoting that. That's all fine, that's good, But
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  yeah, that came out last year. We're hoping to have our new album
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  about out by the time we came to Australia this time. But like I
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  said, we've just been touring too much. And I guess out the line,
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  someone else will been moaning about why something isn't done because we've been touring
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  in Australia. Cradle of Film. I've always had a well deserved reputation of
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  being a fantastic live band made so but for the benefit of people out here
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  in might not have seen it before, Like Runner Runners through like there's a
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  lot of theatrics, there's a lot, there's a lot going on, well
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  there is. Obviously we can't bring a full stage show to Australia because they
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  just you know, be months being shipped over and what have you. So
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  I mean it's yeah, it's it's we're a very live, theatrical, cinematic
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  band that there is a lot going on in our music and on stage as
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  well. We we're quite a laborate costumes, which is a bit self really
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  see as were always playing really boiling places, always asking for and it's just
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  the amount of fans to cool us down. Brilliant, no doubt will be
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  the same, but no, we're looking very much forward to coming back to
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  us so we always have a massively brilliant time there. And obviously it's not
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  a sort of place we can just pop over to at the weekend. You
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  know, it takes a lot to get get us over there, get all
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  the organization everything. So yeah, obviously after after the pandemic, it's been
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  a bit of a strain. Everybody putting their lives back together again, and
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  we're hoping that it'll be more of a regular occurrence after this. Oh yeah,
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  Now, you guys have played a lot of shows obviously, so from
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  your point of view as a band, like, is there anything the crowd
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  can do to make you come off stage and go like fuck, that was
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  a really good show? Well, being supportive is always a good plus.
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  I suppose not booing. That will be in the top of my ne I
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  would think just good crowd reaction. Always like stage You know, when I
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  say stage divers, I totally welcome them, Not like when I was a
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  kid and went to see a bitrey and there's more people on stage than there
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  was in the audience. But yeah, I like a lot of audience reaction,
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  a lot of things going on. Don't mind a circle pit either.
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  We just kind of stop it when it starts. You get a lot of
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  meatheads like punching girls and that that's not cool. But other than that,
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  anything goes. Yeah, very good. Man. So you mentioned a bit
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  about the new album before, man, So how advanced is that re advanced?
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  I think I'll be done singing this Thursday, and then we go off
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  to Jakarta in Indonesia for a one off festival over the weekend, and when
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  we come back we begin the mixing process. So it's alway supposed to be
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  wrapped up, done and dusted by the beginning of June, he says,
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  add on a couple of weeks just for you know, just for those last
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  minute edits, we go wake up at half two in the morning sweating because
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  there's a there's a beat you think you don't like or something somewhere on the
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  album. But no, it should should be done by then, and then
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  we begin, you know, the task of videos, and which is also
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  another task for us because we're going to be shooting them in the Czech Republic
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  on the back end of starting our summer festival run. Is that because like
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  the theme we sort of want to go with the videos matches what's happening in
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  check or does it just work out because that's where you'll be, That's where
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  we'll be. Our band is like almost galactic at the moment, you know,
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  work if you leave off space. So maybe not two people in America,
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  one person in England which is me used to be an English band Scottish
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  bass player, and two people in the Czech Republic and our crew from all
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  around the world, So the Czech Republic is kind of far central meeting hub.
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  Honey, I go, so I'm not the subject of recording albums and
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  stuff, and they're like, are you the sort of person because these days
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  there seems to be a lot of time between an album being finished and when
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  it comes out. So I didn't this sort of man that you put it
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  to bed once you've done, you've done, or do you sort of lay
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  there and, like you say, wake up at four o'clock in the morning
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  and go, I want to go back and change that. Well, it
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  would be yeah, to a certain degree. And then one it's once it's
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  done, it really is done because obviously, you know the studio, the
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  ball gets, you know, wiped. You know, you obviously can revisit
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  it in a complete disaster, but no, no, we we give ourselves
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  a window of about a month just to be sure. But once it's actually
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  done, nailed in the coffin, set off to the RC, then yeah,
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  I'm afraid that's it. I wouldn't. But what about the new music
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  made like it? Is it what people would expect from the band? Or
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  I know you mentioned and experimenty a couple of times on the last album,
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  but is it done further. It's a step a step on from the last
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  record, same production values, same producer, although we always approach it from
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  a different way, so it does sound a lot different. I can't go
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  too much into it because no matter what I say, it's not really gonna
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  justify or do do justice to to the tracks on there. It's very hard
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  to explain essence that's going to embrace vibe wise, vocally, it's it's a
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  it's a bit of every thing. It's it's it's an aggressive record. It's
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  a very catchy record. Yeah, it's just something that's going to really please
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  our fans. We've worked very hard on it and last record was received really
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  well. Existence is a future. I guess this is coming to Australia.
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  It's really are touring that record because we didn't tour that record. So yeah,
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  yeah, answer from that. But like I say, it's not because
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  I'm being told not, you know, keep it calm. We can't talk
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  about the record yet just so it's very difficult talk about something that's got so
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  much so much in it. Yeah, So speaking of that album, last
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  album, Existence is fewd are like when it came out back in twenty twenty
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  one, and it was described in your press release as a wholly different beast
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  to its immediate predecessors. So along those lines, like did fans react to
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  it the way you would hope? Like? Did you your fans sort of
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  do they like to try and pigeonhole you into into one thing? Or do
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  they embrace things that you try? Ah, all kinds of reactions. Really,
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  our fans appreciate what we do. It's usually the bystanders always, you
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  know, picking holes in things. True that through that. So I guess
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  along those lines made like how much growth that? And or evolution? I
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  guess I hate that word, but how much is left in your music?
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  How much further stopid you got? Do you think? Well? I don't
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  know. I mean if you asked me that twenty years ago, probably would
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  have said probably five years. It depends. It's all very We're all down
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  to perspective, isn't it. And I mean we don't run out of ideas.
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  I think there's been a lot of bands that emulated Tradeles, so it
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  might not seem as fresh, but the new record is definitely fresh. And
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  I think us working with someone like ed Shearing as well, was very hasn't
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  been done before. A lot of people went, oh my god, this
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  is awful, but those are the people who got literally zero imagination, and
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  yeah, you know, when it comes out, people would be very surprised
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  how how heavy it is, rather than it's us featuring him. It's not
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  like his vehicle. So I only use that as an example because because people
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  always saying, well, why don't you try pushing the boundaries a bit further
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  here in that? And I think if you, you know, work in
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  one of the world's biggest pop stars and integrating that into a song that includes
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  a blast beat and screams and everything like that, I think it just shows
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  how we can push out and and do different things without breaking I mean,
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  people would like to think that we'd sold out, but without doing that entirely.
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  I mean, yeah, I mean that's it's not a novelty record,
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  it's not a novelty song. But the novelty here is you've got an extreme
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  metal band doing certainly one of the world's biggest artists and not really giving two
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  flying fucks about it either. I've actually really really intrigued a listen to that,
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  But I remember how did that. Was that your idea or was it
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  his idea? Was it a label idea like it? You know, it
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  was a bit both. It was about his and mine and it's just a
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  suggestion that came into fru issue. He lives in the I mean, he
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  lives about maybe twenty miles from where I live as a crow flies, so
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  we live in a live in therea England called Suffolk, the County of Suffolk,
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  And I guess apart from me him the keyboardist of Pink Floyd and the
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  Darkness, there's not a huge amount of bands around here. And also it
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  used to be a fan of Cradle growing up. I was destiny to do
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  his job experience on one of my records, but unfortunately that that fell through.
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  So there was a there was a there was a connection that he just
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  wanted to reignite. Yeah, and I guess looking out for for local artists
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  as well. It's fantastic, Like so many people in your opposition would just
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  be a shamed, embarrass scared to try something like that, but it did
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  show us how comfortable you are in yourself and what you do to be willing
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  to do something like that. It's good. Yeah, Yeah, absolutely very
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  much looking forward to coming to Australia as we always are. We always having
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  a magnificent time there and like I say, it's been been a while,
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  but then you can blame the global pandemic for that. It's very hard to
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  do anything obviously, as everybody's fully aware. Didn't just happen to you,
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  It didn't just happen to me. But yeah, looking very much forward to
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  it. We've got a great support band in the shape of Effective Rain,
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  so it's going to be a magnificent show. We're firing all forms. We'll
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  be coming off the back of a small but tour of some huge summer festivals
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  here in Europe Summer Breeze Back and Hellfest et cetera, et cetera. So
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  yeah, expect an onslaught of music won't be disappointed. Really looking forward to
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  seeing all our Australian fans and friends after such a long time. Fantastic daddy,
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  I've couldn't have said that better myself. Mate. Thanks for your time,
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  brother, and enjoy your break. We'll see you in a couple of
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  months. Yeah, absolutely, you take care