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Dying Hearts, Active Minds With TAHLIA And CAHLI From TEENAGE JOANS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You guys have put a new track that's just here
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  Speaker 1: My Heart's Dead.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Fun, it's a groovy little ditty and I do, I
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: do enjoy. I will say sit. Some girls have got
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: your signature sound, which is a little bit funky, a
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: little bit groovy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I am yeah, No, it's good.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: It's good. So to tell me about it, you guys
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: have teenage jones. You hit the ground pretty much running
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: when you guys hit the scene buck in what was
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  Speaker 1: it now, twenty eighteen? Yeah, yeah, yeah, And you guys
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: took out the Earth.
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  Speaker 3: High Winness yep, yeah, that was in twenty twenty, I
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  Speaker 3: think twenty three. Pretty impressive, the first, the first COVID one.
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  Speaker 3: So we were the guinea pigs for that.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: It's always nice to be guinea pig, isn't it. Ye
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  Speaker 1: can't complain. And yeah, so since then, you guys have
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  Speaker 1: just taken off and become pretty impressive. I have to say,
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: you've got some pretty mean feats, mind you guys for
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: not being seasoned veterans in the field, pretty good ranks.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we can do as long as you're having fun.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's not so much fun.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, so you have since then, you've kinds of
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  Speaker 1: babies when you started.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well I think when we started the band, I
• 1:27
  Speaker 5: was I think I was freshly sixteen aericon.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's that's fresh, and Carli you were the same
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: age a little bit older.
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  Speaker 6: I think I was closer turning eighteen.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, yeah, still young.
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  Speaker 6: But Tie is the baby, that's all right.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe good things come into small packages. Indeed, So as
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: you know, growing up the spotlight pretty much can come
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: with its challenges as but you know, it's especially in
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: the music industry and being put on put on shows,
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  Speaker 1: so to speak, in the spotlight. So yeah, tell me
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  Speaker 1: about that for you guys. Has it been? How's it?
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  Speaker 1: How's that been? Essentially is in normal teenage life so
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  Speaker 1: to speak?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I feel like we're we've been pretty lucky.
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  Speaker 3: Our like supporters or fan base, whatever you want to
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  Speaker 3: call it, has always been just like super respectful. We've had,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the one or two here and there that
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  Speaker 3: cross some boundaries, but most people are just super lovely
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  Speaker 3: and it almost just feels like we're playing to a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of friends every time we play shows and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it was interesting, just like you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Tylia could probably speak on this a bit more like
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  Speaker 3: she was in school when we started the band and
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  Speaker 3: we were playing.
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  Speaker 6: Gigs on school nights and stuff. Yeah, it's pretty pretty hectic.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we would play on like sometimes it was like
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  Speaker 5: three shows, three shows a week while I was at
• 3:02
  Speaker 5: school and doing like a little like out of school
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  Speaker 5: studying as well. But like lucky, our parents and stuff
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  Speaker 5: was super supportive. They drive us through the shows because
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  Speaker 5: obviously we weren't really old enough to have our peeves
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  Speaker 5: or anything.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they take us everywhere, take us all the shows,
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  Speaker 5: help load our gear, like, so we're really lucky with that.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty special in itself for having your parents' is
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  Speaker 1: your own roadies, which pretty cool. And so are they
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  Speaker 1: still quite involved out or.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they're always like at our shows and stuff,
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  Speaker 5: and my mom and my brother and self selling merch
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  Speaker 5: at some of the Adelaide's shows.
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  Speaker 2: They're always involved somehow.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's good. That's it's it's really is a big
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: fan BAMD kind of yeah situation. Yeah, and that must
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: be good when you guys are on the road as well,
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  Speaker 1: obviously having you know, being young and having family there
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  Speaker 1: and support. Knowing that you're all taking care of it
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  Speaker 1: and protected in the way, sometimes it does get a
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  Speaker 1: bit fall on and overwhelming. I would imagine pretty major things,
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  Speaker 1: which is again absolute credit to yourselves if had Yeah,
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: e grace the stage with some pretty big names. Yea,
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: three Fighters, Summer forty one, Amy Shark, Yeah, tell me
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  Speaker 1: about it. You've got any tea on Dave?
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  Speaker 6: He was so lovely. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The funniest thing about meeting him was he introduced himself
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  Speaker 3: and we were like, we know, we don't have to
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  Speaker 3: introduce him.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's so humble, isn't it. It's nice to hear
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  Speaker 1: that he's he's the nice guy rock and roll as
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: his Yeah, the name that must have been exciting touring.
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  Speaker 5: It was crazy. It was like so surreal. That whole
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  Speaker 5: crew was nice, Like the whole band was so lovely.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they've got an Aussie? Is it the sound girl,
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: the sound check manager stage production? I think it is
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  Speaker 1: pretty sure she's an aus.
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  Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure we met the drum tech and she
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  Speaker 5: was Australian. I think she was from not Adelaide, but
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  Speaker 5: like somewhere ruined.
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  Speaker 4: She was so was Yeah, that's.
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  Speaker 1: The same person. The drum sounds like drums. They all
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: change that. I think she's like been involved in the
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: Blue Swis Tuppy and Byron and I think she may
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  Speaker 1: I get a feeling that she's from Melbourne or Adelaide
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  Speaker 1: somewhere around there.
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  Speaker 2: Originally I think so, yeah, she was super lovely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so that's cool, and do a big tour
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  Speaker 1: of the Stakes with those guys, or just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of shows.
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  Speaker 6: It was just a couple of shows in Australia were
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  Speaker 6: just and Perth.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: That's yeah, Oh wow, that would have been pretty pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so surreal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and the festival run as well. You guys
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  Speaker 1: have done a fee of those two Laneway and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: yeah Splendor back in the day when now it's.
• 6:00
  Speaker 3: Just we missed out on our Splendor opportunity because they
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  Speaker 3: announced it. But that was the first year that they
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  Speaker 3: canceled it because of low ticket sales.
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  Speaker 1: So we were so close, but fast. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you really missed much.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly off the poster enough we got this close.
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: You guys have got your tour coming up, which is
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: just about to kick off. Is it next month or days?
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  Speaker 1: The way, really, isn't it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? The Slowly Slowly one start? Is it next week?
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  Speaker 2: Yeahs on Thursday next week. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I actually think they already began the tour, but we
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  Speaker 6: won't do it the first few shows.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, yeah, obviously I'm exciting.
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  Speaker 6: It's gonna be so much fun.
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  Speaker 3: We love Slowly Slowly, Like we played shows with them
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  Speaker 3: before and they're just the sweetest guys and they put
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  Speaker 3: on such an like a fantastic show and.
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  Speaker 1: That's what gets a crowd pumping, and yeah, get that
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  Speaker 1: vibe and it's it's it's a state presence, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: And then you guys can tease them up and war
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  Speaker 1: muth to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean we were saying at the last year
• 7:14
  Speaker 3: we played with them, we were saying, just between ourselves
• 7:16
  Speaker 3: and our you know, photographer and stuff, we were like,
• 7:19
  Speaker 3: this just makes sense, like us playing with Slowly Slowly.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like our genres are very similar and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, just the you know, emotional emo rock
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  Speaker 3: sort of thing, like it makes sense for us to
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  Speaker 3: play with them.
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  Speaker 6: So we were so excited when they asked us on
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  Speaker 6: the tour.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's that's awesome. So yeah, the excitement, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: die down when you get to be fan girls for
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  Speaker 1: your own.
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  Speaker 6: Definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it keeps it real. That's great. And so you're
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: looking forward to that obviously, and you guys get to
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: and behind for Halloween. So yeah, yeah, that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 6: Parlia's mum is gonna Halloween a fire the Adelaide Show.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna be she's a Halloween nut.
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  Speaker 2: We both both love Halloween.
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  Speaker 6: So they'll start decorating their house in what September.
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  Speaker 2: We've actually already started.
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  Speaker 1: I know some people that just have it all year
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  Speaker 1: round and they just got to it.
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  Speaker 2: We have like pumpkins and stuff like in our house
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  Speaker 2: like all the time. But it's just so fun. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's so fun. But yeah, so lucky that
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  Speaker 2: the Adelaide Show falls on Halloween. Yeah, perfect, makes so
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  Speaker 2: much sense.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon that's that will be good, good weekend. And
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: it's Friday Saturday with it.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's Friday.
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  Speaker 4: Actually yea, it is too.
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  Speaker 1: Because Friday the thirtieth as they call it this year
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  Speaker 1: for the Halloween. Yeah, it's when it falls on a Friday.
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: Apparently it's I don't know, something to do with that
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  Speaker 1: pagan ritual.
• 8:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, a bit more spooky.
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: So that would be interesting, go smoothie guys, and it's
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: absolutely and then you're coming this way when Brisbane and
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: you're going to be like lord, Yes, one of my
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: favorite venue is it's it's pretty good little dive bar
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  Speaker 1: in the valley.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's we've played it before and it was
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  Speaker 5: super fun like that in twenty twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon it was the acoustics. They hit pretty hard.
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  Speaker 4: It's loud, very well, that's perfect for us.
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know, we'll it's just small numbers wise,
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: but yeah, you're not getting sweaty and getting pushed around.
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: Then shows are the best, to be honest.
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: Oh they are there I and even as punt up,
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  Speaker 1: they really are. It's getting getting in, getting gritty and
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: getting amongst dirty. Yeah, it's makes for some fun times.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And now I have to ask, so, Tylie are your
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: drums yep? And vocals? Trude's to you. That's that takes
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  Speaker 1: some serious I left brain coordination kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: Makes me busy, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon and Carlie, you're guitar and vocals, and I
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: have been told it's sneaky, sneaky you can slap that
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  Speaker 1: bass in the studio recording.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's funny because we don't we don't have
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  Speaker 3: a bass player, but I always go we do.
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  Speaker 6: It's just me and I can't play both at the
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  Speaker 6: same time.
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  Speaker 1: So this is true. This is true, and thank God
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  Speaker 1: for having studios and layering.
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  Speaker 6: And it's so funny though.
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  Speaker 3: I think if if a true bass player saw me
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: played bass, they'd be like, you play bass like a
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  Speaker 3: guitarist would play bass.
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  Speaker 1: Fellow bass player here, and look, it's probably not I
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  Speaker 1: told myself how to play bass, and my brother was
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  Speaker 1: a dramma and just east play it says it's four strudents.
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  Speaker 4: You can't.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this and it's a lot of fun. That's the
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: cool thing about it. You just have your own style.
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: And apparently the one string, the one finger is a
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  Speaker 1: thing on there's some blakes place there paid two strings,
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: which was pretty.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I mean, we're lucky the music we make
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  Speaker 3: the bass doesn't have to be very complicated.
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  Speaker 1: So hey, look, we like it when it's like me
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: or a flea say, or you know what's his from
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  Speaker 1: slipped my mind? Yeah, it's this mad bass plays out
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  Speaker 1: there and that's not me. Keep it simple.
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: What I said.
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: So, so you've been in studio and you've got your
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: new track out, and tell me about it. What's I heard?
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: You guys had described yourself as if blink oneted two
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: would meet Kesher. Yeah, a pretty pretty cool way to
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: describe yourself. I reckon it's a fair description.
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  Speaker 4: Some of you guys are pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, underrated. She said she was pretty badass back in
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  Speaker 1: the day.
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's bad now she's still killing.
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  Speaker 4: It's so cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely underrated for Yeah, so the motivation behind the
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: new track.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so we like when we got asked to play
• 12:07
  Speaker 6: like a version for Triple J.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah two years ago now or something like, yeah, I
• 12:12
  Speaker 4: think two years ago. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So they basically.
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: Asked us to just prepare like a bunch of ideas
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: and they were like, you know, you can pick your favorite,
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: but just in case someone else is doing a similar
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: song or something, we need just a few backups.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So our top pick was actually Wildest Dreams by Taylor Swift,
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  Speaker 3: but it was like the second like we picked it
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  Speaker 3: just before g Flip had picked to do Taylor Swift.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why they wanted the backup, which was fine
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: because yeah, our second pick was called Me Maybe, which
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  Speaker 3: we ended up doing. But lower on the list was
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: die Young by Kesher, And it was lower on the
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: list because it was the probably the most out there one,
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: like it was very weird and essentially what My Heart
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  Speaker 3: stead is Now is what that was. If you sing
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  Speaker 3: die Young by Kesher over the instrumental of My Heart's Dead,
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  Speaker 3: that's what the cover was going to be. And Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: then when we were talking about sort of releasing for
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  Speaker 3: the year and you know, trying to put out a
• 13:11
  Speaker 3: few singles, we were like, oh, you know, we've been
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: writing for the album, which is fun like, but the album,
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: you know, we've sort of putting together a bigger focus,
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: a bit of like you know, person, yeah exactly, So
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: like we need something that's like sort of going to
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: catch people's attentions and just be like fun and easy
• 13:30
  Speaker 3: to listen to and catch you like right now. And
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: so we planned to meet up and hang out and
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: on the drive I was driving to Talia's house. On
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: the drive to her house, I was like, what are
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: we going to write about? What song are we going
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: to write? Like, you know, do I have any riffs?
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: And then I was like it just hit me. I
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: was like, oh, my goodness. That cover of Die Young
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: that we did was awesome and it sounded nothing like
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: the original, but we just take that and write our
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: own lyrics over it. And then yeah, I mean, Talia,
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: you could probably say what happened when I got to
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  Speaker 3: your house.
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  Speaker 5: It's funny because I was like, I think it was like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, six o'clock at nine, she comes over.
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: She's like, I have an idea, and I was like,
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: let's go, let's do this. It was so funny and
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: it was so fun to write as well.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was like a mad scientist. Yeah, we mix
• 14:16
  Speaker 6: this chemical with this chemical. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, all right, we're going to take the
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: instrumental and we're going to write our own lyrics, and
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: we just like sat down and locked in and it
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: was so much fun. And well, yeah, I think I
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: remember like I came up with the verse melodies like
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: the tough like you know, yelly sort of bits, and then.
• 14:36
  Speaker 6: They came up with that pre chorus. Yeah, like that
• 14:39
  Speaker 6: pre chorus book the kids in her back seat punched
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: me in the front seat.
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: And I think I've just personally loved the song so
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: much because I think it shows off both of us
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: really well. And I think it's like almost the first
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: time that we've just been straight into a song and
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: put it straight out straight away, and it's just like
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: showing off exactly who we are right in the moment
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: right now. Yeah. I think we're super proud of the song,
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: just simply because we haven't had to sit on it
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  Speaker 3: for years, like we just wrote it, recorded it, put
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: it out and where we want to be right now.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: And sometimes they're the best, you know, the less you
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: yeah and mull over it and change this and change that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're the best.
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  Speaker 3: And it was it was so easy to write as well.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: We just sort of fell into each other's groove, which
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: was really nice.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome, and the lyrics they they just write themselves pretty
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: much sometimes like that. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Oh that's awesome.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: And so your videos, I see you guys have some
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: funny now making your music clips. So I really like
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: your to which song with the europe very seventies with
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: your pastoral blue drum kit, which.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: Is just.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: I do like that.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: It's very Yeah, it's nostalgic.
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Well, so the motivation for for my Hotstead's film clip
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: tell me about that.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: To be honest, we're just we were just kind of
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: poor at the moment, like we've we spent all our
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: money trying like touring America last year, which like we
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: don't regret at all, but now that we're back home, we're.
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: Like, oh, okay, where'd the money go?
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: We were like, yeah, exactly, Arming and R and what
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: to do?
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: Were like, should we just not do a video? Should
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: we just do like a lyric video?
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: And then we kind of just were brainstorming and we
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: were like, how about we just do it ourselves like
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: we've done, like back in the early days, we used
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: to make our own music videos. So we just were like,
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: all right, everyone find all the cameras that they have,
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: and we're just like book off two days of work
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: and just hang out and film some stuff. And it
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: turned out really cool and we ended up editing it
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: and then the only thing we paid for was someone
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: to color it and then also for lunch. So it
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: was like a very very cheap d y video and
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: we had some friends help us out just getting some
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: different angles and stuff like that.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: But no, we're super proud of it.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: But it was fun to make as well.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: Sometimes music videos are so stressful, like filming them is
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: so because it's like a whole crew and then you're
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: on a schedule.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Production on its own.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's like doing it ourselves was just it
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: was really fun.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was it was like, you know, we
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: there was no one like you have to be in
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: this costume at this time, and then we have to
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: break for lunch here, like we always get when we
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: have to break for lunch, We're like, oh, but we
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: were just getting into the group of it.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: Whereas this time it was so chill.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: We were just like, all right, let's just go for
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: a couple of takes and yeah, I'm kind of hungry,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: now let's have some lunch.
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: It was really which is kind of you know, the
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: iron kind of feeds back into the track itself. It
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: just come very much from your own selves and you're
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: having that direction and just care free and just doing
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: doing what felt right.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it works, and I think it shows off our
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: personalities a bit more as well.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: That was another big things. We were like, we just
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: want to just be ourselves. Like all our music videos
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: were acting and we love doing that, we love doing.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: The storylines and the concepts, but we were like, let's
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: just strip it back and just like remind everyone who
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: the real teenage Jones is.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so so teenage es essentially? How who are
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: teenage Jones? How do you describe yourselves in the the
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: journey that you've been on and where you're going and where.
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: I know everyone says that, no, we got the teenage
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: spirit forever.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, That's that's key, isn't it.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: But I mean for us, like dr wise such a
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: huge part of everything we do, and I mean the
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: music videos that we've done in the past have been
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: super high production.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: But I think what a lot of people don't see
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: is we still one involved.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Like you know, we come up with the concepts our
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: else we make all the props and the and costumes ourselves.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Like for our when we made our short film, we
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: hired a makeup artist to do our makeup because you know,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: we sort of want to make up at a level
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: that we couldn't do on our own quickly.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: But YouTube is just.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: But we still you know, source all our costumes and
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: set up all the like sets and stuff.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: So yeah, we're like very involved, and I mean, we
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: couldn't imagine handing our creative decision over to someone else
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: that we just want to be the forefront of the
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: creativity for the band forever.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: And that's your vision. You plan to keep very handsled
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: in that down the track each other.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and even with stuff like much like we always
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: we come up with the ideas, or even if we
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: don't come up with the ideas, like the guy who
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: designs all our merch, our photographer will he's like super
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: like we're.
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: Really close with him and he knows what we like
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: and we approve every.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Design, Like we always go back and be like, oh,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: we like this, but we could it be these colors,
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: or could the you know this character be doing this
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: instead of this or whatever. So we're always like the
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: final say on our merch which I think speaks volumes
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: like people.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: Don't want to buy it, Like I feel like when
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: people go.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: To a show, they feel pressured to buy the shirt
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: because they're like when am I going to have a
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: chance to buy a shirt?
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: So we're always like, I want to make sure that
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: the shirt is not only the tour shirt, but.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: It also looks like a shirt, like it just looks
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: wearable and fast instead of just like slapping a logo
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: on it and calling it a day.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's some that's good. I mean, it would
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: be pretty weird to have merch out there that you
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: don't even know what I haven't seen.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: Before all yeah, I know.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: And we just we want to be proud of everything
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: we've made, so yeah, you know, why not be super
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: you know, creative in the merch area as well.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And speaking of merch, so do you guys have
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: any quirky match that you put up there and yourself
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: as well? Like you see some artists they are do
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: escape or basketballs or just random random ship do you
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: guys have anything like that or plan to do anything
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: a bit quirky down the track? Which fine, it is
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: kind of cool some of it. Yeah, Office Pack was
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: pretty impressive.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: Well currently we've got we made we scrap books, some
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: like little magazines that have like the My Heartstead release,
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: like photos and lyrics and stuff from that, the Sweet
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: and Slow releas as well. We've like so we like
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: sat down two days and like scrapbooks at all and
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: like got them all made so and they're pretty cheap
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: as well, because we want our not to be accessible. Yeah,
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: and it's like some people can't afford like fifty dollars
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: for a T shirt, but like we have ten dollars
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: little magazines or which is great. Yeah, and we've got
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: little badges that little badge packs for sale that like
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: we handmade as well, so yeah that's fun merch.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, because matches. I mean, it's great, but it
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: can be out of control crazy, yeah, ridiculous.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: And also like the way we see it is, you know,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: people everyone's lives is so crazy and busy and stuff.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: You know, people were going to move houses eventually, and
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: I think something like a little zine is going to
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: slip so much easier into your packing boxes than.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: Affording you or something, you know. But obviously we still
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: sell clothes as well.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: But yeah, again, as Tylia said, it needs to be accessible,
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: and not everyone can afford the big heavy merch items,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: and some people just even they're like my reasoning for
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: not getting band shirts is my closet.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Is full, like.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Myself, and I'm like I have to either like choose
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: between culling, which I can't, or just storing. So yeah, yeah,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's addictive. But yeah, I don't know about
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you guys. Take one thing. I I feel it's really
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: it's unfair with the merch is you know, you've got
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: the money website or you know, help the platform they sell,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: and then when you go to the show, your punches
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: are fans already buying a ticket, and then they're charging
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: more at the shows, and they do on the site
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: because they need like they kick back, and it's it's
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: a bit disappointing. So let's hoping to see some change
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: in that area doing it.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: It's hard too, because you know, our ticket sales don't
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: just go directly to us, like we don't get all
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: the thirty dollars of the ticket or whatever. You know,
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: that's just someone goes to the venue, and then there's
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: the booking fees and the booking agents and the management fees,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: and by the time that waters down into our tiny percentage,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: we don't actually get a huge profit from shows, and
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: so merchs are really where we make our money. But
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: it is a fine line of like we don't want
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: to exploit anyone's bank accounts, Like we want people to
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: feel like they can, you know, have a keepsake, but
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: not feel pressured that they have to drop fifty dollars
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: when they're not getting paid till next week or something.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: For sure, no as said krudos, you guys have taken
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the Independent the road and really embrace that, and it's
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: it's good to see and it shows in your work
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: and in where your successes. I guess it's so thank you,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: pretty proud and exciting times to come.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: So thank you so much, thank you, we are.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Thanks for having a chat today with us here at
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: haaving that we like to make Frida I feel good.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks having for having