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REMEMBER SERENITY talk EP, karaoke, creative process, origins, performing, music & much more · What Do You Call It? Podcast!

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  Hello and welcome to another episode of what do you call it
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  podcast. I'm your host GB definitely not
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  re recording his intro. Today's guests are an acoustic
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  rock GRO from Southend on sea. Whoop whoop.
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  Not many people do that. We're all from the same area.
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  Please welcome. Remember Serenity Den and Wayne
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  how you both doing? Thank you for coming on.
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  So you're welcome. Thank you.
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  Fabulous. We're going to rewind the clocks
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  a little bit. What I want to discover from the
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  both of you is what first got you into music.
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  Oh, that's a classic question. Sex, drugs and rock.
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  And. Roll.
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  No, I've been doing bands now for 35 years.
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  Probably. It was when I heard Metallica's
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  Justice For All album. The drumming on it was like, I
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  want to be a drummer. So I was, I became a drummer.
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  I was doing drumming up till last year when I finally quit,
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  full stop quit. So yeah, totally drumming.
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  And now just basically just concentrating on playing the
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  guitar. I'm doing Remember Serenity now
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  so. I was luckily brought up with
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  parents with really good taste in music.
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  My first gig that I went to when I was 12/13 was Black Sabbath.
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  I went to with my parents. So yeah, no, it wasn't Ozzy, it
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  was Dio. Actually.
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  The better singer. Don't care, they're
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  controversial, but I'm a Dio fan over Ozzy.
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  Absolutely. I I actually started singing
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  with my mum and my sister when I was about four or five.
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  We used to do some little gigs and stuff and then I actually
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  joined the church choir. They threw her out.
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  I was. I used.
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  To be again sex, drugs and rock'n'roll so.
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  I was head choir girl. There weren't any others.
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  I mean there. Was no, no composition.
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  But no, music has always been a huge part of my, my whole
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  family's lives and and everything.
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  But yeah, I've been singing since, since I was about four, I
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  think, quit singing for quite some time because of having
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  kids. And then, yeah, sort of
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  jokingly, I said to Wayne, you know, because he was looking for
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  a singer. I sort of, I said about me
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  joining and it was meant to be a joke at 1st and then it actually
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  happened. So yeah.
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  I'm glad you ended on that and that's a great introduction to
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  your musical backgrounds. I want to know about Remember
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  Serenity. We see the logo in the
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  background. I've seen you guys live.
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  I've listened to you on Spotify to your E PS nail PS And I want
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  to know how did you both form? So I know you touched that
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  briefly, but tell me about the name and just who is.
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  Remember Serenity? Remember, we are remembering the
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  original. Basically I started the project
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  here in 2019. Basically I, I, I wanted to do
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  something different, so a bit more chilled out.
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  Inspired by a bank called the Civil Wars and basically
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  acoustic duo, 2 vocals, 1 guitar, simple.
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  They really inspired me to do a do a project like that.
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  And so basically I spoke to an old the original singer asked
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  her if she wanted to do it. She did.
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  We did it for a bit then COVID happened and the ball would
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  become a bit strange. And so obviously that that all
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  just fizzed out. And then so I was thought I
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  wanted to carry on doing it. So I hadn't heard from the old
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  singer, wanted to find a new singer.
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  And so me and Dan, we've been best friends for 30 plus years
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  or 30 years, 30 years now actually, we.
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  Think. It's a small happy.
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  Anniversary. Jen so that Den sort of yeah
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  said that yeah, she's interested.
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  My girlfriend at the time said yeah, why don't you do it?
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  Why don't you try Den? And I sort of, I was like a bit
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  Jew because obviously we've been friends so long.
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  When you're in a band, there's always band politics.
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  You always have a row about this, about that.
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  And we thought, do you know what sort of, let's just, let's give
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  it a go. And we had this agreement,
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  didn't we at first? Yeah, if the band.
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  Comes yeah, if we started like arguing over things in the band,
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  then then yeah, we'll just we'll yeah, we'll.
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  We'll, the friendship's more important.
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  But yeah, here we are, what, three years later or whatever
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  And three or four years later, however long, it's don't even
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  know how long it's been, but but here we are, we're say coming to
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  the end of like a nine, 910 month period where we've
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  released, where we're going to have released 4 APS, one every
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  three months, because I'm keep saying this year it's certainly
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  nine months because we released the first one and then three
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  months starts, it's actually nine months.
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  But yeah, like say when the new one comes out in a couple of
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  weeks, there'll be like the four APS in, in the year.
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  So we set ourselves this ridiculous target that we've,
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  yeah, it was a bit bit ambitious, in all fairness.
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  We didn't have enough songs. Yeah.
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  When we start, when we started recording the APS thing, we had
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  like 8 songs possible 7/7 or 8 songs ready to go.
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  So we've had to write like 50% of the songs for these APS
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  during that nine months, which when you think you've got ages,
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  you've got three months to three months to write a song.
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  Like write sort of a few songs, it's going to be easy.
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  It's not because you've got a week like sort of, yeah, like a
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  week and 1/2 or whatever it is like of recording and then a
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  week and a half later you're doing that.
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  So that's like a whole month gone before and then you're just
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  doing the first CP and then you then kind of think like, oh, now
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  we need to rehearse again, remember how our songs go.
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  So then you're all a month and 1/2 into the cycle of the EP
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  before you. Then you have a month and a half
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  to write the next to get the next one down.
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  So. We're not doing it again.
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  Yeah, we're absolutely not releasing.
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  Fortunately there's only Four Seasons, so we don't have do
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  that again so. Upcoming EP.
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  But what I do want to discuss is your creative process that goes
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  into the EBS. So how do you 2 bounce off each
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  other? Sort of what inspires you to
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  write these songs, to sing these songs and the EPS, the previous
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  ones? There hasn't really been a theme
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  for each EP, but the the process, I mean, Wayne does, but
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  90% of all of it, lyrics and and guitar kind of thing.
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  I've, I've, I've written a couple of songs lyrically and
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  and another half, yeah. We, we, we, we, we kind of like,
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  yeah, we'd write them together though.
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  So like I don't sort of come along and say then like, well,
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  apart from the pieces and Bridges, which were two songs
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  that existed before then joined, apart from those two songs, all
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  of the songs have kind of we've we've kind of worked together
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  to, to, yeah, to the vocal melodies, how, how the lyrics
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  work. So even if I write the lyrics,
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  it's not a case of by Dan, here's here's how the lyrics go.
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  This is how we sing it. It's a case of we sit down
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  together and work out and work together to, to, to write as a
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  song. Yeah.
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  I think I've probably changed some lyrics.
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  Pretty much every song have an eyebrow for this.
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  Yeah, awesome. Hello there.
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  I've got a very special announcement for my next guest.
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  Yo, what's going on, guys? It's the youngest in charge, the
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  youngest X Division champion of all time now boy Leon Slater,
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  and I'm going to be on the What do You Call It podcast, You get
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  me? Your head.
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  Really been a theme. Apart from the theme of the four
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  APS being the seasons, there has been a theme for each of the
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  APS. Not the first.
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  The first AP winter. There's a song about my late dog
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  and there's a song about a narcissistic woman.
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  My one of my exes, my name's mentioned.
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  Well, this is on there. It's a it's a happiest, happiest
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  song. And that was a.
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  Song. Yeah.
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  There was a song. Oh, wait for you is on there
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  isn't. It no, no, no, which was no,
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  which is a song about thank thank you song to the woman who
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  got me over the despicable wife and then there's misery loads
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  company that's. Yes, Misery Life's Company is
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  probably one of my favourites actually.
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  And although Wayne wrote it, he wrote it kind of sort of
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  channelling me, I, I suffer quite severely with depression
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  and some other mental health issues.
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  And obviously being best friends, Wayne's very aware of
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  that. And he, he wrote this song
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  Misery Life's Company kind of through my eyes kind of thing.
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  So it's a song very much about sort of depression and about
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  like the mask we all wear to sort of pretend that, yeah,
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  we're all fine sort of type thing, you know, when beneath
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  there's, there's stuff going on. Yeah, it's a really deep song.
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  Really, really deep song. And, and one of my favorite, one
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  of my favourites lyrically and musically.
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  And you know, the the, the subject matter, the.
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  Video for that is almost done as well because another plan is we
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  there's going to be a video for every song on every song we ever
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  record. We'll have some sort of
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  accompanying a video, whether it's like a an actual lyric
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  video or a proper video. You know, like so the video
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  released today for as yet untitled off a new AP that's
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  actually got us in it. And yeah, acting, acting, acting
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  in graveyards and things. It's Sprint.
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  You got to watch it. It's terrible.
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  It's yeah, it's real tacky, but some, some best.
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  It's it's a great tacky idea that my fiance Laurie had.
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  Right. Again.
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  You need to be sitting at the train station sending Wayne the
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  text and he's at the pub. And like, soon, as soon as the
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  pub was mentioned, I'm up for that store.
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  Do I actually get to drink a beer?
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  And that was yes. So what?
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  Was it at the reveal? Will I be?
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  Part time. It's obviously the part time.
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  That actually parts happened. We gotta use parts happens like,
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  yeah, one, we play there regularly.
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  Like we play there every Monday on the showcase open mic.
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  And Nicki also lets us do the Sunday Sunday and matinees.
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  So we we get to play there a lot, obviously.
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  Yeah, Nicki looks after us, we look after her.
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  So it's Nicki's, right. So yeah.
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  She is. She's amazing, yeah.
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  You're saying about your favorite songs and yeah, tell me
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  about the creative process. What have been some of your
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  favorite songs to perform live? That's a good question.
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  Rapture's always. Rapture always goes down Well,
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  yeah. You like Rapture, don't you?
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  I do. That's that's what you.
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  Like literally commentary the other week and I came on and you
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  knew exactly when it came. Like you paid it.
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  Yeah. And I'm so happy.
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  So, so raptures. Raptures seems to be quite a
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  crowd pleaser. I think it's a bit more rocky
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  because some of our songs are quite slow, miserable, dreary,
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  whereas Raptures are a little bit more upbeat and it's it's
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  got a bit more gap and go. And and it's it's happier.
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  We've got some, we've got some like misery loads Company
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  obviously is quite a depressing song, whereas Rapture is
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  literally a song about going on holiday and falling in love with
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  the, the beautiful scenery, which is an actual, based on an
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  actual place that Wayne went in Croatia, you know.
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  So it's, it's a happier feeling song as well as a happier
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  subject and, and that kind of thing.
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  And it's, it's one of the more difficult ones to sing as well,
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  you know, sort of like both vocally, like the range in it
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  and, and the intensity itself. And I prefer that.
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  I I enjoy the challenge of the, the sort of the, the more
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  intense songs kind of thing. I think that's how I define the
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  ones that I prefer singing or not.
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  Yeah, yeah. This one gets the origins of
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  Remember Sweeney the name. I, I can't remember, I I wish
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  there was some beautiful story, but I'm.
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  Saying that, you've told me all these heartfelt stories about
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  these songs and how you like you 2 being famous.
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  I mean, it was, it was basically clearly I I thought of a couple
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  of words that went well together.
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  Originally when I first started, it was called my working title
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  Civil Coil, which is basically a half of Civil Wars, half Lacuna
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  Coil, which were kind of the two main influences with the music I
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  wanted to do. Yeah.
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  So it was called Sybil Coil. I don't remember when the name
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  come about, how the name come about?
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  I mean, I like the honest but. Maybe it's from your fabric?
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  Software maybe, yeah. It's got fabric software that's
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  that's called Serenity and it's pretty much in this font as
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  well, so. Yeah, so, so sorry, comfort.
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  I've got a fun question to ask you, and I think you're both
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  going to give different answers. OK, you could open a show for
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  any artist. Who would it be?
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  I would say the Civil wars, but they're definitely split up
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  forever personally but. For for what we do, Civil Wars
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  would probably be actually be my choice as well for for this kind
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  of thing, but for who I love. So probably John Paul.
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  John Paul White, who's the guitarist from Civil Wars.
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  Just simply because, yeah, I mean, we, we went to see him.
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  We met him and he was really. Lovely, lovely guy.
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  I mean he's, I've seen last, I've seen the Civil Wars a
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  couple of times. I've seen John Paul Elliot, John
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  Paula, he's, we've seen John Paul Elliot.
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  He's a different guy. He's a local.
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  Guy he's, yeah, he's a local guy from North John, John, John Paul
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  White. I've seen him a couple of a few
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  good few times and yeah, like so his, his music, it's just, it's,
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  it's the basic, his music inspired me to do this project.
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  So that's the reason there. And, and it's probably, I mean,
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  realistically you could say I'd want to support Parkway Drive,
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  but don't think we'd go down very well with Parkway Drive,
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  though the pyro would be amazing.
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  Different audience, but I see that's.
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  So good. I mean, if I'm going just you
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  know who I love, then I would. I mean, there's there's a few
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  bands, but Queen Drake, although now just Jeff Tate because I I
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  like the singer, would be up there and Blue October.
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  Yeah, that's that's for that part of you, Corey Taylor, if he
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  did an acoustic tour again, someone like that because I mean
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  with although, yeah, we're kind of acoustic rock folk, we've
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  both got clearly a rock, rock and metal kind of.
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  Sort of gang tasting music. Tasting music.
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  So it's probably more that that that we want to be associated
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  with. I think.
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  Like we wouldn't, yeah, if we went on tour with some sort of
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  random folk band, I don't think we'd my language for a start.
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  Our gigs probably wouldn't really go down too well with
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  them. Fair play, you know, just a few
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  more questions. So I want to know with Essex,
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  there are hundreds and hundreds of musical acts.
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  What would you say makes you different from the other musical
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  acts in Essex? How?
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  Miserable we are. To be honest, there's not that
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  many sort of similar to us. I mean, there's a couple of
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  other duos that are around. Yeah, new like new again, new
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  again. There's there's another duo
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  called New Again. Very good.
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  Kind of. Probably quite similar to.
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  Plus we don't do gigs with them. Really.
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  We should probably do more gigs. New again.
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  Why aren't we doing gigs with you?
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  Why? Why?
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  Right. But yeah, I mean like Fox Cub
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  and the Big Red. Fox cub, Yeah.
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  Are much rockier than us they're they're.
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  Kind of rockier, rockier chassis and bluesier than us there.
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  We're we're, although we're quite similar in the way we're
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  set out. They're very different
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  musically. Yeah, and Acacia Crows are much
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  rockier than the other local duo, so.
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  So, yeah, I mean, I've been out how I I I feel that that our
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  strongest element is our lyrics. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Because basically I I I used to think that, you know, like when
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  bang people say, Oh yeah, your lyrics saved my life.
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  And I used to think, shut up. They just words.
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  Yeah, get over it. Yeah, they're extended the same
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  life. And then there's a bank called
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  Bad Flower. That's who I want to sport.
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  I was going to say. Bad there's a Bank of bad
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  flower. And then when I was going
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  through the the horrible breakup, the bad flowers first
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  album, just every song resonated with me.
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  It hit me like so yeah, really, it kind of got me through that
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  that that period. And then it was literally a case
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  of because of the words were so powerful.
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  And then all of a sudden, I realized that you know what
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  lyrics are more important than I thought, you know, if you know
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  what I mean? So it's just like, do you know
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  what? You genuinely have only just
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  sort of realized that, haven't you?
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  Yeah. I mean, I've always loved
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  lyrics. I.
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  Mean Now and again there were songs that are like Hurt by 9 H
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  Nails that you do a crack in there.
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  Yeah, yeah basically that there's there were songs like
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  that that always had big lyrics but there wasn't many songs that
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  that, you know, hit me and our lyrics, you know until this
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  album by Badflower. Check it out.
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  It's really their first album was brilliant and let's say
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  lyrically it moved me. And then as a result of that I
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  just started writing better lyrics.
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  It's like I used to when I used to write lyrics.
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  It's very much a case of things that did just write words that
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  just yeah, I was more I was more concerned about the guitar riffs
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  or the drum part. Whereas now it's very much case
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  of the lyrics are very strong. So all of our songs, there's not
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  a sing out of the four APA 16 songs, there's not a single song
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  on any of them that isn't an important sort of lyric
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  important lyrically to us. Yeah, there were, Yeah, there's,
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  there's nothing that's just, we went down the pub and had a
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  drink kind of songs, you know, there's, they're all, they're
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  all, they've all got a story to tell you now, so.
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  And they're really sort of diverse subjects as well.
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  I mean, I said about the Misery Life Company.
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  It's obviously about depression. Rapture is about travel.
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  So they're not all just sort of like typical love songs.
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  Wayne's fiance lives in America. So we've got a couple of songs
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  about, you know, sort of the fact that he's missing her
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  terribly and can't wait for her to move over.
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  Move over Laurie to here. I mean, not the sofa.
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  And I mean the we wrote a song together that was for a local
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  little competition about the fact that we've been friends for
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  30 years. So we've got a song that's
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  really personal to us about how long we've been friends for.
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  That was a good song as well, because I I was on the way to
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  America. Actually, I think that's the
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  trip of where I met Laurie, actually, wasn't it?
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  Possibly. Maybe.
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  Well, yeah, so I was on the way to America and I was just
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  sitting at the airport lounge and like we, we were running
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  this competition. So when I got when I got back,
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  we had that a week, didn't we? Yeah.
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  Something, something to to have this on a week and 1/2 or
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  something to have this song down.
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  So I thought, better start writing some words, I guess.
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  And so I, I just wrote like wrote a verse and half a chorus
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  and I saw a message to them before I got on the plane.
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  And then when I got off the plane, then messaged back, I've
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  done the second verse and the other half of the chorus.
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  So, so we had this song. So like the first verse I sing
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  and it's about obviously being friends with them for 30 years.
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  And then like the chorus we both sing and then the second verse
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  dancing about 9-8 for 30 years. So it was a so So again, what
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  you said about have you had we write the lyrics?
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  That's how we wrote that one. Yeah, well, well, literally in
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  different countries, so. It was a proper proper travel
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  zone. Just a few more questions
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  because I know you've got a big recording at 9:00 live, isn't
• 19:35
  it? You're streaming.
• 19:36
  Hey, we're gonna go. Yeah, live at 10.
• 19:38
  Yeah. You're gonna go at 10, Gonna
• 19:39
  watch us. I will, I will if I don't lose
• 19:41
  my voice. I was a bit crooked at the
• 19:44
  moment. I'm getting chased up in the
• 19:45
  moment, the stories you're telling me.
• 19:47
  Just a few more questions once you touch on the karaoke, not
• 19:50
  going to put myself over, but it's actually how I know you
• 19:52
  both Part 7 last year or so. I've got confidence of doing
• 19:57
  like some karaoke's and journey. There's a believe in.
• 20:00
  I mean, it's not fantastic, but I get to keep up the crowd and
• 20:03
  gaze, you know, I just switch off.
• 20:04
  I'm on another fucking planet trying to catch her.
• 20:07
  I get really into that. It's one of the songs I know.
• 20:09
  Sometimes it's a Friday night. You know you want to party, but.
• 20:12
  You know, some people like, oh, that's really good, and I love
• 20:14
  it and it's a really good song that means a lot to me.
• 20:16
  And Wayne's encouraged me to start singing Frank Sinatra my
• 20:20
  way. But what I want?
• 20:22
  To. I've not heard that yet.
• 20:22
  Yeah, you've not heard it. You will hear it soon.
• 20:24
  I've not heard that. Yet it really seems his voice so
• 20:27
  because you've got quite like I was saying, he's got quite that
• 20:29
  sort of deep booming voice which is perfect for that that.
• 20:32
  Time Barry White. You get you get to sing that
• 20:34
  with your talking voice rather than the head voice.
• 20:35
  So it's. Yeah, yeah, no, quite enjoy it
• 20:37
  because I've always liked that song anyway.
• 20:39
  But I'm going to ask you both individually.
• 20:41
  What's your go to karaoke song? I like having a warm up song.
• 20:50
  Yeah. So it's it's songs that I find
• 20:51
  really, really easy, but I do not hurt.
• 20:55
  But no, not in. Your heart, Christina Aguilera.
• 20:57
  Wayne's favorite song is Christina Aguilera's Hurt, and
• 21:00
  he keeps trying to get me to sing it.
• 21:01
  I Can't Sing it. So it's awful, awful.
• 21:04
  They they expect it's terrible, terrible.
• 21:07
  Job of it but and I don't know why he keeps asking me to do it
• 21:09
  other than to it's. Because Christina isn't there.
• 21:12
  But my Bruin is something we love.
• 21:14
  I don't understand. It I just imagine Christina's
• 21:15
  there. Don't.
• 21:16
  I, but I, I tend to sing Black Horse and the Cherry Tree by
• 21:19
  Kate Tunstall is one of my warm up songs or a beautiful South or
• 21:24
  something like that. Sort of songs that I find just
• 21:28
  really, really simple to sing, you know, sort of, I don't need
• 21:31
  to warm up for them. They are my warm up songs.
• 21:35
  But the list of songs that I like to sing is is quite long.
• 21:38
  Yeah, we used to actually get together.
• 21:40
  We used to get together and like just basically in my house and
• 21:43
  just do karaoke for him like 8:00 in the evening till three
• 21:46
  the following morning. Fortunately, fortunately I do
• 21:48
  live in the detached house, so my neighbors weren't upset by
• 21:51
  it. Yeah, we basically just used to
• 21:53
  do karaoke for for hours. And where you just random.
• 21:57
  We did. We actually did like sort of
• 21:58
  pretty much karaoke roulette. So which do whatever song come
• 22:00
  up, we used to give it a go. And when we when we used to do
• 22:03
  that, I used to do a lot more songs.
• 22:04
  But now because we don't really do that and because I'm hosting
• 22:07
  karaoke a couple of times a week, I kind of forget what
• 22:10
  songs I like to sing. So generally I now sing the same
• 22:13
  sort of 10 songs like karaoke which is.
• 22:17
  I like your snuff. Snuff, Snuff.
• 22:19
  Slipknot and some free Stone Sour Vienna.
• 22:24
  We do dirty. Dancing.
• 22:26
  Yeah, we do. Yeah, we do Dirty Dancing in
• 22:28
  Greece. We do those as duets and.
• 22:32
  We've had, I think twice now we've had someone do the lift,
• 22:35
  yeah. During.
• 22:36
  Those there. Was it?
• 22:37
  Was it? Was it?
• 22:39
  Was it the Irish band from the other day that did it?
• 22:41
  He might have been there, yeah, I think.
• 22:42
  It was a smoky wind. Yeah, it was.
• 22:44
  Yeah. They're they're good boys.
• 22:45
  Smoke the smoky wind. They're another local band you
• 22:48
  need to check out a really good and they do like Irish, Irish
• 22:51
  songs. Yeah, really good guys.
• 22:55
  Last question, I think the main reason why we're here.
• 22:57
  What's next for you? Tell me about your upcoming EP.
• 23:01
  Autumn so so basically we've got winter, Spring, summer.
• 23:13
  Unfortunately I can't show you autumn because CDs were only
• 23:15
  ordered today, but it will be out on the 19th of September.
• 23:21
  So yeah, that's got 4 songs on it.
• 23:25
  One of which was released as a video today.
• 23:27
  Yes, yeah, the full song on it is the video that came out today
• 23:31
  as you're untitled. So yeah, go and check that out.
• 23:35
  Yeah. But basically it's another #4
• 23:37
  songs, this one's come across come come out quite well, isn't
• 23:41
  it? We're quite happy about this for
• 23:42
  the sounds, the songs. The songs seem stronger, if that
• 23:45
  makes any any sense. I.
• 23:46
  Think we've both got much better at being in the studio.
• 23:48
  It's such a different experience to singing live, you know, in a
• 23:52
  pub or something. Being in a studio is is totally
• 23:55
  different. I think it's taken us a little
• 23:56
  bit of time to, yeah, used to that whole scenario, yeah.
• 23:59
  Whereas obviously it's now become kind of second because
• 24:01
  we, well, the, the, I mean, although there was the problems
• 24:04
  with having the free, the four EPS done so quickly, it was also
• 24:08
  good for us because gave us that much experience in the studio in
• 24:12
  such a short time. So now it's kind of a second.
• 24:14
  Nature so and Moss, who's been doing it for us, I mean, he's,
• 24:16
  he's a really young lad, but he really knows his stuff.
• 24:19
  He's. Yeah, he's a good boy, really.
• 24:20
  Yeah, Tetro Studios is his studios.
• 24:23
  This is the problem. Very Tetro studios love it.
• 24:27
  Yeah, he's, he's a good boy. Last idea.
• 24:30
  Yeah, he we basically went in to do winter with him just to see
• 24:34
  Carrot come out. We were really happy with it.
• 24:36
  So we've done our four APS with him and we're booked in in
• 24:39
  December as well just to record a couple of a couple of new
• 24:41
  songs. Won't be an APA.
• 24:44
  And just literally we're going to record the songs releasing as
• 24:47
  singles with videos. So they'll be available on,
• 24:51
  yeah, YouTube, YouTube, Spotify. That's that's sort of him, but
• 24:55
  there won't be on a physical CD so but.
• 24:59
  Hopefully more CDs next year. Yeah, we're doing nothing.
• 25:02
  We we ain't sorry about April. April may probably be the next
• 25:05
  AP off this one. So we're going to have a nice
• 25:07
  sort of six months off of not having to to rush the APA out,
• 25:12
  but also got no real plans. Well, maybe.
• 25:14
  Maybe we have. Maybe we have.
• 25:18
  If the listeners want to keep up to date and they want to find
• 25:22
  out what these plans may develop into as the year goes on, where
• 25:27
  can he find remember Sweeney on social media?
• 25:30
  Interesting is. Link tree.
• 25:32
  Link tree. Remember Serenity?
• 25:34
  And I think it is now. If you just do link type in
• 25:37
  Google link tree, remember Serenity, That should bring it
• 25:40
  up, but as a. Kid I don't have.
• 25:43
  That I don't have that QR code work on, yeah.
• 25:46
  Yeah, my phone's in charge at the moment.
• 25:47
  I always turn my phone off because so I can't.
• 25:49
  That might work so but. Scan if you can.
• 25:53
  Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll say. We're on Facebook.
• 25:56
  Brian Yeah, yeah. Remember Serenity?
• 25:58
  Just Google us and find us we're.
• 26:01
  Also give them a subscription on Spotify.
• 26:04
  I've been there for a while, it's definitely worth checking
• 26:06
  out. I think the reason I said it to
• 26:08
  you when a while ago, a long time while I thought it's such
• 26:11
  an easy listen and I can just switch off and I'm just feel
• 26:14
  like I'm there in some of the songs.
• 26:18
  Thank you, I think it's really good stuff.
• 26:19
  I'm looking forward to seeing you both live again.
• 26:21
  I think I saw a bit of it. Unfortunately I was doing
• 26:23
  compensation. I was a bit late, but I did see
• 26:25
  a few songs at the end. Box talk, shouts, parts happen.
• 26:28
  But I'm looking forward to seeing you guys again.
• 26:31
  I'll keep listening, I'll keep supporting you both.
• 26:33
  Is there anything you want to say or anything?
• 26:35
  I don't know, get off your chest.
• 26:37
  Anything funny you want to say? We're now at the end of the
• 26:40
  interview. Just just thanks for having us.
• 26:43
  We appreciate it. We want to do more of this kind
• 26:45
  of thing as it's like we've kind of been kind of just not really
• 26:50
  doing as much as we can. Yeah.
• 26:52
  I mean like this banner, this backdrop, for example.
• 26:54
  For example, we've had what, 3 months now and.
• 26:56
  This is the first. This is the first time we've
• 26:58
  actually got round to setting it up and using it.
• 27:00
  We did kind of we were going to use it for one of our videos.
• 27:03
  Did we use this video? No, we didn't do we?
• 27:05
  No, no, So we weren't getting easy for one of our videos, but
• 27:08
  we but then we fall because we're we're planning on doing
• 27:10
  the live streaming and this sort of thing.
• 27:13
  But like I say today, thanks to you and this, this, this you
• 27:17
  kind of prompted us to get this, this set up and we just get, we
• 27:20
  thought we'd just like, you know, RIP off the Band-Aid and
• 27:22
  do a live stream today. You know, we're going to start
• 27:24
  on Facebook just because I have to do that.
• 27:26
  But we are going to be moving on to Twitch as soon as we can work
• 27:29
  it out, as soon as we know what we're doing.
• 27:30
  Because we're old. Yeah, we are.
• 27:32
  We will provide an age of like 97 or something so.
• 27:36
  If you if you want to see us, though, we pretty much play
• 27:39
  every Monday night at the Park Tavern.
• 27:43
  We're sort of like other local sort of like open mics, and
• 27:46
  we've got a few gigs coming up. Fickle Pickle.
• 27:48
  Fickle Pickle on the 9th. 11th, 11th Yeah, it's 911th.
• 27:52
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 27:53
  September 11th, we're at the fickle.
• 27:54
  Pickle so your next Thursday if I don't know when this is going
• 27:57
  live or when this is going out, but but if it's if it's before
• 28:01
  the 11th of September, come down the fickle pickle.
• 28:03
  We are on 1st. It will be.
• 28:05
  It will be. Yeah, there's.
• 28:07
  Football bands playing. I can't remember what the other
• 28:10
  ones are. The Undings.
• 28:14
  Sorry. Park Dr. which I'm hoping it's
• 28:17
  such a Parkway Drive. I'm hoping they're gonna be the
• 28:20
  fingerprint was gonna have all that sort of fire and tennis and
• 28:22
  someone else. But we're on 1st because
• 28:23
  obviously we're an acoustic duo and the others are all actual
• 28:26
  bands and so yes. But we're up for more gigs and
• 28:30
  things like that. If you want someone, I want us
• 28:32
  to play and just let us know. If you need an acousted duo,
• 28:36
  yeah, we'll play weddings. Vomit, vomit for that.
• 28:38
  Funerals. Yeah.
• 28:40
  Funerals. Probably most appropriate.
• 28:42
  Yeah, we could buy funerals. We should probably sell that.
• 28:46
  We should probably book them out.
• 28:48
  It's a big a little merch stand as well at the funeral.
• 28:50
  It's like. We do.
• 28:52
  We do have merch, by the way. Yeah, we have T-shirts and
• 28:55
  neither of us are wearing one. We've got T-shirts and badges
• 28:59
  and stickers and and all sorts. So key rings, yeah.
• 29:03
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• 29:05
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